The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-11-14

Santiago, Chilli CA. P.)-Reports of
banditry and disorder in the earth
quake district, with news of additional
earth shocks and indications that the
calamity has reached appalling pro-
portions, caused the Chilean govern
ment today to consider the advisability
of sending troops to Couquimbo and
Atacama to reinforce the regular garri-
sons. 1t is reported that the casual
ties are now estimated at from fifteen
hundred to two thousand dead, with
large numbers injured and homeless.
/. French Aviator Killed.
LebOurget, France CA. P.)-Edmond
Poiree, noted French aviator, and two
mechanicians, were killed when the
machine crashed during competition
for the grand prix for commercial air.
planes here.
Get Rate Reduction on Apples.
Washington CA. PO-Acting under
complaint of the Arizona corporation
commission and Phoenix, Arizona con-
signees, the interstate commerce com =
mission today ordered the railroads to
reduce rates on apple shipments from
Washington state from about $1.72 to
$1.4O per hundred pounds. The COM
mission said that the high rates
charged to Phoenix, when compared
with rates on apples throughout the
west, are unfair to Arizona consignees.
AerOp1ane Crash Fatal
Baltimore CA. P.)-Lieutenant Edwin
G.. Sharder was instantly killed and
Lieutenant Francis A. March seriously,
if not fatally injured, when their aero
plane crashed at Logan field, near
here, today.
Better Relations, Russia and Japan.
II lxo
tween Toxic and Moscow and change
in the hitherto uncompromising atti-
tude of Nikolai Lenine, soviet govern
ment head, towards the Japanese, is
forecast, following Japan's evacuation
of the Siberian mainland.
NY. Brokerage Firm Fails.
New York CA. P.)-Failure Of the
stock brokerage firm of Wasserman
Brothers was announced today from
the rostrum of the New York stock |
exchange. Jess A. Wasserman, mem |
ber of the firm, committed suicide last |
night.
To Hold Pre- Conference Meet.
London CA. P.)-The troublesome |
question of how meeting of the allies
could be arranged before the Lausanne |
peace conference to outline the allied |
as Great Britain has IN
sisted, was solved as the result of an
exchange of messages by the chan
cellories at Paris, Rome, and London. !
Died Result Airplane Crash.
Washington CA. P)-Lieutenant |
Godfrey De Chevalier, who |
crashed with his airplane at Hampton /
Roads, Sunday, died today at the naval |
hospital at Portsmouth, Va. Chevalier, |
in point of service, was one Of the |
iofo Of no
Murder Convict Kills Guard.
Leavenworth, Kansas CA. PIN a |
desperate, but unsuccessful attempt to |
escape from the federal penitentiary |
here shortly before noon today, Joe |
Martinez, serving sentence for murder,
fatally stabbed A. H. Leonard, captain |
Of the guards, and knitted four other
guards, two dangerously. Martinez
was shot by a guard and was later |
taken to a hospital, after he was |
found hiding in coal bunker. The |
extent of his wounds has not been |
determined.
Widow of MacSwiney Under Arrest
Washington ca P)-Mrs. Muriel |
widow of Terence Mac
5winey, former lord mayor of Cork,
vas arrested today, with eight other
members of the American
Association for recognition of the
irish Republic, while marching be-
ore the British embassy, armed with
demanding the release of Mac
5winey's sister, Miss Mary MacSwiney, |
Who is held prisoner in the Irish Free
State.
PilOtless Airplane Proven Success.
Washington "a. PA pilotless
lrmy airplane, equipped with an auto
natic control device, said to be more
accurate and dependable than any
human pilot has been devised to a
,oint where it has made successful
lights of over 80 miles, it was an
today by the army air ser
ice.
Program Postponed.
Washington CA. P.)-Postponement
lntil the 68th congress of the admin
stration's governmental reorganiza-
ion program was forecast today by