The St. Johns herald., 1922-03-09
FOREIGN

between Caliphate volunteers and Sylhet tribesmen. The dispatch adds that prisoners who had been convicted were fOrcibly released from the jails, and a late train was held up and stoned. The police in the region have been reinforced
 Mexican diplomatic representatives are to be shOrn of their resplendent uniform under the terms cf a decree made public by the Department of For eign Relations at Mexico City. Among other provisions of the decree, which completely recognizes the diplomatic service, it is stipulated that members of the corps shall not wear uniforms which are not regarded as necessary for the efficiency of the service or for national decorum."
 Announcement of plans to scrap a total of twenty-four ships in the Jap anese navy has been made by the navy ministry at TokiO as Japan's first step toward placing into effect the Wash ingtOn arms limitation agreement. The ships to be scrapped, according to the announcement, include ten obsolete cruisers, six battle cruisers now in course of construction and eight capi- tai ships which have been planned but keels for which have not yet been laid. With reference to a recently circu lated rumOr that Cardinal Gasparri was to be replaced as papal secretary of state by MOnsignor Cerretti, now papal nuncio at Paris, Semi-Official vatican statement said: "It is super fluOus to state that such a report is absolutely unfOunded. Cardinal Gas parri has not displayed any intention of leaving his high office and he en- joys the complete confidence of Pope Plus, as he in the past enjoyed that of Pope Benedict"
 The basis upon which the heads of the American oil companies last Sep tember reached an agreement with the Mexican government relative to the payment of export taxes under the de- cree of June :, were divulged in the outline of a decree given out by Min ister of the Treasury De La Huerta. The decree lacks only the signature of President ObregOn to become effective. The project cOntemplates the payment of 40 per cent of the tax as originally imposed by the June decree, and means the payment to the Mexican treasury of approximately 13,5OO,OO0 pesos.
 GENERAL
 Federal Judge J. W. WOodrOugh of Omaha has signed an order granting authority to Keith Neville, former gov ernOr of Nebraska, and now receiver for the Skinner Packing Company, to bring suit in the United States Dis trict Court against 700 stockholders of the company, who, it is claimed, are in default in payment for $1,000,000 worth of stock.
 mans education is usually closely related to his natural intelligence and the grade at which he ends his school ing is in most cases the limit to which his intelligence will carry him, accord ing to Prof. Forrest A. Kingsbury oi the psychological department of the University of Chicago in announcing the results of tests among employees of a large Chicago bank.
 The bandit career of Eva Daley, 22 years old vas ended recently in Chi cago when she entered a grocery store an attempted to hold up the proprietor, according to the police. The grocer grabbed her gun and held her until customer called the police. The police say they believe that she is the girl who has been leading a band of rob bers in hOldups and burglaries here for several days.
 Contracts for the building of sixty miles of new railroad from Satanta, | Kan, to a point near Springfield, | Colo, have been let by the AtchisOn, Topeka & Santa Fe railway and con- structiOn will begin by March 1. The beginning at Satanta, the new line, which has been under consideration | for some time, will extend westward | to the Colorado line. About 300 men | will be employed in the work.
 Sixteen hundred boys and 14,SS4 girls, 15 years old, in the United States were listed as married in 1920, the | census bureau announced in a state | ment presenting a special analysis Oi | marital statistics.
 Acceptance of Henry Ford's offer for the Muscle Shoals nitrate plant | would wipe out the last vestige of | sectionalism that has existed in the | South," Governor Taylor said before leaving with the Tennessee delegation | which appeared at the house military | affairs committee hearing in Washing | ton. Declaring his support of the pro