The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-11-28
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

If the Kansas coal miners refuse to
go to work on the plan outlined to
| them by Governor Allen, 1000 young
| men of the Kansas State Agricultural
| college are willing to dig coal, said a
telegram TO the governor from Pres
| ident Jardine of the college at Topeka.
Thirty-eight members of fourteen
wholesale sugar firms We're arrested
in Chicago on federal warrants charg-
ing profiteering in violation of the
Lever food control act. They were
charged with exacting an exorbitant
price or conspiracy to obtain an ex-
cessive price for sugar.
The national adjustment commission
has made an award of so cents an hour
and S1.20 an hour for overtime TO
the deep sea lOngshoremen in the north
Atlantic district This is an increase
of 221h per cent over the scale of
wages in force up to October g. last.
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An embargo, effect1Ve lmlneuldtely,
on the export of anthracite coal, ex-
cept to Canada. is announced by the
national fuel administration.
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Lack of adequate training of pilots
was responsible for some fatalities
in the recent transcontinental derby
Lieut. Belvin w. Maynard, the win
ner, told house subcommittee. Of
ficers of high rank but whose expert |
ence had been confined to desk work, |
he said, entered the race because there |
were no superior officers to pass on !
their ability.
A verdict in favor of the defendants
in libel suit brought by Ray McKalg
against Frank r. GoOding and the
Statesman Printing company of Boise,
Idaho, was returned by jury in dis
trict court in that city. McKalg, an
organizer for the Nonpartisan league,
brought suit for $4,000, based on al
legations Gooding made in matter
printed in the Boise Statesman during
he last political campaign, in which
5ooding was candidate for governor.
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Peter Enguist and John Larson, both
If Duluth, drank the contents of a
,ottle of moonshine liquor they found
n deserted lumber camp near Inter
rational Falls, Mimi, and died several
tours later in great agony. At an in
Iuest the county coroner declared
heir deaths accidental.
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Arthur Brisbane has announced the
ale of the Washington Times and the
News of Milwaukee to Will
lam Randolph Hearst. The sale price |.
vas not made public.
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Without opposition the house au- ,
horized the immigration committee,
eaded by Chairman johnson of Wash
lgton, to conduct an investigation dur
lg the next few days into the delays
j the deportation of aliens held at !,
Ills Island Hearings will be held in
lew York City and Washington. n
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Announcing that large number OF :
omen were making wine and other
ltoxicants of eldeEberries, dande-
ons, cherries and other fruits and
Iants, Miss Cora Stoddard, director of
le Bureau of Scientific Temperance
lvestigation in an address before the !
ational Womens Christian Temper
ace union convention In st. Louis
lid 1--WE must go after these women
; well as the men" u
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John b. Lawson, labor organizer,
as seized by crowd as he was leav-
< the office Of his attorney in Nash
m, Tenn, put aboard train bound
r Indiana, and ordered not to return.
{ MAS reported to have come to =
ashvflle for the purpose Of agitating ?
walkdpt Of street railway employees. =
Henry Williams, member Of the 9
Ill, high school football =
am, received a broken neck IN a.
me with Peoria Manual high. He
In the hospital u serious condi- y
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