The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-02-13
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

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Rate increases of 80 to 40 per cent
on Canadian railroads were predicted
as the result of estimates that deficits
! for the current fiscal year would total
| $68,O00.O00. An investigation is being
made to determine increases necessary
to enable the roads to pay expenses.
A surplus of 10000 tons of high
grade steel, including every variety of
stock used in manufacturing building
and bridge and automobile construc-
| ton, will be placed on the market
| this month by the navy department
at prices biased on the present market
quotations."
The first move by the sugar planters
of Hawaii to break the strike of Fill
pino and Japanese plantation laborers
was made in the shipment of 200 strike
breakers, 125 of them Koreans and
the rest Chinese and Hawaiians, to
the Honolulu plantations. No attempt
to interfere with them was made by
the strikers.
Pope Benedict has conferred the
knighthood of the order of ST. Sylves-
ter on Frederick Vincent Milan of Min
neapolis, says Rome dispatch.
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Four hundred quarts of whiskey and
a moonshine still paraphernalia, said
to be valued at $4,000 were seized
by federal agents in a raid on Min
neapolis apartment house.
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The New York board of aldermen
has passed a resolution calling on the
state legislature to support Governor
Smiths recommendation and rescind
ratification Of the eighteenth amend
ment, so that the wet and dry
question may be put to a referendum
in that state.
The purchase of 1900 baskets at
COST Of S1,104, sos, Ia be used for the
return of army dead from Europe, has |
been completed by the war department |
in its announced policy to return as
soon as practicable the bodies of |
the next of kin for interment in this |
The manufacturers were in
structed to expedite deliveries.
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Privately owned wireless stations
now controlled by the navy department
are to be restored TO their owners "as
soon as peace is declared" Rear Adj /
niral Griffin. chief of the bureau of
steam engineering. told the house ma
Ial committee. Eleven high-power sta
ions of the Marconi Wireless company
ire the principal ones affected.
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Protest against the action of Mil
yankee post of the American legion in
dmitting Jack Dempsey to honorary
and recommendation that
he Milwaukee posts charter be re-
oked. has been sent to national head
uarters of the organization at Indian
polls by Walter r. fuller, chairman
f the inter-post council of the legion
D Los Angeles.
Eugene Y. Debs, now serving a 20
ear sentence in federal prison at At
,nta on conviction of charge of sedi-
on, was unanimously endorsed for s
resident of the United States by So
alists of Oklahoma in convention at i
klahoma City, Kate Richards O'Hare. {
t presetn confined in the Missouri e
tate penitentiary, was endorsed for
Ice president.
An illiterate Austrian earned $5.527
Canada during single year of the :
ar as laborer at the Welland Steel :
1t was disclosed, when Mike
mis- was fined at st. Catharines, Ont, !.
# making a false income tax return. =,
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Beginning Memorial day, an American
ag will fly from the grave of every :
nerican soldier buried In France, the =
lr department has announced In =
dition. post flags will be hoisted in =
E center of the large cemeteries and -
Ialier flags will be used at the small - :.
burying grounds. : -