Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1920 — Happenings of the World Tersely Told [ARTICLE]

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

Washington Admiral Hugh C. Rodman, commander in chief of the Pacific fleet, told the senate investigating committee at Washington that Rear Admiral Sims’ letter to Secretary Daniels criticizing the navy’s part in the war was “very Indiscreet.” • • • Solidarity among Latin-American nations must replace the Monroe doctrine as the protective policy of those countries, President Carranza of Mexico declared In a recent interview, Washington reports. • • • Charles P. Summerall and Henry J. Jervey were nominated by President Wilson at Washington to be major generals in the regular army. Both men have the emergency rank of major general. Congress at Washington was asked formally to appropriate $420,727,341 to wind up the affairs of the railroad ndminlstratlonrWalker D. Hines, railroad administrator, placed the loss resulting from the government’s experience in federal control at $900,478,756. The United States government has addressed a note to France protesting against the occupation of Frankfort and other German cities, it is learned upon highest authority at Paris. The note is understood to be framed in the clearest possible terms. • * * The senate naval affairs committee at Washington unanimously decided in favor of the establishment of a deepwater naval base on San Francisco bay. • * * A Washington dispatch says the entire American merchant marine, valued at more than $3,000,000,000, is to be sold.

« • • Domestic Brig. Gen. William S. Graves, commander of American forces in Siberia, with his staff of 32 officers and 300 men, arrived at Manila, P. 1., on the army transport Great Northern from Vladivostok. Charles E. Hughes of New York has been retained by the United Mine Workers of America as chief counsel to defend the 43 union officials under federal indictment In Indianapolis on charges of conspiring to raise coal prices. • * * A suit .to set aside the decree of divorce granted to Mary Pickford, now Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, will be filed at Reno, Nev., by the attorney general of Nevada, according to a statement made by Robert Richards, deputy attorney general. • * • Four men were killed and several injured in an explosion at the plant of the Aetna Explosive company at Fayville, near Cairo, 111. * * * The Cunard liner Carmania arrived at New York from Liverpool with $lO,000,000 In gold bullion. • • ♦ t ~ A steamship which arrived at Halifax, N. S., on the way from Liverpool to New York, had aboard gold valued at $10,000,000 destined for the United States subtreasury in York. * • Ten persons were drowned near Lowndesville, S. C., when a flatboat used as a ferry capsized on the Savannah river, which is about eight feet above the normal stage due to recent rains. • ♦ *

John Fisher, seventy-six years old, declared to have been the inventor of the kitchen cabinet, was found dead at Muskogee, Okla. There were wounds on the forehead and the upper part of the body. * » * The resignations of 1,250 Chicage firemen, filed with Fire Marshal Thomas O’Connor Satuijday night, were ordered withdrawn at a meeting of members of the organization. * ♦ * Executives of surface and’elevated lines at Chicago were notified that members of the employees 'organizations have voted to reopen question when the present agreement expires May 30. ♦ ♦ • A Redding (Cal.) dispatch says Lassen Peak was in eruption for a brief period. Columns of smoke or steam ascended from the south end of the crater for about 30 minutes. • • • Two teen In a motorcar held ur the messenger of Swift & Co., packers, on the Twenty-third street viaduct at Kansas City, Mo., and escaped with a handbag containing $45,840. Mrs. Mittie Jester Cumming, the “ten-minute bride,” was acquitted at Hampton, Va., of the charge of mur dering her husband. • ♦ • i Two thousand miners employed at" jten mines in the Kansas coal fieM» are on "strike, it was announced al Pitfsbufgt

Train service throughout the" Chicago district, already periouzly crippled by the heavy snowstorm, was practically demoralized by an unauthorized strike of switchmen and yardmen, called by a newly formed “outlaw” union. Maj. Gen. W. L. Sibert gave up command of Camp Gordon, near atlanta, Ga„ announcing he bad retired from the army and that after a rest at his farm near Bowling Green, Ky., probably would take up engineering work. • • • A 44-mlle gale, blowing Into Chicago, brought with It a five inch mantle of snow and dressed the city in white Easter garb. It was the worst day for Easter in the history of the weather bureau. * • • The torpedo boat destroyer Peary, named in honor of the late Rear Admiral Peary, was launched at the Cramps shipyard at Philadelphia on the tenth anniversary of his discovery of the north pole. * • • The ninetieth annual three-day general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon) opened at Salt Lake City with many thousands of people present. • * • Politics An uninstructed delegation to the Republican national convention was elected at Providence, R. 1., without opposition by state and district Republican conventions. • • • • • The Socialists carried ’ the Davenport (la.) city election, electing all city officers and five out of eight aidermen. • • ♦

Personal Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo, youngs est daughter of President Wilson, gave birth to a daughter at her home In New York. The child will be christened Mary Faith McAdoo. It Is the second child. • • • • Charles H. McCulloch, Jr., president of the Lackawanna y Steel company, died in a Baltimore hospital, according to a telegram received at the offices of the company at Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. William Martin, seventy-one, medical inspector of the United States navy, retired, and noted for his work in combating yellow fever in Florida and Louisiana, died at San Francisco, Foreign x Three men, three women, and a boy were killed and a number were wounded when colored French troops were forced to shoot into a crowd on Schlllerplatz which was menacing the Imperial hotel, headquarters of the French army at Frankfort. * • • French troops are still arriving in Frankfort. Thirty thousand are now on the ground, their arrival causing a cessation of street traffic for hours, Marshal Foch was expected there, says a Berlin dispatch. • * • A great military conspiracy, which was to have been a Bavarian parallel x to the recent Berlin revolution, has been discovered in Munich, it was announced at Berlin. Part of the plan was that General Ludendorff be made dictator over Bavaria. • * » Japan will not withdraw her troops from eastern Siberia at once because of the dangers which threaten her subjects in Manchuria and Korea, according to a Tokyo dispatch. • • • A Mayence dispatch says French troops have occupied Frankfort, Darmstadt, Hanau, Homburg, and Dieburg. The occupations of the cities were mere military marches, and was not attended by fighting, the German garrisons having left to avoid contact. * * •

Japanese troops occupied Vladivostok after eight hours of severe fighting In all parts of the city. The Japanese imperial flag is flying in the place of the Russian ensign from all government buildings. * * ♦ A Canadian air force is to be formed Immediately, says a dispatch from Ottawa. The personnel will be drawn from volunteers from the ranks of men formerly in the royal air force, resident in Canada. The force - will probably be limited in the beginning to about 5,000 men. • • • A Geneva dispatch says thousands of German refugees, the majority of them wealthy, are gathering on the northern Swiss frontier and unsuccessfully demanding entrance Into Switzerland. • * * It is announced at Barcelona, Spain, that for the first time in four years the city is virtually free from strikes. Only hairdressers are out. • • • Beyond tjie bare statement that French troops have occupied Frankfort, Darmstadt, Hanau, Homburg and Dieburg, without bloodshed, the French foreign office at Paris declines to give out any details either of the military operations or flie government’s plan in Germany. • * * On the Caucasian front the bolshevlkl are advancing along the Black sea toward Nohougskala, northwest of Touapse, according to an official statement sent out by the soviet government at Moscow. _ .