The Benson signal., 1920-02-21
FOREIGN

nounced in dispatch received in Lon
don from Riga.
The Danish minister of foreign af-
fairs has requested the assent of Par
lament to the proposal that Denmark
join the league of nations.
Seven million dollars was appropri-
ated for public works by the Philip
pine Legislature, which has adjourned
it's regular session. An extra session
has been called for Feb. 25.
Sixteen tourists were killed and
twenty-one others injured when mo-
tor bus fell into a river while travel
ing along the road from Taggia to Tri-
ora, near San Reno, Italy
The London Daily Nails Copen-
hagen correspondent reports that Adj
miral KOlchak, former head of the all
Russian anti-Bolshevist government in
Siberia, has been executed by his own
troops.
The two aeroplanes belonging to
the South African government which
are attempting flight from London to
Capetown crossed the Mediterranean
in fourteen hours. This is said to be
the first nonstop flight over the Medi
terranean.
Norman Ross, American swimmer,
won the three-quarter mile Australian
championship, covering the distance iii
II minutes % 1-5 seconds He defeated
the Australian swimmer, F. e. Beaure-
paire by five yards. There were eight
starters.
A lone bandit held up pay train going
camp and after throwing the engineer,
fireman and paymaster from the loco
motive escaped with $11 600 One sus-
pect has been arrested Waimea is
about seventy miles from Honolulu.
The Armenian national delegation at
London states that it has received a
message from ConstantinOple saying
that during the recent attacks by Ma
tionalist forces on Marash and Aintab
in Asia Minor, about 1000 Armenian
civilians were murdered in cold blood
Nels Nelson of Reyelstol1e, claimant
of the amateur Canadian ski jumping
title, retained his honorS when he won
the championship at the British Colum-
bia tournament there with a jump Of
1S5 feet, standing. Steinwell, Chicago,
was second with 181 feet. Anders
Haugen of Steamboat Springs, Colo,
won the professional contest with a
i1v1o0 Of fon 6iroer I 81 oYpc,
Haughen, in the same event, jumped
212 feet, but fell.
GENERAL
Rhode Island voters at special
election, by an to l majority, ap-
proved a $2,5OOOOO bond issue to pro-
vide funds for bonus of $1OO to each
of the states $4,000 men and women
who saw military or naval service dur
ing the world war.
Five auto bandits, heavily armed
practically cleaned out the Newark fur
shop in Chicago, getting away with
furs valued at $4,000. Hundreds of
pedestrians were passing by the shop
during the robbery A similar robbery
a week ago in the same shop was
foiIed by the proprietor who wounded
one of the bandits.
Mayor William Hale Thompson and
Chicago captains of industry have
joined hands in support of plan to
boost Chicago to the world at an eX-
pense of $4,OOO,OOO A million dollars
will be spent yearly for the next four
years with newspapers, magazines,
moving pictures, bill boards and other
means of advertising.
Soldiers who have served overseas
since July IL, 1919, will receive an in
crease of 20 per cent ON their entire
base pay instead of on the old base pay
used during the world war. 1t is esti-
mated that from 250,O0O to 100000 SOL
ment and it will require approximately
81 100000 to settle the claims.
Woman suffrage was defeated in
Virginia when the House of delegates
adopted, 62 to %, the Levy resolution
rejecting the Susan B. Anthony
amendment to the federal constitution
A shortage of 10000 trained nurses
exists in the United States, according
to the National Organization for Pub
lie Health Nursing The Organiza.
ton has started a campaign in the
hope of enrolling 10000 young wom-
Ell workers.
The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals affirmed a decision of the
District Court at San Francisco i'm
posing a fine of $4,000 and three
years Imprisonment on Henry Albers,
Pacific coast miller, on charges of
violating the espionage act.
Having borne the odium of being
the "whisky state" for a century, Ken
lucky bids fair to be repaid for the
sacrifice Representative Vance's bill
taxing the 38,OOO,OO0 gallons OF whis
ky in Kentucky bonded warehouses at
IN cents gallon will net the state