The Winslow mail., 1923-04-20
FOREIGN

5000 were fatal
Germanys floating debt in discount
ed treasury bills at the end of March
was $780, 100000, marks, represent
ing an increase of S00,OO0O0O marks
during the last ten days of the month.
Three hundred persons involved in
the anti-Jewish outbreak in Warsaw
have been arrested. The large number
of wounded Jews has served to inten-
sify the excitement in the Jewish quar-
ter.
The explosion of a time bomb
destroyed the lock of the Dortmund-
Ems canal, near Herne. The canal was
blocked, seriously interfering with the
complicated inland waterway traffic
in the Ruhr.
1t is reported from Buer that that
town has been fined 100000 marks
and that all street traffic at night is
forbidden on account of the blowing
up of the militarized railway between
Buer and Recklinghausen
Liam Lynch, chief of staff of the
Irish irregulars, has been captured, it
has been officially announced in LDub-
lin. Lynch was captured by the Free
State forces at Knocknasalen, near
Newcastle, after an engagement in
which he was seriously wounded.
For the first time in it's 258 years of
existence, the London Gazette, the
governments official paper, was pre-
vented from making one of it's two
weekly appearances. The interruption
was caused by trouble among the
trade union men in the office where
the Journal is printed
A tall, slender, olive-skinned girl,
who, in the legends of Italy, was
born to be a soldiers BRIDE" fulfilled
the prophecy when the Princess Yo-
landa, eldest daughter Of King Victor
Emmanuel and Queen Elena, was mar
ried to Count Calvi di Bergolo a war
veteran and a captain in the Italian
army.
Domestic difficulties which have
piled up steadily since Inauguration of
the Bonar Law administration con-
fronted the government as parliament
reassembled in London. With 100000
workers on strike and the probability
that half million building trades may
be added to this number, labor unrest
presents, perhaps, the most serious
difficulty.
Only athletics in which the element
of sport predominates will make up
the program for the 1924 Olympic
games which are to be held in the
Colombes stadium in the suburbs Of
Paris. Many Of the events Of nom
sporting character, which seriously
handicapped the American teams in
previous games because the Americans
had no entrants in them, have been
eliminated from the official program,
which has been published in Rome.
GENERAL
Registered bonds Of the st. Louis
Federal Land Bank amounting to ST.
10000 were in the loot obtained by
five bandits who held up mail truck
in the heart Of the downtown business
section of st. Louis.
A man and four small children were
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed the Colonel Babb farm home,
two and one-Ealf miles west of Smith
land, Iowa, near Sioux City, Iowa. The
four children were sons and daughters
of Colonel Babb.
I Petitions bearing more than 1000
names, requesting that the name of
Henry Ford be placed on the primary
ballot next year as Progressive party
candidate for President of the United
States have been filed with the secre-
tary Of state of Nebraska, at Omaha.
Electrical engineers the world over
are watching Chicago in her attempt
to rear the largest electric power plant
in the world-a station whose ultimate
capacity will be approximately 100000
horsepower, or 100000 kilowatts. The
largest plant now in operation any
where has a capacity rating Of 100000
kiloWatts.
Conferences of eight departments of
the National League of Women Voters
at Des Moines, Iowa, women were urged
to lend their cooperation in the pre-
vention of war, to take an active part
in party politics and to exert their in
fluence in the bringing about of great
er efficiency in world government.
Rules by school boards prohibiting
girl students from using powder and
paint are "just and reasonable and
should be enforced" the Arkansas Su-
preme Court held in it's ruling on the
"Knobel lipstick case" Nationwide
prominence was given the case which
originated when officials of the KnO-
bel, Ark, high school expelled Miss
Pearl Pugsley because she insisted on
using powder on her nose.
Obscurity for William q. Foster,
most prominent exponent Of
soviet Russia's regime, or notoriety
that might imperil democracy in this
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