Taiban Valley news., 1921-02-04
FOREIGN


! near a pier in the harbor Gu4ave
climbed down the pier and rescued the
sailor.
The ex-kaiser is suffering from ex-
aggerated absent mindedness at his
home in Doom and is often unable to
recognize his visitors or to write with
n pen, according to Berne dispatch to
Paris.
A loan of $30,OO0000 has been nego.
tiated by the Belgian government with
the Guaranty Trust Company of New
York, and the contract for it has been
signed The loan will be issued in the
United States and will be at an inter-
est rate of per cent.
The Supreme Court upheld the au-
thority of the alien property custodian
to seize securities deposited in this
country by the German insurance COM
panies to protect American policy
holders. The court said there could
be no doubt that the trading with the
enemy act authorized such seizure.
Thirty thousand refugees from
Crimea in the Caucasus, among whom
are twenty generals, seventy colonies
and nephew of the novelist, Tolstoy,
face starvation unless aid is sent by
the allied governments, it is learned.
Typhus and other diseases are ram
pant and scores of deaths are being re-
ported daily.
Sunday passed without a recurrence
OF the food riots by former soldiers
and the unemployed in Montreal. The
three soldiers arrested as the alleged
leaders of the raids on restaurants
have been freed on bail or given sus-
pended sentences. Groceries are being
distributed among married men in
cases of destitution.
Europe's debt to the United States
will be increased to $20,000000 by
1924, George f. Warren, professor of
economics at Cornell University, de-
clared at tariff revision hearings by |
the House ways and means committee. !
This sum, he said, will include the &c.
6OOO00,0O0 war time borrowings from |
the American treasury
The State Department at Washing
ton has sent an emphatic note to Mex
leo protesting against encroachments
on the rights of American oil produc-
ers. Mexicans are alleged to have
taken advantage of a announcement
system put in effect in Mexico when
claims are contested to take American
oil claims and reap profits from
them, 1t was learned, and 1t is this
practice which the State Department
has protested against.
GENERAL
Four bandits entered the Daniels
jewelry store at Toledo, Ohio, bound
the proprietor and customers hand and
foot, and escaped in an automobile
with jewelry valued at $4,000.
A bill making refusal of landlord
to rent his property to families with
children misdemeanor, punishable
by a. 500 fine and ninety days impris-
has been introduced in the
lower house of the Michigan Legisla-
ture.
The sexton in the Eighteenth Street
Methodist Episcopal Church of New
York pulled the bell rope before morn
ng services but no sound came. He :
climbed to the stceple and found Tim
'thy Jones' a. lying over the rope in
condition. After being
evived, Jones said he climbed to the
'elfry a week ago to escape the cold
md had lain there a week trying to
orget his hunger.
The navy yards on the Atlantic coast
hould be sold and the money used for
he building of one big base on Nara
ansett bay, in the opinion of Rear Ad-
niral William S. Sims, president of the
laval war college. Speaking at New
'ort, r, l., he said he believed Nara
ansett bay should be developed by the
rection of repair plants capable of
airing for whole fleet. In the event
f the navy requiring repairs after an
Engagement with an enemy force, he
aid the fleet would be forced to scat
er to several yards for the necessary
'ork.
The American Bonding and Casualty
ompany with headquarters at Sioux
ity, Iowa, capitalized at $500000 and
18th $100,000,000 worth of policies on
S books was declared insolvent at Chi.
ago. Albert SABBATH, an attorney, was
ppOinted receiver. Liabilities were
lid to be $3,O00,000 and assets "con-
derably less"
That a masked burglar with an
pistol is, no match for a
oman armed with a painful of hot,
'apy dishwater was proved by Mrs.
Isle Waite at Chelsea, Mass. The in
uder poked his head and pistol
rough the kitchen doorway and de-
anded all the money in the house.
e got about gallon of boiling suds.
The speed artists that drive their
pewriters through the sprints at the
lsiness schools at sixty miles an hour
thereabouts, never tried an endur-
ice test, says Miss Agnes * Clay,
ew York typist, who turns out 100