The Snowflake herald., 1922-02-10
FOREIGN

All countries invited to the Genoa
economic conference have definitely
accepted except the United States,
Reuter-, Ltd, learns. So far as Brit
ish and Italian circles are concerned,
it is believed the conference will meet
as fixed, March s.
| Disturbances in Mexico City and
suburbs accompanied a series OF
demonstrations staged by chauffeurs
against recent order from the gov
ernOr of the federal district, requiring
all automobile drivers to furnish GER
tificates of good conduct before secur-
| ing licenses. The order followed pro-
tests that numerous chauffeurs were
| in reality robbers, who piled their
trade while driving taXicabs.
A dispatch to Berlin from Gleiwitz
says several French soldiers and Ger
man civilians were killed or wounded
at Petersdorf, Silesia, as a result of an
exchange of shots while French SOL
dierS were searching houses for arms
The dispatch adds that it is believed
two Frenchmen were killed and that
some Germans also met death. The
allied commission has ordered state
of siege each night between o'clock
and 8 o'clock in the morning.
The parliamentary elections in Lis
bon, Portugal, were unmarried by dis
turbances of any kind. Seventy-three
Democrats were returned to the Cham
ber of Deputies, fOrty-One Liberals, fif-
teen MonarchistS, eight Regionalists.
three Independents, four Catholics and
one Octobeist. The newspaper reports
state that President d'Almeida will re-
sign after the constitution of the new
Parliament, if it cons:oers his act in
dissolving the last Parliament uncon-
stitutional.
Paul LOebe, president of the Reichs-
tag, addressing a mass meeting of
Rhinelanders in Berlin, demanded re-
mOval of the allied armies of occupa-
ton. He attacked Premier Poincare
of France for making frivolous utter
ances." Marcel Cachin, Communist
member of the French Chamber of
Deputies, came to Berlin to address
the German Communists. He protest
ed against the indemnity policy of the
French government, declaring that the
POincare cabinet was trying to pre-
vent the reconstruction of the devaS-
tated areas of France by German
workmen.
GENERAL
Jack Dempsey will defend his
worlds heavyweight boxing title
against Bill Brennan of Chicago in a
twelve-rOund match in Madison Square
Garden March II, it was reported in
New York
The family of George Harbisch,
teacher, consisting of himself his wife,
Mrs. Mary Harbisch, and an 1S-months-
old child, were found dead in their
home at McKees Rock, Pa. An exam
ination revealed gas escaping from
stove.
All English language daily news
papers of st. Louis have reGuced their
subscription rates to the pre-war basis.
The Globe Democrat and the Post
Dispatch have announced the reduc-
tiOn from to 2 cents for a daily COPY
and from 10 to cents for the Sunday
copy. The Times and Star, it is under
stood, will also reduce ,ne1r rates.
Three children suffering from ex-
posure were brought to charitable
institution in st. Louis from their
cabin home near Thayer, Mo-, where
they were found by neighbors cuddled
about the body of their mother, who
is said to have frozen to death. The
children, aged 3 to 10, said their faith
er left home two weeks ago, saying he
was going to visit his sick mother, and
he has not been heard from since.
Judge Crosby, in the Supreme Court,
announced the appointment of Fred
LamsOn of Boston, William B. McKen-
Zie of Cambridge, and James e. Pat
ton of Boston as trustees of the Chris
tian Science Publishing Company. The
appointees will succeed Herbert w.
Eustace and Paul Harvey, both of
whom recently resigned, and Lamont
ROwlands, who was removed by the
directors of the Mother church.
Sixty patrolmen, armed with riot
guns, battled more than an hour
against RenZy Murray, a negro, who
barricaded in his home in Boston,
Mass, shot and seriously wounded two
patrOlmen, negress and a negro, and
set fire to a bed in which an infant
lay. Murray surrendered, uninjured,
when a dozen policemen broke down
the door of the house.
Gifts for the furtherance of educa-
ton totaling $33, 3,196,706 were made
during the fiscal year 1921-1922 by the
general education board of the Rookie
feller foundation, it was made known
in the annual report made in New
York. Up to date, the board has dis
tributed $40, 132, ,442, plus the income
of the total $126,7SS,094 given the
board by John ID. Rockefeller.