The Benson signal., 1919-05-31
FOREIGN

ing to advices received by the State
Department.
Lieutenant Prackpapa, an Italian avi-
atOr, in an airplane with three passen-
gers, ascended to height of 1880 me-
ters (23,786 feeD. The ascent was
made in forty minutes.
Casualties resulting from a violent
eruption of the volcano of StrOmbOl
in Italy totaled three killed and few
injured, according to adviceS from
Messina. The material damage also
was slight
Co. E. M. Houses membership on
the committee of organization of the
| League of Nations is only temporary
and he probably will be succeeded by
former President Taft, according to
Paris reports.
Polish troops have captured the i'm
portant town of Lutsk, in Volhynia,
northeast of Lemberg, from the Uk-
rainians, dispatch from Berlin says.
The Poles also took 1000 prisoners
and large number of guns.
The latest guess as to when the
peace. treaty will be signed, is some
time between June 10th and June 10TH
The belief was freely expressed in
French official circles that the Ger
mans will sign the treaty.
The American colony, represented by
200 members of the American club,
welcomed the new American ambassa-
dor, Hugh c. Wallace, at a luncheon
in Paris. The he<ambassador'S speech was
tribute to the American woman dur
ing the war.
One hundred and thirty prominent
men have entered their names as mem
bers of party which will tour the
United States this autumn to study
economic conditions. Among those
who will make the trip will be twenty
five members of the Swiss parliament.
| A number of the leaders of the
Chinese students in Toxic, writing
their names with their own blood,
have signed a resolution calling on
1000 of the students in Toxic to re-
turn to China to protest against the
peace conference decision in regard to
Shantung and against the alleged am
bition of Japan in China.
SPORT
Michigan defeated Notre Dame in a
dual track and field meet, 691a to Gil
frankie Mason of Fort Wayne, Ind,
received his first setback. in twenty
battles at Peoria, ILL.,, when he was out
pointed by Earl Puryear of Tulsa,
Okla, in ten-round fight.
Johnny Griffiths punched Len w.
Rowland full of holes in eight rounds
at Memphis. Griffiths was credited
with having an advantage in every
session. He has one more bout sched-
uled in Fort Worth before going to
Denver to prepare for Thorpe.
Aroused by most remarkable show
ing made by his opponent in the third
and, fourth rounds, Benny Leonard,
worlds lightweight champion, knocked
out George young" Erne of Buffalo
in the sixth round of what was to have
been an eight-round bout at Trenton,
| N. J.
GENERAL
Germany is willing that the former
kaiser and other German officials be
placed on trial for their war crimes,
but demands a neutral court.
Five bandits entered the private
bank of Baker & Sons in Cicero, a sub
urb of Chicago, threw Charles Baker,
the cashier in a coal bin, and looted
the bank ,of $4,000. They escaped in
an automobile.
Donald Stewart, for many years as
sociated with the late James J. Hill as
vice president and general manager of
the Great Northern Express Company
, at st. Paul, died at private hospital
in New York.
Thirty persons were burned, several
probably fatally, in a triple explosion
in the case and can department of the
Standard Oil Company, Bayonne, N. j.
One man, a living torch, leaped into
Newark bay and was rescued.
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lantic City, and James Bew, real es-
tate agent, were killed when Ken
drick's airplane plunged into a sand
bar in the inlet at the upper part of
the city.
Unable to pay death claims of $780,
900 as a result of influenza epidemic,
the Catholic Mutual Benefit Associa-
ton will notify members that extra as
sessments must be levied until the de-
ficit is wiped out, it has been an
nounced by John J. Hynes, supreme
president Of the order.
Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
chairman of the Salvation Army home
service campaign in New York, made
public cable message from General
Pershing, in which the commander OF
the expeditionary forces urged the
American people to support the activi-
ties of the Salvation Army.