, 1919-02-06
AN EPITOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o I G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERINGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
EASTERN
Western Newspaper Union rev. service.

The Atlantic fleet is reconstructed
from overseas, Is now in Hampton
'oads preparatory to sailing for Guam
:anamo Bay, Cuba, where winter
maneuvers will be held.
W. p. G. Harding resigned as man
aging director of the war finance cor
poration because of the increasing
pressure of duties as governor of the
Federal Reserve Board. He was sue
reeded by Eugene Meyer, Jr., now a
director. but will retain his office as
a director of the organization.
Pensions amounting to a total of
nearly $4,000 were paid from the
United STATES Steel and Carnegie pen
sion fund to about 5000 retired EN-
. ployes of the United States Steel Cor
poration and twenty-nine subsidiary
companies, according to the eighth
annual report on pension fund opera
tons, just issued. A grand total of
s4.367,107 has been paid during the
eight years, the report states, begin
ming with s2S1,457 for 1911.
WESTERN
Under suspension of rules, the Sen
ate of the Idaho Legislature unani-
mously passed a memorial petitioning
Congress to rename the Panama canal
in honor of the late Theodore Roose-
welt.
A young woman and her two chill
dren were buried alive in a landslide
at Laid. Wash, a small mining town
about thirty miles southeast OF Ia
coma. WASH, during the storm of last
week.
A masked bandit held up the Great
Northern Owl train just after it left
Samish, Wash, where he boarded it.
He obtained about SO from passen-
gers in the day coach, put did not mo-
lest passengers in the sleepers.
The House of the Washington Leg
islature passed a memorial to con
gress urging the passage of a proposed
bill appropriating 800 1000, 900 for road
construction to provide employment
for discharged soldiers and sailors.
Lieut.. George Phelps Leggett, a
young pursuit pilot, whose home is
Fairfield, Iowa, was killed at Ream
field. an army aviation field near San
Diego. where he fell 500 feet in a
scout plane after a collision with
another airplane piloted by Lieut.. ].
R.. Dooiittle.
WASHINGTON
Conferees on the new revenue bill
rescinded their adoption of the SEN
ate 20 per cen tax on amusements
and it went back to the House on a
10 per cen rate.
The treasury at Washington re-
ported a total from the sale of War
Savings and Thrift Stamps since they
were placed on the market thirteen
months ago, of 81 ,049, 600, 900.
Government control of telephone
and telegraph properties would end
next Dec. 81 under a resolution or
dered favorably reported by the House
p~ostoffice committee by a vote of 10
to s. Chairman Moon announced that
he would present the measure in the
House Immediately and ask for a rule
to give it right of a
A bill appropriating $50, 00O, 900 for
land reclamation to provide work for
the unemployed was introduced by
Senator Jones of Washington.
Mexico and Cuba have resumed dip
lomatic relations. according to reports
in official and diplomatic circles in
Washington. The State Department,
however, had no information on the
subject.
Favorable reports on the resolution
for immediate investigation of the
Michigan Newberry-Ford senatorial
contingent expenses committee on a
strict party vote.
Representative Gillett voiced the
first open opposition to seating Vic
seat the Wisconsin Socialist should
be the first act of the next House,
because he is guilty of disloyalty.
Orders to shipyards not to begin
work on ships a~ggregating from l.
100000 to 1.25O,000 deadweight
tons, the keels for which ordinarily
would not have been laid before next
Aag. l. are now being sen out by the
shipping board.
Marriage by mail for soldiers over
seas and their sweethearts in this
country is permissible under a Wal
Department ruling. The only limita-
tion is that the proxy weddings shall
not be c-ountenanced where state laws
make the contracts invalid.
A favorable report was ordered by
the Senate foreign relations commit
tee on a resolution by Senator King
of Utah, asking for information from
the State Department regarding what
steps had been taken to adjust claims
of Americans growing out of Mexican
border depredations.