The Ordway new era., 1922-02-03
FOREIGN

headed by Sir Eric Geddes. viii recon-
mend a cut of 100000 il army and
navy expenditures. according 70 the
Westminster Gazette in London
The pearl market of Paris which
considers itself the market OF the
world. has suffered a stump \ neck-
lace OF Oriental pearls valued nv tfe
experts Al 10000 francs has just
been sold by public auction for only
10000 francs
Gen Brarnvveil Booth has just an
nouneed that the Salvation ArIny IN
tends almost Immediately TO put into
operation a scheme FOR The early rrans-
fer of 10000 British women 10 the
donninions- Every one Of them will be
going 10 assured employment.
While the War Department Of Me1+
co Is struggling for a budget of t2''.-
ppo.Opo pesos and the Department oi
Public Education for 100000. the
Department of the Interior has to de-
fend its budget OF only 100000. the
most modest that any Of the cabinet
officers has, a. yet presented to the
consideration of Congress
f4a-1 AHtAEE-fis A4AF 'A--N
woman TO hold an aviarors certificate
was killed at Askersund- Four thou
sand SPECTATORS were watching her
make q flight. and were horrifIed when
Miss Anderson. in attempting a para
chute descent from the machine, fell
ike plummet 10 the earth The
parachute failed 10 open and she
,,fung-d > 60 feet To death
An ounce Of gold purchases 17-22
hours OF labor in The United States;
5o.I6 hours in Britain; $3.50 hours in
Japan; 1871 hours in France and
20l6j hours in Germany, said C. J.
Harmon, member OF Parliament FOR the
Mcseley division Of Birmingham quot
Ing statistics in the course OF an ad-
dress 10 the members NJ the National
Union Of Manufacturers At Birmins-
ham. England.
What appears TO be & world record
for taxi-riding-a JOJ-miIe jaunt from
Montreal 20 New YOrk-vaS disclosed
in court when Frank Valentine. man
a-er OF a local club, appeared as de
fendant in a suit 1or S453.TJ taxi bills
at Montreal II j alleged rhat when
recently Mildred Gilimour halked Al
paying 5000 fine for violating the
Quebec prohibition law. she Jumped
into a taxi which Valentine had hired
and started for New YORK.
GENERAL
Col. Henry 5. Graves. former chief
forester OF the United SrateS. Is TO re-
turn as dean Of the Yale forest school.
IT has been announced Dean James
William Tourney i 70 resume his more
purely scientific work.
The family Of George Harbisch,
teacher, consisting Of himself. his wife,
Mrs. Mary Harbisch, and an 1S-months-
old child, We're found dead in their
home at McKees Rock, Pa. An exam
ination revealed gas escaping from
stove.
Miss Genevieye Reynolds. a member
Of Robert 3. MantelIs Shakespearean
Company for thirty years, died Of
pneumonia after few hours Illness at
Chicago. Lynn Pratt, Lambs Club,
New York, and a brother in Califor-
mia have been notified. Miss Reynolds
had been on the stage for nearly half
a century, according 10 Mr.. Mantell.
Three persons were killed and four
injured at Newark, Ohio, when their
bob sled was struck by an automobile.
They had almost reached the foot of
a mile-long hill when they crashed
head-on into an automobile coming up
the hill. The sled was said to have
been on the wrong side Of the road.
Only one member Of the coasting par
ty was uninjured.
Archibald Birse, a Chicago tailor, is
$4,000 richer for having taken few
stitches in a pair Of torn trousers
thirty-four years ago. Ernest De ST
Giles, insurance expert and author, left
this amount to Birse, who befriended
him when De St Giles c.Lme 10 Chi
cago thirty-four years ago, penniless.
Blrse sewed the insurance mans
trousers and trusted him for the 30
cent charge
Part of his shinbone transferred 10
his jaw 70 correct an Imperrection in
his chin, Henry F. Mally, Jr., Of Brook
lyn recently fell on the Ice, cracking
the shin from which the fragment had
been removed. His death from shock
was announced after he had been made
ready for second operation needed
to mend his leg and perfect his chin.
y. c. Newmark, actuary of the
American Fur Dealers Association Of
New York, was arrested by federal
agents on a complaint charging him
with being implicated in conspiracy
Of fur sales taxes said TO approximate
100000. Morris Rosenblum, a for
mer deputy collector of internal rev.
enue, and Herman Schuss were ar
rested ON similar charges.
His skull fractured when he was
nlayfully timed out of bed by fra.