The Raymer enterprise., 1920-10-14
FOREIGN


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
tion, says the Vorwaerts.
Horse racing in Argentina received
a 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 28,0O0,000,000 francs, Is being
trimmed down by President MIllerand
and Frederic Francis. .Marsal, the H.
nance minister. 1t Is proposed to fix
the reparation expenditures which are
recoverable from Germany at 24,0OO,.
100000 francs.
A dispatch was sent through official
channels to Paris for confirmation OF
the Copenhagen report that the French
General, Weygand, had proceeded to
South Russia to take supreme com.
mand Of the Baron Wrangel's anti.
Bolshevik forces. II the report Is true,
1t Is said, the action Of France Is In.
tended to give larger moral support to
the Wrangel government In pursuance
OF the French policy which was indi.
Gated when France recognized the
Wrangel government.
GENERAL
Mrs. Elizabeth Niles, 82 years old,
who with close clipped hair and a uni
form that concealed her sex, Is said
to have fought beside her husband
thru the Civil war, is dead at Rari.
tan, n. J.
Capt. R. W. Schroeder Of McCook
field. holder Of the world altitude
record. will 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 5000 Is
obtained from other sources, was an.
nounced ut the closing session Of the
associations convention at Montreal.
Gold valued at approximately so,-
100000, consigned to the federal re.
serve bank, arrived at New York on
the steamship Aquitania. This is the
fourth recent shipment Of gold from
the Bank Of England, making $685..
100000.
Two Brooklyn Boy Scouts have ar.
rived in New York from San Francis.
co. completing a round trip made part.
ly on foot and by picking up rides In
automobiles and wagons. The boys
J. F. Budd and A. G. Greiner, began
their journey DULY 81. arrived at San
Francisco Aug. % and started back
three days later.
The Santa Fe railroad handled 25
by per cent more business In the first
eight months Of this year, represented
by carloads, than 1t did In the CORE.
spending period last year and H. per
cent more than for the same period in
1913, according to a bulletin Just is-
sued by the railroads general office ut
Topeka, Kan.
Public bequests totaling 1856, 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 NJ.
Crane, received S750,0OO and the in
come from trust fund Of S1,OOO,O 900.
The total amount Of the estate Of the
former United States Senator was not
given.
Twelve members OF the crew OF the
steamer Speedwell, wrecked In n trop-
ical hurricane in the gulf, and one
passenger, were picked up In Il life
boat by the steamer Lake Superior,
according to radio advices received at
New Orleans.
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 3,2l6, 1872, 600 bushels,
compared with the previous record
production of 3,124,746. 600 bushels In
1912, was forecast by the Department
of Agriculture from condition of
sol on Oct. l. The yield would ex.
ceed that of last year by practically
300, 100000 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
millions entrusted to Ponzi had been
reduced was revealed by c. N. Ritten-
house, auditor for the federal receivers
Of Ponzi, at hearing on bank
ruptcy petition against Ponzi In the
Federal court. To meet liabilities which
he set at S7,50O,0OO, the auditor said
Ponzi had total assets of S2,195,6S5.
Seaman Eugene Paquette Of Dover,
N. H., reported drowned when washed