The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-03-29
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ter of war, is reported to have been
appointed governor of Alsace-Lor-
rnine.
Premier Paderewskl of Poland has
sent TO Herbert Hoover, director gen
eral of allied relief, Il message of
thanks for the food sent Poland.
Communication by wireless tele-
phone has been established between
Newcastle. New Brunswick, and Lyons,
France, and also Belmar, n. j., by the
Marconi Company.
The Chamber of Deputies OF the
duchy of Luxembourg has voted uuani-
mously TO maintain the independence
and autonomy of that country, accord
ing to advices received in Paris.
The Dutch guard about the kaiser's
residence was reinforced as the re-
suit of the receipt of letters threat
ening his life. Wilhelm was also said
to have received a warning telegram
from a friend.
Karl Radek, the leading Russian
Bolshevik agent in Germany, who was
arrested on Feb. 13 in connection with
the Spartacan uprising, has been re-
leased by the German government, &C
cording to Il Berlin dispatch.
During February more than 10000
persons, or about IL per cent of the
entire population, died in Petrograd,
according to Russian police statistics.
American relief workers, who left Mos
- he In
city early in February averaged 1000
daily.
After successful trials of new Brit
ish dirigibles of the rigid type of con
struction, the government, has ordered
the building of two enormous airships.
Each will be 500 feet in length and
will have a capacity of 100000 cubic
feet. They will be driven by six en-
gines which will generate a total of
1,S00-horse power and, it is said, will
have a lifting power of eighty tons
compared with Twenty-Five tons, the
largest load carried by any known to
be in existence.
SPORT
Ralph Brady of Syracuse, " Y,
and tx o." Mars of Cincinnati fought
a twelve-round draw at Boston.
H. Ralston and F. Smith of Detroit
bowled into fifth place in the stand
ings in the twO-men events of the
American Bowling Congress tourna-
ment at Toledo. Their score was
1924.
Mike Gibbons, st. Paul middle
weight, was given the newspaper de-
cision over Leo Houck of Lancaster,
Pa, in an eight-round bout at st.
Louis. Local sport writer's who
viewed the exhibition from the ring
side said Gibbons outfought his OPP
ponent in every round.
Edward j. Hanlon OF Sioux City,
owner of the St Joseph Western
League baseball club, has made ar
rangements for the transfer of the
team. Hanlon made the final an
nouncement that the club would be
taken away from st. Joseph, but de-
clined to say where it would go. The
players have been ordered TO report
April l for practice. 1t Is understood
that the team will be transferred to
Lincoln.
GENERAL
Two men held up the Iowa State
Bank in the heart of the business dis
trict at Des Moines, and escaped with
more than $4,000 in cash.
The distillers of the United States
are waiting only for the signing of a
peace treaty in Paris TO start bit
ter war against the dry law of Nov.
81, last
The American Socialist Society was
fined $1,000 in the Federal Court of
New York by Judge julius NJ. Mayer,
OH a conviction found Feb. 10 for vio-
lating the espionage act. The convic-
ton was based chiefly upon the pub
LEGATION by the society of THE Great
Madness" radical pamphlet.
According to information from Lon
don to local aviation fields at Dayton,
Ohio, the altitude record of 2S,9O0 feet
made by Maj. w. r. Schroeder, Nc
Cook field, Sept IS, 1918, stands I'M
challenged. A recount of Capt. Langs
English flight turns the honor of Maj.
Schroeder, 1t was said by aviation
officials.
A definite clew indicating that n
pretty young woman may prove to be
an important factor in the solution of
the murder of Mrs. Julia wilkins,
whose husband, DIR. Walter X. VIII
kins, is indicted, charged with muir
dor in the first degree. has been
found according to detectives working
on the case in Mineola, L. I.
Mrs. Margaret Reeves, wife of Mel
vile Reeves, known as the "skyscrap-
err burgler," was awarded $4,000
damages against Nicholas Hunt, for