The Benson signal., 1919-02-08

One person was killed and thirty
were seriously, injured by a series OF
explosions and fire which wrecked
the plant of the American Analine
Dye Products Company at Nyack.
N. Y.
| The Atlantic fleet is reconstructed
| with the return of the battle sQuadrons
from overseas, is now in Hampton
roads preparatory to sailing for Guam
tanamo Bay, Cuba. where winter
maneuvers will be held.
! A person will be able after the mid
die of February to fly by airplane
from New York to Philadelphia for SIS
| and from New York to Washington for
! $25, according to announcement made
by Joseph M. Kahn, one of the organ
! izers of the Aero Development Com
| pany.
What is declared to have been the
! first voyage of merchant ship from
the Far East to the American Atlantic
coast by way of the Suez canal since
| the war ended, was terminated at New
York with the arrival of the British
! freight steamer Trafford Hall in from
/ Calcutta.
WESTERN
Paul E. Skjerseth, former vice pres
ident of the First National Bank of
| Saco, Mont, was arrested at Kansas
City on federal Indictment charging
embezzlement of some of the banks
funds.
,shipbuilding contracts aggregating
| $51 OO0,O0 in California yards have
been cancelled by the emergency fleet
corporation, the local Offices of the
! United States Shipping Board an
nounced at San Francisco,
Count c. Rosen and, Count Nils
Rosen, attaches of the Swedish lega-
ton at Washington, visited the war
Salt Lake City, in behalf of about 100
4 interned Austrians. Their visit is one
of several in different parts of the
country to camps where enemy aliens
are interned.
| One Of the most unique mail routes
4
! along the course of the klamath river,
between Orleans and Orick, California
| Over a road barely better Man. the
old Indian trails which still WKist in
,at section of the country cater
| pillar tractor is conveying mail and
parcel post on regular schedule.
WASHINGTON
Mexico and Cuba have resumed Dip
| in official and diplomatic circles in
| Washington. The State Departmer, ;,
| however, had no information on tie
subject.
+ All but $61,332 900 of the original
| $50O,000,0 900 revolving fund of the rail
road administration has now been
used, Director General Hines reported
in connection with his financial state
ment for January
An army of 100000 men was unani-
mously decided on by the House mill
tary committee as the basis for deter
! mining the appropriation for army pay
for the year beginning next July.
! Committee members said the number
was expected to be the average force
during the year.
The annual pension bill, carrying
| $215,030,000, was passed by the House
and sent to the Senate.
7 The War Trade Board will not take
retaliatory measures on account of
import restrictions promulgated by
the British government. This state
ment was authorized by member of
the board in Washington.
An appropriation of $3,0O0,00O to
maintain the national guard at a
strength of 100000 officers and men
during the next fiscal year was tenta-
lively approved today by the House
military affairs committee
A decision made public by the Ma
tional War Labor Board cirtually re-
| turned the case of the Amalgamated
Association of Street Railway en-
ployes and the Kansas City Railways
! Company to it's former status.
Government control of telephone
and telegraph properties would end
next Dec. 81 under a resolution or
dered favorably reported by the House
postoffice committee by a vote of 10
to g. Chairman Moon announced tt at
he would present the measure in the
House Immediately and ask for a rule
to give it right of way.
Secretary Glass, in asking Congress
to appropriate $2,932,849 required as
a deficiency appropriation by the
United States employment service,
transmitted letter from Assistant
Secretary of Labor Post, declaring
that without this fund the service
would be compelled to terminate oper-
alton of many Of it's activities on
April 1.
The treasury at Washington re-
| ported a total from the sale Of War
| Savings and Thrift Stamps since they