, 1923-06-14
FOREIGN

Inc french government has con-
ferred the order of Chevalier of the
Legion of Honor upon Conte Mast,
publisher of periodicals in New York,
Paris and London.
Count Fabiani, n member of the
Fascist, has been sentenced to ten
months Imprisonment for having
forced the parish priest of Gubbio to
drink castor oil.
The Pacific Mail liner President
Taft made port in Honolulu from
Yokohoma after a run of seven days.
eight hours, 81 minutes. This breaks
the President Wilson's high mark for
the run of seven days, eighteen hours.
Word was received in Berlin that
three persons were killed and thirty
wounded in a fight between Bavarian
Fascist and Socialists at Feucht zeal
Nuremberg. The trouble began when
Fascist broke up a Socialist meeting.
The advance to Rumania of 100000
600 francs by the French government,
which was criticized in the Chamber
of Deputies by the Socialists and Com
munlsts, was decided upon two years
ago, 1t was explained at the foreign
office in Paris.
The threat of stokers inc foremen
on French steamers to strike unless
assured they will receive their usual
daily allowance of wine when in New
York harbor has raised an issue that
probably will be made the subject of
diplomatic correspondence with Wash
ington.
The building of a radio station in
Warsaw, which will be one of the most
powerful in the world, has been under
taken with a view to giving Poland the
opportunity of direct communication
with western countries without having
to rely upon communications through
other states.
The labor unrest in the province of
Tucuman caused by the strike of
sugar mill workers, is increasing in
gravity and further attacks upon the
mills by the strikers are reported. The
owners decided to close all the mills
numbering 20 because of Inadequate
protection from the authorities, thus
paralyzing the entire Argentine sugar
industry.
Trade unionism in Great Britain is
passing through anxious times. The
membership during the last two years
has decreased more than 100000 and
the accumulated funds, which had
reached nearly S300,O00,000 have been
exhausted by the heavy drain of I'M
employed benefits. The general coun-
ell of the Trade Union Congress is
nlpnnfnu a ApaaE 20 fhn TTnfanu .,
paign in an endeavor to make up the
loss in membership. The statement of
the council is that there are l5,500,0 900
wage earners in Great Britain, of
whom only 6,500,000 are members of
trade unions.
GENERAL
Painters of Chicago working under
the Lands building trades award will
receive new wage scales ranging from
90 emit to SIPS an hour, depending
on ability, 1t was announced.
The Eleventh district of the Associ-
ated Advertising Clubs of America
chose II. II. Fawcett of Colorado
Springs president. The district in
cludes, Colorado, Utah, Idaho and
Wyoming. Last year Mr.. Fawcett
was vice president. Under the ruling
of the associated clubs the office OF
vice president of districts has beer
eliminated and district presidents have
been created.
Although there is little Indication of
any widespread movement to store up
coal, bitumlnous production in April
reached 100000 tons, the largest
April tonnage in recent years except
1918, according to the May business
conditions report of the Federal Re
serve Bank of Chicago. Some pro-
ducers, however, have been storing
coal and industrial consumers are
showing considerable interest, the re-
port said.
Lieut.. Wendell X. Phillips, army
aviator, was killed at Aberdeen, Md,
when his plane crashed as he was
taking off for n flight.
A. Lindsay Craig, general passenger
agent for the Union Pacific railroad
at Omaha, and well known in railroad
circles of the nation, died at Omaha
today from sleeping sickness.
Hurting herself from an eighth
story window in Philadelphia, Miss
Laura PAIL, 80, a stenographer, was
dashed to death. A note in her type
writer begged forgive me-"
Frederick G. Dewitt, who figured in
the double tragedy at Denver u few
days ago, and who had been we'll
known in New York for many years,
was a spectacular figure in one Of the
most bitter Of the continual political
fights that o place twenty-five
years 6 In New York City, when the
municipality was consolidated into five
boroughs. Dewitt was swept into Of
flee MS district attorney Of Queens
county in 1905 by the LOG Cabin par