The Holly chieftain., 1922-07-13
FOREIGN

| tress COpacabana, outside of Rio Jan
eiro, have surrendered, the Brizilian
embassy at Washington has been noti-
fled.
King Fuad I of Egypt intends to visit
| the United States as well as Europe
in his tours this year, in order to ac-
quaint himself with the new move
ments of the world and so be better
qualified to govern his people wisely.
The reparations plan prepared by
the French Minister of Public Works
lie Troequer provides for improve
nients in the Rhone river costing $780,
100000 francs, the Truvere river 210.-
100000 francs and the Dord0gne 20O.-
| 000.0O0
Three Methodist mission chapels,
| between Changshu and Kianfu, prov
ince of Kiangsi, China, were looted and
destroyed during the recent mutiny of
troops in that province. according to
adyices received from Nanchang, cap
| ital of Kiangsl.
Germany manufactured total of
| 1O,0O0.OOO field guns, rifles and pistols
during the war, according to statistics
Just made public, besides hundreds Of
millions of tons Of munitions. Enough
barbed wire alone was produced to
encircle Germany with barricade
sixty-five meters deep.
The Americans are being secretly
murdered by the Turks in Asia Minor
| and reports then circulated that they
died of typhus and other diseases, ac-
cording to J. Herbert Knapp, civil en-
gineer of Los Angeles, who has arrived
in London from Constantinople after
three years in the Turkish interior.
The entire Swedish, Finish and
Norwegian paper output, the newspa-
pers announce, will be sold to America.
Most of the big paper mills have signed
an agreement to export through
projected American syndicate headed
by one of the officials of the Canadian
Export Paper Company.
The treaty If Rappalo signed be-
tween Russia and Germany during the
Genoa conference, has been ratified by
the reichstag. There was no debate
over the question of ratification, with
the exception of remarks by Com
munist deputy, who demanded that the
treaty be amplified to include the 9TH
er soviet republic
| Soviet Russia wants to win the
worlds confidence, so that tangible
help may come from the outside world.
Soviet Russia, without awaiting assist
ance from abroad, is itself laboring TO
improve Russia's financial condition,
and has achieved results. These We're
the two main constructive thoughts
which the BOlshevist delegates at The
Hague have tried to fix in the public
mind.
GENERAL
The calling out of troops in Illinois,
the assembling of soldiers in half a
dozen other states and the intervention
of the Federal Courts in the nation
wide strike of railway shopmen are
latest events in the rail walk out
Eleven persons were killed and sew
enty-two injured when the midnight
| flyer" on the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad left the rails, through the mis-
take of n signalman, and plunged down
a thirty-foot embanknent near Win
slow Junction, N. j., according to a
complete casualty list issued by the
state police.
Omer II. Woods, former probate
judge in Idaho, stands convicted of the
murder Of his wife, Maryetta Woods,
L tvxho h,,rv n1 IN, CHI In, IN
bed in the Woods apartment home in
Salt Lake City last Jan. 0. 1t was the
contention of the prosecution at the
trial that Woods killed his wife to col
lect $4,000 life Insurance.
Thibodaux, surprise horse of the
Kentucky Special, when he ran SEN
sational second to Whiskaway and
beat the great Norwich, came back and
won the Latonia derby from Yoshimi
and Olympus In the easiest kind of
fashion. Withdrawal of Broomster
and Margaret Winsor had reduced the
field to three starters.
Bennie Leonard, world champion
lightweight fighter, smashed Rocky
Kansas almost at will all over the ring
in the eighth round of their scheduled
ten-round titular contest at Michigan
City, Ind, and the Buffalo, N. Y, chal-
lenger's seconds threw in, the sponge
to save their man from something
more than technical knockout.
Watermelons for which Georgia
growers are glad to get from to 171a
| cents each are selling In tho retotI
market in New York City at 20 cents
to $1.5O, said statement issued by
Hershell S. Jones, Director of the State
Department Bureau of Farms and
Markets. High freight rates, mostly
equally high carriage charges and the
"bit" taken in turn by four middlemen
make up the difference, he said.
Panic relgned seventy-five feet un
der ground when fire started on q