The Benson signal., 1919-03-29
FOREIGN


Cochran, controller general of the lib
Grated region, announced in Paris.
Paris police are on the track of
thieves who stole Miss Margaret Will
sons automobile while she was sing
ing to American soldiers in village
near the American front
The wireless telephone is to be put
to practical commercial use at Mon
treal, Canada. Instruments are being
installed in the offices of the Montreal
Board of Trade, and these will enable
brokers to talk with Kingston, Otta-
wa, Three Rivers and Quebec
The Swiss government has received
formal demand from former En-
perOr Charles of Austria requesting
permission for him to live in Switzer-
land. AS the allies, through Arthur J.
Balfour, British foreign secretary,
when sounded on the subject recently,
made no objection to such residence,
1.-THE request probably will be granted.
Because of the great number of mill
tary and civil entente missions which
have visited Germany since Novem-
ber, the German cabinet has decided
that no person from any allied coun-
try will henceforth be permitted to
travel in Germany without special per-
mission from the armistice commits
sion.y
The first account now isN NOfficially
published of - remarkable long-dis-
tAnce fight over the North sea which
was performed by British nOn-rigid
airship, the US-11. The voyage took
the form Of a circuit, embracing the
coast of Denmark, Schleswig- -HOlstein,
Helgoland, North Germany and Hol-
land. The "trip was characterized by
extremely unfavorable weather and
therefore is regarded as ranking as
perhaps the most notable flight of the
kind ever undertaken
SPORT
Stockyards Tommy Murphy was
given the popular verdict over Len
Rowlands at Rock Island, ILL.,, in a ten
round nO-decisiOn contest Although
Outboxed, Rowlands put up a game ex-
hibitiOn,
Joe Loomis, track star of the Chica-
go Athletic Association, was cleared
of charges of professionalism made by
officials of the Central A. A. U. be-
cause he had written articles on ath-
letics for a newspaper
e. q.
. The University of Utah basketball
|, quintet defeated the Utah Agricultur-
al College team at Salt Lake City, %
to p, winning the state championship.
The winning team will enter the ma
tional basketball tournament at Los
Angeles.
Marty O'Toole, whose sale to the
Pfttsburg Pirates for $500 caused a
| sensation in baseball circles some
years ago, has been traded by Omaha
| to the San Antonio Texas League team
! for Pitcher Townsend O'TOole, who
is a spitballer, asked for the transfer
because the moist delivery is barred in
the Western league
GENERAL
s Job E, Hedges was appointed receiv-
er for the New York Railways Com
pany by Judge Mayer in Federal Court
of New York. The corporation, which
is subsidiary of the InterbOrough
Rapid Transit Company, operates a
large percentage of the surface cars
on Manhattan island.
J. III. Bessant, representative from
Dyer county, Tenn, in the lower house
of the General Assembly, was killed !;
Representative Dan WOlfenberger Of
Granger county was dangerously in
| jured and Representative Martin Long
| of Robertson county was badly cut
| about the face and head when an auto
mobile driven by a negro chauffeur,
! plunged over the high embankment in
the road at the north side of the Cap
itol grounds at Nashville.
Botafogo, the famous Argentine race
horse, son of Old Man and Korea, has
been purchased from Senor Diego de
Alvear by Messrs. Benito and VOLTA
| nueva and NJ A. Martinez de Hoz for
f4O,OOO sterling ($2OO,OOO).
Mrs Margaret Reeves, wife of Mel
vile Reeves, known as the "skyscrap-
er burgler," was awarded $4,000
damages against Nicholas Hunt, for
mer chief of detectives, and Detective
| Sergeant Charles Grafton, on her
charge of false arrest. Mrs. Reeves
charged the officers while seeking her
husband, broke into her hotel apart
ment while she was in her Oath and
compelled her to dress in their pres
ence. She sued for $4,000.
The Atlantic Refining Company en-
tered suit in the United States Court
at Philadelphia against the govern
ment for So, 1913, Pol, alleged to be due
for fuel Oil furnished to the navy. The
oil company claims compensation on
the basis of war prices charged for its
product, While Secretary Daniels set
tied at the lower rate fixed by Presi-
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