Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-05-19
Happenings
Of the World
Tersely Told
Washington

washington
After announcing the selection of
General Pershing for chief of staff and
the plan of organization of the army,
Secretary of War Weeks appeared be-
fore the senate military affairs COM
mittee at Washington to protest
against the reductions in the army
bill.
The Tincher bill to regulate deal
1ngs in grain futures was passed by
the house and sent to the senate at
Washington. The vote was 269 to 60.
For the first time this year the rail-
roads operated during March without
deficit, according to figures made
public by the interstate commerce
commission at Washington.
Resumption Of American representa-
ton in allied councils will safeguard
American interests without involving
Or entangling the United States in af-
fairs of purely European concern, ad-
ministration officials at Washington
assert in answer to those Republican
senators who have been criticizing the
Presidents policy.
President Harding was initiated in
to another Masonic order, special
committee from Gallipolis Grotto No.
10 of Washington administering the
initiation ritual Of the Mystic Order
Of Yelled Prophets, in the executive
Offices.
1t was said authoritatively at
Washington that the recent negoti-
atoms between the United States and
Mexico had reached the stage where
recognition of the Obregon govern
ment was possibility within the next
few days.
Director General Davis at Washing
ton estimates the operating loss to the
government for the period Of federal
control Of the railroads at $1,2O0,O00.-
600, not including the guaranty fol-
lowing the return Of the roads.
President Harding has ordered At
torney General Daugherty at Wash
ington to make an investigation into
alleged graft in war purchases by the
War department during the war.
Jacob Gould Schuman has been Sc
lected for ambassador to China, says
a Washington dispatch.
Passage Of the emergency tariff bill
by the senate at Washington by vote
of 63 to % demonstrated the power of
the Republican organization to func-
ton effectually, Senator Moses being
the only deserter from Republican
ranks.
President Harding at Washington
determined his Mexican policy, maxi
ing recognition contingent on protec-
ton of American rights.
winter wheat crop Of 629,2S7,OOO
bushels was forecast by the Depart
ment of Agriculture at Washington,
basing its estimate on the condition Of
the crop May 1, which averaged SS.S
per cent normal.
A resolution condemning President
Harding's action in the appointment
Of American representatives to the al
lied councils in Europe, was intro
duced in the senate at Washington by
Senator La Toilette, Republican, Wis
consin.
Domestic
Six persons were killed when IL
freight cars piled up in ditch at
Eagle Flat, Tex, OH the Texas and
Pacific railway, according to report
made by train crews.
Miss Mary White, sixteen, only
daughter of William Allen White, au-
thor and publisher of the Emporia
Gazette, died Of injuries received in
fall from horse at Emporia, Kan. Her
skull was fractured.
A complete pardon was granted by
Governor Blaine at Madison, Wis, to
John Dietz, restoring freedom to the
defender of Cameron dam" on the
tenth anniversary of his conviction.
First odds quoted on the big fight
of July 2 between Dempsy and Car
pentier were posted at Paris. Seven
to four in favor of Dempsey were the
figures
Unrestricted initiative and referen-
dun as proposed in resolution for a
constitutional amendment, was killed
In the assembly at Madison, Wis.,, by
a vote of 81 to SO.
officials of the International Fur
Exchange Mt st. Louis announced n
deficit of $9,2O2, 437 in the finances of
the establishments circuIor ~,