Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-05-18
Domestic

| 4 no ID 'LlSu 6LcdI10F O0u0Ch HAS
been ice-bound off Cape Canso, Nova
Scotia, since May 4, with the Cana
dian coast guard cutter Montcalm, en-.
deavoring to break the ship loose be.
fore she drifted ashore on the banks
in the vicinity, according to reports re.
ceived by the photographic office from
the Canadian service. Dispatches re.
ceived say the two ships were close.
ly hemmed in by ice which extends
''as far as can be SEEN"
Construction work on the new naval
vessels will be materially slowed down
after July 1, unless some none Is pro-
Vided by congress, the senate apropria-
tons committee, revising the naval ap-
preparation bill passed by the house
has been told by Secretary DENLY, AS
sistant Secretary Roosevelt and Rear
Admiral Taylor, construction chief.
Governor Cooper of South Carolina
Is said to have doomed to the front
as a leading possibility for the vacan-
cy on the federal farm loan board,
caused by the resignation of A. +. LIE.
yer.
Supplies sufficient to last the flood
stricken people Of the northern part
of Concordia parish, Louisiana, for a
week have been distributed by the
Red Cross, assisted by national guards
men.
A. Y. Berry, of Fort Smith, Ark,
was elected president Of the Southern
Wholesale Dry Goods association at
Birmingham, Ala.
One death from heat was reported
at st. Paul, MINI. The temperature
reached Sc degrees. The victim an
unidentified woman.
Two painters were seriously burned
and property loss of 5000 resulted
at Birmingham, Ala, when explosion
of a gasoline tank set fire to the plant
OF the Birmingham Buggy company.
Unable after one days deliberation
to identify the cave man Bluebeard
alleged to have slain pretty Lillian
White and left her bones on a noun
tain top near Haverstraw, N. Y, the
Rockland county grand jury went thru
mass of new evidence seeking an
indictment.
A federal investigation of the stimuli
taneous advances in the price of gaso-
line recently made by the large oil
companies operating in this territory
was ordered by w. j. Burns, head of
the bureau Of investigation Of the de-
partment of justice.
The federal government was asked
to deport Lady Astor as an undesir-
able alien by the General A. s. Burt
camp Spanish-American War Veter.
ans in resolution adopted at Passaic,
N. J.
The formation of the Arizona an.
nual conference was ordered at the re-
cent session of the general conference
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. DR.. ]. E. Harrison, of Phoenix,
presented the following facts: Method.
ism in Arizona has doubled in member.
ship and in property owned and ac-
Quired in past Quadrennium. The
new conference created will embrace
all the state Of Arizona and territory
will be equal to the states of Mary.
land, Virginia, West Virginia and Ten.
nessee.
The supreme court of Florida affirm.
ca the decision Of the circuit court for
Palm Beach county, in which the late
Richard Croker was declared to be
competent to handle his affairs, The
case involved a suit brought by How.
ard Croker, a son, seeking to annul
the action of the father.
State pardons of six mothers and
their babies were spurned by Sheriff
Charles Peters Of Chicago. The won.
en-, were sentenced tire years ago to
short terms on contempt OF court
charges growing out of picketing dur.
ing a strike.
Operation of all soviet clothing and
textile factories in Russia will DO
turned over to an American workers
society to be known as the American.
Trade Industrial Workers as.
sociation. -, y
The blimp "A arrived safely at |
Langley field after having drifted
about over the ocean Off Cape Henry |
for an hour and a half with her en-.
gines dead.
Bishops Of the Methodist Episcopal |
Church, South, win continue to be
elected for life instead OF for speci
lied term Of years. "