Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-07-06


case of Thomas ]. Mooney, under SEN
tence Of death at San Francisco in
connection with the preparedness day
bomb explosion, will be asked by the
state in the cases of Mooney, his wife,
Rena; Israel Weinberg and Edward
Nolans.
Casualties in the American expedi-
tionary forces thus far reported total
1O,3S3, submarines issued June 3$ by
the war department and marine Cops
show. OF this number, 9131 were in
the army and 1852 in the marine corps.
Jacob Frohwek, formerly an editorial
writer on the Missouri Stats Zeitung,
was found guilty of violating the es-
pionage act by the writing Of certain
editorials in the newspaper.
WASHINGTON.
Carrying appropriations of more
than $12,OO000O,0O0 for the prosecu-
ton of the war, the senate on June 20
passed the army appropriation bill.
There was not an opposing vote. The
bill had been before the senate almost
Secretary of the Interior Franklin
X. Lane has returned from Honolulu,
where for three weeks he devoted him
self to homestead land adjustments in
the Hawaiian islands as they affected
the sugar output.
Members of the house military COM
mittee were told at their weekly
war department conference that the
soldiers of the American expeditionary
forces are freer from disease than
any troops in Europe, and that pro-
portionately fewer are i'll than among
the troops training at home.
The war labor board policies board
announced Friday it had recommend
ed conference of departmental rep
resentatives and others interested to
determine to what extent during the
war the adoption of the basic eight
hour day principle of determining
wages if feasible in all work being
done for the government.
Immediate extension of the present
army draft age limits, 81 to 81 years,
was Overwhelmingly defeated in the
senate June %.
Secretary McAdoo has informed the
house, in response to resolution by
Representative Madden of Illinois, that
there are 500 men of draft age In the
employ of the treasury department
who have been given deferred military
classification.
FOREIGN.
A movement to form mouse killing
clubs in Great Britain as one means
of grain conservation is well under
way, men, women and children being
urged to take part.
The new regulation under the de-
Tense of the realm act prohibits any
person in England from retaining any
more silver coinage than he actually
needs for personal expenditure and in
his business. Sale of any British coin
for an amount exceeding its face value
is prohibited.
London is infested with women
restaurants they carry on their uefar-
ious work, their chief occupation APP
parently being to keep their ears open
and overhear all the gossip they pos
sibly can about England's war move
ments.
Attacking the Austro- Hungarian
lines on the Asiago plateau, the Ital-
ians have taken Monte Di Valbella,
captured 400 prisoners, and have held
it against repeated counterattacks.
Pershing a warm and enthusiastic
greeting when the American COM
mander in chief unexpectedly paid a
visit to the American troops in Alsace
few days ago.
Official announcement was made in
Berlin on June 30 that a reduction of
from seven to three pounds weekly
would be made in the potato ration.
Four hundred grammes of oatmeal or
other cereal food will be distributed
instead. The potato ration at Pots
dam has been reduced to two pounds
with half pound of greats.
A Berlin dispatch says that, accord
ing to IA telegram received there from
Kiev, member of the soviet govern
ment announced the reports that for
mer Emperor Nicholas had been
brought before revolutionary tribunal
and that he had been assasslnated are
incorrect.
1t seems probable, according to word
received at correspondents headquar-
tiers, that both July 4, American indie
pendence Day, and July IA, the French
national holiday, will be celebrated
jointly by Americans and French in
Paris This year.
Count Gilbert de Lafayette, who was
serving as Il sergeant N the French
army, was killed during the fighting
in Champagne June II, says the Paris
edition of the New York Herald. He,
is the third descendant of Lafayette,
who has met death in the war.
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