The Dolores star., 1923-05-18
| FOREIGN

L hV ISe HsNldlt NtHllH-
ues to proceed as If Eamonn De
Valera, the Republican chief, had new
er made his proposal of peace
Clad in glitterng rohe and mitre
of white. red and gold, the revolution
airy priest, Vedensky was installed by
the All-Russian church conclave as
Archbishop of Moscow.
Fifteen hundred rebels were defeat
ed and 200 killed by the Italians in
their latest operation in Tripoli. in
volving the occupation of an advanced
point, 1t is announced in the official
statement covering the latest develop
ments issued in Rome
France was declared the winner of
the international students athletic
meet, held at the new Porte Doree
stadium, in which athletes represent
ing colleges and universities of thir-
teen other countries competed. The
French students rolled up n total of
lo' points, as against so points for
Italy, and 20 for Czecho- -Slovakia.
Chinese students and merchants re-
Gently celebrated humiliation day" 1t
is estimated that 25O,O0O demonstrate
ors marched through the streets Of
Tiensin, China in protest against
Japan's twenty-one demands on China.
All places of amusement. shops. hotels
and officers We're closed. The day
passed off without disturbances The
japanese concession was guarded with
police reinforcements.
The Chinese government has
ordered the governor of Shantung to
accede to the demand of the bandits
and obtain the immediate release of
all foreigners who were KIDNAPPED.
The governor is ordered to nav the
ransom if necessary. This action fol-
lowed an ultimatum sent by the
foreign legations to the Chinese gov
ernment demanding the immediate re-
lease of all prisoners held by the
Shantung bandits.
In curt note Great Britain in
formed the soviet government that
unless Il series of demands were full
filled ii will assume that Russia does
not desire to maintain present rcla-
ttons. The note gives Russia ten days
to carry out Britain's demands un-
conditionally. Dispatches from Lon
don to the United States recently in
dicated Britain was particularly in
censed mt the seizure of Il trawler by
Russia and the execution and impris-
onment of priests.
GENERAL
Sweeping denial of charges against
the House Of David and its leader
King Benjamin Purnell, was made in
the cults answer to quo warranto pro-
ceedings Instituted by the state of
Michigan, filed at Lansing. The state
started action to force the colony to
show cause why 1t should not be dis
solved.
Six Italian immigrants attempting
to enter the United States were shot
down and killed and the seventh mem
bero of the party wounded when sew
their flight across the Rio Grande
fired upon them, according to reports
received at Laredo, Texas, from Co.
lumbia, Nuevo Leon.
Danville, ILL.,, abandoned itself
wholeheartedly a few days ago to the
business of celebrating the eighty-sev-
enth birthday of its most distinguished
citizen-Uncle Joe Cannon. From all
over the Eighteenth Congressional
District, which Uncle Joe served for
more than half century, the farm
folk wended their way TO Danville.
Charges that Leighton Mount, STU
dent at Northwestern University, was
killed by hazers during Il class fight
in 1921, were branded us IL "frame-up"
by William b. Campbell, Northwest
ern athlete. who participated in the
Northwe ern-Iowa meet at Iowa City,
Iowa. Campbell declared he was with
Mount the night of the fight after the
battling subsidized and all sophomores
had gone home.
Approximately $4,000 in currency,
part of the loot stolen during the
holdup of the Federal Reserve truck
in front of the Denver mint last year,
has been recovered to date in Mime
apolis by secret service agents.
Two hundred representative bust
ness men of Memphis at dinner
pledged themselves to support the
Memphis Chamber of Commerce in
aiding Clarence Saunders, president of
the Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc, in sell
ing direct to the public, stock in the
company, factions of which several
weeks age created sensation in the
New York stock exchange and caught
in Il jam short sellers of thousands of
shares of the stock
An advance in wages amounting to
S2,50O,OO0 year for 22,O0O employees
of the Standard Oil Company of In.
diana, granted by the board of direct
ors of the company, and the theory
that the existing economic situation
warranted it, We're announced in Chi
cago by the oil company officials. An
increase of 3 cents an hour, effective
May 16, will apply to great majority