The Benson signal., 1919-08-23

WESTERN
The Senate has ordered an investl-
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.
Canadian cannon, which fired the
last shots at the Germans on armis-
tice day, November 18th, were pre-
sented to the village of Mons, Bel
gium, with elaborate ceremonies.
Seven persons were killed and thir-
ty-four injured in collision between
an express train and a troop train in
France The express was running
from Paris to Nancy and Strasbourg.
French pilots and observers killed
and wounded during the war aggre-
gated 60 per cent of the total flying
personnel of slightly less than 1900
men. The percentage Of loss was
greater than that of any other branch
of the French army.
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.
Parliament buildings were stoned by
crowd of 1000 workmen at LuXem-
berg, during a demonstration caused
by the fact that the indemnity voted
by the Chamber of Deputies to meet
the high cost of living was deemed
insufficient. Some of the manifestants
were driven out when fired upon by
the gendarmes.
A congressional investigation of the
charges of Glenn e. Plumb, author of
labOrs 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-
ton of 100000 to carry on the work.
WASHINGTON
President Wilson has again vetoed
the bill repeating the daylight saving
law.
President Wilson was asked in a
resolution introduced by Chairman
Good of the appropriation committee
to report to the House what use was
made of the $1OO,O0O,000 fund appro-
priated by Congress for relief of the
destitute people of Europe.
General increases of about 80 per
cent in the cost of living during the
period from December, 1914, to June,
lie by the Department of Labor. The
tables were based on Investigations in
various representative cities over the
country.
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.
600 Polish Jews have asked permission
to go to America. It is expected that
there will be q great number of emf
grants leaving central Europe soon for
America
A 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 ami
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"
Casualties we're higher among Off
GERS than among enlisted men; higher
among regular officers than among
emergency officers; higher in the in.
4fantry than in any other branch OF
uhe service, and higher among West
Point graduates than among other
regular officers, according to a War
Department statement issued in Wash
ington.
A nationwide government campaign
against tuberculosis is provided in q