The Snowflake herald., 1921-09-16
FOREIGN

Josef Mann. first tenor Of the Ber-
lin opera, collapsed and died on the
stage in Berlin while singing in
Aida" He had been engaged to sing
in the Metrol Aitan Opera house in
New York the coming season.
| Two soldiers were killed and more
than twenty wounded when $500 Hun
garian regulars aud volunteers clashed
with Austrian gendarmere on the
Aus:ro-Hungarian frontier said
Vienna dispatch to the Morgenpost.
Mustapha Kemal Pasha. Turkish Ma
.ionalst leader, is fighting stubborn
lily against the Greek army in his last
attempt to save Angora. His army is
continually being pressed by the
Greeks who are only forty miles from
| the city. The Turkish losses have been
exceedingly heavy.
Hungarian troops, led by two parish
priests, overpowered the sentries of
the Austrian garrison at Zagersdorf
| Two members of the garrison were
killed and many wounded, while the
others were bindfolded and taken
away in motor trucks. Reinforcements
overlook the Hungarians and the Aus.
trians were released. The priests were
made prisoner.
| Informal discussions are taking
place at Paris between American fl
nanciers with the purpose of estab-
| fishing closer cooperation between
American banking interests in France
end evolving practical methods for
helping French industries through
these institutions. Five of the largest
American banks and trust companies
have offices there.
Twenty-Five persons were injured.
among them several women and chill
dren, when bomb was thrown into a
bathing establishment at Varazze. near
Genoa. 1t was apparently intended
that the bomb should fall in the main
hall of the pavilion, but it was de-
| flected by striking a telegraph wire.
and exploded where only few per-
sons were congregated.
The discovery of generally un-
known Rembrandt birth of Christ"
estimated to be worth more than S50,-
900, is reported from Nottingham. The
painting, which is signed by the great
Dutch master, is "A inches by 4S inches
! in size. For the last 450 years il has
been in the possession of the family
of its present owner, Mrs. Catherine
Gadd, widow of a prominent lace
manufacturer
The worlds poultry congress was
opened in Holland by Queen Wilhel
nina and Prince Henry. Fifteen coun.
tries sent exhibits. The United States
S represented by educational displays
among them model poultry farm
which greatly interested the queen
/ Demonstrations of the methods en-
Dioyed on such farms were given by
| Professor Rice of Cornell and profes-
sor Beach of the University of Cali
| fornia
GENERAL
field, carrying a woman passenger
won the Labor Day airpane derby ut
| Chicago, flying the fifty-five-
course in 40 minutes. He WAS closely
! followed by Price Holl.ngsworth, John
Kiser and James Curran
Two through Florida passenger
trains, the Dixie Flyer and Seminole
Limited, running between Jackson
vile and Chicago, met in rear-end
collision at Sumner, Ga, on the Allan
tic Coast Line railroad. Several pas
sengers We're injured
Masked men numbering more than
one hundred Overpowered the night
jailer at Collinsville, Okla, and after
taking from Jail f. Scott, charged
with automobile theft, and Roy Hol-
llingswOrth who attempted to secure
Scott's release, conveyed the pair by
automobile to Il lonely spot eight miles
east of Tulsa and lashed them with
whips.
| The wheat land plowing match, a
contest open to plowmen of the world,
was held on the John Wolf farm near
PIainfield, Ill. Over 10000 persons
witnessed the final furrows turned
The great preponderance of entries
was in the tractor contests.
Louis f. Swift, Jr, son of the mil
lionaire packer, was fined 5000 in
County Court at Waukegan, H., for
taking a drink" in Zion City Swift
pleaded guilty to the charge HIS
companion, Dr. George E. Neouvos of
Chicago, was given a similar fine
Joseph Cain, sheriff of Boone cOun-
ty, Ind, was shot to death in bat
tie with whisky bandits One bandit
was wounded. His three companions,
driving truckload of whisky, es-
capped. The wounded man said they
had come from Chicago.
Chief of Police Daniel Hays, Chief
of Detectives Gene Cassidy, and Will
liam Kohrt, traffic officer, all of
Hibbing, Minn., are dead from rifle
shot x-ounrc, ;pfIiotod ~, J,l,,, N&-nll