The Tomahawk., 1920-10-21
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Washington-Stocks Of wheat in the
United States Oct. 1 totaled 6OS,O0O,-
900 bushels, the department of agricul'
ture estimated.
Washington President Woodrow
Wilson interviewed to save from the
gallows Josephine Berry, Negress,
under sentence to be hanged for the
murder of another Negro woman.
Neutrality-suspicious. rejection of the
offers of 100000 for the giant liner
Leviathan, made last May by the
France and Canada Steamship COM
paly, was announced by Chairman
Benson of the Shipping Board.
Washington-With the presentation
of the credentials of Baron DeWha to
the state department as the charge d
affairs of Luxembourg, the duchy es-
tablished it's first diplomatic repre-
sentative in the United States.
Washington--The embargo against
the shipment of freight to Havana in
government vessels has been lifted by
the Shipping board. 1t was imp osed
gested conditions at Havana
Sporting.
Cleveland-The Cleveland Indians,
pennant winners of the American
League, are the worlds champions.
They won their fifth game from the
Brooklyn National team by to here,
making the world series Of 1920 five
games to two.
Minneapolis-Mike Collins, director
of tistic things here, announced that
Clonie TAFT, Canadian lightweight
champion, and Bobby Ward Of Minnie
apolis will furnish the headline scrap
III his next show, at the Kenwood Ar
mory, October %.
Jersey City, N. J.-.Georges Carpen-
tier, European heavyweight champion,
knocked out Battling Levinsky, holder
of the American light-heavyweight
title, in the fourth round of sched-
uled II round bout. Carpenter, who
holds the ight-heavyweight champion
ship title of Europe, thus becomes the
worlds titleholder in that division.
Domestic.
Houston, Texas-A vacation strike
of $500 Southern Pacific shopmen
was in effect, due to the reinstatement
of four Negro workers by road Of
ficials.
New York-Coal profiteering by
operators and railroads cost the peo-
pie Of the country at least $350,OO0
during the last year, United States
Senator William M. Calder said.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. than score of
persons were injured in a streetcar
collision here. Eleven were taken to
hospitals. The accident occurred wheQ
one car struck the rear end of another.
Greenville, Ala-Select Reid, a
Negro, was lynched by mob near
Greenville after an alleged attack by
him on A. H. Arlington, superintendent
OF the Southern Cotton Oil company
plant, who had discharged Reid.
Topeka, Kan.-Control of boards of
trade to prevent price speculation IN
farm products was advocated by Her.
bert Hoover, former United States food
administrator at conference with
heads of Kansas farm organizations.
Baltimore, Mr-Supplementing his
general advice to women to register
and vote, Cardinal Gibbons issued an
oral statement through his secretary
urging sisters of the various Or
ders of the church to take similar
steps.
New York-Gold valued at approx
mately $9,5O0,000 consigned to the Fed
eral Reserve Bank, arrived here on
the steamship Aquitania. This is the
fourth recent shipment of gold from
the Bank of England, making total
Of $3S,0O0,0O0.
New York-William D. Haywood,
general organizer of the l. w. W., and
nine associates, whose appeals from
conviction under the espionage act
were denied by the court of appeals in
Chicago, babe their comrades good
bye" at meeting.
New York-The Acquitania brought
in the largest diamond in the world,
property of Abou-El- Hand, former sui
tan of Morocco, who abdicated in favor
of his brother. The stone is 1873 15-
100 karats, is perfect in shape and of
a light straw color.
Chicago-The police have been ssk-
ed to search for $4,000 pearl neck
lace which mysteriously disappeared
from the dressing table of Mrs. James
Simpson, wife of the vice president OF
the Marshall Field and company, in
their summer home in Glencoe.
New York-Use of light wines and
liquors is recommended by the Perth
Amboy, N j., Medical society in re-
solution. The resolution suggests the
modification of the Volstead act so as
to permit their use. The explanation
given is that "intoxication has become
alarmingly more prevalent than before
the enactment of the Volstead act"
Helena, Ark.-Fire originating in a
Negro tenement house swept parts of
four squares, destroying business es-
Establishments, between 40 and SO tene-
ments and several small wooden store
hniIiinps Property loss was estimat-