, 1922-02-16

GENERAL
Henry Ford formally came into pos
session of the Lincoln Motor Company
of Detroit when Federal Judge TuttIe
confirmed sale of the property, effect
ed at public auction. Mr.. Ford through
his representatives, bid Ss,O0O,OO0 for
the Lincoln holdings, being the only
one to offer Il bid.
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 Uniontown,
Pa, are Ill with influenza, according to
a statement issued by Health Officer
w. c.. Hall of Uniontown. The situa-
ton, he said, is alarming and he de-
clared that, unless exceptionally dras-
tic measures are taken t. combat the
spread of the disease, the whole city
will be stricken with the malady.
President John Grier Hibben OF
Princeton University, ut Princeton, n.
j., has sem out letters to parents AMI
guardians of all students pointing out
that, far from being an asset to the
academic equipment of undergradu
ates, an automobile was Il positive
detrlment." 1.-THE administration feels
that no legislative action with regard
TO automobiles Is ADMIRABLE at the
present time" the letter continued.
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 n city-wide search for n crew of
missing walters. The search ended at
police headquarters. T~hirty-five of
them, negroes, had been arrested in a
craps game in n nearby house. A call
to police headquarters brought wait
ers racing back through the downtown
section on foot.
Commenting on the action of the
American Congress In deciding that
the allied debts must he paid in TWEEN
ty-five years, the Paris Temps des-
crlbes II as ''regrctable." Tho treaty
of Versailles, II says, accorded Ger.
many thirty years for the payment ot
Preparations land the London agres.
ment extended 1t perhaps TO thlrty-five.
Now Congress has given only twenty
five years for payment by her nsso-
clates who bore the burdens OF war
t%hlrty-two months longer than the
United States of America"
J.. Freeland johnson Of Wichita,
Kan, has filed II suit IN the Shawnee
county District Court against the
Union Pacific railroad for S2,09j dam
ages. johnson charges that the con.
ductor of n passenger train refused To
stop the train at his request when his
wife. Mrs. Ida Olive johnson, leaped
from the window of the train neal
Newman, Topeka. He says that he
was carried TO Perry. five miles farth.
er on, and that he spent the entire
night hunting for his wife, who was
found the next day n mile north of
Topeka, where she had drowned in "A
small creek, nine miles from the point
where she jumped from the train.
Mrs. Eva Saduski and her 4-year.
old child we're taken to Brooklyn po-
lice headquarters following the fatal
shooting Of her husband. Vincent, In
the Snduskl home. she said her hus.
band, n member OF n wealthy Bait.
more family, had shot himself acct.