Today -100: April 22, 1922: Of debts, ghosts, champions, teapots dome, and cannibals

Russia says it will recognize its pre-Communist debts if its government is recognized first. France, to which most of those debts are owed, says it will recognize the Soviet government if it recognizes those debts first.

But will the Russian delegates attend a luncheon for all the delegates given by King Victor Emmanuel? The Italian Communists are asking them not to.

In Carnegie Hall, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle shows pictures of ghosts, including one of his son’s ghost.

The IRA, presumably, smash up the Sligo Champion newspaper to prevent it reporting on Pres. Arthur Griffith’s pro-Treaty meeting.

Sen. Bob La Follette introduces a resolution calling for the facts on the oil leases in Teapot Dome and Elk Hills.

French conservative newspaper L'Echo National claims that Col. William Haskell, head of the American Relief Administration, doing famine relief work in Russia, has been eaten by starving Russians.

Um, he hasn’t been.

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