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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Germany Enters the League
of Nations and Spain
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
it. The seventh assembly the
Jeague, In Geneva, voted the German
republic a member unanimously, and
‘also approved the designation of Ger
many to a permanent seat In the
league council. Forty-eight nations
participated In the voting and the ap-
'plause when the result was announced
was long and loud.
of
In the effort to conciliate Spain and
Poland, who had demanded permanent
the
create three semi-permanent seats, en
larging ouncil to that extent. M
Loudon of Holland and Doctor Nan
if Norway
ure, charging tha
seats, i to
league leaders planned
both criticized this
am-roller tg
Doctor Nansen
at a statement
of Switzerland
were employed.
pressed
Doctor Motta
the nonpermanent
ship were not
surprise
council
augmented,
might be
¥
however,
election
speakers,
league crisis mu
SUDDOSH
suppos
delegation arrived
» last action was tal
+ '
1100
and
ORE
Spain
M immediately Important
iY than
the and
mutiny in the artillery corps.
of certain garrisons, supported
their batteries, refused to obey orders
and were quickly placed under arrest,
The king hurried from San Sebastian
to Madrid and at the request of Dile-
tator de Rivera signed an edict dis
golving the artillery and de-
creeing n state of slege throughout
the country. Gen. Fabriciano Haro ¥y
Porto, chief of the artillery section of
the ministry of war, was relieved of
his post. There was no bloodshed ex-
cept at Pamplona, where two of the
mutineers were killed and two wound-
ed. At the bottom of the revolt was
the recent order doing away with the
seniority rule in promotions. Despite
strict censorship, the news leaked out
of Madrid that the king bad persuaded
Primo de Rivera that lenient treat-
ment of the offenders would be the
wisest course.
the league row was
of a
Officers
by
discovery suppression
corps
F FOUR Republican senators who
sought renomination In last
week's primaries three were suc-
cessful and one was turned down
by the voters of Hs party. The
man who failed was Senator Ir
sine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin, and
he was beaten by Gov. John J
Blaine. The contest was a tangle of
La Follettelsm and Volsteadism. In
the gubernatorial race {t appeared
that the so-called Madison ring
trolled by La Follette received a hard
blow in the nomination of Fred R.
Zimmerman over the “ring's"” candi
date, Attorney General Herman L.
Ekern. Returns would Indicate that
the Republican nominees for the other
state offices are the members of the
La Follette-Progressive ticket. They
are: Lieutenant governor, Henry I.
Huber; treasurer, Solomon Levitan;
attorney general, John W. Reynolds,
and secretary of state, Theodore Dam-
mann.
Up
George H.
cCon-
Senator
World
in New Hampshire,
Moses, foe of the
the fight put up by former Governor
Bass. His Democratic opponent will
be Robert C. Murchie of Concord, who
the nomination Albert W.
Noone of Peterboro. The Republicans
refused to shatter a forty-eight-year-
old tradition John G. Wi
nant was defeated for renomination bj
Huntley N. ulding of Rochester
gince the
adopted,
sent a governor ba
won over
and Gov,
Spa I
78, when
wns
18 two-year
¥
gubernatorial term
New Hampsh
am
Nevada
senator Tasker IL.
ourt
ns
ire
Republicans
advocs
rts, mayor
cratic race for the senator
nation Raymon d T. Baker,
under Woodrow Wilson as
+11
i I vy ¥ es
rank L. Smith of
the
them
senate he
their
the
unseat when
are
excessive
presented, on
expenditures In
primaries.
“Wets" found
tion in the
Upshaw (Dem.
degree of satis
defeat of Representa
Ga.) for renomi-
This feeling, however,
ie fact that they fs
member, as Lester J. Steele,
opponent, also is classi
CALERA MS indicating that
understanding in Europea:
tals was tha
+ Coolidge admini
1 a vast devel
fon led the
position In
He
military
program
President
this and
declared himself
aviation or
that might
opposed
nations. So determined is the Presl-
dent to avoid giving other powers any
the
ment
United States that this govern-
will not build auxiliary war-
on the basis of the 5-5-3 ratio
established for capital ships of Great
Britain, the United States, and Japan
by the Washington treaty limiting na-
val armaments. Under this pdlicy the
American navy may continud below
parity with the British and less than
two-fifths stronger than the Japanese,
The President holds that American
naval eraft in every class not covered
by the Washington treaty shall be
built with an eye single to the defense
needs of the United States. We are
not to bulld cruisers, submarines, alr
craft, and other auxiliaries to give the
United States as many of these craft
as Great Britain possesses and two-
fifths more than Japan either has
built or building. We are to consider
only the number of ships we need for
defense and to build accordingly. If
that number falls below the treaty
ratio, we are not to worry.
ITHOUT great hope of its suc
Wim the Catholic episcopate of
Mexico presented to the congress its
bill asking for reforms in the Inws
governing the church, and it was lm-
R. 1., where police fought striking
the Pacific battle fleet
for study by the
and deputles, who are anx
get the religious question out
of the way. The bill was also sent to
mediately taken up
senators
ious to
for consideration, since a majority of
the states must assent to any changes
in the constitution. The petition car
rying the bill, after explaining
the Catholle church has no desire
within its own
proper sphere, de-
church In so far as its civil state is
cers near Raymondsvlile, Texas, for
gathering arms, presumably to be car-
ried Mexico,
the piace
cached.
fed Into agreed to lead the
where the
The
recede the
fMcers to
weapons were prisoners
officers
y had gone about
ordered t
ARRY
attorn
M. DAUGHERTY,
general of the
Thomas
TE British appear to ing
seriously entangle i iting
fig!
that Is going Yangste
river factions,
in bad
Cantonese
on
between the
nd they have been gett
h both bolshevik
forces and the troops from the north.
row with the latter started at
Wanhslen when General Yang-sen,
of Marshal Wu-Pel-fu, tried to
British ships. British gun-
rescue but were
forts and suf
The Engl
sald to
Wanhsien practically in
f the con-
the
two
boats went the
by the land
casualties,
to
HE
fered several sh
guns, however, are have lal
1
he city of
ruing, At Hankow, center o
fli the northern and south-
the British and French
landed bluejackets and helped the lo
volunteers barricades
along the bund. But a report
to London says the British party from
the cruiser Carlisle was attacked by
the and cut pleces,
Meanwhile Wu's forces there
lapsed when the Canton troops cap
tured the of Hanyang.
After the latter occupled Hankow and
Wuchang, General Wu fled to Honan.
At Shameen, the foreign residential
t between
rn Chinese,
cal to construct
Inte
Cantonese to
col:
nearby city
and it
Now the Can
minister
wharf
tonese government foreign
demanding the immediate withdrawal
of British marines from the jetties
near Shameen: the cessation of Brit
ish interference with river traffic, and
retirement of British gunboats to
their usual anchorages.
NE of the worst train wrecks of
recent times occurred when a
Denver & Rilo Grande passenger train
gtruck a boulder in the mountainous
country near Leadville, Col, and dived
downward Into the Arkansas river,
The engine, baggage cars, two coaches
and one sleeper piled up In eight feet
of water. The casualties were 27
dend and scores of Injured.
In Chicago a Northwestern train
telescoped the rear coaches of anoth-
er that was loaded with returning La-
bor day excursionists, and five persons
were killed and more than fifty were
hurt,
re] me Tf
LAO I
/
72
J 0
144
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
NYTHING disastrous
pen you on Friday, Au-
gust 137 If it didn't
you are superstitious,
can take heart,
probably safe for
to
time to come,
of this year is the
month which had in it
supposedly acme of
and It ‘out
year. November, 1
Jo
4
J
nl
Only
occur again
uck
next
Nature
3, hi
lay, 1st missed
there won't
thirteenth,
How It
&
Started
er
fear still
many persot
nfortable
who become
they
people
14
if
thirteen
me such affair,
have
the
these
tsi tare te ¢ % vom td
tuitous in history of this nation
Consider facts in relation
thirteen:
There
onles,
The American
stripes on it and
had thirteen stars,
During the War of 1812 a combined
were thirteen original col
has thirteen
time it
lag
at one also
As to Friday—
Now as to th!
and
8 evil
i
bad
1400
1402
a ceria
Rodrigo de fans g allor. rus!
the west,
Maria
Friday, October
i
Cabot proceeds
me throw m
0 GO.
fresh
New
uch
fons { the worl
That
1406,
continent,
March 6,
this commission
and it
Was
Was a
On Friday, September 11, 1000,
%
Fort McHenry near Baltimore, Md.
Had the attack been successful,
United States would have been “cut
and England might have won
the war then and there. But, if you
remember the Incident, “at the dawn's
early light,” an American prisoner on
lously toward Fort McHenry and saw
our flag was still
Francis Scott Key sat himself down
and wrote “The Star-Spangled Ban-
ner,” That was on September 13,
1818-—two thirteens in that date, you
cal organs,
mendous orchestra are mostly from
three families of the great Orthoptera |
the Half Moon, rounded the tip of an
and salled up the river
bears his name. All of
to of the most remarkable
For that
{gland was later named Manhattan,
and the Dutch bought it from the In-
dians for the munificent sum of £24.
If you happen to own some real es-
tate that particular island
don't offer it for sale at $24 a square
Some one might take you up
island which
which
led one
on
on it quick!
History does not record whether or
from their belief in
guch-like. Individually,
But collectively,
that Is, aside
witches and
they may have been.
8 Appearar
ans tnas
Frida)
Some Lucky Fridays.
} aanr cad 1% ¥ 151 nf 1
* is
General
first real-
and the
one decisive
les of the world.
looked
was
his
usually
that treason was dis-
i
vardia
ICKY
nd a iL)
surrender of
if the st
« for independence
It isn’t until you come down to tho
time of the World wae, however, that
history presents indisputable evidence
that Friday, the thirteenth, is not at
all a double jinx for these United
Rtates, There's a man named John
J. Pershing who is sald to have had
a great deal to do with ending the
war. A superstitious person wouldn't
have given John J. much chance for
living very long, not to mention be
coming internationally famous. For
he was born on Friday, the thir
| teenth !
Remember 8t. Mihiel and the battle
| that an American army fought there?
| It took place on Friday, the thirteenth.
| Enough?! Do you still believe that
| Friday is usually an unlucky day, that
thirteen is certain to be an unlucky
| number, and that Friday, the thir
teenth, is the double-distilled essence
of catastrophe?
Truggie
ns almost true violinists, their fore-
wing constituting the violln and the
and grooved as somewhat to resemble
a minute file, and by placing this
and the erickets,
the sound is produced by rubbing or
rapidly vibrating the upper pair of
wings against the lower pair. Some of
the grasshoppers we might speak of
several species,
to Cut Coal
new possibilities in sunlight as a
| means of heating the home, and are
| experimenting with the feasibility of
building glass roofs,
By providing houses with glass
| roofs, properly insulated, it is believed
that great quantities of fuel can be
{ saved during the winter months,
Doubters of the theory are referred
to the sunny bay window of the av.
| erage house on a winter day, where
| the sun works without scientific as
sistance,
—-—
Jonah originated the fish story.
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