The Snowflake herald., 1922-03-17
FOREIGN

the House of Commons from Surrey,
died in London recently.
An official decree issued recently In
Paris confers the MedaI or Honor Of
the Municipal Police on fifteen men,
bers of the New York City police force.
Max s.. Green, chairman of the Irish
prison board, was shot and killed in
Dublin, message announces. He was
a son-in-law of the late John Redmond,
Irish Nationalist leader.
A feminine invasion of both houses
of parliament was forecast in London
following the action of the committee
on privileges in the House Of Lords in
admitting Lady Rhondda to seat
Viscount Grey of Fallodon, former
secretary of state for foreign affairs,
underwent an operation recently in
London, for ulcer. Although the Oper-
alton was declared successful, the pa
tient is considered to be in quite a
serious condition.
The Daily Herald, London, has de-
Tended the veracity of it's recent re-
port that George Harvey will be re-
called as American ambassador to the
court of st. James. "Wait and see
what happens" the newspaper adj
vised it's critics.
Statements that France will not pay
her financial debt to the United States
were repudiated in official quarters in
Paris. 1t is understood, however, that
France will not take any steps toward
payment until the American govern
ment sends a note upon the subject.
Counsel for Seventy-seven constabu-
larry soldiers, of whom eleven noncom-
missiOned officers were sentenced to
death and sixty-six enlisted men to
life Imprisonment for murders COM
mitted in riot in Manila December,
1920, filed a notice of appeal to the
Supreme Court of the United States.
A party Of American treasure seek
ers has reached San Jose, Costa Rica,
and applied to the government for per-
mission to search for gold that is sup
posed to have been buried on Cocos
island. This island, 545 miles south
west of Panama, is the locale of Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Is
land"
America is the worlds greatest
creditor, Germany the worlds greatest
debtor Germany owes almost twice
as much as the whole world owes
America. The bureau of statistics of
the German government has issued an
interesting survey of the worlds in
debtednesS. Standing at the head of
the list is Germany's reparation debts,
amounting to 32,O0O,OOO,OOO gold
marks, or $31,0O0,OOOOOO.
GENERAL
'Fairview," near Lincoln, Neb., fam
Gus as the birthplace of the grapejuice
cocktail and the former home of Will
liam Jennings Bryan, is to become a
Methodist hospital.
The case of Gov. Len Small of Illi-
nOis, charged with conspiracy to en-
beZzle state funds, had another day in
court recently and took another adj
journment, this time until April 8.
An examination of candidates at
Springfield, Ill.,, filing for state offices
has presented another puzzle for the
politicians. There are six women can
didates for the General Assembly and
many for lesser county offices.
Mrs. Willamene Fuller, member of
st. Stephens procathedral choir, Port
land, Ore, was shot and seriously
wounded recently at the church by
choir was practicing, ordered it's mem
bers to put up their hands and then
fired without waiting for them to do it.
The man escaped.
A tremendous increase in drug adj
dictiOn in BROOKLYN since prohibition
became law is shown in figures given
out by Bryd S. Coler, commissioner of
public welfare He set the blame .pri-
marily upon the dry laws and the man
ner of their enforcement. Alcoholism
also has increased since the Eighteenth
was adopted, the figures
disclosed.
Three hundred tramps arrived in
New Orleans on single freight train
from Texas points. Some were enter
tanned at police stations and others
visited points of interest about town.
The list of stock brokerage house
casualties in New York touched the
fifty mark recently when involuntary
bankruptcy petitions were filed in Fed
eral Court against Etting & Wall and
/. B. Mullins & Co.
Mrs. Enrico Caruso, widow of the
famous opera tenor, spiritedly denies
cabled ispatches from Rome to the eff
feet that her husbands throat had been
removed shortly after death and left
to the Naples museum for scientific
examination. The announcement that
Rome papers had reproduced pictorial
ly the throat of the tenor she greeted