The Ordway new era., 1918-06-21

An aerial postal service pet~sen
| London and Paris has been inaugu-
| rated.
King Alfonso has conferred the
grand cross of Charles ii on Archer
Huntington OF New York.
Premier Won Seydler. in an audience
with Emperor Karl, Offered his resig-
nation according to Austrian adviees
received at Amsterdam
One OF Lonoons largest theaters
has been rented by the American coIn-
mittee of engineers Tor rendezvous
and q hotel for sailors and soldiers
As an outcome of recent confer
ences, Japan is preparing a deciara-
ton defining her attitude toward hus-
sia, according to Tientsin dispatcn.
/ The loss of the Austrian batleship
Scent Istyan-torpedoed in the Adri-
atic-is officially announced in Wen
ma, according 10 a Havas dispatcn
from Basel, Switzerland.
Mrs. Walter II. Page, wife OF the
American ambassador to Great Bri-
tain, christened II. NJ. S. Eagle, one oil
Great Britain's largest naval ships.
which was launched on the Tyne
Thirty-six thousand Austrian women
and girls of all ages and classes have
been forced by hunger to join the
women's battalions working close to
the front lines. according to reports
from Austrian Tyrol.
An explosion in the Skoda gun
works, near Pilsen. on May Is. Killed
more than 300 persons and injured 100,
according to information received BY
the Paris journal. The explosion was
heard $50 miles.
"A notoble decrease in the number
of submarine sinkings In the western
and central regions and the English
channel has been evident since the
blocking OF Zeebrugge and Ostend bar-
bors, IT was semiofficially announced
in Paris.
Germany has lodged complaint in
Washington and asked for safeguards
against such exccsses as led to the
lynching of Robert p. Prayer at Col
linsville. H.. April 4. according to a
Wolff bureau telegram from Germany
quoting Privy Councillor Simons In re-
plying to a question askel by Herr
Mueller of Meiningen in the Reichs-
tag.
SPORT
An effort is being made by members
of the board OF aldermen TO legalize
Sunday baseball in New York.
Jess Willard has consented to box
for the soldiers at Camp Funston on
July with auy opponent they cam Sc
lect for him for a ar benefit fund.
Harry Way OF Denver made a run
of 2O6 targets without miss in the
second morning shoot of the Rocky
Mountain Interstate Trap Shooting
tournament at Colorado Springs. Some
prominent shooters from New Mexico
attended the meeting.
The British colder has som, novel
ties in athletic diversions. Wr sitting
on mules, for instance, is spectacu-
lar sport. 1t is team event. Four
stout men from zee transport section,
stripped to the waist and mounted on
barebacked mules represent each bat
TALON and the team. which has the last
survivor wins
GENERAL
Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was
married at HOLLYWOOD. her country
home at Lenox. Mass, to Raymond 4.
Baker, director of the United States
mint.
The sixty-ninth annual convention
Of the American Medical Association
adjourned at Chicago after the house
Of delegates unanimously adopted a
resolution urging compulsory military
training for all young men before they
are permitted to vote.
A story of an all-day fight with a
German submarine off the Virginia
coast was brought to an Atlantic port
by Capt George Aitkin of the British
steamship Author. He said the raider
gave up the chase seventy miles from
the Virginia capes, apparently Gearing
to brave the coast patrol.
Mrs. Finley j. Sheppard, formerly
Miss Helen Gould. is seriously i'll in
New York of appendicitis.
Secretary of War Newton u. Baker
will go TO Chicago to deliver an ad-
| dress on July 4, it was announced.
The wholesale massacre by the Bull
| gars of all but 40 OF 10000 Greeks
| deported from eastern Macedonia was
reported to the Greek legation by the
Bureau of Prisoners at Geneva. Switz-
erland.
| Americans captured off this coast
by submarine pirates were forced to
polish torpedoes intended for use
against United States transports This
came TO light in New York with the
arrival of more seamen who had been
taken off their sinking ships by the