Gilpin observer., 1920-02-26
FOREIGN


Clemenceau of France, has sailed for
home on the ROchambeau, declaring
she had had successful lecture tour
and had made many friends in Amer
lea.
A wire from HelsingfOrs says the
Russian papers complain that the Rus
sian workingmen have entirely lost
their taste for work. The papers
think this evil must be eradicated by
severe means and wOrkingmen not
willing to work would he treated like
deserters
The German government holds that
POlands demands for delivery of Ger
man war guilty are invalid and refuses
to fulfill them, 1t was learned official
ly in Berlin. The Polish demands trans
gress the agreement concluded between
Germany and Poland last autumn, the
government holds.
The steamer Danube struck mine
in the Black sea thirteen miles off
Cape Ramili on the European shore,
at the entrance to the BOsphorus, thir-
teen persons on board being killed by
the explosion. Two water-tight COM
partments of the ship were flooded,
but she succeeded in reaching Con-
stantinOple
The newspapers announce that Tew-
fix Pasha, former grand vizier, has
been appointed to head the Turkish
peace delegation, which will include
Naby Bey, former ambassador to
Rome, Moustapha Rechard, also for
mer ambassador to Italy, and Hikmet
Bey, president of the Chamber of Dep
uties. The delegation will number
about thirty.
GENERAL
Bat Nelson, former lightweight cham
piOn, was named chief beneficiary of
the 500, 900 estate of his father, whose
will has been filed for probate in Chi.
cagO.
Memorial certificates from the
French government have been present
ed at Philadelphia TO the next of kin
of more than 1000 soldiers who gave
their lives in the world war.
"A mass meeting arranged by the
Polish National committee as the first
of n series to be held throughout the
country to combat radicalism was one
of the events of the Washington Day
program at Chicago.
Horses in this country reached their
maximum number in 1918, and since
then have been gradually decreasing,
according to data compiled by the Bu-
reau of Crop Estimates, United States
Department of Agriculture.
The Prince of Wales will leave Lon
don on his trip to the AntipOdes on
March 5, on which date his ship. the
dreadnought Renown, will depart from
Portsmouth, according to the official
itinerary given out at London.
J. Ogden Armour has invested an
additional S6,000,O00 in the future of
American youth. He has set aside this
sum for the expansion of Armour In
stitute, which has already far out
grown its original surroundings and
has no room i'm which to spread at the
present location.
Lower prices for meat in the near
future have been predicted by the
American Institute of Meat Packers.
Resumption of pre-war meat industries
in foreign countries and the low rates
Of foreign exchange will force the
prices down, the institute declared In
n statement issued at Chicago.
New York sport fans are backing a
bill to be introduced in the State Leg
islature by Assemblyman Ross, provid-
ing for the restoration of boxing In the
Empire state. A state boxing commits.
sion of three will have charge of the
sport under the proposed plan. Bouts
of any length to decision will be
permitted, the commission deciding
such bouts.
Four armed bandits broke up an tx.
ecutive meeting of the Moulders' union
in Chicago and rifled money drawer
which contained $1,000 of tho lOc:,i .
funds. Twelve members of the union
were lined up against the wall and GOV.
cred by the guns in the hands of three
of the robbers, while the fourth mem
ber of the quartet took the money
A wage increase of I'LL per cent fol
11,0OO refinery workers has been an
nounced by the Standard Oil Company
OF Indiana. COincidentally, all shift
men go from seven-day week to n six.
day week, II radical change In the com
pany's manufacturing policy. The new
schedule becomes effective March l
and II applies In refineries at Whiting
Ind; Wood River, H.: Sugar Creek
Mo-. Casper. Wyo, and Greybull, Wyo
Declaration that the time had com,
when the medical profession of tn,
United States was forced to unioniz,
to protect Its own Interests and thOs,
Of the public" was made mt Los An
geles by DIR. Charles l.. Reed of Gin
clnnati. formerly president OF thu
American Medical Association and o
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