The Holly chieftain., 1922-02-02
FOREIGN

being returned to England, the e1pe-
dition continues.
The pearl market of Paris. which
considers itself the market OF the
world, has suffered a slump. A neck-
lace of Oriental pearls, valued by the
| experts at 100000 francs, has just
been sold by public auction for only
466, 600 francs.
AT an extraordinary meeting of the
executive committee of the soviet gov
ernment held in Moscow for discus
sion of the Genoa economic confer-
ence, named fifteen soviet delegates.
Premier Lenine was made chairman
of the delegation and George Chitch-
erin. assistant chairman
Rats and mice are migrating in
| swarms from the Russian famine area,
and Budapest is overrun with them.
All efforts to rid the city of them
have failed. and the devastation
caused goes on apace. The market
halls. food stores and warehouses are
swarming with the rodents, which run
about even in the daytime.
Elsa Anderson, the only Swedish
woman to hold an aviator's certificate,
was killed at Askersund Four thou
sand spectators were watching her
make flight, and were Mortified when
Miss Anderson, in attempting a para.
| chute descent from the machine, fell
like a plummet to the earth. The
parachute failed to open and she
plunged 1900 feet to death.
An ounce of gold purchases 1922
hours of labor in the United States
50.16 hours in Britain; $3.50 hours In
Japan; 117.31 hours in France and
201.66 hours In Germany, said G. ].
Hannon, member of Parliament for the
Moseley division of Birmingham, quot
dress TO the members of the National
Union of Manufacturers at Birming-
ham, England.
What appears 10 be world record
for taxi-riding-a 50O-mile jaunt from
Montreal to New York-was disclosed
| in court when Frank Valentine, man
ager of a local club, appeared as de-
fendant in suit for S453.75 taxi bills
at Montreal. 1t is alleged that when
recently Mildred Gillmour baked at
paying a $1,000 fine for violating the
Quebec prohibition law, she jumped
into taxi which Valentine had hired
and started for New York.
GENERAL
The steamer Centennial reported by
radio that the new Norwegian freight
steamer Mod had sunk In mid-ocean.
The messages said the survivors were
on board the steamer Melmorehead,
but did not indicate whether any mem
bers of the crew We're lost.
Archibald Birse, Chicago tailor, is
S50,0OO richer for having taken few
stitches in a pair of torn trousers
thirty-four years ago. Ernest De st.
Giles, insurance expert and author, left
this amount to Birse, who befriended
him when DE st. Giles came to Chi
cago thirty-four years ago. penniless.
Birse sewed the insurance mans
trousers and trusted him for the so.
cent charge
N. G. Newmark, actunry of the
American Fur Dealers Association of
New York, was arrested by federal
agents on complaint charging him
with being implicated in conspiracy
to defraud the federal government out
of fur sales taxes said to approximate
s., 100000. Morris Rosenblum, for
mer deputy collector of internal rev.
enue, and Herman Schuss were ar
rested on similar charges.
Judge Crosby, in the Supreme Court,
announced the appointment of Fred
Lamson of Boston, William B. McKen-
zie of Cambridge, and James E. Pat
ton of Boston as trustees OF the Chris
tian Science Publishing Company. The
appointees will succeed Herbert w.
Eustace and Paul Harvey, both of
whom recently resigned, and Lamont
ROwlands. who was removed by the
directors of the Mother church.
Three persons were killed and four
injured at Newark, Ohio, when their
They had almost reached the foot Of
IL miie-long hill when they crushed
head-on into an automobile coming up
the hill. The sled was said to have
been on the wrong side of the road.
Only one member of the coasting par
ty was uninjured.
Three children suffering from ex-
posure were brought to charitable
Institution in st. Louis from their
cabin home near Thayer, Mo-, where
they were found by neighbors cuddled
about the body of their mother, who
is said to have frozen to death. The
children, aged 3 to 10. said their faith
er left home two weeks ago, saying he
was going to visit his sick mother, and
he has not been heard from since.
His skull fractured when he was
playfully tipped out Of bed by fra
ternity brother at Hamilton College,