The Colorado statesman., 1923-09-22
FOREIGN

ldnu Iehreu growing rlOtS IN Gerlnany
might lead to civil war.
Five thousand persons are reported
to have perished in the floods which
followed upon the typhoon at Tottori,
northwest of Kobe, Japan, according
to an Osaka dispatch to the Central
News in London.
AL Spencer, notorious bandit of the
Usage, is dead. He was killed by Alva
Macdonald, United States marshal for
the western district OF Oklahoma.
Spencer's spectacular career OF crime
ended In the Usage hills.
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.
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 he 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
tainnent for the people this winter as
means of diverting their minds from
the earthquake and of relieving the
monotony of their lives.
Chinese soldiers who attacked the
Ichang Maru in the Yangtse river
have demanded million yen ransom
for the release of their captives, IL dis
patch from Shanghai stated few days
ago. They served warning they
would kill their captives if the amount
is not paid. A Japanese gunboat has
arrived for the purpose of rescuing the
captives, the dispatch added.
A telegram received at the foreign
office at Montevideo from the Uru-
guayan consul in Zuarahy, near the
Brazil-Uruguay frontier says the town
was taken by force of 800 Brazilian
rebels. There was a sharp fight, in
which seven men were killed and twen-
ty-seven wounded ON both sides. Twen-
ty members of the government force
were drowned as they attempted to es-
cape by swimming the River Cuareim.
Their commander and fifteen men
were captured.
The Japanese foreign office in Toxic
has advised foreigners that, because of
the differences in language and Gus
toms they should avoid walking about
the devastated area, except in case of
absolute necessity. They also are re-
Quested to refrain from taking photo
graphs. The Japanese consider photo
graphing the dead sacrilege. Amer
lean hospital assistance is welcomed,
particularly as 100 leading hospitals
and 1000 offices of physicians were
destroyed.
GENERAL
Jack Dempsey admitted in New York
City after his victory over Luis Angel
firpo that he never had received su III
a 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.
Nearly all morning newspapers in
New York failed to appear rev days
ago as Il result of strike of members
of Web Pressmen's Union No. %.
In long fight, the street railway of
Birmingham has finally won over the
jitney as ii public carrier in Birming-
ham, and the people are now riding for
cents cash, reduction of l cent in
II schedule that had existed for three
years. When tickets are purchased,
the new fare is cents. School chill
dren ride for 21s cents
The tank wagon price of gasoline
has been reduced ] cent IL gallon in
New England and eight Atlantic sea-
board states by the Standard Oil Com
puny of New Jersey and the Gulf Re
filming Company. The new price
ranges from Is cents in Washington,
ID. c., to u cents in Virginia. where
there is state tax of three cents u
gallon.
Capt. Berec Shepperson of London,
England, aviator, fell ON the Hermitage
property, twelve miles east of Nash
Vile, after he had completed II flight
in the service of Il sky-wrling adver-
tising company. He was burned to
death.
Howard NJ. Gore of Clarksburg, w.
Va, has been appointed by President
Coolidge as Assistant Secretary of Az
ricuture to succeed z. w. Pugsley,
who resigned to become president of
the South Dakota College of Agricul-
ture and Mechanical Arts.
Anthracite miners, representing
union workers throughout the Pennsyl-
vania hard coal fields, ratified the new
two-year wage agreement drafted by
their officers and operators represen-
tatives in Harrisburg, Sept s. fhey
returned to work September 20.
To live under the American consti-
tuition lis the greatest privilege that
was ever accorded to the human race.
,.-..s. dnl.l N rod hu President Enulidua