Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1920 — WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST °F THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Motes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. Washington President Wilson asked Secretary Glass to make another appeal to congress at Washington for authority to loan $150,000,OCX) to Poland, Austria and Armenia, to relieve their des-perate-food situation. ♦ ♦ * • Congress at Washington will be asked by President Wilson to authorize a loan of $150,000,000 to Austria, Poland and other European countries and Armenia for food relief, as requested by Secretary Glass. * * * Dr. Hugh S. Cumming of Hampton, Va., is understood to have been selected to succeed Dr. Rupert Blue as surgeon general of the public health service at Washington. Doctor Blue’s term of office expired January 15. Approximately 3,000 of the 3,600 aliens arrested during recent JUtionwlde roundups of radicals are “perfect” cases of deportation as a result of Secretary Wilson’s decision that the Communist and Communist Labor parties are revolutionary within the meaning of the deportation law, says a Washington dispatch. » * * Three members of President Wilson’s cabinet are 111 at their homes in Washington with severe colds. They are Secretary Lansing, Secretary Baker and Attorney General Palmer. • • • No change in the reservations affects Ing article ten of the League of Nations covenant, or the Monroe doctrine provision of the peace treaty will be acceptable to the Republicans, Senator Lodge informed Senator Hitchcock at Washington.

Foreign Lettish troops have captured Guzyn, the last town in eastern Latvia occupied by Russian bolshevik!, and have reached the Lettish-Russian frontier at many places, according to a official report quoted in Riga advices received at Copenhagen. Much war material and 2,000 prisoners have been captured and lighting continues along the whole front, it is said. * * • Borla Litvinoff, envoy of the Moscow soviet government, who has been negotiating with a British mission at Copenhagen, has informed the British the bolsheviki are ready to demobilize their armies and abandon their world propaganda if the allies will give certain guarantees, according to a CopenJiagen dispatch. * • ♦ 1 The Jugo-Slav reply to the allies’ ultimatum regarding the Adriatic question, received in Paris, amounts to a virtual refusal of the compromise by the Italians. * ♦ • Subscriptions to the new Italian loan have reached 12.000,000,000 lire (nominally $4,000,000,000), according to the newspapers at Rome. ♦ * * Former Premier Clemenceau will leave Marseilles February 3 for Egypt, according to the Paris Figaro. ♦ ♦ • A wireless message from Warsaw,

undated, gives a bolshevik rumor that "red” cavalry has entered Persia and India. . * * • General Denikine and his staff have "taken refuge on board a British vessel at Constantinople, according to a' Zurich dispatch to the Echo de Paris. * * * A San Antonio (Tex.) dispatch says a shipload of Russian bolshevists were refused permission to land at Manzanillo, on the west coast of Mexico. • • • Colonel Blunt and seven other '"American engineers, Miss Ford, Captain Charette and several other members of the American Red Cross, and an entire Polish army corps, composed of former prisoners have been captured by the bolsheviki at Kliuchlnskaya, according to a garbled telegram received at Chita, East Siberia, from Joseph H. Ray, former American consul at Irkutsk. • * * According to the Daily News Dublin correspondent, the amount of the Dail Elreann national loan raised in Ireland has reached one and a half millions sterling. • * • Many Jews have drowned In the Black and Mediterranean seas trying to reach Palestine in fishing smacks, according to a message received at New York by the Zionist organization of America from Isaac Rosoff, president of the Russian Zionist organization. • • • An official statement issued by the government at Moscow says that the bolshevlst peasants' corps has reached the Chinese frontier in the vicinity of Kobdh on the western border of Mongolia.l

' Admiral Von Reuter, commander of the -Interned German fleet at Scapa Flow which was scuttled by her own seamen, was released nt London by the British authorities and left for Germany. * • * The Polish cabinet has signed a mobilization order, says a Warsaw report. The measure was taken, according to the advices, because of the bolshevist advance. z » • • A cold wave of unusual intensity Is prevailing at Mexico City. Forty deaths have been caused among the poorer classes in Mexico City by the cold. • ♦ • A Belgrade dispatch says the Jugoslav government has decided to accept the allies’ ultimatum with regard to settlement of the Adriatic sltudtion. • * • “We have occupied Elizabethgrad and continue to advance in a westerly direction," says a communication from bolshevik headquarters at Moscow received at London, • • • At the Hilary judicial sittings in London, just opened, are 1,544 divorce cases for trial, over 1,000 more than at any previous sitting. Thebe cases are largely due to wartime ruptures in family relations. • » • Twenty thousand families are homeless in the vicinity of Budapest, living temporarily in barns and railway cars. • They are refugees from the section of Transylvania under Roumanian occupation. • • •

Personal As a result of an infection due to his teeth, Senator R. M. La Follette has gone to Rochester, Minn., to enter the Mayo hospital. Accompanying the senator was his son, who is secretary to his father. • • • Domestic Writing in the current number of the Federatlonfst, official organ of the American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers condemns bolshevism “completely, finally' and for all time.” • • • Mayor Harry L. Davis of Cleveland, 0., announced that he will Ke a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor at the coming primaries on a platform calling for the elimination of radicals. • ♦ • At a sale of blooded Poland China hogs held at Champaign. 111., 45 hogs brought more than $20,000. Four young pigs were sold for SIO,OOO and an offer of SIO,OOO was refused for the mother. • * * As a measure of preparedness against riots and serious disorders a regiment of 1,000 sharpshooters and four machine gun squads will be organized by tho New York police department. * * »

Doane college of Crete, Neb., and other schools there are closed and public gatherings prohibited because of an outbreak of spinal meningitis, the state health department reported. ♦ * * The city council of St. Paul, Minn., by a unanimous vote, refused to grant a permit for a proposed Socialist meeting in the municipal auditorium^ at which Victor L. Berger was liste/r tc speak. * * * Prosecution of 150 fellers and manufacturers of 2.75 per cent beer in Chicago is reported to have been dropped by the federal government. ♦ * * Tn an attempted jail delivery at Urbana, 111., Turnkey John McKinney shot and killed Lawrence Barnaby, a prisoner indicted for stealing automobiles. • • • Fire, resulting from a defective furnace, caused the total destruction of five buildings in the heart of the business section of Columbus, O. The loss is estimated at nearly $1,000,000." * * • United States Senator Truman H. Newberry and 123 men prominent in Michigan politics went on trial in the federal district court at Grand Rapids, Mich., charged with conspiracy.

* * * Otis Amidon, collector for the American Railway Express company at Chicago was shot and instantly killed in a revolver battle with three of a quartet of robbers. .i» ♦ • Five* hundred delegates representing sugar beet growers’ organizations of Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Idaho, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Michigan gathered at Denver, Colo., for their convention. • • • Ursula Broderick, sixteen years old, confessed slayer of her father in 1916, was called for trial in juvenile court at St. Louis on charges of having killed her stepfather, Joseph F. Woodlock, a plumber. • * • The 11 alleged Industrial Workers of the World charged with murder in connection with the shooting to death of four former soldiers at Centralia, Wash., lasb November during an armistice day parade, went on trial at Montesano, Wash. ♦ • * Stockmen have received approximately 8 per cent return on their investment during the last five years. Dr.- John A. Donovan of Butte, Mont, estimated io an address at Spokane, Wash.