The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-09
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Statistics obtained at London show
that 1;725 British girls married Ameri-
can ~doughboys.
1t was officially announced that the
Esthonian and ~bolshevik delegates had
reached an agreement IN the question
Of frontiers and military guarantees.
The railway station ut Marseilles.
France. has been destroyed by fire, ac-
cording to a dispatch received by The
Exchange Telegraph company It Lon
don.
"A soviet republic envoy, charged with
q special mission to the Italian govern
ment, arrived at Naples, according to
a dispatch received at Paris from
Rome.
The. shipping board at Washington
has under consideration the sale of
1O3 former German passenger ships
taken during the war, to be run only
under the American flag.
Preston Mullens, an alleged Don
sinner, and John p. Kennedy, Il deputy
sheriff, were killed in a battle at the
hSCIu Va ulllutE CIeCh, IL liz llOuLA
tains near WEIGH, ". Va.
Thirteen political parties with con-
ficting views and aims are fighting for
control in Poland, as q result Of the
retirement of Ignace Paderewski. ac-
cording to a Berlin dispatch.
A column of rebels under command
of Hipolito Villa has been destroyed
near Muzquiz, Coahuila. by forces Of
Gen. Francisco Murgula, according to
Torreon and Saltillo dispatches.
Henry Ford, automobile manufac-
turer, is planning to increase the pay
of his $4,000 or more employees to So
4 day minimum, according to persist
ent reports in financial circles at De-
troit, Mich.
The house Of commons at London
was prorogued until February 10. The
session was formally closed by the
kings speech Of propagation in which
he pledged India natives a voice in the
government.
Vice Admiral Hilary z. Jones, now
in command Of the First division of
the Atlantic fleet at Newport, II. l., has
followed the example of Admiral Sims
in declining to accept the award of the
Distinguished Service Cross.
Georges Clemenceau, Frances "ti-
ger" will be elected. president of the
French republic by reclamation Janu-
airy IL. This is the overwhelming
opinion among politicians both in the
senate and the chamber of deputies at
Paris.
Scores were hurt when fully 1000
'reds," marching up Fifth avenue in
New York. as a protest against the
United States deporting extreme radi-
calls. were scattered again and again
as squads of mounted police charged
the paraders.
The Brazilian government, through
an official announcement by the Bra
lillian consul general in Holland, has
offered free passage to 5000 able-bod-
led German farmer colonists to Brazil.
according to the Berlin German Emf
grant Gazette.
With four bullet wounds in the back
and the head badly battered. the body
Of j. Stanley Brown, o Of the late
John Fl. Brown, millionaire Detroit
cigar manufactures, was found in his
automobile Oh a country roe near
Mount Clemens, Mich.
Christmas day at the White House
at Washington was a quiet one. Owing
L. yNysv---y-
children did not come to Washington,
and consequently there was 40 Christ.
mas tree. The White House, however,
was decorated as usual.
Europe's most urgent need Is the
pooling of it's food supply and the es-
tablishment of proper distribution ia
cilities under a director general, in the
opinion Of Gen. Tasker FL. Bliss, /. mem
Der of the peace delegation. who