Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-11-08
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
President Wilson's Improvement has
reached a point where his physicians
have decided to issue no more daily
bulletins. This was announced in the
following statement: The presidents
improvement steadily continues. He is
eating, leeping, digesting and assim-
ilating we'll. His present improve
ment has now reached a point where
it is not considered necessary to issue
daily bulletins. The people of the
country will be promptly advised OF
any change in his condition"
King Albert and President Wilson
clasped hands Thursday. The meeting
at the presidents bedside, brief as it
was, proved the climax of the Ameri-
can visit Of the Belgian monarch, and
he left Washington a happy man, to
sail for home on the transport George
Washington, which brought him to
this country. From the day he land
ed the pleasure of his tour has been
marred by anxiety over the presidents S
condition and he abandoned hopes of
being able to see him.
Completing its permanent organlza-
ton with election of Secretary OF
Labor Wilson of the United States as
president, the international labor con-
ference Friday proceeded to the tOrmu-
lation of a program of work with
appointment of a committee Of selec-
ton to act as a steering committee. -
Dissenting in many important re-
spects from the program recommended
by ten war department and the general
staff, General Pershing Friday told
the military committees of congress
that 100000 men, raised entirely by
voluntary enlistment, should be the
outside figure considered for stand
ing army.
Representative Blanton of Texas
Tuesday introduced a bill to penalize
strikes called under certain circum'
stances, to punish certain seditious
acts against the government, and to
prohibit the use of the mails in fur
therance of such act. A fine of $4,000
and Imprisonment for maximum OF
two years is proposed when two or
more persons enter an agreement
first, to prevent or restrain any other
person from seeking or engaging in
work of any kind for railroads or boats
carrying United States mail, or en-,
gagged in interstate traffic; second
where the interference applies to the
movement of the mails or interstate
traffic by boat or rail; and third, to
interfere with the movement of the
trains or the boats.
Additional measures to curb activi
ties of radicals were introduced Tues
day in the house. Under the provis
ions of a bill by Representative Smith
of Michigan, the display of red flag
at any public assembly or demonstra
ton would be prima facie evidence
of it's use as an emblem of anarchy
The measure provides punishment OF
five years Imprisonment and $1,000
fine.
AS national president of the Ameri
can Red Cross, President Wilson Mon
IN nj
formally indorsed the third Red Cross
roll call, Nov. to II. The announce
ment follows: "As president Of the
United States and as president Of the
American Red Cross, recommend and
r~ge a generous response to the third
Red Cross roll call, yThich opens Nov
with the observance of Red Cross
Sunday and appropriately closes on
November II, the first anniversary OF
the signing of the armistice.
Official information received in
Washington from Mexico City indi
Gates that Carranze soldiers unques
tionably were Implicated in the kid
naping of William O. Jenkins, the
American consular agent at Puebla
who was abducted on October 10 and
released only after his friends in
Puebla had paid to the kidnapers
$3.50, 900 in American gold.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Rescue teams Friday recovered the
bodies OF six miners who were en-
tombed in mine No. 2 of the Yough
iogheny and Ohio Coal Company al
Amsterdam, Ohio, near Steubenville
All had been suffocated by smoke OF
gas and had not been touched by the
fire which has been burning in the
mine since Wednesday.