Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1920 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Washington Universal military training as an issue in tire coming campaign will be left for definition to the national conventions. The program of Republican house leaders to omit the training question from the army reorganization bill was accepted by the house military’ committee at Washington. • * * Bainbridge Colby of New York, who was one of the leaders in the Progressive party under Theodore Roosevelt, will succeed Robert Lansing as secretary of state. Announcement of his selection by President Wilson was made at the White House in Washington. • * • Charles R. Crane of Chicago is understood to have been selected by President Wilson as minister to China to succeed Dr. Paul Reinsch, who recently resigned. « • * Tlie president sent to the senate the nomination of William S. Phillips of Massachusetts, to be minister to the Netherlands. Mr. Phillips is now assistant secretary of state at Washington. • • • President Wilson at Washington was asked by George P. Hampton, ■ managing director of the Farmers’ National council, to veto the railroad bill on the “grounds of public policy.’’ •* ♦ 4 The last act of legislation required of congress at Washington to provide for the return of the railroads to their owners was completed when the senaate, voting 47 to 17, adopted the conference report on the Cummins-Esch bill. • • • Efforts of the government at Washington to force down the high cost of living are still futile, the bureau of labor statistics announcing that retail prices advanced 2 per cent between December 15, 1919, and January 15, 1920. Washington, capital of the nation, has a population of 437,414, according to the first returns of the 1920 census just made public, an Increase of 106.345 since 1910. • e • The senate commerce committee at Washington ordered a favorable report on Chairman Jones’ bill prohibiting the sale of the 30 former German passenger liners, except as may hereafter be provided by congress. That it now appears certain estimates for annual appropriations will be reduced by congress at least SL--000,000,000, was asserted by Republican Leader Mondell In the house at Washington. • • • One-cent postage for local or drop letters was approved by the senate post office committee at Washington. Domestic Penitentiary and jail sentences rariging from three to fifteen months were imposed at Cincinnati by United States Judge Peck upon 13 socialists convicted of conspiracy to defeat the military draft. • * ♦ Mexican aviators stationed opposite Eagle Pass, Tex., crossed to Eagle Pass In a body with floral offerings for the funeral of Lieut. Horace Corey of Chicago, an American army aviator killed In a fall. ♦ * • The Farmers’ State bank at Valparaiso. Ind., was closed by state examiners. The last statement showed, December 31, resources, $936,239. There were deposits of $706,487. The Hobart bank also was closed. • * e Miss Anita Whitney was sentenced at Oakland, Cal., to from one to fourteen years In the state penitentiary on a charge of criminal syndicalism. She is well known as a gocial and charity worker and lecturer. * * • Sixty-one still outfits have been seized In and near Okmulgee, Okla., In a week and eight alleged moonshiners arrested. A large quantity of corn whisky and 2,000 gallons of sour mash were confiscated. * * * True bills were voted against Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world, and his manager. Jack Kearns, by the United States grand jury at San Francisco, charging violation of the draft law. e e 3 Prohibition closed the doors of the Case de Paris, formerly known as “Rector’s,” one of New York’s most famous restaurants. -, • • • “There hasn’t been such a hoax put over on the country since the fake armistice report as this report of the ‘rum rebellion’ in Iron county,” said District Attorney Marlon McDonough *t Iron River, Mich. “There is no rebellion in Iron county. It is a clean county. Prohibition is being enforced to the limit and my office is giving the federal agents every aid possible.”

Prohibition Commissioner Kramer halted Dalrymple’s drive on the socalled rum rebellion in northern Michigan. After destroying 450 gal- । lons of home-made “chlantl” at Iron River, the colonel and his men returned to Chicago without making any arrests. * • • Miss Florence Housel, fifty, owner of the Huntington Hall School for Girls in South Pasadena, Cal., was shot and killed in her room by an unknown assailant. • • ♦ Because of the acute newsprint shortage the publicity bureau of the army at New York announced that it had decided to discontinue temporarily its syndicate service to 2,800 newspapers. • e e Eight masked gunmen entered the Tammany club, Eighth assembly district, New York, and robbed 40 members who were playing cards of about $5,000. They escaped before an alarm could be given. Lobbying by class interests at Washington more seriously menaces the government than foreign complications over the League of Nations, Senator Thomas of Colorado declared in a speech at New York. * * * United States customs inspectors at Key West seized about SI,BOO worth of spirituous liquors aboard the auxiliary schooner-yacht Genesee, belonging to W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., of New York city. Personal Franklin Murphy, former governor of New Jersey, is dead at Palm Beach, Fla. was seventy-four years old. ♦ * ♦ Foreign British interests are planning to establish five large banks in Danzig and a steamer service between Danzig, Copenhagen and London, according to Polish radvices to the Vorwaerts at Berlin. e e • Undersecretary of State Moesle has been selected to succeed Mathias Erzberger. who resigned Tuesday as minister of finance at Berlin. Moesle was appointed a deputy to Erzberger on January 27. • • • Heavy losses have been inflicted by French troops upon Turkish irregular forces near Marash, vilayet of Aleppo, Syria, it was announced In the house of lords at London by the earl of Crawford. • ♦ » One hundred and ninety thousand prisoners of war, including 43,110 officers, have been from French camps since January 20, according to an announcement from the French war office at Paris. • * • An attempt has been made to assassinate Prince Regent Alexander of Serbia and Premier Protltch, according to a dispatch from Triest. Both the prince regent and the premier were wounded. • • • Twenty-one thousand kegs of American whisky, Imported by a group of Americans for consumption by thirsty American tourists, have been confiscated at Havre on the ground of illegal importation. • ♦ * Of the 719 deputies chosen In the recent Moscow election 650 -were communists, 24 were sympathizers with communism, 37 were nonpartisan and eight were mensheviki. e e e Workers at Preve di Sollgo, Italy, have seized the municipal buildings and proclaimed a soviet government, according to a Rome dispatch. • * ♦ Food riots are reported at Ludwigshaven. Mobs are said to be plundering shops. Numerous arrests have been made, according to advices received at Berlin. • • e Schools, churches and other public meeting places at Mexico City, Mex., have been closed indefinitely because of Influenza. ♦ ♦ * Mathias Erzberger, minister of finance, voluntarily resigned from the cabinet at Berlin. Erzberger’s resignation came as a climax to a day of sensational testimony In his libel suit against Dr. Karl Helfferlch. • • * Herr Fault, formerly German minister to Cuba and later minister to Bra-zil,-is said at Berlin to have been selected for the post of German charge d’affaires at Washington. ♦ • ♦ It is reported from Damascus that 400 French troops either have been killed or made prisoners by a force of Turks and Arabs near Houran, Palestine. * * • Reports of serious living conditions at Petrograd have been received by Prof. Hermann Zeldler of Viborg, showing that typhus, cholera, and Influenza are taking a heavy toll of the depleted population. Up to January 15 deaths In Petrograd were reaching a total of 8,000 a day. • * * Bolshevik forces have seized Murmansk and shipping In the harbor there, following a revolution which broke out at that port Saturday afternoon, according to a Lloyds dispatch from Vardo, Norway. /