The Holly chieftain., 1922-11-02
FOREIGN

FOREIGN
| The Relchstag by a vote of 314 to 70
decided to prolong the term of Freid-
| rich Ebert in the German presidency
until June 80. 1925.
George Cadbury, cocoa manufacturer
and founder of the model village of
Bournville, died recently at BirmIng-
ham. England. He was So years of
age.
A world fight against prohibition,
with the United States as the center
of the wet campaign. was planned at
the closing session of the secret con-
ference of anti-prohibitionists at Brus-
sells.
GuglielmO Marconi told the Chicago
Tribune that he is perfectIng device
for sending private wireless messages
directly between two parties and pre-
venting other stations from listening
in.
The London Daily Mail states that
1t Is anticipated that Earl Balfour will
resign from membership in the assem-.
bly, of the League of Nations, owing to
in the new cabinet
The cooperation of the United
States with the labor bureau of the
League of Nations was declared high
ly desirable at Geneva at the interna-
tional labor conference in a resolution
presented by the delegates of the Jap
anese government.
Nine. Sarah Bernhardt, the Divine
Sarah, quietly observed the seventy.
seventh anniversary of her birth few
days ago with the optimistic hope that
She lives to be 100. Despite her ad-
vanced age and the accident which
made amputation of one of her legs
necessary, Madame Bernhardt is in ex-
cellent health and Is still the master
of her dramatic art.
Just one short of 10000 persons en-
tered Canada during the fiscal year
ended March 81, 1922, according to
report of the immigration department.
This compared with 148.477 immigrants
in the year previous. OF the total
39,200 were from the United Kingdom,
as compared with 74,2S2 the year pre-
vious, and 29,345s from the United
States, as against 4S,059 in 1921.
Halide Edib Hamm, the famous
Turkish poetess and wife of the vice
president of the Angora government,
plans to leave next month for propa-
ganda tour of England and America.
She is now engaged in gathering sta
tistics and photographs of the devas-
tated districts over. which the Greek
army retreated before the Turks
which she is planning to use during
her tour.
GENERAL
Lovers of Chlcago's bright lighta
that burn most brilliantly in its caba-
rets need not go home until morn
ing" by virtue Of the fact that city Of.
ficials have lost court fight to en-.
force o'clock closing ordinance
John Spencer of Pope county and
Harry Spencer of Conway county,
Ark, half-brothers, met for the first
time in forty years when they were
both placed in the same cell in the
county Jail at Little Rock. Both were
under arrest on liquor charges.
Henry Werblow, acting manager OF
the Peking, China, branch of the Asia
Banking Corporation, was arrested up
on his return to New York from China
on a charge of grand larceny in con-
nection with an alleged attempt to de
fraud banks out of $139.00O by means
of forged cablegrams. His brother,
Robert, until recently an employee OF
the Chase National bank, was ar
rested on Il similar charge
Fifty years ago the prison doors at
Waupun (Wis) state penitentiary
closed behind Bill Maxwell, Peshtigo
farmer. Sentence was for life, for the
charge had been the murder of friend
In quarrel over woman. In few
days he win have been imprisoned for
an even fifty years. Warden r. NJ.
Cole does not intend to let the day go
without some observance of a special
occasion. He has ordered the prison
bakery to produce the best cake it
knows how.
Henry Ford is planning to establish
400 radio stations throughout the
United States, including New York,
Philadelphia, Boston and other lead
ing cities and towns. His object Is to
communicate with people without re-
course to the newspapers. He Is en-
deavoring to keep his plans secret, but
they are known In rudio circles. He
is manufacturing some of the parts of
the equipment ut his own factories
Ford expects to use the stations for
political and business purposes.
Sanford s. Murphey, Denver, Colo.