, 1923-03-29
FOREIGN

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 Mt the Gene
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 II gift to the Italian
nation his house. garden, books and
artistic and literary treasures In his
villa Mt Carlgnuno.
Payment of $20,000,OO0 a year for
twelve ear 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 II Marseilles pro
f%essor," who called it II 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 r.
Moore of Pittsburgh, new American
ambassador to Spain, averted IL 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 a for
two hour in Strengthening out the tan
gle.
The Germans in Duisburg and else
where in the Belgian occupied area
have gone OF Il thirst strike. This is
due to the adoption by the Belgians of
the rule mo tax, 10 wine" as a method
of Inducing payment of the recently
imposed tax on wines, liquors and to-
bacco. The Germans are refusing to
pay the tax n 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
eminent. zone piece of small artillery
in a few weeks would be worth twenty
pieces arriving in n couple of months"
Lynch was said to have written. Thine
is on the side of the enemy. We wan
to make the most of the coming few
months. If 1t is at all possible to have
such here at once nothing should pre-
vent 1t. We could turn the scale here
Immediately and also end the war
quickly If this arrived"
GENERAL
Matthew +. 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 Eel
Paso smelling works received a ~ per
cent Increase in wages. A unit for the
electrostatic precipitation of solids
from smoke. which will save 90 per
cent of metals from escaping smoke
and eliminate much of the SCOT and
fumes, is to he Installed ut once mt a
cost of $4,000, Ii has been announced.
Use of check OFF, funds to unionlze
''open shop" mines was forbidden by
federal Judge George w. McClintick in
an injunction handed down in n
special session of the United States
District Court. The Injunction pro-
hibits the international organization
of the union from sending money into
West Virginia to be used in organiza-
ton activities.
1t has been learned from what 1t
considers reliable sources that Henry
Ford had bought n tract of coal and
timber land covering about 125,000
acres, in eastern Kentucky. The pur-
chase price is said to be between $10,-
100000 and ~$20,UO0,000. The tract is
owned by the Peabody interests
In the span of Il little more than two
generations the United States mas AS
sumed the leading position among all
nations In the volume and variety of
its 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 n recen census of manu-
fncturers. From 1919 TO 1919 the to-
tnl value of products manufactured In
the United States rose from 1902
100000 to nearly S62, 00,00O.000, and
the number of wage earners employed
in manufacturing from 057 ,059 to o.
O96,372. In the first twenty years OF