, 1923-02-15
FOREIGN

Turkish treaty failed as Ismet Pasha
leaves Lausanne to confer with home
government.
We Pang Ping, leader of 10000
kwangtung troops, who was arrested
at Canton, Ian 81, and held by heads
of opposing factions after VETS body
guard had been killed defending him,
has been released mt the instance of
the British and Japanese consuls.
h refusal of Ismet Pasha, Turkish
envoy, to sign the Near East peace
treaty at Lausanne was due TO Il Sc
cret Russo-Turkish convention where
by Turkey could not sign without
Russia, said an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Constantinople, received
in London.
lsmet Pasha, head of the Turkish
delegation, has stated that Turkey had
no desire to hostilities with
either Greece or Great Britain as a re-
suit of the Near East conference, but
he emphasized that the Turkish and
English armies were still facing each
other in Asia Minor.
The Italian government is taking
firm measures to stamp out the rom
munist agitation following publication
of the proclamation by the Third In
ternationale in Moscow in citing the
workers of the whole world to unite
in fighting the Fascist. More than 100
arrests have been made in various
parts of Italy.
Roy H.. Finch, assistant director of
kilauea Volcano observatory, in charge
of the ~seismograph at Hawaii, said
that he was inclined to accept the de-
auctions of those mainland scientists
who placed h origin of the recent
disturbances, which developed the
tidal waves that swept the islands, us
somewhere northwest of Hawaii.
General Ludendorff is reported to
have narrowly escaped lynching when
his train was stormed by Socialists at
Bruck, Kapfenberg and Weenerneu-
stad, while on his way to Vienna from
Klagenfurt, Carinthia. The police re-
moved Ludendorff from his train ut
Hetzendorf, just outside Vienna, and
requested his immediate departure for
Germany.
Lieut.. Walter Hinton, the American
aviator, arrived in Rio Janeiro, com-
pleting his seaplane flight from New
York for Rio Janeiro, a journey of
more than 5000 miles, undertaken as
"A mark of friendship between the
United States and Brazil on the occa-
celebration. He was beset with diff
culties almost from the start.
GENERAL
Absolution from criminal response
bility vas given by District Attorney
Dodd of Brooklyn to all those con
nected with the death of Antonio Per-
raiano, New York pugilist, known as
Andy Thomas" who died from Il
hemorrhage of the brain suffered dur
ing his bout with Johnny Clinton in
Brooklyn.
Chief Gabriel White Horse, n Cher
okee Indian, went to the happy hunt
ing grounds recently in New York City
by Il self-inflicted bullet wound
through his heart. He had just learned.
police said, that the pale face girl lie
adored had peer merely kidding him.
The cause of 1t all, according to the
police, was Mrs. Norma Smith, - years
old, cashier in n lunch room
Savannah, Ga, has just held its
greatest celebration-welcoming home
the last of the American forces which
participated in the World War. The
entire complement paraded through
Savannah, reviewed by Maj. Gen.
Charles s. F~arnesworth, chief of the
infantry branch of the army, and 9th
er Officers. a barbecue for the enlist
ed men followed the parade.
Kansas City.-Coal miners and OPP
orators negotiating II new contract at
Kansas City, Mo, for the southwest
ern Goa fields have agreed oil continu-
alton of the present wage scale for
one year, but the operators are seek
ing certain other concessions, +. w.
Lukins of Kansas City, chairman of
the joint conference subcommittee,
announced.
Judge Edward Terry Sanford was
sworn in MS associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court at Knox
Vile. Tenn. Oath was administered Oy
Clark Horace Van Deventer of Federal
District Court OF East Tennessee.
Judge Sanford left Immediately for
Washington. He will take his place OF
the bench on Feb. 10.
Henry Ford was named defendant in
District Court ut Omaha in a suit for
$4,000 damages, brought by Mrs. Mag
gle Boyer. The plaintiff charges that
her husband, who vas killed last De
cember when Il truck he was driving
upset. Mrs. Boyer alleges that the
Ford chassis was not in perfect order
and was NOT strong enough TO carry Il
large gasoline tank on It,.
Official investigation in the death of