The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-06-17


the class day exercises.
George E. Leach won a third teri
of mayor of Minneapolis by ma1ol
a ity of 1892 votes over James T. Ell
we'll in the city's erection, complet
unofficial returns showed. The fir
al count was: Leach 1888; Elwel
45.3O1. Six members of the radica
bloc Of the Minneapolis city council
which dominated the council IA L
liz. were routed by votes and the new
city council will be IS to 5 antiradical
The governor of Florida has ap
proved the act of the 1926 Legislature
to require daily readings of the Holy
Bible in the schools of Florida. Read
= ings once daily are required undel
provisions of the measure, but nj
sectarian comment is permitted.
Mrs. Elizabeth Talcott, Webster
City, Iowa, does not consider her edu
cation finished, although she is past
so years old, several times a grand
mother and only this week received
the highest degree offered at the Iowa
State Teachers college, that of bache-
lor of arts in education. She will
enter Iowa State university's summer
school to continue her studies.
In suit filed by three Californians,
in New York. Sidney Howard, play
wright, is charged with plagiarism in
his drama, "They Knew What They
Wanted" which was recently award
ed the Pulitzer prize as the best
American play of 1924
More than forty delegates attend
ing the State Girls club convention
at Webster, Mass, were striker with
illness. All available doctors were
called and a general call was sent
out for nurses. The girls were strick-
en- after dance. The intense heat
and excitement is believed to have
been partly responsible, although
few had symptoms Of ptomaine poi
soning, according to physicians.
w. T. Barlow, a Lexington, KY,
truck driver, asked his boss If he
could "get Off for 20 minutes. He
went home, changed his suit, was
married and reported back to work
in that period.
When vice-president Charles G.
Dawes alighted from a train at Mar
ietta, Ohio, for three-day visit at
his birthplace during the commence
ment exercises at Marietta College,
he was greeted by the cheers of 5000
Marietta citizens who had turned out
to receive the .city's most famous
son.
FOREIGN
Officials of the Krupp concern
characterized as incomprehensible"
the demand of the allies in their dis
armament note for the dismantling of
the plant at Essen, Germany. Mis-
use of the Krupp works for military
purposes is impossible, it was stated,
for the reason that subcommission
of the allied control body is constant
ly stationed at the plant to supervise
faithful observance of the provisions
of the Versailles treaty.
A plot to assinate Czechoslovakian
Foreign Minister Benes, should he
come to Vienna, has been discovered,
according to Der Abend, an extrem-
list afternoon paper. The paper CLAIMS
that the plotters are members of the
nationalistic organization Awakened
in Budapest, and that
they are cooperating with Austrian
"Hakenzreuzler," an antisemetic ma
tionalistic order.
Guarded by two armored cars, on
which were mounted machine guns,
and by cordons OF police and volun-
teers, the international mixed court
began the hearing at Shanghai of the
Chinese arrested in connection with
the roiting which resulted in heavy
loss Of life to student demonstrators
protesting against the Imprisonment
If Chinese strikers in the recent
in Japanese owned spinning
Mills.
Genera. Belavin, commander of the
southern Russian army during the
world war, and Nina Krezeckovska,
! beautiful 21-year old girl, were sen.
enced to death at Kiev, Russia, by
! war tribunal after having been
ound guilty Of espionage for Poland.
Fourteen accomplices including the |
iris mother and two young women,
we're sentenced to Imprisonment and |
lard labor for terms ranging from
hree to ten years.
DR.. Friedtjof hansen. Arctic ex-
'lorer and diplomat, and Command
II Walter Burns. German aeronaulic
have evolved a plan to en-
lore the North Pole region with a |
lirigible in 1927. The airship will
ave capacity of 10000 cubic me-
ers capable Of carrying party of