Williams news., 1919-08-22
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EiGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PRo0RE9S
 OF THE A0E.


OF THE A0E.
 Western Newspaper Union News Service. WESTERN
 Plans have been perfected for a @15O.O00 motor speedway at Daiworth, midway between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, and construction will start immediately.
 Five persons, a man, woman and three children, were killed when a Michigan Central passenger train struck the automobile in which they were riding near Lawton, Mich.
 Claims for damages inflicted during the Mexican revolution totaled 2i ,500.- 900 pesos on Aug 2. This amount does not include American, British and French claims, which have not been filed
 Five large Union Pacific railroad ice houses and the plant of the Utah Ice & Cold Storage Company, leased to the Pacific Fruit Express Company, were destroyed by fire at Ogden, with a loss of $75,OOO.
 Sir Herbert AmeS, who was chair man of the executive board of the Canadian Patriotic Fund, has accept ed the position of financial director of the permanent secretariat of the League of Nations at Geneva, it was announced today.
 Jack Heating confessed in District Court at Des Moines, that he was one of gang which robbed the Iowa State Bank here last March of approximate ly $40,0O0 in Liberty bonds and cash and was sentenced to ten years in the Fort Madison penitentiary.
 Fifteen leaders of the conspiracy to cause a mutiny in the Chihuahua City federal garrison last week, and to de- liver the city over to General Francis co Villa, were executed following the discovery of the plot, according to an American who arrived in Fl Paso from Mexico.
 Twenty-one foreigners, including Americans, Spaniards, Cubans and citizens of the Argentine republic, have been expelled from Mexico re- gently by order of the Carranza gov ernment officials, according to Fl Dia Espanol, the Spanish paper in Mexico
  duct while in Mexico was given as the reason for the deportations.
 A number of saloons which have been closed since Los Angeles went dry in April, 1918, are reported to be open and selling 2.75 per cent beer, and many of the soft drink places also are disposing of the beverage. Under an opinion by the city attorney, saloon licenses again will be issued. The city attorney bases his action on the fa- vorable decision recently given by United States Judge Bledsoe.
 WASHINGTON
 The International Labor Conference provided for in the peace treaty has been called by President Wilson to meet in Washington, October 29th.
 Casualties were higher among off cers than among enlisted men; higher among regular officers than among emergency officers; higher in the in- fantry than in any other branch of the service, and higher among West Point graduates than among other regular officers, according to a War Department statement issued in Wash ington.
 Warning that there would be a radi- cal change in the policy of the Ameri- can government regarding Mexico if the Carranza government continued to fail to protect Americans in that coun- try, was contained in a note sent to the Mexican foreign office July p just given out
 Frederick Mears, who acted as gen. eral manager of the American railroad lines in France during the war, was appointed by President Wilson as chief engineer in charge of the construction of the government railroad in Alaska He will be chairman of the Alaskan Engineering Commission. William G. Edes has been named consulting en- gipeer to the commission.
 Request that the secretary of war declare surplus of motor trucks and automobiles held by the department in this country and to sell them immedi- ately at reasonable prices, is made in a resolution introduced by Representa- tive Goody Koontz, Republican, West Virginia. The resolution specifically calls upon the secretary for a state ment as to why no surplus has been declared heretofore and why the cars were allowed to stand out in the weather"
 President Wilson was asked in a resolution introduced by Chairman Good of the appropriation committee to report to the House what use was made of the $1OO,O0O,OOO fund appro priated by Congress for relief of the destitute people of Europe