The Holly chieftain., 1924-04-24
FOREIGN


Germany accepts the Dawes repara.
tions report in principle. 1. was an
nounced officially in Berlin. The chief
condition Is that an international loan
Is granted enabling Germany to NEE,
her financial obligations. Announce
ment came OTTER meeting of the state
premiers and the cabinet.
While popular demonstrations may
be expected and political capital be
made OF the passage by the Congress
OF the United States of the japanese
exclusion measure, discussion of war
possibilities is apparently strongest in
Washington, as in only isolated and
unimpOrtant cases has such sentiment
appeared in Toxic.
| Russia will not be hurried into any
agreement with England on the ground
that the Macdonald government might
fall during prolonged negotiations, de-
clared NJ. Zinoviev, chairman of the
executive committee of the Third In
ternatiOnale, speaking on behalf of
that body to the Leningrad soviet in
| Moscow
War Minister Trotzky, speaking at
Baku, is reported to have upheld NJ.
Zinovieffs statements that Russia will
not meet the claims put forward by
the British and that an agreement is
possible only II both countries start
with Il clean slate, after which the so
Wet government will meet any obliga-
tions the Russian delegation may sign
at the London conference.
After an absence of nearly six
months from all participation in soviet
affairs, Leon Trotzky, war minister,
has re-entered public life with an ener-
getic and aggressive spirit. He has ad-
dressed numerous political meetings at
Tiflis, Baku, Kharkov and elsewhere,
and he told of plans for physical de-
velopment of the Red troops to enable
them to combat the armies of bour-
Eeois countries more effectively.
Hugo Shines fortune is left to his
widow, Claire SHINES, who is admon-
ished to consult her sons and daugh-
ters In all things affecting the mag
Mates private and business affairs. The
eldest son, DR.. Edmund Hugo SHINES,
will direct the properties in the Ruhr
and Rhineland, while Hugo Hermann
SHINES will oversee the family's inter-
ests at the headquarters In Berlin and
care for the shipping and foreign prop
critics.
GENERAL
Thomas Ruane, II, died in st. Louis
from gunshot wounds received from
the gun of Deputy Constable John
Cosmetics, after Ruane's car had run
down md seriously injured Marie
Walsh, 10. Cosmetics said he fired on
Ruane when Ruane sped away from
the scene of the accident.
Congressman John w. Langley of
Kentucky pleaded not guilty in the
United States District Court at Gov
lngton, KY, to ain Indictment charging
him with having conspired to defraud
the government In the alleged removal
Of whisky from warehouse ut Law
renceburg, Ky, In 1921.
Directors of the Agricultural Credit
Corporation. ut conference in Min
neapOlis. voted $1,OOO,0OU to promote
diversified farming In tile Northwest.
Their action was taken at the request
of President Coolidge. who is anxious
that farmers of the spring wheat area
obtain some of the aid provided in the
Norbeck-Burtness agricultural relief
bill. which was killed in the Senate,
st Paul will be the concentration
point for more than 1000 high-grnde
cows which are to be placed in the
hands of Montana farmers through the
medium of the Montana Mutual Dairy
Loan Association of Missoula, Mont.
Purchase of 180-acre farm, just
north of the state fair grounds ut st.
, Paul for this purpose was announced
II few days ago by Monte Levinson,
general purchasing agent of tile Mon
| tanu concern.
Insects and flies, rather than curses
projected through the ages by mon
nrchs Of King Tut's era, and their
priests and undertakers caused him to
suffer much during the thirty-four
| mas pCNh uNiNiAS IAto tuclI
ancient past, said Howard Carter, who
dug up" King Tut, on his arrival in
New York City on the Berengaria
| Three armed bandits in the presence
| OF score of civilians, with police
posse less than 100 rods. away, held up
two mail clerks of Great Western
train at South st. Paul. Fifty thou
sand dollars in currency was INCLUDED
in the loot obtained by the bandits,
who escaped with five pouches con-
tuning n large quantity Of registered
mail.
Firemen who fought fire in n four
story stone box factory on Chicago S
west side, in which eight firemen and
one civilian We're killed when the walls
| fell, and Il score We're injured, testified
| ut the inquest that oil was found