The Holly chieftain., 1922-12-28
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ceeu ftesluent NarutOW1cZ, WHO "aS
assassInated recently.
Ismet Pasha has announced that
the American colleges and institutions
In Smyrna will be permitted to reopen
under the Angora regime.
The Supreme Court of Leipzig. in a
secret session recently dismissed nine
ty-three war guilt" cases tried in ac-
cOrdance with the Versailles treaty.
Lord Curzon announced at Lausanne
that the near east conference will con-
tinue. the Turks having adopted con-
cillatory attitude toward the allied
plan for settlement of the straits
1 question.
A disturbing discovery was made at
the rear of Buckingham palace. Lon
don, when grenade bomb was found
In an ash cart which had just arrived
to remove the palace refuse. How the
missile got into the cart Is mystery.
The strike of the dock workers in
Vera Cruz was settled at u conference
between representatives of the men
and B. f. Hollway. general manager of
the Mexican Railway and Vera Cruz
terminal. The workers get % per
cent increase for three months.
Seven Republican irregular prison
ers were executed ut Mount Joy pris-
on recently by the Irish Free State
| government. The men executed were
former railway workers. They were
arrested near Kildare for tearing up
rails and threatening to wreck trains.
Guerilla warfare, similar to that in
Ireland, broke out between Fascistis
and their opponents in various parts
Of Italy recently. A bomb thrown in
to a group of Fascist at Trieste
wounded twenty-four persons, three Sc
riOusly. A former Fascist leader was
alleged to have hurled the explosive.
A stirring alteration occurred at q
meeting of the sub-commission on min
critics at Lausanne, between the for
| mer Greek premier, Yenizelos, and the
Turkish delegate, Ria Nur Bey. Ac-
cording to spokesman of the Turkish
delegation, Ria Nur Bey declared that
the Greek army was not SO much re-
! sponsible for the recent military disas-
ter as was Venizelos himself, because
| 1t was Venizelos who had inaugurated
the Idea of military invasion Of An
| atolia."
GENERAL
Pressroom crews on New York even
ing papers who refused to work over
time to print election extras on Nov. Z,
were not justified in their action, Fed
eral Judge Learned Hand declared us
arbitrator in the controversy between
the pressmen and the publishers.
May Walker Ollie Homestead, Hol-
stein COW owned by the Minnesota
Holstein Company ut Austin, Minn.,
has broken the world record for a
| years production of butter, her figure
for 365 days being 1,217.27 pounds of
butter fat. the equivalent Of 1,521.6
pounds Of butter, according to A. L.
Eberhart, president of the company
and manager Of packing plant in
Omaha.
1t was corporal who captured and
held the last heights of the Meuse be-
tween Oct. % and %, 1918, according
to an official citation received at the
First Army corps area headquarters in
Boston. james A. Cresswell, then cor
poral of Company X, One Hundred and
First infantry, Twenty-sixth division,
now going to school in Boston, was the
man, and his feat has gained for him
the Distinguished Service Cross.
According to the annual report of
the U. s. forest service, large part
Of the danger to the national forests
from man-caused fires Is due to the
seasonal influx of tourists, campers,
hunters, and fishermen, and other Wis.
itors from the cities and from distant
parts of the country. A national cam.
paign of public education on the SUBJ
| ject Of forest fires Is demanded IL the
task Of protection of the vast area of
the national forests, from Maine and
Florida to California and Washington,
is to be successfully performed.
Twenty-Five civilian employees Of the
Brooklyn naval base were arrested by
Department of Justice agents from
New York city In connection with
grand jury indictments charging more
than $1,O00,O00 worth of goods have
been stolen from the base since the
war. Goods stolen from the naval
base included clothing. oil and other
materials, according to the federal
agents.
| Soldiers bonus and highway tn-
provement account for approximately
So per cent of the $376.6S5, ,1l5.l2 au-
IS per cent Of the $376,6S5.12 au-
thorized Indebtedness Of thirteen Mid
die West and Northwest states, ac-
cording to reports of state treasurers
from the various states. OF this
amount $lS1, ,735,1l5 is represented in
bonds or certificates of Indebtedness
already issued. Voters Of Illinois,
Il Michigan. Missouri Knnsas. Minne-