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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY The French mines damaged by the German inva ¬ sion are slowly being put in shape and it is ex ¬ pected that they will produce 250000 tons monthly by the end of the year if all goes well This would be half of prewar production It was admit ¬ ted the normal rate would not be reached for some years Difficulties in pumping out flooded mines and repairing dynamited shafts have proved the chief obstacles Orders for machinery are ac cepted only for delivery in from four months to four years yearsAmendment Amendment of the new water power act so as to exclude the national parks from its provisions will be demanded of Congress at its next session it is announced by Robert Sterling Yard executive sec ¬ retary of the National Parks Association Mr Yard also says that a fight will be made to have Congress reject pending legislation which he asserts opens the way for irrigation projects to draw on the parks for water waterNew New York has another murder mystery on its hands The nude body of a woman jammed in a trunk was found yesterday by employes of the American Railway Express company among the unclaimed baggage in the companys East forty fourtli street warehouse The trunk had been re ¬ ceived here from Detroit June 17 17Governor Governor Coolidge may be asked by the Lav rence Mass city council to call a special session of the legislature to investigate the closing of the American Woolen Companys mills at Lawrence which has resulted in unemployment of 15000 operatives operativesGeneral General Villa and his forces said to number 100 men are heading toward Coahnila according to statements of deserters as reported by Gen Joa qiiin Amaro chief of operations at Chihuahua The rebels are described as poorly equipped equippedLatest Latest news from China is to the effect that Pekin is virtually at the mercy of the rebel armies as the army hitherto opposing them is completely disintegrated many troops having laid down their arms while others fleel to the hills Capture by soviet troops of the fortress of Dubno one of the Volhynin group of fortifications defend ¬ ing the southeastern Polish boreler is announced in Thursdays official statement from Moscow re ¬ ceived by wfreless at London LondonMose Mose Gibson sentenced to hang for murder of Roy Trapp Fullerton Cal rancher has con ¬ fessed ten murders anel so many burglaries he could not enumerate them themFrance France is said to be seriously considering the sending of soldiers into the agricultural districts to aid in gathering the harvest owing to a scarcity of farm laborers laborersThursday Thursday a cyclone struck south of Almeda in the southern part of Saskatchewan Northwest Can ¬ ada causing damagc estimated at 100000 100000It It was definitely stated that ten persons were killed in Thursday nights clash in Belfast between Unionists and Sinn Feiners FeinersA A dispatcli from Warsaw yesterday says that Poland has sent armistice proposals to the soviet government at Moscow
