The Benson signal., 1919-11-08
FOREIGN

An airplane in which General Sykes,
controller general of civil aviation, was
making a flight, fell at Kenly, Eng
| land, and the pilot Captain Knott, was
killed General Sykes was badly shak-
en-.
A Havas dispatch from DijOn states
| that American army autL--ritieS at Is
| Sur Tile have sentenced and hanged
an American lieutenant Tor an assault
! upon a girl, who died in consequence
of her injuries.
An attempt was made recently on
| the life of Lieutenant General Horvarth
| Russian military commander at Har-
! bin. His assailant attacked him with
bombs, but was seized before he had
| carried out his purpose.
Three Amer can soldiers were killed
and eight injured seriously when an
American army motor truck was
struck by railroad train at a grade
crossing near La Ferte-St Aubin, thir
teen miles southeast of Orleans.
A manufacturing company of Lon
don announces it is preparing to mar
ket an automobile that can be retailed
for between $3.50 and $500. The prin-
| cipal materials to be used in making
the car is a new substance which is
| described as "a kind of concrete,
light but strong and durable, produced
from waste material.
The Nice recreation area for Amer
lean eXpeditiOnary troops, it was an
nounced, will be closed May % owing
to the celebrity with which the troops
are returning home. The general
council of the department Of Alpes-
Maritimes has adopted a resolution
paying tribute to the excellent behav-
ior of the American soldiers.
In defending the governments policy
of donations to the unemployed, Sir
Robert Stevenson Horne, the minister
of labor, in the House of Commons
in London, said it was unnecessary to
take a gloomy view of the unemploy-
ment question. Since the armistice,
he said, 100000 persons have been
demobilized and 100000 remain un-
employed
SPORT
George (Knockout) Brown of Chi
cago won a newspaper decision from
Bob Moha of Milwaukee at Racine.
Joe Stecher, Omaha, Neb., former
worlds champion, defeated Jack Rog-
ers, Montreal, in two straight falls at
Kokomo, Ind The first fall was made
in % minutes and the second in IL
minutes.
Elizabeth Ryan of Philadelphia, won
the wOmen'S national championship
5O-yard swimming race at Alameda, in
N31 2-5 seconds. Betty Grimes of Min
neapolis, was second and Ruth Crane
of Oakland, Cal, third.
Jean Ors. French aviator, won a
$500 prize by leaping from an airplane
1000 feet above the Chelsea flying
field while the plane was speeding at
sixty miles an hour. He made a per-
feet descent, clinging to a tiny white
silk parachute. The leap was the big
event of the day at the Pan-American
Aeronautical Congress.
GENERAL
A lot of 1,4OO silver fox pelts were
placed on auction at the spring sale
at the International Exchange in st.
Louis. Half of the lot was disposed
of at total of $135,OOO A pair of
the skins sold for 81, ,120.
John M. Thorn of Lansing, faced a
fifteen-mOnth sentence in Leaven-
worth penitentiary following his con-
victiOn for using the mails to black
mail J. P. Morgan and his daughter,
Mrs. Jane N. Morgan Nichols.
The wedding of Elizabeth J. Wrent-
more, the youthful Californian, to Gov
ernor Francis Burton Harrison of the
Philippines, will take place May 10Th
at the home of the governors mother
in Washington.
The worlds most powerful battle
ship, the superdreadnaught Tennessee,
was successfully launched when it
went sliding down the ways at the
New York navy yard.
Wedged under the seat in an out
building on a farm near Latrobe, Pa,
the body of Miss Emma AuStraw, 19
years old, school teacher, who has
been missing for several days, was
found murdered. The girls hands
were tied behind her back, her face
had been beaten and she had been
struck ON the head
Probably the first parade in this
country made up exclusively of
wounded soldiers, most of whom are
Chicogoans, was held in Chicago.
More than 1000 men from Fort Sheri-
dan and the Cooper-Monitau General
Hospitals filed through the downtown
district in the interest of the Victory
Loan campaign. The wheel chair di-
vision," consisting of men who may
never walk again, was one of the fea-