The Holly chieftain., 1922-10-05

nth gold eagle badge. 3--GirIs of
disaster
Guilty. by loans from the American
| people, who hnd no reason to expect
that they would not he repaid. He
also drew attention to the American
suspicion that II the loans were for
| given the money thus released might
be used in new wars.
ICONRAD E. SPENS, railway Off
~ cial of Chicago. who was appoint
| ed federal fuel distributor under the
| act passed by congress- started In by
warning the various states that his
powers do not extend to coal mined
and sold within a given state and
their officials must look after that
end of the proposition. He then asked
eight leading railway executives to
serve rs an advisory committee in the
fuel transportation emergency and
named IL prominent business men as
members of nm advisory committee for
industry, to keep in touch with the
distribution of fuel supplies for in
dustries In their respective districts.
Large industrial consumers are asked
to confine their purchases of coal un-
der present conditions as closely to
current needs us safety permits; to
suspend accumulation of advance
gency pressure on production is re-
lieved; to unload coal cars immedf-
ately and return them to service and
to promptly furnish material required
for new railroad equipment or repairs.
THE grand jury in Marion, Ill.,.
1 which investigated the Herrin coal
mine massacre, indicted 70 men for
participation in the outrage, A of
them for murder. All of the latter
group have been put under arrest, and
Of the total 20 are still at large Eight
Of those accused of murder are held
without bail. The others were re-
leased on bonds. which were furnished
by the leading citizens of Marion.
The defense Of the men, as already
outlined by their lawyers, will be, in
brief that this Is private persecu-
tlon by a political boss and labor
hating organization" the allusion be-
ing to Attorney General Brundage and
the Illinois Chamber of Commerce.
FEDERAL JUDGE WILKERSON In
Chicago formally entered the tenn
porary injunction obtained by Attor-
ney General Daugherty against the
railway shopmen, having sustained It
on all points. The proceedings were
perfunctory and the attorneys for the
union did not concern themselves
with the form of the order. They
said they hoped to be permitted to
take the case direct to the Supreme
court of the United States on appeal.
COME twenty thousand veterans Of
~ the Civil war assembled in Des
Moines, Ia, for the fifty-sixth national
encampment Of the Grand Army of the
Republic. On Wednesday three
fourths of these grizzled warriors es-
corted by two regiments of the regu-
lar army, marched In the yearly
parade-an event that grows more
and more pathetic as the years pass.
They were reviewed by their com.
mander-in-chief. Lewis s. Pitcher, and
by Hanford MacNider. national COM
mander Of the American Legion. One
tragedy marked the occasion. NJ J.
Mackenhausen of White Bear Lake,
Minn., dropped dead after two hours
of marching. Judge ]. w. willett of
Tama, Ia, was elected commnnder-in-
chief for the coming year
THOMAS f. WATSON, United
1 States senator from Georgia. one
of the most fiery political figures of
the time, died suddenly of asthma
Tuesday in Washington For 40
years he was active In state and ma
tionnl politics, and he was the Popullst
nominee for vice president in 1893 and
for President in 1904. The Populists
elected him to the house of repre-.
sentatives in 1901, ana In 1920 he was
elected senator. He was opposed to
Woodrow Wilson and his policies and
was especially against the League of
Nations.
| A CCoRDING to the Freeman's
"A Journal Of Dublin, Eamon de
Valera has abdicated as leader Of the
Irish republicans and Liam Lynch has
succeeded him. The newspaper says
this destroys hope of n rational peace
as Lynch Is driving his followers to
fight to the bitter end. The ropub.
licans are keeping up their guerrilla
warfare. but the Free Staters are
steadily cleaning them up. especially
now in County Kerry.