The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-01-24

vance y. N1cOOTfu1ck uiS
us clldlriiian Ut the democratic ma
tiOnal committee.
President Wilson has appointed
Walker ID. Hines as director general
OF railroads to succeed William C..
NcAdoo.
Eighty thousand German helmets,
captured by American troops. will be
distributed in the Fifth Liberty loan
campaign.
Unemployment of common labor Is
spreading Over the United States rap
idly, according to the National Coun-
Gil Of Defense.
Twenty-one persons were killed ana
three We're seriously injured In a rear
end collision on the New York Cen
trail railroad at South Byron, n. Y.
The theft Of liberty bonds of the
face value OF $25O,OOO was made pub
lie by the federal reserve bank of Chi
at the request of the ow ..er Of
the securities.
Death for the former kaiser and life
Imprisonment for Won BcrnstOrf, Won
Papen and DR.. Bernhard Dernburg,
have been suggested by Senator My
ers Of Montana.
Both the incoming and outgoing Ne
governors recommended to the
state legislature a law prohibiting the
teaching!sOf foreign language in grade
schools Of Nebraska.
A trade school for crippled and
conyalescent soldiers, with more than
one thousand soldiers from overseas
already In their classes, has beer or
Sanized at Camp Dix.
More than 1900 persons were kill
during . three days. commandment
Of Prezinysl, Galicia, by Ukranians.
who used airplanes and heavy artil-
lery In Smelling the city.
More than 800 S%partacans were kill
ed and 100 wounded in deadly fighting
in Berlin. which resulted in a con-
plete victory for the government
according to a Zurich dispatch.
Ignace Jan ~Paderewski, the Polish
leader. has been slightly wounded by
assassin who entered the room of
his hotel at Warsaw and fired one
shot at him, according to London adj
vices.
Thomas Watt Gregory. attorney gen.
erAl OF the United States since 1914,
has resigned and will return to the
practice Of law. President Wilson
has agreed to his retirement next
March 4.
Paris newspapers report that an In
ter-allied commission which visited
Kiel and Wilhelmshaven destroyed
submarines under construction in
slips which the enemy thought would
be overlooked.
Surgeon General Blue Of the public
health service. has asked ministers
Of the country to set aside February
3 ~ Health Sunday" and to preach
sermons upon the necessity OF stamp
Ing out social disease.
Thousands Of Italian and Austrian
war prisoners are planning Il come
to America ~ soon - possible, John
B. Denssn0re, director Of the federal
employment service. told the house
immigration committee.
Congress II planning to convert the
National Soldiers Home, near Hot
Springs, 8. D., into a government hos
pital and move the 500 or more vet
erans Of the civil and Spanish-Amer-
lean wars to some place II the south.
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On Recommendation Of General
March, Secretary BAKER has awarded
the American distinguished service
medal to IL oficers Of allied armies
for exceptionally m~eritorious AMI dis-
tinguiahed service to the United
States army during the wal.
Madame Marie Augustine Lehnndy
admitted TO police authorities at
Washbury. n. r. that she shot and
killed her husband. Jacques Lebaudy,
known a. Emperor Of the Sahara"
because he had threatened her life
end because he wanted her to follow
an oriental custom. where the mother.
upon becoming unattrnctive, permits
the daughter to take her place.
Five well known socialist leaders.
Victor i. Berger. .cOngressman-elect
from Milwaukee: Adopts Germer, ma
lional secretary Of the socialist party !:
J. Louis Engdahl. editor OF the Amer
icAn Socialist: william r. Kruse. m.