The Colorado statesman., 1924-08-09
FOREIGN

The United States cruiser Trenton
has been ordered to proceed from
Naples, Italy to Persia TO take on
board and carry back to the United
States the body of Robert w. Imbrie,
the American vice consul at Teheran
who was killed by mob recently.
The program in Toxic on Sept. l in
commemoratlon of those killed in the
big earthquake includes services at the
churches, temples and shrines, two
minute halt at noon, no music and no
banquets. During the day the women
are requested not to powder their
faces and not to wear jewelry.
Major A. Stuart MacLaren, leader
of a flight around the world by British
soldiers that started at Calshot Eng
land March 20, announced in a wire
less message received at COrdova,
ALASKA, few days ago, that the ad-
venture had been abandoned at Nikol-
ski, Komandorski islands, Siberia.
Brazilian federal troops had an en-
rebels in the vicinity of Sac Manoel,
about 120 miles west of Sac Paulo,
according to a message from Santos.
The authorities at Sac Paulo, who are
clearing up the wreckage of the bonn
barded quarters, found forty more
bodies.
Two score Of German newspaper
men went to the American embassy
to get a closeup view of Charles Ev-
ans Hughes, the American secretary
of state. Mr.. Hughes greeted the jour
nalsts affably. He reiterated his
faith in the Dawes plan, and said he
hoped it would be speedily put into
execution.
The Turkish government has passed
an ordinance whereby Jews who are
foreign subjects and are. temporary
residents in Turkey, must leave the
country. One years time is given to
those Jews who desire to appeal from
| this order. All Russian Jews and
those from White Russia are prohibit
ed from using ConstantinOple as a
transit center
A Bolshevist band, armed with ma
chine guns and bombs has raided the
Polish town of Stolpoe (Stolbtsy,
southwest of Minsk), says dispatches.
The raiders released prisoners from
the Jail and pillaged the postoffice
and railroad station, smashing the
telegraph and telephone instruments
so that the news was not transmitted
TO Warsaw until the affair was over.
The body of Nikolai Lenine, the
former soviet premier, which rests in
Moscow on a brilliant red velvet bier
in n Theoretically sealed, glass-covered
coffin, was exhibited to the American
and other foreign newspapermen re-
Gently. The embalmers appear to have
accomplished something of n scientific
miracle in fortifying the tissues of the
dead soviet leader against dissolution.
GENERAL
Fire, believed to have been caused
by backfiring of wheat combing en-
gines, destroyed 600 acres of wheat
north of Kimball, Neb., according to
reports.
The Postoffice Department an.
nounced that acting postmasters for
Colorado towns have been named as
follows: Fannie Z. Arnett at Peeta
and Emma Barnes at Silt.
Charles e. Townsend, for twelve
years United States senator from
Michigan, is dead. Townsend's death
came suddenly at Jackson, Mich, while
he and his wife and the latter's
mother, Mrs. Il. S. Loomis, were say
ing good night to their neighbors, DIR.
and Mrs l.. ]. Harris, whose guests
they had been for the evening From
1910 TO 1922, Townsend served Michi-
gan in the Senate, being defeated in
| 1922 by Senator Ferris, apparently be-
cause of his defense of Senator New
berry in the Senate and ON the stump.
The bodies of Dewitt Gooch and
Miss Charlie Reece We're found under
an overturned automobile on the Lake
Worth road in Texas, II few days ago.
They had left a party near the lake
at midnight, given as n farewell to
Gooch, who was to have left for Cali
fornia. Miss Reece is niece of
Hiram w. Evans, imperial wizard of
the Ku Klux Klan.
Slushing through pools of water and
playing much of the time in a driving
rain, Edith Cummings of Chicago,
national woman's golf champion, won
medal honors in the qualifying rounds
of the women's Western golf cham
pionship at Onwentsiu by scoring II on
each nine for an 81, three under par.
The nearest any of the other 152 start
ers could come was IS.
United States secret service men are
| probing the source of a large supply
of blank discharge papers used at Fort
Omaha following the. disclosure of al
/ legged pay roll padding" Il. Woodman,