Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1920 — BRIEF NEWS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

BRIEF NEWS NOTES.

Foreign. Rome, Sept. 18.—Thirty thousand workmen have occupied the factories at Terni, in southern Italy. This is one of the most important industrial towns of the country. The only exception to the factories taken over is the Idros plant, where synthetic ammonia is manufactured and which is controlled by American interests. Cherbourg, Sept. 18.—The body df .Olive Thomas, motion picture actress, who died in Paris recently from mercurial poisoning, is being transported to the United States on the steamer Mauretania. Jack Pick-' ford,. who was the husband of the actress, accompanied the body. Paris, Sept. 18.—The National Assembly which will elect a successor to President Deschanel, whose resignation now is in the hands of Premier Millerand, • will meet at 2 p. m. Thursday, Sept. 23, it was announced today. Domestic. Washington, Sept. 18.—Veterans of foreign wars, at the closing session of their annual encampment here today, voted down a"'resolution disapproving the adoption of the prohibition amendment to the constitution. There were few votes against the rejection. . New York, «Sept. 18.—A SSOO contribution to the Democratic national campaign fund was received here today from President Wilson, who wrote that he was offering the money as a “private in the ranks.” Marion ,0., Sept. 18.—Americanism, its meaning to the foreign-bora citizen and the dangers of a hyphenated citizenship, was the keynote of an address delivered from his front porch today to delegations of fbreign-born citizens by Senator Harding, the Republican presidential candidate.