, 1922-06-01
FOREIGN

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The Polish diet has enacted a law
requiring an annual vacation of two
weeks with pay for all Industrial
workers.
The German battleship Hanover and
the torpedo boat SIS collided during
night maneuvers near Sassnitz. Ten
sailors on the torpedo boat were killed.
Dispatches from Tapachula, CHA
pas, snid martial law had been pro-
claimed throughout Guatemala as n re-
suit of a serious revolutionary move
ment against President Orellana.
Track and field events of the next
Olympic games Mt Paris in 1924 will
cover the afternoons of nine days. This
period will include the opening cere-
monies, when the stadium will be ded-
icated, and the parade OF athletes OF
all nations.
War has broken out between the
Gypsy musicians of Hungary and the
Negro jazz band artists, many of
whom are Americans. The Gypsies.
who have furnished Hungary its mu-
sic, ballads and laughter for n thous-
and years, assert that the jazz instr:i-
mentalists are invading their precincts
and have organized to drive them out.
In thick sea fog off the coast of Fin
istere the British ship Egypt of the
Peninsular & Orient line was rammed
and u by the French cargo steamer
Seine n nearly a hundred persons
drowned. The accident is one of the
worst that has happened on the
French coast since the war. An Off
cial revised estimate of the casualties
put the dead at ninety-eight.
Peking.-Chang Tso-Lin's campaign
to obtain control of the north China
is regarded as definitely crushed with
the retreat of the main body of the
Mnnchurian army north of the Great
Wall. The Manchurian forces. headed
by General Chang, are presumably on
the way to Mukden. General WI de-
clared that Chang Tso-Lin is now left
to his own devices. and whether he
would establish the independence of
China proper was a problem to be
solved later.
The American Memorial hospital for
children, the gift of the women and
children of the United States, was led
icated at Rheims by Myron T. Herrick,
the American ambassador, in the pres
ence of a distinguished gathering. The
hospital will be built with n fund of
100000 and will have a permanent en-
dowment of 100000, now in the hands
of the committee. The fund was raised
throughout the United States, and hun
dreds of beds were offered by individ-
uals, clubs, schools and organizations.
GENERAL
Crews of men have started work
shoveling snow from roads in Yellow
stone National park. Officials of the
park stated that all highways in Won
derland will be open when the season
starts on June 20.
Lovesick girls by the scores are be-
ing driven to the point of suicide by
the ouija board, according to Gen. Bal
lington Booth of New York, president
of the Volunteers of America. He said
the ouija board. already abolished in
some states, should be legislated out
everywhere.
sPhs oAAA'hh a
painter of the United States military
academy, recently announced tina he
had discovered at Washington and Lee
University at Lexington, Va, an orig
inal painting of George Washington
by Gilbert Stuart. The painting Is es-
timated by art experts to be worth
from $4,000 to 100000.
The Ku KIux Khan has revoked the
commissions of every kleagle in Cali
fornia. from the king kleagle down, aft
er a preliminary inquiry into alleged
lawlessness in that state, and has APP
pointed William S. Coburn as king
kleagle In charge of the klnn's inter
ests in California, It was announced in
Atlanta by L. Y. Clarke. imperial kln-
Tiff, or supreme vice president of the
order.
A public mass meeting to organize a
Henry Ford for President Club was
held in Dearborn, Detroit suburb, and
the home of the automobile manufac-
turer. The basic idea back Of the meet
ing, It was said by leaders in tbs
movement, is to bring about the candl-
dacy OF Mr.. Ford on an Independent
ticket at the lei general election.
The oil-soaked rugs and gasoline
which fire inspectors found in Abe At
tells little Ming Toy Bootery in upper
Broadway. New York, were planted
by the crowd that tried to involve me
In the baseball scandal" the former
champion fe~atherweight pugilist de-
clared. Abe was considerably wrought
up over the inspectors discovery
which resulted in a trip TO h%eadqunr-
tiers for him..
Postmaster appointments in Georgia
started a hot exchange In the Sennte
recently between Senator Watson.
Democrat, Of Georgia, and Senator
Phipps of Colorado, "A Republican