The Snowflake herald., 1922-02-24
FOREIGN

The Irish situation, since the raids
over the Ulster border, has steadily be-
come worse and no secret is made OF
the grave alarm with which it Is
viewed in official circles in London.
Rafael Martinez Alfonso, member Of
the House of Representatives and Lib
eral candidate for mayor of Havana,
was found dead in his room at the Ho-
tel Luz with three bullet wounds in his
body.
London's women police are mot a
necessity and are too costly to main
tain as a luxury Sir William Hor-
wood, commissioner of the metropoli-
tan police, has found, and as result
the women's patrols will be disbanded
at the earliest possible moment
Henri Landrus final hope of escap-
'ng the guillotine, to which he was con-
demned on Nov. 80, in Paris, for the
murder of ten fiances and boy, per-
ished when the chief justice of the SUI
preme Court of Appeals threw out the
French Bluebeard's request for new
trial.
Transfer on Feb. % of ownership of
the Figaro, an influential morning
newspaper of Paris, to M. Coty, per-
fume manufacturer, and group of as
sociateS, is announced. This step is
taken, the announcement says in an
swer to legal notice served by the
new owners on M. Calmett, secretary
of the corporation, forbidding all edi-
torial discussion in the newspaper I'M
til they take possession.
The All-Russian central committee
at Moscow has decided to take over
Immediately the valuables in all the
churches and sell them for the bene-
fit of the famine sufferers. The value
of the silver and gold candlesticks, the
gold-covered and bejeweled ikOns, the
chalices and salvers involved is va
riously estimated, but In the weight
of the precious metals and jewels
alone is reported to total hundreds of
millions of dollars.
Finding the streets of Buenos Aires
too we'll policed for holdups, pair Of
robbers recently used police headquar-
tiers for one of their operations. APP
preaching a gentleman of prosperous
appearance, they showed him detec-
tives badges and announced that he
must accompany them to headquarters
and there explain how he came by the
valuableS he carried. The man accom-
panied them. Police headquarters has
several unused rooms. Into one of
them the pair introduced the ''malefac-
tor" and took from him everything of
value.
GENERAL
A falling off in influenza and pneu-
monia cases has been reported by the
Board of Health in New York.
The double liability law whereby
stockholders in Kansas state banks
are liable for twice the amount of
their stock in case of banks failure
has been declared invalid by the SUI
preme Court of Kansas. Sixteen failed
banks with combined capacity of
$415,000 are in process of liquidation
and are Immediately affected by the
decision.
Three men were taken into custody
by the police at Chicago after a raid
on a suite of offices occupied by the
American Novaoulite Company. The
concern was declared by the police to
have offered large profits to small in
vestors and the belief was expressed
that the losses may total $1,OOO,OOO.
According to the police, the concern
was interested in the making of road
way materials.
Organized operatives in cotton mills,
employing about 21,O 900 hands in New
Hampshire and Massachusetts, have
gone on strike in protest against q
wage reduction of 20 per cent. Off
Gals of the textile unions with which
the locals are affiliated ossert that the
mills are we'll organized. Reductions,
accompanied by restoration of the fiji
ty-four-hOur week, will cut the wages
of nearly $4,000 operatives in the four
northern New England states.
The price of cement was lowered 10
cents per barrel by a large cement
manufacturing concern in st. Louis re-
Gently, reducing the present scale to
$3.50 per barrel in carload lots to deal
ers.
Pope Plus XI expressed "unbounded
admiration" for the American people
and voiced his deep interest in the
work of the Washington conference at
his reception of Cardinal O'Connell of
Boston.
A quarrel with his wife resulted in
Joseph Nowyek, Chicago, being SEN
fenced to take her to the movie every
Saturday night and to church every
Sunday by Judge Haas in Police Court.
ut will cost you $3.50 if you don't" the
judge told him.
Acceptance of Henry Ford's offer
for the Muscle Shoals nitrate plant
would wipe out the last vestige of
sectionalism that has existed in the
South" Governor TAYLOR said before