The Colorado statesman., 1923-03-24
| FOREIGN

1t is said they had arms and docu-
ments In their possession.
The viceroy of India, Lord Reading,
believes that radical animosity in In
dia has beegun to decline, and that n
closer cooperation in advancing the
work OF reform is now to be expected.
He expressed these views at n recent
dinner at Calcutta of the European as
ISOLATION.
The world nonstop dancing record
now is claimed by II Marseilles pro
fessor," who called it a day after he
had held the floor for twenty-four
hours, four minutes and five seconds.
He was assisted by two young women
pupils, the first of whom, Mile. Mar
celle Tref, danced sixteen hours,
twenty-five minutes and fifteen sec
onds.
The good humor of Alexander r.
Moore of Pittsburgh, new American
ambassador to Spain, averted Fran
co-American diplomatic incident re-
Gently in Paris, when the chief French
Moore's ambassadorial passport.
Moore was able to obtain his trunks
after interpreters were engaged for
two hours in Strengthening out the tan
gle.
The Germans in Duisburg and else
where in the Belgian occupied area
have gone on thirst strike. This is
due to the adoption by the Belgians of
the rule mo tax, no wine" as a method
of inducing payment of the recently
imposed tax on wines, liquors and to-
baccO. The Germans are refusing to
pay the tax and the Belgians are seiZ-
ing. locking up and guarding the wine
cellars
A letter purported to have been
written by Liam Lynch, republican
army leader, to Joseph Mccarthy of
Philadelphia, urging the vital import
ance of "a consignment of arms ar
riving as soon as possible" was made
public recently by the Free State gov
ernment. "One piece of small artillery
in a few weeks would be worth twenty
pieces arriving in Il couple of months"
Lynch was said to have written. Time
is on the side of the enemy. We want
to make the most of the coming few
months. If it is at all possible to have
such here at once nothing should pre-
vent it. We could turn the scale here
Immediately and also end the war
quickly If this arrived"
GENERAL
ID. w. Davis, former governor of Ida
no, was sworn in as special assistant
secretary of the interior. He is to act
as personal aide to Secretary Work.
Use of "check off" funds to unioniZe
"open shop" mines was forbidden by
federal Judge George w. McClintick in
an injunction handed down in u
special session of the United States
District Court. The injunction pro-
hibits the international organization
of the union from sending money into
West Virginia to be used in organiza-
ton activities.
In the span of little more than two
generations the United States mas MS
sumed the leading position among all
nations in the volume and variety Of
its manufactured production, the num-
ber of wage earners engaged in manu-
featuring, the power applied to pro-
cesses and the value of products, the
national conference board says in an
analysis of recent census of manu-
facturers. From 1919 to 1919 the to-
tai value of products manufactured in
the United States rose from S1,092,-
100000 to nearly $62 ,500,00000O, and
the number of wage earners employed
10 ia q
096,372. In the first twenty years of
this century the personnel of manufac-
turinf industries more than doubled,
while the total value of manufactured
products in 1919 was approximately
five and one-half times the total in
1S99," the report says.
A branch of the Fascist of Italy,
called the Fascist of North America,
was founded in this country two years
ago and now has 10000 members in
branches in many of the leading cities
in the United States and Canada, the
New York Herald has announced.
The largest single zinc ore purchase
ever made in the Joplin, Mo-, district
was recorded recently when the Amer
lean Metal Company bought 10000
tons from the Commerce Mining and
Royalty Company. On the basis of the
market price, $4S.50 ton, the amount
paid for ore was $4S5,000. Joplin oper-
ators believe that not only local rec
ord was established, but that it is u
worlds record.
The largest smokable cigar ever
manufactured has lust been presented
to Uncle Joe Cannon by the Cigar Man
ufacturers' Association of New York.
1t is twenty-eight inches in length, a
foot in circumference, and is made of
pure Havana shade grown tobacco,
filler and wrapper. The cigar weighs
a LITTLE more thnn five pounds, and ar