The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-15
THE WORLD

New York-A S24, 600, 900 STREAM
Oh WHISKY is still flowing from Ken
lucky to the Atlantic seaboard on it,
way to Germany.
New fork-Restaurant and CAFE
managers of New York city have
agreed to a price reduction of 10 pei
cent for all articles on the menus.
London-Alexander Kerensky, once
leader OF the Russian revolution is
now working as a waiter in a Lon
don restaurant.
Paris-Austria will seek q loan OF
from S3O,000,000 to $40, 600, 900 from
France, to be guaranteed by the Aus
triAn tobacco monopoly.
Observation-Disclosures received bv
the Internal Revenue Bureau show q
total income tax receipt due December
18th of $685. 900 900.
Boston-The first cargo received
here from Germany since 1914 arriv-
ed last week, the same consisting of
5000 tons of potash.
New YOrk-Twenty five million
dollars has been appropriated for new
school buildings in New York City
during the past twelve months.
Chicago-Wage increases averag-
ing $500 weekly have been granted to
approximately $4,000 mems garment
workers in Chicago which adds $3.50
to the production of a suit of clothes.
New Y0rk-Ship building experts
say that the wooden ships built dur
ing the war will not be servicable in
foreign trade five years from now be-
cause they were built of green timber.
New York-The New York Milk
Price Committee recommends that
that industry be made a public utility.
1t recommends the appointment of a
board to fix prices and urges the
city to own its own business.
New YOrk-Daniel Willard, Presi-
dent of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, states the pay rolls of railroads
have been increased 70 per cent since
they were taken over by the govern
ment.
Washington-The Army and Motor
Corps has sold $40 touring
cars, at an average of $210 apiece;
$50 motorcycles with side ears at an
average of $43 apiece and 1924
trucks at an average of SAIL apiece.
LOndon-Great Britain has aband-
oned work on all big dirigible air
and has returned $50 aviation
fields to cultivation. A peace time
expenditure on military aviation of
SIS, 900 900 a year is contemplated.
Paris-The automobile output in
France this year will reach 200, 900
Even at the present rate of produc-
lion and after absorbing 100000
American cars the supply cannot
Keep up with the demand.
Berne, Switzerland-German man
r offering German goods
'or sale in Switzerland at so per cent
below the prices of Swiss goods.
Swiss business men are discussing the
policy of closing the Swiss frontier
German goods.
New YOrk-George Backer, a New
York builder, will erect a 30-story
store, office and residential building
the corner of Fifth Avenue and
7ifty-seventh street. 1t will also in
Jude a magnificent theatre. The
will cost $5,000,000.
New York - The worlds official
ihorthand speed record was broken by
Nathan Behrian, an official steno-
crapher of the Supreme Court of New
York, who wrote 324 words a minute
With only two errors IN a contest of
he New York state shorthand re-
association.
Paris-Switzerland and Norway
AVE taken the position that if the
United States does not come into the
league of Nations, they will not do so
ither, and that if America ONE in
With special privileges they, too, will
emand similar privileges. 4.
Washington = Senator Myers has !,
Introduced a bill in the senate pro-
iding for $4,000,0O0 to be loaned to
in drought stricken sections
f the United States. A similar bill,
the same amount, has been
Introduced in the house by Congress
Riddick.
London-One hundred fifty memb-