The Winslow mail., 1923-07-27
FOREIGN

nature of peace.
1t is stated that the Prince of Wales
is contemplating visit to the United
States during his trip to a Canadian
ranch this fall. He will travel as the
Duke of Rohesay, one of his minor
titles.
Bochum is almost isolated from the
rest of the Ruhr as the result of bomb
throwing. Street car traffic has been
suspended and all the restaurants,
picture shows and other places of pub
lie assembly have been closed.
Now that France has joined the rest
of the world powers in ratifying the
naval limitation treaty of the Wash
ingtOn conference, the United States is
going to lose no time in getting rid
of the capital ships which this govern
ment has intended to scrap.
The development in Liverpool of a
serious phase of the lockers strike,
interfering with transatlantic shipping
from that port and stopping other
traffic out of the Mersey, came as
setback to the hopes of peace held out
in London as the result of the execu-
tive body of the transport union hav-
ing decided to call a conference in
London of strikers from all the ports
involved.
The Ruhr population intends to con-
tinue passive resistance, a high Berlin
government official, who has been in
close touch with the situation here
since the occupation began, stated in
Essen a few days ago. Whatever
England may propose to Berlin in the
forthcoming note concerning resist
ance, he added, there was not the
slightest indication that the Ruhr resi-
dents were even thinking of ceasing
their resistance under the present
general outlook.
Bandits shot down a low riding air.
plane laden with a $4,000 payroll
near Lima, Peru. They were foiIed
when the daring pilot brought the dis
abled plane to earth, after q sensa-
tional effort, and escaped on foot be-
fore the modern pirates could reach
him. The payroll ship was driven by
Lloyd Moore, a former mechanic on
one Of the NC flying boats which
crossed the Atlantic. He was rushing
the money from Lima to Canete for
payment of laborers working on the
government irrigation project near
Cerroagul.
GENERAL
A sequel to the trial and acQuittal
of Fred Lundin in Chicago at Wau-
kegan, H., was enacted in the acquit-
tai of Edward Courtney, Edward
Kaufman and John B. Fields, charged
with fixing the jury that freed Gov
Len Small on conspiracy charges last
year, according to attorneys for the
three men.
Joseph Lendet, salesman for NJ. II.
Mann and Company, Incorporated,
wholesale jewelers. of ITO Broadway,
New York, reported to Detroit police
that he had been robbed of 100000
worth of diamonds as he was leaving
his room in the Hotel Statler. Two
men, with revolvers, accosted him as
he was leaving his room, he said
Following it's policy of holding ring
champions to the letter of the New
York boxing laws, the state athletic
commission dethroned Joe Lynch of
New York, as bantamweight titlehOld-
er, for failure to accept within six
months the challenge of Joe Bur-
man Of Chicago. simultaneously, Bur-
man was elevated to recognition as
116-pound champion in this state.
Though supporting themselves and
their mother solely by their earnings
as elevator boys at the Hotel Waldorf
in New York City, Raroul, GerardO,
Carlos and Herminio Marini, an
nounced that they had refused an of
fer of a million dollars. They are
holding out for nearly four millions,
left in Porto Rico by their grand
father, whose will is now being con-
tested.
Mangus Johnson, Farmer-Labor can
didate, wins U. S. senatorial election
in Minnesota over Governor Preus, Re-
publican nominee.
Dressed in boys clothing and con-
Tossing, according to the police, that
she had assisted in several holdups,
Blanche VOORHEES,, 10 years old, was
arrested in Chicago in an automobile.
With her was Joseph Warner, q.
Police said they found a loaded pistol
in the car. The girl said she had mas
queraded in boys clothing since she
was 13 and that she had fled from her
home in Plymouth, Mich, to escape
her fathers brutality.
Robert T. Bobby" Jones, Jr., a sun
Drowned boy from Dixie, became the
open golf champion of the Shacka-
maxon Country Club, Westfield, N. j.,
at Inwood, n. Y, by two strokes in
the play-off of a tie that existed at
the end of the regular seventy-twO-
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