The Snowflake herald., 1922-06-30
FOREIGN

Obregon, and an immediate resumption
of the street car service is expected.
A mysterious disease in the SOUTH
eastern districts of Queensland is puz-
zling the medical authorities and has
forced them to seek aid from the
United States in determining it's cause
and, if possible, cure. The malady Is
described as being similar to meningi-
tbs, with the difference that the brain
and not the spinal cord is affected. In
one town twelve out of fifteen persons
afflicted died.
King George and Queen Mary have
accepted invitations to be guests at
dinner on June "a of Ambassador and
Mrs. Harvey. Chief Justice and Mrs.
Taft, who will be in London at that
time, also will be present. Ambassa-
dor and Mrs. Harvey arranged the din
ner for the king and queen several
weeks ago. When they learned that
Mr.. and Mrs. Taft would be in Eng.
land at the time they included them
In the small company invited.
The allied council of ambassadors,
including Myron T.. Herrick of the
United States, recently decided that
the situation in Austria was so des-
perate that they sent pleas to all the
governments interested to suspend
their claims against Austria for TWEEN.
ty years in order that the Termeulen
scheme of credits may operate. All
the great powers. including America,
already have suspended their claims.
but a few of the smaller ones have
not.
Gen. Chen Chung Ming, formerly
civil governor of Kwantung province.
whose troops seized Canton, an
nounced that the south China, OF
Canton government, has been termi-
rated and that henceforth Canton
would unite with the north in recog-
MIXING the old republican parliament.
Dispatches from Canton describe the
collapse of the southern government
as complete, Suns military forces
crushed and the former Canton pres.
ident himself fugitive.
Quereshi, the. noncooperationist
leader in British India, who sue
ceeded Mohandas Gandhi when the
latter was arrested and imprisoned
on charges of sedition, has been sen.
fenced to a years rigorous imprison-
ment and to pay fine of 500 rupees,
with a further three months imsris-
onment in default of payment.
Quereshi was arrested after publica-
ton of alleged seditious articles In
the newspaper, Young India. The
publisher and printer of Young In
dia received a similar sentence.
GENERAL
A petition signed by more than 1000
Tulsa, Okla, negroes asking that a
special election be called to permit
them to vote on withdrawing their sec
ton of Tulsa and Incorporating it al
new town, was presented recently
to Governor Robertson. The petition
was not in proper form and was re.
turned for corrections before being
considered.
Assertions that the United States
does not need an army were met by
Secretary Weeks of the War Depart.
ment, in an address at the graduating
exercises of the United States Mill
tary Academy at West Point with a
statement that "the civilization of the
world rests on no surer foundation
than did the civilization of Boston at
the time of the police strike nearly
three years ago.
At New York City, Norwich, hailed
as the successor of Man O. War, met
his master in Whiskaway, a colt that
in the Carlton stakes at Aqueduct be.
fore a monster crowd that wal
amazed to see Benjamin Blocks won.
der colt trailing eight lengths behind
H. P. .Whitney's entry at the finish
Whiskaway eased up, came within
four-fifths of second of tying the
American record for. the mile.
Col. Marcellus H. Thompson, vice
president and active head of the Auto
Ordnance Company of New York, has
been indicted by the federal grand
grand jury at Trenton on the charge
of conspiracy to ship arms to Ireland
in violation of the neutrality laws.
The announcement vas made ny AS
sistant United States District Attor-
ney Thomas V. Arrowsmith.
Herself slightly crippled from birth.
Mrs. Elizabeth Laniger Howell, wha
for many years conducted fashion.
able boarding house in Newark, N.
j., left $289,O00 of her 100000 es
tate to the Newark Home for
Crippled Children, her will. probated
recently, disclosed. Her husband
was a cripple for many years and
her mother also was crippled.
The administration is considering
the matter of decreasing second
class postal rates, it was said at the
White House Considerable discussion