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MRIEF NEWS NOTES WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN TRY AND ABROAD EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE -Gathered Prom All Parts Of The Globe And Told In Short Paragraphs Foreign Mexico City is without street car service, the bakers are not working .and the suspension of the light, power and water supply services were expect ed momentarily. The Independent Socialist Freiheit, -declared that a triumvirate will take the place of Premier Lenine of soviet Russia, during a six month's absence from Moscow which his health will oblige him to take. Gen. Wu Pei-fu, China's military ge nius, has invited Dr. Sun Yat Sen, president of the republic of South Chi na, to come to Peking and aid the re 'union movement. Wu Ting Fang, for mer Chinese ambassador to Washing ton, has been offered the premiership, but has not yet accepted. The draft of the new Irish consti 'tution made public on the eve of the ,rish election, gives, as the document itself states, force of law to the Anglo Irish treaty and expressly declares that any provisions of the constitution or any amendment thereto, or any law enacted under the constitution, which Is in any respect repugnant to the trea ty, shall be void and inoperative. Three hundred persons are known to have been drowned and many per sons more missing following an abnor mal rise in the Acelhuate and Arenal rivers, which overflowed their banks and joined together in one stream, in undating the Candelaria district of San 'Salvador, Republic of Salvador. The first battle of the Carnegie peace palace was won by correspond ents of the world, who refusod to be excluded from the palace while the Postponed Genoa conference on Rus sian affairs was holding Its first meet ing. Indignant newspaper men and women, representing more than twen ty nations, igored the edict of the Dutch foreign office that Journalists should not even be admitted to the gardens of the palace and forced their 'way through the gates and into the building where they demanded an aud ience with the Dutch foreign minister, and presented a petition to him in per non protesting against such treatment of the world press in the international palace of peace. It was finally decided to place squads of Dutch soldiers1 in the corridors to limit the movements of journalists to the corridors adjacent to the main ontrance. The allied reparations committee, by a three to one vote, overriding the negative ballot of France, gave the bankers' committee full authority to propose an international loan for Ger many on any basis the committee may think desirable. NWashington Informal conversations looking to establishment of a new basis of unego tiation in the Tacna-Arlca dlisp~ute were continuedl by the dlelegates to the Chilean-Peruvian conference. The sub) ject of the exchanges wvas kept a mys tery, but the plenipotentiaries did( not -try to conceal their reviving hope that *a way soon might b~e found to break the deadllock. The statement was made at the ~White House that the administration -is not contempilating any importanit, immiediate or dirastic action in the con tinuing nation-wide coal strike. Prospects for early action by the house on proposedl legislation for de -velopment of the government's projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala., were brighten ~ed by authoritative announcement from the white house that administra 'tion officials were willing and anxious for house leaders to act on the matter with a free hand. Charles WV. Morse, New York ship1 builder, his three sons and others who rare charged with conspiracy to die fraud the U~nited States by means of war contracts with the shipping b~oard, filed an application to the (dis trict court of appleals for permission to make a special appeal from the de cision of the criminal division or the Dlistrict of Columbia supreme court overrulling demurrers to the indict ment. Summer training camps have been op~ened everywvhore over the country uinder supervision for youths of the reserve oficer training corps, part of the machinery of the new defensive military policy set upi in the national ediefense act of 1920. The Federal Reserve Bank at San Trancisco has asked the federal re serve board for its attitude upon a ptos sible0 reduction by the California bank's redliscount rate from four and a halt' to four per cent, it is said at the treas nry. A new fight against Senator Truman II. Newberry for his activities in revis ing the naval appropriations bil1l is brewing in congress. A group in both the senate andl house are preparing to -offer dletermined resistance to the at' tempts of Newherry in slashing the 'Mare Island provision of the appro priations measure, President Harding is understood to have taken a determine(l stand against action by congress at this time on pond ing bills for (disposal of the goverh-. mont's nitrate nlant at use1 Sals. Secretary Mellon has estimated that the final income tax payments for the year 1921, just made, will approximate three hundred million dollars, bit says that against this the treamruy must meet payments during June totaling $755,000,000. The last general accounting of the public debt discloses a bond total of $16,002,258,970. The four liberty loan obligations now total $15,118,418,500. The- remained of this bond obligation represents consols of 1930, the United States loan of 1925, three Panama bond issues, conversion bonds and pos tal savings bonds. The house conference committee on the military appropriation bill decided recently to submit direct to the hnuse the senate amendment appropriating $7,500,000 for continuation of work on dam No. 2 of the Muscle Shoals power project in Alabama. The Cable bill, which would regulate the naturalization and citizenship of married women, has been favorably re ported by the house committee on im migration and naturalization and will be pressed by the committee for con sideration in advance of the merchant marine bill. Appropriation of $150,000 for imme diate emergency use in eradication of citrus canker in Florida is provided for in a bill introduced by Representa tive Smithwick of Florida. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes declares in a formal statement, refer ring to the "prohibition afloat" Pam phlet issued by the Anheuser-Busch company that he would "act in a vig orous manner to enforce the law as soon as the department of justice and the courts have determined where the Volstead act applies to vessels sailing under the American flag. He adds that he would not break one law to enforce another. Domestic Two rear sleeping cars on the Sun shine special, the Texas and Pacific train jumn ed the track at Lake Fork, Texas, injuring 15 persons, some of them seriously. Five children were born to Mrs. William Prestage, wife of a farmer of the old Floyd neighborhood, 60 miles northeast of Monroe, La. Jack Akin, member of the "Holy Rol ler" church near Fackler, Ala., is at the point 'f death as the result of bites from a copper-head snake which he saw crossing the road and which he picked up when, as he said, he "felt the power of God come on me," Organized labor indicated a deter mination at the American Federation of Labor convention In Cincinnati, 0., that it would start a drive for a con stitutional amendment for a congres sional veto of supreme court decision. Arthur B. Stillwell, who says he has been president of many railroads and for seven years president of the Na tional Surety company, makes the statement that every mile of the 3,000 miles of railroad he had built has been constructed by following the advice of "spirits." Train No. 4 of the fast New Orleans and New~ York Limited on the Louis ville andi Nashville railroad, split a switch three miles north of Canoe, Ala., crashing through a ipotato pack ing shed andl killing Willie Bliundean, a small boy, who was in the packing shed. Secretary of War Weeks deliveredl the baccalaureate address at the WVest ern Reserve University the other day. The university is at Clevelandi, Ohio. Hie declaredi that the dIrift of the Unit ed States government during recent years was gradually weakcening the na tion's structure by undlermining the Constitution and sweep~ing away the Principles of party responsibility held so dear by our ancestors of other days. While in bathing at a hpublc pond near Augusta, Ga.. t'laude B. Mclawing, twenty-four years old, a resident of Washington, D. C., ventured beyond the safety rope and was drowned. Roy Marsden adimitted, according to the police, that lie had robbed the poor boxes i thirty-two Milwauka church es recently. Use of the word "takoha" by the Old Dominion Blever'age comp~any, of Rich mond, Va., is an infringement of the tradeomark of the Coca-Cola comnpa ny, Judlge D). Lawrence Groner, of the Unaited States district court for east erni Virginia, has dhecidedl, according to advises receivedl by C. V. Meredith, counsel for the Coca-Cola company. Explosion of an ammonia tank locat ed in a tunnel under the boiler room of the Parker- Webb Packing companw, Detroit, Mich., killed four enlhoyes and damaged the plant considlerabliy. The illinois chamber of commerce has asked President Harding to reap point WV. P. 0. Harding as governor of the federal reserve board. The production of commercial peach es in Georgia this year probably will not exceed 8.700 cars, including ex press shipmnents, according to the esti mate of Z. R. Pettet, agricultural statis tician for Georgia of the United States butreau of markets and crop estimates. Former submarine chaser No. 205, owned by E. T1. Sulzer of Blrooklyn, N. Y., was burned to the waters' edge and sank off Sand Key, near Key West, Fla. Mrs. Sulzer was slightly burnedl. Bly the vote of eVery dhelegtae, the American Federat ion of Labor con vent ion in Cincinnat.i indlorscad the nation-wvide coal strike that since the first of April has kept half a million miners from work, and also indlicated, by a demonist rat ion, its appr oval of the threatened walkout of more than r million railroad workers CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT GREETED IN LONDON PARTY ARRIVES AT THE EUSTON STATION AND IS SHOWN MANY COURTESIES. POSES FOR THE CAMERMAN Shakes Hands Warmly With Many Priends and Says He is Glad to be in London. London. - Winlliam Howard Taft, chief justice of the United States and party, arrived at the Euston Station and wore greeted heartily by a large gathering of British and American ad mirers, the American ambassador, Mr. Harvey, the counsellor of the embas sy, Post Wheeler, the consul general. Robert P. Skinner, and representatives of the American societies, the London Pilgrims and the English-speaking un ion were among those at the station. Major Oscar N. Solbert, the military attache of the embassy, accompanied the former President from Liverpool and will act as his aide throughout his stay in England. Mr. Taft shook hands warmly with many friends on the pUikform and said he was glad to be in London. "I am more than delighted to see you all again," he exclaimed genially; "it is exceedingly good of you to come here to greet me after so long an ab 8 auce." He posed good naturedly for the camera men, first with the ambassa dor and then with Mrs. Harvey and Mrs. Taft. To the injunction, "look pleasant," the former President re plied amid much laughter- "That's the easiest thing I do." New Agreement on Size of Army. Washington. - House and senate conferees on the army appropriation bill reached a compromise on an army of 125,000 enlisted men for the next 12 months. This represents a reduction of 8,000 from the senate fig ure and an increase of 10,000 over the size of the army fixed by the house. Decision as to the conference report on the enlisted strength leaves only two important sections of the annual supply bill to he considered, exclusive of the Muscle Shoals amendment ap proving $7,500,000 for the continuation of work on the federal power project in the Tennessee river. It already has been agreed by the conference committee that, the question should he submitted direct to the house be cause of the controversial character of the subject involved, Chairman Vadsworth of the senate military committee said that only the items dealing with the officer strength and the national guard provisions remain ed to he determined. It was expected that. a reduction from the number' of officers fIxed by the senate would follow the compro mise as to enlisted personnel. Trhe house fixed a maximum of 11,000 as the numbem' of offi'er's while the semn mte amendment put the officer stirength at an aver'age og 12,530 for the com ing yeam'. Richmond Ready for Vets. Richmond, Va.-WVith the proverbial outstretching of welcoming arms, Richmond, the ('enter of all that true lovers of the South and the Confed eracy hold dlear,' is ready and eager to play host to the fast dwindling rem nant of the "thin gi'ay line," the van guard1 of which dlescended on the one time capital of the Confederacy with the ari'vial of every tr'ain from the furthermost stretches of Dixie. While the lanes leading from the South am-e lined with the oncoming thi'ong the roads from the WVest and North, too. are bringing a great gath ering of grizzled Confederate veter ans, their sons and daughters, grand sons and grand-daughters, who have strayed far from the slindow of the Southlaund during the last few~ decades. The reunion of 1922, probably the last that evem' wIll he held in Rich mond, is taking on an unwonted mag nttude,. because this city was the heart of the Confedem'acy, the headquarters of its government and the site of fa miliar spots made famous by TLee and Jackson, Stuart and Davis, which na tive Richmondei's pass over with but scant thought, but which are hallowved ground to the Confederate veterans who are coming fired by a return of the old im pulses thamut made their love for the Southland and all that it repro sented so great In 1861. Richmond never has and prob~ably never again will he host. to such a gathering as wvill lie within its con fines. The city fr'om one end to the other is in gala atti'e and the holi day spirit is in the a ir. Many Killed in ireland. Blelfast. - The districts of Altana veigh and Lisdrumliska, on the South Armagh sidle of the Newry, were the' scene of murderous attac'ks on house holders, the assassins ('lamming fcu.r men and one w~oman vic(timns killed and several wounded'(. Sev'eral farm houses were dlestroyed. The district~s are largely inhabitted b~y Presbyteriauns, and it is believed were selected for reprisal for the kill ing of two men at Lislea WVednesday The tragedy started about 3 o'clock in the monning. LATEST IN OUTING FROCKS; PRETTY DRESS ACCESSORIES HE course of apparel has been set foe a jeweled girdle or necklace or for many a season steadily to. corsage to be worn with It. With the ward daintiness, both for outer anti Most practical and severe of tailored undergarments and from "top to toe." suits they find It necessary to wear a When good sense dictates a sturdy gayly striped scarf or a lint and scarf fabric, with dependable wearing qual- to match, and even their joy in a fur itles for a frock, designers linmedi- nckice is Incomplete until they ately put their wits to work to give it have posed against its dark back an airy touch somehow, either by ground a cluster of flowers In glowing means of accessories to be worn with colors. All of which contributes to it, or by combinations of materials or their charm and to the general cheer by its decorations. Manufacturers of fulness. gingham have made things easy for The shops are showing just now then) The neat lprettiness of checked man handsoi girdles many of them sut the fidf eesr owa vim. , x. anckplc33s ".? ' ' / y\incomplete unti they coos A.o wlhcotiutst Gingham and Airy Organdie. ginghams and their henutiful colors silver link ciIns, set with mock prove an Inspiration that accounts for jewels or mot ifs of jade. Sometines an endless variety of adorable 'mid- the girdle serves Is an anchorage for summer frocks. drapery in the gown, but more often Everywhere gingham, joining forces it simtiply indleates the waistline anl with organdle, makes morning and iidds color and a point of interest to outing frocks of unrivaled freshness, the costuine. and every week sees new developments For sveal years we imagined tit of this combiniation. Two of the hist ea-rrigs vera yssed w tle maint ot to be launched on the seas of inidsuma- foigatten things, but now thlm ofe imer fashions are shown here. In hoth forgotte tings, bu n of thiemi glinglim, shiowin agi sinaltl Inuong thle liiuost p01)1tiir of oranamtent(s. check ini a color with i wie, is com- i11 t'r Long pendiant eiarrings of pearls o. hined with white organle, anii th diresses aire alitractiv *ini anly (of thle (it's of .ie an Jelit lie lmanyf ohr faishionablie colors and in Ihinck a ai stne servt tha lit' resn lie lnve of wor wiito. The desigans ar ie novel ii th e l~ anuk I a. (uuimb s fo r thle eventig colff pictutre tellIs all thir simpilie buiit dec- fuire are gracel't l shapeIud andl~ gilt. I ightfual story. The use of tint learl tor*ing withi a va iet y of ('olorS. In butt ons, as a diecorativye featutre, Is thir I'companii iy are buck les t hat rival worth notinug in themia (it has~ been thiemi. SI ippers ha:ve t heir share of ciloverly donec) and thle 1importunelie of ide 'orati on In imtk h's adi slide in makinig the gingham up partliy oan the mnn shatues. set withi rhtinestonies. ni-' Latest in Accessories. talas anid partly on the straight of the tile(fgodrslvrhemnd material.thultperuc)o rethesan The frock at the left mnakes new (1e- ~li l'~aielI rwn ou.f partures with a bias rtmflie about teiioi iiIle rtytikt hc hips and a lonag organdie 5sshlbotund fn ao nteee fw n ek with the ginghamiu andir tied at t he left110) 11keIletrnetapla11 side. The bodice fastenas tinder Ite aoi ekace t1 ib'id ii is chose-set row of, buittonis down the pae ~ls )1(5i l oo~ n front. Tihie inmginationl of the de1- ftilkidartavesiywo. signer of this little frock causeid her oili iiegrw OXtttgnth to make effective use of shallow s'al- lat' fSipli asa swt lops about the bottom of the overskirt-1~~'jlyteicesn l~iia o atnd bodice andi~ on the double)1 collargodIliitanlnefih 'iltvr andr cuffs, aind to nHeenit ai new var'ia- te1)1 rnsue. La e ag tion of them with fdat pearl buttons. nnntditerlaesibtte111 One of the best things abiouit these ta rdso (li~hhnsin ii pretty frocks, for any timne of daiy, Is1101Iileorgllbagurlkefo thatl an iyoine ay maike them. The dese eI~~i i c~tnlro mat eralIs aire to be had1( everywvhere seslspaa d rn nso i and1( areI iniexpenlsive.Th designs are 81111ple andii eausy to make. sd i eba ya111101*o itI 'Te'' "ternal femininle'' reveals it- tleI sd fth lip self ini thle love of fhinery t hat runls atfter aill sorts of pretty dress acces sor(s-utse'ful and otherwise--year in aind ot. 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