The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-01-01

This will be done by q preliminary
platform committee of SO members
which will maintain permanent head
quarters in Washington.
Although the country, already short
of sugar, is confronted with an actual
famine in that necessity, the sena-
tors from Louisiana. Ransdell and
Gay, last week undertook filibuster
to defeat the McNary bill which is de-,
signed to relieve the situation and
check exorbitant prices. The measure
would enaDle the sugar equalization
board to buy the Cuban crop, esti-
mated at 100000 tons, and to place
it on the market at flair and rea-
sonable price," This naturally does
not suit the sugar planters of Louis
lana and their senators were, as al
ways. quick to come to their rescue.
Last summer seven of the eight MEM
bers of the equalization board urged
1.-THE president to buy the Cuban crop,
but the other member. Professor Taus-
sig, dissented and persuaded the adj
ministration to let the law of supply
and demand take its course. Taussig
| is a member of the new industrial
conference named by the president.
+ Having slightly softened the terms
of the protocol submitted to Germany,
the supreme council at Paris told the
Germans they must sign 1t, and at last
reports was sitting back waiting for
the signature. Meanwhile various
rather disturbing reports came out OF
Germany. The most serious of these
| told how four trainloads of the Iron
division troops that were being re-
moved from the Baltic states, having
arrived at Tilsit, refused to obey the
allied commissions order and returned
| to Memel where they continued to
threaten Courland. The German army
headquarters at Koenigsberg assumed
responsibility for this action, saying it
| was according to its orders The Ger
mans in the Baltic region are becom-
| ing more truculent daily and number
| of allied officers have been attacked.
Negotiations at DOrpat between the
! bolsheviki and the Esth0nians con-
| tinued, with indications that they
! would result in an armistice though it
was considered improbable that a
peace treaty would be signed. The
] terms which the bolsheviki seek to i'm
| pose are rather severe and the Esthon-
ians baked especially at the demand
! for guarantees, feeling it incompati-
/ Bile with their dignity. During these
| negotiations the armies Of the soviet
government and Of Esthonia are fight
| ing fiercely on the Narva front, where
| the bolsheviki were repulsed after
making ten assaults.
Under Secretary Polk and the other
American delegates to the peace con-
| ference departed from Paris, and GER
| tain French newspaper writer's took
occasion to express the belief that this
closed the League of Nations stage of
| the conference. ''The. hollow shell of
! the league may perhaps remain" said
+! they, 'sbut the era of alliances has re-
turned" And they pointed to the con-
| ference in London between Clemen-
ceau and Lloyd George as cOnfrma-
ton. 1t was believed the French pre-
mier went to tighten up the entente
| cordiale. Dispatches from London
said the two statesmen were largely
concerned with the Turkish situation
sce, <hc< 10
peace conference with the Turks be
| held in London.
1 The efforts Of Emma Goldman and
Alexander Be;kman to prevent their
|. deportation to Russia having failed
everywhere else. the two anarchists
asked the Supreme court Of the United
States to take up the matter. The
federal officials announced that Berk-
man and Miss Goldman. together with
| other aliens, would be shipped out of.
the country within two weeks
A notable achievement of the week
in aeronautics was the completion of
his airplane flight from England to
Australia by Capt. Ross Smith. an
Australian aviator. BY finishing the
trip in thirty days he won a prize Of
S5O.O00,. as well as other money prizes.
In making the journey Of 1880 miles
from Houndslow, near London, to Port
Darwin, on the northern coast of Aus
tralia, Captain Smith passed through
Paris, Rome. Saloniki, Cairo Damas-
Gus, Bagdad, Bushire, Delhi. Rangoon.
Bangkok, Singapore and Kalidaiti.
West Java.