The Delta independent., 1920-05-14
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sons and destroying more than 1000
bags Of coffee, ready for shipment to
San Francisco. Calif., ana many bales
Of merchandise.
Junius Brill, an American who has
been intsrned In Austria with Bella
Kun, former Hungarian dictator. and
Beia Kuns associates, has been re-
leased and given a safe conduct -
the United States.
. Fraulein Gertrude Baumar has besa,
appointed director of the Department
the first woman to occupy q leading
post in connection with the adminls-
tration Of home affairs. go
An American securities firm has be-
gun negotiations to acquire 100000
acres Of wood pulp forests in south
ern Lab0rador to supply wood pulp
to news-print manufacturing concerns
in England. it has been announced In
Ottawa.
Forty billion marks are involved in
the German governments purchase Of
the Federated States railways, which
has been approved by the national as
sembly. The annual interest incurred
in the nations huge Investment 10 es-
timated at Ia, 100000 marks.
The Prussian government has adopt
ed the draft Of bill to abolish the
q report at Berlin. The abolition Of
the rights to titles, such as royal
highness" and 'illustrious" is included
In the provisions of the measure.
Bolshevik attempts to threaten China
by advancing from the IngOda valley
northwest of Chita, have been entirely
frustrated by japanese and all-Russlan
forces as a result of a battle fought at
Werkneinskoje, April IL, according to
Toxic.
Five warships will be added to the
Chilean navy as a result Of DegOtia-
tions between the Chilean and British
governments. Chile has decided to ac-
cept the offer by Great Britain of one
dreadnought, three torpedo. boat de-
stroyers of 1880 tons each and q. trans
port.
There has been fierce fighting be-
tween factions of the southern troops
In the Xnhai district, and that city has
changed hands three times in, the past
week The soldiers are lOetnG the
armory. 1t is,repOrted that mere than
y thousand persons have been killed.
Hundreds Of the Inhabitants Of the re-
gion are f1esinx-to Annoy.
0INERAL.
After sleeping for four months, AfA
Charles Erickson, s. years old. OafeA-
don, Pa, died in Warren HOSPITAL at1
Buffalo, N. "a
The New York Assembly aaspfed
the Fowler bal. designed to repeal the
daylight saving law. The vote Was ~
to So. The bin, which has aisea1J
passed the Senate, now goes to the
governor.
[, Three hundred disabled veterans -of
tile. World war sxe taking agricultural
courses at the Mississippi Agricultural
College, where they were placed for
training by tho Tederal Board, for ve.'
icatiOnal Education.
A months boycott Of candy, - soda
water and pastry has been advocated
by Edwin il OSfalley, city commis-
siOner of public markets in New York,
to, relieve the.ssgar shortage and bring
down the prices
/. The New York Assembly has rcon-
cnrred with ther Senate In the passage
Os the Donahue.LOekwOOd bill, which
is intended to. give salary increases to
tine teachers Of the state. The bili
tyo, r.noonI n rnda,~-,.
emergency from the gOveSnOr. There
.syas 20 debaAey.
All ava Rstroleun,tn the Undtbd
States VIII Dse-hausted in three
years at the present t~.>f cossamp-
tion, which is overlapping 's-tuution
by more than 5O,OOO,OOO barrels ann,
ally, Is the prediction of R. l.. Wels
general counsel for the American p
trOleum Institute.
Initial gifts Of $25O.00O by John l
Rockefeller. Jr.. and 100000 BY ii
to the Interchurch World M0vemet
campaign have been announced
New York.
A 14-year-0ld boy WAS killed an
two men injured, one seriously, at Sc
lisaw, Okla, when an aeroplane drive
by Bob FOgg, former army. aviato
fell forty feet and plowed its we
through a crowd of 1000 persons. a
eordlnE to dispatches.
Jacob O. Bentall, former Soclalli
candidate for governor Of Minnesota
convicted on his retrial Of violation {
the espionage act, was sentenced
two years In the federal prison I
LeavenwOrth, Kan, by Judge Parh