The Garland City globe. (Garland, Utah) 191?-1925, 1918-12-14
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pany has applied to the interstate cou.c.
rnerce commission for authority, to IN.
crease rates applying to or from OF
fices of the Canadian Express COM
pany. Canadian Northern Express com
papy and the Western Express 'coih.'
pany In order to align these ratessfwitn
the generally increased domestic rates.
Not a single pember of the Amer
lean army has been put to death since
the beginning OF the Var because OF
the commission of purely military ef-
Tense. Major General Crowder, Judge
advocate general. declares In his an
nual report to Secretary Baker.
Congress has been asked by SecreS
tary McAdoo to authorize loans after
the declaration OF peace to govern
ments which have been associated with
the United States In war to aid In feed
ing and demonstrating devastated
countries.
Organization of Republican wom-
ans national executive committee to
cooperate with Republican state chair
man has been nominated by Mrs. Medill
Mccormick. Wife of the senator.elect
of Illinois.
Aggregate resources of the 2S,0oo
banks in the United States, state and
national, last June 80 amounted to
$40, $40, 10000, OF which S22.3 ,0o0, 0Q0
was credited to the state savings and
private banks and trust companies and
SIT 1886. 100000 to national banks. This
was shown by report Of Comptroller
of the Currency. Williams. :
More than halss Rillion high capac-
ity demolitiass basgahs fYith which TO
carry the war into Germany had been
ordered for the air.scsv1se before last
June 30ssdiu 1923 had been delivered,
according toz the first annual report OF
the bureaf'cf aircraft production.
Fuel Administrator Garfield has been
asked by President Wilson to hold him.
self In readiness to join the peace dele
cation. In Paris to advise concerning
problems Of fuel production and diSx'
bution.i Similar reduests have bcfnifS-
ceived by Henry p. Dawson, chairman
of the Red Cross war council, and
Bernard NJ. Baruch. chairman Of the
war Industries board. 1t is understood
that the call for all three officials niny
soon come shortly after the president
lands In France.
All liabilities contracted by the Rus
sian government, except those mnde
by NE Bolshevlki' regime, are recos-
nized by the all.Russlan government NJ
Omsk and will be executed by II, ac
cordlngTto stafepent authorized py
the mlAIstry of foreign affairs and rs-
celved In Washington. -
Buenos Aires newspapers are In.
menting Argentina's position, rs a re-
| suit of her neutrality in the world
war. ,Diario refers to'the' great peace
celebrations as "a Jordan, In which the
public conscience has washed itself OF
the sIsrSriy,, caused by Argentina's Of
ficial policy dusing the war;" ~ Y
s., ToRStoN.
A decree relieving Polo de Bernabe,
the Spanish ambassador at Berlin,
from the functions of his office ID
published. In the Official Gazette.
Rumors are current In Berlin, the
Spartacus socialists win Monday night
name Df', LreOknecht president of the
repubiic -.
| A Violent outbreak of Influenza In
Paraguay. has been reporteAssto the
state department In Asuncibn alone
there were said to be $4,000 eases.
The Dasens Nyheter Of Stockholm
says that Petrograd is suffering an un-
speakable famine. Prices OF provisions
are out OF reach. One herrlng5 sells
for five rubles and is called Cheap.
People buy them on the street and
eat them on the spot. and II herfing's
head is thrown away there Is a rush
to get 1t. y
General Du Popt of the French army
has arrived In Berlin, according TO ad-
Vices received at Washington and has
established his headquarters in the
palace formerly occupied by the French
embassy. General Du Pont has been
intrusted with the transport and re.
patriation OF French prisoners held In
Germany.
President Wilson Is invited to visit
Cologne by the volks Zeitung OF that
'ycity. which suggests that representa-
lives of the. Geifnsln foreign ministry
meet him there. The independent re-
public OF Schleswig, Holstein win soon
be proclaimed. according to the Weser
Zeltung of Bremen.
Mass meetings held in johann
nesburg. Durham and Mossel Bay.
adopted resolutions opposing the re-
turn to Germany OF her former African
colonies. and. insisting upon the repa-
irritation OF all German citizens now in
this territory. &C.
I The people in the liberated regions
Of northern France. and Belgium ur-
gently need American help, the Results
Of Investigations by the French press
show. The population lacks food and
clothing. Pneumonia and tuberculosis
are rampant /. ;r "
Count Czernin. former Austro- Hun
garian foreign munster told CORES
pondent that Austria In 1917 made
desperate efforts to withdraw from the
war; even to the extent. of Offering
Germany the empires richest coal and