Williams news., 1922-06-16
FOREIGN

ister of the navy in the recently re- signed Takahashi cabinet, has accept ed the premiership of Japan. Nine rebels, including Epffaince Mendez, chief of the anti-government forces in the state of Michoacan, Mex ico, have been killed ill q fight with federal troops, according to advices to the war office in Mexico City from IXtlan.
 Asuncion, capital of Para quay, has been taken by the revolutionary forces according to a dispatch from Posades an the Argenune-Paraguay border. The report, which has not been con nrmed. was received at Posadas from Villa Encarnacion, Paraguay. |
 Avoidance of any extensive rec1prO- cal trade arrangement with the United States is Canada's right course, former Premier Arthur Meighen, leader of the Conservative party, declared in a de
 pate on the budget in the House of Commons. He was opposed to reciproc ity, he said, 'because the power to ter minate it rests with the United States
 Great Britain is planning to pay the United States S250,000,0O0 annually for interest upon the money borrowed LIOuI IllS OhIlcd InO "dIs it was learned in London from a semi official source. Beginning in October the interest will be paid in two install ments, $125, 100000 in October and S125, 100000 in the last part of March of the first of April
 Serious disorders with some casual ties occurred at Agran, Croatia, when Croat anti-Serbians and monarchfsts cIashed during a public celebration. of the wedding of King Alexander of Jugo-Slavia and Princess Marie of Ru- mania. Meager censored dispatches say that the fighting, in which shots were exchanged, lasted for three hours, but details are suppressed.
 Royal Canadian mounted police re- gently raided a farmhouse on St. The rese Island, near Montreal, and seized nearly $1O0,0OO worth of forged United States Federal Reserve Bank notes. Phillip Briere, alias Dedrocker. and Alfred Jean were arrested. A large modern printing press was discovered in the house. The bogus bills were clev er limitations of American curren- cy, officials said.
 The French Olympic committee, with twenty-two federatfons represent ed, held a meeting in Paris and ar rived at a decision to proceed with the organization of the Olympic games for 1924. The following communication was issued after the meeting: ''The- French Olympic committee has decid- ed unanimously to continue with all the means at it's disposal the organ iZation of the games for 1924. It au- thorizes it's president to make a dec laration to this effect to the interna- o1 public authorities
 GENERAL
 Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago has demanded the resignation of the entire school board of ten mem bers and the school board attorney, Henry Either, recently indicted by the grand jury on charges of embezzle- ment, larceny and conspiracy.
 Chicago's police force has been in- creased by the addition of 773 new pa trolmen. The increase was the latest step in the city's anti-crime crusade and followed approval by the Cook county board of a $1OOOOO appropria- tion to States Attorney Grove in the prosecution of pending cases.
 Competition in business is coming back into the world with a vengeance dt1O tue Or banker who expects to get ahead from this time on must realize that he must fight his way upward, declared George Woodruff of Chicago, vice president of the National Bank of the Republic, in an address before the South Dakota Bankers Association.
 Vice President James Starr of the United Textile Workers, who has been in charge of the textile strike in Man chester, N. H., since it began Feb. 15, will not be permitted hereafter to ad- dress open-air meetings in Manchester, the park commission decided. other nonresident union leaders are also barred.
 Properties of the Willis corporation at Elizabeth, N. J., were bid in at auc ton by the Durant Motor Corporation for S5,525, ,OOO. The second highest bid was made by the Maxwell Motor Car Company and was S5,5OO,OOO. Sale of the Willis plant, which covers thirty seven acres and had an estimated value | of approximately $11 100000, must await confirmation of Judge Bodine in the Federal District Court at Newark.
 Establishment of national agencies to eliminate strikes and solve other troubles of the building industry was favored by John Donlin, president of the building trades department or the | American Federation of Labor, who | .l,