The Holly chieftain., 1922-04-06
AN EPITOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. ooiNes, ACHIEVE,
MENTs, suFFERINos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
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WESTERN
| Loss estimated from $225.000 to
$4,000 was caused by fire which
swept the upper floors Of the Olympic
cereal mills at Portland, Oregon.
Alfred Hertz, conductor of the San
Francisco Symphony orchestra for sew
en- years, has offered his resignation.
Lack Of finances made the board of
governors Of the Musical Association
of San Francisco unable to offer him
another contract. President J. d. Nc
Kee said -
The Amundsen Arctic expedition,
which will leave Seattle, WASH, on
June to drift through the northern
seas past the North pole, will be the
first dash of its kind in history rhat
will keep constantly in touch with the
outside worldkethrough wireless tclc-
graph and radio telephone.
To the growing list of radio fans
add Mary Garden. The grand opera
manager and singer, who has to bring
the Chicago Grand Opera Company to
San Francisco for the annual engage
ment, telegraphed ahead to the hotel
and requested that her suite be
equipped not only with radio receiv-
Ing set, but with high-power broad
casting set as well.
Herbert Clayton, II years old, under
arrest in Portland, Ore, has confessed
twenty-five successful forgeries, police
detectives say. BY representing him
self as caddy at times and at other
times as newsboy, he found it an
easy matter to induce merchants to
cash checks ranging from $3.50 to $40
each. His twenty-five checks aggre-
gated about 500, according to the po-
lice.
Tommy Milton won the champion
ship sprint automobile race at the
speedway at Los Angeles, taking the
second preliminary 25-mile sprint In 18
minutes, $40 seconds, an average
speed Of 11502 miles an hour, and the
final 50-mile event In 26 minutes, 1.92
seconds, an average Of 1852 miles an
hour. Milton was, said by A. A. A. Of
ficials to have established new worlds
records in the events.
A committee Of women vigilantes
called on Chief Of Police O'Brien OF
San Francisco to demand rigid enforce
ment of the law against selling cigar
cites TO minors, following reports to
the organization that cigarette smoking
is increasing in San Francisco schools.
$50 prevalent is the habit among
young girls that notices reading
Please do not smoke here have been
posted In some school buildings"
WASHINGTON
Two-year-old yelma Anderson's par
ents consider training her for some
future Olympiad. Recently the baby
fell into pond three feet deep near
her home in Sacramento. She came
to the surface and swan. She had
swum nearly half way across the pond
when her mother caught her and un-
dressed her. The mother, a brother
and a sister, whs witnessed the spec
tacle, reported that little velma
kicked her little feet and swung her
arms In 4 natural unison, propelling
herself sturdily.
BY direction of the foreign office in
London the British embassy at WASH
ington has requested the State De-
partment to have all proper facilities
extended to Sirs Ross AMI Keith
Smith, British aviators. when they
reach the United States on their at
tempted aerial circumnavigarion Of
the world, which starts April 20.
Approval of 121 advances for agri-
cultural and live stock purposes, ng-
gregating $s,324.0O0, have been an
nounced by the War Finance corpora-
tion. The loans included Arizona, $780,
600: Colorado, s2ssO00; Iowa, $6s, 900; /;
Montana, $4,000; Nebraska, $S9, 900 /;
New MEXICO, $4,000; Oregon, S112,-
600; South Dakota. $173,0O0; Texas,
1866, 600; Utah, $4,000, and Wyoming,
$1O4,0
The killing Of DR.. Leroy Shelton,
medical missionary Of the Disciples Of
Christ (Christian church,, by bandits
In Tibet last month followed the doc
tors refusal "to accept the advice of
local authorities" against proceeding
into a disturbed aren, according to cor
respondence between the State Depart
ment and the Chinese government,
copies of which have been transmitted
to and were made public in Washing
ton by Senator Spencer Of Missouri.
Nearly 200 army officers now on
duty in the District of Columbia are to
be relieved from duty as the result of
an investigation conducted by the in
spector generals department with .
view to the reduction of the military
establishment in Washington, it was
announced at the War Department.
Assurance Of sufficient funds for the
proper operation Of Colorado's two ma
tional parks, the Mesa Verde and the
| Rocky Mountain waa given when COY-