The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-03-24
FOREIGN

Georges Carpenter will be confined
to his room for several days In Paris
as result of an operation for an In
fected condition of the throat.
A campaign is being carried on in
certain French newspapers against any
program by the United States to col
lect its war debts from France.
Between 100000 and 100000 British
engineers and machinists are idle as
a result Of the employers lockout.
About 5000 workshops were said to be
closed.
The first Swiss hospital train for
Russian children started for Volga
district few days ago. 1t consisted
of thirty-five cars of food and medical
supplies, with which it is hoped to sup
port 10000 children for three months.
Gen. Ataman Gregorieff Semenoff,
Siberian anti-Bolshevist leader, hopes
to unite the people of Siberia under a
new Siberian republic, he declared up
on his arrival at Victoria, B. c., from
the Far East on the liner Empress Of
Russia.
Accompanying the Fifth American
infantry regiment for Antwerp on the
first stage of the voyage to the Unit
ed States were thirty-one German
brides of soldiers, and eight babies
born under the protection of the Stars
and Stripes on the Rhine.
Commenting on the American gov
ernment's decision not to participate
in the Genoa conference, the Tempo,
Rome, says the American note might
seem to be "a premeditated act of ma
tional egotism, by which, under the
pretext of checking the ambitions of
others. the United States tries to
make its own political and financial
interests predominant"
A provisional settlement of the
strike Of officers on the vessels OPP
Grated by the Mexican Steamship
Company, which is controlled by the
Mexican government, has been reached.
The officers will perform their duties
for the next ten days during which
an attempt will be made to bring
about definite settlement The ships
which were tied up In the port at Vera
Cruz by the strike have already sailed
Asserting that agents of the United
States are in Canada studying the
Quebec system Of liquor distribution
under police supervision, L. A. Tas-
chereau, prime minister of the prov
ince, predicted in House debate that
"the example Of Quebec will be fol-
lowed not only throughout Canada,
but also in the United States" In Que
bee liquors are sold directly to the in
from bonded warehouses.
Beer of moderate alcoholic content is
sold over public bars.
William d. ("Big Bill') Haywood
heads group of American l. w. w. to
whom Premier Lenin has granted a
concession tfuperate the big Nadejd-
insky iron we IS in tifesUral mountain
region, part of the coal mines in the
Kosnetz basin and auxiliary factories.
Haywood disappeared from the United
States last year while under $65, 900
bail after he and about ninety other l.
w. W. had been convicted of espionage
and conspiracy against the government
in the war. He has since taken some
part in the deliberations of the Third
at Moscow.
GENERAL
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Of the Missouri Pacific railroad at ST.
Louis recently that LOO men laid off
In November have been ordered to re-
port for work.
Harry Kellar, world famous magi-
clan, died at his home in Los Angeles,
after two years of I'LL health and Sc
we're illness Of several weeks. He was
7S years old.
William Dalton, II years old, former
bank clerk, has been placed on trial
for the second time on a charge Of rob- !.
Ding the Northwestern Trust Com
pany, Chicago, Of approximately $780,
300 in Liberty bonds.
The problem of quartering mixed
juries of men and women when un-
able to agree was settled by Judge A.
9. Hoppmann in Dane county Superior
Court in Madison, Wis, recently, when
he ordered the sexes segregated and
given lodging in different rooms of a
hotel.
Women are to hold the pursestrings
If more than a dozen Michigan viii
ages that held elections recently. Re-
.urns completed show that women can
iidates for treasurer were successful
n five villages in Van Buren, county,
five in Lenawee county and one in
county.
The arrest for intoxication of Fred
srick r. Wedge, student at the Har-
yard graduate school of education, was
4 matter of formal record in the Dis
riot Court at WATERFOWL, Mass, re-
,ently. The police blotter containing
he latest entry in the spectacular ca
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