The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-06-02
FOREIGN

IcQu1ILuS dA duHudl Vacation Oh TWO
weeks with pay for all industrisl
workers.
The eight-mOnth mona ggression pact
was adopted unanimously at plenary
meeting Of the political subcommission
of the Genoa conference. The pact was
not signed, but was adopted in the form
of resolution each state pledging it.
self to respect it.
The council of the League of Ma
tons refused to take up the Russian
problem and referred to the Genoa
conference the Norwegian govern
mentS request for an immediate iTs
quiry by the league into the general
situation in Russia and the effect of
the famine on economic reconstruc-
ton in Europe.
Austen Chamberlain, government
spokesman, denied in the House of
Commons that France is preparing to
extend her military occupation of Ger
many. Indirect threats had been
made by France to take over addi-
tional German territory unless the
Germans accepted the new demands
of the interallied reparations commits
sion by May 81.
In thick sea fog off the coast of Fin.
istere the British ship Egypt of the
Peninsular & Orient line was rammed
and sunk by the French cargo steamer
Seine and nearly a hundred persons
drowned. The accident is one of the
worst that has happened on the
French coast since the war. An Off
cial revised estimate of the casualties
put the dead at ninety-eight.
Peking.-Chang Tso-Ljn's campaign
to obtain control of the north China
is regarded as definitely crushed with
the retreat of the main body of the
Manchurian army north of the Great
Wall. The Manchurian forces, headed
by General Chang, are presumably on
the way to Mukden. General WI de-
clared that Chang Tso-Lin is now left
to his own Devices and whether he
would establish the independence of
China proper was a problem to be
solved later.
The American Memorial hospital for
children, the gift of the women and
children of the United States, was ded-
icated at Rheims by Myron T. Herrick
the American ambassador, in the pres
ence of distinguished gathering. The
hospital will be built with a fund of
100000 and will have permanent en-
dowment of 100000, now in the hands
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throughout the United States, and hun
dreds of beds were offered by individ-
uals, clubs, schools and organizations
GENERAL
"Gang terrorism" was held respon-
sible by Chicago police for an outbreak
of incendiarism in Chicago recently in
which three fires caused $250,000 dam
ages.
A thousand convicts braved death
and acquitted themselves like men
when the levee broke at the prison
farm at Angola, twenty miles from the
state capitol at Baton Rouge, La. They
displayed the bravery of men who
have never been called upon to wear
the stripes of shame or serve time in
payment of their debts to society
Carrying a cargo of more than 5000
rare specimens of African jungle deni-
zens, the Dromore Castle has arrived
in port at New York. One of the odd
est creatures aboard was a thorn
tailed lizard, survival of prehis-
toric periods. When angry this crea-
ture becomes mass of bony spikes,
and he was highly indignant when the
ship arrived.
Leconey, star field and track athlete
of Lafayette College, Pennsylvania,
broke the intercollegiate record for the
1OO-yard dash in dual field and track
meet with the Annapolis midshipmen
at Annapolis, which was won by the
latter by score of 77l5 to 1875 points.
Leconey negotiated the distance in
8 ITO seconds, one-tenth of a second
better than the former record, which
stood at 8 4-5.
A new record paid for seat on the
New York curb market was paid re-
Gently when Joseph III. HirsiiOrn pur-
chased a membership of William f.
Reardon, deceased, for $1,000. The
previous record was $4,000.
Earl Z. Gordon. % years old, stu
dent of Miami, Okla, must stand
trial on charges of murder for the
shooting to death of Beckham Cobb,
%, Birmingham, Ala. This was the
decision after Gordon had been given
q preliminary hearing.
Booth Harrington again has won the
Pulitzer prize of $1,000 for the Amer
lean novel best presenting the whole
some atmosphere of American life and
the highest standards Of American
manners and manhood" Columbia
University announced recently. The
prize-winning novel was "Alice Adj
ANS
Arthur Dawson, official portrait
painter of the United States military