The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-03-17
W0rId Items

TOKYO: The government has re-
quested from the diet an additional ap-
preparation for defenses, amounting to
Yen is asked for the navy, to meet the
increased cost of the construction OF
warships.
NEW YORK: A definite turn for the
better is evident in the unemployment
situation, it was said at the office of the
National Industrial Conference Board.
| been recorded and is not indicated by
any figures that the board has obtained.
| it was expected that there would be a
steady increase as this spring opens.
VIENNA: The Primavesi family of
Olmutz in cooperation with German
financiers. is building two large sugar
refineries, one at Schaerding and the 9TH
within nine months and have an output
sufficient to satisfy the Austrian mar
ket.
Beet growers from the Madgeburg
CPrussia) districts will teach Austrian
peasants how to cultivate sugar beets.
On account of the coal shortage water
power will be used to generate electric
current for power and heat.
AUSTIN. Tex: The anti-alien land
ownership bill restricting aliens ineligi-
BILE to citizenship from owning or &C
curing land in Texas was passed to en-
grossment in the house.
CHICAGO: AS means towards the
conservation of the nations wood sup
ply. the farm wagon department or the
National Implement & Vehicle Associa-
ton has voted to standardize all wooden
parts going nito the manufacture of its
products Members of the association
declare considerable waste would thus
be eliminated.
WASHINGTON: The total area sown
to wheat in France for the 1921 harvest
was 12.13S,000 acres, an increase OF 6.S
per cent over last year and s.3 per cent
over the preceding five years. according
to report to the department of agri-
culture
| WASHINGTON: Deductions from in
| come taxes of persons whose businesses
were ended with the enactment of fed
eral prohibition legislation will be ap-
proximately s1,000,000 the bureau of in
| innate was made public as a result OF
statements in the senate which placed
| such losses at s1,000,O0O,OOO to $4,000
| 100000.
PARIS: Rene Viviani, former pre-
| mier and representative of France in
| the League of Nations Assembly, will
| said for the United States March 10 to
| extend official greetings of his govern
| ment to President Harding.
| NEW YORK: The condition of En-
rico Caruso tenor who is recovering
| from pleurisy and attendant complica-
lions, continues favorable.
| MOULTRIE Ga: j. S. Johnson may
or of Moultrie, has had to resign be-
cause he persisted in keeping tele-
| phone in his house when the citizens OF
Moultrie wanted him to take it out. The
town boycotted the telephone company
and the leading citizens decided to &C
l ypitb ion rather than nav
| increased rates
NEW YORK: Charles d. b. King
President of Liberia. accompanied by his
suite of ~, arrived here Sunday 1t is
understood Mr. King, who comes from
| Paris. is here to negotiate a loan fol-
| his country.
| CHICAGO: A million dollar labor
temple for the $4,000 local members OF
| the Amalgamated Clothing Workers OF
America will be erected here in 1922, ac-
cording to an announcement OF labor
officials.
| KINGSTON, Jamaica: The Legislative
council has passed measure providine
an appropriation of $3.50 900 annually
for 40 years to hep in the liquidation OF
the mother ~ountry's war debt.
severance of relations between the Am
| erican Federation of Labor and the In
| ternational Federation of Trades Unions
has been dispatched to the internationalt
headquarters at Amsterdam. The ac.
ton of the American Federation. taker
at meeting of the executive council
here, followed the adoption by the inter
national organization of resolutions IL
support of the soviet regime in Russia
|
NEW YORK: Street Commissioner
Leo estimates that it cost the city ST.,
5000 to rid the streets of Manhattan
Bronx and Brooklyn of the recent snow
fall of 125 inches. Last year it cost thu
city $6,700,000 to fight the snowstorms
WASHINGTON: A navy prepared tt
fight and as large as that of any othel
nation. was advocated by Secretary Den
by at the annual dinner of the Nav,
League