Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-07-12
WASHINGTON.

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who has been detailed the whole time
+ of his overseas service 10 The study of
air navigation. When the English ex-
tended an invitation To America 10
have an observer aboard the R-31 ON
her transatlantic flight. Lieutenant
Lansdowne WIS chosen.
Arrangements have been made by
the emergency fleet corporation to
place on the market all equipment and
property that will not be needed to
carry out its restricted Shipbuilding
program, it was announced Monday by
the shipping board. Surplus property
TO be disposed of includes complete
manufacturing plants. shipyardS, dry
docks and ships, completed and on the
ways.
Acting Secretary Phillips of the state
department announced Monday that
the American embassy at Mexico City
had been informed that orders had
been issued To the Tampico military
authorities to make every effort 10
capture the men who killed John W.
Correll, an American citizen, and NAL
treated Mrs. Correll near Tampico on
June 16.
An official announcement from the
office of the director of sales at the
war department said surplus stocks
of canned vegetables would be sold in
carload lots to municipalities at cost
and stocks of canned meat at 20 per
cent below cost, provided they were
resold to the public at the prices for
which they were purchased.
A contract signed by the railroad
administration fixed annual compensa-
ton of $S,319,376 for the Denver 4
Rio Grande
The deficit incurred In operation Of
railroads under government control
during the month of May amounted to
Approximately $50 100000 net operat-
ing income totaling $3S, 530,000
Problems facing the railroad admin
istration will be among the first bust
ness laid before President Wilson on
his return to Washington.
Congress adjourned until next
Tuesday, July s, after enacting all
appropriation bills needed by the gov
eminent agencies for the new fiscal
year.
AS war time prohibition took effect
on July l, the department of justice
announced that its agents throughout
the country would not attempt to stop
the sale of 2A per cent beer
FOREIGN.
DR.. Epitacio Pessoa, presdent-elect
of Brazil, sailed for home from New
York, Sunday, on the American dread
nought Idaho, after visiting the United
States on his return from the peace
conference.
Several persons were killed and Il
large number wounded in disturbances
Sunday at Kattowitz, Upper Silesa, de-
cording to advices from Beuthen. Ger
mans and Poles took part in the dis
orders.
General Cretien commander Of the
allied forces in Bulgaria, has informed
the bulgarian premier that peace dele
gates from that country will be called
to Paris soon and that the Bulgarian
government is invited to nominate a
delegation, according to Sofia dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph COM
pany.
William Hohenzollern, the former
German emperor, will be brought to
England in British ship and impris-
oned in the tower of London, accord
ing to the Daily Mail. The death pen
atty will not be sought, the newspaper
points out, but if he is found guilty
the allies ask his Punishment for life
to remote island, following the pre-
cedent of Napoleon's exile on st.
Helena.
Ignatius Tribch Lincoln, former
has been in prison at London since
1916, as self-confessed spy, will soon
be deported to Hungary.
The execution of forty youths Of the
Budapest military academy and the
three officers was ordered by the Hun
garian soviet government as reprisals
against anti-communists, who attempt
ed to seize the telephone and telegraph
stations and who bombarded soviet
headquarters, according to delayed de-
spatches from Budapest.
Premier Lloyd George delivered In
the house of commons on July 3, an
explanation of the peace treaty which
he described as the most "momentous
document to which the British empire
ever affixed its SEAL"
Marriages between American sold
iers and German women are forbidden
by the army regulations pending rati-
fication of the peace treaty by the
United States and Germany.
The first duel to be fought in France
since the beginning of the war occur
red at Bayonne when NJ. Carat, mayor
and deputy, exchanged pistol shots
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