The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-06-05
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in the Federal Constitution.
Organized labor has made another
appeal to Congress- to modify the war
time prohibition law so that the work
men may have light wines and beer
Favorable reports on the bill for the
immediate return Of the telegraph and
telephone wires to private ownership
was ordered Tuesday by the Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee.
Four inches of SNOW fell Tuesday at
Amarillo and Dalhart. Texas, and gem
orally over the Texas Panhandle On
the same day the mercury iii Boston.
Mass. and Scranton, Pa, went to 0S,
setting a June high record for both
those cities.
The Joseph Pulitzer gold medal,
awarded annually : for the most dis
interested and meritorious public SER
vice rendered by any American news
paper during the year." has been
awarded to the Milwaukee Journal, it
was announced Tuesday.
Western Union telegraph operators
who went OH strike In Atlanta, Ga,
yesterday. in support of telephone Ol-
orators who We're already on strike
will not he reinStated ''even if it is nee
essary to entirely abandon telegraph
service in Atlanta" according to In
formation given out by officials of the
company.
Secretary Of War Baker told the
House Military Committee that lie has
authorized the sale Of $2J.OOO.OOO
worth of surplus foodstuffs held by the
Army to the Cooperative Purchase So
ciety of Russia. The society is COM
posed Of 2O.OOO.O0O million heads Of
families. the Secretary said, and will
give in exchange for the food raw ma
terials badly needed in the United
StateS.
Ferelen.
The Council Of Four considered the
German counter-proposals to the peace
treaty. France strongly opposing any
concessions whatever.
The Order of Merit has been con-
ferred on Field alrasilal Sir Douglas
Haig and viceadmiral Sir David
Beatty by King George.
A regiment of Carranza troops sent
to attack villa has deserted to the
rel,els without f,dlt. according to a
refugee from Farral. Mexico.
The German armistice commission
has sharply protested against the at
titude of the French commander al
Wiesladen toward the Rhennish re-
public.
Counter uprisings of revolutionary
character have occurred in many vii
lages and towns of Western Hungary
according to reports received in Ber
lii yesterday. Hundreds Of refugees
are arriving daily at the Austrian
! frontier.
| There is no hope of early restora
ton Of rail and wire communication
between chihuahua City and the bor
der In Mexico. Bands Of Villa follow
crs are at work short distance nOrtl
of chihuahua. systematically destroy
| ing the lines, 1t is said.
American marines have been landed
ut Puntarenas and Port Limon, Costa
Rica. because of the revolution agains
the government headed by Gen. TinocO
according to dispatches printed IL
papers in San Salvador yesterday, bu
the report has not been confirmed.
It looks as though the backbone o
the general strike in Winnipeg, Mani
tOba. Is broken. Feeling among re
turned soldiers opposed to the strike
and particularly to the participation
cf alien enemies in strike demOnstra
tiOns, is at fever heat. There are sey
eral thousand of the returned soldier
and they are so incensed over the high
handed methods of the strike leader
that they have threatened to wrec
the labor temple and make an exam
pie Of the strike leaders. Many Of til
strikers have begun to break and RI
turn to their work. Others are seel
Ing the protection of their government
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