Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Parson al The will of 11. J. ileinz, the millionaire pickle maker, filed at Pittsburgh, |Pa., disposes of $4,000,000. *• • • Mrs. Thomas J. Preston of Princeton, N. J., widow of Grover Cleveland, (former president, was elected first vicepresident of the Jfc’ew Jersey association opposed to suffrage for women at the annual meeting of that organtz<tlon here. i»• » • U. S. —Teutonic War News Orders were issued to the American military police In Coblens and Treves and to patrols throughout the area of •occupation to tear down Immediately any political posters should they appear. The soldiers also were cautioned to prevent any meetings of political character. • • • • Peace Notes ; The president of China has notified She Chinese delegation at Paris that It s authorized to sign the peace treaty iwith reservation concerning the disposition of Shantung. • • • The French government at Paris has tecelved from the German peace delegation the assurance that It will ask no further extension of time for consideration of the peace terms. The extension granted last week expires Tuesday. • • • Washington

Highly favorable conditions and an outlook for excellent business were [reported at Washington by Director General Hines of the railroad admin'istratlon after an extensive trip through the West. • • • Refusal of the house rules committee at Washington to act immediately on a request that privileged status be given the proposed repeal of the daylight saving law delayed consideration of the proposal in the house. • • • Rapid completion of the navy’s 1916 building program was urged by the general board in a communication presented to the house naval committee at Washington by Secretary Daniels. Plans of the leaders of the bouse at Washington for Investigations of war expenditures of the war department took definite form when Representative Graham of Illinois prepared a resolution providing for the appointment by the speaker of a special committee of 15 members to conduct such an inquiry. • * • Authorization of construction of more capital ships than were included in the navy’s 1918 building program was declared by Secretary Daniels to be “inadvisable,” while testifying before the house naval affairs committee at Washington. The secretary said since the United States had initiated the league of nations it should show its “confidence in that covenant” by not authorizing at this time the ten battleships and ten scout cruisers proposed several months ago by the navy department. • * • Payments of past due and current allotments to families of soldiers and sailors and dependents of Civil war veterans will be made by the war risk insurance bureau at Washington without waiting for the formal signing of the urgent deficiency bill by President Wilson.

• • ♦ Total subscriptions to the Victory Liberty loan were announced by the treasury at Washington as $5,249,908,300, an oversubscription of nearly $750,000,000. • » • Withdrawal of the American forces from Archangel is actually under way, according to cable advices to the war department at Washington, which stated that members of the Three Hundred and Thirty-ninth infantry were awaiting evacuation. • • • Foreign A Christiania dispatch says the Norwegian government has issued a decree prohibiting the publication of newspapers on Sundays and holidays. * • * The Polish diet, according to a report from Warsaw, has unanimously adopted the principle of autonomy for eastern Galicia, a province whose population is half Polish and half Ruthen- • ian. •♦ * I British and American marines have been landed at the Baltic port of Danzig, according to a dispatch received at Paris from Warsaw. A powerful fleet, it Is added, will be anchored off the harbor there. • • * Harry G. Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Mackenzie Grieve, who reached London after being rescued in midocean, were received by King George who bestowed on them the* Insignia of the air force cross. They are the first actual recipients of this order.

The crew of the American airplane NO-4, which made the first transatlantic aerial passage, landing at Lisbon from the Azores, has been decorated with the grand cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword, says a London dispatch. •. • • A Geneva dispatch says airplane mall service has been established between Paris and Geneva. • • • Drabek, a Chicago boxer, was killed at Le Mans, France, in a match with Crldwelle, a Frenchman, the result of c blow over the heart. • • • A London dispatch says wreaths were placed Memorial day on the graves of all American soldiers, sailors and marines who died tn Great Britain. There were nearly 3,000 deaths among the Americans at hospitals and camps In the British isles. • • • A Peking dispatch say’s an agreement has been signed between the Marconi Telegraph company and the Chinese government for the formation of a Chinese national wireless telegraph company. • • • Disorder marked the outbreak of a general strike at Lima, Peru, mobs attacking the offices of several large firms with stones. Troops and gendarmes were called out and are now In control. • • • Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain, it is understood at Paris, is considering favorably a proposal from the American peace delegation that he visit America this year. • • • • A Casablanca dispatch says the French troops have Inflicted a serious defeat on Sherlf Gef Rauman In the region of Tamelett, southern Morocco. The Moroccan chief retreated- • • * ~A London dispatch says Harry Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Grieve, who started May 18 on a transAtlantic air flight from Newfoundland to Ireland, were rescued in mldpcean by the Danish steamer Mary’, bound for Horsens, Denmark. Waterpump trouble compelled them to alight on the sea. They were In the water about an hour. • • •

Domestic Returned soldiers In “pleasing numbers" are co-operating with the federal government to reorganize Its postal service In the Winnipeg district, it was announced at the Winnipeg post office. • • • A Dawson (Y. T.) dispatch says the Yukon legislature has extended the franchise to women In all territorial elections on full equality with men and has asked the Canadian federal government to grant simjlar rights. •. • • Two native Americans and 44 men of Mexican birth, hut citizens of the United States by naturalization, pleaded guilty at Corpus Christi, Tex., to violating the selective service act and were given sentences. • • • The Atlantic ocean has been crossed for the first time in history in an aerial passage, the American navy winning the honor. The American naval seaplane NC-4 accomplished the feat by winging Its way to Lisbon, Portugal, from the Azores, whence it had flownfrom Newfoundland. The flight of approximately 780 miles was made by Lieut. Com. Albert C. Read and his crew of five In 9 hours and 44 minutes. * • * The transport Europa arrived at New York from Marseilles with 15 officers and 1,000 men representing the Three Hundred and Ninth machine gun battalion and the First army headquarters troop.

• • • The Wall street district of New York was the scene of a $25,000 holdup and robbery when Denis Forest, an eighteen-year-old bank messenger, wa attacked and beaten as he was entering a Pine street building. • * * Wiley Glover, self-styled “king of Jefferson county moonshiners,” Is dead and L. M. Felton, his alleged assistant, Is In the county jail as a result of a pitched battle with deputy sheriffs near Sayre, Ala. * • • The American relief administration at New York received for the Jugoslav relief a check for SIOO,OOO, representing a gift of the United States Steel corporation for relief work In Serbia and the Jugo-Slav states. • • • Five children of Alfred Duperron, a farmer living near Sherbrooke, Que., were burned to death and a sixth child is In a serious condition, the result of a fire which broke out while the Duperrons were away. • • • Without the slightest disorder, the Overland, Auto-Lite and Bock Bearing plants at Toledo, 0., idle since May 6 on account of the strike of 20,000 employees, reopened Monday. About 6,000 men resumed their places. • • • Wholesale 'coffee roasters at New Orleans, supplying retail grocers, announced an advance of two cents a pound on parched and ground coffee sold In cans. * • ♦. The form of collective bargaining Submitted by the central strike committee as the basis for settling the strike was rejected by the Winnipeg citizens’ committee. * • ♦ J. Lynch, slayer of Sheriff John Harlow and Harlow’s son March 8, was hanged by a mob at,La Mar, Mo.