Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-03-15


tiles put the number of Americans dis
abled in the war at 100000. OF this
number it is estimated that $4,000 will
be able to return to their old occu-
pations, leaving 10000 who need train
ing for work suited to their MANNED
condition.
! 1t is claimed that a harmless and eff
| fective substitute for morphine has
been developed by experts in the Kan
sas university department of pharm-
acy.
After she had sued for divorce
charging her husband had gone JOY
riding through the air with another
woman. Mrs. Gertrude Cantwell has
asked the court to enjoin Alfred 5.
Cantwell, member of the Aero Club of
Chicago, her husband, from taking his
acroplane from the hangar.
WASHINGTON.
| The federal reserve board in It's
Forthcoming monthly bulletin says that
all classes must sharx in the results
of REIMBURSEMENT, including wage and
price matters, soon to be expected.
Appropriation CT 100000 as q
scholarship fund to induce graduate
nurses released from the army and
navy nurse corps to train for public
health nursing, is announced by the
American Red Cross. A maximum
scholarship of 5000 will be granted for
an eight months course of training
and $500 for four months course.
Claims filed by American citizens
and concerns with the state depart
ment against Germany and Austria
Hungary total about S150,0O0,O00, the
state department has announced.
| According to figures just issued by
General March, American troops actu-
ally participating in engagements
against the Huns tOtaled 100000 of,
ficers and men. Battle casualties, in
| Guiding killed in action, wounded and
missing and prisoners, tOtaled 240.197.
A total of 1861 ,52S Officers and men
have been discharged since the armis-
| tice was signed.
David II. Francis, former American
| ambassador to Russia, testifying be-
! fore the senate committee Investigate
ing lawless propaganda. warned that
should the Bolsheviki be permitted to
remain in power, all Russia would be
exploited by the Germans.
Secretary Daniels and party of
American naval experts will leave for
70 Ill
with allied naval officials the best
type of capital warships to be built
in the future, based on tho lessons
gained in the war.
FOREIGN.
With utter ruthlessness, working on
the theory that no price IN lives is
too high to pay for saving the father
land from anarchy and chaos, War
Minister Noske has put down the
Spartacan rebellion and Berlin is quiet
and orderly again, though somei of
its principal streets and squares re-
semble the bloodiest battlefields in
France.
Ex-Queen Sophia of Greece, sister
of the ex-kaiser, is compelled to pawn
her jewels to help out her husband,
ex-King Constantine, who is FLAT
broke" says Geneva dispatch.
Two hundred Spartacides taken
prisoners in the past weeks rebellion
were summarily executed by govern
ment troops at Berlin on Friday. They
were lined up against the wall, one
by one. 1t was the grimmest and most
gruesOme wholesale execution In Ger
man history.
The Szecho- Slovak military COM
mand has proclaimed a state of siege
throughout SlOvakia as the result of
German plot, according to the news
paper at Pressburg.
The supreme council has appointed
commission to investigate the question
of the German cables, proposal con-
corning which was submitted to the
council by Secretary of State Lansing,
The Bolshevist government of Russia
is preparing law decreeing that all
professionals and artists must work
rograd advices,
The Duchess Of Marlborough, for
| merly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt of
New York, was elected to the county
council from the North division of
Southwark by large majority over
her opponent labor candidate. She
stood for election as progressive.
George H. Roberts, the food minis
ter, speaking at Newcastle, England,
said that he could state on unimpeach-
able authority that the situation with
regard to food conditions in great
areas of Europe was tragic.
/ Chancellor Scheidemann has handed
his resignation to President Ebert to
enable the president to have free
hand to deal with the present situa-
ton, according to the Zeitung am Nit
tag of Berlin.
According to the Daily Nails Paris