Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-10-15
FOREIGN

Venice.
Some thirty persons were injured
when passenger train, travelling from
Paris for Argenteuil, coIlided with an
other passenger train running from Ar
genteuil for Paris.
American relief workers in the Cri-
mea, now controlled by General Wran-
gels antI-Bolshevist forces. have been
ordered to increase their distribution
Of supplies and foodstuffs to 500 tons
per week.
Demands for Immediate increase in
wages has been telegraphed the Ger
man minister of labor by the confer
ence held at Bochume of four miners
unions composing the Miners Fedora
ton. says the yorwaerts
The French aviator. FronvnI, estab-
lished world record for landing at
a given spot when he ascended to a
height of 1000 meters and came down
within nine feet Of the spot indicated
The measurement WIS 2.8O meters.
Horse racing In Argentina received
Ia blow when President Irigoyen We
toed bill authorizing the Jockey Club
to continue to hold meetings on Thurs.
days. The veto condemned gambling
and declared the Sunday holiday was
sufficient
Next years budget for France, total
ing 26,0OO,000,000 francs, is being
trimmed down by President Millerand
and Frederic Francis Marsal. the f.
nance minister 1t is proposed to fix
the reparation expenditures which are
recoverable from Germany Mt 24,0OO,-
100000 francs.
More than S0,0O0,OO0,oo0 marks in
German paper money was circulated
at the end of September, according to
the Chreich's bank statement covering
that period, made public in Berlin.
This announcement closely follows an
official admission that the current
budget shows a deficit of 81, 0o0,000,OOc
marks.
GENERAL
Capt. r. w. Schroeder of McCook
field. holder of the world altitude
record. VIII retire from the air serv-
ice as soon as he returns from
France, where he flew in the Gordon
Bennett race.
A gift of $4,000 by the Rockefeller
Foundation to the American Hospital
Association, on condition that $1,000 is
obtained from other sources, was an
nounced az the closing session of the
associations convention at Montreal.
Two Brooklyn Boy Scouts have ar
rived in New York from San Francis
CO, completing round trip made part
ly on foot and by picking up rides in
automobiles and wagons. The boys,
]. II. Budd and A. G. Greiner, began
their journey July 81, arrived at San
Francisco Aug. % and started back
three days later
The Luders gin, fifteen miles south
east of Stanford, Texas, was burned,
making the second gin burned within
the last few nights by fire apparently
of incendlary origin. In each instance
the owners had received letters warn
ing that the gins would be burned un-
less they closed until cotton reached
forty cents pound
Public bequests totaling $685. 900 are
contained in the will of w. Murray
Crane, filed for probate at Pittsfield,
Mass. The will is twenty-eight pages
long. The widow, Mrs. Josephine M.
Crane, received $75O,oOO and the in
come from a trust fund of $1,oO0,0O0
The total amount of the estate of the
former United States Senator was not
given.
An assertion that the interstate COM
merce commission made an apparent
error of $l92, ,S53,6 in the calculation
upon which 1t fixed the freight rate
increase on western roads to give the
roads a 6 per cent return, Is made in
an opinion granting a modified 30 per
cent increase in Kansas intrastate
rates by the Kansas court of industrial
relations, handed down at Topeka,
Kan.
Gold valued at approximately S9,-
100000. consigned to the federal re
serve bank, arrived at New York on
the steamship Aquitanla. This is the
fourth recent shipment of gold from
the Bank of England. making S3S,
100000.
The 1920 corn crop promises to be
the largest in the history of the coun-
try by more than ninety million bush
els. A yield of 3,216, $4,000 bushels,
compared with the previous record
production of 3,124746,O0O bushels in
1912, was forecast by the Department
of Agriculture from condition of
S91 on. Oct. l. The yield would ex-
ceed that of last year by practically
30O,O0O,00 bushels.
Charles Ponzi can pay less than one
dollar in three on the claims of
creditors of his shattered scheme of
high finance. The extent to which the