The Winslow mail., 1924-01-25
FOREIGN


Richard Washburn Child announced
in Rome that he is definitely retiring
in accordance with arrangements
made with President Coolidge. Child
will sail for New York from Cher
bourg Jan. &c
The French cabinet, acting in the
financial crisis caused by the phe-
nomenal fall of the franc decided to
increase all taxes, direct and indirect,
by 20 per cent. 1t also decided to re-
duce the recoverable budget in 1924
to 5,000,000,000 francs, which will be
met by this new taxation.
Lao Yang-Jen, notorious bandit,
whose men recently shot and fatally
wounded Prof. Mernhard Hoff and
kidnapped Mrs. Julina Kilen, both
American missionaries, was killed in
a battle at Kwantiling, the foreign
office at Peking has been advised.
Mrs. Kilen was rescued several days
ago.
Premier POincare, with an impas-
stoned appeal to the patriotism of all
Frenchmen, urged them to present the
same solid and united front against
the difficulties of peace as they did
in war; and carried the day in the
lative assembly. In his efforts to inn
prove Frances impaired financial po-
sition and renovate the standing Of
the franc on international exchange.
The secretary of finance has sent
to New York scrip covering the diff
ference between $16000,000 delivered
as first payment under the lamont
De la Huerta agreement and the $685.
125,0O0 which should be the amount
delivered yearly to the international
bankers in payment of Mexico's in
debtedness. According to the agree
ment, the Mexican government should
increase the payment 100000 pesos
each year until the $23,00O,000 has
been reached, the balance, meanwhile,
being paid in scrip until 1923, when
the payments on the foreign debts
shall become normalized The Mexi-
can government then will issue per
in scrip by the international banks.
GENERAL
Louise Salerno, young wife of Tony
Salerno, nephew Of the Italian consul
at Omaha, shot and killed Peter Sfe-
ras, whom she accused of attacking
her and threatening her life if she at
tempted to expose him. The shooting
occurred as Sferas, who leaves a wild
ow and three children, was entering
the door of the woman's home. He
died almost at once.
A word chosen from more than
$4,000 suggestions as the one best cal
culated to "stab awake the conscience
of the lawless drinker" was an
nounced by Deloevare King of Quincy,
Mass, who offered prize of 5000 for
the most suitable epithet. The word
is "scofflaw." Two contestants pro-
posed this word and the prize was
divided between them. The winners
are Henry Irving Shaw Of Shawshen
village, and Miss Kate L. Butler of
Dorchester.
The Shenandoah, largest airship in
the world, poked her nose into her
hanger at the naval air station at
Lakehurst, N. j., after completing the
most remarkable flight ship of her
type ever made. The flight was a
fight against the most stubborn ele-
ment of nature, wind that blew at
seventy-two miles an hour at times.
This gale twisted the giant craft from
her towering mooring mast and swept
her on a mad chase up the Atlantic
coast to Staten Island, New York
City, where Capt. Anton Heineen, in
command when she broke away,
turned her nose into the teeth of the
storm and maneuvered her back to
her home port. Not a man Pm her
crew of twenty-five was injured.
The Federal Council of Commissars
has decided to summon in the spring
the class of 1902 for regular service
Ill IlC 1ACu 1uC C6lIl lOL ILLS
class was postponed two years in sue
ceSsion.
The Sioux Falls Trust and Savings
Bank, with deposits of $5,000,000, was
placed under the supervision of the
state depOsitors' guaranty fund COM
mission and will temporarily suspend
payments on deposits, it has been an
nounced. First reports were that the
bank had been closed, but these were
corrected by the subsequent announce
ment that the institution would re-
main open under state supervision.
e. B. Mclean, Washington newspa-
per publisher, lent former Secretary
A. B. Fall 100000 but the checks for
this amount were subsequently re-
turned uncashed with the statement
that the former interior secretary had
arranged to secure the funds else