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NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS France Acts Independently of Great Britain in the RussoPolish Complication. PROMISES AID TO WRANGEL America to Use “All Available Means” to Preserve Poland’s Independence > —Resistance to Red Armies Increasing—Express Workers Get Wage Irtcrease. By EDWARD W; PICKARD. The United States will employ “all available means” to safeguard the independence and territorial Integrity of Poland, and will not recognize the soviet government of [Russia. The French government has recognized the Wrangel government of southern Russia and [will give it military aid against the j bolshevik!; and the French representatives in London have been instructed [ to break off all. relations with Krassip and Kameneff. the soviet trade commissioners there. The British government, though somewhat dismayed by the American and French announcements and the apparent break with • France, still hopes and believes a peace can be negotiated between Russia and Poland. The Russians, persisting in their refuswl to permit mediation by any third party, sent a delegation to Minsk to meet the Poles, and) continued their circling movement Resigned to capture Warsaw. The Poles sent representatives to Minsk to talk armistice, and, having withdrawn in good order from their advanced positions, [ established two lines of defense before Warsaw and prepared for an extensive counter stroke. In tiie lineup of the powers, Italy stands with Great Britain, ami France ■counts on the support of the United States. Germany maintains an ostensible neutrality while hoping for the crushing of Polanq, believing the Polish adventure was instigated and directed I by Franc,e. Suclr is the summary of conditions, on the day of writing, in the biggest of the wars that are [still going on. President Wilsop’S statement of America’s position w|is made to Italy. In it he suggested that the conflict might be ended by the withdrawal of all Russian forces from Poland and the withdrawal of all allied troops from ethnographic Russia, together with assurances by the allied and associated powers that Russia will not be dismembered. He urged that any dealings with the soviet regime be confined within "the most narrow boundaries to which the discussion of. an armistice can be confined.” and scored the soviet government as that of a tyrannical and dishonorable minority whose assurances and guarantees are practically worthless; In asking that the true boundaries [of Russia be respected, the notje specified that those boundaries should hot include Finland, ethnic Poland or such territory as may by agreement form a part of the Armenian state., Just what the president meant by “all available means” in promising aid to Poland was not made clear, but it was assumed, both by government officials and by the representatives of Poland in Washington, that the phrase did not include the dispatch of troops. Prince Lubomirski. the Polish ’minister, did not ask for armed assistance, but said the need of his countrymen was for food, clothing, arms and other war munitions. These, he added, are needed immediately and imperatively. , A conference of the British and French premiers was held at Hythe and, returning to London, Lloyd George told the bouse of commons that he still believed in peace. He said Russia was entitled to strict guarantees against p repetition of the Polish attack but whs not entitled to destroy Poland as a) nation; if Russia acted within those; conditions there GERMAN MADE GOOD RECORD Seventy-Seven Years Old, He Did His Part for the United States In the Late War. Washington.—Adolph t Louis Lowe, born in Germany in 18-10, was the oldest American citizen to enlist in the war against his native country.’ This fact was disclosed by the bureau of war risk Insurance, which disclosed that Lowe, a resident of Lynnhaven, Va„ at the age of seven ty-

would be no war by the entente. If the Minsk meeting failed of results, he declared, the allies had decided on these lines of action: (1) No action, except to support Poland in the struggle for existence; (2) only to give support to the nation which fights its own struggles; (3) no allied troops to be sent to Poland; (4)'the allies will help to equip the Poles for their own defense: (5) to give military advice and guidance; (6) economic pressure to be brought to bear on Russia; (7) to help Wrangel and all other counterrevolutionaries; (8) end of trading negotiations. Turning to the Russian representatives who sat in the gallery, the little Welshman said: “If you want peace, get it now. If you are out to challenge the liberties of Europe, we will meet you and fight to the end.” British labor leaders had already warned Lloyd George there would be a general strike if the nation went to war, but at the conclusion of the premier’s speech Mr. Clyne, their chief, declared the laborites do not favor soviet ideas and methods, and that if they were convinced the soviet government was aggressive, they would be forced to consider supporting the British government. Kameneff outlined the armistice terms the soviet was offering Poland, and in some respects they were reasonable. They included, however, demobilization of the Polish army within one month and the demobilization of all war industries. Another clause demanded that the families of all Polish citizens killed, wounded or incapacitated in the war shall be given land free. This was looked on as a part of the plan to establish soviet rule in Poland. The encircling movement of the soviet armies carried them across the Warsaw-Danzig railway and down toward the Vistula from the north. But the other rail line to Danzig, through Thorn, seemed safe for the present. The Polish forces were being concentrated and regrouped, and a competent observer, formerly in the American army, declared that though the Polish position was serious it was not desperate. The stories of panic arid complete loss of morale he said were false, and were the result of a propaganda by the enemies of Poland. The spirit of the Polish people was still high, he asserted, and men and women in large numbers were volunteering in all classes of war service. A correspondent who has just completed the trip from Vladivostok to Finland says that from one end of Russia to the other is heard the cry for food and clothing, and Nikolai Lenine himself is said to have admitted that the Russian people cannot pass through another winter like the last. On Wednesday the soviet government signed a provisional peace treaty with Latvia and agreed with Finland upon armistice conditions. These arrangements will make more difficult the maintenance of a blockade of Russia by the allies if that course is found necessary. In Persia the reds have withdrawn from Enzeli and some other places because of lack of supplies, but they have established headquarters of a Persian soviet republic at Ardebil, a little south of the Caspian. The old government remains at Teheran, though its flight has been rumored repeatedly. Greece continues to increase her forces in Asia Minor and has captured some more strategic positions. Kemal Pasha, however, has not quit by any means and recent dispatches say 15.000 Tartars are on the way to join his nationalist troops for a great offensive against the Greeks, probably on the Smyrna front. According to an agreement between Italy and Greece the Dodecanesus has been transferred to Greek sovereignty except Rhodes, where a plebiscite will be held some time in the future. Technically the world war came to an end Tuesday, so far as the allied nations and their opponents are concerned. On that day the last of the peace treaties, that with Turkey, was signed in Sevres, near Paris. The Jugo-Slavs refused to sign because the treaty provides that the Ottoman debt be partitioned among former Turkish seven, enlisted as a carpenter’s mate, second class. United States navy, at Norfolk, Va., March 5. 1917. This was 32 days before the United States and Germany were at war. Lowe was a seaman in the United States navy during the American Civil war, and with him in the United States forces in the war against Germany were two of his grandsons. Lowe was called into active service in this war May 29, 1917; was discharged on medical survey December G, 1917; enlisted again 13 days later

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territories allocated to other states and because Jugo-Slavia did not receive Macedonia as she asked. The United States did not sign the treaty owing to President Wilson’s objection to the presence of the sultan in Constantinople, the allocation of Thrace and Smyrna to Greece, and the Asia Minor mandates. The British parliament has passed and the king has approved the new Irish coercion bill. The debate in the house of commons was bitter. Very optimistic persons think the law will restore order in Ireland. Much interest and some excitement were caused by the British government’s .course in dealing with the visit of Archbishop Mannlx of Australia, the warm advocate of free Ireland, who spent some weeks in the United States. He intended to land in Ireland, but government agents removed him from the liner »nd put him ashore at Penzance under technical arrest. He proceeded to London, but his movements were restricted by orders. He received invitations to address meetings in many places in England, Scotland and Ireland. The treatment of the archbishop looks, at this distance, like a characteristic bit of British "muddling,” but probably the government knew what it was about. To an interviewer the churchman said what he wanted was to see England get out of Ireland, intimating that the latter as an independent country would be no more the enemy of Great Britain that it is now. Another big wage increase award was made last week by the United States railway labor board, the employees of the American Railway Express company being the -beneficiaries this time. They were granted a flat increase of 16 cents an hour and the total will amount to $30,556,445 a year. The heads of the four unions affected appeared well satisfies with the award. The railway rate increase ran against a snag in Illinois when the state public utilities commission ruled that the 2-cent passengeiWare in the state was restored by the passing of the wartime transportation act; denied applications for increases to 3.6 cents per mile, for increased surcharges on Pullman and parlor car fares, for increase of commutation rates and for increased milk rates; and denied application for 40 per cent increase in fneight rates, granting a temporary increase of 33 1-3 per cent. Franklin Roosevelt was formally notified Monday of his nomination for the vice presidency by the Democrats, and two days later opened the Democratic campaign in Chicago with a speech in which he made a special plea for the support of the old Bull Moose element. Both in this address and in his speech of acceptance he exhibited a spirit of fair-mindedness that won commendation. Governor Cox began his speaking tour the latter part of the week. The front porch campaign plans for Senator Harding have not been changed, but the Republican leaders will make extensive use of “publicity" —news stories, advertising and the movies. It was expected that Harding would soon declare himself as to just what kind of a League of Nations he thinks would be acceptable to the American people, for he does not wish the nation to believe that because he is against the Wilson league, he is against any league. The prohibition npminees, Watkins and Colvin, both delivered their acceptance speeches at Germantown, 0., and plans were made to carry on a vigorous campaign, largely by airplane. Charles Ponzi of Boston, whose sensational operations in international postal coupons attracted the attention of the authorities, came to grief, at least temporarily, when a state bank examiner closed the Hanover Trust company, through which he carried on much ~of his business, and he was arrested on a state larceny charge. The same day the “wizard” admitted he had been an inmate of prisons at Atlanta and in Canada. Ponzi has not revealed the ..exact method by which he made so much money for his clients and himself in a few weeks. He asserts he can take care of all his financial obligations. and served until May, 1918, when he was discharged. In a recent letter to the war risk Insurance bureau the aged sailor said regarding his enlistment to fight Germany: “When the war between the United States and Germany was imminent in March. 1917, and I saw in a store window a chromo-lithograph of the ’spirit of 1776,’ grandfather father and son, I concluded I could serve as well as that grandfather of the Revolutionary days, especially as I was BGII a young man.”

Happenings of the World Tersely Told Washington A Withdrawal of all Russian forces from Poland and the withdrawal of all allied troops from ethnographic Russia, together with assurances by the allied and associated powers that Russia will not be dismembered, constitute President Wilson’s proposal for the settlement of the Russo-Polish war. as announced by Secretary of State Colby. • • • Permission to Increase express rates to absorb the wage award of the railroad labor board at Chicago, estimated at $43,800,805, was asked of the interstate commerce commission at Washington by the American Railway express company. • • • Imports of sugar into the United States during the fiscal year of 1920 exceeded exports by more than 6,000,1)00,000 pounds, accoading to a Washington summary of tne country’s foreign trade in sugar. • • • New Hampshire's population is 443.038, the census bureau at Washington announced. The state’s growth in the ten years was 12,511, or 2.9 per cent, its 1910 population having been 430,572. • ♦ • An increase of 12.5 per cent in express rates was authorized by the interstate commerce commission at Washington. • • • President Wilson at Washington requested the joint scale committee of bituminous miners and operators to meet at Cleveland August 13 to consider any inequalities in the award of the bituminous coal commission. * ♦ ♦ Announcement of Brig. Gen. W. D. Conner as chief of transportation and chief of the land and coastwise waterways service to succeed Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, resigned, is announced at Washington; • • • Sporting "Babe” Ruth, famous home-run batsman for the New York Americans, was forced to retire from a game at Cleveland, 0., when he dislocated his knee sliding to second base. • • • Ben Ahearn, member of the Illinois Athletic club, and holder of the world record in the hop, step and jump, was dismissed from the American Olympic team at Antwerp on charges of insubordination. Politics Franklin D. Roosevelt fired the opening gun of the national campaign at the Auditorium theater at Chicago Wednesday night. • ♦ • Parley P. Christensen, presidential nominee of the Farmer-Labor party, Issued a statement at New York denying that the party was controlled by Industrial Workers of the World. • ♦ • Domestic Charles S. Brightwell, president, and Raymond Meyers and Charles C. Myers, described as secretary and manager respectively of the Old Colony Foreign Exchange company at were arrested charged with conspiracy to defraud as a result of the investigation of sensational financial methods which started with the inquiry into operations of the Securities Exchange company of which Charles Ponzi was the leading figure. • « * Federal authorities who have been auditing the books of Charles Ponzi and the Securities Exchange company at Boston report the liabilities of the financier are $7,000,000. Ponzi was arrested. • • * A Houghton, Mich., dispatch says six hundred members of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers will visit the copper country August 23 and 24 for the annual convention. \• • • Leo Dlegel of Chicago cracked under the strain of his first big tournament at Toledo, 0., and let the American open golf championship go back to England, with Ted Ray of Qxey, the new titleholder. * * • “Red pepper” bandits made their appearance in Chicago, and after temporarily blinding their girl victim, escaped with $2,343 in checks land $220 in currency which she was taking to the bank. \ The total valuation of all classes of taxable property in Missouri for 1920 is $2,694,190,174, an increase over last year’s valuation of $349,452. according to the commission at Jefferson City. * « • Pennsylvania received a check at Harrisburg, Pa., for $40,197.67 as the state transfer tax on the estate of Andrew Carnegie within the state. « * * Reports from Pike's Peak, Colo., said seven Inches of snow, a new record for August storms, fell Wednesday night * * * Manhattan, Kan., has been selected for the next meeting of the mid-West farm bureau, September 21 and 22. The bureau comprises presidents and secretaries of state farm bureaus in lowa, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Michigan, Indiana. Illinois and Ohio. * • * Four men, in army uniforms, not only took what money Arlo Dearlinger, a Des Moines (la.) taxicab driver, had, and his taxicab, but compelled the man to undress and took his clothes.

Mme, Marte K. de Victoria, who was chained during the war with being ‘an important link in the kaiser’s-Chain of spies, died of pneumonia at a private sanitarium at New York. • • • George A. Lawo of Memphis, Tenn., was elected president of the Retail Credit Men’s National association at the annual convention at Detroit, Mich. * . * • Reports of maternity hospitals at New York showed that since 1916 the average per capita cost of stork visits has Increased from $35.49 to $70.04. » * • Miss Anne Martin filed with Secretary of State Brodlgan at Reno, Nev., her petition of nomination as an independent candidate for the United States senate. • * • Joseph Lukatich, Thomas O’Brien and C. W. Stevens, all boilermakers from Chicago, were killed at Whiting, Ind., when a scaffold on an oil tank they were building crashed to the ground. * • • Honorable prevention of war by “the arbitrament of reason rather than of force” was urged by Governor Cox in nn address opening the Democratic presidential nominee’s national speaking tour at Camp Perry, O. « • • Charles Ponzi, who recently jumped into notoriety at Boston as a spectacular financier, admitted that he was the Charles Ponsi who served terms of Imprisonment in Montreal and Atlanta some years ago. * * • Seventy-five thousand railway express workers in the United States were awarded retrqactive wage increases approximating $31,000,000 a year by a ruling of the railroad labor board handed down at Chicago. • • « An attempted robbery of silk goods valued at several thousand dollars from a Northwestern freight train was frustrated at Sioux City, la., and six men alleged to be concerned in the affair were arrested. , • ♦ • Two men were killed by lightning near Fredonia, Kan. H. F. Wilson, a. young farmer, near Coyville, was struck while working with a hay baler. Donald Richey, nineteen, was killed at Altoona. • • * Lindley M. Garrison, federal receiver of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company at New York, refused to grant demands of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees. •* • , Three bandits entered Sol Bergman's jewelry store at Cleveland, 0., shot and seriously wounded two employees, looted the safe of jewelry and diamonds estimated at $30,000 in value and escaped in an automobile. • • • Personal James O’Neill, the actor, died at New London, Conn., after a tw r o months’ illness. He was seventy years old. • • • Gen. Richard Neville Bowerman, ninety, probably the oldest ranking retired officer of the Union army, died at Baltimore, Md. He was decorated on the battlefield by General Grant for gallantry. • * • Foreign Poland earnestly desires peace, but could not accept armistice terms involving disarmament In any form. Prince Eugene Sapieba, minister of foreign affairs at Warsaw, told the correspondent. “Poland is not going to capitulate.” said the foreign minister. “We will fight to the last man rather than that. There is no question of disarmament. If we are disarmed with the soviet troops 40 miles from ■Warsaw, it would be like throwing up our hands.” * * * The French government is sending a note to the United States expressing pleasure that the French and American views on the Russo-Polish situation are “in complete accord,” it was learned at Paris. * * • Adolph Pauli, head of the German South American department, was appointed German minister to Argentina. Foreign Minister Pueyrredon announced he was ‘persona grata at Buenos Aires. • • » A great battle is raging along the entire Polish-Russia front, on which hangs the fate of Warsaw, the foreign office at Paris was informed. According to a Berlin wireless dispatch, Russian cavalry have succeeded in reaching Praga, a suburb of ’Warsaw. In the region of Pultusk the Poles have launched a counter-offensive with bayonets, Warsaw reports. • • * The British fleet on duty in Danish waters has passed Oresund en route to the Russian coast. It is keeping constantly in touch with the British admiralty headquarters in London via wireless. . « * • Assertions that Americans are “fostering disloyalty among the people of Japan” and that American missionaries in Korea are “uisng the cloak of Christianity to instill anti-Japanese sentiment there” are made in a series of articles appearing daily in the newspaper Kokumin Shimbu of Tokyo. ° • • * Great Britain took nearly half of the 6,015,408 bales of cotton exported by the United States during the fiscal vear 1920, the department of commerce at Washington announced. • ♦ • Premier Venizelos of Greece was attacked and wounded as he was leaving the Lyons railroad station at Paris for Nice. Twv men fired eight shots at him. He was wounded slightly. His assailants were arrested. • * * Bolshevik forces in southern Russia are striking at the extreme flank of Gen. Baron Wrangel’s army north of the Crimean peninsula, according to dispatches received at Constantinople. ♦ • • The peace treaty with Turkey was sinned at Sevres. France

8 Hoosier News | | Briefly Told J Indianapolis.—Howard Figg, assist- , ant to Attorney General Palmer of the i department of justice, who is in In-1 dianapolis, declared that the depart- [ ment through the agency of local fair | price commissioners, will continue to I prosecute profiteers regardless of the [ recent ruling of Federal Judge A. B. [ Anderson, declaring some of the sec- ' tions of the Lever act uhconstltution- i al. The United States Supreme court is expected to rule on the Indianapolis case on October 14. “Os course, until the Supreme court’ makes its ruling, all prosecutions in Indiana will necessarily be postponed,” he said. “However, that should not relieve the United States prosecuting attorney and the fair price cominissioner of their duty of hunting down profiteers and bringing their cases before the grand jury. Indianapolis.—Martin O. Thornton, who was killed in an automobile accident near Columbus, lived with his father, Charles E. Thornton, 2664 Northwestern avenue. The automobile in which Thornton was riding at the time of the accident was driven by Louis Kindel, 3217 East Sixteenth street. Mr. Kindel said his only recourse to avoid striking another machine, which was on the wrong side of the Lowell bridge over White river, was to drive against the side of the bridge or down a 40-foot embankment. Thornton and John Barger,’living on Orange street, apparently tried to jump from the automobile when they saw it was going to strike the side of the bridge, Kindel said. Indianapolis.—Percentages for coun-ty-wide horizontal increases in valuations for Jasper and Jackson counties were completed by the state board of tax commissioners. The county boards of review in the two counties refused to approve the 1910 horizontal increases. The tax board ordered increases of 11 per cent on real estate and 25 per cent on personal property in Jasper county and 15 per s cent on real estate and 30 per cent on personal property in Jackson county. Action of boards of review in 34 counties where 1919 horizontals were approved was affirmed by the board. Anderson. —The quick action of Engineer Gipe of Cincinnati, 0., a trainman for the Pennsylvania railroad, saved the life of Mary Turner, two years old, a North Anderson baby, daughter of H. 11. Turner. The child wandered from its home and got on the track directly in the path of the Chicago-Cincinnati fast passenger train at Anderson. Engineer Gipe blew his whistle, but observved that the child did not move. He brought his train to a sudden stop within' a foot of the babe. ' i Clinton. —James Henry, twenty-four years old, was instantly killed by electricity when his head came in contact with an overhead trolley wire at the Indiana & Illinois Coal corporation’s mine. No. 2, southwest of tl?is city. Young Henry was a triprider and started to move his motor out of the way for another motor to pass. In leaning over to make a switch, his hear touched the trolley wire. His body was found shortly afterward. Shelbyville.—Andrew Metz, thirtyfivo years old, an escaped inmate of the Craigmont asylum, near Madison, was found in this city sitting on the railroad track writing a letter to his sister at Clinton. The man was placed in the county jail to await the arrival of asylum officials. He escaped from the asylum several days ago. Indianapolis.—The Indiana Grain Dealers’ association and the Indiana Millers’ association will hold their annual outing at Lake Maxinkuckee, September 4, 5 and 6. Headquarters will be established at the Palmer house at Culver, and the three days will be devoted to boating, fishing and resting. The outing is the first to be held since before the war. Whiting.—Joseph Lukatich. Thomas O’Brien and C. W. Stevens, all boilermakers from Chicago, were killed here when a scaffold on an oil tank they were building crashed to the ground. Their bodies were crushed under the debris. They were employees of the Standard Oil company. Indianapolis.—Ele Stansbury, attorney general of Indiana, has submitted an opinion to E. E. Chenoweth, superintendent of the Indiana Farm Colony for Feeble-Minded, holding that wheat produced upon the institution farm cannot be exchanged for corn purchased in the market. Indianapolis—The public service commission dismissed the petition of the Indiana Railways and Light company for higher rates for light and power at Kokomo and surrounding cities. The commission held that the present revenues of the company are adequate. Vincennes. —The Vincennes Capital suspended publication, the owners giving the high price of newsprint and other materials in the cause. Richmond. —Herschel Little, son of O. H. Little, chief commissary on the U. S. S. Tracy, was drowned in foreign waters near Batoum, Russia, July 28, says a dispatch received here from the navy department. He was serving his third enlistment. The message said the drowning was accidental. Greenfield. —A resolution removing the horizontal increases put on the county’s assessments by the’ state tax board was adopted by the Hancock county board of review. The assessments determined in 1919 stand by the resolution. Richmond. —What is believed to be the first Chinese child born In Richmond since its founding more than 100 years ago arrived tat Reid Memorial hospital. Mr. and Mrs. James Long are the parents. Its father is a Chinaman. proprietor of a laundry, and its mother an American woman. Clinton. —John Pastoria Centenary was arrested when a large quantity of home-brewed beer was found in his basement, was given a suspended sentence on the penal farm and fined SIOO by Judge Pike in city jourt.

Indianapolis.—Although the temperature in some sections of the state dropped to 40 degrees no frosts were reported, according to the weekly crop report issued by George C. Bryant, Indiana field agent of the department of agriculture. The report in part fol- | lows: Conditions have'been favorable | and farm work progressed verj’ ntpidIly during the week. Corn generally |is looking excellent. Winter wheat i threshing is progressing very rapidly. | There seems no reasoii for changing i previous estimates. Oats -hing - I has begun in the northern part of the | state. Yields are •running from poor |to excellent. Early sown oats are 1 making far the best crop, both in. Weight and quality. Hay crops were all harvested under favorable conditions. Some localities reported the largest and best crop in years. Others had a poor crop. Truck crops are not doing as well as expected. The nights . are too cold.JEarly potatoes were foor, but there is a fair outlook for late varieties. Melons are a large crop. Peaches are very good. Apples and peaches are dropping badly and otherwise show deterioration. Live stock [ generally is in good condition. Feeding stock is the lowest for several years. Indianapolis.—The Clark . county state forest reserve, one mile n< rth of Henryville, has set aside August 19 as Visitors’ day, -when the state woods will be visited ami the progress r.inde in the last ten years will be studied. Visitors will be shewn around the reserve by Charles Dean, state forester. The reserve,. which was purchased by the state in 1903 for $16.0d0, consists of 2,000 acres, and since its acquisition lias developed into the greatest reserve for the experimental growing of hard woods in the United States. Upon this reserve many questions relating to forestry have been solved. For this work more than 100 varieties of trees and 63 kinds of shrubs are being psed. Indianapolis.—lndiana has received more than $1,000,000 worth of excess war material to be used In the state road building program from the war department through the bureau of public roads of the department of agriculture, according to L. H. Wright, director of the state highway commission at Indianapolis, in a letter to Dr. Clarence J. Owens, director of the Southern Commercial congress. War material suitable for road building purposes is being distributed to the states under a provision framed by Doctor Owens anti introduced in the senate as a rider to the post office appropriation bill of 1919 by the late Senator Bankhead of Alabama. Hartford City.—The efforts of El Smilack, Hartford City oil man. to get into communication with his father in Russia have failed. Mr. Smilack’s letters have been returned to him with the Infmhnation that the part of the country in .which his parent lives is occupied by the red forces and that communication has not been opened. A brother of the local man served with the Russian contingent in France during the war but efforts to locate him also have failed. Warsaw. —“Farmers’ day” was celebrated at IVinona like by more than 10,000 northern Indiana fa •: era. Townships having tne largest dv’egations present were 'awarded prizes amounting to more than $1,500. Addresses were delivered by S. 1,. Strivings of New York, vice president of the National Farmers’ federation, and Earl Crawford of Connersville, director of the Eleventh District Farmers’' federation. Greencastle. —Declaring that the action in 1919 of the state tax board was wrong and that it took away the rights, of jdie taxpayers of Putnam county, theyboard of review by a unanin. ms vore refused tq accept the horizontal increases and fixed the Putnam county assessment valuations at the same figures the board of review ' fixed a year ago. Anderson.—-A property loss of $3,000 was sustained when a true!; driven by Phillip Webber was struck by a Big Four freight train and hnrle<l into a drug store. The loss to the drug store was placed at $1,500 and the damage to the truck was estimated at $1,500. The driver was pinned under the wreckage, but escaped serious injury’. Logansport. —Tiring of his bride of three weeks, Wiliiam Pyers, sixtyseven years old. has filed a suit in the Cass circuit ’ court for a divorce from Myrtle Byers, thirty-two years old. The plaintiff alleges his bride is cruel and inhuman and that sho doesn’t love him any more. Muncie. — The Delaware county board of review in special session ‘ratified the horizontal increases on personal property valuations made by the state tax board. Huntington. — Horizontal increases in assessments on personal property' made in this county last year will stand by action of the county board of review. Hartford City.—The Blackford county board of review has confirmed the horizontal increases in assessed valuations in Blackford county, as fixed by the state tax commission on August 23, 1919. Clinton.—Mr. and W. H. Bonner of this city and Mr. and Mrs. William Wasson of Indianapolis were severely bruised and scratched when the automobile in which they were riding Turned over, west of this city. The occupants of the car were pinned under it, but were released without suffering serious injury. The Wassons were visiting the Bonners. Gary.—Gary’s huge tin mills resumed operation.) in full blast after curtailment of work for the last two weeks owing to the fuel shortage. Five thousand men have been idle. Rushville.—Four men are in jail here charged with storebreaking, in connection with the robbery here of 'the Knecht clothing on July 21, and more than SI,OOO worth of merchandise was taken. Those in jail are Russell Shepperd. Fred Bemmer, Eaward Bemmer, all of Muncie, and James Martin of Winchester. Evansville. —The government dam. No. 48. on the Ohio river, 17 miles below here, will be completed some time this year, according to Charles B. Enlow, receiver for the Ohio River . Contract company. ' iA' . ? ’