The Colorado statesman., 1924-05-10
FOREIGN

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der for $4,000 dozen of mems printed
handkerchiefs. This is the largest or
der Belfast has received for many
years.
A treaty of peace was signed at Am
alpa by the three discordant political
factions In Honduras and representa-
tives of the Central American nations.
The document was signed in the pres
ence of Sumner Welles, who was sent
to Honduras by President Coolidge.
Unless an official recount of the bal
lots deprives the United Socialist par
ty of its present rank as numerically
the strongest party in the new reich
stag, President Ebert will in the next
few days commission its leaders to
proceed with the work of organizing a
new coalition government.
Premier Theunis and Foreign Min
lister Hymans of Belgium arrived in
London few days ngo on the second
OF the visits they are paying to France,
England and Italy. to ascertain the
views of the allied governments on
methods for making the Dawes plan
effective.
NJ. Krestinsky, the Russian ambassa-
dor, has left Berlin for Moscow and the
offices OF the Russian commercial del
egation in Berlin will be closed, 1t is
stated, until satisfaction is given by
Germany for the recent entry of the
German police into the building of the
delegation and the search of the quar-
tiers for the Community leader Botzen-
hardt.
The Conservatives have started their
attack on the Labor governments bud
get in the House of Commons. AS
everyone expected, the onslaught of
criticism was aimed at the abolition of
the McKenna duties on foreign manu-
factures, and Labor's Intention to op-
pose any building Of a tariff wall
around the empire by scheme of i'm
perial preference.
Twenty-six Japanese insurance COM
panies have commenced the payment
of 10 per cent. of the policies of losers
in the earthquake and fire Of last Sep
tember. Great crowds are milling
about each office in Toxic. The dis
tribution involves S40,000,000, which
the companies borrowed from the gov
ernment. Most of the money will be
reinvested Immediately in permanent
buildings, for which permits are issued
as of June 1.
A Reuter- agency dispatch from
Seville, Spain, says the war minister
has ordered military airplanes and the
personnel Of the Spanish flying corps
to be ready for immediate departure
for Morocco. The information is at
tributed to the newspaper Voz, which
says that all leaves Of absence have
been suspended. The newspaper inti-
of urgent dispatches from Morocco
reaching Seville by airplane and for
warded Immediately by plane to
Madrid.
GENERAL
The Ell Paso City National Bank,
one of the Southwest's largest insti-
tutions, failed to open its doors few
days ago.. The bank, 1t is understood,
was In weakened condition due to
frozen paper. The bank was saved
from closing three months ago when
$1O00,000 in gold was transferred
to the institution from the vaults Of
the Federal Reserve Bank here.
Modern parenthood has no place for
that once popular standby-"Spare the
rod and spoil the child"-memSers of
the Congress of Mothers and Parent
Teacher Associations were told in st.
Paul Miss Alma L. Binzel, educa-
tlonal director of the Federation for
Child Welfare Study, New York city,
gave this information in her talk on
Education for Parenthood" at the as
sociation's annual convention.
Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras,
has fallen to the rebels, the Navy De-
partment was advised in n dispatch
from the commander of the U. S. s.
Milwaukee at Amapalu.
Mrs. Celia Cooney, bobbed hair BAN
dit, and her husband and partner in
crime, Edward Cooney, were sentenced
TO serve from ten to twenty years
each in prison by County Judge Mar
tin of Brooklyn. Mrs. Cooney was
sentenced to Auburn prison and her
husband to Sing Sing. They had
pleaded guilty to charge of assault.
Ed STRANGER" Lewis successfully
defended his title in match with Joe
"Toots" Mondt of Colorado at Roches-
ter, N. Y. winning the only fall in
hour 81 minutes and seconds. The
second fall was called after twelve
minutes because of the time limit set
by the state athletic commission. A
near riot followed Lewis victory. The
challenger made rush at the cham
pion Mt the end of the fall, claiming
that he had been taken at dIsadvan-
tage when Lewis. apparently all in and