The Holly chieftain., 1924-02-28
FOREIGN

| ohG1UN
The Egyptian government has can
| celed Countess Carnarvon's license for
excavations in the tomb of Tutankh-
| amen.
| The British cabinet has decided to
carry out the naval construction pro-
gram previously agreed upon and will
probably work upon six new cruisers
| Immediately.
dictator, has resigned and General
Won LossOw, commander of the
BGvarian reichswehr, has rendered his
resignation.
The Poincare government weathered
the long-eXpected crisis in the Senate
when in a test vote on the electoral
bill the French premier was sustained
by a vote of $50 against 134.
The Canadian embargo on cattle
from the states of California. Oregon
and Nevada will remain in effect un-
til assurance is received from the
United States that the foot and mouth
disease is wiped out in the three
states, ii was made known in Ottawa
by the Department of Agriculture.
The London Evening News prints
vague story that scheme is being
prepared for an all-British flight to
the north pole. 1t says the moving spir-
it is Commander f. NJ. Boothby, a
British air expert and that the dirigi-
BILE R-36 will be used. The cost of the
project is estimated ut $4,000.
Fires in four sugar plantations in
Camaguey province. Cuba, caused an
estimated loss of 100000 pounds of
sugar cane as 1t stood in the fields.
While cane fields burn easily at this
season and accidental fires are COM
mon, investigations are being made on
the theory that some of these fires
were of incendiary origin.
The dock workers strike in England
is considered virtually ended, although
final negotiations may be protracted.
The employers have agreed to advance
the mems wages 1 shilling now and
another shilling June /, and there will
be what is termed satisfactory in
quiry" into the question of decasual-
ization and an agreement for no re-
prisals.
Everybody has put their cards on
the table mt this conference" said
Commander Hodge of Great Britain,
secretary of the naval disarmament
conference, to Il newspaper correspond
ent in Rome. "We all have learned
something" he added. 1--WE know
just where we all stand, and for that
reason this meeting is bound to bring
good result$ on the question of liml-
tation of armaments.''
GENERAL
Mrs. Myrtle Schoude of Whitewater,
Wis, was sentenced to twenty years
in the state prison at Elkhorn, Wis,
on her plea Of guilty to the charge of
poisoning her husband and attempting
to poison her four children.
Three. men believed by the New
Orleans police to have been implicated
in the escape several weeks ago of
Emory Connell from the Arkansas
state penitentiary at Little Rock Il
few days before the date set for his
execution were arrested in New Or
leans last week. Several days after
his escape. Connel was shot and
killed by prison guards who had fol-
lowed his trail. The men taken into
custody were Jack Nelson, of Omaha,
Neb., Melvin Stofer and Joseph Lee
both Of New Orleans.
The burning to death OF two sisters
last year to atone for "blasphemy"
against the Holy Ghost" when he was
IL years old, and the murder of his
mother and father at st. Petersburg,
Fla, as sacrlfcial penance for the
killing Of his sisters. confessed by
Frank Mcdowell, 10, and his weird
tale of "hazy spells" and hallucina-
tions during which he believed his
family aligned with "the antichrist,"
stood forth as related details of one
Of the most gruesome murders In the
history Of southern crime.
Frank A. Vanderlip, retired banker,
in reply to the 100000 libel suit
filed against him by the owners of the
Marion Star, declared he welcomed the
suit and expressed the hope that it
would be the forerunner of court pro-
ceedings that would make public some
of the news that the great newspapers
did not see fit to print"
Judge William NJ. Morning of the
Court of Domestic Relations and Wal
lace G.. Wallick, well digger, are dead
and Minor Bacon, court reporter, Is
suffering from a slight wound under
the right arm, the sequel to a tragedy
enacted in Judge Mornings court at
Lincoln, when Wallick, appearing to
answer a charge Of nonpayment Of all
mony, drew revolver and began