The Benson signal., 1918-12-28
FOREIGN

DuChlu6uouu pdAdNO Al AOlANOAA ANS'
in honor of President Wilson.
President Wilson will probably be
the guest of the king Of Buckingham
palace during his visit to England.
German residents of Danzig held
mass meeting to protest against an
nexation of the city by the Poles.
Secretary of State Hanush made the
announcement that because OF the
shortage of coal, $4,000 persons We're
out of employment in Vienna.
There are between 10000 and 10000
unemployed workmen In Berlin, &C
cording to the Taglisch Rundschau.
Of this number 1000 are metal work
ers.
British newspapers are planning to
establish a special aeroplane service
which will carry news of the peace
conference from Paris to London
twice day.
Field Marshal Won Mackensen, in
termed by Hungarians, is confined
with his entire staff in Count
Karolyi's castle at Foth, according to
a dispatch from Budapest.
The American delegates to the
peace congress have resolved to advo-
cate the sinking of the surrendered
enemy warships, and resist any propo-
sition to distribute them on the basis
of naval losses.
The Congress of Soldiers and Work
mems Councils has decided that cleo
ton to the national assembly shall be
held Jan. 10. Those opposed to the
summoning of national assembly
polled only forty votes out Of a total
of 240.
The German government has de-
cided to convoke a conference of rep
resentatives of all the states of the
former empire on Dec. 20 to elect a
President of the German republic, &C
cording to a Berlin report. This step
is said to have been taken in order
to avoid fresh outbreaks.
81 am confident that the big council
of statesmen of the world will be able
to reach a just and reasonable solu-
ton of the problems that will be pre-
scented to them, and thus earn the
gratitude of the world for the most
critical and necessary service which
has ever been rendered it," said Pres
ident Wilson in an interview in Paris,
referring to the approaching peace
conference.
SPORT
At the Chicago horse sale, one of
the top sales was that of Hal Day, an
11-year-old trotter, with a record OF
2:01 for $4,000. Adverse brought ST.
$50, and Eva Bingham $1,100.
The athletic council of the Univer-
sity Of Pennsylvania announced that
it will revive all sports at the begin
ming of the new term on Jan. 6, and,
as far as possible, place them on a
normal basis.
Jack Hendricks, manager of the
a hut secretary, has written to friends
at st. Louis that he will be back in
the spring to resume his place at the
head of the team.
John Cassidy, boxer, baseball player
and marathon runner, is the first out
of-town athlete to enter the annual
Denver Athletic Club boxing and
wrestling tournament, which will be
held at the Glenarm club, starting
Jan. 20, and running for seven con
secutive nights.
GENERAL
Republican Leader James R. Mann
announced he would be candidate
for speaker of the House in the next
congress-
The Rocky Mountain Club will en-
terrain 1000 soldiers and sailors in
the grand ballroom of the Hotel AS
tor in New York, Christmas.
Ukrainian separatist troops of the
Petlura forces entered Kiev, the CAPT
tai of the Ukraine. The hetman OF
the Ukraine abdicated.
Marshal Joffre now is formally
numbered among Frances forty i'm
mortals The victor of the Marine was
made a member of the French Acad
envy.
Representatives of agriculture, in
dustry, labor and business from eight
cen states will meet in Omaha, Feb
4, and 6, next, when the transmits
sissippi REIMBURSEMENT congress con
venes there.
More than 500 delegates already
have been named to attend the pro
posed general labor congress in Chi
cago on Jan. IA to discuss all phases
of the Thomas B. Mooney case and de
eide on labor's attitude in that case
the International Workers Defense
League announced in San Francisco
A big acreage in sugar beets in the
Rocky Mountain region next year is
predicted by General Agriculturis
Mark Austin of the Utah-Idaho Sugar
Company Of Salt Lake City, who was
in Denver after visiting several Colo
RADIO sugar districts He says tina
this favorable outlook, so far as Utah
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