The Holly chieftain., 1923-10-18
FOREIGN

terrible storm swept over the city
of Naha. LoochoO (or I.iu-Kiu) Is
lands and many persons are missing,
according TO dispatches received in
Toxic.
| Confidence in Il great future for Can
ada was expressed by David Lloyd
George, British war premier, In Iare-
| well address to the Dominion delivered
at II mess meeting In Olympic rink ut
winnipeg.
Lieut.. w. II. Langton and John H.
James were tied for the Daily Mails
FLOOD prize and the duke of Suther-
lands f5OO for the greatest number Of
| miles flown on one gallon Of petrol,
when the motor. glider competition end
ed at Lympne, England. Each aviator
covered S7.5 miles on gallon.
Provincial armies. which fors cen
turies have thriven In China TO the
detrlment Of internal peace are elimi-,
mated by the new constitution Of the
Chinese republic, just promulgated.
The constitution provides for the re-
placement of provisional armies with
national army.
| The German charge d'nffaires at
Brussels held conference with NJ.
Jaspar. the foreign minister, request
ing that France. Belgium and Ger
many enter into direct negotiations to
restore normal Industrial conditions In
the Ruhr. said Brussels dispatch to
L'Intransigeant, received In Paris.
| Fifty or more stores We're sacked of
food and clothing in Duesseldorf ny .un-
employed and lawless elements. Loot
| Ing continued almost unhindered, ex-
cept by few resolute, but quickly
vanquished, store owners and shop
keepers. Pillaging likewise is re-
ported from many other parts of the
Ruhr.
1t Is feared the situation of the
wOrkmen and their families In the
Ruhr district will become desperate
before the month Is over. The Ger
man state authorities are powerless to
offer relief. as the Berlin government
has decided that, beginning, Oct. IT. all
responsibility for unemployment in the
Ruhr will be transferred tonthe local
municipal authorities in the occupied
area.
GENERAL
Martial law, in effect throughout
Oklahoma since Sept 10, has been
lifted by Gev. j. G. Walton.
The 10000 Hudson Coal Company
miners voted to return to work and
permit the anthracite board Of concili-
alton to settle their grievances This
action was taken at mass meeting
| at Scranton, Pa. on advice of the
union officers.
| Newspaper advertising for railroads
was advocated by Samuel Riddle. vice
Company. in an address opening the
annual convention of the American
Electric Railway Association In At
iantic City. N. J.
The total value of the late President
Hardings estate, according to the re-
port of the appraisers filed in Probate
Court at Marion, Ohio, exclusive Of the
Harding Publishing Company stock.
which has not yet been appraised. was
set at $4s6, ,585.64.
With several record prices only hold
ing up the average, Jersey cattle were
on the bargain counter at a sale held
at the World Dairy Exposition at Syr-
acuse, N. Y, under the auspices of the
American Jersey Cattle Club. The top
price, $2,5OO, was paid by Il. NJ. Sher-
man of Charles City. Iowa, for young
bull owned by Z. G. Lasater of Fal-
furrlas, Texas. The average price was
estimated at $3.50.
| Eight children, ranging in ages from
1 3 to IA years. were killed when u
Pennsylvania train, known as the
IClevelander, struck school bus drawn
BY horses at Atwaters Crossing In
Rootstown, near Ravenna. o. Five per-
sons were killed and five injured when
a passenger train on the Elmlra divi-
sion of the Pennsylvania railroad
struck the Williamsport-Trou run bus
at the Hepburnville crossing near Will
Transport, Pa.
| A gift of approximately $SOO,00O to
help the building Of good roads In Mis-
souri, was made the Missouri highway
commission at Kansas City. William
volker, Kansas City manufacturer and
philanthropist, agreed to supply the
state at actual cost 100000 barrels Of
cement yearly over five-year period
for road building purposes.
4 A petition to set aside the recent or
der of the Federal Trade Commission
directing the United Typotheta of
America to cease using its standard
cost system was filed in the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals at
Chicago by counsel for the Typotheta.
The fate of cost-ftnding methods OF
scores of trade associations was said
to be involved.
4 All stores We're flooded and nnmer-
. Il. IL