Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-06-14
NEWS CONDENSED
AT HOME AND ABROAD or INTER
EST TO EVERYBODY.
EPITOME OF LATE DOINGS
OF the Entire Week That Is Worth
While Of Mention and Of
Interest TO All.
WASHINGTON NEWs.

Interest to All.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The nations public debt reached a
new high mark of $25,921, 151,27O at the
end of May, an increase of $1,096,64O,-
$50 during the month, resulting from
new issues of certificates of indebted
ness and payments on victory loan
subscriptions.
Secretary Baker Tuesday asked con-
gress for legislative authority and an
appropriation of $1O,O0O,0O0 for the inn
mediate purchase of the Cape Cod
Canal
Twenty-Five conf atant and seven
skeletonized ''vtsions will have been
returned home when the movement OF
the 81st and 18th Divisions, now in
progress, has been completed. In an
nouncing this this week General
March, chief of staff, said the expe-
dictionary forces now are practically
reduced to the seven regular divisions,
four of which have been released for
early return. Generalization Of the
army, General March said, has return
ed 2,276,299 officers and men to civil
life.
England's bill for transporting 1,0OO,-
600 American soldiers across the At
lantic in British ships is approximately
So, 100000. This and the fact that
President Wilson advanced $5,000,OOO
of his special fund-and probably
more-to the Czecho-Slovaks, were the
two chief developments of Fridays
hearing of Secretary Baker, General
March and other war department of
ficials before the house military COM
mittee.
A noticeable upward trend in bust
ness during May, especially in those
lines related to the leading retail
trades which have felt the release OF
buying power and held back by the
war, was reported Friday by the fed
sral reserve board. Practically uni
form reports from federal reserve
agents were said to point to summer
and autumn of unusual activity.
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Villa forces have proclaimed Cen
aral Felipe Angelez provisional presi-
dent of Mexico and Villa himself secre-
tary of war. The move, coming at the
climax of military operations, consid-
cred by the Carranza government so
serious that it has asked the United
States for permission to move troops
through Texas, New Mexico and Ari-
iona, is regarded in Washington as re-
flecting a situation more serious in
Mexico than any since the triumph of
Carranza forces over Villa three years
ago.
The American relief administration,
of which Herbert Hoover is director,
announced Saturday that the food ad-
! ministration had cancelled all rules re-
lating to the cotton seed industry and
had withdrawn all price regulations
and agreements regarding cotton seed
and the products manufactured there
from, including lard substitutes, as
from May 81.
Congressman Hudspeth has intro
duced bill appropriating $4,000 to be
i paid to the heirs of persons killed
along the Texas Mexican border during
the period of the Mexican revolution
and $4,000 to be paid to those who
suffered wounds. This is to correct
the bill passed at the last congress,
which, through clerical error, desig-
mated the entire s71 900 should be paid
to heirs of Americans killed by Mexi.
can bullets,
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Investigation of the bomb explosions
in eight cities Monday night which
were intended to kill public men, has
convinced secret service chiefs that
the outrages had common source and
that they probably can be classed as
an unsuccessful attempt on the part
Of still unknown anarchistic group
to resume a campaign of terrorism be-
gun with the Mayday attempt to de-
liver series of internal machines
through the mails out of New York.
The Artesian Belt Railway was sold
under the hammer Tuesday at San
Antonio, Texas, for $150,OOO.
Increased railroad, telephone and
telegraph rates ordered by the rail-
road administration and by the post
master general, respectively, were sus-
tanned by the Supreme Court in opin-