The Ordway new era., 1922-11-24
FOREIGN

l-ican, British, Italian, French and Swe
dish ministers, who acted under In
structions of their governments.
Wilhelm Cuno, director general oi
the Hamburg American STEAMSHIP
Company, has accepted the offer OF
President Ebert to organize a new Ger.
man cabinet. 1t is believed Cuno's Sc
lection of associates will be made from
Industrial ranks and that he will in
vite into the cabinet men high in the
business world.
Investigation of the Philippine Ma
tional bank of Manila by committee
of six members of the Legislature is
proposed in resolution introduced
jointly in the Philippine Senate and
House. The resolution instructs such
a committee particularly TO ascertain
the truth of the reports of fabulous
exorbitant salaries paid bank officials
and employees"
A bank for farmers, sponsored by
the federal government, is one of the
projects now being considered by the
Chamber of Deputies of Mexico City.
following the presentation of bill to
that effect by the Co-operitista party,
the dominant party in the lower
House. The bank is designed 10 aio
small farmers and will be modelled
after similar institutions in the Unit
ed States.
Terrific havoc was wrought by fire
which broke out in the Italian fleet in
the harbor ut Naples said Central
News dispatch from Rome, received in
London. The light warcraft Marsala,
Russo and Aquila were sunk. Two
gunboats were entirely destroyed -Four
torpedo boats were also burned The
fire spread from the shipl to the
shore, destroying waterfront buildings,
aurves and barges.
Since the resumption by Eamon de
Valera of his title of president of the
Irish republic and the reconstruction
of the republican council of state, |
backed by tie republican army, the |
war in ireland has entered a new |
phase Captured correspondence has
revealed proposed war measures
which have been submitted TO lie Va
leru for approval, and ii Is assumed /
that whatever is now done is with his
sanction.
The Spanish government, it was an
nounced recently, denounced on Nov.
>, the commercial agreement made
with the United States, Aug, l, 1906
Under this agreement, Spain accorded
the United States most favored nation
treatment, with the exception of spe-
ciul advantages conceded to Portugal, |
while the United States agreed to spe-
cial rates of duty upon certain Span
lsh products, notably crude tartar.
brandies and wines.
GEN ERAL
Three persons were injured. one
probably fatally, and dozen women
and children were saved in thrilling |
rescues In a fire believed to have been |
which caused $4,000 dam
age to West side aparement build
ing in Chicago.
Lieut.. John Blaney, army flyer from |
Mitchell field, Long Island, was killed |
Instantly at Hartford, Conn, at Brain
arc Municipal field while taking part
In aE airplane relay in the Hartford
aviation meet. His plane struck tree
and crashed when about to land
The soldier bonus, providing $50 a
for ex-service men, passed, ac-
cording tc figures given out from the
State Election Bureau at Oklahoma
City. The vote was 1S,SS9 majority
for the measure. The farmer vote was
in favor of the measure.
In desperate but unsuccessful at
tempt to escape from the federal peni-
tentiary at Leavenworth, Kan, Joe
Martinez, serving Il sentence of muir
der, fatally stabbed A. II. Leonard,
captain of the guards, and knitted four
other guards, two dangerously. Mar
tinez was shot by one of the guards
and later taken to hospital after he
was found hiding in coal bunker.
The Illinois Supreme Court has or
dered William Bross Lloyd, million
aire Chicago communist, to Joliet pris-
on for five years for violation of the
state anti-syndicalism law. Judge
Thompson denied Lloyd's plea for a
thlrty-day stay to permit him to ar
range for the handling of his 81 ,S00,-
900 estate.
The three-masted schooner Samuel
Hart of New York was sunk In a col
lision with the sea-going tug Wyoming
at the entrance of Casco bay, near
Portland, Maine. Captain Johnson Of
ne sailing vessel and three members
Of his crew were brought to this port
by the Wyoming. A haze Is said to
have been responsible for the collision.
The Wyoming was not seriously dam
aged.
c.. V. Toner, oil field worker, wai
the hero of Humble, eighteen miles
north of Houston, Texas. During the