, 1920-02-19
FOREIGN

fo 1919
join the league of nations.
The former Kaiser has forbidden
his son., the former crown prince, to
surrender himself to the allies and has
requested the Dutch government to
prevent such procedure.
Seven million dollars was a%ppropri-
ated for public works by the Philip
pine Legislature. which has adjourned
Its regular session. An extra session
has been called for Feb. %.
The London Daily Mails Copen-
hagen correspondent reports that Adj
miral Kolchak, former head of the all
Russian -Bolshevist government in
Siberia, has been executed by his own
troops.
The two a%eroplanes belonging TO
the South African government which
are attempting a flight from London TO
Capetown crossed the Mediterranean
in fourteen hours. This is said to be
the first nonstop flight over the Medi-
t%erranean.
The council of ambassadors ut Paris
has refused the German-Austrian re-
quest that they be allowed to create
a department of aerial police. The
council took the ground hat creation
of such a body would be contrary to
the treaty of Versailles.
The Armenian national delegation at
London states hat 1t has received II
message from Constantinople saying
that during the recent attacks by Ma
tionalist forces on Marash and Aintab,
in Asia Minor, about 1000 Armenian
civilians were murdered in cold blood.
Fifty men who escaped from a
train taking 1900 Polish prisoners of
war back to their and from France
have claimed sanctuary on Swiss soil,
asserting they were really Germans.
They declared that when captured
they posed as Poles to get better
treatment in France and asked to be
transported to Germany.
Nels Nelson of Revelstoke, claimant
of the amateur Canadian ski jumping
title, retained his honOrs when he won
the championship at the British Column
bia tournament there with n jump of
1S5 feet, standing. Steinwell, Chicago,
was second with ISL feet. Anders
NNeSSh III Il Solo.,
won the professional contest with a
jump of 200 feet, standing. Lars
Haughen, in the same event, jumped
212 feet, but fell.
GENERAL
Woman suffrage was defeated in
Virginia when the House of delegates
adopted, 60 to %, the Levy resolution
rejecting the Susan b. Anthony
amendment to the federal constitution.
A gift of $65,OOO by A. Barton Hep
burn of New York to Middlebury Col
lege for the encouragement of major
athletics has been announced by
President John NJ. Thomas.
The Russian soviet government has
assumed all liabilities of the New York
Life Insurance Company in Russia, ac-
cOrding to n statement issued by Oar
win p. Kingsley, president of the COM
pany.
Mayor William Hale Thompson and
Joined hands in support of n plan to
boost Chicago to the world at an ex-
pense of S4,O0O,000. A million dollars
will be spent yearly for the next four
years with newspapers, magazines,
moving pictures, bill boards and other
mean of advertising.
Having borne the odlum of being
the whisky state" for a century, Ken
lucky bids fair to be repaid for the
sacrifice. Representative Vance's bill
taxing the 3S,O00,000 gallons of whis-
ky in Kentucky bonded warehouses at
so cents a gallon will net the state
$500 900 in taxes. This revenue
will wipe out the state debt and leave
an endowment of S15,OOO,OOO for the
University of Kentucky.
A shortage of 10000 trained nurses
exists in the United States, according
to the National Organization for Pub
lie Health Nursing. The organiza-
ton has started a campaign in the
hope of enrolling 10000 young wom-
en- workers.
Rhode Island voters at a special
election, by a s to 1 majority, ap-
proved a S2,5O0,O00 bond issue to pro-
vide funds for a bonus of 500 to each
of the states $4,000 men and women
who saw military or naval service dur
ing the world war.
The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals affirmed a decision of the
District Court at San Francisco i'm
posing a fine of $4,000 and three
years Imprisonment or Henry Albers,
II Pacific coast miller, on charges OF
violating the espionage act.
Five auto bandits, heavily armed,
practically cleaned u the Newark fur
shop in Chicago, getting away with
furs valued at $4,000. Hundreds of
pedestrians were passing by the shop
during the robbery. A similar robbery
n .unnl nnn In the snmn shnn was