Vernon Parish Democrat., 1920-09-02
NEWS CONDENSED
AT Home and Abroad Of Inter-
est TO Everybody.
EPITOME OF LATE DOINGS
OF the Entire Week That Is
Worth While of Mention and
of Interest to All.
.EPIToME OF LATE DoINGs
WASHINGTON NEws.

lantic coast, great lakes and Gulf OF
Mexico were authorized Tuesday by
the shipping board to increase freight
rates from 90 to 40 per cent and pas
senger charges from 20 to S3 1-3 per
cent over existing levels on all water
traffic.
Letvia has been asked by the United
States to recall Alfred Nagel, bear
ing credentials as Letvian secretary Of
legation, who Is being detained at
New York by the immigration authori-
ties. It was stated officially Monday
that Nagel was regarded by the Amer
ican government as an undesirable res
ident, and would not be permitted to
enter the country.
An appeal to President Wilson to In
tervene and prevent a threatened
lockout of 300 employees of the ST.
Louis postoffice was made in tele-
gram received Friday at the White
House from Thomas F. Flaherty, sec
Fetary-treasurer of the National Fed
Grafton Of Postal Clerks. The tele-
gram declares Postmaster Colin Selph
was attempting to dominate elections
of the st. Louis local and asked that
q conciliator not connected with the
postoffice department be sent there to
adjust the differences.
Erwin r. Bergdoll of Philadelphia
has been found guilty of desertion
from the army by evading the draft
20 rc5 Ia
Dor at Fort Leavenworth, it was an
nounced Friday at Governors Island.
Lieutenant Colonel G. c. Cresson, trial
judge advocate in the Bergdon case,
who made the announcement, said
that Bergdoll was also given dishon-
orable discharge from the army and
forfeited all pay and allowances.
Unless the bolshevik military lead
ers succeed in quickly organizing a
more successful resistance the defeat
Of the soviet forces before Warsaw
will become "a very serious one, ac-
cording to a cablegram received by
the state department Thursday from
the American legation at Warsaw.
Trunk line railroads in the United
States incurred deficit of $685.
32s on June operations, according to a
preliminary report issued this week
by the interstate commerce commits
sion. For the six months of 1920, in
Guiding June, the report fixed net rail-
way operating income at $13,664,12O,
against $154,s8O,9OS in 1919.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Electing Guy o. shirey of Fort
Worth state commander, re-electing
Charles w. Scruggs, state adjutant;
electing John s. Hoover of Houston
national committeeman, selecting Dali
las as permanent state headquarters
and El Paso the convention city for
1921, the second annual convention of
the Texas department of the American
Legion adjourned Tuesday at Houston,
Texas, after two7day session.
A payment Of less than so cents on
the dollar to the creditors of Charles
Ponzis quick rich scheme, if official
estimates of his liabilities are correct,
was indicated by his statement of as
sets at the receivers hearing Tues
day at Boston, Mass.
Twelve men were arrested and whis-
key valued at $50O,OOO seized by pro-
hibition agents under Major A. V. Dali
rymple, Tuesday. at Chicago, ILL., The
men were preparing to unload two
carloads of whiskey when the govern
znent agents surrounded them.
The first bale of cotton from the
new crop was received in Dallas, Tex,
Tuesday, having been raised by c. W.
Sears of Garland, Texas.
AL Chase, of Clarendon Tex, was
elected president and Fort Worth,
Tex, was chosen for the next annual
convention of the Colorado-to-Gulf |
Highway Association at its meeting
at Trinidad, Colo, Monday. Delegates
from Colorado, New Mexico and Tex
as were present.
Lightning fired an oil tank at the
Magnolia Refinery at Beaumont, Tex,
Monday. The tank contained $4,000
barrels of crude and the greater pOr-
ton OF 1t was lost. Ihe loss Will run
far over the 100000 mark.
The cotton crop of Texas is being
seriously damaged by continued rain
fall which for the past three weeks
has threatened to cut down the yield
TO q large extent.
COSstwise longshoremen who voted
Taaf vrrooIr to and fha g+wiIa IN NIavy |
York, which had prevailed since last :
April, are slowly returning to their old (
positions.
A mail pouch believed to contain
money and valuables worth 100000
was stolen Friday in broad daylight BY
two men from the One Hundred and '
Eleventh Street station Of the Illinois /
Central Railroad, Chicago, Ill The