Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1920 — News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers [ARTICLE]

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

Sporting Gaston Chevrolet drove an American car to victory in the International sweepstakes at Indianapolis Speedway before a cheering multitude of 125,000 spectators. Chevrolet, piloting a Monroe special, made the 500 miles In 5 hours, 40 minutes and 16.14 seconds, an average of 88.16 miles an hour. His is the first American-made car to win the event in seven years. * « • Politics A plank demanding' a nonintervention policy in Mexico may be included In the labor platform presented the Republican and Democratic national conventions by a committee of the American Federation of Labor headed by Samuel Gompers, it was4earned at Washington. • * • Gov. William C. Sproul at a caucus of Pennsylvania national delegates at Philadelphia announced that his name would be presented to the Republican national convention as a candidaterfor president, but was opposed to the delegation taking any formal action as a unit. • * • Two Lowden delegates from the Fourth Missouri district, one a recipient of $2,000 from the Illinois governor, according to testimony befort the senate committee on campaign expenditures at Chicago, were thrown out by the Republican national committee. The men denied credentials were John S. Boyer and H. N. Albus, both of St. Joseph, Mo. * * • Gen. Leonard Wood gained two delegates to the Republican national convention at Chicago when the national committee seated Frank J. Hogan and James J. Cobb, representing the District of Columbia. • • • The Republican national committee began the task of making up the temporary roll of the convention at Chicago. One contest only was decided. This was the Arkansas one. The “lily white” delegation, the majority of whose members are claimed by Governor Lowden’s friends, was seated. • ♦ • ’ Domestic Representatives of the nation’s railroad workers told the United States railway labor board at Chicago that only “an Immediate and partial award of an increase of nt least 18 cents per hour to all railroad employees pending final settlement of their wage demands will meet an increasingly critical situation and prevent a complete collapse of transportation in the United States.” • » • Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Gov. Henry J. Allen of Kansas debated at New York the modern industrial .question: Is the right to strike inalienable? Is a law preventing strikes that-affect the production or distribution of necessities of life an infringement upon liberty of the-worker? Are the interests of the public* paramount? Can society act to protect itself? ♦ * ♦ Forty-two persons were injured, four seriously, at Liscomb, la., when a squad of former soldiers fired a Memorial day salute. * ♦ • Five persons were kille<L'- and a score injured in a head-on collision of two St. Louis & San Francisco passenger trains near White Oak, Okla. • * * Anthracite coal mine workers will abide by any decision of the presidential coal commission to settle their wage dispute and all danger of a stoppage of work in the hard coal region has passed, according to an announcement made at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. • * * Sailors and marines from the Great Lakes station renewed the race rioting begun between negroes and bluejackets in Waukegan, 111. The uniformed men charged the Shetman hotel, center of the negro district. They were beaten off by provost guards from the Great Lakes station. Two marines were wounded. ♦ * ♦ Expressing the hope that his action would serve as a moral lesson to all dealers throughout the country* 'who may be charging unjust prices for necessities, Federal Judge'Harland B. Howe of Burlington, Vt., imposed a $55,000 fine on the John A. Roberts company of Utica, N. Y„ convicted of profiteering in clothing. ♦ » * Miss Grace Hampton of Santa Barbara and Roger B. Thompson of San Francisco, son of W. O. Thompson, president of the University of Ohio, were killed at Santa Barbara, Cal., when an automobile in which they were riding ran into a stone bridge near Carpinteria. * * * Martin Kowalczky, Peter Sarneckl and Joseph Ballman of Chicago were found guilty by a jury before Federal Judge Landis of violating the prohibition . law by selling “moonshine” » whisky.

The Delaware legislature adjourned line die without ratifying the Susan 18. Anthony federal suffrage amendment. • • • Cheaper collars were promised at New York when representatives of >ne of the largest collar manufacturing corporations of New York nnaounced that wholesale prices had seen cut to enable retailers throughjut the country to sell its product at 25 cents each. They are retailing as high as 35 cents. * • • Declaring that they cannot live on present wages and expressing the belef that the railway wage board will ?rant their demands, 300 delegates rep•esenting the United Brotherhood of Railway Maintenance of Way Emjloyees and Railway Shop Laborers )pened a convention at Chicago. • • • - ■ Personal Mr. and Mrs. William Howard Taft at New Haven, Conn., announced the engagement of their daughter, Helen, to Frederick Johnson Manning, instructor in history Jn Yale university, and former arniy lieutenant. The marriage will take place in Canada in July. * * • Foreign Polish troops have taken the offensive between Borisov and Bobruisk on the center of the front, which Is under attack from the Russian bolsheviki, and occupied the line of the Beresina river, according to an official statement issued at army headquarters in Warsaw. • « • Mastering a tempest that was raging in the Hankone mountains, 40 miles southeast of the metropolis, the Italian aviators, Lieutenants Masiero and Ferrari, arrived in Tokyo, completing a flight of 12,000 miles from Rome. Tills is the longest airplane flight in history. • • • America’s Memorial day in France was made virtually a joint FrancoAmerican ceremony by the presence of French military and civil authorities at all services in the nearly 500 groups of graves in France. On many programs French outnumbered Americans and prominent Frenchmen everywhere took part in the exercises. * * * ’ Threats by Villa to destroy the property of the Alvarado Mining company at Parral, Mex., unless he was given $50,000, were reported to the state department by the American consul at Chihuahua. * • • Washington A complete agreement on the house merchant marine bill was reached by house and senate conferees at Washington. Under the agreement provisions providing for a permanent shipping board of seven members were retained. The bill provides for a reserve of $25,000,000 annually. * * * Charging that Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of labor, had a “perverted sympathy” for the criminal anarchist, Attorney General Palmer told a house committee at Washington that in dealing with attempts of the government to rid the country of dangerous aliens, Mr. Post had employed a “self-willed and autocratic substitution of his own mistaken personal viewpoint for the obligation of the public law.” • • * Provisions of the war revenue act requiring the president and federal judges to pay an income tax on their salaries were declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme court at Washington in a 7 to 2 decision. Under the act the president paid on his salary of $75,000 a year, approximately $16,000 in taxes. ♦ ♦ ♦ Agreement on the $436,000,000 annual sundry civil appropriation bill was reached by senate and house conferees. • * * Anthracite miners and operators formally announced at Washington acceptance of President Wilson’s offer for the appointment of a commission to decide their wage controversy. ♦ » * President Wilson signed the annual agricultural appropriation bill, which continues in force the present cotton futures contract, under which trading on the cotton exchanges is carried on. » » * The house passed the soldiers’ bonus bill by a vote of 289 to 92. All officers and men under the rank of captain are included in the bill as passed by the house. ' Five forms of adjusted compensation are provided. The cash bo-, nus is to be paid on the basis of days , served., • • f After making slight modifications in the house bill broadening the powers of the government to deport alien anarchists and to prevent their admission into the country, the senate immigration committee ordered the measure favorably reported. * ♦ * The United States senate was heckled from the galleries by a dozen women sympathizers with the cause of Irish freedom. The women were busted by ushers. ♦ * * The elevator law of North Dakota 'was held valid by the United States Supreme court at Washington. The North Dakota legislature passed a law authorizing expenditure of state moneys raised by taxation, in the establishment and operation of state grain elevators for the convenience 1 and profit of its citizens. ,