The Dolores star., 1921-04-29
FOREIGN

| 1eueTHl government, uiiouh'n w 'o''
100000 rubles, 129,0OO,O0O Swiss
francs, 100000 French francs, a.
100000 and 100000 marks.
Prof Thomas G. Masaryk has re-
signed as president of Czecho-Slovakia,
according to a Prague dispatch. III
health is given as the reason. DIR. Ed
ward Benes, foreign minister, will be-
come premier and acting president.
General tightening of the conscrip-
ton laws by Japan, including extern
sion for the first time of the applica-
tion of universal military training to
Japanese residents in the Philippines,
East Indies and the South Sea islands,
has been reported to official circles in
Washington.
The allies have sent a demand to the
German government for the transfer
of l.OOO.O0O,0O0 gold marks (normally
S250, ,0O0,0O0), constituting German gold
reserve, from Berlin to Cologne banks
for safer keeping Cologne is the
center of the British army Of occupa-
tion on the Rhine.
Honest efforts are being made 10
devise arrangements for immediate
payments on the interest on MeXicos
foreign debt and to that end repre-
sentatives of foreign banking houses
have been asked TO come to Mexico to
offer advice and suggestions. Presi-
dent Obregon told gathering of
newspaper correspondents in Mexico
City.
An indemnity of $4,000, 100000 was
the penalty which the Kaiser pro
posed to impose upon the United
States if Germany had won the war
in 1917. 1t was included in his
peace terms written by himself in
the spring of that year and just dis
covered in the archives of the German
foreign office, according to Berlin
correspondent.
The imminent collapse of the Con-
stantine government in Greece is fore
seen in receipt of news on the deplor-
able condition of the Greek army in
Asia Minor and the destitute condition
of the treasury ut Athens. Seven
Greek divisions used in the last often
weakened. The 5000 troops. sent as
reinforcements. are being used to for
tify Smyrna, thus indicating that the
forces around Ushak and Brussa are
preparing to retire.
GENERAL
| For stealing 40 cents worth of soap,
Louise Cody, a young girl, was fined
$40 and costs in Police Court of Du-
luth, MINI. She pleaded guilty.
To offset the wiles of Mrs Cora lsa-
bella Orthwein it was proposed by
Lloyd Herh, assistant states attorney,
in Chicago, that she be tried by a jury
of women on the charge of Staying
Herbert p. Zeigler, tire sales man.
ager. The plan was agreed to by Mrs.
Orthwein's attorneys and "A venire of
women will be drawn if there are no
legal obstacles.
Twenty-six thousand persons are at
the point of starvation in the coal
fields of Northern Alabama, Governor
Thomas f. Kilby was told in an ap-
peal by the Salvation Army, South
eastern division, with headquarters In
Birmingham. The organization said 1t
was helping to the limit of its re-
sources, but that additional aid must
come from other sources.
The Illinois Supreme Court has
ruled that Henry Anthony Marsh, son
of Peggy Marsh, London actress, is
not the legitimate son of Henry Field,
fharafnra iS anfifIa6 IN ho ora
in the Field millions. Peggy Marsh
claimed a part of the vast Field for
tune for her son, but the Superior
Court of Cook county ruled against
her contention and the higher court
here upheld this decision.
Mrs. Adah Bishop, farmers wife,
was painfully injured when a tornado
demolished the three-room house in
which the family resided near Boone,
thirty miles east of Pueblo. Consider
able damage was done to small build
ings in the vicinity, and lumber yard
shed $50 feet long was demolished in
Boone. Several barns were unroofcd
United States secret service opera
tives of Chicago revealed what they
declared was plot to flood the CEN
tral West with smuggled diamonds
from Canada, after arresting I. Gittler,
furrier, and his wife. The govern
ment agents said they had information
which led them to believe the couple
were the Chicago representatives of an
organized band of smugglers.
Captain" Harry W. Devore is serv-
ing n five-year term in the Oklahoma
state penitentiary all because, Harry
says, he has a double" brother who
likes the Indies. Devore was convicted
Of bigamy when three wives identified
him in open court in Sapulpa, Okla.
'They got me wrong alibed the "Cap-
tain" "Im the victim of double. NV
brother is the guy who married these
ladies'" The court decided it was the
Captain"