The Holly chieftain., 1923-12-20
FOREIGN

president, gave him 1S9 of the 219
votes The new vice president is fed
eral councillor Jean Musy of Fri
bourg.
When word was received in Man
lila that DIR. Sun Yat Sen had relter-
ated his determination to seize Canton
customs collections, six United States
destroyers were ordered rushed to
Hongkong. The destroyers, which left
this evening, are the Peary, Pope.
Pillsbury, W. B. Preston. Sicar and
| Norcross.
Many persons have been killed and
a larger number injured by an earth
| quake which destroyed two small
towns in the region of Ipiales, near the
| Co l o IN b n Ecuadorian frontier.
Eighty-five dead have been recovered
from the ruins of Cumbal which, with
the town of Chile, suffered most heuy-
lily from the effects of the shocks.
Lord Alfred Douglas was found
guilty of libeing Winston Churchill
and sentenced to six months imprison-
ment in the second division, which
does not include hard labor. The libel
occurred In connection with Lord AL
fred's charge that Churchill, while
secretary of the navy, had falsified
communique issued after the battle of
Jutland.
The new German minister of justice,
or. Erich Emnlinger, interviewed by
representative of Augsburg Bostzeit-
ung, stated that the present period of
transition from the paper mark to a
gold basis currency was giving rise to
serious difficulties because gold-based
revenue was not flowing into the vari-
Gus state treasures in sufficient
quantities to meet their current eNperl-
ditures.
A delegation of sixteen Arapahoe In
dams from Wyoming, clad in full re-
gala, arrived in Paris last week.
Their appearance caused such a com
motion in the northern railroad ter
minus that traffic was held up Tor
some time. Chief Old Eagle told in
tervlewers that the deputation in
tended to ask the League of Nations
to intervene with the United States
government so that Indians might
have the same rights and privileges as
other Americans.
Prime Minister Baldwin and his
cabinet will meet the parliament when
1T reconvenes. and not resign In the
interim, 1t was officially stated in Lon
don. The text Of the communique
containing the cabinets decision read:
After careful consideration of the
constitutional precedents and their
bearing upon the situation which has
arisen as result of the general cleo
tions, the cabinet decided unanimously
this morning that it was their CON
stitutional duty to meet the parlIa-
ment Mt the earliest possible moment
The parliament, therefore, will re-as-
semble on January s."
GENERAL
Binding the driver of a mail truck
to wheel Of the vehicle, two daring
bandits stole registered mail pouch
at East Rochester, N. Y, containing
between $4,000 and $4,000 In cur
rency.
After two days of argument the
board of arbitration of the National
Association of Professional Baseball
league In session at Chicago voted to
recognize Harry A. Williams, a former
Los Angeles sports writer, as the le-
gnlly elected president of the Pacific
Coast league. Williams supplants
William H. Mccarthy Of San Fran
cisco. who charged that Williams
election was illegal.
A nationwide move is under way
to bring about the release of Lieut..
Corliss Hooven Griffis, former Amer.
lean soldier, sentenced to nineteen
months in German prison for at.
tempted kidnapping of Grover Cleve-
land Bergdoll, wealthy draft evader,
DIR. James Whitney Hall, president
of the Iroquois club of Chicago has
announced. He is to head a national
committee organized to obtain par.
don for Griffis.
The charge that "fixers" represent
Ing the liquor traffic, gambling, slot
machines and other forms of law vio-
lation in Mobile, Ala, had offered him
$150,000 as bribe money to "slow up
the work of the office" was made in a
public statement issued by Federal
District Attorney Aubrey Boyles.
Possibilities that Nome, Alaska, will
be selected as the "jump-off' base for
the navy's polar flight next summer
developed in Washington at the ses-
sion of the special planning board pre-
pairing recommendations for Secretary
DENLY. Information placed before the
board Indicated that flight from
Nome could be attempted three
months earlier than If Point Barrow
were named as the starting point.
AS scores of homeward-bound shop
pers and workers watched in horror,
Charles w Nevin II, member of so.
cially prominent Philadelphia fam
lily, plunged to his death from
window on the ninth floor of
the st. James hotel. Police ar
rested Frank 2. Nicholson of Brook