The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-03-25
WASHINGTON

Unpaid interest on foreign loans, up
to November last, totalled 1896, FAC, ia,
Secretary D. F. Houston told the SEN
ate.
The senate adopted the new Lodge
reservation to Article X Of the Leag-
ne of Nations covenant by a vote of
Sc to 26, one more than a two-third
majority.
President Wilson has urged the
members of the bituminous coal com.
mission to reconsider their coal strike
conclusions and reach a unanimous
agreement If possible.
Government operations in the ship
ping business resulted in a net profit
of s16,493,990 up to June 20 last. chair
man j. B. Payne told the senate mer-
chant marine committee.
An American destroyer has been
named Peary in honor of the late Rear
Admiral Robert f. Peary. who dis
covered the north pole. The vessel is
being built at Philadelphia and will be
launched soon.
The house passed the bill authoriz-
ing the grain corporation to sell 5,00O,-
900 barrels of surplus flour to Euro
pean governments for cash or credit
as a means of feeding starving people
of those countries.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will serve az
honorary president of the George
Washington Memorial association,
which is raising funds to erect a vic.
tory memorial building in Washington
in commemoration of the work of the
American forces in the world war.
President Wilson took his fourth
automobile ride since his illness,
Drawing a typical March wind in, an
open machine. Accompanied by Mrs.
Wilson and Rear Admiral c. P. Gray
he president spent two hours on
the park roads about the city and
seemed refreshed on his return to the
White House.
With the official notification an
nounced of the accession to the
League of Nations of Switzerland,
Denmark, Sweden, Norway. Holland
and Salvador, all but one, Venezuela,
of the IL nations, nonsignatories of the
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original members Of the league, have
definitely accepted.
State Department is without a head
for the first time in American history,
the nomination of Bainbridge Colby
not having been confirmed by the
senate within the 80 days during
which U~ndersecretary of State F.. L..
Polk was able under the law to serve
as acting secretary. Until the office is
filled no one can leave for a foreign
country, there being no one authorized
to sign passports.
George w. Egan of Sioux Falls, S.
D., was arrested there on a charge
OF fraud in over-insuring property. 1t
is claimed that he insured a property
worth $4,000 for $28, 800 and attempted
to collect the latter amount when the
property burned. Egan is a graduate
of the University of Iowa.
Foreign
Official dispatches indicate that the
bolshevik army is in disorder behind
the line of the Dnieper river and a
Polish communique reports the cap
ture of further supplies.
The Portuguese cabinet has been
constituted with Colonel Bautista as
president of the council and minister
of the interior with a program pro-
viding for maintenance of order.
King Georges latest photographs
show that he has revived a fashion
set long ago by his father, King Ed
Ward-his trousers are creased at the
sides instead of down the center.
Canada is now the second nation in
the world in the manufacture of auto
mobiles, the number of cars owned,
and the number owned per capita.
The United States is first and Great
Britain third.
General Bredow, c~zarist, who is al
legged to have been responsible for
Jewish pogroms in South Russia, has
been shot and killed by his own at
tendants, according to a Moscow dis
patch received here.
The American legation at Warsaw,
Poland, has been informed that plans
have been completed to transport to
the United States 5000 of General
Haller's troops, most Of them natur-
allied Americans from Poland.
Pensions Of $4,000 yearly were
granted by the Philippine territorial
legislature to General Emilio Aguinal.
do, leader of the Filipino insurgents
against the Spaniards in 1896, and
Cayetano S. Arellano, formerly chief
justice Of the supreme court of the
Philippines.
Domestic
Governor Clement of Vermont again
has refused a request from woman suf-
frage leaders that he call the state
legislature into special session to vote
on the suffrage amendment.
A smokeless America by 1925 is the
aim of the International Cigaret
league. which has been organized as
successor to the A%nticigaret league, it
was announced. "Save the girl" is
one Of the leagues slogans.
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