The Holly chieftain., 1923-06-21
FOREIGN

spoils of office. President Ii Yuan
Hung, who fled to his home in the
foreign quarter of Tientsin few days
ago with the Chill MiIitarists ut his
heels, still is in seclusion there.
A Joint reply by allies to the last
German reparations note IL regarded
in official circles in Brussels as like
ly to be sent. providing the Brussels,
London, Paris and Rome governments
can agree upon an Interpretation of
the term abandon passive resist
ance."
Former Premier Stamboullsky of
Bulgaria has been killed while trying
to escape. The end Of the peasant
leaders, career was a series Of dra-
matte developments beginning with
the overthrow of his government and
the formation Of coalition govern.
ment.
A sensational discovery for the
treatment of tuberculosis was an
nounced by Prof. Georges Dreyer Of
Oxford university. The method con-
sists Of depriving microbes OF the pro
tective covering that enables them to
resist digestion. Once >bereft Of this
armor the microbes are easily COM
bated.
President Ii Yuan Hung, Of China,
who fled the capital under military
pressure from Gen. Feng Jui-Siang,
was reported safe at Tientsin under
French protection. State seals, re-
ported missing, which caused his
train to be held up, have been re-
turned to the cabinet, few remain
ing members of which are still func-
tionlng In Peking. The political situ-
alton remains greatly muddled. Ii
has signed no formal abdication.
GENERAL
Building and loan associations in
the United States have invested $3.-
600, 100000, the savings of 8,OOO.OOO
persons, In home building mortgages,
the National Association of Real Es-
tate Boards announced in Chicago.
Thirteen thousand maintenance of
way employees and shop laborers Of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad were granted wage Increases
ranging from cent an hour to 81 a
month, effective us of June Is. 1t was
announced in Chicago.
The feminine administration OF
Thayer, first of its kind inaugurated
In Kansas, has returned to civic and
domestic pursuits, and is content to
return control of the town Of 500 in
,habitants to masculine control. Two
years ago Abby Howe was elected
Mayor and with her eleNed five
councilwomen and police judge.
Severely critIcizing the Pennsyl-
vania system as unfair, unjust and
inconsistent In Its method of dealing
with the shop crafts union in an em-
ployee representation election, the
United States Railroad Labor Board
in Chicago, Issued Its long expected
public rebuke Of the carrier for viola
tion of an order directing the carrier
to recognize the shop crafts union.
Thomas A. Edison, who has been
quoted as believing college graduates
to be uninformed and Ignorant white
collar" experts, was at Cambridge,
Miss, to watch his son, Thomas MIL
Ter Edison, receive degree from the
Massachusetts, Institute of Technol-
ogy. For this college graduate, Mr..
Edison said, there is job waiting at
the Edison plant without the prelim-
mary mental test usually insisted
on for candidates.
The French Steamship Company
has formally asked the. French gov
ernment to send warships to New
York with supply of wine for
French sailors on board French
merchant ships In New York City, it
was learned from an authoritative
source. 1t was understood this ac-
tion was taken because French sail
ors under the French laws must have
wine served with their meals. The
warships may receive their sailing or
ders Immediately.
(. Wall Street, In the midst Of a many
sided cleanup" campaign, directed
4 - q
primarily ut bucket shops, was hit by
another faiIure-that Of Knauth,
Nachod and Kuhne. a member of the
New York Stock Exchange and of the
New York Curb Market. Boosting a
record Of seventy years In the street,
twenty-elght of them as members of
the stock exchange, the supposedly
powerful house, with strong German
connections, was forced into re-
ceivership with $11,O0O,OOO liabilities.
With her decks a veritable
shambles, the little sailing vessel Mary
Beatrice arrived at New York City
with the story Of terrible fight at
sen in which nine men were killed and
numerous others wounded. The
bodies of the slain were dumped over
board at the height of the battle. Two
Of the dead were white men, two
negroes and five Chinese. The casu-