, 1919-07-10
The WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoiNGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union news p.rvics.
WESTERN

Nebr., when an automobile carrying
a party of seven was struck by u fast
Burlington passenger train at a grade
crossing.
The Union Pacific is figuring on
moving One-fourth of the Kansas
wheat crop, which means 5 7,00O,00O
bushels, calling for 10000 cars, ac-
cording to w. NJ. letters of Omaha,
general manager of the Union Pacific.
Twelve miners are known to be
dead and three more are expected to
die as a result of an explosion in a
mine of the Rock Island Coal Con
pany at Anderson, Okla, five miles
east of McAlester, Okla.
AS a means of reducing delays in
cidental to making change in war tax
payments, the San Francisco mint is
working tw~enty-four hours daily max
Ing 100000 pennies monthly, to
go as far east as Chicago.
Altho the supply of men for work
In the harvest fields of Kansas is nor
NAL, 1t must increase Immediately. and
5000 workers can be placed at once,
according to an announcement by A..
L.. DulhllluH, ulItClDI VI the Ollltu
States employment service at Kansas
City.
Entire villages of natives on the
Seward peninsula, Alaska, were wiped
out by Influenza last winter, accord
ing to accounts brought to Seattle by
Capt. ]. Il. Guptil of the steamer Sen
ator, which has just completed their
first round trip of the season to Nome,
Alaska.
Travellers arriving from Nome say
that indications point to n larger gold
output from this district this season
than last. On the benches of the Snake
river, flowing close to Nome, u new
strike was reported to have consider
able merit. On Dry creek, flowing thru
the town of Nome itself, several dredg-
ing outfits expected to have a profit
able season.
Approval of a $40,OOO,00O state
highway bond issue by an overwhelm-
ing majority was indicated by partial
returns received from every section of
California. The vote was running APP
proximately six to N in favor of the
issue. The bond issue contemplates
the addition of 1910 miles improved
roads to the state highway system and
the completion of $50 miles of work
begun under previous bond issues.
The use of Camps Meade, Custer,
Bowie, Funston and Jackson and Fort
Oglethorpe as rehabilitation centers
will be discontinued after July 10, the
Wal Department at Washington has
nnnnnnRaH rannn linton will hn die
continued as a debarkation camp and
Boston and Charleston as debarkatlon
ports after July Is. This action was
taken, it was explained, because of the
greatly reduced number of men return
ing from overseas.
WASHINGTON
Orders for the Rehabilitation of the
army by Sept. 80 to the peace-time
strength of approximately 233,30S of
ficers and men authorized by the ma
tional defense act nave been issued by
the War apartment.
Air mail service between New York
and Chicago has been inaugurated
with a six-hour service. The first
plane left New York at 5:15 a. M,
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123 miles an hour and there transfer
red its mail to another plane which
reached Cleveland at $50 a. IN in
time to transfer the mail to III regu-
lar Cleveland-to- Chicago machine.
With the peace treaty signed and
the German blockade about to be lift
ed, wide differences of opinion have
arisen among administration officials
and international authorities as to
just when the United States can re-
sumo commercial relations with Ger
many.
Orders ave just been placed by the
army quartermaster corps for 105, 900
yards-sixty miles-of silk ribbon, out
of which will be made the service
stripes that men who served in the
war with Germany are entitled to
wear The badge carries all the colors
of the allied countries on n one-inch
strip, n they blend from n deep pur-
pie thru shades of blue II yellow,
and then back again. They will he
available for delivery to those entitled
to wear them in about three weeks.
Secretary Wilson is asked in a
resolution adopted by the house to
report the activities of officials and
employees of the labor department in
connection with the case of Thomas
]. Mooney, convicted in California, in
connection with the Preparedness day
bomb explosions.
The United States employment SER
vice will not be forced to go out of
existence entirely. An appropriation
of 100000, enough to maintain an or
ganlzation in Washington, but not suf-
ficient for n field service, was de-
oidad unon by conference