Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1920 — Important News Events of the World Summarized [ARTICLE]

Important News Events of the World Summarized

Sporting Although the Brooklyn Dodgers did not play Monday they clinched the 1920 pennant in the National league. The flag was made a certainty when the New York Giants dropped a game to Boston. • • • Personal Lieut. Col. Wrlsley Brown, chief of the foreign influence section of the army general staff at Washington, resigned to return to private life. Colonel Brown is a lawyer by profession. • « • Col. F. W. Galbraith, Jr., of Cincinnati, 0., was elected national commander of the American Legion at the organization’s second annual convention In Cleveland, O. * « • Prof. Walter Dill Scott, a member of the faculty since 1900 and an alumnus of the institution, has been selected to succeed Dr. Lynn Harold Hough as president of Northwestern university at Chicago. • • • Washington Strikes and lockouts during the year 1!>1H reached the unprecedented numteer of 3.374 ami affected 4,112,507 aeeurding to figures made public by Use hvreaa art labor statistics at * asMtagtaa. ~ — • • • TM pibals tlow of Illinois was art WaaMagton as 0.845.098, «• 'iartwa*** -at SMUV7. or 15 per cent < ■*» tat* law**. The population • , mg ««****. taHudlng Chicago. •M M EMAM7. • • • VtMart «■*■*»• aareeaaed In August «m» WaaMaftoo depart - - * sf 'W*a»* r » • ataMbly detailed «-Mirii da* that 27.W .«K ■ «-*»♦- »#«* akrtpfaed out of -- w **• whswli a* as w wmbumi <a •• - • Uh*'** * **d dairy pr«Mlarta «MMk Aw* wwiwd ww •» .. Mrfy. according *• • «■* ««• WW'*’* t» a ia*aiartaa *« 3 «!.- Ml aa a*»'«» art f»MtX ar SA per eMM *• ******* tean-ert at W '* * w • • •Hala at Wa«hing- *•* raarraiM* t* 0* ** di ••'•a* foe INlMtraf'Mß art* art la* jrtwaea of the SI W srtrtl Ji.** <♦*»* <»S out art iW prafaaard a* -> Japanrw* land law ta California • • *

Fixe hundred guafta of bonded whisky. rained at W.«W. were seized by federal officers at Terre Haute, Ind., In a raid on a place operated by Thomas Gardner, a former saloon* keeper. Nearly 500 soldiers returned from duty in the Rhineland aboard the army transport Antigone, which arrived at New York. Seven hundred bodies of American service men who died in France also were brought back on the ship. * • * District Attorney Lewis of Kings county announced at New York he would start an Immediate investigation of a report that a clique of gamblers plan to bribe members of the Brooklyn Nationals. • • • After Eddie Cicotte, star hurler of the White Sox. had confessed to the grand jury at Chicago that he had accepted a bribe of SIO,OOO as his share of a gamblers’ fund, the jury indicted eight White Sox players for “throwing” the 1919 world’s series to Cincinnati. Joe Jackson, another White Sox star, confessed that he had recglved $5,000 and that he was in on the conspiracy to throw the games. • • * The Sons of Veterans at the closing session of their convention at Indianapolis adopted the red poppy as the Memorial day flower of the order. « * • John J. Jawreski, a farmer living near Otis, and Felix Meroski, who recently purchased a farm' near Furnessville, were killed by a Pere Marquette train at Doraln Station, Ind. A woman, Miss Catherine Doran of Detroit, was nominated for secretary of state by unanimous consent of the Democratic state convention at Lansing, Mich. • • • Eight of ten major league baseball players are already slated for indictment as a result of the September grand jury’s Inquiry Into the baseball scandal at Chicago. The players do pot all belong to one team. Neither are they all In one league. ♦ * ♦ Evidence that the cost of living 18 going dpwn Is plentiful in Chicago. Corn is below the dollar mark for the flrtt time in three years. Oats, rye and barley have declined in lesser degree. Hog prices have declined and the trade in cattle and sheep is dull.. ■ W ■ • “ "'a.

After Claude Williams, dlsgraceu White Sox player, had told the grand jury at Chicago the names of two “fixers” who paid gamblers’ money to eight men on the team to “throw” the 1919 world’s series, the grand Jury Indicted the two men. They are: Joseph (“Sport”) Sullivan, Boston, and a Mr. Brown, New York. / The largest shipment of gold- j -$16,750,000—ever transported across the Atlantic is being brought to New York on the White Star liner Baltic, which left Liverpool September 22, it was reported at New York. • • • Senator Warren G. Harding narrowly escaped injury when his special train was almost wrecked near Millwood, W. Va. One wheel of a truck left the track. No one was injured. • * • Fire of unknown origin destroyed the plant of the Barber Asphalt Paving company, near Perth Amboy, N. J. • • • - Women in Missouri are Ineligible to election ns members of the state senate or house of representatives, according to a ruling by Attorney General McAllister at Jefferson City. • • • The report of the committee on Americanism of the American Legion in second annual convention at Cleveland, 0., recommended the cancellation of the so-called “gentlemen’s agreement” with Japan; exclusion of “picture brides” and rigorous exclusion of Japanese as immigrants. It was adopted unanimously. • • • A 12 per cent price cut was announced at Chicago by one of the largest condensed milk companies in the country. • ♦ • Swift & Co.’s gross profits for 1919 were $14,000,000, according to testimony given befbfe Federal Judge Samuel Alschuler at Chicago, in the stockyards workers’ wage hearing by L. D. H. of the ‘firm.

Next year’s police protection will cost New York $41,318,976, about $lO,000,000 more than in 1920, according to the 1921 budget of Police Commissioner Enright, submitted to Mayor Hylan. • * • The American Baptist Home Mission society at New York has contributed $500,000 to the American Baptist Foreign Mission society for “the relief of suffering Baptist men, women and children in Europe.” * • • Guilty was the verdict returned by a Jury in federal court at Philadelphia In three indictments charging Mrs. Emma Bergdoll with conspiracy in aiding her sons, Erwin 1 and Grover, to dodge military service. • • • About forty persons were injured, four seriously but not fatally, on the Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern railway when interurban trains north and south bound collided head-on east of Brandon, la. * • * The Studebaker corporation, through A. R. Erskine, its president, announced at Chicago price cuts of from $125 to S2OO on all models of Studebaker automobiles, to take' effect »t once. • • *

Foreign According to a Tokyo newspaper, Marquis Shigenebu Okuma, former premier, has decided to devote himself to awakening the Japanese people against “the unlawful attitude of California Americans.” * • * Europe need expect np further help from the United States, the financial conference at Brussels was informed by Roland W. Boyden, unofficial American representative, In a speech that rather startled the assembly. • * * Russian Bolshevik representatives at the peace conference at Riga have submitted to Polish delegates suggestions for the boundary line between Poland and the states adjoining to the east. • • * A Constantinople dispatch says that Armenians at Bayazld in the vilayet of Erzerum are reported to have been massacred by Tartar bands from Mount Ararat. ♦ • • The evacuation of Proskurov, to the east of the old Galician frontier, is reported in the Russian soviet official statement of Monday, received at London by wireless. • * * Sadi LeColnte, the famous French aviator, won the international airplane race for the James Gordon Bennett trophy at Etampes. He covered the course of 186.3 miles in 1 hour and 6 minutes. * • * Twenty-five persons were killed In rioting at Gepsan, Korea, when Korean students attacked and destroyed branches of the Korean Industrial bank, the Oriental Development company and seven Japanese houses. • * * Figures compiled by the census bureau and other government departments at Washington Indicate that the number of women in the United States over twenty-one years of age Is 28,035,000, of whom approximately 26,500,000 are eligible to vote. • ♦ • Freedom of world trade is the most essential condition for increase of production, which must bring about economic restoration of the world, Kogo Morl, Japanese commissioner In London, told the Brussels financial conferees.