The Holly chieftain., 1921-11-17
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
a BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EIoN COUNTRIES.
I'm LATE DISPATCHES
poihos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
or THE AGE.

~ "6 SN0Ss.
western Newspaper Union New. serv,re.)
WESTERN
The locking cut of 800 employees
In the mill work industry in Chicago
is intended as a step toward establish
Ing the open shop in the carpenter
trade. union officials declared. The
mills include sash, door and window
and fixture mills, employing approx
mately 1000 carpenters.
Corncob, ridden by his owner, l. Jar
Wis Of Edmonton, Alberta, set a new
world record for the high jump by
horses under 142 hands high at the
horse show at Portland, Ore, topping
the bar ut six feet two inches. The
Tank. former holder Of the record,
dropped out with the bar at five feet
six inches. M
Miss Lucy Stebbins. dean OF women
at the University of California, will d.
rect activities of deans of women Of
western colleges for the coming year
as the result Of election of officers at
Berkeley. Women students of western
colleges, also In session, adjourned
after selecting the University of Utah
for next years meeting.
Clubbing Sheriff George s. Bassett
into insensibility with piece Of gas
pipe, SIX prisoners escaped from the
county jail at Fort Dodge, Ia. Sheriff
Bassett had entered the Jail to bring
the prisoners extra blankets which
they had requested as the result of a
sudden drop in temperature. Bassett
was seriously hurt, but is expected to
recover
Hipolito villa, brother of Francisco
villa, former bandit leader OF Mexico,
said that he had his two children, Ma
ria Louisa, 9, and Abton, 4, whom his
former wife, Mabel Silva, accused him
of kidnapping, In a private school on his
ranch at Torreon, that he intended to
give them good education and then
release them and permit them to re-
turn to their mother IL they so de-
sired.
WASHINGTON
President Harding has signed the
good roads bill, carrying an appropria-
tion of $75,OOO0O0 for road building,
and $15,O00000 for forestry projects.
Eugene v. Debs, Socialist leader,
now serving teB-year term Mt Attain
ia prison for obstructing the draft,
may walk the streets free man on
Thanksgiving day, through the Presi-
dents executive clemency, it was
learned In an authoritative quarter.
Charges that Haitian natives We're
killed or inhumanly treated by
gendarmes, acting on order of Ameri-
can marine officers. were challenged
before the special Senate investigating
committee by Lieut.. Col. Alexander. S.
Williams, who acted us assistant COM
mander and later as commander of
the gendarmes between August 1915,
and July, 1919.
Expenditure of So, 1863, $50 on the dis
abled former service man and his
family and total of $19,361 $50 for
all purposes is proposed by the Ameri-
can Red Cross during the current fis-
cal year, it was announced ut the or.
ganizatiOn's national headquarters.
This represents reduction of more
than $5,OOO,O0O from the $24,492, ,74O
total spent during the last fiscal
year.
Retail food prices decreased between
Sept. Is and Oct. Is in nine OF the
eleven principal cities from which re-
ports were received, the department Of
labor announced. In Milwaukee there
was decrease Of per cent and in
Chicago, Detroit and Indianapolis a
decrease Of 2 per cent.
The United States shipping board
has gone into the junk business on a
tremendous scale in an effort to dis
pose of S35,0O0OOO worth of surplus
materials and supplies on hand after
building and fitting ont the emerg-
ency fleet. Within few days, 1t was
said today, advertisements will appear
offering everything for sale from
Slightly used" steam locomotives to
drugs and tobacco.
Americas unknown soldier received
the last congressional medal of honor
and the last distinguished service
cross which can be bestowed for deeds
performed In the war, the War De-
partment announced. The act OF Con-
gress authorizing the President to
make these awards, as well as to be-
stow the distinguished service medal
prescribed In effect, 1t was explained
that the awards must be made within
three years after the act justifying the
award. The time limit has expired
A bill appropriating $25O,OOO to be
used in refunding losses by Liberty
Loan subscribers through failure OF
five banks in which they had placed
partial payments has been passed by