River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-07-29
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Washington

World War veterans on individual ap-
plication only.
Washington-Ch Charges of profiteering
in oil on the Pacific coast are being
investigated by the department OF JUS
lice. At the same time the depart
ment is following up sales of coal in
various parts of the country and check
ing up prices paid to determine
whether dealers are profiteering,
Washington - All industries in
creased the total amount of their pay
rolls for June, 1920, as compared with
June, 1919, according to statistics
made public by the department of Ia
Dor. In 10 out of 13 selected manufac-
turing industries, there also were in
creases in the number of persons en-
ployed, the figures showed.
ashington-Reports indicating the
entire national structure of Italy on
the verge of collapse as result of an
untenable domestic situation are en-
phatically denied by Italian officials
here. The conditions which are being
faced by the Italian government, 1t is
declared, while difficult, are no worse
than those existing in other European
states and it is affirmed that the gov
eminent in Italy is meeting the seri-
GUS problems of the postwar situation
with as much energy and prospect of
success in their solution as are the
governments of other nations.
Personal
Tokio-Naval Lieutenant Kawage
committed Hari-Kari in his home at
kamakura. The newspapers assert he,
committed suicide in connection with
the recent disappearance of important
naval papers at the naval station at
Yokosuka
Neutrality-suspicious. ]. Spellacy of
Hartford, Conn, is understood to have
been selected assistant secretary of
the navy to succeed Franklin D. Roose-
welt when Mr.. Roosevelt retires about
Aug. 9 to make the race as democratic
yicepresidential candidate.
Washington-The body of former
Surgeon General Gorgas who died re-
Gently in London will be brought to
the United States on the army trans
port Pocahontas, the war department
announced that the transport has been
ordered to stop at Southampton, Eng,
on the return trip from Europe to take.
aboard Mrs. Gorgas and the body of
her husband.
Domestic
Seattle, Wash.-Six battleships, car
rytng 1888 midshipmen from the Uni
ted States Naval Academy, arrived
from Honolulu.
New York-More than 1000 moving
picture workers in New York and vic
unity went on strike, tying up or Grip
ping score of film plants.
New York-The British steamer
Balzac arrived here from Monteyideo
with $500 tons of refined sugar, con-
signed to American importers.
Nogales, Ariz.-Governor Borquez of
Sonora, Mexico, ordered that no wines,
beers or liquors may be sold within $50
meters of the International line.
San Francisco-Two hundred Rus.
sian brides of American soldiers ar.
rived here from Vladivostok with their
husbands, on board the army trans.
port Madawaska.
San Diego-The Mexican power |
schooner Jacris Condo, formerly the |
japanese owned Toni Maru of this |
port, turned turtle and foundered off |
MaZatlan, Mexico with the loss of AZ |
lives, according to word brought here
by the motor ship Jeanette R.
Albany, N. Y.-The purchase by the
state of pa grams of radium, the
largest commercial transaction of its
kind ever made, and the first purchase
of radium by any state for a purpose |
of social utility, was announced by
Governor Alfred E. Smith. The ac-
QUESTION of the radium was made pos
sible through an appropriation of |
$3.50 by the 1920 legislature.
Washington-Govern expendi- |
lures for the fiscal year ending June |
30, amounted to S23,441, 383,564, of |
which S6,403 ,343,481 was in ordinary |
disbursements and S17,038,039,723 in |
payment on the public debt The war |
1isbursed $1,610.587, $3.50. |
The sum of $1,036,672,157 was charged
to federal control of railroads. Inter
est on public debt amounted to $1,020,- |
251, 622. The navy department expend-
ed $736,021, 456, and the shipping |
board $530.565,649.
Oklahoma City, Okla.-Lieutenant |
Rollo Brown and his mechanician Ser
geant George Burleson, both from
Post field, Fort Sill, Okla, were burn
ed to death here when a plane piloted
by Brown, fell about 700 feet and burst
into flames, Immediately after taking
Oh from the field.
Chicago-The Farm Bureau fedora
lion, comprising membership of L.
10000 in 80 states opened a two day
conference to consider the advisability
IF establishing one great farmers
grain market, where the products of
he farm may be sold direct to the
or consumer