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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY CHICAGO, III., November 22. Weather forecast: Illinois. Missouri, Kansas, Montana and Wyoming Fair tonight, Sunday and Monday; not much change in temperature. Wisconsin Fair tonight; cooler in northwest portion. Sunday and Monday fair with moderate temparature. General forecast: Fair weather with moderate temperature will continue throughout this forecast district from Lake Michigan and Illinois westward to the Rockies for. the next throe days at least. NEW YORK, N. Y., November 22. Standing all alone on the bridge of the Renown, the Prince of Wales waved adieu to America this afternoon as the great white war vessel swung away from its moorings in North River and started for the ocean. Cannon were booming the royal salute. Airplanes circled above the Renown. Crowds thronged the bank along Riverside Park and cheered -while the young man on the bridge waved his cap and laughed happily. WASHINGTON, D. C, November 22. Soft coal operators will not proceed further with negotiations for a new wage scale agreement until Fuel Administrator Garfield has been consulted, they announced today. The joint conference between operators and miners called for this afternoon was postponed until Monday pending consultation between the operators committee and Dr. Garfield. SPRINGFIELD 111., November 22. "Expect settlement of mine strike tonight at 31 per cent. Men will be back at work in a few days. This telegram from Washington signed by Stephen Sullivan, sub-district president of district No. 5, brought joy to Springfield miners today. It was received at the sub-district offices here. Sullivan is serving on the scale committee, now in conference at the capital. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, November 22. General Deuikine, commander of anti-bolsheviki troops on the southern Russian front, claims to have broken through the red lines between Oral and Tamboy, southeast of Moscow, and have annihilated 50,000 bolshevik troops, according to a Helsiugfors dispatch to the Svenska Dagblad. MILWAUKEE, Wis., November 22. The prohibition enforcement act is constitutional, Judge Geiger of the UnitedStntes District Court held today. He enjoined the J. P. Kissenger company, wholesale . j liquor dealers, from using its premises for the sale of liquor until the civil suit against the company is tried. BISMARCK, N. D., November 22. The North Dakota Supreme court today sustained the action of District Judge Nuessle of Bismarck, in ordering Gov. Frazicr and Adjt. Gen. Eraser to immediately return to the private owners the Lignite coal mines which have been seized and operated by the state. SPOKANE, Wash., November 22. Twenty-three wet Industrial Workers of the World passed the right in a dark cell at the city jail and fifty others, thoroughly soaked, were held in the main part of the jail after they had been subdued by a fire hoe. They had created a disturbance. ST. LOUIS, Mo., November 22. Increased production to reduce the living cost and drastic laws to allay radicalism and labor troubles were advocated in resolutions adopted by the American mining congress, which ended its twenty-second annual convention itere yesterday. CALGARY, Alberta, November 22. Maintenance of Great Britains naval program, especially in view of events of the last few days, and uncertainty about the league of nations, is urged by Admiral Viscount Jellicoe, formerly sea lord, who is on tour of the empire. HALIFAX, N. S., November 22. The German four-masted bark Paul, bound from Hamburg for Philadelphia, Is in distress 350 miles southeast of Halifax,, according to wireless messages received here- today, from . the steamer Winnif redian. WASHINGTON, D. C, November 20. Income tax dodgers will be forced to disgorge 00,000,000 within the next eight months under plans being rushed to completion today by federal officials. WASHINGTON, D. C, November 22. Sugar has been placed under war-time restrictions, and probably will be rationed to the people in an effort to t avert a threatened sugar famine. WASHINGTON, D. C, November 22. An embargo, effective at once, on export of anthracite coal, except to Canada, was announced last night by the fuel administration. ROME, Italy, November 22. The pope has addressed an important encyclical to the Catholic episcopacy of the world on behalf of poor children, victims of the war. VIENNA, November 22. The first year of the new Austrian republic has closed with a deficit of 13,000,000,000 crowns.
