The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-08-02
FOREIGN


Regular airplane service between
Berlin, Paris and Copenhagen will be-
gin this summer. French machines
will be used.
Demolition of the forts of Helgoland,
once Germany's Gibraltar in the
North Sea-" is under way. In few
days no Notifications will be left
The Third division of the American
army has been ordered home from the
occupied area of Germany. 1t will be-
gin entrainng for Brest Aug. 5.
The Hungarian soviet troops have
been thrown back in disorder across
the Thesis river by the Rumanians, at
Szolnok and other points, according to
reports.
Socialist motions to hasten the bill
establishing "A state tribunal to investi-
gate the cause of the war and the guilt
for it, has passed the national assem-
bly, at Weimar
Premier Nitti of Italy is organizing
a new mission to the United States. Its
purpose will be to present Italy's finan-
cial and industrial needs. the establish
exports and imports.
The Polish advance into Galicia was
made so rapidly that the Ukrainians
had no time to destroy the railways or
bridges as they retired. The Poles, ac-
cording to this announcement, took g.,
500 prisoners and forty-one guns as
well as vast quantities of munitions
An American loan of S1O0,00O,000 has
been obtained by Martin Nordegg, rep
resenting the Deutsche Bank of Berlin,
| according TO an exchange telegraph
dispatch from Berlin. 1t was said 10
per cent of the loan would be deposited
in foreign bonds to the German banks
credit.
The Philippine legislature purposes
| the enactment of a prohibition meas
ure for the islands in the event it is
held that the national prohibition
amendment recently ratified In the
United States does not apply to the
Philippines. This announcement was
made by legislative leaders. The pro-
posed measure, it was said would be
an exact copy of the act of the Amer
lean government.
SPORT
Leo Houck of Seattle and Young
Cyclone" Brown of San Francisco
fought ten rounds to a draw at Phoe-
nix. They are lightweights.
Frank Barrieu of San Francisco was
| given the decision after a twelve-round
boxing match at Boise, Ida, with Al
Sommers, a fighter recently released
from the army.
Tommy Carter, lightweight champion
of the Southern department, United
States army, won the decision over
| Otto Wallace of Milwaukee in a fif-
teen-round bout staged at Fort Bliss
The fight was fast all the way and the
decision close one.
GENERAL
Both houses of the Arkansas Legis-
lature ratified the federal woman suf-
frage amendment. Arkansas is the
twelfth state to ratify the proposed
amendment.
Thirteen thousand ounces of plat
mum have been sold by the ordnance
department of the army, it was an
nounced in New York. The mineral
sold at SlO5 an ounce.
Four persons were killed and four
teen injured in a head-on street car
collision on the outskirts of Minneapo-
lis. The motorman on one of the cars
was among those killed.
William H. Recap, Il sports writer,
has brought suit against George l..
(TeX) Richard to recover $4,000 dam
ages for alleged SANDER and defama-
ton of character. The action is based
on n statement said to have been made
by Richard on July ., the day after
the Willard-Dempsey fight which Rick
ard promoted.
Gustav Pabst, president of the Pabst
Brewing Company, has purchased for
the company securities of the company
with IA par value of S2,SS9900, the
property of alien enemies sold ut auc-
ton by the government, for $1,476,917.
Less than one-half of l per cent of
the American soldiers who died on the
battlefelds of France We're buried I'M
identified, according to Col. Joseph S.
Heron of Cincinnati, commander of
the $4,000 troops who inferred the fall
en- Americans.
Jack Britton of Chicago, we!ter-
weight boxing champion, and Mike
O'Dowd of st. Paul, the middleweight
title holder, will meet in an eight
round contest at Newark, n. j., Aug
%. The men are to weigh in at 15S
pounds.
The death of Patrick Cudahy, mil
lionaire packer of Milwaukee, brother
of Edward A. Cudahy, president of the
Cudahy Packing Company, one of the
five great packing firms of Chicago,