The Dolores star., 1924-03-14
FOREIGN


Constantinople received in London.
Abdul Medjid Effendi, the caliph.
head OF the AIusselmans. expelled from
Turkey by order OF the Turkish na-
tonal assembly at Angora, has left
Constantinople for exile in Switzer-
land.
y series of earth shocks, the strong
est felt in Costa Rlca in twenty-five
years, damaged fully half the buildings
of San Jose and caused number Of
casualties. part of the American le-
CATION building collapsed.
The members OF the caliph's house
hold left behind on his departure
from Constantinople for Switzerland
are pcnniless and in acute distress.
no provision having been made for the
eunuchs and members of the harem.
Reports that the red hat of the
cardinalatc will be bestowed on two
American preluteS-Archbish0p Pat
rick J. Hayes Of New York and Arch
bishop George w. Mundclein of Chi
cago have been confirmed at the
vatican.
The sponsoring by the Turkish
government of the bills calling for
the abolition of the caliphate and sup
preston of religious instruction in
Turkey has been the cause of much
speculation on the part of British Of
ficials regarding what will be the eff
feet of these drastic measures in
India and other Mohammcdan coun-
| tries.
Departure of Col. james Hamilton
Lewis, former senator from Illinois,
who has been acting in Mexico City
as legal adviser to American finan-
ciers Interested in proposed loans to
/ Mexico in exchange for important con-
cesslons in southern Mexican states
comedies with reports that loan and
concessions negotiations have been
| halted temporarily.
sanguinary fight on the night of
! Feb. 20, between the Russian police
and 300 Chinese soldiers is reported
from Vladivostuk The Chinese
crossed the frontier from the Chinese
army barracks at Mishnyan and
raided Russian village near the
border. The Russians attacked, kill
| ing thirty Of the Chinese and driving
the remainder back across the line.
The Socialists of Belgium, in Gin
/, junction with the Flemish party, are
trying to persuade King Albert to iml-
tate Great Britain, and intrust the
government to the Socialists and the
! Flemish group. They have COM
plete cabinet ready to submit to the
king. The probability, however, is
that the Theunis cabinet. which re-
signed last week, will be remodeled.
GENERAL
Physicians recently reported the
birth of nineteen-pound boy to Mr.
and Mrs. william Henion of Ogdens-
burg, near Newton, n. j.
Prince Wolfgang Won Hessen, neph-
ew of the former German emperor, ar
rived in New York last week on the
| America. He said there was no rom
ance connected with his trip, and that
he planned to visit friends
So effective have been Director But
ler's doublefisred blows against vice.
hgnditry and Bookkeeping. that since
| the Fighting Quaker's" induction in
office Jan :, there has hecn twenty
per cent reduction in the number of
felons tried in the Criminal Court,
while most of PhiIadelphia's habltual
| gangsters have departed for other and
less ''yigilant" parts.
Mrs. Asa c. Gambler, Sr., wife of
the Atlanta soft drink millionaire, was
exonerated at Il Police Court hearing
in Atlanta, Ga, of having been an oc-
cupant of a dive" which charge grew
out of raid made by the police on
an apartment in Il fashionable resi-
Dental section here in which Mrs
Gambler, w. J. Stoddard and G. w.
Keeling, business men, were arrested
Declaring he no longer could accept
the principles Of the closed shop as
applied by the Actors Equity of the
American Federation Of Labor. David
BelascO announced he would before
June l. close the engagements of al
his productions on tour and darken
his New York theater.
Efffe Cherry. one of the trio of Cher
ry sisters, famous on the stage quar-
ter of a century ago, opened her cam
palgn for mayor uf Cedar Rapids Iu.,
by appearing twice on the vaudeville
stage, where She delivered compaign
speeches that evoked Il more kindly re-
cepdon than was given the sisters
when they tried out in New York TWEEN
ty-five years ago. At that time they
were gree" by vegetable shower
The confession of Ralph Thurbcr,
inmate of Pentonville prison, London,
that he participated in the Wall street
bomb plot, is regarded in the district