Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1920 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

• • • A resolution requesting President Wilson to send an American warship and marines to Batum, on the Black sea, to protect the lives and property at that port and along the railroad to Baku, was reported unanimously by the senate foreign relations commitee at Washington. • • • President Wilson at Washington signed a bill amending the deportation law so as to make possible the deportation of Germans and other aliens who were interned during the war as enemy aliens. * • • Bills authorizing the treasury at Washington to coin special 50-cent pieces In commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of Maine and Alabama to statehood were signed by President Wilson. • • • Secretary Daniels, before the senate investigating committee at Washington made his long-awaited reply to the criticism of Rear Admiral Sims of the navy’s part in the war. The naval secretary let go a broadside which Included charges that Sims lacked vision, belittled the work of the American navy in contrast to the British, coveted British decorations and aspired to become an honorary member of the British admiralty. • • • Census reports Issued at Washington included: Champaign, 111., 15,873, an increase of 3,452, or 27.8 per cent; Urbana, 111., 10,230, an Increase of 1,985 or 24.1 per cent; Canton, 111., 10,928, an increase of 475, or 4.5 per cent. * * • The shipping board at Washington, under a decree signed by Justice Bailey in the District of Columbia supreme court, Is perpetually enjoined from selling the 20 former German liners seized when the United States entered the war. * • •

Domestic William J. McClendliss, superintendent of the Chicago-Omaha aerial mail division, was killed when an airplane in which he was riding was blown Into a tree four miles south of Oskaloosa, la. * * * Charged with attempted blackmail of a Catholic priest of Kenosha, Wis., Mathew Turk and Dewey Daggerty were held to the federal grand jury by a United States commissioner at' Toledo, O. ♦ ♦ ♦ Perry W. Blacklear, twenty-four years old, of San Diego, Cal., former army air instructor, was killed at 4jnerlcus, Ga., in a fall of 1,500 feet while flying alone in a German Fokker machine, rs’’ -* .v" ♦ • • James Cdosimo, one of the Chicago underworld’s most famous characters, keeper of a restaurant in the old “redlight” district, was shot and killed in one of his case rooms. • • ♦ Persons desiring to journey to the oasis at Juarez, Mex., opposite EI Paso, will have to pay a fee of $2.50 to have their tourist permits .psed by the new revolutionary* government. Henry Labarre Jayne, z lawyer and leader in political reform movements died at Philadelphia, a®ed sixty-three

Clarence Coombs, piloting an Orcnco plane with three passcugers and himself, rose to the height of 16,200 feet, a new ./orlds record, over Mitchel field at Mineola, N. Y. The record is vouched for by officials. * • • Henry B. Matthews of Decatur, 111., and his companion, Frank B. Hornret, were killed and their bodies burned when a passenger train struck their automobile at Bell crossing near Mnttoon. » • • Directors of Libby, McNeill & Libby, at Chicago, voted a 50 per cent stock dividend on the 1,280,000 shares of stock, par value $lO each. Stockholders will be asked to authorize the distribution of the dividend. • * • Joe Tendler of Philadelphia knocked Papin, the French pugilist, out in the sixth round at Jersey City, N. J. The Frenchman took a fearful beating. • • • Politic* Edmund M. Wasmuth was unanimously re-elected Republican state chairman at a meeting of the state central committee at Indianapolis. ♦ ♦ ♦ Representative Henry L. Flood of Virginia was elected chairman of the Democratic congressional committee at Washington, vice Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma, resigned. ♦ • • The Socialist party’s national convention at New York went on record as opposed to the dictatorship of the proletariat in voting down an international Socialist declaration of principles. x —— United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts was chosen to deliver the “keynote speech” as temporary chairman of the Republican national convention by the convention subcommittee of the Republican national committee at Chicago, which also decided that someone else shall be permanent chairman of the convention. * • • Illinois Republicans at Snrlncfleld

turned thumbs down on Mayor WH* 11am Hale Thompson of Chicago and gave Gov. Frank O. Lowden a sweeping Indorsement. After seven hours' debate the Thompson platform wau defeated by a vote of 1,110 to 631. Lowden now will go Into the national convention In Chicago with the entire support of the state delegation. Foreign A London dispatch says the negotlatlons between Denmark and soviet Russia, which has been going on for some time with the view to resuming trade relations, were broken off. • • • A rebellion has occurred in Moscow, but appears to have been successfully quelled by the soviet government, according to private advices received at Copenhagen. • * • Gen. Alvaro Obregon, who fled from Mexico City, disguised as a brakeman, April 13, returned at the head of several thousand troops. * • • * , ’-1 A soviet government has been established in Erlvan, says a dispatch from Constantinople. The old Erlvan government has fled. Soviets also have been seU up in other trans-Caucasian centers. * • • President Carranza, at the head of a large body of loyal troops, is holding out against attacks by enemy forces near San Marcos, according to dispatches received at Vera Cruz. For eight hours during the fighting he personally directed the operations. • * * Forty-six Germans ranking from an army corps commander to a simple private, figure on the allies’ first specified list of alleged war criminals to ba arraigned in the Leipzig supreme court. • • • Rear Admiral Harry S. Knapp, commanding the United States naval units, arrived at Constantinople on the cruiser Pittsburgh from Black sea ports, bringing with him 50 American relief workers.