The Holly chieftain., 1922-02-16
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. DoINes, ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERlNos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN
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WESTERN
Loss estimated between $45O,OOO and
$5O0.OOO was caused by stubborn fire
at San Francisco, which endangered
for time the lives of 200 employees
of the Thomas Day Company, manu-
facturers of electrical supplies.
The business of robbng stores was
so profitable that Carl Sorrenson an'l
two other youths purchased an autOmo-
bile to assist them In their operations,
according to statement to the police
of Spokane, WASH, by Sorrenson fol-
lowing his arrest on charge of burg
larry. Police lay thefts totaling over
$4,000 to the trio. SorrensOn, stu
dent mt a Spokane high school, and the
other two boys We're taken into Gus
tody by police at Great Falls, Mont
One of the interesting features said
to huve been disclosed in the Holly
wood night life as Il result of the ac-
tivity of many working on the Taylor
murder mystery is that there are ten
rival squads who have been supplying
drugs to narcotic addicts. 1t is said
one of the rings gets the drugs from
Canada and the other imports from
Mexico. SO bitter have the rival fac
| tionS become in their quest for new
business, sleutlls said, that active war
| fare has been engaged in for weeks.
The Atchison, Topeka g. Santa Fe
railway plans the expenditure of S43,-
100000 during 1922 for improvements
according to announcement made in
San Francisco by President w. B. Sto-
rey. During 1921 the company spent
S35, 100000. OF the 1922 expenditures
$22, 100000 will be for new work, In
Guiding seventy-five miles of second
track in Arizona, from Yampni to Grif-
fifth, according to Mr.. Storey. Eight
million will be spent for new equip
ment and 81, 100000 for new branch
line from Santanta, Kan.
Maurice P. Codd, medical student
in Northwestern University of Chicago
and holder of the Barret medal for
athletic prowess at Gonzaga Univer-
sity of Spokane, WASH, was charged
with first t-degree murder following the
death at the post hospital at Fort
George Wright, near Spokane, of
Frank P. Brinton of New York city, II
soldier of the medical corps of the Fif-
ty-eighth infantry. Brinton died as the
result of injuries sustained, it is
charged, when Codd threw him over
the third floor bannister of a Spokane
business building following an alter
cation. He sustained fractured skull
when he alighted on his head on the
ground floor
WASHINGTON
More than 200 Russian relief organ
izations operating in this country are
described as frankly communistic
committees" by Secretary Hoover in a
report to President Harding, made
public recently at the White House.
Declaration was made recently by
Maj. Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson of
the Third United States cavalry that
he had sent letter to President Hard
ing charging that "the army is suf-
fering from reign of Prussianism,"
but at the White House and War De-
partment it was said that no such let
ter had come to the department.
Tenant farmers in the. United States
trent land equal to the combined area
of Texas, Illinois, Iowa, Arkansas,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Florida DIR.
c. l.. Stewart, land economist, declared
in analyZing figures issued by the De-
partment of Agriculture showing that
farm tenancy is increasing more rap
idly than census figures indicate.
Establishment of farm risk insur-
ing crops of nonperishable products
against loss or damage resulting from
adverse weather conditions is pro-
posed in bill introduced by Repre-
sentative King, Republican, Illinois.
The bureau would have authority to
fix reasonable" premium rates. A re-
volving fund would be created for
payment Of claims.
A legislative program contemplate
ing ratifications of the treaties grow
ing out of the arms conference and
passage of the tariff, soldier bonus,
farm credit and merchant marine bills,
with adjournment of Congress about
June l, was said to have been agreed
upon at White House dinner confer
ence recently, In which President
Harding and members of the Senate
and House steering committees took
part.
The long controversy between the
United States and Japan relating to
the Pacific island of Yap-the subject
Of many notes and other diplomatic
exchanges-was formally and finally
ended with the signature Of treaty
by representatives of the two coun.
tries. The treaty which defines the
rights Of the United States in Yap and
other Islands inundated to Japan un-
der the treaty Of Versailles was signed
by Secretary Hughes, for the United
States, and Baron Kijuro shideharn
| for Jonpp In tho nffIf.u Of tho fnr,n N,