Arizona state miner., 1919-08-22

WESTERN
The Senate has ordered an investi-
cation into alleged profiteering in coal
and into charges of conspiracy to keep
up prices.
The CarranZa government will not
be permitted to import further arms
and munitions from the United States
for the present at least.
Plans have been perfected for a
$15O,000 motor speedway at Dalworth,
midway between Dallas and Fort
Worth, Texas, and construction will
start Immediately.
Five persons, a man, woman and
three children, were killed when a
Michigan Central passenger train
struck the automobile in which they
were riding near Lawton, Mich.
Appointment of Joseph E. Murphy,
now in charge of the White House Sc
cret service corps, as assistant chief of
the United States secret service, has
been announced at the treasury. He
succeeds w. H. Moran, recently pro-
noted to be chief of the service
Twenty-one foreigners, including
Americans, Spaniards, Cubans and
citizens of the Argentine republic,
have been expelled from Mexico re-
Gently by order of the Carranza gov
ernment officials, according to Ell Dia
Espanol, the Spanish paper in Mexico
City, under date of Aug. 6. Miscon-
duct while in Mexico was given as the
reason for the deportations.
A congressional investigation Of the
charges of Glenn e. Plumb, author of
labor'S plan for the naturalization of
railroads, that Wall street has system
atically plundered practically all the
roads of the country was asked in a
resolution introduced in the House by
Representative Huddleston, Alabama
The resolution carries an appropria-
tion of 100000 to carry on the work
WASHINGTON
The International Labor Conference
provided for in the peace treaty has
been called by President. Wilson to
meet in Washington, October 29th.
Casualties were higher among Off
GERS than among enlisted men, higher
among regular officers than among
emergency officers; higher in the in
fantry than in any other branch of
the service, and higher among West
Point graduates than among other
regular officers, according to a War
Department statement issued in Wash
ington.
The allied governments have in
formed the Austrian government that
it will be held responsible for Bella
Kun, the Hungarian communist leader,
and for his delivery for trial by an al
lied tribunal, according to a dispatch
from Innsbruck. Bella Kun, it is added,
will be tried for hanging and shooting
Hungarians during his reign in Buda-
pest.
The Belgian government has under
taken vast project for reclaiming the
devastated farm lands in the battle
zone. The farms will be taken over
from their owners and worked under
the latest scientific principles and
then returned in first-class condition
to them. Owners are to be paid per
cent interest on the prewar valuation
OF the property during operation by the
government
1t is reported from Warsaw that 40
900 Polish Jews have asked permission
to go to America. 1t is expected that
there will be great number of emf
grants leaving central Europe soon for
America.
number of saloons which have
been closed since Los Angeles went dry
in April, 1918, are reported to be open
and selling 2.75 per cent beer, and
many of the soft drink places also
are disposing of the beverage. Under
an opinion by the city attorney, saloon
licenses again will be issued. The city
attorney bases his action on the IA
vorable decision recently given by
United States Judge Bledsoe.
Request that the secretary of war
declare a surplus of motor trucks and
automobiles held by the department in
this country and to sell them immedi-
ately at reasonable prices, is made in
a resolution introduced by Representa-
tive GoOdy Koontz, Republican, West
Virginia. The resolution specifically
calls upon the secretary for a state
ment as to why no surplus has been
declared heretofore and why the cars
''were allowed to stand out in the
weather"