Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1919 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

\Washington A Washington dispatch says President Wilson is not looking for, nor will he seek to get, a vote of confidence from congress on the league of nations plan. • * * The Victory Liberty loan bill was passed by the house at Washington With Just three dissenting votes after a Republican attack had failed. • * * Enactment of the $32,000,000 rivers and harbors appropriation bill providing for 175 new projects was completed. with the adoptiQn of the conference Report in the senate at Washington (without a record vote. ** * * A searching investigation into the itnanner in which A. Mitchell Palmer ihas conducted the office of alien property custodian is demanded in a resolution introduced in the senate at (Washington. i a Washington dispatch suys thousands of American citizens who left the country to evade the draft and escape military service are now anxious Ito return home. Unfortunately for (them they face prosecution and a year tin Jail. • • * The senate naval committee at [Washington without a vote, ordered the $720,000,000 naval appropriation [bill favorably reported to the senate. By a party vote of 8 to 6 the committee approved the new building program, the Republicans opposing. • * * A Washington dispatch says It will cost flie American people about $V 200,000,000 a year for the next 25 years to pay off the war debt, according to estimates of the treasury, based on incomplete knowledge of precisely what the fluul war debt will be. * * •• The house at Washington adopted the conference report on tlie rivers and harbors bill. It carries $33,000,000. • * * The house at Washington formnily voted discharged soldiers, sailors and marines ownership of their uniforms when the conference.report on the uniform bill was adopted Without a record vote.

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The United States government now owes nearly 2,000,000 fighters each With the signing by the president at Washington of the great ?8,000,000,000 revenue bill, which appropriates a bonus of SOO to every service man upon his honorable discharge, every discharged soldier, sailor and marine who has been honorably discharged is now eligible to claim this amount from the governfnent. ; * * * President Wilson will not call an extra session of congress until after his return from Europe. Senator Martin of Virginia, Democratic leader in the senate, made this announcement at Washington after a- conference with the president. * * * The Victory Liberty loan to be floated late in April is expected to be for five billiop dollars, the house ways and means committee at Washington reported in submitting legislation authorizing sale of short-term notes instead of bonds. ►** - # By a strict partisan vote of 9 to 4, the senate banking committee at Washington decided to recommend confirmation of the nomination of John Skelton Williams to succeed himself as comptroller of the currency. * * * Any beverage containing more than one-half of 1 per cent alcohol would be banned by the war-time prohibition act, effective July 1, under a measure approved by the house judiciary committee at Washington. * * * The wheat guarantee bill, authorizing the president to use existing agencies or create new ones to buy wheat of the 1918 and 1919 crops at the government guaranteed price and dispose of it at market prices was passed by the house at Washington by a vote ctf 277 to 15. "i - ... Foreign A Basle dispatch says the leaders of the centrists, social democrats, nationalists and soldiers and workingmen’s councils have issued an address to the people of Baden, declaring themselves In accord with the government. • * * Nasrollah Khan, brothei of the assassinated Ameer of Afghanistan, was reported to have seized the throne. * * * The British home office has decided to expel all interned Germans without exception as they are released from British detention camps,* it is authoritatively learned at London. .-* * * Premier Venlzelos of Greece told the council of ten at Paris that Greece Is willing to accept a plebiscite in Epirus, provided American troops occupy tligt area to “insure fair voting.”

Tfie executive committee of the miners’ federation at London recommended acceptance of Premier Lloyd George’s proposal for a government inquiry and decided to postpone the strike call for five duys. • • • A Cologne dispatch suys riots marked by bloodshed are reported from muny Westphullan towns. The cists are attempting to establish i communist republic similar to Bavaria. • * • A Warsaw dispatch says the Polish foreign office has received a telegram from Lemberg saying that an agreement was reached there for the cessation of hostilities between the Poles and the Ukruiniuns. • * • *A London dispatch says the “day-Ilght-stivlng" plan, whereby clocks of Great Britain are set ahead, will go into effect tills year on March 30. The regulur time' will be resumed on September 28. * * * Lending Jews in all countries agree that Great Britain should be the mandatory for Palestine in the League of Nations, according to a statement given out at Zionist headquarters in London. • * • A Wursaw dispatch says the bolslievlkl having opened the rond from Turkestan to Moscow, a new stream of Russian refugees and Austro-German prisoners of war has started northward. * • * A Geneva dispatch says the American military delegation and members of the Red Cross, who left Berne for Poland in order to control the distribution of food, consists of 25 officers and 35 Red Cross nurses. * • • Despite strong opposition from the socialists who raised the cry of “militarism” the bill providing for a “national army of defense” has passed second reading at Weimar. * * * Former Premier Wekerle of Hungary, and other officials of the old Hungarian regime, are to be placed on trial in connection with their “war crimes,” says a dispatch from Budapest. * * * The ameer of Afghanistan has been assassinated,- according to official ‘information received at London. The ameer’s name was Ilubibulchkan. He was forty-three years old and succeeded to the throne in 1001. » • • Peace Notes Present Indications at Paris are I hat nothing regarding the responsibility r.or the war, beyond a declaration of gtnernl principles, will be included in the preliminary treaty of peace. • * • U.S.—Teutonic War News A Coblenz dispatch.says in reply to ,a demand of the Americans why the delivery of 15 heavy-caliber guns was Relayed, the German delivering commission informed the American receiving commission that the Spartacans In unoccupied Germany were responsible. * * * Deaths In the American expeditionary forces and among troops in the United Stales from all causes during the war, the war department announced at Washington, numbered 107,414 men. • • •

Domestic Private Cornelius Fiske of the famous marines, a hero of Belleau wood, Soissons and Chateau Thierry, was brought to New York a prisoner, charged with desertion from the United States navy. * * * Loss of the big seaplane, No. 3495, with three ensigns of the naval reserve and two machinists, off the \ irginia coast, was officially announced by the navy department at Washington. * * * The Tiogn Oil Refinery at Clarendon, Pa., was destroyed by fire, wdth a loss of $150,000. One fireman was seriously burned. An explosion in a still started the blaze. t ** * j Three men attached to the naval aviation station at Rockaway Beach, N. Y., were killed by the explosion of a depth bomb they were carrying. * * * Two persons were killed and at least thirty-five injured when a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul local passenger train struck a spread rail and plunged over a 40-foot embankment six miles west of Rockford, 111. * • • Lieut. C. L. Price, stationed at Waco, Tex., was killed at Ellington field at Houston, Tex., when an airplane in which he was flying “flipped off” at 150 feet from the ground uud landed in a nose dive. ' * * * Fire of unknown origin swept the square between Fourth &nd Fifth avenues and Bergen and Kingsley streets at Asbury Park, N. J. • * * Chicago Republicans renominated William Hale Thompson as mayor by a pldrality conservatively estimated at between 40,000 and 45,000. Robert M. Sweitzer, Democrat, was a landslide victor over Thomas Carey, his only opponent. • * * Legislation is pending before congress to authorize ‘5200,000,000 federal aid In highway building projects during the next two years, P. St. John Wilson, acting director of the United States bureau, of public raids, declared «t New York.., V ,