The Holbrook news., 1921-02-11
FOREIGN

 have been reported during the past four weeks in London. This is a large increase, only twenty-three being re ported in the previous period of four weeks.
 Simple ceremonies marked the per manent entOmbment of "a soldier of France" representing the French un- identified war hero. under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. A plain stone slab marks the resting spot of this unknown pOilu.
 Orders for suspension of work on re- gently claimed oil lands and prohibit ton of new filings on oil territory af- feet only the federal zone, but do not apply to private properties, says an in- lustry and commerce statement from Mexico City.
 Admiral Du Mesnil, commanding French naval forces in the Near East, has sent an ultimatum to the Turkish Nationalist government at Angora de- manding the immediate release of French soldiers captured by the Ma tionalists in recent engagements.
 Gen. Ambrose Arrieta, one of the eleven Arrieta brothers reported to have been leading an insurrection in Durango, has called at the headquar- ters of General Lopez, government commander there, and denied that either he or any of his brothers ever thought of starting a revolution.
 France has again frightened the screws on Germany with the threat that special customs taxes will be in itiated if Germany refuses to accept the separations demands of the al- lies. France intends to see that Ger many is made to pay her debt in full, if her economic condition permits of such payment.
 Bavarian political leaders, aroused by the amount of indemnity imposed upon Germany by the allies, are threat ening to precipitate the secessiOnist movement if the Berlin government f. nally accepts the terms, according to reports from Munich. Bavaria has long been holding her threat to with draw from the confederation of Ger man states as club over the central government.
 GENERAL
 Henry Martell and five children were burned to death and two others were burned seriously when fire de- stroyed their home at Rochester, N. Y.
 c. W. Foster, who probably was the oldest fireman in active service in the country, is dead at Lawrence, Mass, aged 87. He had missed only six alarms since he joined the city fire de- pertinent in 1850.
 The Nashville Railway and Light Company was fined $2,000 in a case in which it was alleged to have violated the statute providing for the separa ton of the races on street cars. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Courtf or a test of the law.
 Nathan Cohen, structural iron work CT, who plunged from the top of a new sixteen-stOry building in New York, reported for work the next day. His fall through space was broken by a heavy canvas debris receptacle stretched from the fifth tier. His lit tie finger was sprained.
 Zemmes Walmsley, chairman of the National Memorials Commission of the American Legion, announced his com mittee has decided to recommend ac- ceptance of the $5,000000 offered the American Legion by the Knights of Co., lumbus for use in the erection of me morial to those who died in France.
 Quoting Mark Twain with ''the re- port of my death is greatly exagger- ated," a man who claims to be Earl Reese, walked into a Rockford, Ill.,, newspaper office to state that his was not the body identified by his relatives as that of "the ragged stranger" shot and killed by Carl Wanderer in Chi cago.
 Retail merchants have cleaned their shelves of surplus stocks and have again begun to buy heavily in prepar- ation for an active buying season this spring, according to leading wholesale dry goods men of Chicago.
 'Florence Harding lavender is the latest color entrant into the category of fashion, named after the wife of the President-elect, who herself selected IIG WHICH VIII DC Oul III large quantities by a well.known silk | mill. The color is in orchid tone. Mrs. | Harding's second choice was a blue, between an electric and a sapphire. l This will be known as Marion blue" and used for a house dress.
 The praecipe in a $5,OO0,OO0 damage suit against Henry Ford and his paper, the Dearborn Independent, has been filed in Circuit Court by Morris Gest, theatrical producer, who alleged an ar tice in the Independent on Jan. 9 con- tained 'libelous, slanderous and false | statements" concerning Mir. Gest and | certain stage productions he has han dled. The article mentioned in the suit | was said to have attacked "Aphrodite" | and Mecca" in particular, terming | them the most "salacious spectacles | ever shown in America
 The navy yards on the Atlantic coast | should be sold and the money used for | the building of one big base on Narra- gansett bay, in the opinion of Rear Ad- | miral William S. Sims, president of the | naval war college. Speaking at New port, R. l., he said he believed Narra- | gansett bay should be developed by the | erection of repair plants capable of |