The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-04-19
FOREIGN

not guilty of manslaughted in connec-
tion with the death of "Billie' Carlton,
IN American dancer, in the Old Bailey
court In London.
The troops at Munich express sym
patty with the soviet cause. They have
declared their intention, however, to
maintain neutrality and TO prevent
rloting At all public gatherings enthu-
siasm is shown in favor Of the soviet
idea.
The airplane of the Shortt Brothers,
one of the entries for the 10000 ster-
ling race across the Atlantic, will start
from Ireland for Newfoundland short
ly, weather permitting. The airy!ane
is expected to make the journa5 in
twenty-four hours.
There is a widespread agitation in
Constantinople that If any country be
given the mandatory of Turkey 1t must
be the United States. Turkey is bank
rupt financially, politically and com
mercially, and it is impossible for her
to recover by her own resources.
The Berlin Zwelf Uhr Blatt reports
that 157 persons had been killed and
1S1 wounded in the fighting between
troops and strikers at Dusseldorf. The
heaviest fighting occurred when the
strikers attempted to cut off the water
supply.
Replying to a question in the House
of Commons of England, Stanley
Baldwin, parliamentary secretary to
the treasury, said allied obligations to
the United Kingdom March 31st last
were 1,56S, 447 900 pounds sterling and
obligations of the dominions 1885,
600 pounds sterling.
AS a result of the strike of bank en-
ployes in Berlin the German govern
ment was unable to remit 35,0OO,OOO
marks representing part of the pay
ment due the allied powers on food
shipments. The amount was to have
been transferred to the Deutsche bank,
which was compelled to close by the
strike.
SPORT
The Chicago Cubs played the Doug
las military team at Douglas, Ariz., to
a score of IA to 2.
The New York Assembly passed the
bill of Senator Walker permitting Sun
day baseball games. The bill now goes
to the governor for his approval.
frankie Britt of Boston had the bet
ter of a slow siX-round bout at Phila-
delphia with Willie Jackson of New
York, lightweight.
Augie Rather, an American boxer,
has been matched to meet Johnny Ba-
shan, the welterweight champion of
England, in a twenty-round bout at the
National Sporting Club June 10 for a
purse of $4,000.
John Fitzpatrick, who was the ref
cree in the fight in Mississippi City in
which John L. Sullivan won the
worlds championship from Paddy Ry-
an and the seventy-five-round fight be-
tween Sullivan and Jake Kilrain at
Richburg, Miss, is dead at this home
in New Orleans.
GENERAL
A new worlds record in shipbuilding
was claimed for the Ford Eagle plant
launching point of u s. Eagle boat No
SO in exactly ten days to the minute
from the time the keel was laid.
The Georgia early peach crop was
seriously damaged by the cold weather
according to reports deceived from
Fort Valley, Byron and Marshallville,
the centers of the peach belt. The late
nI,a hn1 m
affected.
Six physicians and four druggists
were arrested by internal revenue of
ficers at New York charged with viola
ton of the Harrison act. Fifty drug
addicts were taken in the raid and
were seized.
The Ukrainian soviet forces have
captured Simferopol, capital of the
Crimea, and Eupatoria, thirty-eighi
miles northwest of Simperopol, with
considerable booty.
Bond to the amount Of $4,000 for
the release of William D. Haywood, L
w. w. leader, who last year was con.
victed of violating the espionage act
and sent to the Leavenworth peniten
tiary, was signed by George NJ. McIn
tosh of Peoria, Ill.
Comforting on themselves the free.
dom of the city," an unknown number
of yeggmen spent the weekend in New
York cracking seven safes and obtain
ing nearly. $4,000 in loot and getting
away with all of 1t, according to re-
luctant admission by the police.
Rear Admiral William R. Caperton
commander-in-chief of the Pacific
fleet, has arrived in New York aboard
the United States cruiser Pittsburgh
his flagship, which was flying a 800
foot homeward-bognd pennant. sa.
iutes to the rear admiral were fired