Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-03-30

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American Federation Of Labor, has
made an emphatic denial Of reports
published in Germany that he had
proposed the partition of Belgium as
the best means of ending the war.
Two trainmen were killed and an
other fatally injured when locomo-
tive exploded on the Fort Worth &
Denver road near Wichita Falls Texas.
The heavy freight train ran half a mile
before it was stopped.
| A sentence of fifteen years in the
federal penitentiary at Atlanta, was
imposed on the Rev. Clarence II. Wal
dron, Baptist clergyman of Windsor
Vt, convicted Tuesday night of dis
loyal utterances and opposing the gov
ernments military service plans.
WASHINGTON
| Germany's stroke against the west
front has driven home to the American
capital a fuller and graver realiza-
ton than ever before that America
must increase the punch in its war
work. 1t served to spur rather thar
to dishearten war workers.
Six months Imprisonment or fine
of $500 was prescribed for decorators
of the American flag under SEN
ate bill passed March %. The bill
provides also that the flag shall not be
used for advertising purpose or mutt
| lated in any form.
Increase in the government guaran
teed price of wheat from 81 to $3.50 o
bushel was approved by the senate Oh
March 81 An amendment to the agri'
cultural appropriation bill offered by
Senator Gore of Oklahoma providing
for the higher guarantee was adopted
Provost Marshal General CrowdeI
will begin within few days calling
out for special instruction the men in
the draft needed by the army in tech
nical positions. A general survey of
the educational institutions of the
country is in progress, 1t was an
nounced, to determine what colleges
and industrial schools will be available
for their training during the summer
months.
Pay Increases of Is per cent for all
employees of the postal service, recon-
mended by the senate postOffice sub
committee in revising the postoffice APP
preparation bill, were approved by the
full committee, which ordered the bill
favorably reported.
FOREIGN
A Daily Mail dispatch from Tien
Tsin says that japanese university pro-
fessOrs are conducting campaign in
favor of sending half million troops
as far as Irkutsk into Siberia to check
the German ambitions in the Far East
before it is too late.
The guns in France are distinctly
heard in London, particularly in high
places there is a continuous throbbing.
Many persons have gone to the house
tops to listen.
Major George G. Welsby, paymaster
of the Winnipeg military district, was
sentenced to Jail for twenty-three |
months. He was convicted of en-
bezzling $13,5OO of army funds.
Twenty-seven hostile airplanes
were downed on March %, Field Mar
shall Haig reported. OF these,
twenty descended beyond control and
three were shot down. Eight British
machines are missing.
A dispatch from Berlin says the
German empress has received the fol
lowing telegram from the kaiser: 81
am pleased to be able to tell you
that, by the grace of God, the battle |
of Money, Cambria, ST. Qeutin and |
La Fere has been won. The Lord |
has gloriously aided. May He fur
Their help"
The distinguished service cross has
been awarded nine more American
soldiers, but three thus decorated are
dead, and the cross, with an appro-
pirate letter, will be forwarded to the
next of kin.
In a speech delivered in the British
house of commons on March 20, Sir
Erie Campbell Geddes, first lord of the
admiralty, declared that during the
last quarter of 1917, the allies were
averaging within 100000 tons monthly
of making their losses good and were
then replacing rs per cent of their lost
tonnage.
The Peruvian senate has approved
the first section of the bill which 1t
has been debating authorizing the is
sue of gold certificates as currency,
guaranteed by deposits in banks in the
United States.
Dispatches from The Hague report
that a local news agency says that
Germany considers her relations with
Holland altered by the attitude of the
Dutch government toward the entente
and the United States and publishes
report that the abandonment by the
Dutch government of the remaining re-
strictive clauses in its shipping loan
terms would be regarded by Germany
as cause for war.