The Tomahawk., 1923-03-08

Sherman OF the University or Illinois,
was elected member Of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters to sue.
coed the late Thomas Nelson Page,
former ambassador to Italy.
Denver, Colo.-A large Airedale dog,
shipped from here by its owner. Frank
Farrow, three weeks ago to st. Joseph.
Mo-, has limped back to the Farrow
home, having walked the entire 700
miles from the Missouri city.
Princeton, N. 1.-THE Moses Taylor
Pyne prize which Is awarded annually
to the members Of the senior class who
in scholarship, athletics and general
leadership has represented the best In
terests of Princeton, has been received
by John S. Martin Of Chicago.
Nyack, N Y.-Lou Hoyt Of Haver-
straw, auto racer, went out on the
frozen Hudson river to see how fast
his big racer would travel on ice. His
speedometer shimmied around the ia
mile an hour mark On the turns
Hoyt's car skidded nearly half a mile.
Reading, Pa-Bethel Union church
at Grimsville, 120 years old. and so
solidly built that workers had trouble
in trying to raze it, was blown ITO bits
with a charge of 150 pounds of dyna-
mite. A new church~is to be built on
the spot and it was the intention to
raze the old structure by hand.
Chicago-A move was inaugurated
here to have 1000 American business
men send. 1000 letters and cablegrams
to the president and parliament OF
France, urging them to change their
attitude toward Germany and give that
country the same terms of payment OF
reparations as the United States has
extended to Great Britain in the debt
owed this country.
San Diego-Belief that Colonel
Francis Marshall and Lieutenant
Charles Weber, missing since Dec. Z,
crashed in their air plane in the de-
sert wastes southeast of the Growler
mountains in Arizona, and that their
bodies and the plane were buried by
the shifting sands, was expressed h~
the searching party headed by Major
Theodore Macauley.
Sporting
Washington-The advance training
squad of the Washington American
league baseball club, including five
players and Owen Bush, the new man
ager are leaving for the spring train
ing camp at Tampa, Florida. About
ten more players will join them at
Tampa a day or two after their ar
| rival.
Chicago-Application of three base
ball players for reinstatement to the
active list of organized ball were
granted by Baseball Commissioner
Lands. The men are Robert G. Har-
mon, who was on the voluntary retired
list Of the Pittsburgh Nationals; Gale
Staley, voluntarily retired by the Gin
cinnati Nationals, and w. w. Kinney,
who was on the ineligible list Of the
Philadelphia Americans, Because of de.
sorting the club in 1920.
st. Paul-St. Paul's fighting middle
weights, Jock Malone and Mike
O'Dowd, may try to settle supremacy
in their own backyard after all. The
pair, matched to box in January, failed
to see action when Malone injured one
Of his hands. Malone, after a rest,
took on Johnny Klesch, Cleveland, in
East Chicago, winning by technical
kayoe in the sixth round. The bout
proved to Malone and also his man.
ager, Tommy Walsh, that his dukes
are ready for hard usage.
Foreign
Dublin-It is reported that Annie
MacSwiney, who is on the eighth day
Of her hunger strike, is suffering Sc.
verely from neuralgia. Relatives ex'
press anxiety over her condition.
Moscow-Mrs. Marguerite e. Harri.
son, the American magazine writer
who has been held under arrest for
some time by the soviet authorities,
left here for Riga, Latvia.
London-Probate Of the will of Lord
Northcliffe has been granted. A sworn
statement gave the total of his estate
as s3,250,000 approximately $15,275,.
000) on which a duty Of s1,300,000
($6,110, 000) is payable to the govern
ment.
Peking-That the opium traffic in
China must 60, and that, with it, must
be swept from the boards the tuchuns
or military governors, who are support.
ing the Illicit trade, were the unequivo-
cal statements of President Ii Yuan
Hung, printed in the new Picking morn.
ing paper, the Daily Far Eastern
Times.
London-A sharp conflict has broken
out between the communists and the
ruling group of labor leaders in Mos
COW, according to a Central News dis
patch from Helsingfors. The govern.
ment is considering the proclaiming Of
martial law.
Dublin-The first official execution
by the Irish Free State since expira-
ton of the governments amnesty Of.
fer came when Thomas Gibbon, for
mer soldier in the National army, was
| shot for treason He deserted to the