The Colorado statesman., 1923-05-19
FOREIGN


at standstill.
AS n result of the House of Lords
decision In the case of Art O'Brlen,
the British government Is requesting
the Irish Free State government to
return to England all the prisoners
deported to Ireland, Home Secretary
Bridgman announced In the House Of
Commons.
In the Shantung hills back of Lin
cheng are, according to the latest avail
able information, fourteen men and
two ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS with
an unknown number of Chinese, whD
have been held by Chinese bandits
who raided the Shanghai-Peking ex-
press and kidnapped the passengers.
Reports received in Paris, France,
tended to confirm that the woman
killed in the alrship crash at Mon
sures was Miss Juanita Bates of
Ithaca, n. Y. The woman, who was
travelling alone, gave her age as 80.
The cause of the accident, which re-
suited in the death of six persons, in
Guiding, besides Miss Bates, Laurence
Won Post Schwab of New York, has
not been determined.
That the leaders of the bandits who
are holding more than a dozen
foreigners In the hills back of Lin
cheng are highly educated, intelligent
men, determined that their demands
shall be met and showing little If any
faith in promises made by Chinese
nNrth hnr 10 Ctof q
made by Roy Anderson, American,
who returned to Tientsin, from a trip
to the robbers stronghold.
A violent storm that broke as the
Good VIII delegates from America en-
tered the war-devastated area near
Scissors, gave the scene a dramatic
setting. Seated comfortably in
closed car, the delegates were deeply
impressed with the desolation that
seemed to hem them in. The delegates
were the luncheon guests of the Amer
lean committee to devastated France
at Bierancourt, where the committee
maintains large community center.
GENERAL
Fire and Police Commissioner John
Alderman and two firemen were In
jured when flames wiped out an en-
tire block in the business district of
Fort Worth, Texas, the main buildings
of which were occupied by the Gabert
garage. The loss is estimated at
$150,OOO to 100000.
New York detectives have arrested
a suspect in connection with the Wall
street explosion which caused the
death of more than score of persons.
The man under arrest gave his name
as Noah Lerner. Lerner was arrested
on information obtained by detectives
from persons who told of the alleged
boast of Lerner that he had driven
the wagon that carried the bomb in
the Wall street explosion"
Five farm girls from Iowa and
Colorado, crowned queens in the art
of canning, gathered in Chicago for
the start of their trip to Washington
and France, where they expect to
pick up pointers" from French dress
as well as to show how Americas
fruit is canned The girls, winners
in the national canning contest held
in Chicago last fall, are Esther Boil
baugh, Katherine Bolibaugh and
Beulah Rogers, all of Eddyville, Iowa,
and Bertha Roger and Elaine Hen
bricks of Burlington, Colo.
A little bit gray and looking as
mature as a retired farmer, the form
er champion of the world Jess VIII
lard, stopped Floyd Johnson, the 23-
year-old Iowa boy, after eleven
rounds of desperate fighting in the
feature bout of the greatest boxing
show for charity in the history of the
country. 1t was the show at the
Yankees new stadium In New York
City for the benefit of the free milk
fund of the mayors committee of
women, headed by Mrs. William Ran
dolph Hearst, and attended by 10000
people.
The sanitarium at Colorado City,
Texas, is filled with victims of the
tornado which swept a strip of terri
tory a mile wide and fifteen miles long
near that town few days ago. Six
teen bodies have been recovered.
About 200 persons were hurt and prop
erty and crop damage will tolal mil
lions of dollars, according to observ-
erS.
Hot Springs, Ark, is endeavoring to
extricate itself from debris and ruin
left by flood, fire and wind which
wrecked the business district of the
city with damage to property which
is expected to run into the millions.
Several persons are reported to have
been killed. 1t Is not expected how
ever, that the death list will exceed
three or four persons.
A price war in Chicago turned fash
ionable North Shore millinery shops
into n feminine paradise a few days