Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-06-16

had been In poor health several
months.
II stand by all said. Every word
Of it. shall not repudiate a single
word which l have said and see
nothing un-American in it even If
Senator Mccormick does," said ADJ
miral Sims at London.
The United States Steel corporation
at New York reports untitled orders on
May 81 Of 5,4S2,4s tons. This COM
pares with 5,845, 224 tons on April 30, a
decrease Of 362,737 tons.
Anna R. Murphy, rhirty-seven years
old, public stenographer, was killed
instantly when she plunged from q
room on the thirteenth floor Of the Chi
cago Stock Exchange building.
David, F. Houston, secretary Of the
treasury in the Wilson administration,
has become associated with the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph company
at New York.
"Of all the legislation passed in the
United States in recent years the most
helpful to Cuba has been the prohibi-
ton law" said Mario G. Menocal, for
mer Cuban president, as he sailed
frcm New York for Europe.
Personal
Orland A. Somers, aged seventy
eight, former national commander Of
the Grand Army Of the Republic. died
at Kokomo, Ind.
Foreign
Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan,
who has been visiting at Paris for sew
eral days, left Paris for Brussels.
An Athens dispatch says that many
lives are believed to have been lost in
the sinking Of the Greek steamship
Bouboulina, which has struck a mine
and foundered in the Aegean.
Karl Barrels, leader Of Bavarian in
dependent socialists in the diet, was
,assassinated at Munich.
The minister Of marine at Paris has
ordered that every group of departing
American war dead shall be saluted
with 10 guns on leaving France for
America. This was suggested by An
DIRE Tardieu.
In reply to Secretary Denby's re-
quest for an explanation Of his speech
of last Tuesday at London, Admiral
Sims said he believed part OF the
speech was garbled, but that he said
nothing he had not said before.
Heavy reinforcements of British
men and supplies are leaving the Co
logne bridgehead hourly for Upper ST.
lesian contingents. Whippet tanks,
airplanes and field artillery are in
Guided.
American tourists to Canada do not
need passports either to enter or to
leave the country, the department of
immigration and colonization at OF
tawa, Ont, declared in formal state
ment.
A merchant feet has arrived in
Petrograd with large cargoes Of food
stuffs, mostly from Chicago, which
Lenin has purchased to keep the wolf
away from the soviet door in Russia
this winter, says Berlin dispatch.
A San Antonio, Tex, dispatch says
President Obregon has taken the direc-
ton Of the railroads Of Mexico out Of
the hands of the minister Of finance
and will have personal charge, aided
by Ramon P. DeNegri.
The parliament Of north Ireland
elected last month under the home
rule act formally was opened at
Belfast, amid impressive scenes. No
Nationalist nor Sim Fein members
were present.
Fighting has again broken out be-
tween Spanish troops and natives In
Morocco. Heavy losses were inflicted
upon the Spanish forces near Abaran
during an attack by tribesmen, said
a dispatch received at london.
DR.. Wellington Koo. China's rep
resentative in the League of Nations
has notified the league at London Of
his country's intention to give effect
to the leagues recommendation for
restriction of armament.
French war records at Paris con-
tradict charges of Representative Gal
Ivan Of Massachusetts that Georges
Carpenter, the pugilist, was Stacker
during the early days Of the war, and
show he was in service from the first
day.