Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 29, 1920, Page 2

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S 2.60‘ One Week Three Months p—2 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published qvery Thursday and sent postage paid to any address fcr, in advance, $2.00. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS THE TRAVAIL OF A NATION. What is probably the most terrible famine in the history ofi the world—at least the greatest since the China famine of 1878 —has gripped the five northern provinces of the Chinese re- public—Chile, Shantung, Honan, Shansi and Shensi. Already 5,000,000 people are affected and 15,000,000 more are grad- unlly being involved as the terror spreads. It took modern civilization with all its scientific inventions and instruments of | submarines, poison and mustard gas, shrapnel, bombs and long| ranee guns, more than four years to kill some twenty million hu-| man beings. During the last month, and in the course of the! <t two, there will die from starvation and exposure double it many Chinese. . The last rain in the great area fell a year ago last October.; Think of what that short sentence means. Think of what it would mean to America, and then remember that China is a 1and without hospitals or doctors except those few the mission- avries have established, without railroads, without finances for velieving this situation. The Chinese government is, as never ofore, awake to the calamity and desperate plight of the popu- tion and is taking all the relief measures within its power, but China is crippled politically, economically and morally. The, great nations are taking cognizance of the situation and the! covernment of the United States has agreed—other nations con-! curring—to a temporary increase in customs of 10 per cent on a1l Chinese custom duties to be applied to famine relief. The; American Red Cross has contributed $500,000—all it can give— to be administered by its representatives. | In this, the very heart of China, the curtain has been lifted -on the stage and a drama, which might be entitled “The Travail| of a Nation,” is being presented to the world. More people are affected than the population of the whole of the United| States. Nor is this the only calamity which has befallen this un- fortunate race. It has been a cycle of drought and floods, cholera, locus pests, civil war and famine. Each in its turn has taken its millions. . ) The bitter winter cold has set in on Northern China. The| people are eating sand burrs, elm bark, acacia leaves and weeds,| all boiled together and stirred into a gruel. Mothers are put-| ting poison in the, last remnants of their food to end the suffer-| ings of their families. Little girls are being sold into slavery| for a mere pittance. Babies and children are being thrown into} rivers to make fewer mouths to feed, and the famine is just| starting. | Think of our America, of the bounteous harvests, of the plenteous festive season we are passing trough. The price of| one square meal in the United States is enough to keep a| Chinese alive for a month. None of us, by contributing such a sum to the: American Red Cross fund for China, would suffer| the loss of even one square meal in so doing. - The American| people should not forget the millions who face starvation. o bt Tt WHY SO MUCH CRIME ? An epidemic of crime seems to have broken out all over %hc country, confined, however, to the larger centers of popu-| ation. i Murders are an every-day occurrence. Holdups rival the palmiest days of the early west, when'! the gold rush was on and the stage coach was the only mode; of transnortation. | Women and girls are attacked nightly on public streets,' and the reign of terror sweeps on unchecked. But why? ' To an outsider the answer is simple. Politics. So many of the law-abiding element of the cities refrain| from voting that the undesirables are able to place complaisant| candidates in public office. | [ These officials know that they owe their election to this' element, and the soft pedal is used wherever possible. Powerful politicians of the underworld reach their slimy; arms into the offices of the prosecutors, into the ranks of the! police, and even into the sanctity of the bench itself. No court,| with very few exceptions, seems to be immune from their blight- ing influence. : Hardened criminals caught in their acts are freed upon the! | Honest police officers are intimidated and soon become dis- couraged because of lack of convictions. Justice is no longer blind. It sees the road of “policy” and | travels the only road it sees. Wholesale crime is the natural result. In the good old western days the respectable element of the mining communities resorted to the vigilance committees {o protect themselves from the desperadoes. It is not too late for history to repeat itself. i i : OVERHEARD BY EXCHANGE EDITOR NORMALCY WAITS. “We have heard much about a drop in wheat and other thin; b - . ¢ t whgq will the gum drop? Yea, when may we expect a chocolate drg;?"i‘ Chillicothe Constitution. g THIS WOULD HELP SOME. Tailors are always reaching after styles that the men will welcomé. Why, S < by " s v Jn the name of all that's merciful, don’t they make baggy-kneed trousex::a;‘ ONLY ONE O ITS KIND. Zion .City is unique. There couldn’t be two of its kind, but th | ;l_ways enoug}g people in the world to make one of anything. Si“z’i’:: City now has its censors of style, two women, whose duty it is to place a| shawl around the shoulders of anyone who disobeys the order against low-| - peched dresses and turn her over to the law. Moreover, one must not wear | transparent blouses. jdoesn’t mean much any more. | vielded_to all Japan's demands. | with Bolsheviki for buffer state in Sibe- skirts more than three inches above the ankle, or opeyx-work stockings, or| i One must dréss carefully in the city of Elijah III. It seems our gravest | problems. But its solutions are not copied. For there is only one Zion City. | —Milwaukee Journal. | B e PAPER SHORTAGE RELIEF. Russia wants a billion dollars’ worth of American machinery and other| materials for reconstruction. If she pays for it in rubles the paper shortage | will immediately end.—Tacoma Ledger. Should Edison perfect his machine to talk with the dead every news-| paper man in the country will want one—providinq the machine is fire-proof. —Fergus Falls Tribune. T | Americans “want what they want when they want it,” and that’s all| right. The trouble is that when they get what they want, they don’t want| it any more.—Brainerd Daily Dispatch. ’ | The Crrma_n president’s salary of 130,000 marls a year is worth only| $2,000 in American money. - The reason why he has not changed his manner! of living, since he was a saddler, is apparent.—St. Paul Dispatch. A New York court has decided that calling a person a “crook” is not “slanderous per se,” becabse the term has become so common that it If you really want to slander anybody, go| and tnink up something new.—Crookston Daily Times. Commissioner of - Education Claxton says 800,000 children in this| country went without schooling last year because of the teacher shortage. The kids didn’t seem to mind, but maybe that was because they had no edu-| cation to develop the mind.—Brainerd Dispatch. i President Wilson has bought a home in Washington, and will continue to be a resident of that city. The only significance of this is that as a resi- dent of the District of Columbia he is an American citizen without a vote. He may reason that his party being so deeply sncwed under in the late elec-| tion, one vote would not help it. St. Cloud Journal-Press. | capiared LY ToGeVIE? © e rorce= r: Fegreit on io-mile fron i uly 10—Polish forces evacuate B Litovsic, Vilna und Pinsk. e Brests) uly. —Allied supreme council 6 brgta segotlations” wity Russinn: ot sheviki to conclude armistice er Bolsheviki and Poles. Ginbinens Bolsheviki captured city of Minsk from | POy 1Al a Germ: ‘ uly es and Germans a coal deliveries. Sreedicn Lithuania_and Russla made peace and tormer _regained towns from Poles. $ 2| July 19—Russian soviet government re- jected British peace proposals for Poland, New attack by Bolshevik armies re- | pulsed by Poles In Volhynia, but Reds | invaded Polish territory at oné point. | July 20—Russtans suggested peace nego- tiations_direct with the Poles. July 2l—Arabs accepted Irench terms concerning Syria. July 2>—Poland asked soviet Russia for armistice, and new Polish cabinet was | formed with Witos as premier. July 24—Russia consented to an armis- Chronology of the Year 1920 Compiled by E. W. PICKARD (@ 1920, Western Newspaper Union.) INTERNATIONAL Jan, 1—Bolsheviki announced capture of Yekaterinoslav, . Jan. 3—Letvian and Polish troops took Dvinsk from the Bolsheviki. Jan, 10—Ratifications of peace treaty signed, United States, Greece, China and Roumania not being represented. tice, July %—Russin offered to talk peace with allles if Wrangel surrendered. French occupled Damascus, July 26—Greeks took Adrianople, ‘uring Jatar Tayar. July ‘2)—Russians took sttacked Brest-Litovsls. cap- Bialystok and S iemencai ‘i Lisyd George (July " 3i=Vilna" abandoned to soviet g vereign! o :53:”{5:::&“ giving Italy soverelgnty sibcace negotiations began at Darano- Jan, lo—Hungarlan delegates Were handed the_terms of peace. an. 16—Council of League of Nations held first meeting in Paris. Jan. 17—Supreme council callea on Hol- land to surrender former German em- peror for trial. Jan, 20—Supreme council gave Jugo- Siavia four days to agree to the Fiume settlement. Clemencean retired from the council of tho League of Nations. Jan, 2i—Holland refused to surrender the former German emperor to the ullies. Jugo-Slavia_glven more time to reply to_proposed Iiume settloment. Jun, 24—Battle botween Poles and Bol- sheviki along the Dvina reported. to_Russian representatiy Jan. 2i—General Denikine and staff ref-| Poles agreed to meet Ru: ugees on British vessel at Constantinople. | to negotiate. Jan. B~Jugo-Slavia rejected the Adri- Aug. S—Bolsheviki rejected British plan atic compromise offered by ltaly. ! for ten-day armistice. Jan. "2 Ukrainians announced'they had | _Augz. S—British labor leaders warned | captured Odessa, government against war to aid Poland. Jan. 31-Viadivostok selzed by revolu- | Aug. 10—United States notified Italy it tionists, would support Poland “with. all avail- Feb. 2—Peace concluded between Es- iablo means” against dismemberment; thonia and soviet Russla, ! would never recognize the soviet regime, Teb. 3—List of Germans accused of War | or permit other nations to slice off Rus- headed by former crown prince, .sian territory; and suggested withdrawal to German representatives by ,of Russian troops from Poland and for- I ieign troops from Russia as a means to| oFeb. 6-Tusslan eovict troops entered | cnd present war. essa, i | Turkish peace treaty signed, Feb, 7—Admiral Kolchak and his pre- | Aug. 1l—Irench government announced | mier executed by revolutionists, 11t recognized the Wrangel government in | b, 10—Danes won tne plebiscite In |south Russia and would give it aid, and North Schleswig. broke off relations with soviet representa- President Wilson notified allles he would tives in London, not assent to proposed settlement Of Letvia and soviet Russia signed peace ' Adriatic _question, treaty, and Finland and Russia agreed | Feb ti—Lotts declared armistice with 1on an armistice. soviet Russia. Aug. 12— T the Bol- e R orne council agresd silian sis iy, ¥e (eaptired by - Aug. 1—Fortress of Brest-Litovsk taken by Russians. | _Aug, 2—League of Nations council at | San Sebastian adopted French plan for | international general staff of military ex- perts. Also adopted Root's plan for in- ternational court of justice. tusso-Polish negotiations Interrupted, Russians continuing their advance. Turkish _nationalists opéned offensive | Aguinst Greeks in Asia Minor. Aug. 3—League council adopted Inter- iauonal blockade plan. | Aug. 4—Llowd George jans at Minsk | crim hande allies. ued ultimatum y r‘emu,ln in Constantinople, under Bolshevik! captured Soldau. antce. Aug. ob. 1o—-Aliles renewed thelr demand tiations opened at Minsk. on Holland for extradition of ex-kalser. ' Great battle for possession of Warsaw. | e e TIaL 1o (1. Tam: paTpjolen repulsed Rissins And 3 el g rig| Y laun . them 'themaelves If results are contrary e u e o e hre to_justice. Feb. 11—Premicrs o allles sent concill- atory reply to Wllson's note on the Adri- atic setticment. Supreme council declded on interna- tionalization of the Dardanelles fma the Bosporus, T'eb. 20—Russian Bolsheviki announced pture of Archangel. the “eb. il—Bolsheviki occupled Murmansk. Feb, 21—Soviet Russia made offer of peace to United States, Japan and Liou- Te-Reds recaptured Grodno and | mania. Poles evacuated Biaiystol March 1—Moscow reported destruction Aug. 31— Ukrainians of Denikine's l\'ubnnfl Cossack corps and against the Rolsheviki. ulso tho capturc of Stavropol. | Poace conference at Minsk broke up. | March o—Holland again refused to sur- | Sept, 1-Budenny's Tted army in Galicla render former kalser to allles. | destroyed by the Poles. March 6—President Wilson again Sept. Big defent of Reds by General | Jected entente {:Ian concerning Adriatic, Wrangel announced. March 7—Bolsheviki decisively defeated Sept. 9—D'Annunzio proclaimed the . by Poles at Mozir and hulcnlm\'lu.: . jan regency of Quarnero.” i Sept. 2—Ninth session of League of Nations council adjourned after persuad- ! 'ing Poland and Lithuania to suspend hostilities and arbitrate their differences, | and Finland and Sweden to grbitrate con- cerning the Aland islands. Polish-Russian peace conference opened %3—Poles and Lithuanians resumed | o5, Vilna_sclzea by Polish troops | sheviki, Aug. 19—Russlans retreating in disorder from Poland. Aug. 23—Poles recaptured Blalystok. ‘Aug, 24—Poles. having destroyed or dis- persed four of the five Bolshevik armies, Tejected Russian peace terms. Aug. %—General Wrangel opened great offensive in south Russia, taking Novo- rossisk and other citics and the Donctz conl basin. “opened drive southeast of Minsk, | April 6—Japanese troops occupled Vlad- tvostok. April 6—French occupled Frankfort and Darmstadt because Germany was sending S—Germany. agamst French advance. | April 19—Allied premiers In conference | at San Remo decided Sultan should re- | ' Oct main fn_ Constantinople and the Darda- | under Zelgouski. ] uelles should be internatinnalized. nder Zellouskl. nd soviet Russla signed April " 2 — Supremo councll, having | peace treaty. renched agrcement on Turkey ‘and Ger- PSwrangel began offensive against new many, warned erlin treaty must be car: sisth soviet army | ried” out, threatening force. President = ( — Russo- Wiicon wsked to- dotermine boundarics of 20ct " M= Russo-Rinnish peace; (et ] rinenta. e apane: < « | (ATl Bepoles. started suceesstulof- i snneac nnd (Horan troops | ensive againse Bolsheviki in Ukraine. e nEe cakhovka an- it S5 Rusaiana Jn Vadivoston feglon | gocreas of Wrangel near Iakhovka so- g Nov. i-Serious. defeats of Wrangel’ forces announced, | “Nov. J0-Ttaly and Jugo-Slavia reached agreement on Adviatic dispute, - Nov, 1—Complete collapse of Wran- May —Denmark occupicd North Schles- wig. May 8-Klev taken by the Pol May y-Moscow announced treaty of ponce between soviet Russia and republic ger's forces In the Crime: u(Ml.-epx;»‘:mTlm;(lll)eeu concluded. | Nov. Jo—Lengio of Nations assembly Ay LT urkishtreaty. handed to Otto- | opened first moeting, in Geneva; Paul Hy- | 2 ition. mans of Belgium elected president. rench evacuated Frankfort. | ™Nov. *J6oUkrainians routed by Reds, | s—Tolshieviki drove Lirltish from | josing Kiev and other towns. e e Boe 1 counter ofien- |- Spain agresd {o join the sllies In polic o monda fled repacation’claims | Mo 1w:n'x§:\?“nounea League of of SLELIN N0 Agaluat Germany! | Nations that the treaty of Versailles had Pl s of Resht, most Impor- | heen violated by the allies in the matter tant Cqsplan’ scaport, by Holsheviki an- | of mandates, and demanded her former June 1—Japanese broke oft negotiations Ry Gcandinavian amendments to League of Nations covenant voted down ria. ! : by commitice on general organization. | 2ungic-Tresty of peace with Hungary Commission on Armenian situation ap- 1 pointed. h June §=Ruthentans decided to foin Poles n_war on soviet Russta. | P v: 2lev. soviet Russia resumed. the Polish troops Aung l- Polesiavacunten Xiev, | Withdrawing to armistice line. June 2l—Bolsheviki opened midsummer | Nov, 2—League of Natlons councll drive against Poles, | asked United States to mediate between June Zi—Eleventh Bersagllerl regiment ; Armenia and Mustapha Kemal Pasha, | of TNalian army mutinjed at Ancona Nov. 20—Italy started to force D'Annun--| when ordered to Albania. Other troops | zi0 out of Klume, overpowered rebels after battle in which President Wilson accepted invitation of many were )(llled. league council to mediate between Arme- June w—Four hundred Italian troops ' ula and the Turks. killed In two-day battle with aunarchists Dec. 1—D'Annunzio declared war oa at_Ancona and Piombino. 1taly. Ui‘;‘!‘.\"mi-sulshewkl captured Lemberg, | o istria voted membership In League of | Nations. H July 4—Greeks captured Brussa in Asla | Russian Reds took Erivan and estab- Minor from Turks. rule for Russian Armenta. July 6—Allled and German representa- | Dec. 2—Grcat ain, ¥iance and lialy | tives met at Spa, Belgium, to discuss | warncd Greece against restoring Constan- | disarmament clause of peace treaty. jtine to throne. July_ -Fortress. o¢_Rovgo_tn Volhynia |!_ Dec, 3—Argentine delegates _withdrew! =7 b Peacc_negotlations between Poland and Russo-Polish armistice nego- | Aug. 18—Danz1g corridor cleared of Bol- |* {rofiT League 0F Natons GEaembly JEcAUsy. ot refusal to consider amendments to cov. enant. Armenla and Turkish nationalists signed peace treaty. Dec, S—President Willson declined to appoiit American sion. Dec. 10—Leaguo of Nations assembly postponed until next session decision on naval and economic blockade. Dec, 12—Russian soviet government pro- tested to Great Britain, France and Italy against their “brutal interference” in the affairs of Greece. i Dec. 13—League of Nations assembly adopted statute for permanent interna- tional court of justice. Holland broke off diplomatic relations with Jugo-Slavia because of “a long se- ries of insults.” Dec. 1o—Austria was admitted to the. Leagtie of Nations. Spain, Brazil, Bel- gium and China made elective members | of_the league council. ‘Dec, 16—Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Finland’ and Luxemburg admitted to League of Natlons, ec. 17—Albania admitted to League of Nations. Dec. 18—Meeting of League of Natlons: assembly closed. Dec, 21—Great powers warned Spain against attempts in the cortes to strangle foreign enterprises. ' FOREIGN Jan, 13-Dr. Jose Luis Tamayo elected president of Ecuador. . ‘Great mob attacked reichstag in Berlin | and was routed by troops, 35 being Killed and scores wounded. Jan. 17—Paul Deschanel elected president of_ L'rance. Jan., 18—Millerand made French pre- mier. Feb, 6—Active rebellion against Japan-' ese rule broke out in Korea, Ieb, 22—Serious revolution in Honduras Feb, %—Irish home rule bill introduced in_parliament. March 1—Admiral Horthy elected regent. | suf | ot Hungary. | " Feb, 7—Secretary of the Interior Lane March 13—Overthrow of Ebert govern- ment in Berlin, Germany, by counter revolutionists headed by Dr. Wolfgang Kapp and_monarchists, ‘March 15—Council of old German cabi net meeting at Stuttgart, Germany, re- Tused to negotiate with thé reactionary faction headed by Dr. Wolfgang Kapp. March 1i—Dr. Wolfgang Kapp resigned as ehancellor of Germany. March 15—Ebert government regained conitol in Beriin, Loctor Kapp's troops leaving. Aarch 20—Lord mayor of Cork assassl- npated by masked persens. J March 21—Three thousand persons killed in fignting ut Lelpsig, Germany, before Kbert troops captured city. ‘March 22—Gustav Noske, minister of de- fense of Germany, resigned, March German cabinet headed by’ Premier Bauer resigned. March Hermann Mueller, premier of new German cabinet. March sl—Japanese troops stationed at Nikolaevsk, Siberia, defeated in battle with Russian forces; 700 Japanese killed. April 1—House of commons passed Irish home rule bill, 348 to Tan Macpherson, Ireland, resigned. April’ 2—Ebert government at Berlin 94, chiet secretary for reached compromise agreement with Workingmen: civil war ended, April 4—Many government _butldings burped irish_rebels throughout Ire- iand on er Sunday. ‘April 12—Many noncombatants killed in Guatemala City when Estradu Cabrera fovernment was overthrown by rebels. {ew government formed with Carlos tlerrera as president. April 20— Hhaatgo and Tlaxcala, Mexico, joinied the cession movement, ‘April 22—lormer Premler Calllaux of I'rance convicted of having commerco and correspondence with the enemy. April 28— Mexrcan revolt _spreading. Battle for Chihuahua City won by Car- ranza troops. ready- for action. May 3-City of Juarez jolned the Mex- ican revolt. . May 7—ltebels occupled Mexico City; Carranza fled, pll;l)ay $—Obregon's forces occupled Tam- 0. May 11—French government ordered issolution of General Federation of La- | Benedict, May %0—Venustiano Carranza, fleeing .president of Mexico, killed by former comrades, May 24—Adolfo de la Huerta elected provisional president of Mexico. June 1—Pope announced Catholic sov- ereigns mizht visit the king of Italy. representutives on” | League of.Nations disarmament commis- | American border troops . or. May 16—Joan of arc canonized by Pope ‘Tesolution by vote of despite warning by Great Britain, France and Italy. “<GeTieral ralds throughout Cork by Brit-j! ish police. Dec. 9—-Dr. Michael Hainisch elected president of Austria, - ec. 10—Martial 'law proclalmed 1 south’ Ireland. 2 i Dec. 12—Part of Cork’s business section | burned in reprisal for Sinn Fein raid, Dec. 15—Negotiations for peace in Ire- land broken off by demand that Lloyd George deal with De Valera direct. King Constantine arrived in Athens. Dec, 20—Elghteen Kkilled and many .wounded in battle between English and Irish in County Tipperary. Farrow’s bank, London, " with 7 branch- es, failed, DOMESTIC Jan. 2—Thousands of Reds arrested in many cities. Ralds continued daily. Taking of the census begun. Jan. 3-Department of Justice revealed'| radical plot to overthrow the government, War Finance corporation announced loans of $17,000,000 to aid_exporters. Jan. ¢—Kentueky and Rhoge Island rat- ified suffrage amendment. Jan. 7—Five Soclalists were denfed thefr . seats in New York legislature. Jan. $—Democratic national committee | selected San Francisco for the ‘tonven- | tion, opening June 28. Jan. 10—House of representatives again denied Victor Berger his scat. Senate passed Sterling sedition blll, Jan. 14—Oregon ratifled suftrage amiend- ment; . san, 17—National prohibition amend- ment 'to_Constitution in effect. Jan, 2—David F. Houston appointed secreary of the treasury and Edwin T. Meredith of Iowa secretary of agriculd ture. Henry P. Fletcher resigned as ambas- sador to Mexico, Jan. 2—South Carolina refused to rat- ify suffrage amenGment. Treb. 6—Virginia senate rejected federal ffrage amendment. resigned, effective March 1. Feb. 12-Arizona ratified suffrage amend- m ent, Teb, 13—John Barton Payne, Chicago, appointed secretary of the interior, ‘Secretary of State Lansing resigned at the request of President Wilson. National American Suffrage assoclation opened its last conventlon in Chicago, - Treb, 16—Subcommittec of house report- ed #reat extravagance, waste and incom-* petence in aircraft production, severely Criticising Secretary Baker, Colonel Disque and Director Ryan. Jeb, 19—New Mexico ratified suffrage amendment. Feb, 2l—Railway bill conference report adopted, by house. Feb. 23—Senate baflobled conference re- . ort on railway bill. TFob, 2¢—Charles R. Crane, named minister to China. Tob, 25—Bainbridge Coiby selected for secrotary of state. Yeb, 20—-G. W. P. made minister to Siam. b, 21—Court order entered divorcing big packers from business nat directly, related to meat packing, ] Teb, 25—Oklahoma ratified suftrage amendment. 'March 1—Federal Judge Geiger n Mil- waukee upheld Wisconsin's 21 per cent beer law. New Jersey legislature passed law legal- fzing 3% per ceut beverages. United_Stules Supreme court decided Tnited States' Steel corporation®is not an jllegul combination. Tiallroads returned to owners, Sir Auckland Geddes accepted as Brit- ish ambassador to United States. President Wilson let it bé known he would not be candidate for re-election. March_10—West Virginia assembly rat- ified suffrage amendment. United States submarine H-1 wrecked near Magdalena bay. Lt. Commander J, R Webb and three of créw lost © March 15—United States senate adopted new Article X reservation to peace treaty by vote of 5 to 2 United States Supreme court granted permission to state of New Jersey to in- stitute original proceedings to test va- lidity of prohibition amendment. Jolin Barton Payne retired as chair- man of shipping board and was sworn in as secretary of interior. March 18—United ates senate adopted f 45 to 33 declaring for self-determination for Ireland. House of representatives passed army appropriation bill providing for army of 299000 enlisted men and 17,500 officers. March 19~German peace treaty with league covenant failed of ratification in senate. March 20—Truman H. Newberry, junior Chicago, Hunt of Arizona June Z—Seventeen persons killed and ' United States senator from Michigan. and scores wounded in civil warfare in Lon- donderry, Ireland. July §—Artnir Meighen, minister of in- terior of Canada, succeeded Sir Robert Borden as prime minister of Canada. July 11—President Guerra of Holivia ousted and Baptiste Savedra made pro- vigional president. July 18—Prince Joachim, youngest son 16 others convicted by jury at Grand | Rapids, Mich,, of having conspired erimi- nally in 191§ to_violate election laws. Newberry fined $10.000 and sentenced to imprisonment for two years. March 23—Bainbridge Colby sworn In as secretary of state. Government control of bituminous coal withdrawn by President Wilson, effective of former kalser, commlited suicide in A2ril 1 Berlin, & several days: ten or more killed. July 26—Francisco Villa surrendered to .the Mexican government. July 25—Esteban Cantu, governor ot Lower California, in rebellion against Mexican governmérit. Aug 1-Dr. D. Porras elected president of Panama, Aug. 5—New Irish coerclon law passed by commons. 12—Frerier Venizelog of Greece | Aug. wounded by assassins in Paris. Lord Mayor MacSwiney of Cork and ‘ten assistants arrestea while attending a “8inn Fein court. Aug. J5—Cantu revolt fn Lower Califor- nia, Mexico, ended. Aug. 16—Dr. Manuel Gondra inaugu- rated president of Paraguay. Aug. 29—Carlos Herrera elected pre dent of Guatemala. Sept. 4—Bolshevist uprisings in TItal .soviet rule established in many industri: plants. Sept. Mexivo, Sept. 15—Paul Deschanel, prosident of France, resigned. Sept. 18—Workers in southern Italy selze many industrial plants. §—Obregon elected president of Sept. —Fortress of Mantua, Italy, blown up by anarchists. Sept. 21-City of Balbriggan, Ireland, lrlamed and partly burned by British po- ce. Sept. 23—Alexandre Millerand elected: president of France. Sept. 24—Georges Leygues made premier of France. British police in Ireland raided three | more towns, making eight in a week. Sept, Z%—Italian workers and employers made agreement and reign of communism in_industrial plants ended. Sept, 29—German wireless station at _l\?uan, largest in world, officially openad. Det. 1-—One of Cork hunger strikers died tn_jail. Oct. 20—Jugo-Slavia declared a const!- tutional, hereditary monarchy with the .Serbian’ royal family the relgning dy- nasty. Oct. 25—Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor. .o Cork, died of starvation in Brixton risol ’ Alexander, king of Greece, died. Oct. 25—Admiral Coundouriotis elected regent of Greece. Nov. 2—Alfredo Zayas elected president of Cuba, . Drys badly defeated in Scottish prohl- bition elections. Nov. 1l—Irish home rule bill passed .house of commons. Nov. 13—Hunger strike of Sinn Fein _prisoncrs called oft. Nov. l4—Venizelos' party defeated in Greek elections. Nov. 15—Sebastopol captured by the Bolshaviki. Nov. 1i—Venizelos, Greek premier, re- signed and_Rhallis formed new cabinet. Nov. 21—Many killed and Injured in raids in Dublin” following the murder ot ‘14 British officers there. Nov. 2—Top of Mount Blanc fell oft and caused great avalanche, . Nov., %—Arthur Griffith, acting presi- ¥ent of the ‘Irish republic,” and other Irish leaders arrested. Nov. 2/—Big Sinn Fein arson plot In London foiled. " Nov, 28—Irish plotters set fire to several Jarge warehouses oun Liverpool water front and killed two men. i Fifteen auxiliary police recruits am- bushed by Sinn Feiners near Kilmichael, Ireland. Dec. 1-Obregon inaugurated president | of Mexico. Dec, 4—Greek people voted for restora- tion_of Constantine. ———— — - Dec. 8.—Greek government invited Constantine to return to the throne, | April 24—Director General of Railroads July 21—Rlots Lroke out in Belfast, last- | Hines resigned, effective Ma. y 15, April 2—Supreme Court declared the Reading company and certain of its sub. sidiaries an liegal combination. May ~13—Soclalists nominated FEugene Debs for president and Seymour Stedman | for vice president. May 15—Senate adopted Knox peace resolutlon, ay 1S—Secretary of the Interior Payne made director general of railroads. 21—House aaopted senate peace n. y 24-President Wilson asked con- g£ress for authority to accept the man- date for Armen Investigation of presidential campaisn expenses hezun by thb senate. > President Wilson vetoed Knox n. y er power conservation bill passed by congress. June 1—United Stutes Supreme court de- cided ratification of a constitutional amendment is not subject to submission to popular referendum. Senate declined to give President au- | thority to accept Armenian mandate. June 4—President Wilson vetoed budget bill. Congress passed bill Increasing pay of postal employces. Undersecretary of State Frank Polk rerigned. : June i—Congress adjourned, President Wilson letling several important m ures dle without his signaturc. June 7 nited States Supreme court de- claved val meht and the Volstead enfgrcement act. June 8—Republican natiorfal convention opened in Chicago. & June 1:—cpublicans nominated War- Harding of Ohio for president and ren G. Calvin vice president. July 6—Democrats in San Francisco nominated James M. Cox of Ohio for President and Franklin D. Roosevelt, as- sistant secretary of the navy, for vice | president. July 1li—Parley F. Christensen, Salt Lake City, nominated for president by Farmer-Labor party in Chicago, after bolt by committee of forty-eight and sin- gle taxers. July 0—George White, Marietta, Ohio, | elected ~ chairman Democratic national committee. July 21—Prohibitionists_opened natfonal convention_In_Lincoln, ‘Neb., and nomi nated W. J. Bryan for president/by ac- clamation. ' July 22—Bryan declining, the Prohibi- tionists nominated Aaron 8. Watkins of Ohio for_president and D. Leigh Colvin of New York for vice president. Senator Harding motitied of nomination by Republicans. 8 July 2i—Governor Coolidge notified of vice presidential nomination. July 3l—Interstate commerce commls- sion ~authorized freight, passenger and Pullman_rate increase amoupting to about a billion and a half annually. Aug. 2—Twenty Communist Labor lead- ers found guilty of sedition In Chicago. Aug. 5—Fatal anti-foreign riots in West Frankfort, Iil.: state troops sert. Street car strike riols in Denver; sev- eral persons Aug. 7 d. 7 vernor Cox formally notificd nomination. Aug. 15—Tennes! sary, ratitied woman ment. Aug. 25—Ratification of suffrage amend- ment proclaimed by Secretary of State Colby. . 13-Maie went Republican by 65 0 Sept. To—Terrific explosion at Wail and Broad streets, New York, lald to Reds; thirty persons killed and 300 injured. —Sent~=Threa Socialists. re-elected fo sufirage amend- id both the prohibition amend- | Coolidge of Massachusetts for | i i x:..".'fi:gimmmew but resigned, Bept SieW. A, Ketcham, Indianapolis clected commander in chiet of G. A. R i “Prosident Wilson declined to abrogate trado trenties, as asiced by congress in the merchant marine act. : e oL 0, W, Gaibragth, Jr., cln.. cinnadl, elected national commander of: the Amerlcan Legion, Walter Dill Scott elected president of Northwestern university. Oct. T—The 1920 popuiation of continen- ta) United_States announced as 105,633,105 ‘Nov. —Warren G, Harding and Caivin Coolidge elected Président and vice pres- fdent of United States; Republican land- slide. ’ California voters indorsed the anti-alien land law. i Nov. 2—Irish mob in New York at- tacked Union Leagué club because Brit- ish flag was flying. Dec. 3—Secretary of State Colby started on_formal visit to South America. Dec. ¢—Congress began the short ses-. sion, | Dec. 7-Nobel peace prize ‘awarded to! | President Wilson. N President Wilson's message to congress 1 urged independence for tlie Philippines; ! and a loan to Armenia. ¢ i “Dec. 9—C. J. Vopicka resigned as United | States minister to the Balkan states. Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo retired. Dec. 13—House passed bill suspending: tmmigration for 14 months, ‘House adopted resolution repealing war- time laws. i Senate adopted resolution for revival: of war finance corporation to ald the! farmers. Dec. 1-—Government crop report showed | shrinkage in values of nearly five billion dollars compared with 1919, i | Deec. 15—Senate passed bill authorizing| farmers' co-operative marketing associa-| tions, % Dec. 16—Senate passed bill forbidding! strikes on rallroads. ' Dec. 20—Permanent merger of four ex-| press companies authorized by interstate commerce commission. INDUSTRIAL ~ Jan. 8—Steel strike called off by work- ! ers’ committee. |~ Jan. 20—General railway strike in Italy; martial law in principal cities. ‘Joeb, 9—Three hundred thousand, mem- bers of Brotherliood of Maintenance of Way Employees and Railway Shop La- borers ordered to strike February i7. ¥eb, 11—Director General Hines refused; to raise wages of rallway employees and' dispute was referred to the President. + “Feb. 14—Rail unions agreed to hold wage' demands and strike in abeyance as asked: by President Wilson. | march 1—French railway strike settled. March 5—Two thousand railway express! ! employees at Chicago struck. ‘March 30—One thousand clerks employea; n Chicago city hall on strike for in- creased wages. March_3l—Bituminous coal miners, ac- cepted 21 per cent wage increase and: ‘cight-hour day awarded by President! Wilson’s coal commission. ! ‘April 1—Chicago city hall clerks ended; strifie: granted wage increase. 14 April —Nine thousand switchmen em-, ployed by eleven_ railroads in Chicago str freight traffic tied up. i Five thousand coal miners in Tilinots’ and Kansas struck because of dissatis-; faction with wage awards. : ‘April _9— Chicago switchmen's strike; \spread to all cities. ‘April 13—President Wilson appointed railroad board to settle railroad wage! question. ‘April Io—Federal officers arrested thirty ‘Jeaders of rail strikers at Chicago on: ‘charges of interference with movement: of mails and violations of Lever act, June 7—-Kortieth annuai convention of American Federation of Labor opened in Montreal. . Jung 19—Samuel Gompers _re-clected president of the American Federatlon of Labor for thirty-ninth time, July ~ 20—United States labor board awarded six_hundred millions increase in, Wages to all classes of railway workers, about half what was asked. July 22—Rail unions ordered referen- dum vote on wage award. July 23—Illinols coal miners on strike. July %—Indiana and Kansas coal min- ers struck. 5 July 20—International Harvester com- pany announced jt would pay its em- Dployees 60 per cent of its profits after 7 per cent had been paid on invested capl- i “July 31-Striking miners ordered back to work, | . Aug. 10—Wage increases totaling morc than_ $50,000,000 awarded employees of Amerlcan Rallway Express by United States rallway labor board. Aug. 2-New York strect car men struck. Sept. 1—Outlaw strike paralyzed the an- | thracite fields. 2 Sept. 12—Outlaw strike of rallway men | in Chicago district ended. Oct, 16—Coal miners of Great Britain struck, "demoralizing the nation's indus- ries, Nov. 3—British mine strike called off. Dec. 13—New_ England cotton mills re- duced wages of 100,000 workers about 22} per cent. Dec, 15—-Several big industrial concerns annotnced wage reductions and discontin- uance or reduction of dividends. NECROLOGY | Jan, 1~Thomas Hume, millonaire lum- ! berman, at Muskegon, Mich. Jan. 2—Paul Adam, French novelist. Jan., 14—Charles E. Magoon, former governor of canal zone. John F. Dodge, automobile manuface tarer, of Detrolt. Jan. 16—Reginald De Koven, American composer. Jan, 24—Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, author, at Yonkers, N. Y. aJan. Timy B, Wilson, Téxas catle mag- ate, T7ch, 4—E.'P. Ripley, chalrman of Santa Fe railway, at Santa Barbara, Cal. .'C. Barber, founder of Diamond Match | company, at Barberton, O. | Feb, ev. James B. Buckley, editor Christian Advocate, at Bforristown, N. T, TFeb, 10—C. F. Gunther, ploneer candy manufacturer of Chicago, and art con- nolsseur. Feb, 12—Jullus Chambers, author and explorer, in New York. I'eb, i3—Brig. Gen. P. W. Davison, Feb. %—Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, U. 8. N., discoverer «of north pole. Feb, 22—Maj, R. W. Pullman, superin- tendent of Washington police. Feb, 24—Franklin Murphy, former gov- ernor of New Jersey. Feb, 2%—John C. Oimsted, famous land- scape architect, at Brookline, Mass. March 1-United States Senator John I, Bankhead of Alabama. March 4—George D. Smith, noted au- thority on rare books, in New York. March 15—Former Senator Henry V Blair of New Hampshire in Washington. March . 19—Albert Roulllier, artist and collector of rare prints, at Chicago. March 2—Dr. Thomas H. Owen, direc- tor of department of archives and his- tory of Alabama, at Montgomery, Ala. Willlam _Thomas Smedley, American artist, at New York. . March 3i—Edwin Warfleld, former gov- ernor of Maryland, at Baltimore. April 1—Dr. William Martin, medical di. rector United States navy,’ retired, at San Francisco. Aprll 4—Bishop Mathew S, Hughes ot Portland, Ore., at Cleveland. 2 April §—Dr. John A. Brashear, former hancellor of University ,of Pittsburgh, and astronomer. CApril 10-Judge Richard 8. Tuthill, at hicago. April 12—Most Rev. John Baptist Cro- aler, archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland. Apri) 14—Roger C. Sullivan, Democratic leader, at Chicago. April 16—Theodore N. Vall, chairman ot American_Telephone and Telegraph com- pany, at Baltimore. April 25—Miss Marjorie Benton Cooke. American_author, at Manila. May 4—R. J. Belford, publisher, at Los Angeles. & “May 9—Bishop J. H. Vincent, founder of the Chautauqua assembly and of the Rockefeller foundation, in Chicago. May 11-William Dean Howells, in New 1i—Levi P. Morton, former vice W._D'A. Mann, Inventor ver, in Morristown, N. J. Cle N. Stockwell, noted astronomer, leveland. O, June 1—Rear Admiral W. W. Hendrick- Jine 3—Dr. Cherles Ausustus Stoddard, noted sutior, in Ne: oTK. .Vnne_S—Re:u‘ Admiral Winterhalter, Iy S Nea———— (Continued on Yage