The Holbrook news., 1921-07-22
FOREIGN

A column of Turkish NatiOnallsts Asia Minor, and the Greeks were
 forced to retreat after suffering losses, says dispatch from Angler.
 Fire which broke out in the Blohm & Voss shipyards at Hamburg caused damage amounting to many millions of
 marks. The timber sheds, with great quantities of building material, were destroyed.
 The foreign ministry officially noti- fled the American embassy at Rome
 that President Harding's plan for a conference for the limitation of arma- ments meets with the full approval of the Italian government.
 An appeal to the United States by the Far Eastern Republic to compel Japan to withdraw her troops from Siberia "at the earliest possible date'' is contained in a note handed to the American minister in Peking Similar notes were addressed to Great Britain and China.
 Cuba's pineapple crop for this year is estimated at 100000 crates, valued at $4,500,000, by port officials, who base their figures on recorded ship ments from Havana. More than 5OO,- GOO crates have been exported over the ferry ships running between Cuba and Florida, while about 100000 crates have been shipped to New York
 Lieut.. Gen Karl Stenger, charged by the French government with liav- ing ordered troops under his command to take no prisoners and kill wounded men during the fighting of August. 1914, has been acquitted by the Ger man Supreme Court at Leipsie, en- gagged in the trial of cases against al- legged war criminals. Maj. Bruno CrusiuS, tried on a similar charge, was given a sentence of two years in prison and forbidden to wear the Ger man uniform.
 GENERAL
 John Collins is under arrest in Chi cago because he is alleged to have stood by while Annie HOldt, 10 years old, drowned in shallow water with out offering assistance.
 The celIuloid collar has been ban ished from the Chicago police force in an edict by Chief Fitzmorris that de clared the Chicago police must be the best dressed in the world. A we'll dressed man does not wear cellulOid collar, the chief said.
 Cancer is neither hereditary, infec ti0us, contagious nor communicable, ac- cOrding to Dr. Frederick Bryant of Worcester, Mass. He declared there is no need for isolation of cancer pa tients. He attributed the disease to some form of chronic stimulative irri- tation which could be prevented.
 Proclaiming a strike against the high price of ice cream sodas, more than 1000 Bronx boys and girls pa raded in New York with the hope of bringing their favorite drink down to the old-time nickel price. They marched to the office of Borough President Bruckner, who operates large soda water plant.
 New York police have requested the arrest on charge of forgery of Mrs. Dul h6ll Ol IllIlSudlCs 1nNls NllO presented a claim to the estate of the late Theodore Roosevelt for S69, 900 on a ncts which, she declared, the former President endorsed. Mrs. 3urkett has that she has no claim on the estate. The complaint against Mrs. Burkett was made by George F. Roose- welt, an executOr.
 Pelham A. Barrows, national com mander of the Sons of Veterans, of Lincoln, Neb., forwarded letter to President Harding asking that he or der a monument, reported to be in Troy, Ala, which contains an inscrip- tion honOripg Wilkes Booth for the murder of Abraham Lincoln, destroyed. Mir. BarrOws stated that this was in accordance with resolutions passed by | number of veterans posts.
 George Johnson, 40, and Jerry Elan nagan, 9, coal miners at Riverton, seven miles northwest of Springfield, H., were killed when they fell POO feet down the shaft of the mine when the scaffoIding on which they were gave way.
 Harry Woodland, a good swimmer, drowned, while Roy RhOdda, minus his two cork legs, which became loosened when a boat occupied by five men over turned in Ely lake, near Gilbert, Minn., swam 300 yards to shore. The others in the boat also reached shore safely. Rhodda told friends that two of his companions utilized the floating cork legs to aid them to reach the shore.
 w. H. Bailey is believed to have set a worlds record at Louisville, Ky, whnn he leaped 300 feet into the Ohio river from an airplane. The feat may cost him his life. Bailey shot through the air in a beautiful dive until about thirty feet from the water. He turned slowly and struck on his back. De spite the internal injuries, lie was swimming when a boat reached him. Before leaping he asked that a photo graph be given to his mother If I don't make it.''
 Five prisoners escaped from the Essex county jail at Newark, N. l., but one of them was captured by the pc lice before he had been free an hour The men, who were all imprisoned for minor offenSeS secured their libertv bV