The Benson signal., 1919-05-03
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One of the largest shipments of rub
ber ever dispatched in a single lot is
| proceeding across country from San
Francisco to Detroit in special train
of twenty-six cars. The weight of the
shipment is 2,24O,OOO pounds.
Never before has the demand for
dried pruneS been so great as now,
or the price so high; and seldom has
the prospect for crop in the Will
lamette valley, Oregon, been so bright,
according to Eugene buyers Of fruit.
George A. Roberts of Omaha has
cleared $2,0OO,OO0 profit in corn in the
last five days, according to current re-
pool of Chicago market manipulators
and to have beaten Jesse Livermore of
New York.
By order of Gov Thomas Riggs, jr.,
have been discharged from service ow-
ing to lack of funds with which to
maintain the organization. Guns and
equipment of the guards have been
ordered stored.
Lieutenant Ralph Koontz, radio Of
ficer at Post field, LawtOn, Okla, fell
to his death at Call field, his machine
going into a side slip as he was leav-
ing the field and falling about 200
feet. He had been with party do
ing cross-country work.
Slightly less than half the total num-
Der of bills introduced at the forty
third biennial session of the California
legislature were sent to the governor
for executive action. A list of the
measures, completed, showed that 9O1
passed both houses OF this number
500 were assembly killed.
Exclusion of about S4,57O acres Of
land from the InyO national forest for
restoration in part to homestead en-
try has been announced by Secretary
Lane. The tract includes 68,O75 acres
in Mono and Basin counties, CalifOr-
MIA, and 16,495 acres in Esmeralda
county, Nevada, all of semi-desert
character. 1t will be subject to home
stead entry at and after 9 o'clock a.
m. July 1, and to other disposition on
and after July 8.
WASHINGTON
Maj. Gen. Chase w. Kennedy has
been detailed to command the Pan
anna canal department, relieving Brig.
| D;oI, M +ob will
be assigned to duty at a Western
camp.
The first contingent of 1000 recruits
enlisted by the War Department for
foreign service to relieve men in the
army of occupation, have left Camp
Meade for New York preparatory to
embarking. With this first unit will
go a number Of officers who have
asked foreign service, to relieve Off
GERS in the American army in Ger
many.
Determination of the shipping board
to cancel contracts for an additional
100000 tons of steel ships contracted
for during the war has been an
nOunced by Chairman Hurley. At the
same time the chairman said cancel
lation of all contracts where keels had
not actually been laid was under con-
sideration in order to build at peace
prices instead of at high war figures.
Ern G.. Eagleson was elected mayor
of Boise, to succeed S. H. Hays. John
Mcmillan, the defeated candidate, lost
the election by 81 votes.
General Pershing notified the war
department of the decoration of the
following American organizations by
the French government: FOurragere
of colors of ribbon of Croix de Guerre,
One Hundred and Third aero squadron
and ambulance units $50 and 625;
fourragere of colors of ribbon of
medaille militaire, ambulance unit 646.
Increases in payrolls of various
classes Of railway employees during
government control were shown in de-
tail by a railroad administration re-
port, giving members employed in each
class, days and hours worked, pay in
the aggregate per day and per hour,
and the rate of advance, as of Decem-
Der, 1917, the last month of private
operation, and January, 1919. In the
thirteen months between the two dates
the number of employees rose from
1,7O3,OO0 to 1,848O0O, or 85 per cent.
The aggregate pay rolls for all classes
rose from $153, ,O39,OOO in December,
1917, to $23O,8OO,OOO last January, with
the average rate of pay increase 48 per
cent.
Announcement was made in New
York by John Barrett, director general
of the Pan-American union, that the
pan-American commercial conference
will be held in Washington from June
2 to 5. Representative from twenty
one American republics are expected
to attend.
A ruling by Comptroller of the Cur
rency Williams virtually removed all
limitations on loans by natiOnaL banks