The Raymer enterprise., 1921-01-20
FOREIGN

General Cavlglla, commander OF tne
Italian forces along the Adriatic, has
ordered the raising Of the naval block
ade Of Fiume, and also the land block
ade.
The population Of Brazil now Is 3O,-
5d3, 500. or more thnn one-fourth that
Of the United States, II has been an
nounced by the Brazilian embassy In
Washington.
The Greek offensive In Asia Minor
resulted In important successes for
the Greek forces, according to the
Greek commnnique received by the
Greek legation in London.
The murder Of Walter J. Shannon NJ
st. Louis has focused attention on the
orgy Of gambling In Havana, Cuba.
which has surpassed Monte Carlo as
the gaming center Of the world.
Rembrandt's landscape After the
Thunderstorm" was stolen from prl-
vate owner at Hamburg and supposed.
ly was shipped to the United States
The painting Is saId to be valued at
$2,OOO,OOO.
More than 100000 Armenian ref
ngees between Kars and Alexandropol
are dying because Of lack OF food and
fuel, and anarchy stalks among them,
said latest advlces from Armenia re-
ceived by the Near East relief.
Mrs. Terence MacSwiney dlsem-
barked In London from the steamship
Pan Handle State, which arrived from
New York. Only two or three friends
greeted her. She will remain In Eng.
land few days and then proceed to
Ireland.
II has been announced In Athens
that the United States government had
consented to advance TO the Greek
government s32,OO0OOO already prom
ised Greece when ~ yenizelOs was
prime minister, but upon the condition
that the money be expended In Amer.
lea for non-war material.
Fifty persons were arrested In To-
kio, Japan, charged with disturbing a
court In which thirteen Socialists, ar.
rested when the japanese Socialist
leader was Inaugurated. were being
tried. Employees Of an engineering
works have smashed the fixtures In
the plant following the dismissal Of.
seventy-flve strike agltatOrs. Ten men
were arrested.
The Italian cabinet has decided,
says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Rome, that In the supreme coun.
ell in Paris 1t will be impossible for
Italy to support any measure calcu-
lated to force Germany TO fulfill en-.
tirely the obligations Of the Versailles
treaty or any measure to force Turkey
to accept the present disposition on
the Near Eastern situation.
GENERAL
Rent reductions averaging about 70
per cent were ordered made by seven
Milwaukee landlords, By ruling OF
the local rent bureau. Among the land
lords affected was the owner Of twelve
flats.
One hundred and fifty girls were
driven to the street by mysterious
fire In Kansas City, No. The girls,
working in an envelope factory, were
helped down fire escapes In binding
snowstorm.
The 5-cent loaf of bread is back In
New York. II appeared In bakery
shop there and almost Immediately
sales jumped from 80 to 1000 loaves
II day. In nearly all other New York
stores the price Is 10 cents. but the
baker who reduced the price says he Is
making more money now.
Ole Hansen, former mayor Of Seat.
tie, disrupted a Socialist meeting at
Racine, Wis, when, under auspices Of
the Racine Constitutional Defense
League, he invaded the meeting, at
which Irwin st. John Tucker, indicted
under the espionage act, WAS the prin-
cipal speaker. and challenged him to a
debate. Mr.. Tucker declined at first,
but submitted the question to the audi.
ence, which voted against the debate
amid shouting and Kisses.
The Singer Manufacturing Company,
makers of sewing machines, employ
ing 5000 workers at Elizabeth, n. j.,
announced an immediate reduction IN
wages of 20 per cent. II will not affect
salaried employees.
The backbone of the itileness In au-
tomobile factories in Detroit has been
broksp. The middle Of February or
the first of March will see every major
automobile manufacturing plant and n
ma jority Of the smaller ones back at
work.
Elwood B. Wade. young milk dealer,
who was convicted ut Bridgeport,
Conn.,, OF the brutal murder Of George
b. Mott, was sentenced to he hanged
BY the neck until dead" on May ~ In
the state prison at Wethersfleld, by
Judge Hinman.
In spectacular bout which was
stopped by the, referee in the sixth
round ut Madison Square garden, Ben.
ny Leonard, worlds lightweight cham
pion, scored a technical knockout over
Richie Mitchell Of Milwaukee, who, de-
spite his defeat, proved himself wor-
thy challenger. The bout was the