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Middletown transcript., 1921-01-08
D'Annunzio Gives In and the War
Over Fiume Is Ended
After Hot Fighting.
GERMANY WON'T DEMOB|L|zE
Refusal to Disband Civil Militia May
Lead to French Occupation of Ruhr
District - Bolsheviki Threaten
Western Movement-lndus-
trial Events in America.
ey EDWARD w. PickARD.

As was easily foreseen, the 1talo-
Fiume war has come to a speedy end
with the collapse Of D'Annunzio's re-
sistance. The poet, who had declared
he would interpose his bloody corpse
between the Italian forces and Fiume,
thought better Of it, and on Wednes-
day issued proclamation saying that
he now felt disposed to defend his life
by all means, since it was not worth
while to throw it away in the service
of q people whom he now despises.
Therefore he was about to leave Fiume
by airplane. The mayor Of that city
and it's director of national defense
agreed to recognize the treaty Of Ra-
pallo. D'Annunzio consented to re-
lease his legiOnnaireS from their Oaths
Of allegiance, and it was arranged
that they should be disbanded and that
the Italian government should issue a
proclamation Of general amnesty.
There was rejoicing throughout Italy
over the settlement, for the Italians
did not at all like the job of shooting
down their fellow cOuntrymen.
Peace was not attained without
much bloodshed, for the legionnaires
fought desperately and bravely for
several days after General Caviglia's
troops began the real attack. Taking
advantage of the rough terrain about
the city, they laid emany ambuscades
and conducted guerrilla warfare
with hand grenades and machine guns
that cost the lives Of many regulars.
In the city they poured hot fire from
the balconies, roofs and windows of
apparently abandoned buildings, and
even the women helped. The Italian
military authorities refused to use ar
tillery against the city itself, striving
to save it from destruction, but the
warships in the harbor bombarded the
outer defenses. D'Annunzio was
slightly wounded in the head by a
fragment Of shell. The curtain has
now fallen on this latest tragi-comedy
of the warrior poet, who says he is
ashamed of being an Italian.
Middletown transcript., 1921-01-08
ALARMED OVER BRITISH LAW
Act Prohibiting Importation of Dye
stuffs Into That Country May Seri-
ously Affect American Interests.

Washington.-By the passage Of the
dyestuff import regulations act. Great
Britain has definitely accepted the the
-ory. that poison gas will be the SUI
preme weapon of the next war and at
the same time opened the way for the
entry of German dyes into this coun-
tuy.
Middletown transcript., 1921-01-08

Lloyd George displays toward arson
and pillage and the shooting Of civil
,ians in the presence of their wives and
children"
The auXiliaries--black and tans-
and most Of the royal Irish cOnstabu-
larry are declared utterly unfit for
their duties.
To a meeting of 900 delegates repre-
senting three million trades uniOnists
the members of the commission told
in detail what they saw and learned
in Ireland, and resolution was adopt
ed demanding that the government
grant a judicial investigation into the
action of crown forces in Ireland with
view to Furnishing those guilty OF
crimes
The time limit for turning in all
arms in Ireland expired Wednesday.
and the officials admitted very few had
been surrendered.
The Irish Women's Organization has
issued circular defying the order Of
the government rendering liable to
death anyone harboring a rebel. The
circular says: "The women of Ireland
consider it crime for any young
Irishman Of military age not to carry
arms in defense of his country. and it
is even a greater crime for any person
of Irish blood to refuse to harbor or
assist our brave soldiers"
Though leaders in business and
finance issue frequent statements to
the effect that business Stagnation in
America has about reached the low
point and that the future really looks
rosy to them, the mass of the people
are far from being optimistic, and it
must be admitted that conditions seem
to justify their view. Demand has
fallen to a minimum, and of course
production has decreased in proper
tion. Prices have declined, but while
this is source of satisfaction to the
consumer, it is painful to the producer.
and the producer who is especially
mournful is the farmer. What con-
gress is planning to do for him in the
way of an emergency tariff may help.
but most economists doubt it.
There were several occurrences of
note last week in the Industrial field.
The most startling, perhaps, was the
closing down of the Ford automobile
works at Detroit for an indefinite Pc
riod. This was said to be due to a
marked falling off in orders and the
return of many cars. Under normal
conditions $4,000 men are employed in
the shops that closed. The employees
were told not to report before Feb
ruary 1.
Another interesting event was the
refusal of the union employees of
the Pullman company in the car works
at Pullman, Ill.,, to have their wages
reduced as far as 20 per cent. The
suggestion had been accepted by the
employees industrial relations com.
mittee in consideration of the declin-
ing commodity prices and the re-
adjustment in industry. They said
they realized the company must get
more business in order to avoid draS-
tic reduction of working forces. and
that it must cut costs to meet in
creased competition. The wages of
the employees have more than dou-
bled in the last four years. The union
men made no threat of striking if
wages were cut, but intimated that
trouble would follow such action.
Many of the shop workers are not
in unions.
Employees Of some other big. con-
Germs, especially in the textile and
clothing industries of the East, have
been compelled to accept reductions
in wages rather than have the works
close down.
Middletown transcript., 1921-01-08

In the effort to carry out the Re-
publican promises of reduced expenses,
the house appropriations committee
cut S42O,914,192 from the estimates
for the sundry civil bill for the fiscal
year 1929, leaving $3S3, 1911 292. The
largest single reduction was S147, ,OOO,-
600 of what was asked for the federal
shipping board. The committee also
recommended cut Of more than elev-
eli millions in the post Office depart
ment appropriation bill; but the to-
tai reported is $573,964, ,721, which is
nearly seventy millions more than the
appropriation for this year.
The Democrats pointed out that the
total carried by both bills adds about
seventeen millions to the cost of run
ming the government; but the Repub-
licans retOrted that they had made
large cuts in the sums asked by Dem
ocratic heads Of departments. Those
who are clamoring for, reduction in
federal taxes may draw their own con-
clusions as to the prospect.
Middletown transcript., 1921-01-08

hotel famous. Certain foods need
certain sauces. A lamb roast with
mint sauce, pork roast with apple
sauce, turkey with cranberry, are al
ways associated. Veal without
snappy tomato sauce, or one Of onion,
is usually fiat and tasteless. Boiled
mutton is improved by caper sauce
and currant jelly 18th roast. With
venison spiced grape jelly is es.
pecially appropriate. and wild duck
needs a tart jelly or a salad of sliced
oranges. Wild rice is excellent and
most appropriate to serve with wild
duck. Fish, too, of any kind is always
better served with a sauce. OYSTER
sauce is one which may be used with
any kind. Bechamel and brown sauce
are good fish sauces. Lemon and egg
sauces are good with some kinds Of
fish. Wild fowl is especially good
with:
Ripe Olive sauce.-Melt four table
spoonfuls of butter in saucepan. ada
one sliced onion and cook until slight
ly brown. Remove the onion and stir
the butter until brown. Add five and
one-half tablespoonfuls of -four, a ten.
spoonful of salt, one-fourth of tea
spoonful of pepper and stir to
smooth paste. Add two cupfuls of
brown stock gradually and continue
browning, stirring constantly. Cuf
the meat from dozen ripe olives
cover with boiling water and cook
seven minutes. Drain and add the
sauce.
Middletown transcript., 1921-01-08

British organized labor has definite
ly ranged itself against the govern
ment in the Irish controversy, at least
so far as government methods are con-
cerned. The labor commission which
visited Ireland has made its final re-
port, in which it scathingly denounces
the course Of the English authorities
in Ireland and expresses the belief
that coercion will be unable to sup
press either the Sim Fein movement
or the republican army" The latter
it asserts. is formidable because it is
not concentrated and has the sympa-
thy and support of the vast mass of
the population. OF murders and re-
prisals the report says:
$50 great has been the provocation
by the crown forces that so per cent
of Irish men and women now regard
the shooting of policemen and the
throwing of bombs at lorries with the
same philosophic resignation that Mr..
Middletown transcript., 1921-01-08

Following stormy sessions in Tours,
in the course of which the members
sometimes came to blows, the French
Socialist party has split into three
factions. The left wing has voted to
obey the commands Of Lenine and to
adhere fully to the third interna-
tionale; the right wing opposes throw
ing the party organization into the
hands of the communists; and the CEN
trists adhere to the internationale
with reservations. This last faction
may split, one half joining the left
wing and the other going with the
right. A woman agent of the Moscow
international, who reached Tours de-
spite the efforts Of the government to
keep her out, had much to do with the
stand taken by the extreme radicals
Middletown transcript., 1921-01-08
It7aE
T.heKitchen
Cabinet 80

ia 1920 Western Newspaper Union.l
Wear a smile on your face,
Keep laugh in your heart.
Let your lips bubble over with song:
Twill tighten your load
As you travel Mfe's road
And help other sinners along"
Middletown transcript., 1921-01-08

settlement with Berlin.
According to secret information re-
ceived by the French foreign office,
the Russian Reds not only are threat
ening to overrun and absorb Armenia,
Georgia and Azerbaijan, but also are
preparing for another attack on PO-
land and the Baltic states, and pos
sibly on Roumania. In the Minsk re-
gion soviet troops are being concen-
trated in large numbers, threatening
especially Lithuania and Poland: and
farther north about $4,000 Of them
were said to have crossed the Latvian
frontier and occupied several towns.
ESthOnia, too, was alarmed by the
presence Of large bodies Of Red cav
airy on her borders. Negotiations for
permanent peace between Poland and
Russia were broken off by the soviet
representatives,, who said in effect that
the Red victories elsewhere made the
treaty unnecessary to them. In Podo-
liza the Russians are gathering heavy
forces to compel ROumania to evacu-
ate Bessarabia. The lakes and
marshes are frozen over and cam
paigning will be possible until March.
Meanwhile all efforts of the soviet
authorities to arrange for resumption
Of trade seem to have fallen fiat, owing
partly to their impudent bad faith in
trade matters and partly to their fail
ure to stop spreading their propaganda
in other countries. The United States
government decided that Martens, the
soviet ''envoy," should be deported,
and Moscow advised him to abandOn
his work here and submit. Most of
the nations are now coming to the
view that bolshevism in Russia will
die out before long If left to itself, and
are proceeding on that theory. Evi-
dence that the bolshevist leaders
themselves are changing their policy
lies in the fact that they are now
granting many concessions to foreign
ers, which is absolutely contrary to
bolshevist principles. In addressing
the soviet congress in Moscow Lenine
explained that this was a temporary
necessity, as the country must have
materials for its economic rebuilding.
Information received by our state de-
partment is that the bourgeoisie are
more numerous than ever in Russia
and are gradually regaining control,
and that the tendency is toward the
formation Of an autOcratic govern
ment.
Middletown transcript., 1921-01-08
A DAY OF SAUCES,

A sauce as an accompaniment to
dish is as essential as the ordinary
Middletown transcript., 1921-01-08

seasoning of salt
and pepper to
make q dish an
petizing. A very
ordin Try dish
With a piquant
and appropriate
sauce has made
many 2 chef and
Middletown transcript., 1921-01-08

Mexico, ana ID
limited number
has been In the
markets Of late
from north to
south. Even now
the demand FOR
the fruit at al
most prohibitive
Middletown transcript., 1921-01-08
THE AVOCADO OR ALLIGATOR
PEAR.

For many years the avocado has
been brought to this country from
Middletown transcript., 1921-01-08
IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDNySQl00L
LESSON

by REV. P. B. FITZWATER. D. D.,
Teacher of English Bible in the Moody
Bible Institute Of Chicago)
t@l 1920. Western Newspaper Union)
Middletown transcript., 1921-01-08

Italy declared he could not leave be-
cause Of the Fiume crisis. So far
France has been insistent on the COM
plete disarmament of Germany, and it
is not unlikely that she will proceed
alone with the military measures
seemingly justified by Germany's vio-
lation of the Spa pact. Then it will
be up to Great Britain and Italy to
decide whether to support their ally
or to call her off, as they did once be-
fore, in the interests Of a financial
settlement with Berlin.
Middletown transcript., 1921-01-08

II you'd make life worth livin'
Try these big things worth while:
They're three U'n sum 'em up ag'in)
Jest love an work an smile.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-24

by Selvian, where, it is alleged, he OBJ
tanned the women and brought them
to this country as his relatives for
the purpose of selling them to his
cOuntrymen.
Prices for the girls ranged from
$1,000 to $4,000, the commissioner
said. The marriage deal was discov-
cred when one of the men, who had
agreed to purchase a girl, found that
she had been sold to another for a
higher price.
The scheme was betrayed by an Ar
menian who said he had visited the
home of Selvian, and admiring one OF
the girls, proposed marriage. Selvian,
the Armenian alleged, told him he
could buy her for $3.50. In a few
days the Armenian paid $500 on
deposit. After procuring a marriage
license and new clothes for the bride
to-be, he returned with the balance
of the money. But Selvian in the
meantime had raised the price of the
girl. The Armenian refused to pay,
and the girl was sold to another.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-24
MUTE TERRORIzEs KENTUCKY
Predictions of Calamity by Deaf and
Dumb Woman Preacher Cause
Panic.

Lexington, Ky.-A deaf and dumb
woman preacher has thrown super
stitious people about Madisonville,
KY, into a state of panic.
She is Holy Roller evangelist and
is holding q revival at Madisonville,
which is a coal mining town in the
western part of the state. She has
predicted in sign language from her
pulpit that a great calamity will befall
the town soon, but has not specified
the date.
She can not read or write, and her
sign language is interpreted by one of
her co-workers. The prophet is Mrs.
Jessie White, and she has been a
preacher for several years. Scores
have been converted by her sign Ian
guage pleas. She has gained great
hold upon her congregation, and hun
dreds attend every meeting at which
she appears.
Several people are reported to have
left MadisOnville and vicinity because
of the prediction.
The Holy Rollers recently predicted
a calamity at Louisa, In eastern Ken
tuclly. but it has not materialized.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-24
RATES ON COTTON
AND BRICK RAISED
INTERSTATE SHIPMENTS IN eEoR-
eIA TO CARRY SAME FREIGHT
AS INTERSTATE TRAFFIC
FLORIDA RATES ARE HIGHER
Commission Cites Example OF Dis
turbance In Traffic Which IT Al
leses Present Rate Cause

Washington.-Freight rates on cot
ton, cotton linters and brick within
the state of Georgia fixed by the state
authorities were ordered by the inter-
state commerce commission to be Ris-
ed April 20 to levels in effect in il Ter
state traffic.
Passenger fares were referred in
the title of the case heard by the COM
mission, but il developed at the hear
ing that no question was presented
with respect to them.
Rates charged on the COMMODITIES
named. the commission held, result
in undue prejudice to shippers OF inter-
state traffic, undue preference of ship
pers of state traffic and ia unjust dis
elimination against interstate COM
merce."
The Georgia commission, following
an announcement by the interstate
commerce commission in 1929 fixing
the rates in state and interstate toW-
merce permitted a 25 per cent h-
crease between points in Georgia on
the classes and on all commodities
EXCEPT those named. The carers
application for an increase on ttese
commodities was denied.
Rates fixed by the state authorizes
result in a general disturbance OF the
relationship between the Georgia safe
and the interstate rates on cotton,lthe
commission said. AS an exampl' OF
such disturbance the commission dted
the following:
THE rates from Georgia point to
the ports of Savannah and Brunswick,
Ga. are 25 per cent higher for export
| or interstate movement beyond nan
for local shipment, the result Plng
/ that cotton is now billed locally to the
ports that otherwise would be nip
ned at the interstate or export nte.
Railroads in Florida were orered
| nv the interstate commerce commls-
sion to raise state rates to the evel
in effect in interstate traffic, effective
April 25.
The commission also held that ntes
charged in state traffic IN Flrloa
resulted in undue prejudice to nip
pers in interstate traffic, in unue
preference to shippers of state trffic
and in unjust discrimination against
interstate commerce" Al.
Passengers rates were referred q IN
the title of the case, but it developed
at the hearing upon which the defi-
sion was based, that no question WIS
presented with respect to them.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-24
LIES WEEK IN CHURCH BELFRY
Demented Man Found by New York
Sexton When Bell Refuses
to Ring.

New York.-The sexton in the
Eighteenth Street Methodist Episco-
nal church pulled the bell rope before
services, but no sound went forth
from the belfry.
He climbed to the steeple and found
Timothy Jones, "a, lying over the rope
in n semi-dellrious condition.
After being revived at a police sta
ton, Jones said he climbed to the
belfry a week ago to escape the cold,
and had lain there a week, trying TO
forget his hunger.
He was removed to hospital where
physicians said his condition was serl-
Gus.
A man, claiming to be relative.
said that Jones mind had been af,
fected by overstudy at an institution
In Philadelphia
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-24
BOARD TO AID GULF PORTS
CAPITAL Declared Already Interested,
But Action Awaits New Board
Appointments

Observation-Disclosures in the way
of further ALLEGATION Of government
tonnage for operation in the New Or
leans Brazil trade have been removed,
former Commissioner Suffer OF the
shipping board announces. The action
was taken. Notwithstanding the refusal
of the board 10 allocate ships TO the
United States Maritime and Develop
ment company of Detroit.
On the protest of the Mississippi
Shipping company, Mr.. Suffer explain
ed. the board refused to allocate ships
TO the Detroit company. But, on March
8. he adds, the board by resolution,
gave the Detroit company the stand
ing of an operator, which would enable
it TO apply for government ships, upon
the showing that they will not be OPP
Grated in competition with established
routes.
The boards plan, Mr.. Suffer declar-
ed. is to build up the shipping in the
gulf ports for the benefit of the Mis-
sissippi valley section, so that products
originating there will have a more di-
rect route to the foreign markets than
by way of Atlantic ports.
"The solution of the American mer-
chant marine problem" he says, lies
in the Mississippi valley, where no per
cent of the country's foreign commerce
originates"
Detroit and St. Louis capital is al
ready interested in the operation OF
government ships out of gulf ports Mr.
Suffer asserted, and the board hopes
to dispose of a number of its vessels
through creating a market for ships
in the Mississippi valley.
ALLEGATION of sufficient tonnage to
gulf ports, he said, would enable pro
ducers as far north as the Great Lakes
to send their goods by rail or inland
water routes to the gulf and thereby
avoid the rail shipment to the Allan
tic. Development of this project, he
adds. would be pushed, but definite &C
ton would probably await the appoint
ment of the new shipping board by
President Harding.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-24
APPROVES POLICY
ON PREPARATIONS
CHAMBER or DEPUTIES OVER
WHELMIN6LY VOTE TO I'M
POSE PENALTIES
GERMAN PROTEST ANSWERED
Premier BRAND Explains How German
Failure To Observe The Treaty
Clauses Sanctions Advance

Paris.-The decisions Of the London
reparations conference, the occupation
Of dusseldorf and other German cit
les and the application of the allied
economic penalties on Germany were
approved by the chamber of deputies
recently by a vote that was virtually
unanimous except for the Socialists
and Communists. The vote as Off
ciaIIv given out was 491 to sc.
Premier BRAND, replying TO former
Minister of Finance Klotz and former
Minister of War Lefevre, who respect
iyeIv insisted upon further light as to
the governments intentions with re-
gard 10 execution of the treaty of Yer
sailles and securing the disarmament
of Germany, took occasion to answer
Germans protest to the league OF ma
lions against the allied occupation
on the ground that it was violation
of the treaty. He called the attention
of the chamber to the fact that at the
same time this protest was sent Ger
MANY had refused, on the summons OF
the reparations commission, to exc
cute the clause of the treaty calling
for the payment of twenty billion gold
marks.
Germany" he said, has violated
the treaty in three essential clauses
disarmament, PREPARATION and the trail
of the accused officers. Thus the
sanctions as provided for in the treaty
are applicable and just, as we have
applied them
The allied commission of control, ne
declared, was working under the ad'
vice of Marshals Wilson and Foch
and might be depended upon to satisfy
the requirements of M. Lefevre as tc
the disarmament of Germany.
M. Lefevre said that since he declar
ed in a previous debate in the cham
Der that Germany was making a new
machine gun capable of shooting III
teen hundred bullets a minute its ex
istence had been proven. The guns
had been found in Koenigsburg, he de
clared. along with new type OF SIX
inch cannon, proving that the Germans
were making new armament to re
place that destroyed under allied con
troll. He said that material had beer
discovered in cellars of the Spandat
arsenal sufficient to manufacture 6,oo'
field guns.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-24
GIRLS SOLD IN
MARRIAGE MARKET
Traffic in Brides Revealed After
Purchaser Had Been "Dou-
Bile Crossed

Fresno, Cal.-Disclosure OF a giri
market, where young Armenian wo-
men were sold TO the highest bidder
after having been brought 10 the
United States, has been made IN
Fresno, Cal. by George W. Moore
United States commissioner. He ar
rested seven of the girl victims ana
Harrotian Selvian, alias Harry Sell
Wan, charged with bringing the girls
here. through misleading statements
for the purpose of selling them.
The disclosures followed a length!
inspection by the commissioner OF the
operation of the so-called marriage
market" and a recent trip to Armenia
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-03-24
Fair Patient Picked
Pockets of Physicians

"Oh, doctor, you're hurting
me-" That is what Miss Bessie
Alma Reta, who is known to
the police of Chicago as the
"tonsilitis girl" told a dozen
Chicago physicians during the
last few days as they leaned
over her to treat her throat.
Then she would squirm and
wave her hands around the doc
tors as II in extreme pain.
After their client had left, the
doctors would find their jackets
picked and watches missing.
Eight pocketbooks and five
watches belonging to the doctors
who had treated the "tonsilitis
girl" have been recovered from
pawn shops by the police.