The Snowflake herald., 1922-11-17
FOREIGN

duced in parliament granting the vote
to women.
Alfred Capus, editor of the Figaro.
member of the French Academy and
one of Frances best known writer's on
political and literary subjects. died In
Paris recently.
Ali Kemal Bey, editor of the Con-
stantinople anti Nationalist newspa-
per Sabah, has been arrested and con-
demned to death by the Turkish au-
thorities at Constantinople, the allies
have been informed.
The referendum held to decide
whether Rhodesia should be incorpOr-
ated in the South Africa Union result
ed in a majority of 2,7S5 against. The
vote against incorporation was STA
and in favor of it $3.50.
On the invitation of Hungarian fem
inists, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, the
American suffrage leader, has arrived
in Budapest to study the effects of
woman suffrage in Hungary. She also
has been requested to attempt to effect
a union among the warning wOmen's
groups.
The recent influx Of American jazz
bandsmen to supply music for the con-
stantly increasing numbers of British
erS who have Succumbed to the fox
trot has had the effect of spreading
considerable alarm among English mu-
sicians, many of whom claim to have
thereby lost their jobs.
The Kings return to his hunting
lodge at San Rossore, where he left his
family when called to Rome by the
recent Fascist, is considered evidence
that conditions in Rome are entirely
normal. The new government is alb
sorbed in starting affairs of state on
what is announced to be healthier
and more patriotic line.
The Mexican Petroleum Company
closed it's refinery and terminal works
in TampicO, throwing large number
of men out of work. The company is
not desirous of investing more money
in Mexico under the present conditions.
An official of the company complains
of the heavy oil taxes, lack of security
and the threatened attack on land IL
ties.
The American occupation authori-
ties in COblenz have offered reward
of 100000 marks for the apprehension
of the assailant of former Major j. A.
Sourwine, who was taken from train
arriving in Frankfort, suffering from
wounds inflicted by robber. The re-
ward offered is in addition to the
$4,000 marks offered by the German
authorities.
GENERAL
Fifteen persons-men, women and
children,-left Cleveland, Ohio, re.
Gently on a special train for New York,
where they will be depOrted
Neil A. Miller, Union Pacific railroad
fireman, was killed near Waterloo,
.Neb, when the top of a freight car in
a train, passing on parallel track
was blown into the cab of his engine
Indications in administration circles
were that President Harding would
await the reconvening of Congress be-
fore announcing the successor to AS
sociate Justice Day, of the Supreme
Court.
The Scripps-Howard newspapers is
the name announced for what has for
many years been known as the Scripps-
McRae newspapers, publishers of a
number of afternoon dailies in various
cities. Roy w. Howard enters the firm
as the successor to Col. Milton A. Nc
Rae, and Robert P. Scrfpps succeeds
his father, E. w. Scripps.
Officials of neither the Hudson Coal
Company nor the Delaware & Hudson
Railroad Company took action in the
Oliphant coal situation, in which fuel
officials and citizens of the borough
confiscated three cars of stove coal
standing on a railroad siding. The coal
has been delivered to the churches
and schools of Scranton, Pa, the latter
having been closed for two weeks be-
cause of lack of fuel.
Funeral services for Col. Duncan b.
Cooper, 70, convicted slayer of former
United States Senator Edward Ward
Carmack ON the streets of Nashville,
Tenn, in the fall of 1908, were held
at his old home in AShwOOd, near
Nashville, few days ago. Cooper
died following a brief illness.
A convention of the former mem
bers of the Ku Klux Klan was held in
Los Angeles recently, with the avowed
objective, according to G. w. Price,
former king kleagle for the khan in
California, of bringing about the for
nation of the National Association of
the Ku Klux Klan, rival organiza.
ton. "The meeting was in no way con-
nected with the old klan," declared
Mr.. Price.
The equivalent in the number of
words of twenty-Six novels was writ