The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-01-23
To-days Courier
Journal, Says

Journal, Says
Taxes on amusement admission will
not be increased by the War Revenue
Bill. The conferees agreed yester.
day to rescind their previous decision
to increase the rate from 10 to 90
per cent.
The five great Powers, Great Brit
ain, France, the United States. Italy
and Japan have reached definite
agreement regarding Russia, accord
ing to Paris dispatch to the Central
News yesterday.
Calmly referring to "the next war;
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood made a
strong appeal before a joint session
Of the Kansas Legislature yesterday
for system of universal training for
national defense.
The 309th Trench Mortar Battery
arrived at Camp Zachary Taylor yes
terday to demobilize. The last unit
Of the saith (Lincoln) Division TO
leave America. il is the first TO re-
turn from France.
Thefts. acts Of violence and armed
attacks are increasing daily in Paris,
according to the Matin. which de-
clares that the rehabilitation of al
lied troops is bound to have the eff
feet Of further increasing acts Of
lawlessness.
Secretary Baker yesterday order
ed the release Of 10 conscientious
directors held at Fort Leavenworth.
the remission Of the unexecuted por-
tons Of their sentences, their "hon-
orable restoration to duty, and inn
mediate discharge from the army.
Specially guards watch the cells
where Patrick Kearney and Jim Law
Ter, the Covington Loan Association
bandits, who are sentenced to death
in the electric chair at the peniten-
tiary at Eddyville at 4 o'clock on the
Of February 81. are confined.
Kentucky colleges can take care
Of any reasonable number Of wound
ed soldiers and sailors the Govern
ment sends to be rehablitated. This
was the sentiment expressed yester-
day by heads of all Kentucky colleges
assembled in Lexington to discuss the
matter.
In an effort to reach a final vote
before adjournment yesterday the
Senate gave exclusive right Of way to
the House bill appropriating $780,
000.0 for famine relief in Europe.
All other business was laid aside, but
the debate covered such wide range
Of subjects that progress was slow.
Archibald Stevenson, Of New York.
a representative of the Military In
telligence Service, testyfying yester-
day before the Senate Propaganda
Committee, declared a
large number of professors in Ameri-
can colleges and universities sub
scrbed to radical and pacifist views.
Means of enforcing prohibition
after July | are under consideration
by officials Of the Department Of Jus
ice and the Internal Revenue Blu
reau, but steps to create a special en-
'orcement agency will not be taken
Until Congress has had time to act on
legislation giving this func-
ion TO the revenue bureau.
Industrial unrest throughout Great
Britain is on the increase. In addi-
ion to the threat of a railway strike,
h ewhole Yorkshire coal field prob
IDLY will be idle today, throwing
$4,000 men out Of employment,
While preparations are being made in
for a general strike for
orty-hour week.
Out Of an entry list Of six candi-
lates Harry C. Smith, Of Glasgow,
yesterday was selected as secretary
# the Kentucky Bankers Associa-
ion at meeting in The Seelbach
Gather room. Mr.. Smith is cashier
# the First National Bank of Glas-
low, and will establish himself in
Immediately, taking over