The Colorado statesman., 1921-01-22
FOREIGN

General Cavlglia, commander OF the
Italian forces along the Adriatlc, has
ordered the raising of the naval block
ade of Fiume, and also the land block
ade.
Rembrandt's landscape After the
Thunderstorm" was stolen from pri-
vate owner at Hamburg and supposed
ly was shipped to the United States.
The painting is said to be valued at
100000.
Cnnadas wheat yield for 1920 to-
tailed 263, 1S9, 300 bushels from 1S,232,-
374 acres, an average gain OF four
and one-half bushels an acre over
1919, the Dominion Bureau of Stalls
tics announced at Ottawa.
More than 100000 Armenian ref
ugees between Kars and Alexandropol
are dying because of lack of food and
fuel, and anarchy stalks among them,
said latest advices from Armenia re-
ceived by the Near East relief.
The Russian wife of Naval Lieuten-
ant Warren II. Langdon, American Of
ficer killed by a japanese sentry at
vladlvostok recently, ended her life
upon learning of her husbands death,
according to a Reuter- dispatch from
Vladivostok.
A call for q special session of the
Mexican Congress, beginning Feb. q,
has been issued by President Oregon.
Among the projects to be considered
are the new banking law, article p OF
the constitution, which governs petro-
leum deposits, a new labor law, army
reconstruction and international COM
merce.
Fifty persons were arrested in To-
kio, Japan, charged with disturbing a
court in which thirteen Socialists, ar
rested when the Japanese Socialist
leader was inaugurated, were being
tried. Employees of an engineering
works have smashed the fixtures in
the plant following the dismissal of
seventy-five strike agitators. Ten men
were arrested.
The Italian cabinet has decided,
says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Rome, that in the supreme coun-
ell in Paris it will be impossible for
Italy to support any measure calcu-
lated to force Germany to fulfill en-
tirely the obligations of the Versailles
treaty or any measure to force Turkey
to accept the present disposition on
the Near Eastern situation.
GENERAL
Rent reductions averaging about 70
per cent were ordered made by seven
Milwaukee landlords, by ruling of
IL
lords affected was the owner of twelve
flats.
A reduction of 20 per cent in the
price of farm implements has been an
nounced by A. V. Burch, vice presi-
dent and general manager of the
Blount Pillow Company at Evansville,
Ind.
The Singer Manufacturing Company,
makers of sewing machines, employ
ing 5000 workers at Elizabeth, N. j.,
announced an immediate reduction in
wages of 20 per cent. 1t will not affect
salaried employees.
Three men posing as policemen in
Chicago stopped an automobile driven
by Mrs. Sigmund G. Livingston and
robbed her of jewelry which she valued
at $4,000. Included was pearl neck
lace which she said was worth $4,000.
George Franklin, former attache
of the United States Shipping Board,
and latep auditor of the Southern Ce-
dar Company, slipped on the bathroom
floor at his home at Jacksonville, Fla,
broke his neck and died almost in
stantly.
1t cost Stanley Wasno, 12-year-old
adventurer, 5000 for ~ souvenir curls
he clipped from the heads of two little
girls in theater in Chicago. Stanley
was taken before Judge Mckinley in
the boys court and six girls from II to
10 years old, testified against him.
Judge Mckinley thought the locks
were worth 5000.
The Scent loaf of bread is back in
New York. 1t appeared in bakery
shop there and almost Immediately
sales jumped from so TO 1000 loaves
a day. In nearly all other New York
stores the price is 10 cents, but the
baker who reduced the price says he is
making more money now.
In n spectacular bout which was
stopped by the referee in the sixth
round at Madison Square garden, Ben
ny Leonard, worlds lightweight cham
pion, scored technical knockout over
Richie Mitchell of Milwaukee, who, de-
spite his defeat, proved himself a wor-
thy challenger. The bout was the
main attraction at a benefit given by
the American Committee for Devastat-
ed France.
Ole Hansen, former mayor of Seat
tie, disrupted a Socialist meeting at
Racine, Wis, when, under auspices of
the Racine Constitutional Defense
League, he invaded the meeting, at
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