The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-09
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK oP
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN

WE0 IEIhN
More than two score persons were
Injured, many seriously, when two in
!erurban cars on the Peninsula rail-
way collided head-on, nine miles from
San Jose, Calf.
Noticing that his automobile was
leaking badly, w. o. Turner of Musco-
tab, Kan, took a lantern and crawled
underneath the car to find the leak.
He found it. 1t was the gasoline tank
instead of the radiator He will re-
cover, his physician says.
Lawrence l.. Shipley, an American
Of YeringtOn, New, who was captured
by bandits at Fresnillo, Mex, July 10,
has been released, according to Next
60 newspaper dispatches forwarded to
the State Department by the American
embassy at Mexico City.
Oscar Lawler, former assistant Unit
ed States attorney general for the In
terror Department, was seriously
burned, and Mrs. Lawler was badly
burned when their home virtually was
destroyed at Los Angeles by what the
police believe to have been a gasoline
bomb.
IGAuS SCubOlS Will bltH htAl
with shortage of teachers estimated
at 1000. The situation is the most Sc
rious in the history of the states
school system, according to n state
ment by the State Teachers Associa-
ton, made public Low wages is given
as cause for lack of applicants for
schools.
Loss from forest fires in Montana
and northern Idaho this season, up to
July 81, amounted to $755,OO0, it was
estimated by Glen A. Smith, assistant
district forester. Heavy rains have re-
moved the fire menace in Montana,
though fires in Idaho still are threat
ening. A total of $4,000 has been
spent in fighting forest fires in Mon
tana and northern Idaho this season.
A protest against the policy of the
Navy Department which, 1t was
charged, compelled California oil in
terests to sell to the navy at tidewater
at so cents barrel, plus a vague
promise of final adjustment, crude
oil, for which producers received S1.23
at the well, was embodied in a state
ment sponsored by the executives of
-
the state. Under contract which ex-
pired July / the companies had been
supplying the navy with crude oil at
$1-47 barrel, at an aggregate loss, the
statement said, to the oil interests of
the state Of 100000.
WASHINGTON
Complete government ownership of
radio systems in the United States is
strongly recommended by Secretary of
the Navy Daniels in a letter sent to
Congress.
Surplus food held by the War De-
partment July 10 was valued at S132,-
37,70O. Bacon totalled $35,S1S, 1872.
Other subsistence items We're corned
beef, S26, ,63S; roast beef, S20,S60,-
45S; fresh frozen beef, $16,543, 636 (;
corned beef hash, S10,175,930 toma-
toes, $5,509,967 baked beans, $2,S35,-
GIG; canned sweet corn, 81, 107 ,0S4 !;
fresh pork, $2,072,94 granulated SUI
gar, $1,47S,947; canned peas, $1,2S2,
495; fresh frozen poultry, $1,136,964 !;
miscellaneous, $5,S27 sol.
Army surplus clothing and equip
ment, including $17,000,000 worth of
underclothes and $9,5OO,OO0 worth of
blankets may be marketed in the same
way surplus food is being sold If pres
ent plans are successful. Total value
of all items cassed as clothing and
equipment, including cloth and leather,
is $S4, 356,341.
The hundred steamships built on the
great lakes during the war have been
sold by the Shipping Board to the
Anderson Overseas Corporation of
New York for approximately SS0,OOO,-
600 This is probably the largest ship
sale on record, the board said in an
bouncing the deal and the vessels will
Eventually pass into French and Ital-
ian ownership.
President Wilson has saved num-
Der of the United Suites army from
death sentence. His Communication of
the sentence to be hanged, imposed on
Second Lieutenant Halber Il. Perry,
S1st Infantry, for the murder of Capt.
Abram Posner, also of the S1st Infan-
try, on the highway between San Di-
ego and Escondito, California, last De-
cember, to Imprisonment at hard labor
for life.
The State Department has been adj
vised of efforts on the part of Japan
csc oil companies to acquire properties
in the Tampico oil fields of Mexico and
that American companies have been
approached with a view to selling to
the japanese. .
One new article of war and changes
in thirty others have been recommend
ed by the special board of officers APP
pointed early in the war to investigate
the army court-martial system. In max
ing this announcement, Secretary Ba-