Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-01-21
FOREIGN


ade of Fiume. and also the land block
ade.
The population of Brazil now is 3d.
563. 500, or more than one-fourth that
of the United States, 1t has been an
nounced by the Brazilian embassy in
Washington.
The Greek offensive in Asia Minor
resulted III important successes for
the Greek forces, according TO the
Greek communique received by the
Greek legation In London.
The murder of Walter J. Shannon Of
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.
Rembrandts landscape after the
Thunderstorm was stolen from a pri-
vate owner at Hamburg and supposed
| ly was shipped to the United States.
The painting is said to be valued at
S2,O000OO.
Canada's wheat yield for 1920 to-
tailed 263, ,1S9. 300 bushels from 1S, S,232,-
374 acres, an average gain of four
and one-half bushels an acre over
1919, the Dominion Bureau of Statis-
tics announced at Ottawa.
More than 100000 Armenian ref
ugees between Kars and Alexandropol
are dying because of lack of food and
fuel, and anarchy stalks among them,
said latest advices from Armenia re-
ceived by the Near East relief.
The Russian wife OF Naval Lieuten-
ant Warren II. Langdon, American of
ficer killed by japanese sentry at
Vladivostok recently, ended her life
upon learning of her husbands death,
according to Reuter- dispatch from
Vladivostok.
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-five strike agitators. Ten men
were arrested.
The Italian cabinet has decided,
says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Rome, that in the supreme coun-
ell in Paris it 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 20
per cent were ordered made by seven
Milwaukee landlords, by n ruling of
the local rent bureau. Among the land
lords affected was the owner of twelve
flats.
A reduction of 20 per cent in the
price of farm implements has been an
nounced by A. V. Burch, vice pres-
dent and general manager of the
Blount Plow Company at Evansville,
Ind.
One hundred and fifty girls were
driven to the street by n mysterious
fire in Kansas City, Mo. The girls,
working in an envelope factory, were
helped down fire escapes in binding
snowstorm.
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. 1t will not affect
fsalaried employees.
George Franklin, former attache
of the United States Shipping Board,
and later auditor of the Southern Ce-
dar Company, slipped on the bathroom
floor at his home at Jacksonville, Fla,
broke his neck and died almost in
stantly.
Twenty of the forty-four mills Of
the McKeesport Tinplate Company
shut down since Dec % have resumed
operations. Officials announce that IL
conditions improve the other twenty
four mills will start up soon. Fifteen
hundred men have gone back to work.
The 5-cent loaf of bread is back in
New York. 1t appeared in bakery
shop there and almost Immediately
sales jumped from 80 to 1000 loaves
a 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.
In spectacular bout which was
stopped by the referee in the sixth
round at Madison Square garden, Ben
ny Leonard, worlds lightweight cham
pion, scored technical Knockout over
Richie Mitchell of Milwaukee, who, de-
spite his defeat proved himself wcr-
thy challenger. The bout was the
main attraction at a benefit given by
the American Committee for Devastat-
ed France.
ole Hansen, former mayor of Seat
tie, disrupted Socialist meeting at
Racine, Wis, when, under auspices of
the Racine Constitutional Defense