, 1919-07-24
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPH.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

Girl adets at the Long Beach Poly
technic high school will be drilled with
rifles next year and will be taught to
shoot, according to Col. Charles IL.
Boice, U. S. A, who Ia commandant of
the Reserve Officers Training corps
unit at the school.
Henry NJ. Garcia, prominent San
Jose business man, received probably
fatal injuries and Lieut.. j. NJ. Stanley
OF Minneapolis, the pilot of a passen-
ger-carrying airplane, was badly hurt
when their machine fell in the resi-
dence section of San Jose, Calf.
Ralph b. Harris, alleged bank rob
Der arrested in Denver, who let him
self out of the county Jail at Los An
geles with n key said to have been
stolen from Il jailer, was captured
again at Long Beach and placed in iai,
after he had slashed II patrolman with
q razor.
s. J.. Taylor, a travelling salesman
OF Los Angeles, was severely injured
ant Sgt. Oscar Hottie was badly
bruised when the army airplane which
Hottie was plotting fell several hun
zred feet in East Bakersfield. The
Sane struck the edge of u house and
! tree, which broke the force of the
SaA.
Jud w. Tobias, said by the police
to be a bandit, was heartbroken on his
deathbed when told he had shot his
boyhood chum, Detective Frank Muir
ply, in a revolver duel with detectives
at Omaha. Tobias died in a few hours.
Murphy was shot in the right chest.
He will recover. Murphy and Tobias
hadn't seen each other for several
years until they met at the hospital.
WASHINGTON
In view of the statement by Presi-
dent Wilson hat the railroads would
be returned to their owners Mt the end
of this year, Chairman Esch told the
House interstate IN committee
that it would be useless to consider
plans for a five-year extension of gov
eminent control.
The daylight saving law was rescued
from repeal by President Wilson's ve-
to of the agricultural appropriation
bill. The President also vetoed the
sundry civil appropriation bill because,
he said, by restricting funds it Grip
pied the work of rehabilitating and re-
storing disabled soldiers and sailors to
civil life.
Repeal of the soda water tax has
been decided on by Republican leaders
of the House. The decision will be re-
ferred TO the Ways and Means Com
mittee, which will draft Il repeal
measure. Some leaders predicted the
tax, which levies an impost of 10 per
cent on soft drinks and ice cream,
would be repealed within u month.
Germany increased her stock of gold
during the war but lost $122, 100000
between January LIST and May 18th of
this year according to information OBJ
tanned by the Federal Reserve Board.
The loss vas due to PREPARATIONS made
Belgium and Rumania for gold stolen
from those countries and by shipments
to neutral countries for food. Begin
ming with sos, 100000 in gold at the
outbreak of the war, the German
Reichsbank increased its metal to
$3.50, DOC, 600 at the end of 1918.
The British government has begun
the construction of the largest dirlgi-
BILE that has yet been undertaken, ac-
cording to word received by the air eX-
perts of the American government.
The dirigible will cost $9,000,000. 1t
will carry an equipment of six air
planes for it own protection. 1t will
have a capacity of 100000 cubic feet
and will be LOO feet long.
The railroads of the United States
hauled 4,276,949 troops on special and
regular trains. for an average of $50
miles each in the first six months of
1918, according to statistics made pub
lie by Director General Hines. In adj
dition, probably 100000 officers and
men made railway trips while on fur
Tough and another million were trans
ported from camps to their homes af-
ter discharge, making a total of 1850
900 military passengers accommodated,
in addition to the usual civilian travel.
The military traffic in six months re
quired 100000 train miles and as
mach of the equipment had to be sent
empty in one direction. This figure
should be doubled to express the ag
gregate transportation demand by the
military forces.
The recent decline in beef prices
due to the falling off of the European
demand for American meats, has 81
alarmed livestock and packing inter
ests of the country that the govern
ment has decided to finance ito a lin
tied extent" the expectation of cattle
and cattle products.
Mexican bandits raided villa Union
Sinaloa, killing Gen. Juan Carrasco
federal commander, according to tele
graphic advices received at Nogales
The bandits carried off eleven Mexicoi
girls, looted the stores and committe,
other d~er-odntions.