The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-28
FOREIGN

600 women will parade at the opening
of Parliament at Toxic, Japan, to urge
curtailment of the liquor traffic.
Crown Prince Gustave of Stockholm
saved a British sailor from drowning.
The sailor fell overheard from a dinghi
near pier in the harbor Gustave
climbed down the pier and rescued the
suilor.
The ex-kaiser Is suffering from ex-
aggerated absent mindedness at his
home in Doorn and is often unable to
recognize his visitors or to write with
a pen. according to Berne dispatch to
Paris.
King Alfonso. with Archduke Fred
erick Of Austria, in hunting expedi-
tion in the forests near San Lucar.
brought down seventy-six wildcats and
one deer King Alfonso shot more
than half.
A loan of $30,OOO,OOO has been nego-
tiated by the Belgian government with
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 8 per cent.
Europe's debt to the United States
will be increased to $4,000, 100000 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 $9,-
600, 100000 war time borrowings from
the American treasury
There are about 100 motion picture
theaters in Finland The average seat
ing capacity in the largest city, Hels-
ingfors, population $4,000, is about
300 The pictures most in favor are
those of a historical nature. Then, in
the order named, the preference is So
ciety, comedy, detective, cowboy, car
toon, serial. The American picture is
the favorite
Tile defeat of the Greek forces by
the Turkish Nationalists in pitched
battle near Eskishehr. the junction of
the Bagdad line with the railway at
Angora, is claimed by the Nationalist
press at Angora, the Nationalist cap
ital. The Greeks, who had made con-
siderable advances since the begin
ming of their offensive some ten days
ago, are now reported from Angora to
be withdrawing along this entire
front
A list of the deliveries made by Ger
many to the allies in execution of the
peace treaty during its first year has
just been issued by the reparations
commission. The deliveries were made
on the reparations account up to De-
cember 31st. The chief item is coal,
amounting to 17,s1s,s4O tons. Next
are dyestuffs, Of which 1O,7S7, 1927 kilos
were delivered, Other deliveries were !:
Steamers, sailing vessels and fishing
boats, 2,054,729 tons; inland naviga-
tion materials, 38,73O tons; live stock,
$50, JIG head; seed, 6,SO2, ,5SS kilos ;
ammonium sulphate, 10000 tons !;
pharmaceutical products, 1923 kilos /;
rolling stock, 4,571; trucks, 129,555 !;
motor lorries, 5000; fixed railway ma
terials. 10000 tons; agricultural ma
chinery, 131,505.
GENERAL
A bill to increase salaries of sena-
tors and representatives from $500
to $4,000 n year after March 4th has
been introduced in the House.
| 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 a landlord
to rent his property to families with
children a misdemeanor, punishable
by 500 fine and ninety days impris-
onment has been introduced in the
lower house Of the Michigan Legisla-
ture.
Bob Steele, who lost both legs in
the war, saved the life of a baby girl
on the beach at Miami, Fla, by push
ing his wheeled platform In front of a
motor car to hurl her out of the way.
The machine knocked Steele over, but
he escaped with slight injuries.
Promotion Of Maj. Gen. Hunter Lig-
gett to lieutenant general is proposed
in bill introduced in the House.
Under the stimulus of increased de-
mand, manufacturing plants forced to
shut down completely or cut produc-
tion during the latter part of last year
| are now reopening or increasing their
output, reports from all parts of Ohio
indicate. Scores of plants have swung
into full stride since January LIST.
Ostrich skin shoes, which it is
claimed will Outwear leather footwear
and cost less, soon will be seen in BOs-
ton. The first consignment of ostrich
skins arrived there in an American
steamship from South Africa Manu-
facture of the shoes will begin imme-
diately and they will be offered to
women and men as an Easter novelty.
The speed artists that drive their
typewriters through the sprints at the
business schools at sixty miles an hour
or thereabouts, never tried an endur-
ance test, says Miss Agnes X. Clay,
New York typist, who turns out 100
sheets of $50 words every day Miss