The Ordway new era., 1919-02-07
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o b IN c 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERlNos. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
EASTERN
Western Newspaper Union rev. service.


with the return of the battle squadrons
from overseas, is now in Hampton
roads preparatory to sailing for Guam
tanamo Bay, Cuba, where winter
naneuvers will be held.
w. p. G. Harding resigned as man
aging director of the war finance cor
poration because of the increasing
pressure of duties as governor of the
Federal Reserve Beard. He was sue
eeeded by Eugene Meyer, Jr., now
iirector, but will retain his office as
4 director of the organization.
Pensions amounting TO total of
nearly $4,000 were paid from the
United States Steel and Carnegie pen
zion fund to about 5000 retired EN-
ployes of the United States Steel Cor
,oration and twenty-nine subsidiary
companies, according to the eighth
annual report on pension fund opera
lions, just issued. A grand total of
H,367.107 has been paid during the
eight years. the report states, begin
aing with s2S1.457 for 1911.
WESTERN
Under suspension OF rules. the Sen
,te of the Idaho Legislature unani-
mously passed memorial petitioning
Congress TO rename the Panama canal
N honor of the late Theodore Roose-
welt.
A young woman and her two chill
1ren were buried alive in landslide
at Ladd. Wash. small mining town
about thirty miles southeast OF Ia
coma, Wash, during the storm OF last
week.
A masked bandit held up the Great
Northern owl train just after it left
Samish, Wash. where he boarded it.
He obtained about $40 from passen-
gers in the day coach. but did not mo-
lest passengers in the sleepers.
The House of the Washington Leg
islature passed a memorial to Con-
gress urging the passage of proposed
bill appropriating S90,Oo0,o0o for road
construction to provide employment
for discharged soldiers and sailors.
Lieut.. George Phelps Leggett, a
young pursuit pilot. whose home is
Fairfield, Iowa. was killed at Ream
field, an army aviation field near San
Diego, where he fell 500 feet in a
scout plane after collision with
another airplane piloted by Lieut.. J..
r. Doolittle.
WASHINGTON
Conferees on the new revenue bill
rescinded their adoption OF the Sem
ate 20 per cent tax on amusements
and 1t went back to the House on a
10 per cent rate.
The treasury at Washington re-
ported total from the sale of War
Savings and Thrift Stamps since they
were placed on the market thirteen
months ago. of $1,049, 100000.
Government control of telephone
and telegraph properties would end
next Dec. 81 under a resolution or
dered favorably reported by the House
postoffice committee by vote of 10
to s. Chairman Moon announced that
he would present the measure in the
House Immediately and ask for rule
to give it right OF way.
bill appropriating s5o,OOO.0OO for
land reclamation to provide work for
the unemployed was introduced by
Senator Jones of Washington.
Mexico and Cuba have resumed dip
lomatic relations, according to reports
in official and diplomatic circles In
Washington. The State Department
however. had no information on the
subject.
Favorable reports on the resolution
for immediate investigation of the
Michigan Newberry-Ford senatorial
campaign was ordered by the Senat,
contingent expenses committee on
strict party vote.
Representative Gillett voiced tn,
first open opposition to seating Vic
tor Berger. He said the refusal t.
seat the Wisconsin Socialist shoul,
be the first act of the next House
because he is guilty of disloyalty.
Orders to shipyards not to begil
work on ships aggregating from /,
100000 to 1.25O.OO0 deadweigh
tons, the keels for which ordinaril
would not have been laid before mex
Aug. /, are now being sent out by til
shipping board.
Marriage by mail for soldiers ovel
seas and their sweethearts in thi
country is permissible under a Wa
Department ruling. The only limits
tion is that the proxy weddings sha
not be countenanced where state law
make the contracts, invalid.
A favorable report was ordered b
the Senate foreign relations commi
tee on resolution by Senator Kin
OF Utah. asking for information fror
the State Department regarding wha
steps had been taken to adjust claim
of Americans growing out OF Mexica
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