‘BOMB9 BACKFIRES
AS SOLONS WRANGLE
Stirring Scene Enacted In For
eign Legislative Hall
BERLIN, March 7.—An indignant
member of the Czecho-Slovskian parlia
ment has voiced his opinion of Czecho
slovakia’s own little Teapot Dome
scandal by hurling a stink bomb at the
premier, according to dispatches from
Prague.
Charges that high officials of the
ministry of defense are involved in a
plot to buy gasoline from u Rou
manian company at 50 per cent above
the market price, have caused a storm
of excitement. Fourteen persons were
under arrest in Prague, including three-'
officials.
xne premier tried to explain the situa
tion to parliament Thursday.
“Post-war developments everywhere
have shaken people's morals,” he said.
Communists interrupted with shouts
of “corruption.” The chamber rang
with demands that the premier resign.
Amid the tumult a deputy threw the
stink lomb.
The premier caught it deftly, studied
it a moment and realising its sinster
significance, angrily threw it back.
Deputies scrambled for possession of
the lethal weapon.
An agrarian secured it, and started
to throw it into the communist benches.
it burst in his hands.
With the chamber flooded with gases
that were none too pleasant, the session
was held up until the atmosphere
cleared.
2 SERIOUSLY HURT
i IN TRAIN CRASH
Wreck On C. & 0. Puts Several
Cars In Ditch
MOUNT STERLING, Ky„ March
7.—Two trainmen were reported se
riously injured and others badly hurt
us a result of the derailment of Ches
apeake and Ohio passenger train No.
22 between Olimpia ami Halt Lick,
east of this city lute today. The train
' was eastbound from Louisville.
