The Holly chieftain., 1923-03-29
FOREIGN


equaled since 1913.
The German Zeppelin Construction
Company has undertaken to build the
airships to be used on the new postal
service between Seville and Buenos
Aires.
Gabrielle d'Annunzio, in a letter to
Minister Of the Navy Admiral Thaon
de Revel, offers as gift to the Italian
nation his house. garden, books and
artistic and literary treasures In his
villa at Carignano.
The high cost of dying is bothering
the Jewish community Of Poland. The
fees for burial services at the GENE
terry have been increased to 100000
marks and those at Prague to $4,000
marks.
Payment of $2O,OOOOOO a year for
twelve years to the United States in
settlement of the costs of the Amer-
can army of occupation in Germany
seems feasible, in the opinion of Eliot
Wadsworth, assistant secretary of the
American treasury.
Women teachers in London must in
future resign when they marry. This
decision was made few days ago by
the education committee of the Lon
don county council. The 1000 mar
ried teachers at present working in
London county council schools will not
be affected.
The world nonstop dancing record
now is claimed by Marseilles '.pro-
fessor," who called 1t day after he
had held the floor for twenty-four
hours, four minutes and five seconds.
He was assisted by two young women
pdpils, the first of whom, Mile. Mar
celle Tref, daI.ced sixteen hours,
twenty-five minutes and fifteen sec
onds.
The good humOr of Alexander r.
Moore of Pittsburgh, hew American
ambassador to Spain, averted u Fran
co-American diplomatic incident re-
Gently in Paris, when the chief French
customs inspector refused to honor
Moore's ambassadorial passport.
Moore was able to obtain his trunks
after interpreters were engaged for
two hours In Strengthening out the tan
gle.
A letter purported to have been
written by Liam Lynch, republican
army leader, to Joseph Mccarthy Of
Philadelphia, urging the vital import
ance Of "a consignment of arms ar
riving us soon as possible" was made
public recently by the Free State gov
ernment. "One piece of small artillery
in few weeks would be worth twenty
pieces arriving in couple Of months"
Lynch was said to have written. '"rime
is on the side of the enemy. We want
to make the most of the coming few
months. II 1t is at all possible to have
such here at once nothing should pre-
vent 1t. We could turn the scale here
Immediately and also end the war
quickly If this arrived"
GENERAL
d. w. Davis, former governor Of Ida
no, was sworn in us special assistant
secretary of the interior. He Is to act
as personal aideato Secretary Work.
A proclamation calling on the people
of Minnesota to eat more wheat and
thus consume the surplus which he
| said Is the cause Of present low wheat
prices, was issued by Gov. J. A. o.
Preus.
1t has been learned from what 1t
considers reliable sources that Henry
Ford had bought tract Of coal and
timber land covering about 125.000
acres, in eastern Kentucky. The pur-
chase price Is said to be between $10,-
100000 and $2O.OOOOOO. The tract is
owned by the Peabody interests
Mystery surrounded the origin of So.
100000 in gold that arrived from Hol-
land and was delivered to Wall street
banking firms recently. 1t was the
largest sum received from a neutral
country in months. In financial cir
cles 1t was intimated that Germany
was shipping gold through Holland and
Switzerland to stabilize the mark and
to purchase coal.
Two men, one believed to be Louis
Burston, manager of q motion picture
producing organization bearing his
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possibly fatally injured, when an auto
mobile in which 1t is reported they
were racing train was struck at
grade crossing near. Pomona, Calf
In the span of little more than two
generations the United States mus as
sumed the leading position among all
| nations in the volume and variety of
Its manufactured production, the num-
ber of wage earners engaged In manu-
featuring, the power applied to pro-
cesses and the value Of products, the
national conference board says in an
analysis of recent census Of manu-
facturers. From 1s49 to 1919 the to-
tai value of products manufactured in
the United States rose from $1,092,-
100000 to nearly sec, 100000, and
the number of wage earners employed
in manufacturing from 1859 to g.