The Benson signal., 1919-12-13
FOREIGN

Grated the second fortnight in April,
The city of Stockholm, Sweden, has
decided to send about $1,000,000 worth
of foOdstuffs to Berlin and Vienna to
relieve conditions there, according to
Swedish reports received.
The situation in soviet Russia is
growing more serious. In SEVERAL
towns workers are without employ
ment and desperately hungry, Sand
have revOlted against the BolsheTki.
The firepits of Mount Kilauea which
for months was level with the main
crater and overflowed frequently, col
quake shocks accompanied the col
lapse.
The order for the discOntinuance of
| the general strike called after the
opening of the parliament in Italy, has
| been generally Obeyed. Quiet has been
restored in Mantua, where disorders
| occurred.
| The League Of Nations Association
| in Brussels adopted a resolution rec
ommending that the covenant OF the
League of Nations be amended 50 to-
tally eliminate from the text the
| clauses giving nations the right to go
| to war.
Tickets to the public gallery of the
| house of commons for the opening seS-
son were in great demand, hundreds
showing their desire to see the first
woman member presented in the house.
1t was impossible to accommodate
nearly all the applicants.
Milk and cream have been barred
from Paris bars and restaurants and
now the authorities are going after
eggs as well. They have decided to
! prohibit the cOncOctiOn of any egg
drink, in order to conserve the sup
plies of eggs for children, the aged and
| the sick.
| Domingo Salaberry, Argentine min
lister of finance, during his coming visit
! to the United States as chairman of
the Argentine delegation to the Pan
American financial congress, will take
up with American banks the possibil-
| ity Of obtaining loan for Argentina
of $300,OO0,O00 in gold.
Lady Astor has received her first
| lesson in the rules and regulations of
parliamentary conduct. She has been
twice called to order by the speaker
for conversing Oh the floor Of the
house with another member. The vis-
| tod 4ho o,Ix,
belonging to Tim Healey, the Irish ma
| tiOnaliSt leader.
| The Japanese government, through
| Ambassador Shidehara, has conferred
decorations on fourteen ranking off
GERS of the American navy in recegni-
tiOn of war service. Among those dec
Grated were Rear Admirals Benson,
Sims, Mayo and Knight, who received
the Grand Gordon of the Rising Sun
Admirals Gleaves and Wilson, Grand
Gordon Of the Sacred Treasury Adj
miral ROdman, Order of the Rising
Sun, second class.
GENERAL
Henry Clay Frick, pioneer ironmas-
| q
tors in the United States, died sudden
| ly at his New York home in his 10th
year.
The American WOolen Company in
Boston announced an advance in
wages in all it's mills The increase
| became effective at once. The amount
was not stated. The company has
forty mills in several states.
Trial of Industrial Workers of the
Canton Lumber Company at Baltimore
spread to the Spedden Shipbuilding
| Company adjoining, and half dozen
or more ships, and caused a property
loss of more than $1,000,OO0. One life
was lost, several men injured and sew
eral boats owned by the United States
shipping board were burned and sunk.
| Cause of the fire has not been deter
mined
The country as whole now is in
vOfved in coal ratiOning measures
which have been proposed to exc out
supplies shortened by the nationwide
strike of bituminous mine workers.
Hugh Duffy, who managed the
Philadelphia National league baseball
team in 1905 and 1906, has been APP
| pointed manager of the Toronto Inter
nationals to succeed George Gibson.
| Duffy has been out of baseball for
many years.
Expressing appreciation of the serv-
ices rendered patriotic agencies by
stage people during the war, John d.
| Rockefeller, Jr., contributed $4,000 to
| the Actors Fund of America. In max
| ing the contribution he expressed graf
| itude, especially for the help actors
gave to the United War Work cam
| paign, of which he was an official
After fatally injuring his wife, Hat
| tie, aged Al, and seriously wounding
his 16-year-old daughter, Maude, while
they slept, Walter Webb, a Ford en-
ploy6 at Detroit, blew out his brains