, 1920-02-26
FOREIGN

don on, his trip 10 the Antipodes Oh
March 8, on which date bis ship, the
dreadnought Renown, will depart from
Portsmouth, according To the official
itinerary given out at London.
Madame J|acqueline Clemenceau-Jac-
quemaire, daughter of former Premier
Clemenceau of France, has sailed for
home on the Rochambeau, declaring
she had had a successful lecture tour
and had made many friends in Amer
lea.
The German government holds that
Poland'S demands for delivery of Ger
man war guilty are invalid and refuses
to fulfill them. it was learned official
ly in Berlin. The Polish demands trans
gress the agreement concluded between
Germany and Poland last autumn, the
government holds.
The steamer Danube struck Il mine
in the Black sea thirteen miles oft
Cape Ramili on the European shore,
at the entrance to the B~osphorus, thtr-
teen persons on board being killed by
the explosion. Two water-tight com
partments of the ship were flooded,
but she succeeded in reaching Con
Stantinople.
London's underground railways trans
port 100000 passengers daily, it was
stated by Sir Albert Stanley in an adj
dress as chairman of n meeting of sub
way workers. The vehicle controlled
by he roads make a total journey ev-
cry day equal to twenty circuits of the
earth. The gross revenue each month
is 100000.
Intellectual worker in Paris have
formed a federation, which has been
given recognition by labor organiza,
tons. Dramatists, engineers. scientists,
teachers, artists, poets, song writer's,
journalists and dramatic experts are
eligible to membership in the fedora.
ton, which has appointed two commit
tees TO draft a definite constitution
and program.
A memorial to the 400, 1000 allied sol.
diers killed in the defense of Verdun
will be erected through the combined
subscriptions of France, Great Britain
and the United States. Marshal Petain
heads the committee which has just is
sued an appeal to the United States
and Great Britain to join France in
this work. The will stand
on Douaumont hill, which overlooks
the greater part of the Verdun battle.
field.
GENERAL
Bat Nelson, former lightweight chanE
pion, was named chief beneficiary OF
the $250,000 estate of his father, who's
will has been filed for probate ill CHI
cago.
Present high prices will not last
much longer" declared President S. p.
Halle of the National Retail Dry Goods
Association, in opening a three days
convention of that body in New York.
Halle denied that retailers as a class
are profiteering and made a strong
plea for n REIMBURSEMENT of
taxes.
The heads of two families, n%eighbors,
were killed in a pistol duel at Philadel.
phia, which came as the elimination of
three years of ill feeling. The two men
Elmer Twining, 90, and Charles Self,
35-met in front of their homes on
their return from work and hot words
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Both We're shot through the breast.
-Four armed bandits broke up ar ex-
ecutive meeting of the Moulders' union
in Chicago and rifled a money drawer
which contained $1,000 of the local's
funds. Twelve members of the union
were lined up against the wall and GOV.
cred by the guns in the hands of three
of the robbers, while the fourth mem
Der of the quartet tool the money.
A central communist propaganda bu-
reau for the western hemisphere will
be established in Mexico, in accordance
with a resolution passed at a secret in
te%rnational communist conference held
in Amsterdam, according to the Ian
densblad. The newspaper adds this
step was taken on the initiative of an
American delegate at the conference.
New York sport fans are backing a
bill to be introduced in the State Leg
islature by Assemblyman Ross, provld-
ing for the restoration of boxing in the
Empire state. A state boxing commits
sion of three will have charge of the
sport under the proposed plan. Bouts
of any length to a decision will be
permitted, the commission deciding
such bouts.
A big drop in food prices will come
this summer, government experts pre-
dicted, IL farm production is equal to
or greater than the production average
for the ten-year period just closed. A
100 per cent production is due, accord
ing to the law of averages, records OF
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