Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-03-17

grand total, March i, to $16S,35O,OOOs
1t was announced at Washington.
President Harding at Washington
requested Chairman Benson of the
shipping board ito continue to func-
ton as though the board were fully
organized"
Former Representative John ].
Esch of Wisconsin and Mark w. Pot
ter Of New York were nominated by
President Harding to be members Of
the Interstate Commerce commission
at Washington.
Thomas o. Marvin of Massachu-
sets was nominated at Washington
to be q member Of the tariff commits
sion. and William c. Culbertson Of
Kansas was recommended as mem.
Der Of that commission.
President Harding at Washington
has decided to send Myron T. Her
rick back to his old post as ambassa-
dor to France. Herrick is an Ohioan,
and one who labored diligently for
Harding's nomination.
American troops on the Rhine are
standing pat" Secretary Weeks said,
and similar attitude as to the Rhine
situation was expressed at the State
department at Washington.
President Harding sent message to
the senate at Washington urging
prompt ratification Of the treaty to
pay $250OO,OOO to Colombia as balm
for the loss Of Panama.
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Three assistant secretaries Of the
treasury, S. Parker Gilbert Jr., Of
Bloomfield, N. ]. Ewing Laporte Of
st. Louis and Nicholas Kelley of New
York were renominated by President
Harding at Washington.
Further loans to European govern
ments on credits established by the
former administration have been
stopped by the Treasury department
at Washington.
President Harding at Washington
announced that the special session Of
congress would not be called before
April 4, and might be q week later.
Refusal Of lower courts to issue a
mandamus requiring Postmaster Gen
eral Burleson to restore mail rights
to the Milwaukee Leader, Victor Berg
er's newspaper. was sustained by the
Supreme court at Washington.
Foreign
Leon Trotzky has offered reward
Of five million rubles for the body,
dead or alive Of General Koslovsky.
General Koslovsky offers ten million
rubles for Trotzky's body, says War
saw dispatch.
A Belgian guard was wounded BY
bullet fired by an unknown person in
street Of Duisburg, according to a
dispatch received at Brussels. The
circumstances Of the shooting have not
been disclosed.
The Pacific squadron Of the Cana
dian fleet, the light cruiser Aurora
and the destroyers Patriot and Patri-
clan, are at Esquimalt, British Column
bia. having arrived recently.
1t was stated at the foreign office
in Paris that negotiations were under
way between the French embassy In
Washington and the State depart
ment in an effort to induce President
Harding to favor acceptance Of
modified League of Nations.
Kronstadt rebel troops have cap
tured Petrograd from the Russian Boil
sheviks, according to dispatch from
Helsingfors. The city was taken after
heavy bombardment.
Heinrich Won Eckhardt, former min
lister to Mexico, will return to the post
he formerly held In that country.
Since his return to Berlin. in 1919, he
has been in the foreign office.
Dr.. John Bernstorff Count Won
Bernstorff). former German ambassa-
dor to the United States. took his seat
in the reichstag at Berlin as demo-
cratic deputy for the Schleswig- Hol-
stein district.
Allied troops-French, British and
Belgian-advanced on the Rhine and
occupied three important German in
dustrial and coal mining cities-Dus-
seldorf, Duisburg and Ruhrort, says a.
Paris dispatch
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Madrid states that Premier Dato
of Spain was assassinated Tuesday
night. He was killed by revolver
shots as he was leaving the halls Of
congress.