Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-04-27
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raised a million dollars more than the
states quota.
The I. w. w. hall at Everett, Wash.
was wrecked by crowd Of twelve to
fifteen men, who carried the organiZa-
tons records into the street and burn
ed them and then applied torch to the
hall.
Enemy alien property owned in Ger
many and located in Salt Lake City
and in Utah is to be searched out and
taken over by the government and the
investigation is to start next week.
Quietly imploring the American bust
ness man to cast aside all plans for
building up his business after the war
and center his activities on the pres
ent situation, Hon. William c. Redfield
secretary of commerce, addressed the
Commercial club members at Salt
Lake, Friday night.
Wear uniform or stay in bed was
the ultimatum to the fifty cOnscien
tiOus DIRECTORS attached to the base
hospital of the avid west division a,
Camp Lewis, Wash. And every one
of the fifty nonresisters chose to
clOthe themselves in the olive drab
garments.
Miss jeanette Rankin of Missoula
Montana's representative in congress,
was refused permission to speak in
Deer Lodge, Mont, it is said, where
she had been scheduled to give Lib
erty loan speech. A citizens commit
tee objected because Miss Rankin was
charged with associating with strike
leaders at Butte.
DOMESTIC
All of southern California and part
of western Arizona and Utah were
shaken Sunday at 3 80 p. m. by an
earthquake which wrecked virtually all
buildings and residences in Hemet and
San JacintO, two inland towns forty
five miles southeast of Riverside, Cal,
caused three deaths and minor prop
erty damage in practically every town
and city.
Rosa Cohn, years old, and blind,
saved the lives of sixteen other blind
children at the blind babies sunshine
home in the Bath beach section of
Brooklyn.
Governor Pleasant of Louisiana, has
announced the appointment of former
State Attorney General Walter Guyon
to fill the unexpired term in the United
States senate Of the late Robert f.
Broussard.
The American steamship Lake Moor
was sunk by an enemy submarine in
European waters about midnight April
IL, and five officers and thirty-nine
men are missing.
Nebraska leads all the states in war
savings stamps contributions, both in
amount and in per capita sales. That
state. the treasury department reports,
has turned In one-tenth Of the April l
total Of $149,W1,972.
"The presidents declaration of the
war aims of this country is Magma
Charta for the freedom Of the world
magnificent, wonderful instrument"
William II. Hays, chairman of the Re-
publican national committee, declared
at Ell Paso, Texas, during Liberty
loan address.
Negotiations which have been in
progress for some time between Roland
S. Morris, the American ambassador to
Japan, and the Japanese government,
and shipbuilders have been completed.
Sixty steamers, aggregating $4,000
tons lightweight, will be turned over to
the United States for use in the war.
Armed Mexicans crossed the border
in the Big Bend district Sunday and
drove off number of horses and
cows from the White ranch, according
to information received from state Of
ficers at Maria, Tex.
Viscount Kikujiro Ishii, Japanese
ambassador to the United States, has
arrived at Pacific port on his way
to Washington to assume his duties. :
These temporary successes" of the
Germans on the western front mark
their last desperate stroke and wheth-
er it succeeds or fails does not mean
final triumph for Germany, Secretary
of the Nevy Daniels told the thous-
ands of young men who greeted him at
Boston on Friday.
The Church of the Living God, a
large canvas tabernacle, used by a re-
iigious sect at Berkeley, Cal, was
burned down by mob of men and
boys because the pastor, Joseph Sykes
and his elders, refused to lower the
American flag at shutdown and join
with the congregation in singing the
national anthem.
Thirty-five states now are repre-
scented in the enrolment for the 'col
lege women's Plattsburg," the train
ing camp for nurses to be held al
Vassar college this summer.
Another German offensive in Italy OF
on the west front in June was pre-
dicted by Lieutenant General Bridges
of the British army, who has arrived