Yap to be Given to Jap?

1920

Senate Asks Confirmation of British Announcement

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 25. -- A resolution asking President Wilson for information as to the recent announcement by the British foreign minister that the island of Yap, in the Pacific Ocean, was to be given to Japan, was adopted by the Senate without debate. It was offered by Senator Lodge. The island is the focal point, it is said, for three Pacific cables, vital to American business interests in the far east.


Pallbearers Form a Union

NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 25. -- An application for charter has been made to Romans Hailey, clerk of the County Court here, by R. H. Bumpass of Mason, Fayette County, and others, for a new labor union, to be known as "The Independent Pallbearers Society." The application is being held up, pending investigation of the purposes of the organization.


Not Prince, Mere Mr. Smith

But Man Mistaken for Wales Writes an Autograph

LONDON, England, March 25. -- The Prince of Wales seems to have doubles in England.

In the company of two officers, a man entered a moving picture theater the other day. A lady sitting near the door arose, bowed and presented the eternal autograph book. The man took the book and with a serene countenance wrote "J. J. Smith," and handed back the volume with a gracious bow.

It was not the prince.

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, March 27, 1920, page 1.