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Holy War? Moslems mass-met and demonstrated violently against Jews last week in Syria, Transjordania, Irak and Arabia (see map). They shouted "Palestine for the Arabs!," jabbered of Holy War and of the booty to be got by plundering expeditions into Palestine. Syria is a protectorate of France but her civilized soldiers have never been able to quell the wild, rebellious Sultan El Atrash who lives in a mud palace high in the remote mountains and sallies forth on sporadic raids at the head of his hard-riding, fanatical Druse tribesmen. Last week the dread Atrash was reputed...
...editors thought last week that Arabia was the only really likely kindling place for a Holy War. There tall, sagacious, tortoise-spectacled Ibn Saud is Sultan, and King of the Hejaz to boot. He alone has sufficient prestige to galvanize and weld Moslem tribesmen of the Near East into mass enthusiasm for an Islamic pogrom. Last week despatches from Damascus (French Syria) told that 20,000 Arabs had paraded through the bazars shouting: "Long live the unity of Arab peoples under the Sultanship of Ibn Saud...
Died. Col. Abraham Gilbert Mills, 85, of Manhattan, Civil War veteran, Otis Elevator Co. official, onetime (1882-85) National Baseball League president; at his summer home, Terrace Gardens, Mass...
...city amalgamation is this chain. The list of its officers and directors is enough to show that the financial and business interests of a great part of the Northwest are united in it. President is George Harrison Prince, head of First National of St. Paul, native of Amherst, Mass., but acquainted with northwestern banking from the ground up. Now 68, he has spent 50 years of his life in the small and large banks of Minnesota. Vice President is Lyman Wakefield, head of First National of Minneapolis. The list of directors, incomplete last week, is to include the presidents...
Rubber. On 114 acres of land at Akron, Ohio are manufactured some 45,000 automobile tires and 35,000 pairs of rubber boots and shoes every day. On 96 acres of land at Watertown, Mass, are manufactured some 3,500 automobile tires, 150 solid truck tires and 75,000 pairs rubber boots and rubber soled shoes daily. The two will be united. B. F. Goodrich Co. of Akron last week arranged to take over all the assets & liabilities of Hood Rubber Co. of Watertown, paying one share of Goodrich for every two shares of Hood outstanding...