The Holly chieftain., 1922-02-16
TOREIGN

declined to continue further efforts.
| Berlin is in the midst of the black
est period 1t has known since the Kapp
revolution. Despite the mayors re-
assuring statement that the food situ-
alton is not endangered by the strikes
on the railways and In the municipal
services, the situation in the poor quar-
ters resembled the panic days of war
time food shortage.
Fire gutted the Standard Life Insur-
ance building in Montreal, Canada, and
threatened to spread to the Montreal
Standard and Star building and other
surrounding properties. Immense
clouds of smoke prevented spectators
accurately estimating the spread of
the conflagration, which Is the worst
the downtown district has known in
years.
The severe winter which the whole
of Central Europe is experiencing. has
seriously handicapped the navigation
of the Danube. The cold wave was
SO sudden that more than sixty ves-
sells belonging to several nations have
been caught in the ice and Will be
forced to tie up for the whole winter
unless an unlocked for thaw comes in
the meantime.
The suspension of Claude Lafon-
taine, Provost & Co., one of the oldest
private banks In France, has been an
nOunced in Paris. Most of the institu-
tion's business was transacted in the
Ardennes and other eastern depart
ments of France. 1t was capitalized
at 25,O0O,OOO francs, of which 10000
600 francs was paid up. The liabilities
were placed at 15,00o,000 francs.
Transfer on Feb. 2S of ownership of
the Figaro, an influential morning
newspaper of Paris. to NJ. Coty, a per-
fume manufacturer, and Il group of as
sociates. is announced. This step is
taken, the announcement says in an
new owners on VI. Calmett, secretary
of the corporation, forbidding all edi-
torial discussion in the newspaper un
til they take possession.
Two hundred fifty thousand children
are starving in the Chuvash region of
eastern Russia, to say nothing of
half million adults who have lost all
hope of help, according to telegram
from the Russian Famine Relief Com
mission of the International Fedora
tion of Trades Unions received in
London by Arthur Henderson, promi-
nent member of the House of Com
mons. The telegram says 30,OOO,OOO
workers and peasants in all Russia are
starving to state of pitiful weak
ness.
GENERAL
The soldiers bonus would cost the
federal government approximately
So, 800, 100000 on the basis of esti.
mates prepared for the House ways
and means committee by fiscal Off.
GERS of the army, navy and marine
corps.
HI. G. Twyman, formerly an instruc
boys, at Fort Worth, Texas, was found
guilty by jury at Gatesville, Texas,
of killing Dell Thames, a boy inmate
at the institution. He was sentenced
to prison for ten years.
The double liability" law whereby
stockholders in Kansas state banks
are liable for twice, the amount of
their stock in case of banks failure
has been declared invalid by the Su.
preme Court of Kansas. Sixteen failed
banks with combined capacity of
$415,O0O are in process of liquidation
and are Immediately affected by the
decision.
Diners at one of the large down.
town hotels in Kansas City waited i'm
patiently and loudly demanded service
recently while the management start
ed a. city-wide search for a crew of
missing walters. The search ended at
police headquarters. Thirty-five of
them, negroes, had been arrested in
craps game in nearby house. A call
to police headquarters brought wait
ers racing back through the downtown
section on foot.
Mrs. Mary Brezina, mother of ten
children, was shot four times and
killed in her home in Cleveland. Her
husband, James Brezina, is held by po
lice, charged with murder. II had an
argument with my wife and fired one
shot," Brezina told police officers who
found him in Il highly excited state
near his home, where the body Of his
wife was later found.
Ten thousand persons, about one.
half of the population of Unlontown.
Pa, are i'll with Influenza, according to
n statement issued by Health Officer
w. G. Hall of UniontOwn. The situn-
ton, he said, is alarming and he de-
clared that, unless exceptionally dras-
tic measures are taken to combat the
spread of the disease, the whole city
will be stricken with the malndy.
Organized operatives in cotton mills,
employing about 1000 hands in New
Hampshire and. Massachusetts,, have
gone on strike in protest against n