The Colorado statesman., 1923-06-16
FOREIGN

fOrty-One persons, one an Amerlchn,
were drowned when cable ferry up
set at Kuzbas, the Russian Industrial
town, according TO news dispatches.
The other victims were Russians. The
ferry was American Built.
Two French non-commissioned Of
ficers were killed by Germans during
a pistol fight in Dortmund. AS far as
the French authorities have been able
to ascertain the fighting occurred dur
ing a brawl. 1t is considered likely
that no penalty will be imposed upon
Dortmund.
The two representatives of the
Paotzuku bandits returned to the Paot-
zuku camp accompanied by General
Chen one of the governments dele
gates engaged in the negotiations. All
negotiations were completed and Cen
eral Chen announced that all the
captives had been released.
Jesse G. Carsen, who was arrested
at Tegucigalpa. Honduras, ut the time
Mrs Clara Phillips, the hammer MUIR
deress was apprehended there, has
been released. according to Teguci-
galpa advices. 1t is explained that
the American authorities waived their
claim to extradition of Carsen, who
was arrested in connection with the
escape of Mrs. Phillips from Los An
geles Jail.
Thirteen lives were lost and a large
area laid waste by typhoon on the
Island of Samar, according to tele-
grams received in Manila from con-
stabulary headquarters there. The
report said that in seven towns 90 per
cent of the houses were blown down,
and that the homeless thousands were
threatened with famine. Those in the
devastated region are subsisting on
unripe coconuts and green palm
leaves.
Peasant revolts against the new
Bulgarian regime are reported
throughout the country, dispatches
from Sofia say. Near Plevna the re-
volt has assumed serious proportions,
1t is declared, and a force of 10000 is
said to have been surrounded. Fresh
troops have been dispatched there.
Dispatches say that the new govern,
ment has ordered the mobilization of
all reserve officers and of several
young classes. Volunteers are being
armed.
GENERAL
A new city directory, to be issued
soon, will give the population of Chi
cago at 2935,SS7.
Gov. AL Smith of New York state
reiterated in Chicago that he will not
be a candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination next year.
Headquarters for the enlistment of
120 officers and men for the proposed
air service unit of the National Guard
of Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska
were opened in st. Louis.
Building and loan associations in
the United States have invested S3,-
000,000,000, the savings of 100000
persons, in home building mortgages,
the National Association of Real Es-
tate Boards announced in Chicago.
Thirteen thousand maintenance of
way employees and shop laborers of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
ranging from l cent an hour to 81 a
month, effective as Of June 10, it was
announced in Chicago.
Mayor Hylan of New York, who re-
Gently pledged city support to the en-
forcement of the Volstead law, told
Federal Prohibition Director Palmer
Garfield in letter recently all liquor
of ha orr gf
and that enforcement was up to gov
ernment officials. Enforcement of
the Volstead act is your job in this To-
cality," said the mayors letter, and
you should go at 1t honestly. Do not
try TO shift the burden on the shoul-
ders of anybody else
Fire in the hold of the freighter
William A. McKenney, which arrived
in Los Angeles recently from New
York, was extingulshed after it had
burned twenty-seven hours and caused
damage estimated at $150,000.
Catching the contagion from New
York and Wisconsin, the Illinois
House of Representatives voted for a
referendum on the question of repeal
of the Illinois search and seizure law
and the prohibition enforcement act
by adopting Il motion by Representa-
tive Thomas O'Grady, Chicago, that
his bill making this provision be ad-
vanced to second reading without ref
erence to committee. The vote was
rs to 20.
Thomas A. Edison, who has been
quoted as believing college graduates
to be uniformed and ignorant white
collar" experts, was at Cambridge,
Miss, to watch his son, Thomas Mil
ler Edison, receive degree from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-