Williams news., 1919-09-19
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINcs AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.

Western Newspaper Union News Service. WESTERN
 Five masked men held up the Erie bank at Erie, Mich., near Toledo, and escaped in an automobile with $5,00o in cash and securities yet to be esti- mated.
 The Minnesota House of Represen- tatives shortly after the special session opened ratified the federal woman suf- frage amendment. The vote was 120 to 6. The Senate ratified the amendment, 60 to g.
 One of Nebraska's largest potash re duction plants was destroyed by fire at Lakeside, Neb., a few days ago with a loss of more than $50O,00O. Spontaneous combustion of coal caused the fire.
 Fire destroyed the Pacific Electric Company's shop and caused loss esrl- mated at $15O,OOO at Los Angeles, Calif. The cause of the fire is un- known. It was discovered by watch man.
 Joie Ray of Chicago bettered the Canadian one-mile record in winning a handicap race at the Canadian nation al exhibition games. Rays time was IA 2-5, 6 1-5 seconds faster than A. B. Kiviat of New York in race at Mon treal seven years ago.
 In San Francisco Secretary of the Nevy Josephus Daniels expressed him. self as opposed to the word "gob' with reference to the men of the navy
 | q en., ~<ls, e,k<, the use of the word, it will soon be relegated to the scrap heap.
 Mexican soldiers at the garrison at San Luis, state of Sonora, Mexico, mu- tinied and killed all the officers, ac- cording to information received by F.. N. Cronholm, superintendent of the Imperial irrigation district, whose headquarters are at Andrade, near the California-Mexican boundary.
 With blaze of fire and terrific explosion that was heard five miles, a 15,OOO- gallon tank of gasoline being unloaded at the Gulf Refining Com ploded, causing loss of approximate ly $25,OOO to the oil company's prop erty and doing considerable damage to adjoining buildings.
 Clinging to the pilot of a Chesa- peake & Chicago passenger train en- zine, Frank J. Long, telegraph oper- ator at Maiden, Ind, reached out and pulled a 4-year-old child to. safety as the train sped down the track. The train rushed a hundred yards past he place where the child had been play ing before it could be stopped. WASHINGTON
 Bronze medals for all discharged sailors, soldiers and marines, to be known as Victory medals are pro posed in a resolution introduced by Representative PeI, Republican, New York The Senate already has passed a bill recommended by Secre- tary Baker for the issue of merit badges for efficient service. Payments to discharged service men of all money deducted from their pay for allotments and bonuses amounted to $25 month for all time served exceeding sixty days would be provided in a resolution by Representative Mckenzie, Republi- can, Illinois.
 President Wilson has signed the bill making permanent the rank of general for John J. Pershing, commander of the American expeditionary forces.
 It is understood that the appoint ment of Kijuro Shidehara as Japanese succeed Viscount Kikujiro Ishi will be gazetted early this month.
 For completion of the Alaska rail- road the House passed and sent to the Senate bill authorizing an increase of the limit of cost from $35, ,OOO, ,O0O to $52,OO0,00O. Republican Leader Mon dell charged miserable mismanage- ment' had marked the conduct of the work but admitted the increase was primarily due to the higher labor and material costs.
 The Senate without a record vote, passed the Edge bill authorizing the creation of corporations to finance foreign trade. The bill was materially would provide for American control of the corporations and would also make these corporations subject to the bank ing laws of the United States rather than the banking laws of the countries wherein the corporations will operate.
 Total collections of internal revenue from all sources for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919, amounted to $3,- S39, ,95O, 500, an increase of $145, ,33O, 900 over 1918, Commissioner Roper esti- mated. Income and excess profits tax collections for 1919 amounted to $2,- 596,OO8,7 700, a decrease of $243, ,O19, 200 over 1918.
 An army of 25O,OOO men is adequate for the United States, Gen. Leonard Wood declared before the Senate mili-