The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-05-02
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM


On the ground that they conspired
TO defeat the Victory Liberty loan in
| Alaska by attempting to intimidate
the territorial senate, the Alaskan SEN
ate by unanimous vote recommended
the United States to prosecute Mayor
| r. L. Petty, III. Nuxon, agent of the
| Deep Sea Fishermen's union, and III.
| V. Hendricksen, secretary of the
| Alaska Labor union, all of Ketchikan.
American newspaper correspOn-
dents in Paris have addressed formal
letter to the members of the Ameri-
| can peace delegation requesting that
they secure for the correspondents the
privilege of attending the first meet
ing of the allied and German peace
ENJOYS. They also ask permission to
talk with a spokesman for the Ger
man delegates from time to time.
The Franklin mine at Houghton,
Mieh has been closed down. Tram
mers will take out broken rock, but
otherwise the mine, the second to sus-
pend operations in recent months, will
be idle. Operation is said to have
been found Improbable since the gov
eminent ceased fixing copper prices.
& Il
Germany has instructed the Argen- |
tine government to deliver interned |
German steamers to the United States, |
no ,,t
Aires has announced its readiness to |
take over the vessels. The Argentine |
cabinet has given instructions accord |
ingly, and the transfer is expected in
a few days.
Among the casuals arriving at New |
York this week ON the Panama was
Lieut. Otto /. Kass of Briton, S. D.,
said to be the oldest aviator who serv
ed with the American expeditionary
forces. Lieutenant Kass, an attorney,
is AZ. He is officially credited with
downing one German plane and his as
sociates say that he downed two 9TH
erS.
In the presence of only few
friends and relatives, Miss Margaret
Carnegie, only daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, and Ensign
Roswell Miller, United States navy,
were married at the Carnegie home in
New York. The couple probably will
make their home in Princeton, N. j.,
where the bridegroom is to take two
year course in Princeton university.
merchantmen does not intend to Sacri-
flee any vessels merely in order to dis
pose of them.
All bids received by the shipping
board for four steel reconstructed lake
steamers have been rejected as being
too low and the steamers will again
be advertised for sale. 1t was stated
that the board in its sale of war built
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By the end of October shipbuilding
operations in Portland will have ended,
according to present indications, so jos
seph ]. BOwles, president of the North
west Steel company, told a conference
of shipbuilders held in Portland at
the call of Mayor Baker. From 3d.
900 to $4,000 men will be thrown out
of employment in Portland alone, Mr..
Bowies declared.
Brig. Gen. Richard M. Blatchford
seventh ranking brigadier in the Unit
ed States regular army and at present
commander of the Panama canal zone,
has been assigned as commanding gen
eral of Camp Lewis, according to war
department orders. Arrival of General
is not expected for several
weeks, as the order directs that he
shall proceed to Camp Lewis upon re-
lease from duty at Panama.
* &
More than 1900 Willys-Overland
employees have received $780,
300 in checks in the company's first /
of the profits under the I
$3.50 profit sharing plan announced /
last january
Six ships lssded to capacity with !
American officers and men-14, 446 in /
all arrived In View York on Easter t
Sunday. Two Ok the ships which ar /
rived were German liners, ZEPPELIN and '
Graf Waldsrsee, making their first I
trips since they were turned Over - i
he United States. ~