Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-03-13

Of the Ebert government is expected
daily.
Secretary of the Treasury Glass
announced the victory loan will be
opened to subscription on April 81.
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The republican senators still hope
that President Wilson will be forced
to call an extra session of congress
before his return from France.
The Rumanian press bureau an
| nOunces that 3332 900 Rumanian COM
batants in the war were killed or died
from wounds.
For the first time in fifty years a
democrat, John n. Wilson, mas been
elected to congress from Butler couns
ty, Pennsylvania.
President Carranza of Mexico has
granted amnesty to the followers of
IsGenesal Galindo. defeated and cap.
tured by federal troops recently.
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Reports received by the state de-
partn,ent say that the Russian soviet
government has appropriated 100000
rubles monthly for carrying on it's
propaganda in various countries.
.'eannettc Rankin of Montana, the
only woman who ever served in con-
gress, made her farewell speech il the
house just before adjournment.
Attorney General Gregory has rec
commended to President Wilson cone
mutation of the sentences of persons
convicted under the espionage act.
In the recent election in Vermont
on the license question more than
twice as many towns voted for
licensed saloons as did one year ago.
Approximately $4,000 cases of tech
meal violations of the selective serv-
ice law have been discovered by fed
eral investigators at Olympia, Wash.
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The Germans will be called to Paris
to receive terms of the preliminary
peace within week or ten DAYS after
President Wilson's arrival, F'aris re.
ports state.
The French government has opened
nine barracks where sale of foodstuffs
direct from the government to the
consumer is being made to lessen the
cost Of living.
Indemnity which the enemy will
have to pay the allies will mean a
drain on Germany of from two to
three billion dollars annually for .hir
ty to fifty years.
Reports from the section Of Ala.
bama recently swept by the recent
tornado showed four dead at Eufaula.
| with many persons injured and prop.
erty loss estimated at 81, 100000.
Henry Ford has announced his In.
tenticn to organize a new automobile
company that will build new car that
will sell at lower figure than the
present well-known product.
Two men and woman were killed
and man injured, when speeding
automobile in which they were riding
crashed into the middle girder of
street bridge, at Council Bluffs, Iowa.
The house bill appropriating $1,000
600 to maintain the government guar
anteed price of 1929 for the 1919
wheat crop was ordered favorably re-
ported by the senate agricultural
committee.
When President Wilson sailed for
France last Wednesday on his second
trip to the peace conference, he told
newspaper men that he was very well
pleased with the situation in the
United States and abroad.
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The entire CZecho- Slovak republic
is on the verge>of famine, according to
Prague advlces, which state that ali
flour, fat, meat and vegetable stocks
are exhausted and the population can.
not hold out until the next harvest.
Fourteen thousand New York SOL
diers, members of the famous Twenty
seventh division, who proved that the
"impregnable' Hindenburg line could
be broken, arrived at New York on
the transports Leviathan and Afaure-
tania and We're given tremendous
welcome.
The Italian government has been
4 warned by the United States that I'M
less she puts an end to. delays in
movements of relief supplies to the
newly established Jugo-Slavic and
Czecho-Slavic states, steps will be
taken to cut off the flow of American
foodstuffs to Italy.