Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1920 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Washington The naval appropriation bill, carrying approximately $465,000,000 for 1921 navy expenditures, passed the senate at Washington without a record vote and was sent to conference for adjustment. • * * The Fuller pension bill increasing to SSO a month general pensions of Civil and Mexican war veterans as agreed to In conference between the two houses, passed the house at Washington. •* • « Messages received at Washington from Mexico through official channels state that rebels have occupied the town of Alvarido. The house bill appropriating $300,000,000 for deficiencies In government operation of railroads and $9,000,000 for miscellaneous deficits was passed by the’ senate at Washington and sent to conference. » » • An agreement on the waterpower bill was reached at Washington by the senate and house conferees. ♦ • * Committee increases of nearly $lO,000,000 In the funds for naval aviation were approved by the senate when the annual naval appropriation measure was taken up at Washington. The committee provision for an Initial appropriation of $1,000,000 looking to the establishment of a new naval base on San Francisco bay, was adopted by the senate at Washington without debate. The senate at Washington passed the deficiency appropriation bill including an appropriation of $300,000,000 to defray the expenses of the govment guarantee of earnings to the railroads and $9,000,000 for other Items. • * • Charges that Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of labor, had violated the law “in behalf of aliens who have contempt for this government and who are trying to overthrow it," were made before the house rules committee by Chairman Johnson of the house immigration committee at Washington. • - * • • The federal government at Washington won Its anti-trust suit against the Reading company and affiliated coal companies In one of the so-called anthracite coal cases. By a vote of 4 to 3 the Supreme court sustained the government’s contention that the companies. violated the “commodities clause" of the interstate commerce act, and ordered dissolution of the companies. The rivers and harbors bill was passed by the senate at Washington after It had been amended so as to make the total $24,000,000. as against the $12,000,000 in the bill as passed by the bouse. The following nominations were sent to the senate at Washington to be receivers of public moneys: Perry H. Ross, at Marquette, Mich., and Kurt A. Beyrols at Wausau,

uomesttc Demands for a wage Increase of $1 a day were made by 30,000 meat cutters and butchers upon the “big five" packers, and 35 other Chicago stock yards firms engaged In the meat industry. A gift by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of $2,000,000 to the northern Baptist convention in Its $100,000,000 drive was announced by Dr. John Y. Aitchison. director of the campaign. The murder by strangulation of twenty-year-old Vera Schneider, telephone operator, was solved at Pontiac, Mich., by a confession of Anson Best, twenty-one years old, of Flint, who under a grilling by Prosecutor Gillespie admitted the murder. • * * The bodies of 303 American soldiers, of whom all but 80 died In France, arrived at New York on the army transport Mercury, from Antwerp and Southampton. More than 400 Chicago retail bakers offered the union an Increase of sll a week—s 44 for first-hand men and $42 for second-hand men, the limit the bosses say. The union asks SSO a week.