Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-12-24
FOREIGN

Rumania has asked the League of
nations to send an International army
to the relief OF Armenia.
| Austria has been elected member
OF the League of Nations by the
assembly OF the league at Geneva.
First reports from the general eIec-
lions beid In Spain indicate a govern
ment victory. Unofficial estimates
are that the majority for the Monarch
LIST parties Will be large one.
Two Russian refugee ships, bound
for Bulgaria. have been held up in the
Black sea by Turkish nationalist
forces. The steamers were overtaken
by storm and sought shelter at the
port OF Zongudak.
Three thousand weIl-armed revolu-
'ionaries, alleged by the Mexican gov
ernment to be Bolsheyiks, have invad-
ed the state of Campeche from Yuca-
tan and are attempting TO drive out
the federal authorities.
Japan's population, as revealed by
the census recently completed, is more
than million under the estimate. The
to;c: number of persons In the empire
is 77,005,0o0, of which 55,960,0O0 are
in Japan and 17,2s4,O 900 in Korea.
Charges of murder have been filed
in court at Manila by the city
prosecutor against seventy-seven Phil
ippine constabulary soldiers as a result
of the riotlng In which four Americans
and seven Fillpinos were killed.
Correspondence which has been go
ing on between Premier Lloyd George
and Father Michael O'Fianagan, "vlce
president of the Irish republic" in an
effort to bring about truce between
England and the Sim Fein orguniza-
tions. apparently has been ended.
Andre Lefevre, French wnr minister.
has resigned. His resignation resulted
from his opposition to the new mill
tary service bill before the chamber
of deputies, which provides for eight
cen months obligatory military serv-
Ice. NJ. Lefevre had insisted upon two
years service with the colors.
The members of the reichstag at
Berlin went on rations of black bread
without butter, and coffee without su-
gar or milk when the managers and
employees of the reichstag restaurant
refused to serve the forbidden foods,
"in view of the governments apparent
intention to continue ralding hotels to
compel them to obey the rntionlng reg
ulations." The hotel proprietors have
closed the restaurants In virtually all
the principal hostelries as protest
against the government insisting ON
obedience TO these regulations.
GENERAL
Robbers stole from $4,000 to $4,000
in overflow" deposits from the Indi-
ana National bank at Indianapolis.
The deposits had been placed In the
book vault, which was rifled. The
robbers entered through a skylight.
Twenty-Five individual plumbers and
twenty-seven plumbing firms, members
of the Master Plumbers Association,
were charged in blanket indictment
reported to Justice McAvoy in New
York with violation of the antitrust
law.
Federal grand jury indictments
against sixteen officials of the Dan
lei Hayes Company of Idaho, charging
conspiracy to use the mails to defraud,
were announced at Chicago. The In
dictments were returned Oct. "a, but
were kept secret until they had been
served. According to federal officials,
officials of the company sold from
S3,000,000 to S5,00O,000 worth of Cali
fornla land which they are alleged to
have misrepresented.
Criminal carelessness upon the part
of Capt. George II. Hart, master of
the United States steam launch Mar
garet, that sank in the Ohio river,
was responsible for the tragedy. ac-
cording to the verdict returned by the
coroner's jury, following the recovery
of the body of one of the eleven vic
tins. Captain Hart, his daughter and
the latter's husband were drowned,
having been trapped with three others
in the upper cabin.
Stockyards' workers in Chicago will
abide by the recent wage decision of
Judge Samuel Alschuler, federal medI-
ator, 1t has been announced by George
Youstra, secretary of the stockyards
labor council. A mass meeting called
to protest against the award. which
denied most of the wage increases
asked by the employees, was attended
by less than 100 workers.
The National League, Mt Its annual
meeting, extended for three years the
term of President John A. Heydler
and granted to him substantial in
crease in salary. President Heydler's
present salary is $4,000 year and
the increase, while 1t was not Of
ficially stated. Is said to have been so
per cent. The additional years will