The Winslow mail., 1923-12-21
FOREIGN

at rOyalist mass meeting between
royalists and republican troops.
Troops restored order
Federal Councillor Ernest Chuard of
Lausanne was elected president of the
Swiss Confederation for 1924. The
Swiss parliament which chooses the
president, gave him 1S9 of the 219
votes. The new vice president is fed
eral councillor Jean Musy of Fri
bOurg.
When word was received in Man
liza that DR.. Sun Vat Sen had reiter-
ated his determination to seize Canton
customs collections, six United States
destrOyers were ordered rushed to
HOngkong. The destroyers, which left
this evening, are the Peary, Pope,
Pillsbury, w. B. Preston, Sicar and
NOrcrOSS.
Lord Alfred Douglas was found
guilty of libeling Winston Churchill
and sentenced to six months imprison-
ment in the second division, which
does not include hard labor The libel
occurred in connection with Lord AL
fred's charge that Churchill, while
secretary of the navy, had falsified a
cOmmunique issued after the battle of
Jutland
A delegation of sixteen ArapahOe In
dians from Wyoming, clad in full re-
Their appearance caused such a COM
motion in the northern railroad ter
minus that traffic was held up FOR
some time. Chief Old Eagle told in
reviewers that the deputatiOn in
tended to ask the League of Nations
government so that Indians might
have the same rights and privileges as
other Americans.
Prime Minister Baldwin and his
cabinet will meet the parliament when
it reconvenes. and not resign in the
interim, it was officially stated in Lon
don. The text of the communique
containing the cabinets decision read :
"After careful consideration of the
constitutional precedents and their
bearing upon the situation which has
arisen as a result of the general cleo
tions the cabinet decided unanimously
this morning that it was their CON
stitutiOnal duty to meet the parlia-
ment at the earliest possible moment.
The parliament therefore, will re-as-
semble on January s."
GENERAL
Manager Lee Foil Of the Boston
American announced the purchase of
Dudley Lee, shOrtstOp of the Tulsa
Western league club, for a price re-
ported as $50,000 Lee hit $50 last
year Johnny Mitchell was transferred
to Tulsa in the exchange. Lee is a
Denver boy.
e. Ray Tompkins, wealthy real es-
tate broker of Milwaukee, collapsed
after confessing to police he had muir
dered his wife, severed the head,
burned it, and hid the torso in a ravine
north Of the city. Tompkins' confes-
sion climaxed one of the most grew
some murder stories ever placed on
police records.
1t developed after the accident
that the state public service commits
sion had ordered elimination of the
grade crossing where the New York
Central Twentieth Century Limited
was wrecked but the work had been
held up when the Nickel Plate road,
after failing to get a rehearing, car
ried the matter into the courts.
A nationwide move is under way
to bring about the release of Lieut..
Corliss HoOven Griffis, former Amer
lean soldier, sentenced to nineteen
months in German prison for at
tempted kidnapping of Grover Cleve-
land Bergdoll, wealthy draft evader,
DR.. James Whitney Hall, president
of the IroquOis club of Chicago has
announced. He is TO head a national
committee organized to obtain a par
don for Griffis.
Dr. Norman Guthrie, pastor of ST..
Mark ks-in-the-BouWerie and his board
of vestry.hen, were called before Bish-
op William T. Manning of the Protest
ant Episcopal diocese of New York to
explain reports of dances and festivals
in the downtown church and parish
house. These reports have shocked
and scandalized" Bishop Manning he
said.
After two days of argument the
board of arbitration of the National
Association of Professional Baseball
league in session at Chicago voted to
recognize Harry A. Williams, a former
Los Angeles sports writer, as the le-
gally elected president of the Pacific
Coast league. Williams supplants
William H. Mccarthy of San Fran
cisco, who charged that Williams
election was illegal.
Possibilities that Nome, Alaska, will
be selected as the "jump-off' base for
the navy's polar flight next summer
developed in Washington at the ses-
sion of the special planning board pre-
fo,