The Holly chieftain., 1922-06-01
FOREIGN

A million OF specie being shipped TO
India was lost in the sinking Of the
liner Egypt near Brest.
The Polish diet has enacted law
requiring an annual vacation of two
weeks with pay for all Industrial
workers.
The German battleshIp Hanover and
the torpedo boat S-1s collided during
night maneuvers near SassnitZ. Ten
sailors on the torpedo boat were killed.
Dispatches from Tapachula, CHA
pas, said martial law had been pro-
claimed throughout Guatemala as a re-
suit of serious revolutionary move
ment against President Orellnna.
The wave of violent death which is
rolling over Ulster continues. Belfast
is an armed camp Barricades Of
sandbags and barbed wire entangle-
ments are being erected In the princl-
pal streets In the city proper and
suburbs. The city is full of soldiers.
Irish farmers have announced that
they will contest the seats of nearly
all constituencies in opposition to the
Sim Fein. AS the rate payers and Ia
borers have made similar announce
ments, the Sin Fein delegation will be
able to tell Winston Churchill that
the election will be free for all.
War has broken out between the
Gypsy musicians Of Hungary and the
Negro jazz band artists, many Of
whom are Americans. The Gypsies,
who have furnished Hungary It's mu-
sic. ballads and laughter for thous-
and years, assert that the Jazz instru-
mentalists are invading their precincts
and have organized to drive them out.
Two Mexican rebel leaders, ex-
mayor Nicasio Vasquez and Donaciano
Escalante, have been captured and ex-
ecuted by forces under command of
Gen. Manuel Arenas, according to
word received in San Antonio, Texas.
The two rebels belonged to the group
led by Leon Martinez, which has been
operating in the Hausteca oil district.
near TampicO.
In thick sea fog off the coast of Fin
Istere the British ship Egypt Of the
Peninsular & Orient line was rammed
and sunk by the French cargo steamer
Seine and nearly hundred persons
drowned. The accident is one OF the
worst thnt has happened on the
French coast since the war. An Off
cial revised estimate of the casualties
put the deaAsnt ninety-eight.
GENERAL
Lovesick girls by the scores are be-
ing driven to the point Of suicide by
the ouija board, according to Gen. Bal
lington Booth Of New York, president
of the Volunteers of America. He said
the ouija board, already abolished in
some states, should be legislated out
everywhere.
Arthur Dawson, official portrait
painter of the United States military
academy, recently announced that he
had discovered at Washington and Lee
University at Lexington, Va, an orig
inal painting Of George Washington
by Gilbert Stuart. The painting is es-
timated by art experts to be worth
from $4,000 to 100000.
Postmaster appointments in Georgia
started hot exchange in the Senate
recently between Senator Watson,
Democrat, of Georgia, and Senator
Phipps of Colorado, Republican
member of the postoffice committee,
with the result that business was dis
rupted for several minutes, after which
the two senators took their controversy
into the corridor, with the Georgia
senator offering personal combat.
Eleven miners were killed in an ex-
plOsiOn in Acmar mine of the Ala.
bama Fuel and Iron Company, st.
Clair county, according to reports re-
ceived at the Birmingham, Alabama
station of the bureau of mines. Eighty
two men We're working in the mine at
the time of the explosion, but all ex-
cept the eleven who were killed es.
capped. Ten CT the bodies have been
recovered. The explosion was attri.
buted to mine gas. 1t caused little
damage to the mine.
A public mass meeting to organize a
Henry Ford for President Club was
held in Dearborn, Detroit suburb, and
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the home of the automobile manufac-
turer. The basic idea back of the meet
ing, 1t was said by leaders in the
movement, is to bring about the candi-
dacy OF Mr.. Ford on IN Independent
ticket at the next general election.
The Ku Klux Klan has revoked the
commissions Of every kleagle in Cali
fornia, from the king kleagle down, nft-
er preliminary inquiry into alleged
lawlessness in that state, and las 'ap-
pointed William s. Coburn as king
kIeagle in charge of the klan's inter-
ests in California, it was announced in
Atlanta by e. Y. Clarke, imperial kIa-
Tiff, or supreme vice president of the
order.
The oil-sOaked rags and gasoline