The Benson signal., 1919-07-05
FOREIGN

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the noted
poet, who recently was critically i'll
in London, is speedily recovering
United States Immediately.
The Ukrainians have defeated Boil
shevik forces all along the front. re-
capturing Odessa and threatening
Kieff, according to a Ukrainian Off
cial statement received at Berne.
Frederick William Hohenzollern, the
former German crown prince, has eS-
capped from Holland and made his way
into Germany. News Of the escape of
the eX-crOwn prince caused a consider
able stir in peace conference circles.
A dispatch from Oswestry, Shrop-
shire, says Admiral Won Reuter-, COM
mander Of the German fleet sunk in
Scapa Flow, was recognized when he
called at local bank. He was struck
in the face with rotten egg and was
otherwise halted.
London learned of the signing of the
peace treaty at Versailles at 3 3:4O
o'clock. The news became known thru
the firing of guns which had been in
stalled during the war to warn the
city Of air raids. They now were
used as harbingers of the long-await-
ed peace.
British, French and Italian labor
representatives have decided to make
general demonstration on July 20 or
21 to protest against allied interven-
tiOn in Russia. This announcement
was made by Arthur Henderson, Brit
ish labor leader, at the labor confer
ence at Southport, England.
General Hoffman, of Germany, who
was prime mover in the negotiations
| leading up to the Brest-Litovsk treaty
with Russia, has been dismissed from
| his command in the eastern district,
| having declared he would defend that
district to the last man in defiance
| of the governments orders and never
| recognize the peace treaty.
General Pershing and Herbert c.
Hoover represented the United States
| in a distinguished company of noted
men from the allied countries who
were honored by Oxford University
with degrees of doctor of civil law.
The ceremony was the eliminating fea-
| ture of the annual encaenia or COM
memOratiOn exercises.
The Pan-German Deutsche Zeitung
printed the following across it's front
page: German honor today will be
carried to it's grave in the hall of
mirrors, H which in the glorious year
of II the German empire was resur-
rected in all it's former splendor Lest
we forget! In restless labor the Ger
man people will again strive to attain
| that place among the nations of the
world to which it is entitled. Then
vengance for the disgrace Of 1919"
SPORT
Aggressiveness won for Harry Greb
middleweight, over Mike Gibbons of ST.
Paul in their ten-rOund bout at Pitts
burg. Greb was given six of the
rounds, Gibbons three and one was
even.
Jack Britton, welterweight title
holder, and Jack Perry, challenger,
went twelve rounds at Cumberland,
Md After the fifth round it was an
even battle. Britton fought openly
with very little covering and from the
start tried for a knockout but failed.
GENERAL
Secretary Lane asked the Senate to
increase the appropriation in the sun
dry civil bill for education Of Alaskan
natives from $215,O00 to $265,O0O.
A countrywide search for Mrs. Dol
lie Chesher, nurse who disappeared
last February, came to an end when
her body was found floating in Lake
Michigan, near Chicago.
Two new series of short term AZ
per cent certificates of Indebtedness
have been announced by the treasury
department dated July 1. One issue
will mature Sept 10 and the other Dec.
| 15, dates on which the income and eX-
cess taxes are due.
A record flight from Atlantic City,
N. j., to New York was established
when Lieut. Kenneth H. Murray, for
merly of the American air service,
piloted a Sopwith Camel over the
route, 14O miles in 81 minutes. The
time was officially recorded by the
Aero Club of America.
The square deal is fatal to radical
ism, Thomas A. Edison declared at a
dinner given in his honor by dealers in
the devices he invented at New York
There can be no social revolution in
the United States or Canada, he as
serted, for the simple reason that our
government and the Canadian govern
ment are founded on the idea of giving
everybody a fair show.
Henry Ford will turn back to the
government his share-58 per cent
of the war profits made by his De-
troit plant The automobile manu-
facturer requested the secretary of
the treasury to assign an accountant
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