The Benson signal., 1919-07-05

udcy OF General AIVafO ODreSOH IOA
the presidency of Mexico at the cleo
ton in 1920 was made public this
week.
Governor McKelvie tentatively de-
cided to call the Nebraska Legislature
in special session Monday, July q, for
the purpose of ratifying the woman
suffrage amendment to the constitu-
ton of the United States.
The 9,6OO-ton steel steamship Colo
RADIO Springs, a Victory Loan honor
ship named after Colorado Springs,
Colo, as reward for that city's over
subscription, was launched at the
Skinner & Eddy shipbuilding plant at
Seattle, Wash.
Altho the supply of men for work
in the harvest fields of Kansas is nor
NAL, it must increase Immediately, and
| 5000 workers can be placed at once,
according to an announcement by A
L. Barkman, director of the United
States employment service at Kansas
City.
Crops on 700 acres of Yakima valley
land, most of it belonging to the Union
Orchards Company and planted to ap-
pies, were endangered when the con-
crete standpipe by the Wenas dam was
blown up by dynamite. The perpetrat-
or is not known. There has been high
feeling in regard to the water rights of
the Wenas valley for several years.
The Kansas winter wheat crop, now
| being harvested, was estimated at $780,
| 217,O0 bushels in the monthly report
issued by J. G. Mohler, secretary of
the State Board of Horticulture. This
is an increase of more than 100000
bushels over Mohlers May report and
it is approximately 33,0OO,OOO bushels
greater than the last federal monthly
| report.
Wichita, Kan.-Two brothers, John
and Edward Fitch, both veterans of
the Civil war, who had not seen each
other for more than thirtySeven
years, met in Wichita for the first
time during the recent G. A. r. en-
campment. Both enlisted in Iowa regi-
ments, John with the Thirtyfirst Iowa
infantry and Edward in troop G. First
Iowa cavalry.
All of the expenditures Of the
United States for war propaganda
total less than German prOpagandists
spent in Mexico alone, George Creel,
manager of the committee on public
information, stated at San Francisco.
America expended $4,OOO,OOO for its
propaganda, which, besides lining up
the nation itself, put America and
Americas aims before many foreign
countries in a true light
| Establishment of a branch of the In.
terror Department in some Western
| state with several of the departments
bureaus removed there from Washing
ton, was proposed in bill introduced
by Representative Mays (Dem) OF
Utah. His measure would appropriate
$1,O0O,O00 for the branch headquarters
which would house the general land Of
flee, the geological survey, the bureau
of mines, the reclamation service, the
Indian bureau and the national park
and forest services.
WASHINGTON
That the financial aid required from
| America to rehabilitate devastated
| European countries will not exceed 81,
5OOOOO,OOO, was the view expressed by
Governor Harding.
A resolution urging the governor OF
Ohio to prevent the WillardDempsey
| fight at Toledo because it "deSecrates
the nations birthday" was introduced
in the House.
Repeal of the postal zone system
for newspapers and periodicals is pro
posed in a bill by Representative
Mondell Of Wyoming, the Republican
leader. Under the measure second
class mail would be at the flat rate in
1917 was passed.
Western and southern senators and
representatives, pressing for water
power legislation to unlock resources
of their states, now expect to win their
fight in Congress during the next few
weeks after years of effort. Senator
Jones of Washington, chairman of the
commerce committee, author of one
of the pending water power bills in
the Senate and who will take charge
of legislation on the floor, announced
that "after a long delay Congress is
about to act"
Evidence that Nikolai Lenine, pre-
mier of the Russian soviet republic, is
the master brain" directing radical
propaganda in this country, was sub
mitted before the Lusk committee in
vestigating alleged Bolshevism in New
| York
The War Department announced
award of the distinguished service
cross by General Pershing to Capt. AL
bert f. Baxter, FairmOunt, Neb. ;
Corp. Thomas Stirling, Denver, Colo. ;
Privates Clifford G. Kidd and Fred S.
| Smith, Denver, Colo, all members Of