The Colorado statesman., 1924-08-16
FOREIGN


946 meters an hour. The previous
The London Evening Standard says
that Tommy Gibbons, the American
victor over Jack Bloomfield in recent
prize fight has started legal proceed
lngs to attach $1,000 alleged to be due
him for the encounter. Gibbons has
already received $4,000.
The claim of some economists that
France is the "iron-master of the
world" is disputed by recently pub
lished figures. These show the pro-
duction of iron to be $4,000 tons
month and of steel 554,0 900 tons. These
figures are Is per cent less than the
1913 output.
1t is reported that Bulgaria has or
dered all Greeks to leave the country
within twenty days or face expulsion.
The Macedonian nationalist COM
mittee has established headquarters
at Vienna to foment n movement for
separate Macedonian state in the
Balkans, according to reports.
Ten Egyptian soldiers were killed
British troops at Atbarn, following
disturbances in which Egyptian troops
attacked the British with bricks at
their barracks, says a dispatch from
Cairo The British government has
sent battalion of troops to reinforce
the garrison in the Sudan as the re-
suit of the clash.
The French government has raised
Paul Wayland Bartlett, the American
sculptor, to the dignity of COM
mander of the Legion of Honor. Mr..
Bartlett was decorated as an officer
of the Legion of Honor in 1908. Among
others decorated with the cross OF n
knight of the Legion of Honor are
Anna Klumpke, an American artist
An old submarine chaser-No. /
sold by the United States government
recently to private interests, is said
to have carried to China quantity
of arms and ammunition stolen from
the government storehouse at Manila.
| Shanghai advices say an attempt was
made to land the munitions for
delivery to Chinese revOlutiOnists.
Authorities at Manila decline to state
the amount of munitions stolen. The
arms were concealed in tank aboard
the submarine chaser, which was said
to contain fuel oil.
An int resting fraud based on clan
destine emigration to North and South
American countries has just been dis
covered by the police at Naples 1t
is alleged that Guglielmo Jacchio and
Ferdinando Spalice organized what
they called an artistic tour TO North
and South America, mapping out n
program with a list of artists, includ-
ing a Roman boxing champion and a
number of dancers, and succeeded in
rounding out the company" with
many would-be emigrants who paid
large sums of money for what they
supposed would be an opportunity to
enter the countries across the sea.
GENERAL
One of four bandits who held up
the Schuyler State Bank at Pana, ILL.,,
was fatally shot by railroad fire
man, and the entire loot of $4,000
was recovered.
Fifty miners were trapped in the
Irlyama coal mine, Fukushlma prov
ince, Japan, when II gas explosion oc-
Cured 1t is feared that all are dead
Nine bodies have been recovered.
G. L. Hall of Omaha saved his Sis
ter, Mrs. Maude A. Smith, from death
when she jumped from an 81" station
before an oncoming train in Chicago.
The two were waiting to go to
Mrs. Smiths home. Presumably tenn
porarily deranged by the excessive
heat, the woman jumped. Her brother
caught her arm and dragged her from
the rails Her foot caught, however,
and was severed. She suffered in
ternal injuries. She made one pre-
vious attempt to leap before another
train.
William Wrigley, Jr, chairman of
the board of directors of the Chicago
National League Baseball Club, has
purchased the Cubs park for Il cash
price given as $295,0OO. The Chicago
Cubs have elghty-eight years of a
leasehold on the park yet to run.
Uncle Joe Cannon, veteran of many
political struggle, announced his ac-
ceptance of the Republican national
committees invitation to be a special
guest at the ceremonies August 10,
when Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes
Is notified of his nomination as Re
publican vice presidential candidate.
Uncle Joe is in his eighty-seventh
year.
A potato crop 100000 bushels
smaller than that in 1923 is forecast
for 1924 by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, basing estimates
upon the condition of the crop on
August /, according to an announce