The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-11-15

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WASHINGTON NEWS.
Extension of the Lever food and fuel
control law for six months after the
proclamation of peace is necessary 10
protect the country from high prices
Attorney General Palmer Friday told
the house agricultural committee,
The bill providing a graduated III
rresse in the pay of postal employees,
pending action of the congressional
committee investigating the salaries OF
such employees, became law at mid
night Friday without President VIII
sons signature, ten days having ex-
pired since its enactment by congress-
A bolsheviki report, received through
German sources, says that 65O OF the
1850 inmates of Kresty prison IN
Petrograd, Russia, have died of starVa'
ton.
A bill extending the Lever food con-
troll act for six months after the proc
lamation of peace, as requested by
Attorney General Palmer was intro
duced Thursday by Chairman Haugen
of the house agriculture committee.
The war department Friday made
an unfaVOrable report on the Dill ny
Senator Sheppard appropriating $780,"
900 to construct the causeWay between
Nueces and San PatriCiO counties, de-
stroyed by the recent storm. Repre-
sentative Bee has a bill pending IN
the house for rebuilding the causeWay
by asking that the Texas allotment
of the good road fund be increased
100000.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Texas State Teachers Associ-
alton will meet in annual convention
in Houston, Texas, on Nov. 27-29 In
elusive
Mrs. Ike B. Mcfarland of Houston |
was elected state regent of the goth
annual state conference at Beaumont,
Texas, of the Daughters Of the Arneri-
can Revolution Friday and Mrs A. D.
Potts of Bolton was elected vice re-
gent Mrs. A. r. Howard, who was |
nominated for state regent withdrew
and Mrs. Mcfarland was chosen by |
reclamation.
The seven negro Paul Reveres,"
who, on October 1, spread over the |
countryside news of the Elaine and |
Hoop Spur disturbances and instruct |
ed plantation negroes to gather armed |
at the houses of the various leaders, |
according to testimony brought out in !
the trials, were arraigned before the |
Circuit Court when it convened on
Friday at Helena, Arkansas, and SEN
fenced by Judge J. NJ Jackson to a
year each in the state penitentiary
when they pleaded guilty to charges
of night riding. AS a result of the
trials growing out of the Elaine out
break, which occupied the circuit court
five days, II negroes were convicted
Of first degree murder and 81 were
sentenced to terms Of from l to 81
years in the state prison.
The annual reunion of Terry's Texas
Rangers, attended by very few OF
the men who volunteered 55 years ago,
came to an end Thursday, at Austin,
Texas, with the election OF officers.
Major George w. Littlefield was again
elected president and T. H. Davis of
Austin, secretary. The next reunion
is to be held in Austin.
O.
Taxes paid by oil producing CON-
panies for the past quarter on the
gross receipts In Texas, will go above
100000 for the quarter, which is in
dicative of an increase. Gulf Produc-
ton company Of Houston pays $74,S76
on sales amounting to $4,991, 755; Mag
: nolia Of Dallas tax of $6O,542 on sales
of $4,OS6,170; Prairie Oil and Gas COM
pany of Dallas $21, 292 on sales of
$1,419,51S; Texas and Pacific Oil and
Coal company of Thurber $50, 1O6 on
sales of $2,270,0S3; Texas company of
Houston $751; 1856 on sales of $5,547, TAT;
Humble company of Houston $45569
on sales of $S,OS7,97O.
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A nationwide raid on anarchists be-