The Raymer enterprise., 1923-09-20
FOREIGN

movement has been launched in Tur-
key. ~ E e0
Mextco has declined an invitation
from the Latin-Amerlcan delegates to
The League Of Nations to become a
member Of the league.
The soviet embassy At Berlin de-
scribes the reports Of q revolt at Mos
COW and the assassination Of Leon
Trotzky, the war minister. as fabrica-
ton. f.. go t rs-r
Seventy Brazilian state troopers
were killed or wounded when their en-.
campment at Cruz Alta, In the state
OF Rio Grande do Sui, was attacked by
revolutionaries who made furious
surprise attack. 'r.
Gen. Miguel Primo Rivera, Marquis
de Estella. head Of the revolutionary
movement which overthrew the Alluce.
mas ministry, took the oath OF office
as president Of the council of ministers
before King Alfonso Of Spain.
Home Minister Goto Of japan has
announced he will have theaters and
motion picture houses built in the de-
wasted region to provide free enter.
tainment for the people this winter US
means Of divertlng their minds from
the earthquake and OF relieving the
monotony Of their lives.
Tacitly admitting that the Ruhr
tight had been lost and that there
could be no prospect Of the internal
reconstruction Of Germany until the
foreign conflict had been adjusted,
Chancellor Stresenann remarked to a
gathering OF editors In Berlin: 'Can.
dor 10 preferable to illusion, and Ger.
many desires to speak out plainly"
The little peasants village Of Stroen.
beck, Germany. Of 100 souls boasts
that It contains not man, woman or
child Of school age who does not
play the ancient game OF chess. Even
the small children have kings, queens,
knights and pawns as playthings.
Chess is taught In the schools and the
children, going to and from their
homes, carry their chess boards like
children In the United States carry
their grammars or arthmetlcs or
states.
Sadi LecoInte, the noted French ayl-
ator. Is believed to have broken the
worlds record for altitude, held Joint.
ly by him and Lieut.. ]. MacReady.
Thief irst reading of his Darograph at
the polytechnicul laboratory, after u
fligh; showed that he reached a height
Of 1914 meters, or 81. .220.4S feet. The
barosraph Will be- examined again be.
fore the result Is accepted as official.
On Aug. IL. Lecointe reached height
Of 1O,olS meters. which tied the record
Of Lieutenant MacRendy.
A military coup d'etat, directed
against the government, as represent.
cd by the cabinet Of Premier Alhuce-
mas and political leaders, but loyal to
King Alfonso and the dynasty, was
sprung at Barcelona, Spain, by the cap
tain General In thnt city, Miguel Pri-
mO-Rlvera. The revolt, feared for
many months and twice announced, ON.
ly to be postponed. Is reported to have
spread rapidly In the provinces OF
Spain, where various garrisons are said
to have joined the movement.
BY the death Of Wells burlington,
the mining engineer mentioned In Ma
gasaki dispatches us among those
killed in the Japanese earthquake,
America loses II modern pioneer, whose
dream was to surmount the barriers Of
Siberia's little known trails, and open
to the worlds engineers and traders
stretch OF country In northeast Asia
three times the size Of Alaska md. In
his opinion, fabulOusly wealthicr. Mr..
Purington was one of the few Ameri-
cans who crossed the Pacific seeking
new worlds after the conquest of
Americas last frontier In Alaska a
quarter Of century ago. He left Lon
don In 1921 for final effort to open
up Siberia ind was waiting In Japan
for political conditions In Siberia to
become settled when the earthquake
came.
GENERAL
Jack Dempsey admitted In New York
City after his victory over Luis Angel
Firpo that he never had received such
Il socking In his life.
Governor Walton climaxed his spec
tacular fight against the Ku Klux
klan by declaring martial law for the
entire state Of Oklahoma.
While most officials Of the lndlanv
National Bank In Indianapolis, Ind.
were out $4,000 in United States GER
tiflcates were stolen from the desk Of
d. V. Moore, vice president.
Capt. Berec Shepperson of London,
England, aviator, fell on the Hermitage
twelve miles east of Nash
vile, after he had completed flight
In the service Of sky-writing adver.
tlsing company. He was burned to
death.
A baby girl, weighing fifteen ounces.
died at University hospital. Oklahoma
City, after the father, J. p. Parkins,
had carried the child 100 miles in an