The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1921-01-07
NEWS OF THE
WORLD In BRIEF

0Tett iSiltaiH lttS just pTescHttu
Canadn with "A cruiser and two de-
stroyers.
Rounnnia has ordered the intern
: mont OF twelve thousand Jewish refu-
gees In Bessarabia.
President Wilson has asked Congress
FOR authority to call world dairy con-
gross TO meet in Washington City
Former President Taft conferred
with President Elect Harding in Ma
rion last week on world peace prob
lens. ..s-
Secretary Colby. who sailed from
Newport News. Va. on December 4.
reached Do de Janeiro on December
II. 49,
Fifty-two members OF the Plumbers
Association In New York City have
been Indicted for violation Of anti
trust laws. VI.
John II. Patterson. of Dayton, Ohio,
has given to that city twenty seven
acres OF land for IA park AZ Christmas
gift
There We're no newspapers publish
I'D in England December 1927. the
Publishers suspending publication dur
ing the holidays. .... IL,
A Shanghai dispatch reports ter
RHO earthquake In Ran-su Province on
December 10. with casualties cstimat-
I'd at two thousand s..." =. 49,. 81.
Senator Nugent. OF Idaho, has been
appointed TO fill vacancy on the Fed
erai Trade Commission. His term as
Senator expires March 3. g.
President Elect Harding has denied
the report that he had offered Charles
Evans Hughes the appointment OF Sec
rotary OF State In his cabinet.
Iapan's population is a. 005, 900, of
which 55.960.00o are in Japan and H.
$4,000 In Korea, The population IL
more than million under the csti :
mate. ~: 49,. ...
Extreme anxiety il felt by the Brit
ish people over. conditions OF unem
ployment and It Is feared that this
ssT'.s.s Is iTi5rs serious than any o; 10
5 predecessors. 49,.
One man killed three injured and
property losses estimated AZ $500, 000
were entailed by an explosion and fire
on the waterfront at Galveston. Tex,
December "a.
The American Near East Relief
workers In Armenia have been eyac-
uatcd by Renal Pasha. the Turkish
Nationalist leader. and have arrived
safely In Kars Trnnscaucasia. ..
Allied warships in the harbor OF
Athens left prior TO the arrival Of King
Constantine 40 as TO avoid paying
honors to the returning monarch, ne
cording TO an Athens dispatch, -.
FRINGE Alfonso, cousin OF the king
Of Spain. arrived last week In New
York unheralded. He tried to come
incognito and hopes TO be able TO tour
the country in that way. ....
Passenger traffic on Hungarian rail.
ways has BID \ suspended from Deccm
Der 20 to January Z, owing to lack
OF coal. Private houses Throughout,
the country are without coal,
After brief heating on tax revision
the House Ways and Means Committee
adjournud December % until January
q. when II VIII turn its attention TO a
general revision OF the tariff.
I Authority has been granted by thc
Interstate Commerce Commission for
the permanent consolidation OF the
Adams, American, Wells Fargo and
Southern Express Companies.
Lieut.. Walter Alexander. son OF Sec
Rotary OF Commerce Alexander, was
KILLED on Boiling Field. in Washington
December 20. when accidentally struck
by the propeller OF flying machine.
There are at present five hundred
thousand jobless men and women In
this country, according TO estimates
based on reports to government Of
s 1oIals and to the American Federation
OF Labor.
Reports received by the treasury tc
December II from internal revenue Of
iicers over the country show more than
$500, 10000 OF Income and excess prof
&, tax due on December 10 has been
collected.
Dispatches from Constantinople state
that the Armenian Soviet in procla
nation has annulled all foreign loans
Especially the American loan" which
the Armenian workers have been toll
ing to pay.
j. A. Nelson second assistant treas
urcr OF the United States under Presi-
oOO