Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-05-01

nationwide survey of the soldier
employment situation shows falling
off in the number of ex-serylce men
seeking work. There has also been n
corresponding increase in the percent
age of men placed.
Fire destroyed the international
footbridge at Laredo, Texas, conneet-
ing the United States and Mexico. All
communication, including telephone
service, was cut off as Il result of the
fire. The loss was estimated at $780,
600
Rear Admiral Carlo r. Britain,
chief. of staff for Admiral Henry B.
Wilson, commander of the Atlantic
fleet. committed suicide by shooting
himself while on duty with the flee,
In Cuban waters.
WASHINGTON.
Walker d. Hines, director general
of railroads. has resigned and his res
ignation has been accepted by Presi-
dent Wilson, effective May 10.
Profiteers were denounced in the
senate on April "a, by Senator Capper,
Republican, Kansas, who presented
statistics, which he said showed that
the earnings of many American cor
porations represented profiteering,
open, scandalous and Shameless"
The house bill increasing pensions
to civil war veterans to $50 monthly
and those of the widows of veterans to
$50 monthly was passed Friday by the
senate, and now goes to conference.
The increases were provided to meet
the rising costs of living.
Gold imports from England jumped
to nearly $3S,OOO,000 during the first
ten days in April. according to fig
ures made public by the federal re-
serve board.
Two warships from the Pacific fleet
have been dispatched to Mexican wa
tiers to protect American citizens and
interests at Mazatlan and Topolobam-
pc. They were sent from San Diego
on orders from the navy department
after request for protection had
comes from state department repre-
sentatives at those two Mexican Pacific
ports.
FOREIGN
The supreme council is sending a
formal request to President Wilson
that the United States government
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council Is leaving to President Wilson
the arbitration of the differences over
the boundaries of Armenia
Baltasar Brum. president of the re-
public of Uruguay, has challenged DIR.
Rodriguez Larreta, director of the
newspaper Eel Pals, to a duel. DIR.
Laretta has accepted the challenge.
A League of Nations association has
people of Japan in the ideals Of the
league.
-Four thousand Irish residents of
London, headed by pipe bands and a
Sim Fem flag, serenaded the Sim
Fein hunger striking prisoners in
Womwood Scrubs, the historic Lon
don prison Sunday evening. After thu
serenade the demonstrants barred their
heads and soIsemnly recited the rosary
in Gaelic.
Three police officers were ambushed
at Bandon, County Cork, by unidenti-
fled assailants Sunday night. Tive
were killed on tha snOt
The developments of the last two
weeks resulting from the Sonora revo-
lutionary activities show that the GEN.
trail government is preparing to en-.
circle the rebellious state with steel
ring, meanwhile crushing sporadic
outbreaks in other parts of the repub-
lie with strong hand.
Five hundred French troops are re-
ported to have been wiped out in the
evacuation of Urfa, in the northwest
of Mesopotamia.
The mandate of Palestine is to go
to Great Britain under a recent de-
cision of the interallied supreme cour-
ell. Settlement of the borders of tho
Iioiy Idilu Is W De lelt 10 fTance anA
Britain, it was decided.
A note has been despatched to Paris
by the German government, according
to a Berlin wireless message received
at London, stating that the German
troops In the Ruhr district no longer
exceed the number stipulated by the
peace treaty.
, Argentna's corn crop for the pres
ent year will be 6,571,000 Spanieh
tons, equivalent to 25S,S97 900 Ameii-
can bushels, according to official fig
ures made public April %. Reports
to the government show S,1S4,000 acres
planted to corn this year.
Agricultural production in British
Columbia during 1919 amounted to