The St. Johns herald., 1922-06-01
FOREIGN

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 charged, it has been announced, upon
 the recommendation of the anti-waste
 commission.
 The primary school teachers of per cent increase in pay and the mis- sion schools are seriously affected. A similar strike at Foo Chow last week was successful.
 Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of American troops during the war,
 was made doctor of laws in McGill
 University, Montreal. The degree
 was conferred by Sir Arthur Currie, principal of McGill, in a downtown theater.
 After an hours fighting 120 federal
 soldiers near San Pablo del Monte, Mexico, captured fifty-two Indians, who are suspected of having taken part in a train holdup near Jalapa when a number of persons were killed and wounded.
 A dispatch to the London Times from Dublin pictures the outlook for an agreement by the peace conference rather hopelessly. It says that as far as could be learned, the two parties to the conference are as far from agreement as ever.
 A dispatch from NuevO Laredo as- serts that Gen. Felix Diaz, nephew of the late President Porfirio Diaz, with five men, left Galveston recently by boat. It is said the party took along arms and ammunition, which they ex- pected to land at some obscure point on the Vera Cruz coast of Mexico.
 Silver by the ton, gold by the hun dredweight, pearls by the bushel and diamonds by the peck, dumped into wooden boxes, jute sacks, pasteboard cartons or merely wrapped in parcels all this treasure hoard awaits open ing and sorting at the storehouse for valuables confiscated by the soviet gov ernment from the churches and Syna- gogues of Russia for the benefit of famine sufferers.
 It is believed in Mexico City that all unemployed foreigners, particular ly Americans, may be ordered out of Mexico by presidential decree as the result of alleged discovery that more than 100 Americans living in Tampico and Tuxpan, were subject to the or- derS of the American bandit, Monte Michaels, who was killed by federal forces near Campo Nuevo. Six Amer jeans who were with Michaels at the time of his death escaped. Soldiers who pursued them captured three of the gang at Rancho De Laslomas De Lascalabaza. The trio, who gave the names of Bill J. Hawkins, R. B. Spra- der and Harry Buffit, are reported to have confessed that they were mem bers of Michaels' bandit organization GENERAL
 The degree of doctor of laws will be conferred upon President Harding when he goes to Princeton University on June to dedicate the Princeton memorial monument, it has been an- nOunced.
 The Amalgamated Clothing Work CTS of America will establish cooper ative banks in other centers, similar to the one about to be opened in Chi cago, it was decided at the final ses- sion of the biennial convention.
 The first German ambassador to be sent to the country since the war, Dr. Otto Ludwig Wiedfeldt of Berlin, ar rived recently in New York aboard the steamer America. A delegation of city officials, aboard the New York police tug John F. Hylan, met the America and escorted her into the harbor.
 One of the most far-reaching deci- sions ever reached by the United States railroad labor board came in a ruling that places a ban on the con- tract system which many roads are al- legged to have been evading the boards 1 orders as to wages, working conditions | and other matters. The decision, it | is said, may serve to avert the threat ened strike of 6OOOO0 railway shop men and switchmen.
 Miles G. Buckingham, Memphis, Tenn, clubman, has been arrested, l charged with staying his wife, Mrs. Lorraine Harrison Buckingham. He was on $15,OOO bond.
 Hundreds of delegates and visitors to the Quadrennial conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, be- ing held in Hot Springs, Ark, left their beds to watch the "Old City Hall'' building burn to the ground, with an loss of $75,OO0. For a time the entire heart of the business dis trict was threatened. The plant of the