Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-11-26

won congressional medals OF honor vi
distinguished service awards during
the late war, are to present memorials
asking the pardon of Eugene V. Debs,
now serving sentence in Atlanta penl'
Tertiary.
The senate passed a resolution pro
viding funds to bring back from 81
IBERIA discharged American soldiers,
their wives and families, who are des'
titute there Senator Wadsworth, re-
publican, of New York, estimated
about $4,000 would be needed.
The United States does not contem-
plate offering any definite program for
Limitation of land forces during the
conference and, so far as the Amerl-
can delegates have been able to ascer-
tain, no foreign delegation has pre-
pared any proposals.
AS many public sessions as possible
are desired by the Japanese in the dis
cussion of Pacific and far eastern ques-
lions, Japanese delegates declare. They
added that the Japanese would wei
come open discussions because they
wanted the world to examine Japan
csc policies in the far east.
Actual cost of the United States of
the scrapping of the present naval
building program, naval officials esti-
mate, would be between four hundred
million dollars and five hundred mil
lion dollars, exclusive of any salvage
plan.
When the house of representatives
agreed to the senate amendment to
the emergency tariff bill and sent that
measure to the president, it put an
end to all prospects for any more free
wool, and marked the beginning of a
certain rise in the price of American
wool that not only will affect wool still
in the growers hands, but more par.
ticularly the 1922 clip.
A bill providing an extension of from
three to six years, the time in which
the department of justice may prose
cute ''war profiteers," was passed by
the senate without a dissenting vote.
Senator Robert N. Stanfield of Ore.
gon has offered a resolution author
izing the Secretary Of State to invite
all delegates to the Arms Conference
to tour the United States as guests Of
the government, the invitation also to
include foreign correspondents.
FOREIGN.
Considerable speculation is being in.
dulged in Toxic, Japan, as to what
will be the attitude of the United
States toward demands which it is an
ticipated Japan will make at the WASH
ington conference ON fertilization of
the Pacific islands,
The council of ambassadors discus.
sed the amount of the money allow
ance to be given former Emperor
Charles of Hungary. and his
family. A sum between 100000 and
100000 gold marks yearly has been
mentioned as the probable amount.
Ten persons were buried alive in the
ruins and five others We're injured
in terrific explosion in an oil refinery
at Otzheim, Germany, according to adj
vices received. Damage was estimated
at 25,000,000 marks. Cause of the ex-
plosion was unknown.
The plight of some of the landed
proprietors of England was illustrated
when the Marquis of Northampton, in
returning thanks for wedding present
from the tenantry on his estate said
that at the present time he was living
on borrowed money.
The British government, 1t Is an.
houhSCd iitio iuANltu lllt SONltI govern.
ment as Moscow a firmly worded note
absolutely denying the allegations OF
Foreign Minister Chitcherin that the
British evidence of hostile Bofsheyist
propaganda in central Asia and AT.
ghanistan was founded on forged docu.
ments, 6~rman or otherwise.
80
Hungarian generals and statesmen
and majority of the nobility whf
played brilliant roles during the wal
and at the court of the ex-Emporer
are following the example of Field
Marshal Won Koevess, the conouero,
of lvangorod, who recently opened &
cigar shop in Budapest, by setting up il
business as shopkeepers, tailors, car
penters and clerks.
Japan feels that her ratio of war
ship tonnage IS not high enough unde,
| the American propoeolS II ,,,oe 90.