Gilpin observer., 1920-03-04
FOREIGN

prisoners OF war, including AZ, 11O Of
ficers, have been repatrlated from
French camps since Jan. 20, according
to an announcement from the French
war office.
Aviator Casle established what was
claimed to be new speed record In
France for &C lditions under which he
made the flight, when his machine at
tanned speed of 2S3 kilometers
Q75.74 miles) an hour.
The British government has been
formally notified by the State Depart
ment at Washington that the appoint
ment of Sir Auckland Geddes as Brit
ish ambassador to the United States
will be agreeable to President Wilson.
Ignace Paderewslzi, who recently re-
signed as premier of Poland, will re-
turn to America soon and resume his
musical tours, according to William
Hemphill, manager of Paderewskis
ranch and other properties at Paso RO
bles.
Hundreds have frozen to death in
the worst storm in South Russia in
twenty-seven years. The mercury
was 40 degrees below zero and for
eighty hours a sixty-mile gale swept
the country, piling up great drifts Of
snow,
Winnipeg, Canada, doctors issued
more than 100000 prescriptions for
liquor, permitting the holders to Sc
cure 156,719 gallons of liquor during
1919, according to ]. N. MacLean, ad-
ministratOr of the Manitoba temper
ance act
Viscount Uchida, foreign minister,
announced to the cabinet council that
Japan had advanced to China thru the
Specie bank 100000 yen, part of
the $25,O00,OO0 loan agreed upon by
consOrtium of four great powers, in
cluding Japan.
The Italian government has ordered
greater restrictions in the feeding of
the people than during the war; This
is because of the diminished food i'm
portations. In addition, rationing by
card for all necessaries has been re-
established. Two meatless days have
been ordered, as well as the closure of
all restaurants, hotels, at II o'clock at
night.
Great Britain which within year
or so hopes to get off the red ink side
OF the national ledger, faces an out
look until April ! of a daily deficit of
SS92OOO. From Englands standpoint
that is quite an Improvement over
1919, when the national expenditure
was S6,252,OOO daily more than income.
These figures presume the pound to
be worth $4OO.
GENERAL
Ten persons We're held for deporta-
tion at Cleveland following Il radical
raid i'll which twenty-siX persons were
rounded up Sixteen were released.
large amount of radical literature was
confiscated.
Stealing milk from babies is beyond
the limit of human endurance" accord
ing to decision of Judge C. w. Hunt
at Lacrosse, Wis, in finding Melvin NJ.
Nutson, dairyman, $50 for selling
milk in short measure
Excessive speculation in leather and
big profits reaped by the leather man.
ufacturers are the principal causes for
the high cost of shoes, according to the
report of the Massachusetts commits
sion on the necessaries of life, made
public in Boston.
The high cost Of living has no ter.
rors for the head porter of a New
York hotel. Henry ]. Choucerie, who
holds that job at the McAlpine, has
just leased the Colonial hotel for
eight years at a rental of S25O,OOO. In
the meantime he will hold onto his old
job.
Fifteen days field training and not
to exceed four days special instrIc.
tions for officers and selected enlisted
men are provided in this years Ma
tional Guard training program, made
public by Major General Carter, chief
of the militia bureau. General Carter
recommended that encampments be
held before July /.
Miss Florence Housed, 80, owner of
the Huntington Hall School for Girls
in South Pasadena, Calf, was shot and
killed in her room by an unknown as
S"'''h' NhV Diitu tNtelSloT III Ilc
Kitchen and set fire to the building
The fire was discovered by Miss Hou-
sells father, aged so, who extingushed
the flames.
Destructive radicals, working with
the Communist party made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to take over the ship.
building industry by starting ut the
D.,1t
Company with scheme for gaining
control through shop committee sys.
TEN, are now making new effort to
seize this plant in connection with the
present strike situation at that ship.
yard.
Immediate nnnronrintlon by Con.