The Dolores star., 1923-12-21
FOREIGN

Conservative party in the general cleo
ton last week
Two persons were killed and
twenty wounded in clash in Athens
mt royallst mass meeting between
royalists and republican troops.
Troops restored order
Federal Councillor Ernest Chu8rd of
Lausanne was elected president of the
Swiss Confederation for 1924. The
Swiss parliament which chooses the
president, gave him lS9 of the 2l9
votes. The new vice president is fed
eral councillor Jean Musy of Fri
bourg.
When word was received in Man
lila that DR.. sun Yat Sen had rciter-
ated his determination TO seize Canton
| customs collections. six United States
destroyers We're ordered rushed 10
HOngkong. The destroyers which left
this evening, are the Peary, Pope.
Pillsbury. W. Il. Preston. Sicar and
| Norcross.
Lord Alfred Douglas was found
| guilty OF libeling Winston Churchill
and sentenced TO six months imprison-
ment in the second division, which
does not include hard labor The libel
occurred in connection with Lord AL
| fred's charge that Churchill. while
secretary of the navy. had falsified
communique issued after the battle of
Jutland
\ delegation of sixteen Arapahoe In
dams from Wyoming. clad in full re-
gala. arrived in Paris last week
| Their appearance caused such COM
| motion In the northern railroad ter
/ minus that traffic was held up ror
| some time. Chief Old Eagle told in
reviewers that the deputation in
tended to ask the League of Nations
to Intervene with the United States
/ government so that Indians might
have the same rights and privileges as
| other Americans.
Prime Minister Baldwin and his
cabinet will meet the parliament when
\ it reconvenes. and not resign in the
| interim. II was officially stated in Lon
| don. The text of the communique
containing the cabinets decision read ::
| After careful consideration of the
! constitutional precedents and their
bearing upon the situation which has
/ arisen rs Il result of the general cleo
tions, the cabinet decided unanimously
| this morning that it was their CON
| stitutional duty to meet the parlia-
/ ment at the earliest possible moment.
! The parliament. therefore, will re-as-
semble on January 81
GENERAL
Manager Lee Fohl of the Boston
American announced the purchase of
Dudley Lee, shortstop of the Tulsa
Western league club, for n price re-
ported as $4,000. Lee hit 800 last
year. Johnny Mitchell was transferred
TO Tulsa in the exchange. Lee is-a
Denver boy
E. Ray Tompkins, wealthy real es-
tate broker of Milwaukee, collapsed
after confessing to police he had mur.
dered his wife, severed the head
burned ii, and hid the torso in a ravine
north of the city. Tompkins' confes
sion cllmaxed one of the most grew
some murder stories ever placed or
police records.
II utNtlppeu hIlei lIe iCtlutI
that the state public service commits,
sion had ordered elimination of this
grade crossing where the New Yorl
Central Twentieth Century Limited
was wrecked but the work had beer
held up when the Nickel Plate road
after failing to get II rehearing, car
ried the matter into the courts.
A nationwide move is under wa,
to bring about the release of Lieut.
Corliss HOoven Grffis. former Amer
lean soldier, sentenced to nineteer
months in a German prison for at
tempted kidnapping of Grover Cleve
land Bergdoll, wealthy draft evader
DR.. James Whitney Hall, presiden
of the IrOquois club of Chicago ha
announced. He is to head Il nationa
, committee organized to obtain a par
don for Griffis.
DIR. Norman Guthrie, pastor of 81
Mark s-in-the-Bouwerie and his boar,
of vestrymen, We're called before Bish
Op William r. Manning of the Protest
ant Episcopal diocese of New York t,
explain reports of dances and festival
house. These reports have "shocke,
and scandalized" Bishop Manning, h
said
, After two days of argument tn
board of arbitration of the Nationa
/ Association of Professional Baseball
= league in session at Chicago voted t
recognize Harry A. Williams, IA forme
Los Angeles sports writer as the le
S gally elected president of the Pacifi
I Coast league. Williams suppIant
! William II. Mccarthy of San Fran
cisco, who charged that Williams
: election was illegal.
. Possibilities that Nome, Alaska, wi
be selected as the "jump-off'' base 70
the navy's polar flight next summe
developed in Washington at the ses
a sion of the special planning board pre-
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