Cheyenne record., 1918-09-05
FOREIGN

accounted for eleven others. the Petit
Parisisn declared.
A number of Italian young women
authorities at Rome to establish
schools whore they can take training
In aviation.
Describing the house-to-house air
raid over Mannheim. the night Of Aug.
26, an officer Of the Royal Independ-
ent air forces in London. declared 1t
an extraordinary and unparalleled
feat of the war"
Twenty-four men comprising the
crew of the fishing schooner Gloam-
ing of Lunenburg. N. g., were picked
up in dories near st. Pierre, Miquelon,
and reported that their vessel had
been sunk by German submarine. :.
Premier David Lloyd George at
luncheon given in London by the gov.
ernment in honor of Samuel Gompers,
president Of the American Federation
of Labor, proposed a toast to the
health Of the labor leader, who is Wis
iting England. II do this for two rea-
sons" he said. "One of these is the
country from which our guest comes
"a country Graded and nurtured in
freedom. Ip the second place, we vel
come Mr. Gompers and his friends for
their owl sake"
1t is estimated by experts in London
that the German losses in killed alone
nom reach total of more than c,000,-
900. and probably approach 100000.
The total entente allied captures on
the western front since July 1S now
approach 100000 prisoners and 1000
guns. The British captured more
than 21,00O prisoners between Aug.
21 and Aug. 26. while the British to-
tai losses in the same period, includ-
ing all killed, wounded and missing,
were only slightly in excess of that
figure.
SPORT
Sherman Fisher was high amateur
and 6. w. Phellis was high profession
al In the weekly trap shoot at the
Lakewood Country Club in Denver.
The former broke 46 out of so, while
Phellis broke 40 out Of so.
Jack Dempsey, the heavyweight
pugAist. Joined the army Of shipbuild.
ers in the Philadelphia district. Demp-
sey signed contract as labor agent
and his task will be to secure ship
workers from all sections of the coun-
try.
1t seems to be the rule that golf IT,
ties should no longer remain in the
fir,,o xl- 4 t.
ems golf, as well as in mems, new
champion has appeared on the hori-
zon. The new woman champion for
Colorado is Miss Frances Moffatt, sis
ter to the ex-champion, Mrs. M. A. NC
Laughlin, whom she defeated in the
finals of the state woman's tourna-
ment held at the Lakewood Country
Club in Denver.
GENERAL
Thirteen captains of the navy were
nominated for the temporary grade of
rear admiral
Completing its task of framing the
$4,000, 100000 war revenue bill the
House ways and means committee re-
ported the measure to the House.
The nation is scheduled to go bone
dry July l. 1919, the Senate having
adopted the Sheppard substitute for
the Jones prohibition amendment to
the agricultural extension bill
Favorable report on the bill intro
duced by Senator Henderson of Ne
vada, providing for government pro-
duction and distribution of minerals
needed in the war, was ordered by the
Senate mines committee
With 100000 votes reported out OF
possible $4,000 cast in the South
Carolina primary election, Nat G.
Dial was nominated for the United
States Senate over Cole l.. Blease
and ]. F. Rice by a majority that will
probably approach 10000 votes. Dial's
lead over Blease is more than 20 900.
Equal suffrage was indorsed at
Philadelphia by the National Frater-
nal Congress of America at the final
session of its convention.
During the week ending Aug. 23.
423 sick and wounded soldiers from
the American Expeditionary Forces
were landed in the United States and
sent to army hospitals. For the pre-
ceding week the number was 333
Complete failure of the attempt of
General Horvath. the anti-Bolshevik
leader. to esta blish dictatorship in
Siberia is reported in ,advices from
Vladivostok Representatives of the
allies at Vladivostok interviewed to up
hold the authority of the new govern
| ment there.
Comparison of food prices prevail
ing now with those Of five years ago
by the Department of Labor shows
that the purchasing power of a dollar
| bill has shrunk to 81 cents in Wash
In ginn and Raltimnre 75 cents In