The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1919-05-08
NEWS NUBS FOR HASTY READING

He won the citation and crosses Of
honor in cleaning out machine gun
nests
Tuesday Oklahoma City voted two
to one against a $:0.O0O,OW road bond
issue. The bonds were still more dis
astrcusly defeated in the country pre-
cinctS.
Hundreds of delegates arrived yes
tertlay in st. Louis for the caucus Of
the American Legion. which convenes
to-day. The proposed organization is
to he nonmrtisan and nonpoliticaL
The aeroplane flight Of the Cana
dian. British and American airmen
across the Atlantic Ocean. from New
Foundland to Great Britain, has again
been postponed OH account Of bad
weather.
The Atlanta. Ga. city white primal
rieS are now open to women. Action
was taken by the Democratic City Ex-
ecutive Committee last week. The vote
of the committee was - to !. Nomi-
nations in the Democratic white
primary elections are nearly always
equivalent to elections.
Edward Hines, lumberman, hearing
last week that the st. LOniS Chamber
| of Commerce was to have 5000 buns;i-
lows built III that city. and having
missed his train. chartered special
| train and made the trip from Chicago
| to st. Iouis-2a5 miles-in 80 min
utes. the fastest time $50 said) ever
made between the two cities.
Several hundred people were arrest
ed in Albuquerque, y. NJ, yesterday
according to Dallas. Texas, dispatch,
Oh suspicion Of not having bought Vic
tory Loan Bonds. Discharged soldiers
served as special officers and all the
courts were convened in extra session
to try the hundreds of suspects Good
humor prevailed in all instances. and
| thousands Of dollars worth of bonds
were sold to the suspected persons.
Lieut.-Col. Theodore Roosevelt, OF
New York. has formally denied the re
port that in the organization of the
proposed American Legion, Union sol
diers of the Civil War will be admitted
| to membership but not Confederate
veterans. Veterans of both armies IN
| the War Between the States will bt
equally welcome in the new organiza
ton Of ex-soldiers. Col. ROOsevels also
stated that his own forbears are mem
hers Of the T.C.v. and the g. A. 4
! organizations. - So III .----.s--,
Baron Shimpei GOto. formerly For
eign Minister Of japan. speaking be
fore the Japan Club in New York Tues
day night, said that Japan sincerel,
meant to return KiaO-Chau-Shantun:
to China after receiving it ut the hands
of the peace conference and wished t.
have it first unreservedly conceded t.
her by the other powers that she nigh
stipulate in returning it to China tina
no third nation should ever have con
cessions granted to it in the peninsula
He expressed an earnest desire TO
China to progress and become inde
pendent in all respects, with the tute
lase and help Of her nearest neighbo
Japan.
4 government report that compare
Civil War advance and decline Il
prices with the World War period Q
price advancement and prospective d.
cline shows much in common of par
Of the two periods. but also consider;
ble differentiation. Prices during tn
Civil War reached, in general, the lew
of prices during the present war an
even went higher in some Instance
The wholesale prices broke sharply In
melliately when the end Of the Civ
War appeared in sight: recovered
a great extent. but again began to d'
, cline during the year 1896. But pr
, war prices were not reached until ISL
! thirteen years after the close Of til
struggle.