Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1920 — MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD [ARTICLE]

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

-810 HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernels Culled From Event* of ment In All Parte of the World— Of Interest to All tho People Everywhere. Sunday motion picture shows and Sunday baseball where admission fees are charged are lllegul In Texas, the state Court of Criminal Appeals at Austin, Tex., held. • • • Employees of a large brick company at Edwardsvllle, 111., have agreed to an 18 per cent wage reduction on condition that the company reduce the price of brick $2 per thousand. • * * Two persons were killed and 20 Injured, a numl>er believed fatally, In a head-on collision between a passenger and un express car on the AkronItnvenna division of the Northern Ohio Traction company near Havenna, O. * • • Four bandits robbed the Steams Brothers’ pawnshop at Chicago of $25,000 In diamonds. • • • The Clothing Manufacturers’ association of Boston voted to break all relations with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. * • • Wheeling (W. Va.) shoe dealers decided to reduce the price of shoes from 20 to 30 per cent. The dealers explained they cut prices to keep pace with reductions in other commodities. * * .* Nine moonshiners were captured nnd a number of others are believed to have been killed or wounded in a battle between 30 mountaineers and 14 revenue otilcers In the southern part of Bell county, according to reports reaching Lexington, Ky. * • • Sheriff James A. Petray of Sonoma county and Detectives Miles Jackson and Lester Gorman of San Francisco were shot and killed at Santa Itosa, Cal., by gangsters. • • • Love for Lillian Hagan, an Oakland (Cal.) candy store employee, caused J.

L Hart'll* to rifle the United States malls of $20,000, according to hla coos ess I on. • • • The Leonard Copper mine at Butte, klont., which for some tint* ha* been operating with reduced force*, bn* ceased operation entirely. Several hundred men are out of employment as a result of the shutdown. • • • Eugene V. Del**. Socialist candidate for President In the last election, received 050.000 votes—the greatest number polled by a Socialist presidential nominee In the country’s history, says a New York dispatch. * • • Construction of a home and office building for the vice president at a cost not to exceed SBOO,OOO, was proposed In a bill Introduced at Washington by Senator Elkins. West Virginia. • • • Two hundred and twenty-five employees of the Southern Pacific shops at Ogden. Utah, huve received notice of a layoff, effective Friday, pursuant to orders calling for general retrenchment. • • • The second cut in the price of bread In two weeks was announced at Cleveland. Pound loaves retailed at 12 cents, while 16 cents was asked 'for one and one-half pound loaves, a reduction of 1 cent. • • • Emil Peterson nnd Mike Anderson were Instantly killed when their automobile failed to make a curve on the Hickory Grove road near Davenport. la., and went over a 30-foot embankment • • • Washington Miss Mary MacSwlney, sister of the lute lord mayor of Cork, testified at Washington before the committee on conditions In Ireland; • • • President-elect Harding called at the White House at Washington. Senator Harding did not see the President. He drove to the north entrance and left his card. • • • The move to have the senate at Washington Immediately consider a resolution providing for the revival of the war finance corporation as a means of extending farmers financial relief wns blocked In the senate by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts. • • • President Wilson’s concrete recommendations to congress at Washington in his annual message were: Revision of the tax laws, with simplification of the income and profits taxes; independence of the Philippines; a loan to Armenia; economy In government ap-

pmpristloos and expenditures and eresthm of a “workable budget systerfi;" cold storage and ofher laws affect las the cost of living, and the fedejmi licensing of corporation* as recommended in previous messages; rehahltttstlon and training of disabled soldier* and sailors. Personal Rev. Charles O. Heckert, fifty-seven, president emeritus of Wittenberg college, died at his home In Springfield. O. Heart disease wn* the cause of death. He had been 11l for several month)!. • • • For the first time within the memory of the oldest attache of the White House at Washington, n first lady of the land entertained a next first lady of the land. Mrs. Florence Kllug Hurtling, wife of the President-elect, was the guest of Mrs. Edith Bolling Wilson, wife of the President, at an Informal tea for two at the executive mansion. • • • Foreign Eight thonsand divorces have been granted by the tribunals of the Seine at Paris during the first half of 1920, as tagalnst 3,258 for the corresponding period in 1919 and 2,830 In 1913. • • • Reports reaching Constantinople declare the war minister of Armenia has proclaimed a military dictatorship over that country. * * * • The British government Is considering whether It will request the United States government. In the Interests of Anglo-American friendship, to take official notice of the auti-Brttlsh activities in America. • • • Frank Hodson, chief clerk at the American embassy at London for 34 years, who was known to Americans throughout the world, died following an illness of several weeks. * * • Announcement Is made at Copenhagen that the Nobel peace prize will be conferred on President Wilson of the United States on December 10. The Nobel peace prize carries with it a grant of about $40,000. • * • * Casualties among the Japanese troops In the Siberian fighting to date include 1.437 men killed in action and 586 deaths from sickness, It was announced by the war office at Tokyo. • • • Careful watch Is being kept upon activities of extremists to affect the army’s loyalty, It was declared by Sir Archibald Williamson In the house of Commons at London.