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WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

Salary increases of S120 annually
for virtually all government employees
in the civil establishment are proposed
in an amendment attached by the SEN
ate appropriations committee to the
legislative, executive and judicial ap
| preparation bill
Greece will receive loan of S44,-
600, 900 from the United States as soon
as the Greek parliament has passed
the necessary authorizing legislation,
it is announced by the treasury de-
partment.
Railroad publicity and advertising !
information needed by the public. I'M |
der orders issued by Director General |
McAdOo.
Eighteen alleged Industrial Workers |
of the World were arrested in two /
raids on Spokane pool hall.
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The case of Mrs. Rena Mooney, who
is under Indictment for murder in con-
nection with the San Francisco pre-
paredness day bomb plot, which oc-
Cured on. July %, 1916, resulting in
the deaths of dozen persons, has
been called for trial. Mrs. Mooney has
been tried once and acquitted of an
other Indictment growing out of this
charge.
A total of 800 American vessels. or
vessels under American control, are
now in the transatlantic trade.
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A British torpedo boat destroyer has
been sunk as the result of a collision, |
and all hands on board are believed
to have been drowned, according to
IN admiralty statement.
Federal Judge Landis dismissed the
entire venire in the trial of 112 In 4 |
1ustrial Workers of the World at Chi | i
,ago, charged with violating the es- s
)ionage act, after a number of pros !
)ective jurors had testified that they | |
lad been approached by agents of the V
organization relative to their views on t
and the /. w. w. The trial
vas postponed for week. 1t
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The Motorship corporation will es-
ablish plant for the building of con- v
rete ships at Martinez, Cal, lmmedi- y
tely after the third Liberty loan drive. | I
has been announced in San Fran
isco. III
Landing fields have I on selected v
or the New York-Phila,.- .phia-Wash-
ngton aero mail service and the post
ffice department has announced that r.
he service will start not later than C
lay 15 and probably earlier.
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F0odstuffs shipped from the United Il
tates and Canada to the allies dur a
lg March exceeded February ship
tents by 10000 tons, the food ad- N
has announced. The a
lonths total was 100000 tons. ii
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Maximum prices for fir logs and T
lmber and yellow pine on government Il
+ allied order have been announced
Y the new price fixing committee of
lie war industries board.
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Emperor William on March % in OF
)ected the gun with which the Ger re
ans are bombardlng Paris, says Karl di
osner, war correspondent of the Lo. tr
Al Anzeiger of Berlin. 1t looks more tn
ke an enormous gray crane than q al
al gun, according to the correspon- Ot
.nt, and can throw a shell for dis th
nee of 139 kilometers $50 miles). in
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Subscriptions of S102 100000 were Il
ported to the Liberty loan commit
e of the New York federal reserve
strict for the first day Of the cam
ign for the third loan. da
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Rear Admiral John ID. Ford. U. s. ~, by
tNed. is dead at his home in Balti- te
orA aged 7S years. He had been in re
link health for long time. de
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Nearly 1000 workmen of the Savage Sc
ms Cb., Of Utica. N. Y, are out on ge
rike. Vhe men charge they did not III,
ceive d promised increase in wages. Of