The Snowflake herald. [volume] (Snowflake, Ariz.) 1913-1969, 1922-06-23
FOREIGN

Sh1 IN a railway station at TOXIC last
Nov A.
Admiral Baron Tomosaburo Kato,
head of Japan's delegation to the
Washington arms conference and MIN
lister of the navy in the recently re-
signed Takahashi cabinet, has accept
ed the premiership of Japan.
Asuncion, capital of Paraguay, has
been taken by the revolutionary forces,
according to a dispatch from Posades,
an the Paraguay border
The report, which has not been con-
firmed, was received at Posadas from
Villa Encarnacion, Paraguay. /.
Londonderry is facing famine as the
result of the cutting off of the usual
lines of food supplies for the city.
Supplies are being sent there from
Glasgow, but these are insufficient
Incendiaries were again active in Bel
fast and large factory was destroyed
by fire.
Reports circulated in Europe and
America regarding the condition of
aggerated, according to advices from
Moscow. The rumor that Lenine has
been compelled to resign as president
of the council of peoples cOmmissaries
on account of his health was denied.
Serious disorders with some casual
ties occurred at Agran, Croatia, when
CrOat anti-Serbians and mOnarchists
FLASHED during public celebration of
the wedding of King Alexander of
Jugo-Slavia and Princess Marie of Ru-
mania. Meager censored dispatches
say that the fighting, in which shots
were exchanged, lasted for three
hours, but details are suppressed.
Royal Canadian mounted police re-
Gently raided a farmhouse on st. The
reese Island, near Montreal, and seized
nearly 100000 worth of forged United
States Federal Reserve Bank notes
Phillip Briere, alias Dedrocker, and
Alfred Jean were arrested. A large
modern printing press was discovered
in the house. The bogus bills were
clever limitations of American curren-
cy, officials said
Wealthy Chinese with their families
and valuables are fleeing from Nan
chang, capital of Kiangsi province, as
the army of DR.. Sun Yat-Sen, the
South China leader, advances north.
ward. Looting at the hands of the
southern troops is feared. American
missionaries at Nanchang are also pre-
pared to leave if it becomes necessary
for the forces of WI Pei-Fu, the mill
tary power of the Picking government.
to evacuate Nan-chang.
GENERAL
Fire originating from an explosion
in the engine room of the Mineral
Lake Lumber Company plant at Min
eral, forty miles southeast of Tacoma
destroyed the mill and lumber stored
in the yards, at an estimated loss OF
100000.
While additional wage cuts swung
over the heads of 100000 more railway
employees and awaited only formal re-
lease by the railroad labor board toI
slash another $40,000,000 from the pay
rolls of the carriers, it was rumored
in Chicago that any rail strike grow.
ing out of present threats may be di.
rected and financed from Canada as
means of evading the recent deci.
sion of the United States Supreme
Court holding unions liable for dam.
ages caused by their members
Lashed and whipped about by a 100
mile gale more than four and a hall
miles above earth, ON the verge of suf-
location, caused By loss of his oXyger
tank, and compelled to cling to ropes
and straps attached to parachute fol
fear that whirling cross current
might weaken and cause them to break
are several of the mere" details relat.
ed by Capt. A. w. Stevens, aerial pho
tographer, McCook field, Dayton Ohio
who recently broke the worlds para
chute jump record when he descended
24,2O6 feet.
Vice President James Starr of the
United Textile Workers, who has been
in charge of the textile strike in Men.
chester, n. H., since it began Feb. 10,
will not be permitted hereafter to ad.
dress Open-air meetings in Manchester
the park commission decided. other
nonresident union leaders are also
barred.
Establishment of national agencies
to eliminate strikes and solve other
troubles of the building industry was
favored by John Donlin, president OF
the building trades department or tie
American Federation of Labor, who
told the department annual meeting at
Cincinnati that the whole nation is
tired of strikes and lockouts and dis.
gusted with such institutions that
make them possible"
Properties of the Willis corporation
at Elizabeth, N. j., were bid in at auc-
ton by the Durant Motor Corporation
for $5,525,0O0. The second highest bid