The Ordway new era., 1922-12-08

who can stop them are the trresulars
themselves"
GENERAL
: plan for direct action by France
as solution Of the reparations qUes-
tion has been submitted To tEli cab
met meetln- in the Elysee palace, with
president Milleund presiding. IAe
plan provides for seizure Of the state
coal mines and collection of the ex-
port taxes in the Ruh9 district, togetA-
er with absolute control of that sec
ton of the Rhine.
Seven vi the fifteen convicts who
escaped from the state prison at Mar
quette, Mich, have been captured. ac-
cording to prison officials directing
the search. Three of the convicts
were found hiding in an abandoned
brewery four miles from the prison,
and four were trapped in the hold of
u tug beached at Portage lake.
New York and New Jersey cities are
being flooded with liquor from the Ba-
hamas, Scotland and England, accord
ing to Frank J. Hale, an investigator
LpA NA4N pAOAliDALI'A- ItSA AIlltA4t III 4NtM
York City. He declared that steam
ship had cleared from Scotland recent
ly with 24,000 cases of whisky bound
for the whisky armada camping
ground" four niles off the American
coast.
Byron Ernest Thady, 20 years old,
switchboard man, was awarded the
Theodore n. Vail gold medal for note
worthy public service and $500 in cash
for unusual service during the flood at
Pueblo, Colo, June 3, 1921. Mrs. Jo-
sephine d. Pryor, chief operator at
Pueblo, was awarded silver medal
and $3.50 for unusual service during the
1921 flood. Thady maintained commu-
nication while the rising river waters
poured into the telephone building
| When the lights failed, he improvised
lamps so that the operators could re
main at work. He also saved records
essential to re-establishing service.
| Miss Anna LentZ, who lives on d
| farm near Chiffon. Wis, confessed
| that she had mailed the poisoned can
| dy which caused the death of Mrs
| iboiAitl VI tlSli
| children. She has been arraigned OF
charge of murder The confession
was made and signed before Federal
| Postal Inspector Niles of Fond Du Lac
More than 200 miners employed b.
the Georges Creek Coal Mining Com
pany at Homecoming, Mich, went Ol
strike in sympathy with fifteen labor
ers who quit work after a disagree
ment with employers following a wag
dispute. The miners struck despite tn
advice of Francis j. Drum, presiden
of District No. 10, United Mine Work
ers OF America.
Fifteen convicts, four of them serv
ing life terms, made their escape fron
the Marquette, Mich, branch prison
Later two of them were captured, tn
searchers being impeded by hea
snow storm. Crawling through stean
pipe tunnel, which runs under the pris
ON yard and one of the cell blocks, tn
fugitives made their way into the base
rnent under the warden's residence b.
digging under three concrete walls an
steel door.
His fighting blood up, the Tiger o
France turned from the abstract t
the specific while in Boston, answere
his critics at Washington with barbe
phrases and declared that what h
really came to America for was to see
to draw the United States into the cor
ference at Lausanne for the settlemen
of the eastern crisis.
Four months on the chain gang 81
the minimum sentence militant men
bers of the 1. w. w. may expect
they are caught in Calexico, CALI, un
der any pretext Whatever" accordin
to Police Judge Marty.