, 1919-05-29
MESSAGE.

more uniform systems.
Legislation to facilitate American
enterprise in foreign trade.
Adoption of the land-for-sOldiers bill
sponsored by Secretary Lane.
Against general revision of import
duties, but for protection of the Amer
lean dye industry.
Return of the telegraph and tele-
phone lines to their owners under more
co-ordinated system.
Repeal or amendment of the war
time prohibition act in so far as ap-
plies to wines or beers.
Reconsideration of federal taxes to
relieve the burden, particularly on pro-
ductive resources, making incomes, ex-
cess profits n estimates the main
stay of steady taxation.
FOREIGN
An attempt was made to demolish
the American legation building at San
Jose, Costa RIGA, by a bomb, accord
ing to advices received by the State
Department.
Lieutenant Prackpapa, an Italian avi-
NNC III ai pane Will lIIec DdSSeu-
gers, assembled to a height of 1880 me-
tiers (23,7S6 feet). The ascent was
made in forty minutes.
Advices to the State Department
from Chile reported a new five-year
arbitration treaty between Chile and
Great Britain, to be presented to the
Chilean Congress in June for ratifica-
ton.
The continental base of the Ameri-
can destroyer fleet will be transferred
Immediately to Antwerp from Brest,
and all the fleets activities will be dl-
rected from there until late In June,
when the base will be shifted to Amer
lea.
The American colony, represented by
200 members of the American club,
welcomed the new American ambassa-
dor, Hugh @. Wallace, at a luncheon
in Paris. The ambassadors speech was
a tribute to the American woman dur
ing the war.
One hundred and thirty prominent
men have entered their names as men,
bers of a party which will tour the
United States this autumn to study
economic conditions. Among those
who will make the trip will be twenty
five members of the Swiss parliament.
A number of the leaders of the
Chinese students in Toxic, writing
their names with their own blood,
have signed a resolution calling on
1000 of the students in Toxic to re-
turn to China to protest against the
peace conference decision in regard to
Shantung and against the alleged am
bition of japan in China.
SPORT
Michigan defeated Notre Dame in a
dual track and field meet, 69k to 61h.
Frankie Mason of Fort Wayne, Ind,
received his first setback in twenty
battles at Peoria, Ill, when he was put
pointed by Earl Puryear of Tulsa,
Okla, in a ten-round fight.
Johnny Gritfiths punched Len w.
Rowland full of holes in eight rounds
at Memphis. Griffiths was credited
with having an advantage in every
session. He has one more bout sched-
uled in Fort Worth before going to
Denver 20 prepare for Thorpe.
Aroused by a most remarkable show
ing made by his opponent in the third
and fourth rounds, Benny Leonard,
worlds lightweight champion, knocked
out George young" Erne of Buffalo
in the sixth round of what was to have
been an e%ight-round bout at Trenton,
n. j.
GENERAL
Donald Stewart, for many years as
ISOLATED with the late James j. Hill as
vice president and general manager of
the Great Northern Express Company
at st. Paul, died at a private hospital
in New York.
Germany is willing TINT the former
kaiser and other German officials be
placed on trial for their war crimes,
but demands a neutral court.
Five bandits entered the private
bank of Baker & Sons in Cicero, a sub
urb of Chicago, threw Charles Baker,
the cashier, in a o bin, and looted
the bank OF $4,000. They escaped in
an automobile.
Il. II. rduBh was electrocuteu Ut
the state ~penitentiary at McAlester,
Okla, for the murder of Otis Robin
in Creek county, in 1916. He was the
first white man to be electrocuted in
the state of Oklahoma.
Frank Livinston, negro, was tied to
a tree and burned alive by a moi at
Eldorado, Ark. 1t Is said that the ne
gro confessed that he killed his EN-
ployer, Robinson Clay, and the latter's
wife after he had quarreled with Clay.
Permission to file petitions for a
referendum vote on ratification of the
prohibition amendment to the federal
constitution was denied by the secre-
tary of state of Arkansas, on grounds
| that ratification Of the nronosed