Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1919 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Washington A senate committee at Washington reported favoring a resolution, sponsored by Senator Lodge (Rep.): of Massachusetts, its chairman, which provides that $600,000, appropriated by congress to meet expenses of regulating the further entry of criminal or other objectionable aliens to American porte; be placed at once at the government’s disposal. 444 Deportation of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman to “White guard” Russia would be a death sentence, Harry Weinberger, their counsel, asserted in a brief filed with the Supreme court at Washington. • • * Omissions in submitted estimates for the coming fiscal year bring the proposed expenditures of the government up to $5,249,470,031 instead of $4,865,400,000, Representative Good (Rep.) lowa, chairman of the appropriations committee, told the house at Washington. • * * Republican senate and house leaders at Washington agreed tentatively to a recess of congress for two weeks, from December 20 to January 5. • • * The case of American Consular Agent William O. Jenkins has been transferred to the Mexican federal supreme court from the Puebla state circuit court, the state department at Washington was advised. • • * Recommendations of the navy general board at Washington for the building program for 1921 include two battleships, one battle cruiser, ten scout cruisers, five destroyer flotilla leaders and six submarines. * * • President Wilson would be “gravely concerned to see any such resolution pass the congress,” he wrote Senator Fall at Washington in referring to the Fall resolution requesting the president to sever diplomatic relations with the Carranza government. No further action will be taken by the senate. • • • Compensation contracts with the Maine Central and Hocking Valley railroads were signed by Director General Hines at Washington. The annual compensation granted to the Maine Central is $2,955,696, and the Hocking Valley $2,637,167. 4• • ♦ regular army of 300,JQOAnen and 18,000 officers was decided on by the house military subcommittee at Washington, headed by Representative Anthony of Kahsas, framing the army reorganization bill. • • • J. Slater Hansen of Mexico City, who furnished the ball upon which W. O. Jenkins, the American consular agent at Puebla, was released, declares that he acted on his own initiative. • • • • The annual report of the commissibner of pensions at Washington shows that $222,129,292.70 paid to 324,427 persons during the year, as compared with $179,835,328-75 to 646,395 pensioners the year before. • « * The department of justice is confronted with “increasingly dangerous radical activities,” Attorney ‘General Palmer said in his annual report, submitted to congress at Washington. • * * Foreign The first Polish profiteer to be executed is M. Brotheimi, who, found guilty of having stolen and hoarded three truck loads of food Intended for the Polish army, was shot dead by a firing squad at Cracow. * ♦ • The bolshevik! have launched a new offensive on the Narva front. After a terrific bombardment ten assaults were repulsed by the Esthonians with heavy losses to the bolshevlkl, according to a Reval dispatch. * * * Creation of a fund of 5,000,000,000 or 6,000,000,000 francs by new taxes Is advocated as the only remedy for the financial situation by Raoul Peret, former president of the budget commission of the chamber a£ Paris. * • * Before' the American peace delegates sailed for home upon the United States transport America ceremonies were held nt the dock at Brest during which the city officials bad® the Americans farewell. * . * * A Tokyo dispatch says that two ocean-going • steamships built for the United States shipping board have been launched In Japanese yards. They were the Eastern Trade, a 13,-000-ton steamer, aud the Eastern Glade, a steel cargo ship. ♦ • ♦ In order to provide work for the uneniployed, the Vatican at Rome has ordered the construction of a huge boarding house for the accommodaItlon of visiting pilgrims and has directed- the erection of other buildings.

Cnpt. Roes Bmltii, the Australian aviator, arrived at Port Darwin, Australia, from England, thus winning a prize of $50,000 offered for the first aviator to make the voyage. • • • The trade union congress In special session at London adopted unanimously a resolution calling upon the government to consider the peace overtures from the soviet government of Russia. • • * , A Paris 'dispatch says the allies have consented to modify soma of the terms of the protocol putting the peace treaty into effect, to which Germany objected. • • • A Berlin dispatch says that the Prussian government has abolished martial law in greater Berlin. • • * Personal Lyman T. Treadway, fifty-seven, .vice chairman of the federal reserve bank of the Fourth district, is dead at Cleveland, 0., from heart disease after an illness of one day. • • * Domestic The strike of 400,000 bituminous coal miners of the country was settled at Indianapolis when the general com'mittee of the United Mine Workers of America agreed to accept the plan offered by President Wilson. » * • H. E. Howard of Winnetka was appointed federal prohibition director for Illinois. He is a graduate of Harvard and was a captain In the Three Hundred and Thirty-first field artillery. • • * The New York Call, a socialist newspaper, again has beten barred from the malls, it announced to its readers. By nearly 7,000 votes, the proposed cost-of-service franchise, giving the city of Minneapolis control of .street car service, was defeated at the special election. • • * Large quantities of radical literature barred from the mails due to its Inflammatory nature have been shipped to Seattle, Wash., in express packages from points in the East, Seattle police ieclare. , • • • An injunction to restrain all members of the Industrial Workers of the World from continuing their practices snd activities in Spokane county, Washington, was petitioned by Prosecuting Attorney Lindsley at Spokane. » ♦ • Six alleged Industrial Workers of the World pleaded guilty In the state circuit court at Tillamook, Ore., to a charge of having violated the state criminal syndicalism act. ♦ » • The theft of a ton and a half of granulated sugar, worth at retail $450, was reported to the Chicago police and a search is being made for two drivers employed by a teaming contractor. * • • Two persons are dead and three are ill, one seriously, at Sioux City, Ja., as a result of drinking alcohol to which what is thought to have been oil of" mlrbane was added. ThfrMead are H. Montgomery and O. Rigby. • * * Kiev was turned by the bolshevik! mto a slaughter house for human beings, according to letters received at Phoenix, Ariz., from Capt. Jay Alklre, head of the American‘Bed Cross misBion. • • • One hundred night riders to patrol Chicago streets and ferret out criminals were asked for in an order introduced in the city council by Aiderman Ross A. Woodhull of the Eighth ward. * * * •

A dispatch to the New York World says Dr. Harry A. Garfield will retire as fuel administrator as soon as a new commission in which his powers will be vested can be named and take office. • * Federal Judge Mayer of New York Sismissed writs of habeas corpus obtained by Alexander Berkman and Ernmd Goldman to* prevent their deportation to Russia and refused to admit them to ball. A complete engraving plant for counterfeiting $5 War Savings stamps was confiscated, and three men and two women were arrested in a house at St. Louis by government agents. * • • Six young bandits, armed with pistols, robbed the Morris Klein loan, bank at Chicago of SIOO,OOO In jewelry and $2,000 In cash In a daring daylight robbery. ♦ • ♦ Senator Truman H. Newberry and 13 of those Indicted *wlth him on charges of violating the election lawa stood mute when arraigned by United States Judgq Sessions at Grand RqpIds, Mich. Bonds were quickly arranged. The Twentieth Century Limited, crack Chicago-New York filer, was cut from the New York Central schedule for the first time since its origin, 20 years ago, by a -coal-saving order issued by A. T. Hardin, eastern regional director of the railway administration. The Broadway Limited, 20-hour Chicago-New York train of the Pennsylvania lines, also was discontinued. • 4 4

The federal grand jury returned indictments against 5Q St. Paul (Minn.) liquor dealers for alleged violations es the war-time prohibition law.