Taiban Valley news., 1920-07-02

tHe course OF TlOIOuS demonstrations
against the high cost of food. Similar
demonstrations are reported in other
parts of Germany. Many clashes have
occurred between the police and the
reichswehr on the one hand and the
demonstrators on the other.
GENERAL
Two proved cases of bubonic plague
have been discovered in the republic
of Salvador. The Central American
nations are declared to have ordered a
quarantine against Salvador.
Suit TO recover inheritance and in
come taxes of S2,000,000 paid from the
estate of Mrs. Potter Palmer have
been filed in Chicago by Honore and
Potter Palmer, Mrs. Palmer's sons
An announcement has been made
that the marriage of Miss Helen Taft,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Howard Taft, to Frederick j. Manning
will take place at Murray Bay, Can
ada, July Is.
Between S2,000000 and $4,000, 900
damage was done to corn, tobacco and
cotton crops by Il hailstorm which
swept Wayne, Pitt, LenOir and Greene
counties in North Carolina. The grow
ers declare little of their crop can be
saved.
Operating revenues of the Southern
Pacific Company and proprietary com
panies for 1919, as disclosed in the an
nual report published in New York,
amounted TO $239,657, ,272, an increase
of $1S,046,066, or S.14 per cent over the
preceding year.
President Lowell has announced gifts
to Harvard during the year totaling
SS,332,6l This amount does not in
clude sums less than $4,000, or pledg-
es. Total subscriptions to the pro-
posed endowment fund of $15,250,O00
have reached S12,157,764.
Allan A. Ryan, chairman of the Stutz
Motor Car Company, who became in
vOlped in a controversy with officials
of the New York Stock Exchange at
the time it was alleged corner exist
ed in Stutz, has been expelled from the
exchange, according to an announce
ment by the board of governors.
Five workers who had refused to
join strike of machinists and un-
skilled laborerS, a woman and three
children miraculously escaped death at
Waterbury, Conn, when a bomb was
hurled through the window of one of
the sleeping rooms, blowing out all the
windows in the house and demolishing
one side of the structure.
A record in collecting fines for vio-
latiOn of the VOlstead act was made In
New York when $4,000 was taken
from bartenders and salOonkeepers In
penalties of from $1F to $3.50 each, re-
Gently. Federal judge Hand offered to
let off with fines all first offenders
who would plead guilty to violations
prior to June 8, when the Supreme
Court declared the prohibition meas
ure constitutional.
Frank de II. Storey, New York
lawyer, convicted of crlminally receiv-
ing several thousand dollars worth of
stolen securities, was sentenced to Sing
Sing prison for two and one-half to
five years at hard labor. Storey, de-
scribed as "Dr. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde"
who associated with honest men by
day and crooks by night, automatically
is barred from practicing his profes-
sion.
Since the beginning of the World
war in 1914, the United Stntes has
rolled up trade balance of approx
mately $17,oo0,OOOOO0 against the
world This exceeds by several bill
lions of do]iars the total balance in
favor Of the United States from 1895
to 1914.
After experiments lasting over a pc
riod of three months, the Stamscott
company of Hopewell, Va, announced
that n new process Of making paper
pulp from cotton fiber.had been devel-
oped and that manufacture of the pulp