The Colorado statesman., 1922-12-09
FOREIGN

telegram received at El Paso from Chi
huahua City.
Objecting TO wage of % marks an
hour, the teachers in Cologne's contin.
uation schools have struck for more
pay. Similar action already had been
| taken by the faculties of vocational In.
stitutions at Duisburg and Essen.
Federal troops of Mexico have res
cued II. X. Wereker, superintendent OF
the Aguila OIL Company's camp at
| Tiacolula, Vera Cruz. who was kid.
naped and held for 10000 pesos ran.
som, according to a war office an.
nouncement. He is n British subject.
American tobacco buyers are being
held up and robbed in western ThrGce
| The latest robbed are II. j. Workman
| of Henderson, N. c., who was deprived
OF money and jewelry while travelling
by automobile from Drama to kayaIa.
and J. J. Harrington OF Rocky Mount
n. c., who was robbed on Il road from
Seres to Saloniki.
At the opening of the disarmament
conference in Moscow. Maxim Ltyin
off, Russian assistant commissioner OF
foreign affairs, definitely proposed j
reduction of the Red army 10 3o0yDU
men. He made this conditional, how.
ever, on "a corresponding reduction N
the standing armies OF the suites on
Russia's western boundaries"
The prohibit.onists OF Schoenberg. 4
suburb of Berlin, having been prev emit
ed by the police from holding an open
air meeting engaged L flock OF sand
wich men to parade the streets with
pIacards denouncing the evils OF aico-
hol. This aroused the ire OF the Sd
loonkeepers and distillery employes,
who gave the sandwish men severe
beating.
The American doughboys In the
Rhineland are making up u purse Ut
many million of marks with which 10
give to German youngsters real
Christmas. The Rhinelund post of vet
Grams of foreign wars started the purse
with 100000 marks and every soldier
in the American forces is giving al
least the equivalent of 81, which ls
more than 5000 marks. Top sergeants
are entrusted with the task of seeing
that none of the soldiers forget to CON
tribute. Relief work already has be
gun among the German poor.
Rafet Pasha is trying to find hus-
bands for $50 members of the former
sultan's harem. The women range in
age from II to 80 years. All of them
are penniless. Rafet also is anxious
to solve the fate of the former mon
arch's numerous progeny, as well as
that of twenty princes and princesses
of the royal blood. at ought not to be
difficult to find husbands or helpmates
for these women" said a palace func-
tionary "They all were selected for
their beauty, youth and figure. Most
of them were gifts to the sultan from
governors of the provinces. They gpye
matchless compilations, dark eyes and
long chestnut colOred hair"
GENERAL
Members of the Ku Klux Klan were
barred from serving on Cook county
grand jury by Chief Justice NJ. l.. Nc
Kinley of the Criminal Court in Chi
cago.
Hundreds of the worlds fine cattle
were led into the arena ut the Inter-
national Livestock Show at Chicago
for Judging, under the direction of j.
NJ. Strickland of Yorkshire, England.
Glen Phares of Shelbyville, Ind, won
the sweepstakes in the junior corn
contest at the hay and grain show held
in connection with the live stock eN-
position. Region winners were: Re
gion /, Donald Stoltz, Park City,
Mont. Region 6, Paul Hoffman, Tiff,
Colo. Other winners ut the show were
Cow peas: Fred Gothrope, Proctor,
Colo. Hard red winter wheat; John
Howell, Montrose Colo. White spring
wheat, John Howell, Montrose, Colo.
Hard red spring wheat: r. o. Wyler,
husband, SasI, Can.
A campaign to enlist $4,000 minis
ters and through them 100000
church members to take an active part
in the 1924 presidential election was
announced by the Rev. ]. Glover Mons
ma. editor of the Minister'S monthly in
Chicago.
Compulsory education of parents in
their duties toward their children, to
be acted on by the Colorado Legisla-
ture, was advocated on national scale
by Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver in an
address before the Rotary Club of Chi
cago. He declared such compulsory
education for parents would greatly
lessen juvenile crime.
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