Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1920 — WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S EVENTS IN SHORT FORM

BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. . I ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled In Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. Washington A Washington dispatch says the United States has definitely informed both Great* Britain and France that It will not, under any circumstances, participate in the blockade against soviet Russia. ■ • • * Secretaries Daniels and Colby conferred at .Washington regarding Mr. ■Colby’s contemplated trip to South America. The naval secretary formally tendered the secretary of state the use of a warship for the trip. • * » Telegraphic orders were sent- out by the War department at ashington to recruit the Second division to full strength at once. No explanation of the order was given. • * • Injunction restraining the Iron Molders’ union, local No. 68, from Interfering with the business of the Niles Tool Works company, Hamilton, 0., was refused by the Supreme court at Washington. • • * Liquor lawfully acquired by a person for his personal use may he stored in a place other than his home under a ruling by the Supreme court 1 at Washington. Transportation also Is allowed. • « * A record crop of corn, exceeding the previous largest crop by 75,000,000 bushels, was announced by the Department of Agriculture at Washington, placing production this year at 3,199,192,000 bushels. • • * • Sale of the 9,400-ton steel cargo ■steamer, Charles M. Cramp, to the Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Steamship company of Baltimore for $1,739,000 was announced by the shipping board at Washington. • • •

Soft coal production for the week of October 30 was 12,338,000 tons, a new maximum for the year, figures made public by the United States geological survey at Washington show: ** * . □’resident Wilson at Washington has begun work on his annual message to ■congress which ’will be transmitted •either on the opening day of the next session on December 6 or on the day following. * ♦ • The tariff bill to be passed by the Incoming Republican congress promises to be the most drastic protective measure that has ever appeared upon the federal statute books, according to leaders at Washington. । • • * Jn silent protest of England’s alleged oppression of Ireland, 500 members of the Friends of Irish Freedom marched three times around the White House at Washington. * * * Domestic c Sixty-one undesirable aliens, traveling in two special cars heavily guarded by Immigration officials, at New* York from Chicago and the Far West and were taken to Ellis island for deportation. ♦ * * "Detroit will be the twelfth club in the new National league. This means that Detroit will have two clubs. Frank Navin will continue to conduct the affairs of the Detroit Americans, ■according to a Chicago dispatch. * * * Maj. Robert Wilson McGlaughry, ■once chief of police of Chicago, former ■warden of Fort Leavenworth and Joliet penitentiaries, ail'd one of the well-known criminologists in the country, died in Chicago. ♦ ♦ • Chief of Police John J. Garrity was removed from office by Mayor-Thomp-son of Chicago and Charles C. Fltzinorrih, secretary to the mayor, was immediately, appointed to the place. ♦ * * Fifty planes already have been entered for the Pulitzer trophy airplane speed race at Mitchel .field, near New Yprk, on Thanksgiving day. ♦ * *

A Point Isabel (Tex.) dispatch says ' I*resi3ent-elect Harding will sail from New Orleans November 18 for the <3anal Zone on board a United Fruit company steamer. Returning, he will be landed at Norfolk December 4. Mrs. Harding landed a tarpon five feet nine indies long $t Point Isabel, Tex., after a half-hour struggle. * * * H. R. Woodcock, head of the H. Is. Woodcock & Co. bank at Macon, 111., from six bullet wounds mystesfi<D(isly inflicted. * / * Mike Konoff and Tony Martin were sentenced at Peoria, 111., to serve 18 months in the federal prison at Leavenworth when found guilty of mbonjshjning. In addition Konoff was fihed £SO and Martin S6OO. ‘ '

Under direction of Federal Prohibition Agent Wiliam J. McCarthy, raids on two leading Boston hotels were begun when they were filled with big crowds celebrating the HarvardPrinceton game. / • A. • Politics

Representative Hull of the Fourth congressional district of Tennessee, was defeated for re-election by a majority of 390 by W. F. Clouse, the Republican candidate, according ( to the official count, says a Memphis dispatch. r • , * • The Republican majority in the housd of representatives at Washington was moved up to 182 by receipt of belated returns showing the election of Republicans in the Third New York and Fourth Oklahoma districts. The house now stands: Republicans, 308; Democrats, 126. * * ♦ Personal James A. Perry of Georgia was elected president of the National Association of Railway and Utilities Commissioners for a one-year term at Wash s ington. • * • Rear Admiral Thomas B. Howard, sixty-six years old, United States navy (retired), died suddenly at his apartment at Annapolis, Md. Heart disease was ascribed as the cause of death. • ♦ • General Pershing, accompanied by a United States naval squadron, will visit Brazil late in November, according to an announcement by the minister of marine-'at Rio Janeiro. * * * Dr. Samuel James Meltzer, head of the department of physiology and pharmacy in the Rockefeller institute since 1906, who contributed many discoveries to medical science, is dead at his home at New York. ♦ ♦ Sporting Leaders of the 21 minor ball leagues voiced objection to the selection of Judge Landis as chairman of a new national commission at their meetihg at Kansas City,. Mo. * * * There will be a new 12-cluh baseball league in operation next spring. Eight National league clubs and three American league clubs broke away from the other five American league clubs after a stormy session at Chicago. Chicago, New York and Boston have quit the American league io get into the new 12-club league. • * * Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier signed a contract at, New York to fight for the world's heavyweight boxing championship* for a $500,000 purse. The date and place of the contest are not specified. — * * ♦

The new 12-club baseball league has offered Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis at Chicago, federal judge since 1905, $50,000 a year ami a seven-year coptract to be head of the new baseball board of control to supplant the national commission, which now runs baseball. -♦ ♦ * Foreign Former King Ludwig 111 of Bavaria Is dead at the age of seventy-five years, says a Munich dispatch. * * * A Dusseldorf dispatch says an agree l ment has been reached regarding the socialization of the German mines on the basis of Herr Stinnes’ plan. ♦ ♦ ♦ A Rome dispatch says Dr. Francisco Orlando, son of the Former Italian premier, Inflicted two wounds upon Lieutenant Costfimagua in a duel. The encounter was brought about by a quarrel between the two men. * * * Resolutions definitely breaking with the Moscow Internationale and expelling Joseph Frey and Franz Rothe from the party were adopted at a meeting of the social democracy at Vienna. Municipal' elections at Milan, Naples, Bari, Palermo, Pisa, Genoa and Florence, Italy, were held and constitutional candidates were successful at all the cities. No untoward Incidents are reported. * • * Sinn Feiners at Glasgow raided Orange hall, capturing many rifles, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. The material was checked up and commandeered for the republican army in Ireland. . The civil governor of Barcelona, It Is learned at Madrid, has decided to resign in consequence of protests of leading citizens against his inactivity in dealing with criminal outrages. • • • France, Great Britain and Italy have signed a tripartite agreement in which they agree to support each other In maintaining their “spheres of influence” in Turkey, says a Paris dispatch. ♦ • • The duchess of Marlborough, formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of W. K. Vanderbilt, was awarded a decree of divorce from the duke of Marlborough at London. Seven volunteers are reported to have been killed in a fight at the Causeway, near- Tralee. Seventy-four arrests were made In Cork during the curfew hours Saturday night. . ♦ * ♦ Three women will sit In the Kansas legislature at Topeka this winter. All are Republicans. . . . . .