The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-07-19
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WashingtOn.-Wage increases ap
prOximating 10 per cent were granted
10 employees of vessels from Atlantic
and gulf ports by the shipping board
The advance, announced after an all
day conference Of shipping board Of
ficials, is expected to end the strike
Of marine engineers, firemen and oil
ers which began last Thursday.
Washington The daylight saving
law was rescued from repeal by
President Wilson's veto OF the agri
cultural appropriation bill.
At the time the president also We
toed the sundry civil appropriation
bill because, he said, by restricting
funds it crippled the work of rehabili-
tatfng and restoring disabled soldiers
and sailors to civil life.
Washington. Investigation of
charges of cruelty to American sol
diers arrested in France and placed
in prisons in and near Paris will be
conducted next week by subcOmmit-
tee of the special house committee in
vestigating war expenditures.
Compilations by the state depart
ment, at the request Of the senate, Of
claims of Americans who have lost
property and life in Mexico, has re-
yealed that only one claim has been
paid since the Diaz administration.
This claim was in the case of John
MCManus. for whose death the Villa
Zapata convention government paid
to the widow $4,000 at the request
of Secretary of State Bryan.
That he had not resigned was q
statement by Postmaster General Bur
Lesson in response to the story sent
broadcast over the country that his
resignation had been placed in the
hands of President Wilson.
There is absolutely no truth in the
statement" said the postmaster gen.
eral to the newspaper correspondents.
you may deny it flatly, and l will be
obligated to you"
Misunderstanding Albert Of Bel
GUM has bestowed the dignity OF
grand officer in the order of the crown
upon former UEited States Senator
James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois in
appreciation of Mr.. Lewis devotion
to the cause of Belgium.
Westinghouse is thought that this
session of congress will see enacted
into law the free port policy of the
United States tariff cimmissiOn, long
ago recommended to congress and
now before that body in bills intro
duCed by Senator Sheppard of Texas
and Representative sanders of Louis
lana and Senator Jones of Washing
ton. Hearings will be held during the
summer by congressional committees.
The postoffice department at Wash
ingtOn has contracted for the erection
Of three high-power radio stations, the
first of chain of wireless communi-
eating centers in various cities, to be
used primarily for the direction of
mail,carrying airplanes handicapped
by fog, it was announced here today
by Emil ]. Simon, manufacturer of
radio apparatus for the war and navy
departments.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
An arrest of white man, vender
of soft drinks at picnic held at Mid |
way Park, west of Temple, was made
Saturday the charge being the sale
Of cider containing TX per cent aIco-
hol. The man did thriving business
while the opportunity lasted, dispos-
ing of fifty gallons of the fluid as
fast as it could be disposed of. Analy-
sis of the liquid showed the presence
of alcohol in prohibited proportion.
BaIlinger, Textile third solid
trainload of grain for the week left
Ballinger. Motor trucks and wagons
are running day and night loading
grain, and the crop is moving to mar
ket fast. 1t is estimated that 1000
cars will be shipped from this county
within the next 30 or 40 days.
Calvert, Tex.-P. Burnett, one Of
the largest planters in the Calvert
section of the BRACES River, sold his
last years crop of cotton of GIT bales
for the sum of 100000 net.
New York.-A report OF alleged jap
anese atrocities in Korea was made
public today at the headquarters of
the Presbyterian Church in America
1t is result OF Investigations by rep
resentatives in Korea of the church
following the Imprisonment of some
of its missionaries by the Japanese
The information from
Korea was transmitted by such means
that it escaped the japanese censors.