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Sports Minneapolis - Minneapolis, after being fightless since April, is coming back into the fistic limelight either Sept. 21 or 28. William B. Hoke, matchmaker for the local club, announced that he had come to terms with Cowboy Padgett for a match with Billy Wells, British welterweight champion. Great Falls, Mont.-The First National bank of Shelby closed on order of the board of directors. Its last statement showed deposits of $377,000. In the month since then it is stated that about $100,000 had been withdrawn and the assets of the bank could not be realized on to furnish further cash. This leaves Shelby without a bank, the First State bank, of which Mayor I. A. Johnson was president, having closed shortly after the Dempsey-Gibbons fight July 4. Mayor Johnson was treasurer of the fight and active in raising a portion of the $300,000 which Dempsey was to have received. Foreign Deauville-The wearing of wigs has become the latest feminine fad here because of the scarcity of coiffeurs and hair dressers. The leading Paris wig makers state that they are sold out. Berlin-A dispatch to the Deutsche Allgeteine Zeitung, from Halle, says a mob stormed the jail at Zeitz, smashed the doors, opened the cells and liberated all the prisoners, most of whom are declared by the dispatch to have been ordinary criminals. Canton-The headquarters staff of the constitutionalist forces declared that the report of the retreat of those forces recently was without foundation, and that Sun Yat Sen has ordered four new airplanes to proceed to the front for duty. Brussells-Premier Theunis has served notice on all bankers and brokers that if speculation in exchange continued, strenuous restrictive measures would be taken, beginning with limitations on exchange transactions and eventually leading. if necessary, to the closing of the bourse. Landau, Bavarla-Eight directors of a Badanese aniline soda factory at Ludwigshafen were sentenced to eight years' imprisonment and fined 150, 000,000 marks each by a French court martial. They were charged with re fusing to assist in delivering nitrogen fertilizers requisitioned by the French Geneva-Miss Helen Short, aged 17 of New York, was injured by a small avalanche while ascending the Jung frau, accompanied by a guide. She was within 20 yards of the summit when she was struck by falling stones. She was assisted by the guide to the Jungfrau station, whence she was taken to a private clinic at Wengern. Her recovery is expected. Bremen-"He looked very dry when he told me he did not wish to be in terviewed," was the impression made on a German newspaper reporter by former Representative Andrew J. Volstead when he arrived at Bremen on the steamer America. Mr. Volstead is on his way to Copenhagen to attend the international congress against alcohol. Nome, Alaska-The Blue Sea, a small American coast trading vessel, captured and held by Russion soviet authorities in Serbia but later released, arrived from Anadyr. American traders had failed to respect the Russian trading regulations but were freed with their confiscated ship upon compliance with soviet shipping restrictions, the party explained. Dublin-Eamonn de Valera arrested under dramatic circumstances at En nis, when he appeared to deliver a speech in the election campaign, prob ably will be brought from Limerick where he is imprisoned at present, to Mount Joy jail within the next few days. The public safety act gives the government power to detain him and it is considered likely that he will be kept in jail until the condition of the country is more peaceful. Paris-The Dauville casino's baccarat bank has been broken by the loss of 10,000,000 francs, says the Herald. The syndicate running the bank, comprising two wealthy Greeks and an Armenian, have decided to go out of business and no one has been found who is willing to take over the game. The two principal winners Monday evening were the eminent French sportsman, James Hennessy, and a Britisher named Pulcinelli. The latter is said to have cleared a million and a half francs in a single sitting. Paris-Ten additional agents of the second section of French police-the secret political section-were dispatch. ed to Bagnoles de Lorne to increase the guard over Lord Curzon, who is there taking a cure. Every precaution has been taken to avoid a manifestation of popular feeling during Lord Curzon's visit. Buenos Aires-The Argentine gov. ernment will not be represented at the assembly of the League of Na tions next September, owing to delay in congressional approval of measures to "regularize Argentina's relations with the league," it was said
