The Holly chieftain., 1923-11-15
FOREIGN

hii Underground WOTkeTS.
Falkirk, the first Scottish town ta
vote on local option, has voted down
prohibition. according to official re-
turns.
Heavy loss of life. due to cloudtursts
and floods, Is reported from the Mix
teca Alta region of the state of OAK
aca. and from Mixteca Baja, state Of
Puebla, Mexico.
Alfred p. Patterson, son of New
Orleans importer, WAS arrested in
Shanghai charged with the embezzle-
ment of $4,000 from the Chinese com
pradore at Tientsin.
Great Britain, according to the
Ekstrabladet recently made overtures
to Denmark for buying Greenland.
asking in addition that she be allowed
to make tie first offer of purchase If
Denmark wished to sell at future
date. The reply Of the Danish govern
ment, the newspaper says. was that
the island was nor for sale and neyer
would be.
Jack Dempsey. heavyweight cham
pion, mining operator. real estate
dealer and moving picture actor, is
about to become a turfman with a
stable Of from six to eight horses,
said james w. Coffroth, president of
the Tia Juana Jockey Club. The
Mexican course opens on Thanksgiving
day. The initial purchase of Demp-
sey's racing venture. Coffroth added,
t,a str Of nIt pt,
eight thoroughbreds.
Official announcement Ia made that
the Mexican government has proposed
to Washington the adoption of a pos
tai convention making possible the in
auguration Of co. d. mail service
between the two countries. Consider
able saving would be possible for Mex
lean consumers, it is pointed out, II
they could order small articles direct
from manufacturers in the states and
pay, upon delivery, postal, customs
and other charges. 1t is hoped that
the system can be put into operation
within two months.
A presidential decree made public
recently grants to MeMcans the right
| Of seizure, without formalities, of wa
ter rights for irrigation purposes in
those districts where water courses are
under federal control. This supple
ments President Obregons decree Of
last August throwing open the federal
lands for agricultural purposes. The
| order points out that the greater part
of the real estate thus granted land
less Mexicans has been found to be un-
tlllable without supply OF water
which the second decree affords.
GENERAL
The Bank Of Orr, N. D., has been
taken charge of by the state guaranty
fund commission and Is open for the
receipt of special deposits only.
Five persons were instantly killed
and one probably fatally injured when
motor bus running between Ashland.
KY. and Ironton, Ohio, was struck at
Il grade crossing In Russell. KY, by
Chesapeake and Ohio passenger train
No. 8.
| Cooperative marketing and ready
| adjustment of acreage conditions of
world production were recommended
as promising the only permanent solu-
tion Of the wheat problem in report
submitted to President Coolidge by the
War Finance Corporation investiga-
tors, who recently toured the wheat
areas at his request.
A three-hour-a-week course to teach
| Northwestern University students at
Chicago how to walk IL to be added to
the curriculum, Prof Leon Kranz of
the physical education department an
nounced. He said he had found that
40 per cent of the students showed
lack OF knowledge about proper distri-
button Of the weight Of the body while
walking and as result suffered from
fallen arches and other foot defects.
Five per cent Of them, he said, have
serious trouble with their feet and are
1 In need of special attention. The
classes will be taught the proper form
| to assume while walking, he said.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
has been filed at Abilene, Texas by
attorneys for George Ftneberg 4 Co..
cotton merchants The attorneys gave
the iiquldated ilaplilues OF $ZZi,3oo.ui,
and the assets, including exemptions
and excluding insurance, $279yO25. Ex-
emptions claimed total $S3,OOO. Fine
berg is widely known in cotton circles
in Texas.
band of robberS vanously esti-
| mated In number from fourteen to
twenty. robbed two banks at Spencer,
Ind. Of approximately $4,000 and
wounded two citizena Travelling in
four automobiles. the robbers first iso-
lated the town by cutting all telephone
and telegraph wires and then npsted
guards to prevent interruption while
they blew open the bank vaults.
Minority organizations in some Sec
tions are taking law enforcement In
to their own hands and some of their