The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-07-22
FOREIGN

manent court of international Justice.
A column of Turkish Nationalists
attacked the Greeks west of Brussa,
Asia Minor, and the Greeks were
forced to retreat after suffering losses,
says dispatch from Angler.
Fire which broke out in the Blohm
& Voss shipyards at Hamburg caused
damage amounting to many millions of
marks. The timber sheds, with great
quantities of building material, were
destroyed.
The foreign ministry officially noti-
fled the American embassy at Rome
that President Harding's plan for a
conference for the limitation of arma-
ments meets with the full approval of
the italian government.
An appeal to the United States by
the Far Eastern Republic to compel
Japan to withdraw her troops from
Siberia "at the earliest possible date"
is contained in a note handed to the
American minister in Peking. Similar
notes were addressed to Great Britain
and China.
Cuba's pineapple crop for this year
Is estimated at 800, 900 crates, valued
at $4,5OOOOO, by port officials, who
base their figures on recorded ship
ments from Havana. More than 5OO,-
600 crates have been exported over the
ferry ships running between Cuba and
Florida, while about 100000 crates
have been shipped to New York.
TOD
by the French government with hav-
ing ordered troops under his command
to take no prisoners and kill wounded
men during the fighting of August,
1914, has been acquitted by the Ger
man Supreme Court at Leipsic, en-
gagged in the trial of cases against al
legged war criminals. Maj Bruno
Crusius, tried on similar charge,
was given a sentence of two years in
prison and forbidden to wear the Ger
man uniform.
GENERAL
John Collins is under arrest in Chi
cago because he is alleged to have
stood by while Annie Holdt, 10 years
old, drowned in shallow water with
out offering assistance.
The celluloid collar has been BAN
ished from the Chicago police force in
an edict by Chief Fitzmorris that de-
clared the Chicago police must be the
best dressed in the world. A we'll
dressed man does not wear a celluloid
collar, the chief said.
;e NJ
tious, contagious nor communicable, ac-
cording to DIR. Frederick Bryant Of
Worcester, Mass. He declared there is
no need for isolation of cancer pa
tients. He attributed the disease to
some form of chronic stimulative irri-
| tation which could be prevented.
| Proclaiming a strike against the
high price of ice cream sodas, more
than LOCO Bronx boys and girls pa
raded in New York with the hope Of
bringing their favorite drink down te
the old-time nickel price. They
marched to the office of Borough
President Bruckner, who operates 6
large soda water plant.
New York police have requested the
arrest on charge of forgery of Mrs
Emma BuEkett of Hillsdale, Ind, who
presented claim to the estate of the
late Theodore Roosevelt for $4,000 or
a note which, she declared, the former
President endorsed. Mrs. Burkett has
admitted that she has no claim on tht
estate. The complaint against Mrs
Burkett was made by George f. Roose
Welt, an executor.
Pelham A. Barrows, national com
mander of the Sons of Veterans, o
Lincoln, Neb., forwarded letter Il
President Harding asking that he or
der a monument, reported to be il
Troy, Ala, which contains an inscrip
ton honoring Wilkes Booth for til,
murder of Abraham Lincoln, destroyed
Mr.. Barrows stated that this was il
accordance with resolutions passed b.
la number of veterans posts.
. George johnson. 40, and Jerry Elan
: nagan, %, coal miners at Riverton
seven miles northwest of Springfield
ILL.,, were killed when they fell 20
feet down the shaft of the mine whel
the scaffolding on which they wer
: working gave way.
Harry Woodard, good swimmer
drowned, while Roy Rhodda, minus hi
two cork legs, which became loosene,
when boat occupied by five men over
turned in Ely lake, near Gilbert
Mimi, swan 800 yards to shore. Th
others in the boat also reached shor
safely. Rhodda told friends that tw
of his companions utilized the floatin
cork legs to aid them to reach tn
shore.
; W. H. Bailey is believed to have Sc
a worlds record at Louisville, Ky
: whnn he leaped 300 feet into the Obi
river from an airplane. The feat ma
, cost him his life. Bailey shot throug
! the air in beautiful dive until abou
thirty feet from the water. He turne'
slowly and struck on his back. De
snttp thp internal injuripS he wa