The Holly chieftain., 1923-11-22
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Capt Robert Morris. who command
ed destroyer division 33 on the night
OF the Honda wreck, Sept. g. was nc-
Quilted of charges of negligence in
suffering vessels of his organization
to go aground, In q verdict read by
the judge advocate of the general
court martial at San Diego.
Arthur Covelle. crippled mystic and
astrologer was found guilty of first de-
gree murder for his part in the Staying
OF Mrs. Ebba Covelle, his sister-ln-
law, by jury of two women and ten
men In the Circuit Court at Coquille,
Ore. Under the Oregon law, tile
death penalty by hanging is the only
possible sentence.
Charges that Herman l. Roth, New
York and Los, Angeles attorney, limited
bribery to the officers who arrested
him for an alleged attempt to black
mail Barbara LaMarr, film actress,
and Arthur Fl. Sawyer, her business
manager, of $4,000. We're made in Los
Angeles at the district attorneys of
fee. Roth was at liberty on 5000
bail.
Representatives of the Columbia Ba-
sin Irrigation League, on their way to
attend the annual meeting of the
Western States Reclamation Associa-
tion at Salt Lake City, Utah, issued
statement in Spokane. Wash, through
Roy II. Gill. executive chairman of the
league, declaring themselves in favor
of policy Of uninterrupted irrigation
S. A. Ldcas, former cashier of the
First National Bank of Eldorado, Ark,
was arrested in Los Angeles by federal
Officers on charge of embezzlement.
1t is charged that Lucas took $500
from the Arkansas bank in February,
1921. When arrested he was em-
ployed in a Los Angeles bank. Lu-
cas- waived extraditioh proceedings.
His bond was fixed at 5000.
The numerous aspects of foreign
trade In its relation to the Pacific
coast were considered at the three-day
convention Of the Pacific Foreign
Trade Council held in Portland, Ore
Unity of the entire coast district in
the expansion Of it's external trade
relations and development through CO.
ordination in the various fields, will
be the keynote of nationally known
figures in the commercial and finan-
cial world who will address the coun-
Gil.
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President Coolidge was said to be in
Ignorance of any plan to make VIII H.
Hays again chairman of the Repub-
lican national committee, a place held
by Mr.. Hays during the 1920 cam
paign.
In addition to their regular xluties,
which range from Weighing babies to
administering first aid, rural mail
carriers have been given the job of
counting the pigs in the United States
again next year. The carriers have
counted them before, and they did
such good job and the department
of agriculture found the figures SO
valuable, that Postmaster General
New has ordered another census of
the whole swine population to show
how many pigs will be ready for the
market next spring and summer.
Delegations to the annual conven-
tion in Washington Of the Southern
Medical Association were told by
President Coolidge that the members
of their profession were rendering "a
service that reaches beyond any trade
or occupation"
President Coolidge believes that the
American people will sympathize with
any move to be taken by the allied
government to prevent restoration Of
the HohenzOllerns to power in Ger
many, although the American govern
ment cannot, in accordance with long
established policy. take definite action
in the matter which has been brought
up by the return to Germany of the
Crown Prince Frederick William.
Approximately 1,12O acres of public
coal land in Carbon county, Utah, will
be offered for lease by the land office
Mt Salt Lake City. Secretary Work Of
the Interior Department, In directing
such action, stipulated that there must
be government royalty of 10 cents
a ton for coal mined, n minimum in
vestment in mining operations of
$4,000 during the first three years Of
the lease, and minimum production
of 10000 tons of coal n year begin
ming with the fourth year.
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes
has asserted that despite the claim of
Governor Pinchot Of Pennsylvania, the
police of that state are refusing to CO.
operate with federal enforcement
agents in many of the smaller towns
and cities.
Awards of more than S3.OOO,000 to
American claimants against Germany
were announced by :. the mixed claim
commission. The larger awards were
in favor of tile Western Electric Com
n mr.