The Holly chieftain., 1922-07-06
FOREIGN
Most of the newspapers in Berlin are


on strike. =
Fire believed to be Of incsndiary
origin destroyed the Owl cafe and gam
bling house, part of its liquor stock.
and the segregated district at Mexicali,
ut an estimated loss of $4,000.
A. Bruce Bielaski, the American kid
naped by Mexicans, escaped without
the ransom his captors demanded bav.
Ing been paid. according to informs
tion from Cuernavaca. Mexico.
Missing nearly eight months and be
lieyed lost. the schooner Teddy Bear IL
frozen In at Poten river, twelve miles
south of Emma, a village on East
Cape. Siberia. Al on board are well
and waiting for the ice to clear out OF
the river before returning to Nome
Premier Lloyd George, Colonial Sec
retary Winston Churchill and Sil
Hamar Greenwood, former chief sec
retary OF Ireland, have received anOny
nous letters threatening them witt
death II James Connolly and Johr
O'Brien, alleged assassins of Fielt
Marshal Wilson. are hanged. it hat
been reported.
A. Bruce Bielaski, former chief 0,
the Investigation bureau of the Amer
lean Department of Justice, Is re
ported to have been kidnapped and helt
for ransom near Cuernavaca in thu
state of Morelos, Mexico, together
with Manuel Barcena. an attorney OF
Mexicala. The American charge d'af
faires is investigating.
Gen. WI Pei-Fu, dominant figure of
northern China, indorsed the recent
suggestion Of Gen. Chen Chung Ming.
outstanding leader of the South, that
u federal system be adopted for re-
united China, patterned after that Of
the United States of America. General
WI suggested that the reorganized re-
public be known as the United States
of China"
Despite his repeated assurances that
ne Is no longer bandit, but gentle
man farmer of the state of Durango,
the movements of Francisco Villa are
being closely watched in official CIR
cles in Mexico City. To some observ-
ers 1t is difficult to believe that this
former guerrilla has accustomed him
self to the routine of ranch life and il
now finding in his growing crops and
lowing herds the contentment that
man of his tremendous nervous energy
derived in the past from daring deeds
of warfare.
GENERAL
Jack Dempsey has formally accepted
the challenge, of Harry Wills, negro
for bout for the world heavyweight
championship.
The Douglas National Bank, said to
be the only national bank in the coun.
try where all the officers and directors
and stockholders are negroes, has
opened at Chicago. The bank is locat.
ed in the negro residential and bust.
ness district.
Actual knowledge Is necessary to
obtain search warrant, 1t was ruled
by Judge Benjamin F. Bledsoe in the
United States District Court in Los
Angeles, sustaining motion to quash
an Indictment charging violation of the
yolstead act by Louis Guerrero and
Andrea Michaeli. proprietors of win.
cry.
I Adoption of program calling for
a nonpartisan political campaign this
fall to elect the friends of organized
labor, and an Overwhelming defeat Of
the radical forces that favored recog-
milton Of the Russian soviet govern
ment, marked the closing SESSION Of
the American Federation of Labor con-
vention at Cincinnati.
The National Industrial Traffic
League at Chicago issued statement
regarding the effect the recent Coro-
pado case might have upon the nation.
wide rail strike. The statement, in part,
follows: "If the strike should be con.
Quoted with violence and the destruc.
tion of life and property ensues, the
organizations which have promoted the
strike, their officers and agents. may
be held liable in civil damages for
losses entailed.
Frances DeCamp, Is years old,
daughter Of Mrs. Lillian DeCamp Of
Helena, Montana, was drowned In the
Woolston reservoir, on Mount Helena,
while camping there with party Of
picnickers. The child went to the
reservoir to dip out water, leaned over
to far and fell in.
One hundred and seventy.one thou.
sand dollars was pledged toward ma.
tional headquarters building to be
erected in Washington, D. G., by the
delegates to the biennial convention OF
the Federation of Woman's Clubs al
Chautauqua, N. Y. Colorado delegate.
pledged $1,000 on behalf of the Colo
RADIO federation. Several Colorado
women were prominent In the meet.
ings. r
|. Death from "heat prostration" wal
the verdict reached by coroners jury
at Brawley, Calf, at the inquest over