Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-06-15
Domestic

The "Ford-for-President" Club an
nounces that the demand that Henry
Ford run for president as an independ-
ent is growing so insistent that Mr..
Ford will likely accept.
The end of the long legal battle be-
tween Elida Piza, Costa Rican beauty,
and Herber p Crane, millionaire iron
master, her former husband, is seen
in Kane county Qllinois) court Or
der permitting Piza to take her three
year-old son out of the state.
Col. Robert e. Lee, grandson of the
famous chieftain of the Confederacy,
is critically i'll at Hot Springs, Ark,
and the prayers Of the nation are So
licited for his recovery.
A violent storm, accompanied by
shifting winds that reached a velocity
Of lightweight miles an hour, took
the lives of over fifty persons, injured
more than hundred and caused enor.
nous property loss in the metropoli.
tan section of New York City. Many
lives were lost and much property dam.
age ensued in the territory contiguous
to New York City
Official tabulation of the vote cast
in more than seven hundred cities for
the election of officers of the Interna.
tional Typographical Union has be-
gun at Indianapolis, and it will take
week or ten days to complete it.
There is no doubt of the reelection
of President John MCFARLAND.
Dissatisfied with the verdict of a
justice who freed Rodolph Valentino,
movie actor, of charge of bigamous-
ly marrying Winifred Hudnut, perfume
manufacturers daughter, District At
torney Woolwine plans to reopen the
case at Los Angeles.
II Max Oser, fiance of Mathilde Nc
Cormick, granddaughter of John D.
Rockefeller, is unemployed for the sum-
mer, job awaits him at the Yellow
stone park at satisfactory salary"
The Illinois chamber of commerce
has asked President Harding to reap
point w. P. G. Harding as governor of
the federal reserve board.
On night not long since August PERL
man and his wife, at Denver, Colo.
played poker and got into a row be-
cause the husband criticised his wife's
playing. The divorce grew so bitter
as the weeks passed that Mrs. Perlman
is seeking redress through the divorce
courts of California.
The heat is intense in Chicago. AL
ready five deaths have been reported,
and many prostrations.
The all-metal plane in which Eddie
Rickenbacker was attempting a trans
continental trip from New York to San
Francisco, was struck by lightning at
Detroit. No injuries.
Mimic aerial warfare is being con-
Quoted at Houston, Texas. The schoon-
er Navidad was sunk in Galveston bay.
The twenty-seventh aerial squadron
from Ellington field is encamped at
Fort Crockett, Galveston.
Memorial resolutions and committee
reports marked the final session of the
Cotton Seed Crushers convention at
New Orleans.
Eddie Rickenbacker is making an
across-the-continen flight, and Is some
whore in Nebraska. The trip viii con-
sumo eight weeks.
Although Ill, Senator James A. Reed
of Missouri is making warm cam
paign against President Wilson's cam
didate, Breckenridge Long.
Daniel H. Durham, wealthy cigar
manufacturer Of Chicago. sued for the
third time by his wife for divorce, says
h evil never marry her again. She
charges him with drunkenness and
cruelty.
In the role OF peacemaker, Samuel
Gompers is in Chicago and viii appear
before the annual meeting OF the build
ing trades department OF the city fed
GRAFTON in an effort to smooth the
way for settlement Of the dispute that
led to the. carpenters union withdraw.
drawing from the department a year
ago.