, 1919-01-23
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
sHoWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
Revolutionist forces in Santarem,
northeast of Lisbon, having refused to
surrender, government troops sur
rounded the town and commenced a
bombardment.
Official figures now are available
for the first time showing the full
extent to which American ships trans
ported the American army of approx
nlately 2,079 900 men to Europe.
The naval academy course, which
was reduced to three years during
the war, was restored to the normal
period of four years Monday by order
of Secretary of the Navy Daniels.
A message was received in Wash
for the Czecho-S lovak republic from
DR.. Benes, Czecho-S lovak foreign min
lister, saying there was nc truth in the
report that he has resigned.
Enemy prisoners of war will get a
chance to rebuild what they have
wrecked in France, according to a de-
cision of the French cabinet. The
prisoners will be employed at once on
reconstruction work in the devastated
regions. Two hundred thousand are
expected to be laboring by March 20.
Thousands of Italian and Austrian
war prisoners are planning to com
to America as soon as possible, John
b. Densmore, director of the Federal
Employment Service, told the House
immigration Committee at the begin
ming of hearings on bills to prohibit
immigration.
Bolshevist agitation in the United
States shows nc promise of reaching
a stage of open disorder, according to
Department of Justice officials, who
have been observing the movement. So
far the movement, evidently mainly
in New York, is economic, rather than
political in nature, they declare, and
organizers have kept well within the
law.
WESTERN
Rehabilitation of returning soldiers
from other camps is now on in Camp
Kearny in full swing.
Twenty-seven returned soldiers are
to be made Seattle police officers,
when they pass the civil service ex-
animation.
Charges of assault and disorderly
conduct were placed against eight of
the alleged Industrial Workers Of the
World who were arrested in Seattle
when police interference with a "red
flag" meeting and parade here re-
suited in a riot.
A fire believed to be of incendiary
origin which started in the plant of
the Jennings Automobile Company
and spread to the buildings of the
Hudson Bay Company and the Nc
Clary Manufacturing Company,
caused damage estimated at $1,000,-
600 at Montreal.
A daring "cracksman" worked for
four hours in the box office Of the Salt
Lake theater, just across the street
from the police station, finally break
ing open the safe of the playhouse
and making way with 5000 in cash.
While he worked the theater watch
man sat tied to a chair with his back
to the safe.
Dynamite was placed on the tracks
in front of one street car in Kansas
City, a dynamite cap was found in
front of another car and bullets were
fired through the windows of four
other cars. No one was hurt. The
disorders were in connection with the
strike of a men of the Kansas City
Railways Company which began a
month ago.
WASHINGTON
Attorney General Thomas W. Greg
DRY has rendered his resignation, to
take effect March a.
Forms for reporting incomes If S5,-
900 or less PROBABLY will be n the
hands of revenue collectors for dis
tribution to taxpayers not later than
February 1.
Service insignia for members of
welfare agencies on duty with the or
ganized forces of the army overseas
will be provided for in an order issued
by the War Department.
The smallest army compatible with
national safety is to be the demand
of Congress when it takes up the reg
ulation plan just submitted to the
House and Senate leaders by Secre-
harry of War Baker.
Orders directing Major General
Leonard Wood, now commanding
Camp Funston, Kansas, to proceed to
Chicago to take command of the Cen
trail Department were issued Wednes-
day by the War Department.
The $27, 100000 rivers and harbors
appropriations bill was passed by the
House by n vote of 228 to 81. The
bill now goes to the Senate in vir-
tually the same form as it was re-
ported by the House rivers and har-
bors committee.
A. P. Thorn, general counsel of the
Association of Railway Executives,
supplementing before the Senate In
terstate Commerce Committee the
statement presented on behalf of the
railroads last week advocating legisla-
ton for return of the roads to their
owners, emphasizes dangers to the
rights of the owners through contin-
ued government control.
A pension of S., 900 a year and free
use of the mails would be granted to
Mrs. Edith Roosevelt, widow of for
ner President Roosevelt, under a bill
introduced in the Senate by Senator
Smoot of Utah.