Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-01-14
FOREIGN

ing Tor war against the nIssian DOR
der states, including RumaBia, were
declared false by Adolph Joffe, presI-
dent Of the Russia peace delegation at
Riga.
Miners in the Ruhr district of Ger
many have decided to deprive Bavaria
Of coal as a step toward forcing Ba-
vnria to disarm the civil guards, the
disbandment of which has been de-
manded by the allies, says a Berlin
dispatch.
A presidential decree suspendlng the
concession that had been granted the
Western Union Telegraph and Cable
Company to land its Barbadoes cable
on the shores of Cuba has been signed
and is In the hands of the government
secretary.
Reports reaching Argentina from Bo-
livia, meager because of the rigid cen.
sorship which has been put into eff
feet, indicate that the republic is verg-
ing ON state of anarchy owing to
failure of the revolutionary party to
establish stable government. Z.
a woman will be the next speaker
of the British Columbian Legislature.
Mrs Mary Ellen Smith, newly elected
representative from Vancouver, re-
ceived such n large plurality In the re-
cent election that the cabinet has
named her for the speakershlp.
Berlin again Is threatened with
strikes of electrical street car and
subway workers and similar crafts
M hnRa1cn tho rnpntnInpl
ment has refused to reinstate and set
free thirty-three Communist leaders
who have been active among Berlin
workers.
Forty-nine ocean steamers, mostly
Dutch, are laid up at Rotterdam be-
cause of lack of cargoes and low
freight rates, according to Burgomas-
ter Zimmerman. He also announced
that while more ships entered Rotter-
dam last year than previously, the ac-
tual tonnage was only 30 per cent OF
that of 1913.
The Tribuna declares that the
amount of money stolen from the
treasury of the regency of Quarnero in
Fiume recently was 100000 lire.
This sum represented more than half
of the money handed over to the Flume
authorities by the commander of the
steamer Cogne for the release of that
vessel, which was seized by Fiume of
ficers last fall.
GENERAL
Films depicting criminal acts have
been barred from display Mt Newark,
n. j., w. ]. Brennan, director of mo-
ton pictures, has announced. Such
acts, he said, have bad effect on the
criminally inclined.
Wages of all employees of the Detroit
United Railway Company, other than
platform men, have been reduced ap-
proximately 20 per cent. Motormen
and conductors are to decide this week
whether to accept similar reduction.
During the fiscal year that ended
with the last day of November the
motorists of Massachusetts paid to the
state in fees for registration and Ii
censes total of $780, o,231, while 9th
er users of the highways paid nothing.
All records for paid-up membership
In the United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca were broken in December when
$685. ,295 workers met their dues, ac-
cording to statement made at the
organizations headquarters at Indian
apolis.
A book, 700 years old, valued at
100000, has been placed in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania for translation
by DR.. William Il. Newbold. 1t is said
to have been written by the English
monk, Roger Bacon, sometime between
1916 and 1862, and is an exposition of
the laws governing life. The volume,
which is written upon vellum, is the
nloh, an exile of Poland, who recently
became British subject.
More motorists were killed In Della
ware last year in proportion to the
number of automobiles registered than
in any other state.
Market value of twenty-one leading
Standard Oil Company stocks at the
close of 1920 was $46079S.512 below
the selling price Dec. 81, 1919. This
heavy decline occurred despite fact
that 1920 was record year in the oil
business. Not only We're business and
earnings the biggest recorded, but cash
dividends of Standard OH Companies
reached new high total in 1920 and
Including preferred stock payments
we're S115,5T0,000.
The board of directors of the
knights of Columbus, at meeting In
New York, recommended that the un
distributed balance of approximately
$5,O0O,O0O of the united war fund be
turned over to Herbert Hoover's
European relief council for the feed
ing of starving children in Europe
The board voted that the knights title
to their portion of this balance, about
| $500 600 he frnnsferred TO the relie1