The Holly chieftain., 1922-12-21
FOREIGN

| marks, approximately $14,5OO,OOO, to
the allied reparations committee, this
sum being due Dec. 10, said Central
| News dispatch from Paris to London.
The London conference of allied
premiers, called to arrange the basis
for an nllied financial and repara.
tions conference In Brussels. has
broken down. The premIers had TAX
en- adjournment until Jan. 2.
| Two arrests have been made In con-
nectlon with the shooting of Mason
Mitchell, American consul at Valetta,
Malta. Mr.. Mitchell is suffering from
flesh wound In the left side which Is
said to be not of u serious nature.
One hundred workmen were killed
or Injured in a boiler explosion which
wrecked the EstrelIa sugar mill. near
Camaguay, Havana. Most OF the VIC
Tins are Spaniurds. Two of the sugar
central's big battery of boilers are re-
ported to have exploded simultane-
ously.
| Twelve persons were reported MISS
ing from the French hospital ship
Vinh-Long, which caught fire in the
Sea of MurmOra. Earlier In the day
the United States destroyer Bainbridge
which had gone to the rescue of the
French ship, had reported all on board
| saved.
William Pepper, an Engllshman en-
ployed by the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way Company In Its trans.Pacific
steamship service, was stabbed to
| IHn
by u Japanese whom he had dis.
charged as Il member of Il launch
crew. The slayer surrendered to the
police.
| The Nobel peace prize has been
presented to DR.. t'ridtjof Nansen of
Christiana, Norway. The award was
made for DR.. Nansens work in re-
lieving the starving populations of
I.ussiu and Asia Minor on behalf of
the League of Nations and for his en-
deavOrs to promote a brotherhood Of
nations.
President Gabrielle Narutowicz Of
/ the Republic of Poland was assassin
ated ut Warsaw. He was elected one
week before, being the first president
|
was shot to death at the opening OF
an art exhibition. Three shots were
fired, all entering the presidents body.
Death was instantaneous.
The Near East peace conference was
saved from collapse when Ismet
Pasha, head of the Turkish delegation,
announced Mt Lausanne that Turkey
would join the League of Nations. A
compromise plan was submitted by
the Turks for safeguarding Chris
tlans in Asia Minor. The buckdown
of the Turks means peaceful con-
tinuation of the conference, the Brit
ish delegates said.
GENERAL
John Wanamaker died in Phlladel-
phia recently.
BaInbridge Colby, secretary of state
in President Wilson's cabinet. has an.
nounced that his law partnership with
the former President would terminate
Dec. 81, at the expiration of their co
partnership agreement. The an
nouncement was made from the New
York offices of Wilson s. Colby.
Frank Leroy Chance, who will man
age the Boston club Of the American
League, before leaving Los Angeles re-
Gently for th. East, signed Orvie over
all, formerly pitcher for the Chicago
club Of the National League, to become
his assistant in the Red Sox manage
ment, according to statements pub
lished Ia Los Angeles.
The Transportation Brotherhoods
National Bank, the sixth Of its kind in
America, opened for business In Min
neapolls recently with initial deposits
of more than $4,000 during the first
hour of business. The bank Is capi-
talized at 100000, and will be oper-
ated on plan similar to the Engineers
Cooperative Bank of Cleveland. The
stock is held by members of the four
transportation brotherhoOds of the
Northwest.
Five thousand American Indians
who have lived near Grand River,
Ont, since 1854, and who insist that
they are sovereign people not an
swerable to the Canadian government,
have appealed to the League of Ma
tions through the Dutch government
for settlement of their dispute with
Canada, 1t was learned in New York
City.
A verdict for the defendant conclud-
ed suit In Federal Court nj Oxford,
Miss, for 100000 damages, filed by
Miss Frances c. Birkhead, stenogra-
pher, against Lee NJ. Russell, Missis-
sippis chief executive. Miss Birkhead
had asked for $4,000 on each of two
counts-one charging seduction and
the other Impairment of health as the
result of an alleged operation.
Menifee county, Kentucky's moon
shine war has ended after week Of