The Tomahawk., 1919-10-23
MOST IMPORTANT
NEWS Of WORLD
Big HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS
Kernels cuIled From Events Of Mo-
ment In All Parts Of the Worid-
OF Interest to All tho
People Everywhere.

People Everywhers.
| Washington
The railroad administration at
Washington was notified that the
! striking railroad shopmen at Altoona.
Pa, would return to work. The strike
was local and unauthorized by the
union.
Increases in pay of postal employees
to the extent Of approximately $780,
100000 were passed by the senate at
Washington. The senate adopted an
amendment providing for expenses for
fourth class postma sters.
Ten million Germans and thousands
Of Austrians are awaiting opportunity
| to leave their native countries. accord
ing to official diplomatic dispatches
presented to the house immigration
committee at Washington.
Enactment of the prohibition en-
forcement bill was completed at Wash
! ington when the house, 321 to 70,
adopted the conference report already
| agreed to by the senate. 1t now goes
to the president.
Japan is sending the largest delega'
ton of any of the nations to the In
ternational labor conference to be held
at Washington, October 20. the party
Including more than GO persons.
Inquiry into alleged cases Of hazlng
at the naval academy at Annapolis has
been ordered by Secretary Daniels at
Washington.
An immediate Investigation of the
vocational education board was de-
manded by Representative Rogers OF
Massa chusetts before the house rules
committee at Washington.
Voting on the Shantung amendment
to the peace treaty having been post
poned indefinitely, the senate at wash
ington is preparing to start on round
of speech-making and continued read
ing of the treaty text.
Fifty dollars a month should be the
minimum pay for naval enlisted men,
the house naval committee at WASH
| ington was told by Admiral Wilson,
commander of the Atlantic fleet, and
Rear Admiral Washington, CHIEF OF
navigation.
The bill for enforcement of wartime
md constitutional prohibition as
agreed to in conference was adopted
by the senate without discussion.
no,,,> efIc .,,..+ss::;: $50.
First Lieut.. Belvin w. Maynard,
plotting De Haviland 4 airplane. won
the air derby. arriving safely In San
Francisco. His flying time was %
hours from Mineola. N. Y.
Ten thousand one hundred dollars
was paid at Hannibal. NO., for Big
Ben, weighing 100 pounds, said by
stockmen to be the biggest hog In the
world.
More than 5000 veterans assembled
at Atlanta. Ca, for the grand parade
of the United Confederate Veterans,
the crowning feature of their annual
reunion.
Suit to test the constitutiOnality of
the wartime prohibition law was filed
In the federal district court at Louis
vile, KY. by Attorneys Levy Mayer OF
Chicago and Marshall Bullitt of Louis
vile.
| Six robbers held up the paymastel
Of the Samuel Emerson company, In
the lobby of Euclid avenue building
at Cleveland, O.. and, after throwing
pepper into his face, escaped in an au
tomobile with $1,000.
Four steel mills in the Chicago dis
trict were reopened and almost every
other mill that has been operating or
a reduced scale reported that hundred:
of striking steel workers returned fol
work.
Strike orders will be issued sool
calling on 225,0O0 miners in the sOf
coal fields of western Pennsylvania
Ohio Indiana and Illinois to quit worl
November 1. The joint conference o
operators and miners that met a
Philadelphia after a deadlock at But
falo, N. Y. adjourned without reach
ing an agreement.
Evidence that members of "the Re
BROTHERHOOD in Gary, Ind. hav
launched a campaign of sabotage wa
| revealed when authorities in the stet
| town discovered huge spiked plank
laid along roadways traversed by mil
tary authorities and lorries.