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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 a special train
OF twenty-sIx cars. The weight Of the
shipment Is 2.2i0.000 pounds.
Never before has the demand for
dried prunes been so great as now.
or the price 80 high; and seldom has
the prospect for crop In the Will
lamette valley. Oregon. been 30 bright,
according to Eugene buyers OF fruit.
George A. Roberts OF Omaha has
cleared 100000 profit in corn in the
last five days, according TO current re-
ports. Roberts is said TO have broken
pool OF Chicago market manipulators
and to have beaten Jesse Llyermore Of
New York. ...
BY order OF Gov Thomas Riggs, jr.,
the Cordova. Alaska, Home Guards
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
flcer at Post field, Lawton, Okla, fell
10 his death at Call field, his machine
going into 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 nun.
her 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 90l
passed both houses. OF this number
800 were assembly killed.
Exclusion Of about S4,J10 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 8S0I5 acres
Ia Mono and Basin counties, Calfor.
mia, and lG,495 acres In Esmeralda
county. Nevada, all of semi-desert
character II will be subject to home
stead entry at and after O'Clock a.
m. July l, and TO other disposition on
and after July g.
WASHINGTON
Maj. Gen. Chase w. Kennedy has
been detailed TO command the Pan
anna canal department, relieving Brig
Gen. Richard NJ. Batchford, who will
be assigned to duty ut Western
camp.
The first contingent of 1000 recruits
enlisted by the War Department foi
foreign service to relieve men In the
army Of occupation, have left Camp
Meade for New York preparatory to
embarklng With this first unit viii
20 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
2,0o0,000 tons Of steel ships contracted
for during the war has been an
nouneed by Chairman Hurley. At III,
same time the chairman said cancel
latlon OF all contracts where kecs hat
not actually been laid was under con
sideraion in order to build ut peac,
prices instead Of at high war figures
Ern g, Eagleson was elected mayor
of Boise, TO succeed s. ii. Hays. Johr
Mcmillan. the defeated candidate, los
the election by 5Tl votes.
General Pershlng notified the wa
department OF the decoration OF tn,
following American organizations b,
the French government Fourrager,
of colors Of ribbon OF Crolx de Gnerre
One Hundred and Third aero squadron
and ambulance units $50 and 625
fourragere of colors of ribbon o
medaille milltaire. ambulance unit GAG
Increases In payroils of sariou
classes Of railway employees durln
government control were shown in de
tail by railroad administration re
port, giving members employed In eac
class. days and hours worked, pay Il
the aggreate per day and per houl
and the rate of adyance. as OF Deceu
Der, 1917, the last month OF priyat
operation, and January. 1919. In tn
thirteen months between the two date
the number OF employees rose fror
1.7030O0 to 1.s4s.OOO, or 81 per cen
The aggregate pay rolls for all elasse
rose from $l53.039,O00 In DecembcI
1917, to s230, 0O.0O0 last January, wit
the average rate Of pay increase 4S pc
cent.
Announcement was made In Ne,
York by John Barrett, director gener,
Of the Pan-American union. that IN
pan-Amsrican commercial conferenc
will be held In Washington from Jun
2 TO 8. Representatives from twent.
one American republics are expecte
to attend