Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1919 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Personal Vinson Walsh McLean, nlne-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Beal McLean, was run down by an automobile at Friendship, the country mansion of the McLeans at Washington, receiving Injuries from which he died. • • • Washington Exports from the United States in April surpassed the previous high record of last January by nearly SIOO,000,000. The department of commerce at Washington announced the total as $715,000,000, compared with $623,000,000 in January. • • • The equal suffrage constitutional amendment was passed by the house nt Washington after less than three hours’ debate. The vote was 804 to 89, or 42 more than the necessary two-thirds majority. • • • Election of Waldo S. Read, formerly a New York banker, as vice president of the Emergency Fleet corporation In charge of finance, was announced by the shipping board at Washington. • • • A Washington dispatch says the naval seaplane NO-1, which was forced down by fog early Saturday during the transatlantic flight to the Azores, has sunk at sea. The "second of the trio of planes, the NC-3, which was lost for nearly sixty hours off the Azores, is being dismantled for shipment back to the United States. The crew of the NC-1 had been taken off. • • • For the first time in history a message from the president of the United States was cabled from Europe and read to the congress at Washington. Among other things he recommends legislation to halt the prevalent unrest of labor; adoption of woman suffrage and lifting of the war ban on the liquor business. • • • Senator Lodge, Republican senate leader and chairman of the foreign relations committee, in a statement at Washington said the revised league of nations covenant is “unacceptable,’* and predicted it would not be ratified by the majority of the senate without amendment. • • • The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh regular divisions have been released for return to the United States, General Pershing notified the war department at Washington. The four divisions are to sail from France in June. • • • The war risk insurance bureau at Washington, through which 4,000,000 soldiers or their dependents receive payments of insurance, allotments or compensation, is in process of reorganization through the appointment of R. A. Cholmley-Jones, formerly a New York insurance man, as director. • » * A Washington dispatch says following his warning that tl*e administration of soldiers and sailors’ insurance, compensation, allowances and allotments is “on the verge of breakdown and failure,” Col. Henry D. Lindsley resigned as director of the bureau of war risk insurance at the request of Secretary or the Treasury Glass. * * * Creation of a department of education headed hy a secretary of education, who will be a member of the cabinet, is proposed in a bill to be introduced in both houses of congress at Washington. • * • Foreign A Helsingfors dispatch says British ships engaged the bolshevik fleet in the Gulf of Finland. The bolshevlkl fled to Kronstadt after one of their ships had been sunk and another stranded. • * • Violent*rioting is again reported at Stettin, where nine civilians and twenty soldiers are said to have been killed. German troops occupy the station houses throughout the city, according to a Berlin dispatch. • * • Lettish guards have occupied Riga and have executed the most of the bolshevik commissioners there, according to an announcement made by the Lettish information bureau at Copenhagen. • » •. A Paris dispatch says Japan was reported to have recognized the Omsk government, headed by Admiral Kolchak. ♦ • • A Paris dispatch says a Japanese military commission consisting of two captains in the Japanese navy and a medical authority have left Japan for Germany. Their purpose, it is explained, is “to study conditions.” ♦ • * Frederick William Hohenzollern, the former German crown prince, will be liable to trial under the terms of the German peace treaty, It was declared by Andrew Bonar Law, the govern* J ment leader, in the house of commons at London.

An Archangel dispatch nays one bolshevik gunboat la reported to have been sunk on the Dvina river during an engagement between the British river flotilla and land batteries and the enemy fleet. • • • A Constantinople dispatch says that In the fighting which took place after the landing of Greek troops nt Smyrna on Thursday, 300 Turks and 100 Greeks were killed. • • • ' An Archangel special says arrangements are under way to begin the transportation to England of the Three Hundred and Thirty-ninth American infantry wftbih ten days. • • ♦ German war losses up to April 30 last were 2,050,400 dead, 4,207.028 wounded, and 615.922 prisoners, a total of 6,873,410, according to figures published in Berlin. The Ukrainian offensive against the Poles has been completely broken, according to an official Warsaw communique. After hard fighting the Poles occupied Balica and Novaslolkl. • • • Peace Notes A week of grace was granted Germany by the allied and associate# governments at Paris in reply to her plea that so vast was the task of putting all her complaints in writing and so Intricate were the details of the “expert” research required, tliat she could not possibly have all her notes in by one o’clock noon Thursday. • • • The answer of the council of four to the German note regarding reparation, which was handed to the Germans at Paris, points out in reply to the German refusal to admit responsibility for the war that It is impossible to disassociate responsibility from reparation. • • • A Paris dispatch says Italy has relinquished her claims to the Dodecanese islands, off the Asia Minor coast, in favor of Greece. This ends one of the most acute controversies before the peace conference. • • * Domestic Dewey C. Bailey, commissioner of safety and excise, was elected mayor of Denver by a plurality of 8,369 votes, according to returns from all precincts. • • * Forty-five officers and 760 men of the Eighty-second division arrived at New York from Bordeaux on the Sierra. • • • Twenty square blocks of Mobile’s residence section lying near the river front were swept by tire which caused $500,000 property damage, left 1,500 people homeless and destroyed probably 200 buildings. • • • Five youthful bank robbers, operating in a new green automobile, held up and robbed the Baker & Son Savings bank, 5823 West Twelfth street, Chicago, of money, Liberty bonds and other securities approximating $lO,000. • • • The Hoisting Engineers’ union, the largest labor organization in the Butte (Mont.) district, voted not to strike in protest against the conviction ahdrimprisonment of Thomas J. Mooney. ♦ * * Pilot Max Miller of the air mall service established a record when he arrived at Chicago after having flown fj-om Bryan, 0., a distance of 180 miles, in 1:20, au average speed of 130 miles an hour. • * • The French will never make baseball players, according to Bert Laury, editor of the San Francisco Call, who tried to teach the French the game while with the Y. M. C. A. overseas. Members of 16 labor unions at St. Paul, Minn., estimated at 5,000 men, went on strike at 8 a. in. in sympathy with common laborers, who are on strike demanding 50 cents an hour, a raise of 10 cents an hour. • • * A wage increase affecting 30,000 operatives at Lawrence, Mass., was announced in notices posted in the textile mills. Woolen as well as cotton mills are concerned in the advance. • * » The American steamer Lake Placid struck a submerged mine near the island of Vlnga, near Gothenburg, Sweden, and sank in five minutes. All those on board were rescued. • * • The Central Federated union will deliver a strike ultimatum to the Canadian railway war board unless wage Increase demands are met, according to one of the union delegates at Montreal. • ♦ * Sixty students of the high school at Burlingtoh, la., were suspended by Principal Bracewell for attending a dance given after the class banquet in a local hotel, contrary to orders Issued by the principal. • ♦ ♦ Twenty million dollars in gifts and signed pledges of the $105,000,000 sought in the Methodist centenary campaign have already been received. It was announced by Charles Sumner Ward of New York, director general of the campaign. • • • Four masked men In a high-powered automobile drove up to the interstate National bank of Hegewlsch, Hl., forced Lawrence Cox, the president, and Frank Zackarias, assistant cashier, to admit them to the cage inclosure, and took $5,000 in cash.