The Winslow mail., 1923-10-26
FOREIGN

keepers. Pillaging likewise is re-
ported from many other parts of the
Ruhr.
Mention Of the name of Eamon de
Valera was greeted with prolonged
cheering at the opening session of the
general assembly of the Sim Fein,
which met at the Mansion House in
Dublin About 1000 delegates, repre-
senting $50 Sim Fein clubs in all parts
of Ireland, filled the round room In the
building, the attendance including
few members of the clergy.
Three members of Congress who
toured Russia this summer on their
own initiative to study conditions at
first hand, returned. to New York City
on the steamship Leviathan announc-
ing they favored steps being taken by
the United States to establish trade
relations with Russia The three
members of Congress were Senators
Ladd, Republican, North Dakota, and
King, Democrat, Utah, and Represen-
tative Frear, Republican, Wisconsin.
AAtS olIllSl1 SONCIulu6ul y accept
ance of the suggestion of the Belgian
foreign office for a reference of the
Belgian reparation plan to the inter-
allied reparatiOn commission as the
basis of a concrete plan In the i'm
pending negotiations for settlement
of the question of German raparations,
was received at the foreign office in
Paris a few days ago. This COM
pletes the general accord by all the
allies.
With the situation in the Ruhr and
Rhineland rapidly approaching a con-
dition of an acute social and economic
crisis, with SaXOny'S socialist-commun-
list ministry continuing it's defiance of
the central government, and with Ba-
varia having severed diplomatic rela-
tiOns with Saxony, Chancellor Strese-
mann'S coalition cabinet is confronted
with. issues which will afford it an ear
ly opportunity to make use of the die
atatorShip authority voted it by the
reichstag in the emergency power bill.
GENERAL ~. ar &, -,
There was a difference of $2,047.5S
between the individual shares of the
winners and the losers of the World
series. The Yankee players received
$6,16O.46 each, the biggest figure in.
the games history. The Giants share
was $4,112SS.
The first definite report of loss Of
life in the flood in Oklahoma City was
received when police rescued B. H.
Loose and his daughter, Bessie, 10,
from tree top in Wheeler park and
learned from them that a boat in which
they had attempted to escape had been
capsized, drowning Mrs. Loose and a
daughter, Clara, s years old.
United States Attorney Hayward
filed fifty-four injunction and common
nuisance suits in Federal Court in New
York, under the Volstead act, to close
alleged wet saloons, cafes, restaurants
and cabarets in New York. The evil
dence on which the suits were based
was obtained by Assistant United
States Attorney John Holley Clark.
Working with the efficiency and pre-
cision of body of troops under COM
mand of a military strategtst, nine
armed bandits drove a motor truck in
to the busy warehouse district of New
York City and at the point of pistols
forced workmen at the Carmine Der
engela storehOuse to load their truck
with bolts of silk valued at 100000.
William "Kid" Gleason, the fiery
manager of the Chicago White Sox
since 1919, has resigned, making the
fourth managerial position to be filled
in the American League before the
opening of the 1924 season. The 5S-
year-old pilot, with record of thirty
seven years in baseball, resigned, he
said, because he was discouraged with
his attempts to reconstruct the club,
wrecked with the exposure of the
Worlds Series scandal with Cincin-
natl.
A petition to set aside the recent or
der of the Federal Trade Commission
directing the United Typotheta of
America to cease using its standard
cost system was filed IN the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals at
Chicago by counsel for the Typotheta.
The fate of cost-finding methods of
scores of trade associations was said
to be involved.
The New York Yankees are the
kings of the baseball universe for
1928. Coming from behind in the
eighth inning when defeat seemed
certain, the American League cham
pions crushed McGraw's last pitching
ace, Art Nehf, and scored five runs
in the sixth game of the series. The
final score was 6 to 4. The Yankees
won four of the six total games.
All stores were flooded and numer-
Gus residences were partly submerged
by a nine-foot wall of water which
swept through parts of Woodward,
Okla, when the North Canadian river
oyorf1ouod from recent neaVV rains