Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1920 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Washington Any reduction of income and excess profits taxes to be collected in the calendar years 1920 and 1921 would be “manifestly unsafe,” Secretary Houston declared in a letter to the house ways and means committee at Washington. Simplification of those taxes was urged, however. More foreign governments are represented by embassies and legations in Washington than in any other capital in the world. In all 42 countries have accredited representatives there. ♦ ♦ ♦ The total loss to the government ns a result of the Supreme court's decision that Stock dividends are not taxaide will not exceed .$25,000,000, in the opinion of most treasury experts at Washington. » * * The American government at Washington has sent two notes to Bolivia and is preparing to send a third requesting that there be no breach of peace in South America. ♦ * • Unpaid Interest on loans to foreign governments, accruing up to November last, totaled $236,240,114, while the estimated interest for next year is $463,225,613, Secretary Houston Informed the senate at Washington. A government credit of $1,000,000,000 to enable Germany to buy foodstuffs and raw materials in this country is proposed in a bill introduced in the house at Washington by Representative Thomas F. Smith.

After only brief discussion and by unanimous vote, the senate foreign relations committee at Washington favorably -reported the nomination of Charles R. Crane, formerly of Chicago, to be minister to China. Low pay has depleted the professional personnel of the public health service, Surgeon General Cumming at Washington said, until the is entirely inadequate to care for former soldiers In addition to its regular work. • ♦ • Population statistics for 1920 announced by the census bureau at Washington Included Eldorado, Kan., 10,995, increase 7,866, or 251.4 per cent. H • * No new warship construction is authorized in the annual navy appropriation bill as ordered favorably reported by the house naval committee at Washington. * * • One hundred and four million dollars is provided for continuing construction of the 1916 building program in the revised naval appropriation bill for 1921, completed by. the sub-com-mittee of the house naval affairs at Washington. * ♦ * Food relief for Europe was assured when the house at Washington passed a bill permitting the Unitofl States Grain corporation to sell 5,000,000 barrels of soft wheat flour on long-term credits to Poland, Austria and Armenia. * • •

The new reservation drafted by Republican leaders to deny the obligations of article 10 of the peace treaty was substituted in the senate for the reservation which was adopted last November.* • • • Domestic Striking coastwise longshoremen attacked 25 negro strikebreakers at New York and, after shooting down two of them, dispersed the remainder. Two policemen witnessed the attack, but no arrests were made. • * * Two armed bandits entered the Lorain avenue branch of the Cleveland (O.) Trust company when the bank opened, held up Cashier George Travnlkar while he was making up a payroll, secured $12,000 In cash and escaped in an automobile. » * * Five known dead and thousands of dollars’ damage to property was the toll of the two-day blizzard which swept North Dakota—the worst In more than 30 years, says a Bismarck dispatch. ♦ • ♦ Former Gov. Eiflmet O’Neal announced his candidacy at Birmingham, Ala., to succeed the late Senator Bankhead on a platform declaring for the sale of light wines and beerand for ratification of the peace • • * The Ward line steamship Esperanza, which went-aground off the coast of Yucatan, Mex., has been floated and arrived safely at Progresso, Mex., according to a message received by the Une at New York. * • • Safeblowers opened two safes on seventh and eight floors of the Weightman building at Philadelphia and secured- $410,000 worth of bonds. A landslide In the Panama canal has closed the channel to deep draft vessels. _ <-• -

Corporation Counsel Burr of New York instructed the transit construction commissioner to notify the Interborough Rapid Transit company that if it did not at once improve its service the city would on 30 days\ notice take over and operate its subway and elevated lines. • • • The picric acid plant at Plrron, Ark., was sold by the war department at Washington to H. C. Couch, representing a group of Liftle Rock business men, for $770,000. • * • August 8, 1910, Miss Ella Palmer of Hammond, Ind., while a visitor In Buffalo, N. Y., wrote a postal to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Palmer. The postal card just arrived. • • • The farming town of Grandview, Tex., of 1,000 inhabitants, is virtually in ruins from a fire which destroyed seven of the eight business blocks and 200 residences, causing $2,000,000 damage. • * * Grover C: Ragsdale of Sarah, Miss., formerly a lieutenant in the air force stationed nt Rockwell field, San Diego, and Roy 11. Bell of Senatobia. Miss., were killed at Memphis when their plane fell. • * « Leola and Lillian Brule, aged eight and four, were killed near Escanaba, Mich., when they were struck by a Northwestern train. Snow banks were too high for the children to climb over. » * * Five negroes were killed, between twenty-five and thirty-five injured and twenty-five tenant homes were destroyed by a tornado in W ashington county, near Percy, Miss. • * * Five hundred gallons of high-proof brandy were stolen by burglars who entered the bonded warehouse at Sandusky, O. The value of the stolen liquor Is estimated at SIO,OOO. • • •

Personal Former United States Senator Samuel W. Blair of New Hampshire died at Washington Sunday, death being ascribed to his age, eighty-five years. Foreign Soviets have been established In seven big rail centers of Germany, including Stuttgart, the Wuerttemberg capital, where Friedrich Ebert is trying to form a new government. The supreme battle for possession of Berlin began at seven o’clock at night with a terrific concerted attack by the Spartacists, who captured the railway stations of Strausberg and Vogelber. * * • Grover Cleveland Bergdoll of Philadelphia, millionaire draft dodger, has been found guilty of desertion by a court-martial on island, New York. A Berlin dispatch says Spartacists have annihilated an entire battalion of the National Guard and captured a battery of artillery in the Ruhr district. * * » Police authorities at Geneva declare that investigations they have made relative to the bombing of pie American consulate at Zurich confirm their theory that the attack was a bolshevik outrage. * • * Queen WilheTmina of Holland has published an official decree granting the ex-kaiser the right to reside in Holland, according to an unofficial dispatch.from The Hague. ... k * • Constantinople was occupied Tuesday morning by allied forces nnder Gen. Sir George Milne of the British army. An exchange of shots resulted In which several were killed.

A London dispatch says sunken treasure worth £50,000,000 (normally $250,000,000; about present exchange value) has been raised since the war began around the British isles. • • * Four hundred workmen were killed and many scores were wounded at Kiel when a cruiser bombarded an organized workers’ camp that had been established on the heights of Eckernfoerde. * • • A number of persons were killed and several wounded in clashes between soldiers and crowds in the suburbs of Berlin. The soldiers used rifles and machine guns. In fighting at Dortmund, Westphalia, several were killed or wounded. General strike and chaos engulf the whole of Germany, despite the reported "settlement” between Dr. Wolfgang Kapp and the Ebe/t regime and the surface breakdown of the militarist revolution. • * * A revolt has broken out among several units of the Japanese army in Siberia, according to a wireless dispatch from Moscow. The officers tore off their shoulder straps and substituted red • • ♦ A military patrol at Geerlltz, Prussian Silesia, having been driven back by a crowd, fired on and killed two civilians, according to a dispatch from Berlin. t,* * * A Dutch destroyer arrived off the Island of Wierlngen to re-enforce the land guards keeping a close watch on the former German crown prince. * * • The crew of an American steamer has mutinied off Puntalas. The captain of the vessel sent a wireless message to Cadiz asking for assistance.