The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-11-26
NEWS OF THE
WORLD in BRIEF

There are twenty-five thousan,
Americans who are permanent rest,
dents OF Paris,
I The treaty between italy and Jugt
Slavia was signed November ~ al
hispallo.
Ex-senator Root has advised Hard
! Ing not to scrap the League OF Ma
lions, but to modify 1t.
Alfred zayas, newly elected presi-
! dent Of Cuba, promises far-rlachinp
reforms for that republic,
The regular army is nearly 10000
short OF the authorized strength OF
100000 officers and men.
! The hunger strike of the nine Irish
prisoners in the Cork jail was called
on on the ninety fourth day
| Germany's treasury faces a deficit
OF slS,6oo, 600, according to Dr. Karl
Helnerich. former vice chancellor
Iceland proposes to. use her many
waterfalls in carrying out an extensive
program or water power distribution.
American farmers broke production
records OF Ave crops this year
namely corn, tobacco. rice, sweet po-
tatoes, and pears,
|. Bulgaria's request for admission 10
the League OF Nations has been re-
ceived at the headquarters OF the
League In Geneva.
Mexicos 1890 production OF petro,
leum will amount TO i4O. 900, 900 bar
rels, This compares with production
of sS,OoO,oOo barrels in 1919.
Arrangements have been made to
export 10000 Texas cows to Germany
for the purpose OF rehabilitating the
depleted dairy herds OF that country.
Holland has established great cor.
don along the German frontier to pre-.
vent the Influx OF large numbers OF
Russian Bolshevlst agents from Ger
many.
Tho bodies OF nine thousand Amerl-
can soldiers who died In France have
been shipped home. and eighteen hun.
dred others await ShlpG at French
ports.
Japan is proposing a monopoly in
Tie petroleum production OF that coun
ny JAPAN produced only one half OF |
one per cent or the worlds petroleum
IN 1919
Thomas a. Edison has been awarded |
distinguished service medal. The |
'itadon accompanying the decoration.
which was sent through the mails,
-oads; For distinguished service in a
position OF responsibility as President
q the Naval Consulting Board"
George silker. who has Just died al
Sgntlnnh NJ ha - + Il
Ired and two, claimed that as tailor
y America he made clothes for Abra-
iaIn. Lincoln.
The New York World has announced
he successful transmission OF four
by wire hetweef. !ts office
n New York and the Office OF the ST
.ouis POST Dispatch
Republicans are, planning To spend
5 100000 yearly on buildings in the
district o. Columbia In order 10 house
u government activities In govern
lent-owned buildings II
Thirty-hve governors and twelve
overnors elect have signlhed their in
milton OF attending the thirteenth an
ual convention OF governors at Har-
Isburg, December i-3
Prohibition officers throughout the
ountry have been instructed TO prose- :
ute persons selling hops dnd malt In
onnection with other ingredients for /
ONE brewing of beer. p
Secretary Colby Is TO visit Brazil and
ruguay as the official representative
President Wilson in returning the
sits OF the presidents OF those two a
'publics to this country. i
The total number OF Jews In the q
orld, based on estimates made be-
re the war. is 1b,744,662 II is also =
that there are now 1900 900 .
WIS in New York City.
Should this country decide to be I'M u
ficially represented at the League OF :
atoms meeting at Geneva this week, 2
e OF the American diplomats in. .
rope will be designated 3
The Duchess OF Marlborough, form ;,
ly Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter OF a,
e late w. X. Vanderbilt, OF New
,rk, has been granted n decree OF az
1orce from the Duke OF Marlborough
Plans for joint maneuyers and n
nth American trip for both the At m
itic and Pacific fleets have been do
Lde by Secretary Daniels. The two st
cts will meet in January at Panama
" vi
An Allied credit OF fifty million 81
irds to Austria has virtually been Sc
proved The money will be used 10 &C
food raw materials and machinery iss
Austria in the Allied countries. Fr
of War Raler has been
led by the city of Los Angeles for "
loan OF FIVE thousand army tents
be used as temporary dwellings TO
ct a State emergency In the hous- -
situation. yea
we've thousand workmen. MEM =,
. OF building trades, in Baltimore III,
q declined to accept an increase in g.,
ir wages. giving as a reason that no,
,es are falling and they have steady an,
a 'ne present wage Co
hantung officials approve The plan I
he American Red Cross to build per
y-milc road in the province. The enc
Cross win expend 100000 on the fes
'ect and use twenty five thousand ant
me refugees. Two million persons thil
actually starving in Shantung, and ing
e viii be five million during the Il
ter II unrelieved. sun
ire in the Royal Palace at Buda. selN
has destroyed the former study into
-niperor Francis Joseph including sta
elaborate ceiling which was con- 1927
red an artistic masterpiece OF En-. higl