The Holly chieftain., 1922-04-13
FOREIGN

laccoTuiIiS 10 ulSputCn from ShanR-
hal received in London.
9-yenr-Old child was killed recent
ly In the New Lodge road, near Bel
fast. A swarm of children were play
ing in the street when a rifle shot rang
out and the child fell dead. There is
no clue to the assassin.
The University of Pennsylvania
quartet of diminutive mile runners fin
ished second to the Cambridge team in
the three-cornered relay race between
Oxford, Cambridge and Pennsylvania
in England's first relay carnival at the
Queens Club in London.
NJ. Jeannes, betrayer of Edith Cavell,
British war nurse. was found guilty In
Brussels and sentenced to death for his
act. Miss Cavell was executed by the
Germans during their occupation at
Brussels, on the ground she was spy
and revealed secrets to the allies.
A cabinet bill authorizing the gov
ernment to raise a forced loan of j.
800, ,OOO,O 900 drachmas (now about s87,-
5OOO0O) was introduced in the nation
al assembly at Athens. The measure
provides that all persons possessing
paper currency must lend SO per cent
to the state.
An expenditure of approximately
S35, 100000 for construction of port
works and auxiliary railways In Chile
Is authorized in bill that has Just
been passed by the national congress
at Santiago. Bids will be asked for in
Chile and abroad, first for the Valpar-
also project, and later for the other
ports.
The remarks of Alazon B. Hough-
ton, American ambassador to Germany,
on the occasion of the farewell dinner
rendered him recently prior to his de-
parture for Berlin, are gwen unusual
prominence by the German newspa-
pers. Sine of the newspapers hail Mr..
Houghton as n peace ambassador"
whose sentiments accord him hearty
welcome"
Exhaustion Of the Mexican oil
fields is matter connected with the
very remote future and present con-
templated developments are such as to
guarantee large, continuous production
for long time" said Edward L. Do
heny, president of the Mexican Petrol
cum Company, prior to his departure
from Mexico City for the United
States.
GENERAL
Emnlnyvnant in California hoe do
creased within the last three months
from $4,000 to 10000, according to
statement by John S. Blair, deputy la
Dor commissioner.
Seventeen persons are reported dead
and more than eighty injured as a re-
suit of tornadoes and ralnstorms which
swept from west Texas east into Okla
homa toward Arkansas.
Mexican laborers now stranded in
the Colorado beet territory, will be the
last to be repatriated, except in cases
where the original movement from
Mexico to American labor centers was
advised by the Mexican government,
Mexican Consul General Luis Monies
De Oca said in El Paso recently.
A bold attempt to rob the Merchants
Bank, block from the United States
treasury, was made by three bandits
recently. The three men snatched a
big pile of bills containing $4,000 and
dashed for the door. The cashier fired
three shots at them. One of the ban
dts was captured when a guard in
football fashion brought him down
with flying tackle. The money was
recovered.
Mischievous boys playing near the
New York Central tracks at Ludlow,
New York, almost wrecked the VOL
VERNE express from the west by OBJ
structing the tracks with heavy planks
and galvanized pipes. A possible seri-
Gus accident was averted by the en-
gineer, who saw the danger in time and
clamped on the emergency brakes,
bringing the train to stop just as the
engine pilot touched the barricade.
Several thousand railroad employees
-IneIabers Of coal crews-found them
selves out of employment as result
of the coal mine suspension. In the
Wilkes Barre, Penn, district, alone, q
600 railroad men were idle.
The Alice theater at Hope, Ark, said
to he one of the most magnificent in
the Southwest and valued at 100000,
was destroyed by fire along with sew
eral other buildings which will bring
the total loss to over $5OO,OOO.
1--WE find that Col. Paul Ward Beck
came to his death by bullet fired
from revolver in the hands of Jean
p. Day. And we further find that
Judge Day shot iii defense Of his wife,
his home and her honor" was the find
ing of the jury at the inquest in Okla
homa City.
Herbert Clayton, IL years old, under
arrest in Portland, Ore, has confessed
twenty-five successful forgeries, police
detectives say. BY representing HIM