Gilpin observer., 1920-02-19
FOREIGN

SIOTtiy.
The Danish minister of foreign af
fairs has requested the assent of Par
lament to the proposal that Denmark
join the league of nations.
Sixteen tourists We're killed and
twenty-One others injured when mo-
ing along the road from Taggia to Tri-
ora, near San Reno, Italy.
Norman Ross, American swimmer,
won the three-Quarter mile Australian
championship, covering the distance Iii
II minutes 20 1-5 seconds. He defeated
the Australian swimmer. f. E. Beaure-
paire by five yards. There We're eight
starters.
A lone bandit held up pay train going
from Waimea to the Kekaha plantation
camp and after throwing the engineer,
fireman and paymaster from the loco
motive escaped with $1,000. One sus-
pect has been arrested. Waimea is
about seventy miles from Honolulu.
The Armenian national delegation at
London states that 1t has received Il
| 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.
London's underground railways trans
port 40OO,OOO passengers daily, it was
stated by Sir Albert Stanley in an ad-
| dress as chairman of a meeting of sub
way workers. The vehicle controlled
by the roads make total journey ev-
cry day equal to twenty circuits of the
earth. The gross revenue each month
is 100000.
intellectual workers in Paris have
formed II federation, which has been
given recognition by labor organiza-
tions. Dramatlsts, engineers, scientists,
teachers, artists, poets, song writers,
journalists and dramatic experts are
eligible to membership in the fedora
tion, which has appointed two commit
tees to draft definite constitution
and program.
A memorial to the 400 900 allied sol
diers killed in the defense of Verdun
will be erected through the combined
subscriptions of France, Great Britain
and the United States. Marshal Petain
heads the committee which has just is
sued an appeal to the United States
and Great Britain to join France in
this work. The monument will stand
on Douaumont hill, which overlooks
the greater part of the Verdun battle
field
Nels Nelson of RevelstOke, claimant
of the amateur Canadian ski jumping
title, retained his hOnors when he won
the championship mt the British Column
bia tournament there with jump of
1S5 feet, standing. Steinwell, Chicago,
was second with 1S1 feet Anders
Haugen of Steamboat Springs, Colo,
won the professional contest with Il
jump of 200 feet, standing. Lars
Haughen, in. the same event, jumped
212 feet, but fell.
GENERAL
Rhode Island voters at special
election, by an s to / majority, ap.
proved Il S2,5OO,OOO bond issue to pro.
vide funds for bonus of 500 to each
of the states 25,OOO men and women
who saw military or naval service dur.
ing the world war.
The long -drawn-out strike which has
been In force since May 3 at the plant
of the WHY'S Overland Company at To.
ledO, involving at the start 5000 work
men. has been formally called off by
the Machinists' union and the Central
Labor union. In a statement labor of.
ficials said conditions at the plant are
now satisfactory.
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 We're passing by the shop
during the robbery. A similar robbery
a week ago In the same shop was
foied by the proprietor who wounded
one of the bandits.
The war cost the United States $780,
600 100000, according TO the latest esti.
mates. The cost to all nations com
bined was S1s6,OOO, 100000
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-
pensc of Si,OO0,0OO. 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 II, 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 100000 to 100000 sol.
diers will submit claims for back pay
ment and 1t will require approximately
| S1,S00.000 to settle the claims.
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