The Colorado statesman., 1924-06-14
FOREIGN

from Taiku, Korea.
The American army around-the-
world fliers have arrived in Hongkong
from Annoy. The aviators made tho
300-mlle flight from Annoy in three
hours and fifteen minutes.
President Obregon returned to Mex
leo City carrying the fluctuations of
thousands of Americans and native
Mexicans who greeted him at Nogales,
Sonora, on his visit to his home state
since he assumed the presidential
chair.
Lieut.. Pelletier dOlsy, French long
distance aviator, who set out from
villa Coublay, France, April "a, to fly
to Toxic, reached his destination June
with borrowed Chinese plane, his
own having been damaged in landing.
Two japanese naval officers and
three noncommissioned officers were
killed and a fourth nOncommissioned
| officer received injuries which are ex-
| pected to prove mortal in an air dis
aster at the Yokosuka naval base on
hydroairplane when Its fuel tank ex-
ploded. The craft fell about 800 feet.
landing in the rocky hills above the
naval base.
The Francois-Marsal temporary min
istry was defeated in the French cham
ber of deputies by vote of 800 to
pa on the adoption Of n motion Of
h,, Tot nrI
Herriot not to open n discussion with
government not in conformity with
the sentiment Of the country. This
action is considered equivalent to
forcing President Millerand out of Of
flee
Bishop Baggia, of Prescia, Italy, has
determined to put an end to immodest
dressing and has had posters placed
on the doors of all churches and also
orders read during all masses, stating:
Ladies and girls are warned they will
be expelled from the churches if they
| dare present themselvS with naked
arms and low necks; if, in other words,
they are dressed contrary to modesty
which any well-bred woman should
feel"
Nogales, Sonora, Mexico.-Oil inter-
ests were upbraided as the "most for
| midable barrier" in the way of Mex
| ico's desire for moral, social and po-
| litical revindication," by President AL
| varo Obregon in statement issued a
few days ago in Nogales, Mexico. MA
| terial interests have constituted a real
gravestone which prevented any move
ment of every noble idea," the presi-
dent said, "and that gravestone Is
made of OIL"
GENERAL
Jack Lawyer. Omaha prizefighter
| killed by Patrolman n. Z. Nielsen of
the Omaha police department, was
slain while trying to escape arrest
after an attempt to commit robbery,
coroner's jury held. The verdict
| recommended exoneratiOn for the Off
| Ger.
The house of delegates of the Amer
| lean Medical Association in convention
in Chicago adopted n resolution calling
for the repeal of "those sections of the
national prohibition act which inter-
fere with the proper relations between
the physician and his patient in pre-
scribing alcohol incidentally"
Under sentence of life in prison for
the murder of Mrs. Mary G. Davis,
matron of the city Jail at Wilmington,
Del, Anna Lewis, colored, was pre-
pared for removal to the state peniten-
tiary to start serving her term. The
negress killed Mrs. Davis during an at
tempt to escape from the jail.
A woman carrying a small infant in
| one arm and flourishing a revolver
with the other helped hold up res
taurant at South Dayton, Pa. Ac-
! companied by two men the woman
backed mattresses and patrons into a
corner. The trio then rifled the cash
register and escaped in an automobile.
| Declaration of intention to file a
suit asking 100000 damages for
Louise Holly from Nathan Leopold
Jr., and Richard Loeb, held as slayers
| of Robert Franks, was filed in court
| in Chicago by attorneys, who refused
| to discuss the suit other than to ex
plain that it was "for an attack upon
this woman"
Replying to the statements attrib-
uted to President Obregon of Mexico,
attacking American oil interests, Guy
Stevens, of New York City, director of
the Association of Producers of Pc
troleum in Mexico, denied that oil
companies were engaged in any con-
spiracy against the stability of Mex
| ico's institutions.
A Gordon of $50 policemen, fifty
physicians and assistants effected a
smallpox quarantine in Detroit, Mich,