The Holly chieftain., 1924-01-03

max soon, according to reports. The
police are searching for the Commun.
ist leader, Luis Portela, who escaped.
Canada's meiA exports IN November
were valued at S2.196,000, of which
$421, 900 worth went to the United
States. The United Kingdom took ST.
72S,0o0 and other countries SAT 900. In
the twelve months ended with Novem-
ber total meat exports were so,
900, about $4,000,000 less than in the
corresponding period of 1872.
The series Of devastating ayalanches
in the Alpine region of Switzer-
land Is continuing. A number of
houses were swept away at lie
Sepey, in the canton of Vaud
The bodies of man and his wife
who occupied one of these dwellings
were found, cnyeloped In their bed
clothes, 800 feet away.
Canada's per capita consumption of
spirits Is decreasing sharply, but that of
beer, wines and tobacco has renamed
fairly constant. the annual report of
the Department of Customs and ex-
else showed. In 1869, the earliest fig
ures available, the per capita con-
sumption of spirits was 1924 gallons
The highest mark was reached In 1874
with 1904. In the last fiscal year It
stood at .2l9 gallons. The figures for
the previous year was 1850.
Travellers arriving at Vera Cruz
from San Luis Recia Mexico, where a
violent battle was fought between
revolutionaries and federals. reported
that four railway cars of federal dead
were taken from the town and burned
Herr Gruetziner the expelled presi-
dent of the Rhine provinces, was SEN
fenced to twenty years Imprisonment
by French court-martial on the
charge of resisting Franco Belgian
orders. Minor sentences were i'm
posed on number of German polIce
officials, Herr Pohl n former Ger
man submarine commander, was
among those sentenced.
The soviet government has begun to
clean up Moscow and rid the city of
all undesirable residents Of both sexes.
NJ. Dzherzinsky, head of the political
police, announced the deportation of
GIG "undesirabes' to Archangel, Tur-
kestan and SIBERIA, Tha deportdes In
cluded 453 money lenders, 1856 persons
convicted of swindling, l20 smugglers
md money spectators, ITO bootleg
md fifty-three women convicted of
Previously 534 had been
deported. Police claim that the house
shortage demands expulsion of para
sites.
GENERAL
More than n score were killed. many
of them Americans, and several In
jured, when train was wrecked near
Celaya, state of Gnanjuuto, Mexico, ac-
cordlng to reports brought by travel
ers In Mexico City.
West Virginia's new state tax of 2
cents on each gallon of gasoline sold
to retailers will yield approximately
$1,OO0,0OO year, according to esti-
mates of Grant p. Hall, stute tax COM
missioner. The tar went Into effect
July 26 and figures have just been
compiled of the returns for the month
of August, showing II yield Of $1O2, ,440
for the month.
John L. Coleman, Chicago police
man, whose revolver fire Is alleged to
have killed John S. Degnan, cpntrac-
tor, was held today on a charge of
murder.
A legal fight to prevent deportation
to thelr>native lands Will be Instituted
by Jacob Tori, Harry Lloyd and Dert
Lorton, three of the thirty I. w. W.
prisoners, whose sentences were re-.
Gently commuted by President Cool
idge.
President Coolidge and Secretary of
State Hughes were quick to rebuke the
recent Russian soviet request for ne
gotiations because they were con-
vinced that the soviet approached
America as a wolf in sleeps cloth
ing" and has evidence that it still
sought to raise the red flag over the
White House" Secretary Hughes
made public the text of instructions re-
Gently given by Zienoviff, president of
the Communist Internationale and
president Of the Moscow soviets, to the
Workers party of America, the COM
munist organization in America which
is seeking to undermine the govern
ment of this country
Albert Martin, 30 years old, shot and
severely wounded himself ut Kansas
City while waiting in the district at
office in the Federal building
to be arrnigned on a Mann act charge.
Martin was arrested by an agent of
the Department of Justice, He was al
legged TO have transported II woman
from Cheyenne Wells, Colo, to Kan
sas City.
Forty-two black pearls, valued at
100000, We're recovered from customs
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