The Holly chieftain., 1921-10-27
FOREIGN

manian arsenal ana fOrtlIcaihoh-
1 Prime Minister Lloyd George has de
cIded definitely to leave for Washing
ton Noy. 5 on the liner Aauitania. ar
irving in time, II Is expected. for the
Afternoon session of the nrrnaments
conference on lis opening day. Nov. III.
The international relief committee
of Constaniinople sent a wireless ap-
peal TO the civilized world on behalf of
thousands of destitute and homeless
Russian refugees who haze been. abso-
llutely helpless since the recent with
drawal OF the American He'd Cross
unit.
Regular white slave auctions have
been discovered and ended by the
Vienna police In one Instance \ 15-
year-oid girl was sold by her mother
for the equivalent OF one dollar. The
girl got Il pair Of stockings. The
mother was sentenced to three months
at hard labor.
/ Philipp Scheidemar. former secre-
tnry OF foreign affairs, was fired upon
during meeting of the German PeO-
pies party In Ludenscheid. Westpha-
liz. The bullet went Wild, aud Herr
Scheideman was uninjured. Five per-
sons We're arrested for the attempted
assassination.
/ The Munich correspondent OF the
London Times is informed That. the
Germans have perfected a tripie-bar-
relied machine gun, electrically oper-
ated, weighing twenty-five pounds and
capable Of spreading 2O00 rounds per
minute in circle. The three barrels
could be operated by gunner a half
mile distant.
The government at Peking has APP
pointed commission to investigate
the opium situation in the F'ukien
\ province. An appeal has been innde to
fort TO stop poppy planting in the
province. An appeal has been made to
DR.. X. Wellington Koo, minister to
Great Britain, for foreign assistance
and corporation.
A British mission viii coon proceed
to Anatolia TO sound the Nationalists
regarding peace. The AngOra govern
ment has already advised the British
embassy that the delegates would be
welcome. The feeling In Constantine
pie Is that the cessation of the long
drawn out conflict In Asia Minor may
passibly be In sight.
The yacht Lucullus, on which Gen.
Baron Wrangel, former head of the
anti-BOlshevist government in South
Russia, was making his home In Con.
hstantinople, was struck ut the en-.
/ trance of the harbor by the British
steamer Alra and sunk With the loss
: of two lives. General Wrangei and
Baroness Wrange were ashore.
GENERAL
John Christmas, negro, of chum
paign, was hanged at Urbana. Ill. II
was the first hanging in this county
fol more than forty years. GhristmaI
killed his wife with razor last sum
mer.
, Thirty-fiye horses and mules ant
three motor trucks Of the garbage AMI
street cleaning departments of the cit.
of Little Rock were lost In fire thu
swept the city stables, in the east par
; of the city. The loss Is estimated a
$4,000. Only one OF the thIrty-si,
animals in the stable was saved.
The railroad brotherhuods have .
strike fund of $2.00O.OOO. which is In
sufficient for a general strike OF an,
length. John Grunau, president of the
United Association of halfway En-
ployes OF North America and leader
Of the so-caiied "outlaw" strike o.
last year, declared in Chicago.
| Decisions of lower courts holding
= that irrigation companies can fore
: close OIL farmers for failure to pa.
/. water rent We're In effect upheld whel
! the Supreme Court declined to review
E appeals of John H. Martens und oil,
+ ers of Idaho against the Twin Fall
Oakley Land and Water Company.
A resolution calling upon Congress
y and President Harding to enact legis
: latiOn and amend the national prohi
+ bitiOn enforcement act to permit tn
> manufacture Of light wines and beer
e in order that the brewerles might b.
reopened, thereby relieving the unein
: ployment situation, was presented II
the meeting of the city unemployment
: commission ut st. Louis.
: Nathan Loar. Mexican war veteran
celebrated his one hundredtll birth
!, day at Leavenworth, Kan. He wa
born Oct, 1921, near Culpepper cour,
house, Virginia. His wife, with WHOM
he lived seventy-two years, died ST.
years ago They were parents Of tel
children. I.oar has forty grandchlld
. ren, flfty.three great-grandchildre
. and five greatgreat- at-grandchildren
{ Mrs. II. G.. Rocker, arrested at Mem
n phis, Tenn, several days ago on fu
n gitive from justice warrant issued Il
: Dallas, Texas, where 1t is alleged b.
Y federal officials she is under indici
e ment In connection with the embezzle
+ ment OF $4,000 from the Southwest
v ern National Bank, was released whel
l. she gave bond for $1,000 for her aI
: pearance In the Federal Court in Dal
las.
t One days session of the nationa
convention of the Women's Home Mis-
: sionary Society of the Methodist Epis
: copal church at Providence, II. l., was
. devoted to the pledging Of money for
building funds, hospitals, rest homes