The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1920-08-14
ALL LATEST NEWS
News That Is News, When it
Is News, for All.
STATE, NATIONAL, FOREIGN
Happenings the World Over OF
Important Events Condensed
to Good Reading.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

TO GO0Q ReduiitS'
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The bodies of 1891 American SOL
der dead have been returned from
overseas, the war department an
nounced Monday, and those OF 1865
others are en- route TO the United
States.
The shipping board Saturday called
for bids to supply approximately three
million gallons Of lubricating OIL 10
government vessels at ports ON the
Atlantic, Pacific and gulf ports.
Representatives of 10000 navy yard
workers in forty-three navy yards IN
the country appeared before the navy
wage board Thursday to urge an IN
crease in wages of approximately ~
per cent,
Railroads were authorized Friday by
the interstate commerce commission
TO enforce the new freight rates and
passenger fares until next November
| without observing the long and
short haul clause of the interstate
commerce act.
The international communications
conference, called under the auspices
of the league of nations. it was an
nounced Tuesday, will be held in
Washington September Is.
Increased revenues, officially esti-
mated at $100,OO0,000 annually, will
accrue to the treasury as a result OF
the advance in transportation rates
allowed the railroads. The added IN
come for the government, officials
said Tuesday, would be derived from
increased transportation taXes-which
are paid by the public-as we'll as
through operation of the income and
excise provisions of the revenue
laws
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Heavy rainfall has been beneficial
throughout most cOttOn-groWiDg sec
lions of Texas during the last several
days, although continuance of show
ers in the rain belt of East Texas has
contributed to increasing the number
of boil weevils. Rain continues to fall
in the Brazos bottoms and reports
from cotton farmers in the Brazos
Valley indicate considerable discOur-
agement over the situation, as the cot
ton pests are rapidly cutting the new
" formed squares. In other sections
however, the precipitation has greatly
benefited young cotton, as well as all
other crops. Drouths have been brOk-
en- in many sections during the last
few days.
Captain Raold Amundsen left Nome,
Alaska, Sunday on his ship Maude for
q cruise in the Arctic. Captain Amund-
son said his real voyage would begin
with his departure from Nome to
drift nOrthward in an ice pack. He
said he would lay his course west of
Wrangel Island and toward the ST.
berian Islands, keeping in open water
as long as possible until he found a
favorable place for striking directly
northWard.
The Tennessee legislature met Mon
day in extraordinary session to con-
slider ratification of the federal wom-
an suffrage amendment.
Hailed as a candidate in whose Sc
lection neither midnight combina-
lions nor plutocratic cabals were in
strumental," Governor James M. Cox
was formally notified at Dayton, Ohio,
Saturday by Senator Joe T. Robinson
of Arkansas, chairman of the notifi-
cation committee, that he had been
chosen by the democratic national con-
vention as the party's presidentiol
nominee.
Two men were killed and more than
thirty-five injured, with thousands of
dollars in property loss, as a result
of a street car strike which began
Thursday at Denver, Colorado. The
mob began by wrecking street cars,
turning then to the office of the Den
yer Post, which was partially wreck
ed and then dividing their attention
between the city hall, tramway build
ing and car barns.
On Geographic advice from Austin,
Texas, Thursday, carrying news of his
acquittal by the military court mar
tial which tried him Monday in con-
nection with the fatal shooting last
Friday in Galveston of Captain Her
bert A. Robertson, Private ]. C. Tyer
was released by the military authori-
ties some three hours after he had
given $1,000 bond for his release under
grand jury Indictment charging him
in the state courts with manslaugh-
ter for the same alleged offense on
which he was tried by the military
court.
Alexander Jauniuska, said to be an
international anarchist sought by the
allied governments for five years. was
arrested at Chicago, ILL.,, THURSDAY
and with him was taken documentary