The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-03-22
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

An official note issued in Sweden an
nounces that the American government
has advised the Swiss government il
was making continued efforts to solve
the cereal supply in accordance with
the promise contained in the agree
ment between the United States and
Switzerland reached December 3, last.
The note said the Washington govern
ment was fully alive TO its obligations |
and that they would be fulfilled even |
If to do so it was necessary to deprive |
American consumers of certain food |
stuffs.
son has been born to Empress
Zita of Austria at Baden-Baden.
George L. Won Meyer, former cab
met member and diplomat, is dead at
his home in Boston after an illness
of several weeks.
The start of the airplane mail serv-
ice between New York, Philadelphia
and Washington will be delayed prob
ably as late as May - because land I
ing fields at Philadelphia and New
York have not been found The service {
was to have been begun April 10. /
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Consideration of disloyalty charges
against Senator LaFollette of Wiscon-
sin soon will be resumed by the SEN !.
ate privileges and elections commit
zee, Chairman Pomerene has stated
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Organization of new nationwide Y
'atriotic body to be known as "The y
soldiers Families of America" has c
een started in New York City by C
udge William III. Wadhams and other
rominent persons. The object of the n
rganiZation, primarily is to see that
20 family of a soldier is neglected. b
relatives of all soldiers will be entitled il
D membership. o.
Fifty-seven New York restaurants
nd lunch rooms, whose proprietors III
ad confessed to ignoring food regula- IL
ions, were closed for a period of 16 ~
ours by the local food administrators
18th the approval of Herbert Hoover %
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Naval experts anticipate an unfavor- m
bic report from the board headed by fl
ear Admiral Albert G. Winterhalter, al
hich has just completed tests of the
)rmer Austrian steamer Lucia which
as been equipped with interior buoy. Il
1cy boxes designed to make her un.
nkable
Government authorities have begun
i investigation of the death of 80
rises out of a shipment of 126 from
amp Rockford, ILL.,, consigned to
export News, Va. Many more of the
rises are expected to die. veter I'M
arian says the horses We're poisoned TIL
It'll belladonna and croton oil. st
~ TN
The department of labor at Washing fro
n reports that there are more farm cri
nds in the west than are needed, and
ere is only slight scarcity in the
nth and east. tht
for training 500 army no
m in airplane mechanics at the Uni Iof
rsity of Minnesota, for two months Jal
ginning April s. virtually have been SUE
npleted. in
1 q the
General Speck, president of the Soc niz
: of the Army of the Potomac, il
ad at his home at Burlington, Va.
co.,
Declining an invitation to address con
convention of the Non-Partisan die'
que, Governor Burnquist of Mime pir
a made scathing arrangement of IN
league and some of its members in rail-
etter TO the executive secretary of per
organization in st. Paul. meI
4 &
Eugene Dean of Mexico. Mo-. has AM
N sentenced to imprisonment in
federal penitentiary at Leaven
rth, Kansas, for year and day "
violation of the espionage act. He beci
; found guilty of having offered tc Stal
a drug in the eyes of w O. John. cred
of Mexico, so that Johnson would ernr
rejected in the army draft tlon
\ 4 a was
Iavshall Eberstein of the federal 600.
paA of Investigation made the an. loan
in Omaha that hereaffer men
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