Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-04-10


Cal, May IS to 20, at the convention
of the National Electric Light aSsocia-
ton.
conference of coastwise shipping
interests and longshoremen, winch
convened at the department of 'an"r
at Atlantic and Gulf ports dissolved
without having reached an agreement
After having been adrift in sea-
plane for sixteen hours without food
or water Major Sidney e. Parker of
the British army and Miss Blanche
Frazer arrived at Baltimore on the
steamship Hilton, by which they were
picked up on Sunday last.
WASHINGTON.
For the first time in eight years
President Wilson remained away from
Easter services. He spent the day rest
ing in the White House.
Discussing organized labor's effort
to elect a congress that will be sympa-
thetic with its purposes, Senator
Thomas of Colorado told the senate
that, if Samuel Gompers succeeds in
choosing the next congress, the oath
of office should be changed to swear
allegiance to the American Federation
of Labor
President Wilson has transmitted to
the senate the report of the American
commission, headed by Major General
Hartford, which investigated condi-
| lions in Armenia. The commission
made no recommendations as to the
| United States assuming a mandate
over Turkey and Armenia, but it's re-
port contained extensive arguments
for and against such action.
| Soldier relief legislation with prob
able provision for a cash bonus, funds
for which would be raised by sales
Injuries taxes, was approved by the
house ways and means committee by a
vote of 10 to 6.
| The British embassy, massive red
brick building in the aristocratice resi-
dence section of Washington, is being
picketed by from ten to twenty women,
who carry large placards on behalf of
! the cause of Ireland.
| More than a hundred members of
the house plan to leave San Francisco
July 5, aboard the transport Mount
| Vernon, for a two months trip to the
Orient. The itinerary will include
Hawaii, the Philippine islands, China
and Japan.
| FOREIGN
The Sim Fein plan to destroy all
British records and plunge the coun-
try's administration into confusion was
put into operation Saturday night when
fires were started in official buildings
all over Ireland. Sixty-one police bar
revenue offices raided and their con-
tents burned.
The Japanese general staff Is con-
sidering plans of increasing their troops
in Siberia until theS Japanese forces
there are sufficiently strong to clear
east Siberia of Bolsheviki.
Nineteen nineteen was the driest
year in the Hawaiian islands since the
weather bureau began issuing reports.
The communists at Muelheim, West
phalia, have announced that they in
tend to destroy all of the industries
in the Ruhr district if the advance of
the reichswehr is not halted at once.
Gar Nicholas and all members of
the imperial family of Russia are still
alive, according to M. Lassies, former
member of the chamber of deputies,
who has just returned from a mission
to Russia.
General Christian De Wet, who COM
manded the Orange Free State forces
in the Boer war, declared in a speech
at Pretoria, that South Africa would
persist in pleading with England for
independence until England granted it.
The Polish government has rejected
counter proposal by the Russian so
Wet government for an armistice along
the entire battle front during the pro-
posed peace negotiations between Po-
land and soviet Russia.
Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia,
cousin of former Emperor William, and
who was recently arrested and incar-
cerated In the Mosbit prison charged
with having fomented an attack on
members of the French commission In
the dining room of the Hotel Alden.
has been released from prison.
Czecho-Slovakia Is ready to enter
into peace negotiations with soviet
Russia, the Journal DIES Debats learns.
The Prague government, according to
n dispatch from that city, "is prepared
to reply to the soviet peace Offer" and
begin negotiations "in accord with the
allied powers"
Following up his victory in the
chamber of deputies. Premier Nitti
scored confidence vote in the senate
10Y to 11-after speech in which
he expressed the Italian governments
desire to settle the Adriatic question
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