Williams news., 1921-08-05
FOREIGN

\ United States for lecture tour. The German government has agreed
 that President Harding issue an off, cial proclamation of peace between
 the United States and Germany, there
 by ending the present indefinite situ-
 ation.
 Germany lost 1,792, ,36S men killed ! and 4,246,ST4 wounded from 1914 to 1918, according to a revised compila-
 ton of the German casualties during
 the war. In additio,t, 100000 men still are reported missing.
 The Soviet government is reconsid-
 ering the question of admitting Amer
 ican journalists into Russia. NJ. Lit
 vinoff, chief of the Soviet legations
 abroad, teIegraphed NJ. Ganetsky, the Soviet minister at Riga, saying a de
 cision on the question probably will
 be reached soon.
 l Provisions for reducing the prOduc- tion of sugar, and for sending a com mercial mission to Washington to Se
 cure revision of the reciprocity
 treaty between the United States and Cuba, are included among nine meas
 ures constituting an urgent legislative
 program drafted by congressional | leaders and President Zayas of Cuba. | H Greenfield, a farmer, was elected
 premier of the province of Alberta by,
 the provincial Legislature, in which the farmers control the government. He was born in Winchester. Eng, 62 years ago, and came to Canada in 1892. Beginning as a farm laborer he
 has risen to the ownership of one oS
 the finest pieces of agricultural prop erty in northern Alberta.
 A compromise has been effected be- tween France and Great Britain re- garding the Silesian issue as q result of new exchanges Premier Briand, it is announced, will probably agree to a meeting of the supreme council and withdraw his demand for a meeting of experts. In return for this Great Brit ain has asked to join with France in requesting free passage of reinforce | ments through Germany.
 The official BolsheviSt newspaper, | Pranda, of Moscow, telling of the ter | rible sufferings of the Russian people, | says that "as a result of the drought l and the crop failure, famine is raging | among a population numbering about | 25 100000" This announcement was given out in New York City by A. J. Sack, director of the Russian inforna- ton bureau in the United States, who represents the Russian antibolshevist forces in this country.
 GENERAL
 State Treasurer Read of. New Jer- sey, received from Tex Rickard a check for $144,S66.7O in payment of the state tax on the Dempsey -Carpen- tier fight. This is 10 per cent of the gross receipts.
 The mining community of ShepardS- ville, Ind, was virtually wiped out by fire with loss of approximately $500 lO0 fol 500 l in the mining camp and many lost all their possessions.
 Hot, dry weather during the month of August is necessary to save the souths cotton crop. This is the con- Sensus of opinion among the agricul- ure extension forces of the cotton belt. The boil weevil is dama aging thousands ,f acres. Agricultural experts of the delta predict destruction If the crop in many sections if damp, .ool weather should develop in the |. leXt two months.
 The Russian soviet government has erved notice on four New York and . wo Washington banks that it is the wner of more than $179OOO,OOO de . osited in these institutions by Boris . who was appointed Rus . ian ambassador to the United States efore the soviets acquired control. In . making this announcement, Charles eecht, attorney for the soviet regime, aid the notices sent to the bank armed them that they would be held able if they should pay the funds to I ny one but accredited representa- i've of the soviet government. l: Luxury tax evaders throughout the C rnited States are stealing $1O0,000 a D lIlute from the government and the h ublic, Col. William Hayward, United V tates district attorney, charged in an C lterview at New York "In New u ork only S4,5OO,OOO is being stolen n very month";" he said. V A. $. Legg, negro porter on Chicago . reat Western passenger train No. 10, :" :" to Omaha, jerked the gun V 'Om train robbers hand and kicked ', I'm off the train just outside the city =, mits of St. Paul. A switching crew T, lptured the robber. He had boarded -' le train as a passenger, and as the !. ain neared St. Paul attempted to =. old up Pullman passengers. Mrs. Emilia Panico, wanted by the hicago police for the stabbing to cath of Mrs. Mary Esposito, walked to precinct station and surren- cred. The murder of Mrs. Esposito,
 first thought to have been a part mi o,d