The Holly chieftain., 1922-03-30

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The retrial Of Madalynne Obenchain,
charged. with the murder of J. Bolton
Kennedy, her sweetheart, in Beverly
Glen, near Los Angeles, the night Of
Aug. s. last. will commence June S.
The first trial of Mrs Obenchain re-
suited in disagreement Of the jury.
Miss Lydia Fricke of klamath Falls,
Ore, klamath county health nurse. is
recovering from hazardous trip of
twenty-three miles on skis In blind
ing snowstorm, which she undertook
for the relief of a destitute family in
the northern part of klamath county,
Oregon.
Los Angeles police are seeking
person believed to have stolen $500
from Mrs. Jessie W. Taylor when she
tainted on the street. She had just
drawn the money from the bank In
500 bills A number of persons rushed
to her aid. When she regalned con-
sciousness the money was missing.
One man was killed and five injured
in the third explosion of the last
seventeen days at the q. /. DUPONT De
NemOurs and Company plant at Du-
Pont, near Tacoma, Wash. A deni-
trating recovery building was wrecked.
The explosion resulted from the ignl-
tion Of several pounds of nitroglycerin.
June 1 has been set for the depar-
sure from Seattle Of Captain Roald
Amundsen's Arctic expedition, H. H.
Hammer, Captain Amundsen's agent,
has announced. With this ship, the
Maud, the explorer expects to drift
past the North Pole with the Arctic
Ice pack and to make scientific obser-
vutions over wide area in the Polar
basin.
James Ogle, serving a life sentence
in the state penitentiary at Salem,
Ore, for the murder Of George Per-
ringer and Newton Burgess at the
Claremont tavern, near Portland, dur
ing robbery two years ago, was shot
to death In the court yard of the iso-
lation ward of the prison by John Da
wilson, guard. The attempt of Ogle
to make good repeated threats to kill
his guard unless he was released from
the isolation ward, where he has been
confined for nearly year, was re-
sponsible for the shooting, according
to prison officials.
/ WARRINGTON
Coal operators who face the pros
pect Of a strike of their employees
April /, but who still refuse to enter a
national conference with the coal min
erse' union, are not controlled by
mere madness, but determination to
cure q deep-seated disorder" George
H. Cushing, managing director Of the
American Wholesale Coal Association,
declared In an address before the
Washington City Club.
When Raymond T. Baker retired as
director Of the mint he turned over
to G. e. Scobey, his successor, approx
n,ately one-third Of the worlds gold
supply. The gold bullion and gold
coin held at the United States mints
at Philadelphia, Denver and San
Francisco and at the assay office in
New York on March /, totaled more
than $1,000. 100000. The worlds sup
ply amounts to about $1,000, 100000.
The House naval committee agreed
to report bill fixing the maximum
authorized enlisted strength of the
navy at $4,000 plus 5000 apprentices,
or 10000 less than the number Of Sec
retary DENLY declared was needed to
operate the treaty fleet.
1t was learned at the White House
recently that the President and his
cabinet had discussed the Colorado
river project in its various phases and
had determined that, pending settle
ment Of the water rights matter, there
shall be no more grants of water pow
er franchises. Further grants will be
withheld until the commission now
considering the subject shall have re-
ported and congressional action taken.
The American government has sent
tO the allied powers another note sup
plen entail to that recently dispatched
and designed to support its claim for
equality with those powers in the
payment of costs arising from the
Rhineland occupation. The new note
declared that whether or not there
should be deficit In the French ac-
count for its occupation army costs as
of May 1, 1921, the claim for equality
on the part Of the United States would
not thereby be affected.
The sixty-eight destroyers of the Pa
ciflc fleet ordered out Of commission
by June 80, will be stored at the de-
stroyer base, San Diego, Calf, while
the twenty-five "decommissioned" de-
stroyers of the Atlantic fleet will go to
the Philadelphia navy yard, under or
ders approved by Secretary DENLY.
Oregon's capital punishment law
was upheld by the Supreme Court in
denying the application Of Elvie D.
Kerby, under death sentence In con-
nection with the murder Of Sheriff Til