The Winslow mail., 1923-03-30
FOREIGN

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1t Is said they had arms and docu-
ments in their possession.
The high cost of dying is bothering
the Jewish community of Poland. The
fees for burial services at the ceme-
terry have been increased to 100000
marks and those at Prague to $4,000
marks.
Gabrielle d'Annunzio, in a letter to
Minister of the Navy Admiral Thaon
de Revel, offers as a gift to the Italian
nation his house, garden, books and
artistic and literary treasures in his
villa at CarignanO.
Payment of S200O0,OOO a year for
twelve years to the United States in
settlement Of the costs of the Ameri-
can army of occupation in Germany
seems feasible, in the opinion of Eliot
Wadsworth, assistant secretary of the
American treasury.
The world nonstop dancing. record
now is claimed by Marseilles pro
fessOr, who called it day after he
had held the floor for twenty-four
hours, four minutes and five seconds.
He was assisted by two young women
pupils, the first of whom Mile. Mar
celle Tref, daLced sixteen hours,
twenty-five minutes and fifteen sec
ondS.
The good humor of Alexander 2.
Moore of Pittsburgh, new American
ambassador to Spain, averted a Fran
cO-American diplomatic incident re-
Gently in Paris, when the chief French
customs inspector refused to honor
Moore's ambassadorial passport.
Moore was able to obtain his trunks
after interpreters were engaged for
two hours in Strengthening out the tam
gle.
The Germans in Duisburg and else
where in the Belgian occupied area
have gone on a thirst strike This is
due to the adoption by the Belgians of
the rule mo tax, no wine" as a method
of inducing payment of the recently
imposed tax on wines, liquors and to-
ba~cO. The Germans are refusing to
pay the tax and the Belgians are seiz-
ing, locking up and guarding the wine
cellars.
A letter purported to have been
written by Liam Lynch, republican
army leader, to Joseph Mccarthy of
Philadelphia, urging the vital import
ance of "a consignment of arms ar
irving as soon as possible" was made
public recently by the Free State gov
ernment. "One piece of small artillery
in few weeks would be worth twenty
pieces arriving in a couple of months"
Lynch was said to have written. "Time
is on the side of the enemy. We want
to make the most of the coming few
months. If it is at all possible to have
such here at once nothing should pre-
vent it. We could turn the scale here
Immediately and also end the war
quickly if this arrived"
GENERAL
Matthew F. Griffin, formerly head
of the United States secret service in
the Philadelphia district and six other
defendants were found guilty by a jury
in the Federal District Court of con-
spiracy to defraud the government in
connection with an alleged plot to sub
stitute water for whisky and alcohol in
a large shipment to Greece.
Eight hundred -vorkmen at the Ell
Paso smelling works received 10 per
cent increase in wages. A unit for the
electrostatic precipitation of solids
from smoke, which will save 80 per
cent of metals from escaping smoke
and eliminate much of the SCOT and
fumes, is to be installed at once at
cost of $4,000, it has been announced.
Use of "check off" funds to unionize
"open shop mines was forbidden by
federal Judge George W. McClintick in
an injunction handed down in a
special session. of the United States
District Court. The injunction pro.
hibits the international organizat
of the union from sending money
West Virginia to be used in organiz.,
ton activities.
1t has been learned from what it
considers reliable sources that Henry
Ford had bought a tract of coal and
timber land covering about 125,00O
acres, in eastern Kentucky. The pur-
chase price is said to be between $10,-
100000 and $20,000,000. The tract is
owned by the Peabody interests
In the span of little more than two
generations the United States mas us-
sumed the leading position among all
nations in the volume and variety OF
it's manufactured production, the num-
Der of wage earnerS engaged in manu-
featuring, the power applied to pro-
cesses and the value of products, the
national conference board says in an
analysis of recent census of manu-
facturers. "From 1919 to 1919 the to-
tai value of products manufactured in
the United States rose from $1,092,-
100000 to nearly $50, 00,000,00O, and
the number of wage earners employed