, 1919-06-19
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL sou CES
SAYINGS, o o G s. ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERlNes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union new, .ervle..
WESTERN

VI oilt NthA " Shh''h
prices of gasoline and distillate in Cal
%lfornia, Oregon, Washington and Ari-
zona was announced by the tandard
Oil Company here Wednesday,.
w. b. Hutchinson of Walla Walla,
Wash, and Sergeant John Milkowski
of Mather field, Calf, were instantly
killed when an airplane piloted by
Hutchinson fell at II flying field near
Portland.
Sought throughout the West for over
two years, after conviction as Il white
SLAYER and repeated Jail breaks, An
gelo Gleka, alias John Mitchell, a
Greek, wa arrested at Rcdding by fed
eral authorities and taken to San Fran
cisco.
A. j. Fisher, nonunion llneman EN-
ployed by the Dallas Light and Power
Company, was shot and killed in a
clash between strikers sympathizers
and nonunion men taking the places
of striking employees of the company
at Dallas.
One hundred and siXty-One new
laws. including the statute restoring
the death penalty for first degree muir
der nave gone into effect in Washing
ton. Among new laws in effect is one
making it unlawful for boys between
the ages of IS and 81 to possess to-
bacco.
Tests by the State Board of Health
last April II in June, 1918, revealed
physical defects among 1855 per cent
of 53,462 babies examined in the state
of California, according to a report of
the board issued at Sacramento. The
principal physical defects were abnor-
NAL tonsils m adenoids.
Gordon Fawcett Handy, taken to
New York after his arrest in Tacoma,
Wash, on a charge of having shot and
killed two employees of the East Brook
lyn Savings bank when that institu-
ton was robbed of $4,000 last Deem
Der, has confessed to the double STAY
ing, according to District Attorney
Lewis of Kings county.
WASHINGTON
Twelve prisoners have escaped from
the United States Army Disciplinary
Barracks at Fort L~eavenwOrth, accord
ing to u notification from Leaven-
worth.
Attorney General Palmer asked Con-
gress for a special 100000 appropri-
alton to carry on the hunt for anar-
chists, bomb throwers and enemies of
law and order.
Further reduction in the size of the
army to be maintained for the next
fiscal year was tentatively agreed up
on by the House in deciding to base
appropriations for pay and mainten-
ance on an army of 100000 men, in
stead of 100000, as reported by the
House military committee. The War
Department had recommended provi-
sion for an army of 100000.
The nations public debt reached a
new high mark of $50, 921, Isl, 2T0 at
the end of May, an increase. of $1,096,-
649,750 during the month, resulting
from new issues of certificates of in
~debtedness and payments on Victory
Loan subscriptions Ordinary disburse-
ments in May amounted to 1901, 1922
900, only slightly less than the S1,06S,-
2O3,0 20 in the same month last year.
Recommendations that the govern
ment quit building n operating COM
mercial ships at the earliest time prac-
ticable were presented to he Senate
Commerce Committee by the Shipping
Board.
A rider repeating the daylight sav-
ing law, effective when the clocks are
turned back in October, was added to
the agricultural appropriation bill by
the Senate Agricultural Committee.
The vote was unanimous.
Arrangements are being completed
for the return to Germanyand Austria
of $500 enemy aliens now held in in
ternment camps throughout the coun-
try, it was announced at the State De-
partment in Washington. They are to
be deported, it was stated, as soon as
the necessary shipping becomes avail
able.
Abandonment of the navy's extern
sive plans for experimenting with
rigid and non-rlgid types of lighter
than-air flying machines was said by
naval officers to be presaged by the
action of the House naval affairs COM
mittee in cutting the aviation appro-
priation for the navy from S15,000,0 900
to S15,OOO.000.
During the absence of the President
from the country for a period exceed
ing twenty-four hours, the duties of
the office would be performed by the
vice president, under provisions of Il
Joint resolution introduced by Repre-
sentative Walsh, Republican, of Massa-
chusetts.
without a record vote, the Senate
passed the bill of Senator Cummins,
Republican, of Iowa, amending the
railroad control act so as to restore
the rate-making powers of the Inter
state Commerce Commission The
measure now goes to the House.