The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-10-31
FOREIGN


/ will sign the peace treaty without con-
sulting parliament" says Central News
agency dispatch for Toxic
1t has been reported in dispatches
| from Lisbon that Portugal had granted
the United States concession in the
Azores for naval station.
Bella Kun, the former soviet chief
of Hungary, is accused Of murder and
1.-THE theft of 2,0O0,OOO rubles from two
emissaries of General Denikine.
| Alfred Flamval, French aviator,
| ]ooped the loop 624 times in single
flight in military aeroplane at Mad
/ rid. The previous record was little
over 300 Flamval was in the air two
| hours.
Sufficient sugar TO meet present
American demands have been con-
| tracted for but will remain in Cuban
warehouses until transportation is
provided, according to a statement by
! the Cuban Sugar Manufacturers and
| Planters Association.
Alfred FELTON, of Australia defeated
| Ernest Barry, for many years sculling
| champion, for the sculling champion
ship of the world. FELTON, covered the
four and onehalf miles in % minutes,
40 seconds, beating Barry six lengths.
| There was high wind.
A large quantity of arms and ammu
milton intended for Portuguese revolu-
tionaries has been taken over by the
| Spanish authorities at Alamedilla
| Park, in Salamanca, about 115 miles
| northwest of Madrid The seizure was
made at the request of the Portuguese
consul.
| II is given out that Archduke Joseph
| of Austria will soon be elected king of
Hungary. If the entente objects, the
crown of Hungary will be offered, it
| is stated. TO foreign prince, probably
of the English royal family. A re-
sumption of the throne by former En-
peror Charles is out of the question.
| The British government has already
realized 1912, 800, 600 by the sale Of war
stores which it had on hand when
peace was declared. Hundreds of
motor cars and trucks have been
marketed at prices frequently in excess
of the price originally paid for them
by the war office. owing to the great
scarcity Of cars.
The net bag of German submarines
| destroyed by the American, French
and British navies during the war was
| 200 out of Il total of 80 completed by
| the enemy up to the armistice, accord
| ing to the war cabinet blue book Each
of the three navies developed entirely
different systems of submarine detec-
rfrr- tltart
| constantly exchanged.
GENERAL
The International Federation Of
Trades Unions began its session at
Washington Monday preliminary to the
meeting of the International Labor
Conference provided for in the treaty
with Germany.
Nugent'S Weekly, national maga-
zine devoted to the manufacture of
women's garments, followed the ex-
ample Of the Literary Digest with the
announcement that publication would
he maintained by the typewriter
trotype process every week until the
strike is ended.
A list of more than 1000 articles
Oilltl IMAM iltaiS, NiiiNh, hN ,tti',
were shipped by the big Five" pack
ers in refrigerator cars along with
fresh meats was introduced by Walter
X. Scott, traffic expert, who was
! testifying on behalf of the Wholesale
4 Grocers' Association at Chicago.
| The Old Clothes Society was organ
| ized by clerks in the city hall in Chi
/ cago with "chapters" in each of the
principal departments of the municipal
| government The object is to glorify
the wearing Of patches, frayed or shiny
suits, soft collars re-soled shoes and
revivified neckties MS IL means of com
hating the high cost of living. Wear
| YOUR old clothes was one of the obll
CATIONS of membership included in the
| bylaws.
George Babe" Ruth, world cham
pion home-run hitter of the Boston
| Americans, said before leaving for Los
| Angeles that he would demand 100000
salary next year.
The final coupon on the Second 4
per cent Liberty Bonds becomes due
next month and the last coupon on
the First 4 per cents, being converted
81 per cents is payable in December.
The cargo carrier Sundance, named
in honor of Wyoming's work in the
| Liberty Loan drives, was launched at
Hog Island Miss Rosa Maye Ken
drick, daughter of Senator and Mrs j.
B. Kendrick of Wyoming, was the
| sponsor 1t was the sixtysecond ship
| lounched AT the big ward and brought
the deadweight tonnage produced since
August, 1918, TO 4S5, 5,150
An early closing of the contract for
the purchase by the navy of the Brit
ish rigid airship RIBS. the largest air
ship in the world, now under construc-
ton in England, is expected, II was
stated at the department Monday