Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-05-29

announced tnaC no cOntrlDutlOn OIL
more than $1,000 would be accepted to
finance the coming campaign.
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In order to insure. delivery farmers
Of the United States are being urged
by the government to place their or.
ders for binder Irvine Immediately.
It Is reported that one Russian
cruiser was sunk with nearly all her
crew when British warships attacked
"a bolshevik fleet off the Finnish coast.
A bill has been introduced in con-
gress calling upon the government to
release all food supplies now in stor-
age except those needed for the gov
eminent.
The lower house of congress again
endorsed the Susan B. Anthony suf-
frage amendment. The senate is ex-
pected to act on the resolution in q
short time.
The San Francisco Bulletin has es-
tablished a regular daily airplane de-
livery Of newspapers to Richland,
CAL, about twenty miles from San
Francisco.
Figures published in Berlin papers
show that German war losses up to
April 80, last, were 2,05O, 400 dead,
4,2O7 OPS wounded and 615.922 prison.
ers, total Of 6,S73,41O.
Paris reports state that nine men,
bers Of the American peace commits
sion have offered their designations
as the result of dissatisfaction with
terms of the peace treaty.
No word has been received as to
the fate of Harry G. Hawker and M.
Grieve who disappeared on their at
tempted flight in a Sopwith plane
from Newfoundland to Ireland.
The International Congress of wo-
men in session at Zurich, voted to
call worldwide strike of women If
another war is declared, even if it is
sanctioned by the league of nations.
Nothing has been heard Of Harry
Haw.ker or Mackenzie Grieve, Aus
tralian aviators, who started from
Newfoundland in a Sopwith biplane,
in an attempt to fly across the At
1antic,
The American seaplane NC-3, which
was missing for two days on the
flight from Newfoundland to the
Azores, made the port of Ponta Del
gada unaided, but in a damaged con-
dition.
Father Ernest V. Shaler of Seattle,
Wash. was nominated by Episcopal
delegates in session at Omaha as
bishop Of the Nebraska diocese to
succeed Bishop A. L. Williams, who
died recently.
Governors McKelvie of Nebraska
and Allen of Kansas and a large del
egation of home folks welcomed Me-
braska and Kansas troops of the
Eighty-ninth division when they ar
rived at New York.
CALIFORNIA; 1919 vintage of $4,000
acres of wine grapes, valued at $1O,-
100000, will be saved If President
Wilson'S recommendation to repeal
the wartime prohibition law is fol-
lowed by congress.
The army worm, which gets its
name from the fact that it often
moves in immense hordes, leaving a
trail of destruction, has appeared in
large numbers in Texas, destroying
wheat and oats.
British newspapers bitterly criti-
cized the government for failure to
extend any aid to Aviators Hawker
and Grieve, who have been given up
for lost in their attempted flight from
Newfoundland to Ireland.
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One hundred thousand independent
socialists staged demonstration in
Berlin in favor of immediate peace.
They bore numerous red flags and
banners with the inscription, 1--WE
want only peace, bread and work"
BY a vote Of 227 to 17e Representa-
tive Gillett of Massachusetts, was
elected speaker of the lower house of
the new congress over Representative
Champ Clark Of Missouri, democratic
candidate and former speaker.
The Paris treaty will go down in
history showing that the United
States, whose entrance into the war,
according to the enemy's own .admis-
sion, caused his defeat, receiving not
a single advantage, pecuniary, terri
torially or any other way through the
victory it helped achieve. Practically
every other belligerent is shown by
the peace treaty as profiting by the
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