The Winslow mail., 1923-08-31
FOREIGN

sized during a typhoon at MacAoon,
China.
Two masked bandits entered
private club on Granville street, Van
couver, B. c., lined up score of card
players and after taking forty-five
minutes to collect $4,000 from their
victims, fled.
Eight persons lost their lives when
the WOwa hotel on the Lake Of Bays,
Muskoka, Ont, burned to the ground,
according to an announcement by the
Canada Railway News Company of
Toronto, owners of the property.
Two Italian Catholic priests were
kidnapped when bandits pillaged the
district near SunghO, China, according
to reports. The town of Tsaoshih was
looted and the Catholic church burned.
Eighty Chinese captives were taken.
French aviators have conducted sue
cessful experiments with an airplane
capable of throwing a torpedo weigh
ing 1,540 pounds, says lie Journal. The
machine itself weighs more than three
tons. 1t is fitted with & 300-horsepow-
er motor and has attained a speed of
100 miles an hour.
Addressing the members of the West
Birmingham Unionist Association, Aus
ten Chamberlain, former chancellor of
the exchequer, declared "the entente
is hanging by thread and any clum-
Sy handling of the reparationS queS-
ton at this moment may snap that
thread and undo the work of the last
twelve or fifteen years.
Nome.-White forces IN control of
of the Russian soviet administration
at Eastcape, Siberia, are expected to
surrender their authority when the
volunteer steamer Stavrapol arrives at
Kolyma with 100 soldiers of the Red
army aboard. Conditions at Kolyma
are unknown among traders in Nome,
but it is recalled that the EaStcape ad-
ministration changed hands Aug. 10
and that conditions there still are un-
settled.
Capt Roald Amundsen, Norwegian
explorer, who was forced by an acci-
dent to his airplane to abandon his
proposed air flight from Alaska to
Spitzbergen over the North Pole, has
indicated that he will make another at
tempt, using Spitzbergen as base,
according to officers of the coast guard
cutter Bear, which arrived recently in
st. Paul. Alaska, from a voyage to
Point Barrow and Wainwright, where
the explorer made his base
Political circles were Jared by
bomb shell when Manuel Quezon, who
recently resigned as president of the
Philippine Senate because of his diff
ferences with the American executive
administration, announced he had
cabled secretary of war that Mayor
Rodriguez of Manila, lately appointed
to that post by Governor-General
Leonard Wood, was an ex-convict
from Bilibid prison. The Herald is
sued an extra edition, demanding
editorially that the encouragement
request Mayor Rodriguez resignation.
GENERAL
The Kansas City Journal-Post has
raised the price of it's Sunday paper
to 10 cents copy, effective Aug. 26.
Joe Huff, known along the Pacific
coast as the tailor-aviator, and Edwin
Dihall, negro, 21 years old, were
killed when the airplane in which they
were riding crashed to earth at Ven
ice, Calf.
The Arizona state board of paroles
and pardons refusing to intervene in
the case, Manuel Martinez was hanged
at the state penitentiary at Florence
for the murder of J. Frank Pearson,
postmaster at Ruby, Ariz., during a
border bandit raid in August, 1921.
Because she came to work in an au
tomobile, one of the charwomen in the
Municipal Courts building in Detroit
has been discharged. Joseph A. Mar
tin, commissioner of public works and
custodian of public buildings, said it
was the policy of his department to
give cleaning work to needy women.
An exhausted carrier pigeon around
one leg of which was wrapped a note
reading: "Help, Grand Canon, Colo.,"
W do plChCu up 1CSChlly dI 1OChN1llC
Centre, N. Y. The police took charge
Of it. The bird was emaciated and APP
parently had travelled a great distance.
BY unanimous vote, the siXty-eighth
annual convention of the International
Typographical Union adopted a resolu-
tion strongly urging the executive
council to resist any attempt to call off
the fight for the fortyfour-hour week" ?"
andrecVmmendedt that all strike henetits
be continued until all members still on
strike are back at work. Toronto was
selected as the meeting place for 1924.
The Theater Owners Chamber of
Commerce in New York, announced it
had purchased $1,000,O00 policy to
insure the $40 motion picture houses
the chamber represents in greater
New York, against loss through prop
erty damage during a strike which the
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