The Dolores star., 1922-06-02
FOREIGN

weeks with pay for all industrial
| workers.
A big loan TO Germany or none at all
appears to be the first idea with which
the bankers for many nations now as
sembling in Paris for their first meet
ing are approaching their work.
Track and field events of the next
| Olympic games at Paris in 1924 Will
cover the afternoons of nine days. This
period will include the opening cere-
monies, when the stadium Will be ded-
icated, and the parade of athletes of
all nations.
War has broken out between the
Gypsy musicians of Hungary and the
Negro jazz band artists, many of
whom are Americans The GypSies,
who have furnished Hungary its mu-
sic, ballads and laughter for a thous-
| and years, assert that the jazz instru-
mentalists are invading their precincts
and have organized to drive them out.
In thick sea fog off the coast of Fin
istere the British ship Egypt of the
PeninSular & Orient line was rammed
and sunk by the French cargo steamer
Seine and nearly hundred persons
drowned. The accident is one of the
worst that has happened on the
French coast since the war An Off
cial revised estimate of the casualties
put the dead Mt nlnety-eight.
PekinS.-Chang Tso-Lin's campaign
to obtain control of the north China
is regarded as definitely crushed with
the retreat of the main body of the
Manchurian army north of the Great
Wall. The Manchurian forces, headed
by General Chang. are presumably on
the way to Mukden. General WI de-
clared that Chang Tso-Lin is n>G left
to his own devices, and whether he
would establish the independence of
China proper was a problem to be
solved later.
The American Memorial hospital for
children, the gift of the women and
children of the United States, was ded-
icated at Rheims by Myron T. Herrick,
the American ambassador. in the pres
ence of distinguished gathering. The
hospital will be built with n fund of
$500 600 and will have a permanent en-
dOwmcnt of 100000. now in the hands
Of the committee. The fund was raised
throughout the United States, and hun
dreds OF beds were offered by individ-
uals, clubs schools and organizations
GENERAL
Arthur Dawson, official portrait
painter of the United States military
academy, recently announced that he
had discovered at Washington and Lee
University at Lexington, Va, an orig
inal painting of George Washington
by Gilbert Stuart. The painting is es-
timated by art experts to be worth
from $4,000 to 100000.
A public mass meeting to organize a
Henry Ford for President Club was
held in Dearborn, Detroit suburb, and
the home of the automobile manufac-
turer. The basic idea back of the meet
ing, it was said by leaders in the
movement, is to bring about the candl-
dacy of Mr.. Ford on an independent
ticket at the next general election.
A thousand convicts braved death
and acquitted themselves like men
when the levee broke at the prison
farm at Angola twenty miles from the
state capitol at Baton Rouge, La. They
displayed the bravery of men who
have never been called upon to wear
the stripes of shame or serve time in
payment Of their debts to society.
The oil-soaked rags and gasoline
which fire inspectors found in Abe At
tells little Ming Toy Bootery in upper
Broa@way, New York, We're planted
by the crowd that tried to involve me
in the baseball scandal" the former
champion featherweight pugilist de-
clared. Abe was considerably wrought
up over the inspectors discovery
which resulted in a trip to headquar-
ters for him.
Lovesick girls by the scores are be-
ing driven to the point of suicide by
the ouija board, according to Gen. Bal
lington Booth Of New York, president
of the Volunteers of America. He said
the ouija board, already abolished in
some states, should be legislated out
everywhere.
| Postmaster appointments in Georgia
started q hot exchange in the Senate
recently between Senator Watson,
Democrat, of Georgia, and Senator
Phipps of Colorado, a Republican
member of the postoffice committee
with the result that business was dis
rupted for several minutes, after which
the two senators took their controversy
into the corridor, with the Georgia
senator offering personal combat
Leconey, star field and track athlete
of Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
broke the Intercollegiate record for the
100yard dash in a dual field and track
meet with the Annapolis midshipmen
at Annapolis, which was won by the
latter by score of 77Is to 1874 points
Leconey negotiated the distance in
9 ITO seconds, one-tenth of second