Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-27
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Aliens would be barred from ac-
quiring titles or lands in Iowa by a
bill introduced in the state senate.
The woman suffrage resolution,
beaten four times by the senate, was
reintroduced by Senator Jones, WASH
ington.
The lower branch of the New York
legislature has called upon all emf
ployers in New York state to give re-
turning soldiers. their former positions.
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The senate passed the annual rivers
and harbors bill, carrying appropria-
tions of 500, COCOON or $6Ooo,OO0 more
than the original house measure.
The gentlemen in the senate who
are setting out to defeat this league
Of nations are those Il would not trust
over night, former President William
II. Taft said at San Francisco.
All teachers in public, private and
parochial schools of Nebraska must
be American citizens, according to the
provisions Of bill passed by the
lower branch Of the state legislature
General Ludendorff, the former head
Of the German military system, who
sought asylum in Sweden after the
German revolution, will be obliged to
leave that country, according to re-
ports.
A note insinuating that occupation
Of German territory was not due to
military superiority, was handed in
recently to the allied armistice come
mission ny the German delegates, &C.
cording to Amsterdam advices.
Herbert Hoover, speaking before
the Anglo Franco-American club at
Paris, declared that the Germans
should be compelled to restore COW
for cow, Of the herds they have taken
In the devastated countries.
Kansas City, Kans., is, to erect a.
public memorial for soldiers Of the
city who fought in the recent war, ac-
cording to a statement made by Mayor
Mandenhall at the Trans Mississippi
Read jjHHstment Congress at Omaha.
Director General Piez of the Emer-
gency Fleet corporation has recon-
mended the sale of the first twenty
five ships to be completed at the Hog
Island yards. The American Interna-
tional corporation has offered $42,-
100000 Piez said.
A bill for establishing military
cemetery in France to be known as the
American Field of Honor for mem
bers of the American expeditionary
force, who died abroad, was ordered
favorably reported by the senate MIL
1tary committee.
The announcement that American
and allied troops are soon to leave
Russia brought expressions of ap-
prevail from members of congress, in
Guiding Senator johnson of California.
republican, who has been pressing his
resolution providing for declaration
by the senate in favor Of withdrawal
of the American forces.
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New York led in army strength with
367 1854 men; Pennsylvania second,
had 297, 891; Illinois, 51,O74 and Ohio
2OO,293. Mid-western states furnish
ed the following number of soldiers: 4
Iowa, 37,731'; Nebraska, 1895; Mon
tana, 30,293: Colorado, 34,s98; South
Dakota, 29,6s8; North Dakota, 25,sO3
and Wyoming, il, 1903.
Although congress has appropriated
s48, 800 900 to assist the states in
road-building, less than forty-five
miles of highway have been construct
ed under the federal aid plan. These
figures were made public by the de-
partment of labor as part of it's cam
paign to stimulate revival of public
works construction as al Offset to I'M
employment.
The steamship Leviathan, the .larp-
est vessel nfioat, left New York for
Europe with the largest contingent OF
relief workers ever sent overseas. The
party, which Will aid the 1900, 900 des-
titutes of the Near East, consisted
chiefly Of women and was preceded
by equipment for fifteen hospitals
food, clothing and portable buildings
60 motor trucks 81 ether material
The supplies aPs vespsA - more than
s35OO, 900.