The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1920-07-29
Big Happenings of the Week
Condensed for Benefit of
Busy Readers.
TOLD IN A few WORDS
Kernels CuIled From News OF Moment
In All Parts Of the World
Of Interest to All the Peo-
pie Everywhere.
Washington

ashington-Victory medals are be-
ing issued by the war department to
World War veterans on individual ap-
plication only.
Washington-Thomas J. Spellacy OF
Hartford, Conn, is understood to have
been selected assistant secretary OF
the navy to succeed Franklin D. Roose-
welt when Mr.. Roosevelt retires about
Aug 8 to make the race as democratic
vicepresidential candidate.
ashington-Charges of profiteering
in oil on the Pacific coast are being
investigated by the department of JUS
tice. At the same time the depart
ment is following up sales OF coal in
various parts of the country and check
ing up prices paid to determine
whether dealers are profiteering.
Washington All industries in
creased the total amount of their pay
rolls for June, 1920, as compared with
June, 1919, according to statistics
made public by the department of Ia
Dor. In 10 out of 10 selected manufac-
turing industries, there also were in
creases in the number of persons en-
ployed, the figures showed.
Washington-Bolivia minister to
the United States, Signor 1gnacio Cal:
deron, resigned because of his disap.
prevail of the revolutionary movement
which has overthrow the existing b.
livian government. Senior Calderon de-
clared that this revolution has set his
country back so years and has dds.
credited Bolivia before the world"
Washington-Ethelb Stewart Of
Chicago has been appointed by Presi-
dent Wilson as commissioner OF labor
statistics, succeeding DR.. Royal
Meeker, who resigned to assume duties
in the international labor office of the
League of Nations at Geneva. Mr.
Stewards appointment it was an
nounced, will be effective on Aug. l.
Washington-The body Of former
Surgeon General Gorgas who died re-
Gently in London will be brought to
the United States on the army trans
port Pocahontas, the war department
announced that the transport has been
ordered to stop at Southampton, Eng,
on the return trip from Europe to take
aboard Mrs. Gorgas and the body Of
her husband.
Washington-Prospe agreement
for the resumption of trade between
Great Britain and soviet Russia will
not cause the United States govern
ment to go farther than the recent &C.
ton lifting restrictions on trade. The
United States will continue to refuse
to issue passports to Russia, will not
establish mail communications and
will refuse to give any sort Of recOgni-
ton to the soviet government.
Domestic ::
Roanoke, Va.-Approximately 1,000,-
900 tons of coal will be transported to
the Great Lakes by the Norfolk and
Western railway.
Seattle, Wash.--Six battleships, car
rying 1858 midshipmen from the Uni
ted States Naval Academy, arrived
from Honolulu.
New York-More than 1000 moving
picture workers in New York and VIC
unity went on strike, tying up or Grip
ping a score of film plants.
New York-The British steamer
Balzac arrived here from Montevideo
with $500 tons of refined sugar, con-
signed to American importers.
Nogales, Ariz.-Governor Borquez Of
Sonora, Mexico, ordered that no wines,
beers or liquors may be sold within $50
meters of the international line.
Portsmouth, Ohio-Three youths
were killed and four others injured,
when a Norfolk and Western passenger
train struck an automobile, south of
here. 3.
San Francisco-Two hundred Rus.
sian brides of American soldiers ar.
rived here from Vladivostok with their
husbands, on board the army trans.
port Madawaska.
Lincoln, Neb.-For the fiji st time in
the history of national politics wo-
man was chosen permanent chairman
of national convention. Miss Marie
o. Brehm of Long Beach, Calf, was
given that honor by the Prohibition ma
tional convention here.
Oklahoma City, Okla.-Lieutenant
Rollo Brown and his mechanician Ser
geant George Burleson, both from
Post field, Fort Sill, Okla, we're burn
ed to death here when plane piloted
by Brown, fell about 700 feet and burst
into flames, Immediately after taking
off from the field. -. p
Asheville, N. c. - Learning that
threats of lynching were being made
in the little town of Graham, against
three Negroes in Jail there, charged
with attacking white woman, Cover
nor Thomas w. Beckett ordered the
Durham machine gun company of the
state national guard to proceed to
Graham. r.
Albany, N. Y.-The purchase by the
state of IN grams of radium, the
largest commercial transaction of its
kind ever made, and the first purchase
Of radium by any state for a PURPOSE
of social utility, was announced by
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