Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-12-18

wodd1 record

i1or american coast defenses recently
. new brass diving suit In which 10
This will be done by preliminary
platform committee of SO members
which will maintain permanent head.
quarters In Washington. s;7s q
Although the country, already short
of sugar. Is confronted with an actual
famine In that necessity, the sena.
tors from Louisiana. Ransdell and
Gay, last week undertook filibuster
to defeat the McNary bill which is de-
signed to relieve the situation md
check exorbitant prices. The measure
would enable the sugar equalization
board to buy the Cuban crop, esti-
mated at 5000 600 tons, and to place
It on the market at d sfair and rea.
sonable price, This naturally does
not suit the sugar planters Of Louis
lana and their senators were, as al
ways, quick to come to their rescue.
Last summer seven Of the eight mem.s
bers Of the equalization board urged
the president to buy the Cuban crop,
.but the other member, Professor, Taus..
sig, dissented and persuaded the adj
ministration to let the law Of supply
and demand take its course. Taussig
Is member Of the new Industrial
conference named. by the president.
Having slightly softened the terms.
Of the protocol submitted to Germany.
& the supreme council at Paris told the
Germans they must sign II, and at last.
reports was sitting back waiting for,
the signature. Meanwhile various
rather disturbing reports came out Of
Germany. The most serious Of these
told how four trainloads Of the Iron
division troops that were being re.
moved from the Baltic states, having
arrived at Tilsit, refused to obey the
allied commissions order and returned
7 to Mcneil, where they continued to
threaten Courland. The German army
headquarters at Koenigsberg assumed
responsibility for this action, saying It
was according to ITS orders. The Ger
mans in the Baltic region are becom-
ing more truculent daily and a number
Of allied officers have been attacked.
Negotiations at Dorpat between tho
bolsheviki and the Esthonians com
tinued, with indications that they
would result in an armistice though II
was considered improbable that q
peace treaty would be signed. The
terms which the bolshevlki seek to inn
pose are rather severe and the Esthon.
F tans baked especially at the demand
for guarantees. feeling IT incompati.
BILE with their dignity. During these
negotiations the armies Of the soviet
g0vernmentsa and Of Esthonia are fight
Ing fercely on the Narva front, where
+ the bolsheviki we're repulsed after
making ten assaults. : 6s3
Under Secretary Polk and the other
American delegates to the peace con-
ference departed from Paris, and Ger.
tain French newspaper writer's took
( occasion to express the belief that this
closed the League OF Nations stage Of
the conference. The hollow, shell Of
the league may perhaps remain, said
they, abut the era Of alliances has re-
turne4i." And they pointed to the CON
ference In London between Clemen.
lceau and Lloyd George as confirma.
E ton. It was believed the French pre-.
mier went to tighten up the entents
cord,ale. Dispatches from London
said the two statesmen were largely
CONCERNED 1 with the Turkish situation
and with the British request that the
peace conference with The; Turks Be
held IN london.
The efforts Of Emma ldman and
Alexander 8Berkman to prevent their
deportation to Russla having failed
Y everywhere else, the two anarchists
asked the Supreme court Sof the United
States 70 take up the matter. The
fedAral officials announced that Berk.
man and Miss oldman, together with
other aliens would be shipped out u
the eountIy within two weeks. I.
~ notable achievement Of the wAei
10 aeronautics was the compile ton 81
his. airp1ane flight from England to
Australia By Capt. Ross Smith, h %
Australian aviator BY AnishinR III
trip ~ thirty days he won 4 prise q
Il 90, 600. 20 well as other money pr4xes,
n making the journey ~ III 800 amilsa
from Hound slow, near l,0nd0 n, Is p0tl