The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-07-19
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

Directors and officials of the Pacific
Coast league voted to close the present
season with the games scheduled for
last Sunday in various cities of the cir
cult.
Four hundred San Francisco en-
ployes of the Western Union Tele-
graph company sent telegram to
| United States Senators Phelan and
johnson asking them TO use their in
| fIuence to secure Il suspension of the
governments plan to take over wire
utilities until all of the employees of
the company could be canvassed on the
matter.
Sick and wounded men from the
overseas forces arriving in the United
States during the two weeks ending
crop, announced by the census bureau,
place the production at 11,3O2,375
equivalent 500-pound bales, the small
July totaled 229, the war department
has announced.
Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, the |
youngest son of ex-President Roose- |
Welt, brought down his first German |
airplane in fight north of Chateau
Thierry.
General Pershing, in general order,
has decreed July IA, Frances national
holiday, as day of celebration for
the American expeditionary forces.
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Final figures on the 1917 cotton
est cotton crop since 1909 excepting
that of 1915. Sea island production
was 92,610 bales.
Completion of % ships OF 122,771
lightweight tons in the first week of
July made total of 223 new vessels
built under the direction of the ship
ping board. Their aggregate tonnage
is 1,145,022.
Final compilations of third Liberty
loan subscriptions, announced by the
treasury department show total of
81, 176, sig, $50, an increase of Sc, 497 200
over the total officially estimated last
May IS, after the loan campaign closed.
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The annual agricultural appropria- ,
ton bill, which members of congress !
have been informed President Wilson !,
will veto because of its legislative 7
rider increasing the government mini !
mum wheat price to $40, has reached !
the White house and been sent to Sec-l :
rotary Houston for his review before
action by the president. Q
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Discovery of new protective coat +
ng which is expected to make concrete 7
ships as durable as steel has been an =
bounced by the shipping board.
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Official correspondence just made
public discloses that Cleveland Able, n
r., editor of the monthly weather re- n
yiew, recently dropped from the gov c
service, was dismissed be- ]
.ause of his ''well known synlpathies D
or the imperial German government" a
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a GeffLdU letteT cttillcl WIN a iCS- G.
I'D of 20 years of service in Soemerda
vas recently sentenced to serve three
nonths in prison for stealing 80 cof-
ee beans which had fallen frona par Il
Ell post package in the postoffice, says a
be Berlin Tageblatt. ii
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The British food controller, Lord o.
is dead in London. ii
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Twenty-year sentences in the feder-
| prison at Fort Leavenworth were
iyen to four conscientious DIRECTORS
, army service by a court martial til
t Camp Grant, III. All are from Chi In
ago. The sentences were read to $50 10
Their objeStors now held in the guard m
ouse. al
More than 1000 war trophies, great Of
khibit OF implements Of war used In eli
10 world war; were seen In San Fran II
SEQ In the opening OF the Allied War CO
tposition under the auspices Of the tn
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