The Holly chieftain., 1922-03-09
FOREIGN


Paris confers the Medal OF Honor OF
the Municipal Police on fifteen mem
bers of the New York City police force.
Max S Green, chairman of the Irish
prison board, WAS shot and killed in
Dublin, a message announces. He was
a son-in-law of the late John Redmond,
Irish Nationalist leader.
Bolshevist activity is the latest trou-
bic of the new provisional government
of Ireland. Transport workers at Tip
perary seized the gas works and hoist.
ed the red flag above 1t.
| A feminine invasion of both houses
of parliament was forecast in London
following the action of the committee
on privileges in the House of Lords in
admitting Lady Rhondda to seat.
The brokerage house of Tousaw
Hartland Anderson, Montreal, has as.
signed for the benefit of creditors
The announcement was made from the
rostrum of the Montreal Stock ex-
change.
| American troops Of the army of Oc-
I'uPettioh nave DCtu NltlluluWH
Mayen and Andermach. The only
places in the Rhineland occupied by
American troops are COblenz md
Ehrenbreitstein.
The universal suffrage bill, intro
duced In the diet by the opposition,
was defeated by vote of 243 to 147
at Toxic. The final debate was not
attended by the promised demonstra.
ton, snow storm accompanied by
cold wave interfering.
| Statements that France will not pay
her financial debt to the United States
were repudiated In official quarters in
Paris. 1t is understood, however, that
France Will not take any steps toward
payment until the American govern
ment sends note upon the subject.
Unemployment in Canada is 5 or 6
per cent greater than at correspond
Ing time last year, Bryce NJ. Stewart,
director of employment service at OF
tawa, told officials of the employment
service in the four western provinces
of Canada when the annual conference
OF these officials opened at Victoria.
An exceeding faith is shown in the
name and picture of George Washing
ton, since the scramble for foreign
moneys began in Moscow. Money
changers refuse to take any checks.
and the American cash they accept
must bear the engraving ofs George
Washington. Such bills they call
"Washingtons."
American food now is beginning to
tell in the fight for lives of children In
the famine districts near Moscow,
where the American relief administra.
tion is in operation. But elsewhere
the situation Is growing more ghastly
every day. In some villages where, be-
fore the relief administration kitchens
were established, the deaths of child.
ren ranged from five to seven daily.
GENERAL
The King of England and the Presi-
dent of the United States are on oppo-
site sides in a law suit filed in District
Court Mt Fort Worth, Texas. King
George, through his attorneys, has filed
suit asking damages Of S1,079 for
the alleged non-delivery by the Rock
Island railroad of sixty-four cases of
corned beef during the war.
A tremendous increase in drug nd.
diction in Brooklyn since prohibition
became law is shown in figures given
out by Bryd s. Coler, commissioner OF
public welfare. He set the blame pri-
marily upon the dry laws and the man
ner of their enforcement Alcoholism
also has increased since the Eighteenth
amendment was adopted, the figures
disclosed.
Mrs. Enrico CarusO, widow sOf the
famous opera tenor, spiritedly denies
cabled ispatches from Rome to the ef-
feet that her husbands throat had been
removed shortly after death and left
to the Naples museum for scientific
examination. The announcement that
Rome papers had reproduced pictorial
ly the throat of the tenor she greeted
with a single rd-"imposition."
Five negroes were killed, several in
iured and IL great property loss caused
by cyclone which struck Camden,
Aln., recently.
Alfred II. Wildman, veteran news
paper man and author Of nature
stories. died at his home at San Fran
cisco after an illness of three years.
The New Jersey state boxing COM
mission does not look with favor on a
match between Jack Dempsey, worlds
heavyweight boxing champion, and
Harry Wills, stellar negro heavy
weight.
OIL lands In Claiborne parish, La.
said to be worth nearly S2O,OOO,OOO,
were declared by the Louisiana Su-
preme Court to be the property Of
Lille G. Taylor, negress, when the
court denied n request for the appoint
ment Of curator for the estate Of
Iona McGee, her mother.