The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1921-05-13
NEWS OF THE
WORLD in BRIEF

newspaper. IL he so desires, instead OF
| buying il outright,
William Jennings Bryan has joined
iu Washington law firm for the practice
of International law.
/ Wages OF seamen on all United
States merchant ships have been cut
itteen per cent, effective May Il
The baseball team OF waseda Uni
rersity,, Japan, reached san Francisco
May for an American tour.
Prince Henry. the third son of the
King OF England, who attained his ma
lorty recently, is to have military
career.
\ group OF eighty Swiss nnanufac-
turers and merchants will tour the
United States early in May to study
/ American methods
Italy Is in entire accord with the
! United States with respect to the
STAND " Zap and other former Ger
man DIVERSIONS possessions.
The release OF 100. 900. 900 gold pesos
Ia regulate exchange with the United
| states has been urged upon the Arr
gtntine government
The first national bank To be- con
troiled by negroes the Douglas Ma.
tioRRi Bank af Chicago has been
opened for business,
The railway car 10 which the ar:
mistice was signed on November II,
1918 has been placed in the French
army museum in the invalidcs.
4 new substance has been discov-
cred for decolorizinH sugar Scientists
are said TO have been searching for
sixty years for such a substance.
The town OF Braxton. near jackson.
Miss, was demolished by a tornado
April 2s. eighteen persons being killed
and more than thirty injured.
Charles r. Forbes of Seattle, Wash.
has been appointed director OF the Blu
reau OF War Risk Insurance, succeed
Ing X. g. Cholmeley Jones, resigned,
Cases OF ships being lost at sea have
recently become 10 numerous that ma
fin+ insurance companies are institnt,
ing Investigations into these "disas-
ters."
President Harding has, week SEM
eiIhty-fou nominations for postniast-
ers 70 the Senate. these being the frst
nominations for postmaster sent In by
him
Nine hundred Germans whose pun
ishment has been demanded by the
Entente for crimes committed during
the war. are TO be tried al Leipsie be-
ginning May %.
The Labor Board has Cancelled the
arrangement with the officials OF the
Chinese Merchants Association per
hitting Chinese Industrial students TO
enter this country. upon Information
that this was scheme to bring In
thirty thousand Chinese laborors.
Mrs. Amy Davis wlnship. who has
| Just ceicbratei her ninetieth birthday.
has made application to enter the
summer school nj the University Of
wisconsin.
4, has been decided by the bishops
in London that the Church OF England
women may speak and pray in church
~ on other occasions than regular ap-
pointed services,
With every amendment relating to
disarmament thrown out, the naval
appropriation bill. carrying a total OF
s3Se. 900. 900. has been passed by the
House. 2i2 20 10
sixty lighting ships OF the Atlantic
Division OF the United States feet
were reviewed by President Harding,
the new commander In chief OF the
navy. at Old Point Comfort. April 2S.
Capt Merton G, Cooper. OF Jackson
vile, E,,.s,, che Kescinsko squadron
flyer. who was shot down on the Po-
lish front and captured by the Rus
SLAMS last July. has escaped from prls-
on In MOSCOW.
King Alfonso of Spain has issued a
decree nominating his brother In law.
Don Carlos, as captain general and
military governor OF Andalusia, com
prising almost the entire southern
portion OF Spain
The creation OF national food
marketing bureau under the chairman
ship OF the Secretary OF Agriculture
has been suggested by Secretary
Hoover as a means OF relief 10 farm
ers and consumers.
Credit problems of the farmers will
be studied by Governor Harding. OF
the Federal Reserve Board. who Will
make a personal survey OF conditions
in the reserve districts OF the South
and Middle West.
Louis Agassiz Shaw..sassistant i'm
structor In applied physiology nj the
Harvard Medical Scheol, Boston. has
been arrested by Federal prohibition
officers charged with manufacturing
liquors in his homo.
General Pershing 1t Ii said, will go
to France to bring back the body of an
unknown soldier" in July, and Mar