The Benson signal., 1919-10-25
FOREIGN

be called upon to consider abOl1shlng
the royal prerogatives Of conscription
in peace and war.
The American army transport Great
Northern sailed from Valdivostok with
100 officers and 400 enlisted men re-
turning to the United States.
The British Socialist party has de-
cided by an overwhelming majority to
Join the Third Communist Interna-
tionals, established at Moscow, and to
sever connections with the old inter-
national Socialist bureau.
The American steamer Mount Hood
| is total loss as the result of fire
aboard the vessel at MOntevideo, ac-
cOrding to dispatch from that port.
| The Mount Hood was built at
Portland, Ore, last year.
Fire starting in a summer home de-
stroyed seventy cottages at the Meth
| odist assembly grounds, Groveland,
Lake Minnetonka. Four persons, two
of them children, were seriously
burned in escaping from their homes.
The fall of Petrograd and the oc-
| cupancy of both that city and the fort
ress of Kronstadt by the anti-Bolshe-
| visit forces has been reported official
ly by the general staff of the Finnish
army tc the Viborg representative OF
the northwest government of Russia.
Twenty seven war vessels were lost
by France during the period of hos
tilities, it is shown by an order of the
day issued by Georges Leygues, the
minister of marine, citing this number
of war craft destroyed. Included in
the list are three battleships, the Dan
tor she Gaulois and the Suffren.
The Cast announcement by Chicago
concerns 1f Christmas BONUS for en-
ployes came from Marshall Field & Co.
Officials annotMced that $1,sOO,OOO
would be split among workers rereiv-
ing less than $500 yearly. The dis
tribution is made in view of the higsa
cost of living, the officials said.
Appeal to Presbyterians throughout
the country for an expression Ct Op1n-
ion on the question Of granting %omen
equal rights with men in all the TXnc-
tions of the church has been issued by
the committee on official relations OF
women in the church, created by the
last general assembly of the PreSby-
terian church. The committees report
will be submitted to the next general
assembly.
GENERAL
Six of the largest longshoremen's
local unions voted in New York to re-
turn to work, John F. Riley, chairman
of the longshoremen's strike commit
tee. announced These locals, he said,
have a combined membership of $4,000
workers.
Lyman w. DOty, pilot of one of the
New York Washington mail aero
| planes, was burned to death at the
Rolling Road Golf Club, Catonsville, a
suburb, when his plane crashed nose
first into the ground and the gasoline
tank exploded.
Secretary Glass put his name to a
check for So, ,648, ,3O9, ,171.53, said to have
been the largest ever drawn. 1t was
made payable to the treasurer of the
United States, but did not involve a
transfer of that amount Of money. 1t
mas made necessary to account for re-
demptiOns of certificates Of indebted
ness and other obligations in June. The
largest check ever drawn on the treas
ury for outgoing money was 5000, ZOO,
600, which was lent to Great Britain.
A 6OO-foot Zeppelin, which was
ready to start for America with a car
70 of bombs to drop on New York
when the armistice negotiations began,
now is in q shed at Spandau, Germany,
and if the allied governments Will per-
nit, will soon start for America on a
peaceful mission under control of
American officers, according to Emil
J. Simon of New York, a radio engi-
neer who arrived on the steamship
Adriatic This Zeppelin" Mr.. Simon
said, "is the only one built for such
purposes that was not destroyed by
the Germans"
An embargo on the expectation of SUI
gar to relieve the existing shortage is
sought by Representative Gallinger of
Massachusetts in a bill introduced in
the House. Under the bill no sugar
cane or raw or refined sugar can be
exported for a period of six months and
such further time as might be consid-
cred advisable by the President.
Margaret Seithamier, aged 16, on
trial for the murder of Benjamin Burr,
a Chicago attorney whom she was al
legged to have shot to death in his Of
flee July Z, was found not guilty after
two hours of deliberation by the jury
Mrs Marie Hermes, co-defendant, also
was acquitted These women make
some two-score acquitted in recent
years after Staying men in Chicago.
Surviving children of Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, according to a petition filed
in the county clerks office will soon