Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-06-12


Yale university sent to congress
protest expressing opposition to con
gressional resolutions of Great Britain
and Ireland" The signers expressed
belief that this government should not
interfere with 1.-The domestic affairs of
any other friendly nation"
WASHINGTON.
The Sixty-sixth congress ended its
second session on June 8, adjourning
sine die at pm. Unless grave
emergency arises which makes neces-
sary a special session. it will not meet
again until December 5.
Congress is charged by President
Wilson with failure to take import
ant remedial action with respect to
the cost of living and to give ser
ious consideration to the revision of
the tax laws and the problems of
peace.
Prosecution under the Sherman an
thrust and Clayton acts of print paper
manufacturers suspected of profiteer-
ing was recommended by the Senate
manufacturers subcommittee, which
conducted an investigation of the
paper situation.
Eleven bills and resolutions passed
by congress in the closing days of it's
session, including the waterpOwer
measure and the joint resolution re-
pealing most of the wartime laws and
proclamations, were killed on June
by President Wilson through "pock-
ct veto"
Investigation of expenditures In the
presidential and congressional CAM
paigns which will end with the No
senate.
FOREIGN
Marshal Foch was slightly injured
when his automobile collided with a
taxicab in Paris. His injury consists
of cuts about the face from glass.
The first real test of the league of
nations as a practical working body
will be made when the council meets
in London on June IA to deal with
the case of Persia versus the bolshe-
wiki.
CARRIED in a tattered ermine cloak,
priceless once, but now so weather.
beaten and worn as to be utterly
worthless, the Grand Duchess Olga,
sister of the late czar of Russia, has
been among the thousands of refu-
gees seeking the aid of the American
Red Cross at Belgrade, Serbia.
A recommendation that 5000 Mexi-
can troops be sent to the port of En-
senada, Lower California, was tele-
graphed from Calexico, Cal, to Gen.
Aware Obregon at Mexico City by
Baldomero A. Armada, Mexican de
facto appointee to the governorship of
Lower California.
The treaty of peace with Hungary
was signed at Versailles on June 4.
1--WE have signed the hardest of all
the treaties said a member of the
Hungarian delegation after the cere-
monies, "but we have done so in hope
and confidence of its revision"
A program of commercial procedure
for nationals of the United States,
Great Britain, France, Italy and Bel
GUM will be drafted at the initial
meeting of the international chamber
of commerce in Paris from June % to
July 1, with the view of suppression
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transportation of raw materials, recon-
struction of the war devastated
regions, the economic organization of
new states and sterilization of ex-
change.
Encounters between German and
French soldiers at Gleiwitz, Silesia,
which resulted in a number of persons
on both sides being injured, are re-
ported in wireless dispatch from
Berlin.
Faced with the alternative of being
nationalized or getting married, Lydia
Zelinskara, of Moscow, chose the lat
ter solution temporarily, she explained
in a Geneva divorce court.
The Poles have launched counter
attack south of Kiev region, while the
reds have concentrated in an endeavor
to drive to the northwest in order to
compel the Poles to evacuate Kiev.
A deficit of 100000 pesos exists in
the Mexican treasury, according to the
newspapers. They quote General Sal
vaor Alvarado, minister of finance in
the cabinet of President de la Huerta.
as authority for the statement
Repatriation of Russian isoners of
war in Germany has been arranged by
the Moscow and Berlin government !,
says dispatch. They will be sent to
Russia by way of Riga, from which
port they will cross Lithuania.
With twelve army officers in. hos
pitfalls at Budapest in consequence of
having been pricked by poison needles
and number dead. it is believed that
bolsheviki are attempting to create
new disorders during the period of I'M