The Benson signal., 1920-02-28
FOREIGN

Madame Jacqueline C1emenceau-Jac-
quemaire, daughter of former Premier
Clemenceau of France, has sailed for
home on the Rochambeau, declaring
she had had successful lecture tour
and had made many friends in Amer
ica
The German government holds that
Poland's demands for delivery of Ger
man war guilty are invalid and refuses
to fulfill them, it was learned official
ly in Berlin. The Polish demands trans
gress the agreement concluded between
Germany and Poland last autumn, the
government holds.
The steamer Danube struck mine
in the Black sea thirteen miles off
Cape Ramili on the European shore,
at the entrance to the BOsphOrus, thir-
teen persons on board being killed by
| the explosion. Two water-tight COM
partments of the ship were flooded,
but she succeeded in reaching Con-
stantinople.
LOndOn's underground railways trans
port 100000 passengers daily, it was
| stated by Sir Albert Stanley in an adj
dress as chairman of meeting Of sub
| way workers. The vehicle controlled
| by the roads make a total journey ev-
cry day equal to twenty circuits of the
earth. The gross revenue each month
is f1OO,OOO
Intellectual workers in Paris have
| formed federation, which has been
tions. DramatistS, engineers, scientists,
| teachers, artists, poets, song writer's,
| journalists and dramatic experts are
eligible to membership in the fedora
ton, which has appointed two commit
tees to draft a definite constitution
and program.
A memorial to the 100000 allied SOL
| diers killed in the defense of Verdun
| will be erected through the combined
| subscriptions of France, Great Britain
| heads the committee which has just is
| sued an appeal to the United States
and Great Britain to join France in
| this work. The monument will stand
| on DOuaumOnt hill, which OverloOks
the greater part of the Verdun battle
| field
GENERAL
| Bat Nelson, former lightweight cham
piOn, was named chief beneficlaI% OF
the $25O,OO0 estate of his father, whose
will has been filed for probate il: Chi
cago.
present high prices will not last
much longer" declared President S. P.
Halle of the National Retail Dry Goods
Association, in opening a three days
| convention of that body in New York
Halle denied that retailers as a class
| are prOfiteering and made a strong
plea for readjustment of government
| taxes
The heads of two families, neighbors
were killed in pistol duel at Philadel-
| phia, which came as the elimination of
three years of i'll feeling. The two men
Elmer Twining, 56, and Charles Self
35-met in front of their homes on
were passed. The shooting followed
Both were shot through the breast.
Four armed bandits broke up al ex-
ecutive meeting of the Moulders' union
in Chicago and rifled money drawer
which contained $4,000 of the locol $
funds. Twelve members of the union
were lined up against the wall and GOV
| cred by the guns in the hands of three
of the robbers, while the fourth mem
ber of the quartet took the money
A central communist propaganda bu-
reau for the western hemisphere will
be established in Mexico, in accordance
with a resolution passed at a secret in
ternational communist conference held
in Amsterdam, according to the Ian
| densblad. The newspaper adds this
step was taken on the initiative of an
American delegate at the conference.
New York sport fans are backing a
bill to be introduced in the State Leg
islature by Assemblyman Ross, provid-
| ing for the restoration of boxing in the
| Empire state. A state boxing commits
| sion of three will have charge Of the
sport under the proposed plan. Bouts
of any length to a decision will be
permitted, the commission deciding
such bouts.
A big drop in food prices will come
this summer, government experts pre-
dicted, if farm production is equal to
or greater than the production average
for the ten-year period just closed. A
100 per cent production is due, accord
ing to the law of averages, records of
the Agricultural Department showed.
A 100 per cent production is equal to
the ten-year average.
A wage increase of I'LL per cent for
II, 900 refinery workers has been an
nOunced by the Standard Oil Company
of Indiana. Concidentally, all shift
men go from a seven-day week to a six
day week, a radical change in the COM