River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-05-13
Washington

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Washington-Fa Farm loans aggregat-
ing more than $50,0O0,00O have been
held up by the litigation over the
validity of the farm loan act, it devel-
oped at the conference of farm loan Of
ficials here
Washington. Northwestern bankers
were included in delegation appear
ing before two house committees to
protest against the federal reserve
boards regulation requiring the col
lection of checks at par.
Washington-The council of the
League of Nations has refused to Of
fer mandate for Armenia to any
power unless certain requested stipula-
tions are embodied by the supreme
council in the Turkish settlement.
Washington Reports by bolshevik
leaders on economic conditions in So
Wet Russia contained in bolshevik Of
fetal documents received here from
Helsingfors, comment on the steady
decline of industrial production in
Russia under soviet rule
Washington Reports that Mexico
City has been taken by the revolution
lists without bloodshed and that Car
rama is in flight were confirmed by
official dispatches to the state depart
ment. General Gonzales entered Mex
leo City followed by General Obregon.
Tampico, Torreon, Nueva Laredo and
| other cities are in the hands of the
revolutionists, now triumphant in the
greater part of Mexico. The where
abouts of Carranza is unknown.
Washington Forty thousand Amer
leans, who in the early days of the
world war enlisted in the British and
Canadian armies, have been dis
| charged from the British reserve force
by an order issued by the British war
department and made public by the
| British embassy here. Although for
| the most part repatriated and back in
their own couatry, these men were
carried on the British army list as re-
serVists, subject 10 recall in case OF
emergency.
Foreign
Rome The price q newspapers was
raised from 2 to 4 cents by royal de-
| cree.
| San Jose, Costa Rica---Julio Acosta
was inaugurated president of the re-
public.
Paris-The supreme council may
continue as an international organiza-
ton composed of prime ministers, says
London dispatch to the Temps.
Berlin Minimum imports of food
and raw materials needed by Germany
| total 21,500,000 tons for the coming
year, as compared with 100000 tons
| for 1913.
London-The London Times says
| that Elihu Root has been invited to
make the presentation of the st. Gau-
denis statute of Lincoln from the
American to the British people which
is to be unveiled in June.
Cherbourg, France-A serious leak
was discovered on board the German
battleship Thuringen, which recently
was allocated to France and is in port
here. The leak, it is stated, was due
to the act of the German crew
Copenhagen-The Politiken publishes
a report from Budapest that feverish
military preparations are proceeding
in Rumania. Berlin newspapers say
the Rumanian premier has gone to
Warsaw to negotiate with General Pill
sudski, head of the Polish state, for an
alliance against Russia
Christiania, Norway The ice
breaker Sviatogor will leave Bergen
for the Kara sea, where it will attempt
to find the steamer Solovei, icebound
in the Arctic for the last two months
Eighty persons are on board the Solo
vel, and last accounts stated they were
in danger of perishing from cold and
hunger.
Domestic
New William Thompson
Price, rs years old. well known play.
wright and author, died OF heart dis
ease.
Portland, Ore.-Eight persons were
killed and 3S injured eight miles south
of here when two electric trains coll
lided headon.
Cumberland, Md.--Frank Carter,
musical comedy star and husband of
Marilyn Miller of Ziegfeld Follies
fame. was killed in an automobile acct.
dent.
Chicago of master bar
bers to increase the price of hair cuts
to rs cents because of wage increases
granted would be fought by the Jour-
neymen BARRIERS union, A. B. Ray
mond, business agent, declared today.
Hoboken, N. jim a fight with a
masked burglar discovered in his
home here, Frederick Ruckert, vice.
president of the White Metal Manufac-
turing company, was shot five times.
Recovery is doubted. The intruder
escaped.
New York-Funeral services for
Mrs. Samuel Gompers, wife of the
president of the American Federation
of 81,