The Snowflake herald., 1922-11-03
FOREIGN

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American, British and Japanese ma
rines have been landed to preserve or
der at Foo Chow, seat of the latest
outbreak of fighting in China.
The Bulgarian frontier has been
closed to prevent panic-stricken
hordes of Greek Christian refugees
from swarming into that country from
Thrace.
George Cadbury, cocoa manufacturer
and founder of the model village of
Bournville, died recently at Birming-
ham, England. He was SO years of
age.
Guglielmo Marconi told the Chicago
Tribune that he is perfecting a device
for sending private wireless messages
directly between two parties and pre-
venting other stations from listening
in.
Rafael Lopez, the murderer of seven
men in Bingham, Utah, in 1914, is re-
ported to be under arrest in southern
Colorado. The hunt of Lopez assumed
national interest at the time of the
murders.
The cost of living for a typical
workingman's family of four in Mex
leo City is 279.73 pesos per month, ac-
cording to figures recently compiled
by the Department of Commerce and
Industry.
Seven Free State troopers motoring
near CaStletown Roche, County Cork,
were ambushed, but they fought so
well that the Republicans who attack
ed them retreated, leaving three dead
and nine wounded.
Lord Curzon has informed Premier
POincare that on account of the pOlit-
ical situation in England he thinks 1t
impossible that the Turk peace con-
ference can convene before Nov. Ii.
Lord Curzon suggests Lausanne as
the meeting place.
Nine. Sarah Bernhardt, the Divine
Sarah, quietly observed the seventy
seventh anniversary of her birth few
days ago with the optimistic hope that
she lives to be 100. Despite her adj
vanced age and the accident which
made amputation of one of her legs
necessary, Madame Bernhardt is in ex-
cellent health and is still the master
of her dramatic art.
David Lloyd George has resigned as
prime minister of Great Britain. He
presented his resignation to King
George at Buckingham palace after
the Unionist caucus which met at the
Carlton club repudiated his ministry.
This marks the end of the coalition
vernment-composed of the Liberal
and Unionist partieS-which came into
being during the World war.
GENERAL
Removal of Brig. Gen. Charles e.
Sawyer, President Harding's personal
physician, charged with blocking the
American Legion disqualification pro-
gram, was demanded by the Legion
national convention by vote of COL
to 375.
Fifty years ago the prison doors at
Waupun (WiS) state penitentiary
closed behind Bill Maxwell, Peshtigo
farmer. Sentence was for life, for the
charge had been the murder of friend
in quarrel over a woman. In few
days he will have been imprisoned for
an even fifty years. Warden r. M.
Cole does not intend to let the day go
without some observance of a special
occasion. He has ordered the prison
bakery to produce the best cake it
knows how.
Henry Ford is planning to establish
400 radio stations throughout the
United States, including New York,
Philadelphia, Boston and other lead
ing cities and towns. His object is to
communicate with people without re-
course to the newspapers. He is en-
deavoring to keep his plans secret, but
they are known in radio circles. He
is manufacturing some of the parts Of
the equipment at his own factories.
Ford expects to use the stations for
political and business purposes.
John Spencer of Pope county and
Harry Spencer of Conway county,
Ark, half-brothers, met for the first
time in forty years when they were
both placed in the same cell in the
county Jail at Little Rock. Both were
under arrest on liquor charges.
Criminals can be forced to tell the
truth regarding their offenses while
under the influence of scoplamine an
esthesia, or as 1t is better known, dur
ing twilight Sleep" according to DR..
e. e. House, Ferris, Texas, physician,
who has asked the endorsement of the
Medical Association of the Southwest
for a proposed experiment on thou
sand prisoners in the Leavenworth,
Kan, penitentiary, to demonstrate his
theory.
Fire losses on railroads in this coun-
try declined nearly $3,000,000 in 1921,
as compared with 1920. G. L. Ball,
president, told the Railway Fire Pro-
lection Association at the opening ses-
sion of it's convention in Washington.
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