The Snowflake herald., 1922-09-01
FOREIGN


One thousand Wahabis (Mohammed-
an) tribesmen and sixty Arabs were
killed in q battle near Amman, Pales-
tine, according to an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Constantinople.
More than f3O,OOO,OOO has been sub
scribed in the new Indian government
loan, constituting record for state
borrowing in India for a single year,
says a Reuters dispatch from Cal
cntta.
Dr. Patrick McCarville, sentenced to
seven years Imprisonment by the Brit
ish authorities and released at the
truce and elected in June as Repub-
ican member of the Dali Eireann for
Monaghan, was arrested recently by
Free State troops.
A detachment Of fascist, after at
tending the unwilling Of war memo
rial at Olevano, near Rome, fell into
q Communist ambush at San Vito.
One Communist and a fascist are
dead Eight on both sides were
wounded. Troops and police were
rushed to the spot.
Indications that Mexico's status Is
being considered in League Of Nation
circles were received with much In
terest In newspaper circles in Mexico
City, but there was no inclination to
believe that the Mexican government
would make formal overtures for adj
mission to the League.
The POlish-American Chamber of
Commerce announces that in order to
increase trade relations between the
United States and Poland, an invita-
ton to visit Poland has been extended
to various American trade concerns
and financial institutions. In answer
to this invitation, twenty-five Ameri-
can organizations have promised to
send their delegates to Poland.
Jerusalem is to have a daily news
paper published in English. 1t will be
owned and edited by an American
woman, Mrs. Calling of New York,
who has spent several months in Pal
estine studying local conditions. Mrs.
Calling has paid $250,000 for build
ing to be used for her venture. The
presses and other mechanical equip
ment for the paper are now on their
way out from the United States.
Indian squaws, with eloquent Shout
ders, and braves whose feet have
learned the tricks of the Broadway
dance palaces, must go back to the old
fashioned, demurely simple waltz, says
an edict of the council of Walpole ISL
and, Ontario. Chief Redknife-inci-
dentally manager of the island band,
has protested against the invasion of
the saxophone on the island. "They
want to dance all night" says the
chief, land no one wants to work next
day. Once they were satisfied with an
ordinary band. Now they want cab
arets."
GENERAL
Frank Albert aged SO years, died
from burns received when he fell into
1.-THE Devils Tea Kettle" a hot
springs at Kalamath Falls, Ore.
Fire which swept the West Newton,
Pa, business district, wrought a total
loss of approximately 100000. The
fire started in an unoccupied garage.
Mrs. Bell Armstrong Whitney, fash
ion expert and former newspaper
woman of Boston, is dead in Paris, ac-
cording to a cablegram received re-
Gently.
Walter II. Petty, special officer for
the Texas d Pacific railway, charged
with the murder of another special
railway officer, Henry L. Dillon, at Ell
Paso, has surrendered to the county
authorities.
After his sister, 80 years old, had
ended her life by taking poison, Paul
Bertel, 25 years old, hanged himself
from a rafter in his barn at Des
Moines, Ia. Brooding over the loss of
$4,000 invested in oil stock was
thought to have been the cause of
both suicides.
Owing to the shortage of coal, the
Ford Motor Company's Highland Park
plant in Detroit has been equipped
with Oil burners. The change was
made without loss of time to any of
the $4,000 employees.
The First National Bank of Colusa,
Calf, suspended business because,
according to state banking officials,
of heavy Withdrawals within the last
three days and inability to realize on
past due loans. The bank is capital
lied at $150,OO0, and at it's last state
ment had deposits of $295,O00.
Nearly 10000 immigrants have en-
tered the United States since July /,
the majority coming from Italy, Rus
STA, the United Kingdom, Germany,
Greece and CZechO- Slovakia, the bu-
reau of immigration has announced.
About 100000 more can enter during
the remainder of the fiscal year.
Two thousand men and women were
thrown out of work when the National