, 1919-12-18
FOREIGN

ruary and the class of 1918 will be lib
Grated the second forth ght in April,
according to newspapers at Paris.
The first Polish profiteer to be exc
cuted is NJ. Brotheim, who, found guilty
of having stolen three truckloads Of
food intended for the Polish army, was
shot dead by a firing squad. Premier
Paderewski has announced a pitiless
campaign against all profiteers.
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 c%oncoction of any egg
drink, in order to conserve the sup
plies of eggs for children, the aged and
the sick.
The United States government has
notified Japan that America has
adopted the ''hands Off policy in ST.
IBERIA and will send no further assist
ance to the Kolchak forces, according
to a Toxic cable published by the Nip
pu Jill, a Honolulu Japanese news
paper.
Federal District Judge Hamilton is
sued a temporary restraining order
against Santiago Iglesias, representa-
tive of the American Federation of La
bOr, and forty-two laborers and en-
ployes of the American railroad of Por-
to Rico enjoining them from carrying
out an alleged conspiracy whereby it is
charged the employees of the railroad
We're made to strike Dec. 8.
Capt. Ross Smith, Australian aviator,
arrived at Port Darwin, Australia from
England, thus winning a prize of f1O,-
900 sterling offered for the first avia-
tor to make the voyage. Under the
conditions laid down by the Australian
government when it offered Il prize for
making a flight from England to Aus
tralia the distance of 1850 miles had
to be covered within thirty days.
Evan Il. Young of the United States
consular service has been ordered to
Odessa, South Russia, to open a con
Sulate general. An adequate staff will
go with him, the state department an
%nounced, and it is possible that two
or three consuls will soon be placed
under his jurisdiction at important
points on the Black sea and in South
Russia Industrial and agricultural cen
tiers. Mr.. Young was consul general at
Halifax for some years, and is rated
as one of the ablest men in the service.
GENERAL
The Canadian government is shipping
S10,O00,000 in gold to New York for the
nIr+nnSn nf mnotinn nIlinntfnne aud
also to check the depreciation in Mon
treal exchange.
H.. S. Wilkinson of Pittsburg has
been elected president of the Crucible
Steel Company of America and chair
man of the board, taking the place of
G. II. Wharton, who declined re-elec-
ton.
City officials stopped twenty-five
tons of sand and gravel from being
sold at 80 cents n pound in New York.
The real estate was in the crops of
10000 chickens bound for the New
York market.
The Republican National Committee
has selected Chicago, and Tuesday,
June Sth, as the place and time for the
iilioiitl III III al With lut
party's 1920 candidate for President
will be nominated.
Furs valued at more than 100000
We're stolen from Il fur dressing estab-
lishment in Brooklyn, according to an
announcement made by Starobin & Ru-
bin, the owners Ten thousand skins
We're hauled away by thieves in trucks,
1t was said.
Vincent Eisi, a barber in Kew York
City, while shaving Harry Dresher,
was taken with vertigo and falling,
gashed Dresher's throat with the razor.
Dresher is in a hospital and not ex-
pected to live. Detectives arrested
Recommendations of the nav gem
eral board for the building ogr
of 1921, include two battleships, one
battle cruiser, ten scout cruisers, five
destroyer flotila leaders and six sub
marines. The navy of the United
States should ultimately be equal to
the most powerful maintained by any
other nation of the world" not later
than 1925, the report adds.
Chicago ranks second in point of
negro population in northern cities,
the report of the Urban league shows.
New York is the only city in the
North surprising Chicago in point of
colored residents" said L. A. Hill, sec
rotary. "Slnce 1915 Chicago has added
$4,000 to its negro population. Detroit
and Newark have had 400 per cent in
creases in the last four years."
Flat refusal to give the names of the
executive committee of the Russian So
Wet federation described by DIR. Mich
ael Misleg, its treasurer, as a nation
wide body actively engaged in teach
ing Bolshevism to the American
masses, met the joint legislative com
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