The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-15
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STORY OF THE WEEK
sHowINo THE PROGRESS OF
EvENTs IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
EASTERN
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

BY n vote or ~ 10 ii lne tohncSti-
cut SeIr.rrp refused to ratify the red
eral prohibition amendment Action by
by the Connecticut Senate is the first
vote against ratification thus far tax
en- by any branch of Legislature in
the United States.
Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the
New York Times, was called as n gov
ernment witness in the federal trial OF
jeremiah A. O'Leary, charged with
violation of the espionage act, to re-
flute charges made in O'Leary's paper,
Bull, that the Times was controlled
by British influence. Mr.. Ochs denied
that his paper was controlled by Brit
ish influence or British money.
WESTERN
DR.. Richard Ernest Kunze, inter
nationally famous as a naturalist, Is
dead at Phoenix.
Three persons were burned to death
in a fire destroying the Toxic House
at Seattle, n lodging house in the low
er part of the city. Twelve are miss
ing and fourteen were injured.
Thirty French veterans, including
number of aviators and tank experts,
part of contingent ordered to ST.
IBERIA, received orders upon their, ar
rival In Honolulu to return to France.
About 300 orange growers of the san
Gabriel valley, many of them armed,
drove from this vicinity 80 Russians,
including four women, alleged to nave
attempted to intimidate Mexican or
ange pickers
Harlan Talbert, secretary of the
Oregon Socialist party, and four other
men were arrested at Portland charged
with violation of the newly enacted
. state criminal syndicalisGl law, by the
distribution of alleged seditious literl-
ture.
Managers of copper properties at
t Latouche and Kennecott Alaska, have
begun making reductions in the num-
ber of employees because of the decline
in the price of copper. Gold mines
here have added extra shifts, opera--
ing now nearly on pre-war basis.
At a mass meeting of members OF
o local and district draft boards in
Portland resolutions were adopted
memoraiizing. Congress to enact legis'
lation to exclude from citizenship, and
10 deport from the United States, all
aliens who withdrew their applications
for citizenship during the war in or
der to evade military service.
WASHINGTON
Prof George Heron and William
Allen White have been appointed
American delegates to the joint con
ference of the associated powers and
Russian factions at Prinkipos.
The House. bill providing for a re-
duction of $15,000,O00,000 in war ap
oropriations and contract authoriZa
lions and making deficiency appropri
ations of $295,O00,000, was passed by
the Senate without n record vote.
To maintain facilities for training
merchant seamen, the Shipping BoarJ
has decided to turn six of the wooden
cargo steamers built during the wal
into training ships. More than 3S,OOC
men have applied to take the training
courses, and 1t is planned to add deep
sea cruises to the curriculum.
Plans for bringing home he bodies
of all officers, sailors and marines
now buried on foreign soil are being
.>%worlled out by the Navy Department
and the actual work will be undertake
EN- within the next few months. The
wishes of relatives, however, will gov
ern not only as to the return of the
bodies, but also as to their final dis
position.
There were more than 10000 trials
8 nj
during the war, Secretary Baker in
formed the Senate in response to q
Resolution of Senator Borah of Idaho
asking for the facts of trials of sol
diers. Mr. Baker said that 22,00(
cases were heard by general courts
martial and the remainder by special
or summary courts.
If the United States is to- sell it
surplus wheat to the allies this year
the transaction must be on n credit
basis. julius Barnes, head of the
Food Administrations Grain Corpora
ton, told the House agriculture com
mittee at n hearing on Legislation to
provide n method for carrying out the
governments guaranteed price of $2.2C
a bushel for the 1919 wheat crop.
Hospital reports from the expedi
tionary forces show there were 1896.
sick and wounded among the Ameri
can soldiers on Jan. 16 This was u
net decrease of 97,4S6 from that total
on Dec. 10. The total for January
comprised 67,293 soldiers incapacitat
ed as a result of disease and 2S,66e
from injuries.
The annual postoffice appropriation
bill carrying total of $40O,000000
and providing for the expenditure OF
$20O,O0O,O00 additional for road build