The Holbrook news., 1921-04-29
FOREIGN

Max Hoelz, alleged to have been the leader of the recent communist up rising in middle Germany, has been ar- rested
 A Revolutionary court in Scolensk has pronounced sentence on 320 peas ants accused of having participated i'll an uprising, according to advices in Stockholm.
 The German foreign office sent a note to Loring Dresel, American com missioner, expressing regret for the attack of a German crowd on James E. Robinson and his wife of Chicago.
 Soviet Russia's debt to Switzerland, according to statistics of the Swiss federal government, amounts to 466.- 100000 rubles, 129,OOO,000 Swiss francs, 600O,000 French francs, f4,- 5OO,OOO and 3,OO0,OO0 marks.
 General tightening of the conscrip- ton laws by Japan, including exten- sion for the first time of the applica- tion of universal military training to Japanese residents in the Philippines, East Indies and the South Sea islands, has been reported to official circles in Washington.
 The allies have sent demand to the German government for the transfer of 1,OOO,OOOO00 gold marks (normally $25O OOOO,00O), constituting German gold reserve, from Berlin to Cologne banks for safer keeping" Cologne is the center of the British army of occuDa- tion on the Rhine.
 Honest efforts are being made to devise arrangements for immediate payments on the interest on Mexico's foreign debt and to that end repre- sentatives of foreign banking houses have been asked to come to Mexico to offer advice and suggestions. Pres:- dent Obregon told a gathering Of newspaper correspondents in Mexico City.
 The imminent collapse of the Con- stantine government in Greece is fore seen in receipt of news on the deplor- able condition of the Greek army in Asia Minor and the destitute condition of the treasury at Athens. Seven Greek divisions used in the last offen- sive were smashed and their morale weakened The 6,OO0 troops, sent as endorsements, are being used to for tify Smyrna, thus indicating that the forces around Ushak and Brussa are preparing to retire.
 GENERAL
 Mrs. Adah Bishop, farmers wife, was painfully injured when a tornado demolished the three-room house in which the family resided near Boone, thirty miles east of Pueblo. Consider able damage was done to small build ings in the vicinity, and lumber yard shed 150 feet long was demolished in Boone. Several barns were unroofed.
 United States secret service opera tives of Chicago revealed what they declared was a plot to flood the cen tral West with smuggled diamonds from Canada, after arresting I. Gittler, furrier, and his wife. The govern ment agents said they had information which led them to believe the couple were the Chicago representatives of an organized band of smugglers.
 Reports in Memphis from six states swept by recent storms showed ninety seven deaths, with twenty seriously injured and nearly 130 suffering lesser injuries. Property damage, it was estimated, will run into the mil lions and when reports come from fsO- lated sections it is feared that the death toll will be higher As compiled the death list was: Texas 9, Arkansas 52, Mississippi 8, Alabama IA. In Ar kansas the injured totaled 66.
 Captain" Harry w. Devore is serv- ing a five-year term in the Oklahoma state penitentiary all because, Harry says, he has a double" brother who likes the ladies. Devore was convicted of bigamy when three wives identified him in open court in Sapulpa, Okla. 'They got me wrong," alibied the Cap tain." I'm the victim of a double. My brother is the guy who married these ladies'" The court decided it was the Captain"
 Because she ate oysters with her fin gers and couldn't tell brown from blue, Mrs. Eliza Climer was of unsound mind, according to testimony of her sister, Mrs. Eloise VOn Schrader, who is contesting the will of the dead wom- an in the St. Louis courts. Mrs. Cli- mer's estate, valued at approximately $5OO,OOO, was left to her nephew, Dana Won Schrader.
 Twenty-siX thousand persons are at the point of starvation in the coal fields of Northern Alabama, Governor Thomas E. Kilby was told in an ap peal by the Salvation Army, South eastern division, with headquarters in Birmingham. The organization said it was helping to the limit of its re sources, but that additional aid must come from other sources.
 The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that Henry Anthony Marsh, son of Peggy Marsh, London actress, is not the legitimate son of Henry Field, and therefore is not entitled to a share in the Field millions. Peggy Marsh claimed part of the vast Field for tune for her son, but the Superior Court of Cook county ruled against her contention and the higher court here upheld this decision.