The Holbrook news., 1922-02-03
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 Col Henry s. Graves, former chief forester of the United States, is to re- turn as dean of the Yale forest school it has been announced. Dean James William Tourney is to resume his more purely scientific work.
 Railroad rates are being slowly but steadily forced downward by economic laws, Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore X Ohio railroad, argued be fore the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion when that body resumed its in- quiry into the general level of trans portation charges.
 Of the 4O,191 cases tried by the Traffic Court in New York city dur ing 1921, 1920 chauffeurs were sent to jail on straight sentences, and 1,SSC drivers went to jail in default of pay ment of fines. Since the court was opened in June, 1916. the fines col lected have tOtaled S1,3S9,1
 Three persons were killed and four injured at Newark. Ohio, when their bob sled was struck by an automobile They had almost reached the foot of mile-long hill when they crashed 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.
 Part of his shinbOne transferred to his jaw to correct m ImperrectiOn in his chin, Henry F. Mally, Jr-, of Brook lyn recently fell on the Ice, cracking the shin from which the fragment had been removed. His death from shock was announced after he had been made ready for a second operation needed ! to mend his leg and perfect his chin. Archibald Birse, a Chicago tailor, is S50.0o0 richer for having taken a few stitches in a pair of torn trousers thirty-four years ago. Ernest De St Giles, insurance expert and author, Jeff this amount to Birse. who befrfended 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 90 cent charge
 His skull fractured when he was playfully tipped out of bed by fra ternity brother at Hamilton College William Duncan Saunders, son of Dr A. P. Saunders of the faculty of the college, died in Utica, N- Y-, hos pital The young man, freshman felt no i'll effects at first from falling on his head, but later became uncon scious. He was 15 years old, the youngest student in the college. Eleven persons were injured, two probably fatally, when an automobile said by the police to be travelling at q rapid rare of speed, crashed into q street car in Chicago. Four of those injured were occupants of the automo- bile and the others were passengers on the stree car.
 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 were lost.
 Asserting that they had been wrong | ly advised to go on strike and were eager to return to their old jobs, about 1,S00 milk wagon drivers of local unior No. 5S4, who have been on strike since Nov. 1, unanimously voted the unior officials out of office at an indignation meeting in New York.
 A slump of nearly 40,OOO,O00 net ton' from the average of six preceding years in great lakes shipping was re corded in 1921, according to the an nual report made public by William Livingstone, president of the Lake lCurriers' Association.