Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-04-27
WORLD NEWS IN
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The house bill increasing pensions
to Civil war veterans to $50 monthly
and those of the widows of veterans
TO $50 monthly, was passed by the
senate and now goes to conference.
The increases were provided to meet
the rising costs of living.
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Ten sugar dealers in st. Louis. six
wholesalers and four retailers, have
been arrested, charged in federal war
rants with having pr~ofiteered in the
sale of sugar. They were charged
specifically with selling sugar at high
er profits than two cents a pound.
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Pleas by Sheriff A. L. Story that
the law be allowed to take its course
resulted in the dispensing of a crowd
which gathered mt the Savannah,
Tenn, Jail to investigate, they said,
the holding of -four negroes accused
Of completely in the killing of Harry
Allen, a merchant.
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Hawaiian orientals entitled to enter
the United States are leaving for he
coast at a constantly increasing rate,
according to Richard l.. Halsey, United
States immigration officer at Homo
lulu. "The number is increasing every
month"; Halsey declared, $50 that, If
the a%cceleration is maintained, per-
haps the problem of the Japanese vote
here, in some degree, may be trans
ferred to the mainland"
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George DAILY, a pilot flying for An
aviation school at Wilmington, and a
passenger, were killed when Days
airplane fell 1000 feet INTO the Pa
cific ocean off the recreation pier at
Long Beach, Cal. 1t was said the en-
CINE of the airplane failed while
DAILY was making a loop. The engine
exploded when the plane hit the
water. The bodies were recovered.
tlillNSiOn " ltStiI WHEAT DuItIdS-
ed from the United States grain cor
poration was granted to mills through
out the country in a bulletin issued
by the corporation.
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Imports in March set a new high
record, while exports were the second
largest in the history of the country.
the department of IN
nOunceS.
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At least six persons lost their lives
in the blizzard which ragged we Colo
RADIO from Saturday to Monday, and
many others are reported missing.
Three of the dead are sheepherders.
and their herds persisted with them.
Nineteen other herds are missing and
their herders are believed to be LOST
also.
The cost of living as represented by
prices of % articles of food remained
virtually unchanged during the month
ending March 10, the department of
labOr's bureau Of labor statistics re-
ports. Figures made public show the
cost of the % articles wes only Gao
of l per cent below the cost in Janu.
airy, when prices reached a high water
mark.
Declaring that in this generation
there is no quarrel between England
and Ireland, Sir Auckland Geddes.
new British ambassador to the United
States, asserted on his arrival in New
York that the Irish in Ireland should
be allowed to grapple with their own
political differences without outside
interference.
OF all the European nations which
went to war in 1914, England alone has
a greater population today than II
had then. The increase Is about 100000
persons, according to latest official
estimates.
Three men in a motor car stopped
and robbed two employees of the Stand.
ard OH company, who were on their
way to a Kansas City bank In a motor
car with $500. The bandits escaped
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Gabriel d'Annunzio is forming an
~anti-league of nations, consisting of
minority elements in all countries of
oppressed peoples" which viii be
called THE League of Fiume." He
has invited a conference al Fiums on
May Is. Delegates are expected from
Egypt, Ireland, Turkey, Persia, Monte
negro. Hunxary and India.