The Holly chieftain., 1922-06-01

trunk norton, cnarged Win Dur-
glary, has escaped from the Los An
geles county jail by climbing creased
water pipe leading from the floor Of
the windowless laundry, forty feet to
a skylight. The pipe had been creased
to prevent just such escapes.
Japanese of California have entered
new field Of industry, that Of pro-
ducinE motion pictures. The Pacific
Film Exchange, Inc, OF San Francisco,
declared to be the first all-Japanese
picture company In California, has
filed articles Of incorporation with
Secretary of State Frank c. Jordan at
Sacramento.
California's alien land law violates
no provisions of the constitution of the
United States, nor does 1t conflict with
the treaty between the United States
and Japan, according to the unanimous
opinion rendered in San Francisco by
Judge w. w. Morrow of the United
States Circuit Court Of Appeals, and
Judges NJ. T. Dooling and w. H. Saw
telle Of the United States District
Court.
Frank P. Kelsey of New Harmony,
Utah, is under arrest at st. George,
charged with attempting to kill the
family Of Francis Prince. He appeared
before Justice Ellis j. Picket of Salt
Lake City and was bound over to the
District Court on $1,000 bond. He is
alleged to have caused poison to be
placed In can Of coffee. The mem
bers Of the family tasted the coffee,
but did not drink sufficiently thereof
to cause death.
A meeting Of the Colorado River
Commission will be called by Herbert
Hoover, late In July or early in August
In Banta F6, N. NJ, 1t was announced
In Phoenix recently by W. 8. Norviel,
commissioner for Arizona. At that
meeting It probably will be determined
whether the commission will continue
to function and yhether compact can
be agread to fossadss Of the waters Of
the Colorado BY the seven states in the
Colorado basin, Norviel said.
Members Of the Ku Rux Klan in
Los Angeles will support klansmen in
volved in the Inglewood night riding
fatal party Of April 20, regardless of
action by imperial officers of the or
ganization in Atlanta, Ca, Paul B.
D'Orr, attorney for the raiders. as
serted. He said he had been assured
of financial support for defense Of
the night riders to the extent Of $4O,-
600, regardless of the Imperial klan
officers withdrawal of moral and fl
nancial support.
WASHINGTON
Horizontal and nationwide reduc-
tions In freight rates averaging about
10 per cent have been ordered by the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
President Harding would be re
quested, under joint resolution in
trOduced in the Senate by Senator Nc
Nary, Republican, Oregon, to call
another conference of the powers
which ratified the International opium
agreement Of 1912 for the purpose Of
considering further means of suppress
Ing international traffic in opium, CO.
caine and their derivatives.
Five seamen were injured recently
In an explosion aboard the submarine
H-8 while the craft was on patrol duty
off the Coronado islands, forty miles
from San Diego.
The government would lose from ST.
275,OOO,O0O to SLABS, 900, 900 If the Mus
Gle Shoals waterpower project were
leased to Henry Ford under the terms
Of his present offer, Hugh L. Cooper,
army engineer, who built the dam, told
the Senate agriculture committee.
Cooper urged the Senate committee to
draft Its own lease and termed the
monetary offer made for the project
"just plain fool.shness.''
President Harding was represented
at the White House as merely hopeful
that voluntary reduction in transpor-
tation rntes would result from last
Saturday nights White House dinner
conference attended by nineteen of
the leading railroad executives of the
country. Obstacles in the way of OBJ
tanning voluntary action by the rail-
roads in the way of rate reductions on
the thoroughgoing basis desired by
the administration were described at
the White House as somewhat formid-
able.
Lower passenger fares on the rail-
ronds will follow the cut in freight
rntes, high government officials de-
clared In Washington. A strong senti-
ment of the Interstate Commerce
Commission maintains that lower pas
senger fires are essential to larger
revenues from the travelling public.
7. w. Norcross, chief engineer OF
the United States forest service of the
Washington department, advises Lew
lston, Idaho. that $475,O00 has been ap-
propriated for the construction Of the
Lewis and Clark highway between
Lewiston, Idaho, and Missoula, Mont.