The Colorado statesman., 1922-05-13
FOREIGN

the Tempo in Rome, from Bari, an Itai-
ian seacoast town on the Adriatic.
The troops Of Gen. WI Pei Flu, tho
central Chinese commander, have sur
rounded Picking. Gen. Chang Tsao-
Lin's army in the vicinity of Picking
has been scattered. All railroad traffic
out of Peklng has been suspended.
A lorry was driven into crowded
Cromac square in Belfast recently and
six men, who had been tarred and
feathered were thrown off; then they
were permitted to run to shelter. 1t Is
understood they were caught pilfering.
France" said high official of the
government, twill not recognize the
Russian soviet government until the
| United States does. France has kept
a free hand in this matter, and 1t
makes no difference what action the
Genoa conference may take"
Claiming to have discovered the ex-
lstence of a highly developed espion-
age system organized by communists
in France for the benefit of the Rus
sian soviet government, the French
police have made three arrests In con-
nection with the alleged plot.
| A dispatch to the London Times
from Dublin pictures the outlook for
an agreement by the peace conference
rather hopelessly. 1t says that as far
as could be learned, the two parties
to the conference are as far from
agreement as ever
| Charges that the Roessler Haslacher
| Chemical Company of New York, for
mer German-owned concern, made "un-
considerable profits" during the World
war, were made in the Senate by SEN
ator Smoot, Republican, Utah, during
a general cross-fire of debate as to
whether the company should be given
a tariff protection of 10 per cent ad
valorem on its production of cyanide.
| King George and Queen Mary, with
a suite including Field Marshal Earl
Haig and Admiral Lord Beatty recent
ly left London for Belgium to be the
guests of King Albert and Queen Eliz-
abeth. Troops lined the breakwater
at the eastern pier in Dover as the roy
al party embarked on the yacht Alex
andra, which was escorted across the
channel by nine destroyers.
GENERAL
Recognized on the street of Seattle,
| Wash, as an escaped life termer from
the Illinois state penitentiary at Joliet,
John B. Koetters is being held for Il
linois authorities.
A tornado of terrific proportions
struck Austin, Texas, recently. Waters
of the Colorado river, swollen from
heavy rains, hurled far into the air as
the typhoon-like winds moved south
ward. Reports indicate that the storm
almost encircled Austin.
Arlington Heights, near Fort Worth,
Texas, is inundated for the second
time in two weeks as the result of
flood waters breaking through Trinity
river levee. 1t is believed no lives have
been lost The break was caused by
another flood in the Trinity basin.
Bishop Eugene r. Hendrix, senior
bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, in Kansas City, has ten
dered his resignation from the church
in letter sent to the Methodist con-
ference at Hot Springs, Ark. Failing
health was assigned as his reason for
leaving his church work, after serving
for thirty-six years. He has been in
the ministry for fifty-three years and
is now 75 years old.
Eli Du Puy, manager of Hotel Mar
garet in Brooklyn Heights, New York,
and Albert Bradich, a vermin eXter-
minator, were held in $4,000 bail on
warrants of suspicion of homicide by
Magistrate Geismar, as the result of
the deaths at the hotel recently of Mr.
and Mrs. Fremont NJ. Jackson, who are
alleged to have been killed by fumigat-
ing gas. Du Puy and Bradich are al
legged to have caused the deaths by
negligence in not properly sealing the
rooms in which the fumigating gas was
used.
Records show that 2,105.4 miles of
federal aid highways have been COM
pleted since 1916 in Colorado, Wyo-
ming Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah,
Arizona and New Mexico, and that
funds have been allotted for an addi-
tional 3,363.2 miles, making a total of
5,467 miles. 1t is said $9,671, ,S74 is now
available for new projects in these
states.
Several of twenty-five persons re-
Gently indicted by federal grand jury
at Omaha on charge of conspiracy
to use the mails to defraud in connec-
tion with promotion of the Guaranty
Securities Company of Omaha, Des
Moines and Denver, have furnished
bond. They included L. H. Matters,
Omaha attorney, and the Rev. Charles
ii. Rogers of Lincoln.
Michael j. Finn, 81 years old, part
| owner and buSineSS mannper of tha