The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-02-04
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

,Iapan's latest battleship. Nagato, has
a lightweight tonnage % 81. 800 and can
develop speed of % knots per hour.
of the new addition to the Japanese
fleet includes eight 15-inch guns and
20 6-inch guns. She is fitted with four
turbine engines. The Nagato takes "a
place among the largest battleShips to-
day afloat, her 1880 tons comparing
with the British Hood" Al, 900 tons,
and the American Tennessee" $4,000
tons.
Net income of the Bethlehem Steel
corporation for the year ending De
cember 81, 1920, after charges and
taxes, was S14,45S,Sa5, a preliminary
statement at the directors meeting in
New York showed This was a de-
crease from 1919, when the net in
come was $15,356, $50.
court order directing Mrs. James
Blum to wear for 30 days each year,
under police guard, the 100000 pearl
necklace of relative. in order to keep
life in the gems through their contact
with human body, was issued by the
superior court at San Francisco Since
the death of Mr.. Blum's relative the
pearls have NOT been worn and have
lost much of their lustre as a result.
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Election of Mrs. Anne Lee Worley,
Democrat, to succeed her husband, the
late Parks Morley. in the Tennessee
state senate was indicated i'm returns
from Wednesdays special election. She
would be the first woman TO hold a
seat in the Tennessee legislature. Her
husband, an anti-suffrage leader, died
at the beginning of the present session.
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OF 1906 vessels totalling 4.4S6, 600
registered tonnage, which arrived In
Hamburg last year. 276 vessels with
a tonnage of 1,03S.O0O flew the Amer.
lean flag. as against one vessel of
5000 tons in 1913.
The national executive committee of
the American legion will meet in
Washington February I. and 9 to de-
eide whether to accept the offer of a
S5.oOO,eoU gift by the Knights Of Co.
lumbuS for the erection of a legion war
memorial in Washington. il was an.
nounced at national legion headauar-
ters ut Indianapolis.
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VIII H.. Hays, chairman of the Re
publican national committee. has an.
nounced that $4,000 has been con.
trihuted since the election toward the
Republican campaign deficit of an
proximately S1,5oo,oO0. Contributions,
he said, ranged frem 10 cents to 500,
the remaining deficit being met by
states ON an superintendent basis of
10 cents for every Republican vote
cast.
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The tirSt attempt To recover dam
ages from the government for n shin
sunk by German submarines during
the war has been started in the court
of claims nj Washington, u. G.. by the
New York and Porto Rico Steamship
company. which claims $4,000 for
its steamship Carolina attacked by a
German submarine and sunk off the
New Jersey coast on June =. 1918.
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The International communications
conference which recessed lis sessions
In Washington, II. e. last month after
failure 10 agree on disposition of the
former German cables. viii be recon.
vened in the near future, Norman II.
Davis, acting secretary of state and
head Of the American delegation. an.
nouuces.
approximately 4,ooo 100000 pounds
of wool will be offered for sale at
auction by the war department al Bos-
ton on February 3, It has been an.
noanced In Washington.
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Refusal Of the United States To adj
init Lord Mayer o'Callaghan of Cork
was declared To be contrary To Amer.
lean traditions and an insult To the
word democracy" in statement is
sued by Right Rev. Michael ]. Gal.
iaSher. bishop Of the diocese OF De-
troit' and national president OF the
Friends of Irish Freedom.
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A bill TO increase salaries of sena-
tors and representatives from $500
to $4,000 year after March 4. next,
has been introduced by Representative
Campbell I'D, Pepnsylvania.