Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-07-04

asked William e. Mayo, chief engineer
OF the Ford Motor company. to be-
come general manager Of the Detroit
street railways department
DR.. William A. Pussy of Chicago
was elected president of the Ameri.
can Medical association at it's annual
convention at San Francisco by a vote
of 66 to 81 over DR. William D. Hag-
gard of Nashville Tenn.
President Harding in an address at
Denver, Colo.,I announced that he in
tended to see prohibition enforced
even if the states should throw the
entire burden of enforcement on the
federal government.
Foreign
Germany's floating deft has in
creased 8,00000O0 100000 marks since
the first of June, says a Berlin dis
patch.
Since April I the government at
| Dublin has recommended the release
of 835 of the prisoners who were cap
tured during the civil war, according
! to an official announcement
Marquis Curzon in the house of
lords at London said the United
States act in raiding foreign ships
and Selling liquor does not violate in
ternational law, but does violate in
ternatiOnal practice, and that Great
| Britain never would agree to a twelve
mile limit at sea.
The Communist party, which had
applied for utilization with the Labor
party, was turned down by vote of
4 2,SSO,OOO to 100000 at the annual La
/ Dor party conference in London.
! Nobody questions the right of the
United States TO enforce it's liquor
laws on passenger ships, the Rome
Messaggero says but the enforcement
may cause embarrassment and ridi-
| Guile of America.
A Dusseldorf dispatch says Ruhr
miners have received an increase Of
$4,000 marks daily, making their
wage $4,000 marks daily. This is
! equivalent to 60 cents. The miners
want 100000 marks daily.
Led by the dreadnaught Arkansas,
which is the flagship of Rear Admiral
/ Scales, a squadron of American battle
| ships arrived at Copenhagen for
ten-day stay. The squadron includes
the dreadnaughts Florida, Delaware
and North Dakota.
James NJ. Beck, U. S. solicitor gen
eral, in an address on the Supreme
4 court before the Benchers of Gray's
Inn at London, said the judicia! body
1 has been the strongest influence in
holding democracy together.
The American relief administration
at Moscow entered the last stage of
llquidating famine relief work in Rus
/ STA with the closing of eight additional
districts. Reports from all points say
crops are excellent.
!
Two persons were killed and twenty
five injured in street fighting at Els
leven, Prussian Saxony, between Ma
tionalists and Communists, while
memorial was being unveiled to DR..
Walter Rathenau.
On the ground that faction Fran
caise is a royalist newspaper, the
union printers in the job shop at Paris
where it is printed refused to set the
type. Consequently the newspaper did
not appear.
A Warsaw dispatch says a Russian
soviet commission has arrived in PO-
land charged with the task of pur-
chasing 10000 cats with which to fight
the rats which are becoming scourge
IN Russia.
Premier NikoIa Pachitch of Jugo-
Slavia was attacked and slightly
wounded shorty after leaving the
house of parliament at Belgrade. Six
shots were fired at him, one of which
struck his left hand
The death list from a storm that
smote western Ontario Monday mount
ed to five as restoration of communi-
cation systems progressed, says To
ronto dispatch. The estimate of prop
erty loss remains at $1,000Oo0.
The foreign affairs committee of the
chamber of deputies at Paris adopted
a report by Deputy Margarine author
izing the loan of 3O0000,000 francs to
the government of Jugo-Slavia.
Fifty million dollars have been ap-
oronriated at Paris to maintain the
air force for one year. France has
I 260 planes in active service and 5000
late types in reserve.
The pope at Rome, in letter, con-
damned the French policy on repara-