, 1919-05-15
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o G s, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

me lISl hleAlchn Dull light WHICH
has been held on the Mexico border in
six years was staged at Matamoras,
Mexico, opposite Brownsville, Texas,
Sunday afternoon.
The first carload of wheat from I'M
perial Valley of the 1919 crop vas
shipped by f. T. Anderson from Draw
ley, Calf. -Four hundred carloads will
follow within a few days.
John Greber, a farmer living near
White Deer, Texas, shot and killed his
mother and a younger sister, wounded,
probably fatally, an older sister, and
then shot himself. He is expected to
die. The cause of the tragedy is I'M
known.
Patrol of national forests by army
airplanes to give early warning of for
est fires, will begin June 1, with the
Inauguration of two patrol routes from
March field, near Riverside, Calf, &C
cording to announcement by h forest
service of the Department of Agricul-
ture.
Chief of Police Ralph Gibbons was
shot and fatally wounded at The DIAL
les, Ore, by Edward Primrose, when
the officer sought to arrest him for
completely in the robbery of a Wash
ougal, Wash, bank. Gibbons was shot
twice through the body and died an
hour later.
A trans-Pacific flight is being urged
by army and nav aviators. According
to reach Honolulu after stops on IL
to reach Honolulu after stoys on n
mld-Pacific island. From there there
would be plenty of South Sea islands
available for service stations" in the
flight to the Asiatic shore.
Making one of the largest hauls of
contraband drugs known to this state,
two customs officials raided the place
of Go Sam, securing fifteen cans of
opium and other drugs, valued at
about $1,000, at Stockton, Calf. Sew
eral arrests were made in connection
with the raid, it was announced.
An Omaha man whose name was
given by the sheriff's office as Jess
Poland ven to Waverly, Neb., near
Lincoln, shot and killed Daniel Head
ley, a railroad man of that place,
wounded Mrs. Headley and then end
ed his own life. Mrs. Headley, at a
hospital here, said her attempted
slayer wanted her to marry him, and
that he committed the crime because
she had married another, a
WASHINGTON
Col. Arthur Woods has warned EN-
ployers to hire as many extra men
now as possible to protect themselves
against n coming tremendous labor
shortage. American labor, he declared,
will be short 100000 men and women
this year, due largely to the fact that
Immigration has been vastly reduced.
President Wilson, in an executive
order cabled from Paris, has directed
the Civil Service Commission to ex-
empt soldiers, sailors and marines
from physical requirements for any
civil service position upon certifica-
ton by the Federal Board of voca-
tional Education hat the applicant
has beer specially trained and quail
fled for the position.
A nonstop flight from Macon, Ca,
to Washington, $50 miles, was made in
six hours and fifteen minutes by n
Martin bombing plane, carrying a bale
3f cotton.
May day enlistrnents in the United
States school garden army brought
Che total number of children enrolled
70 nearly 100000, including members
% the United States, Hawaii INT the
Philippines.
Senators Borah of Idaho and John
son of California Issued statements
criticizing the plan of the War Depart
ment to recruit 5000 men to serve as
replacement troops for the American
forces now in Siberia. Senator Borah
declared 1t was deliberate murder
20 send the men to Siberia.
The greatest crop of winter wheat
ever produced in any country is in
prospect for his years harvest. To-
days forecast of production, estimated
by the Department of Agriculture,
placed its size at almost nine hundred
million bushels-in exact figures, $780,
315, 0O0-which would make this years
harvest worth $2,034, 900, 900 at the gov
ernment's price guarantee of 1925 a
bushel.
= Commissioner Hywel Davies has
been assigned by the Department of
Labor TO attempt settlement of a strike
of 1000 miners at Park City, Utah,
who have quit work, demanding n six
hour day with wages of $3.50.
| General Pershing's secret battle map
how is on exhibition in the National
Museum, having recently been brought
90 Washington and set up exactly as
It was in his headquarters In France.
Its historical value is regarded as
great because 1t shows the correct bat
tie line from the time America entered
the war until hostilities ceased.