WORLD'S NEWS in Brief Paragraphs for Quick Reading. NATIONAL CAPITAL SNAPSHOTS Gleanings of Interest From Washing- ton—Late Happenings In the Realm {+ of Sports—Foreign and Do- mestic Occurrences. PEACE BULLETINS Representative Frear and his asso- clates on the subcommittee of House Committee on War Expendi- tures wiil make a month's tour inves- tigating charges affecting John Ryan and aircraft production. All army flying fields on the Hewmp- stead Plains on Long Island are to be abandoned, Herbert Hoover has been plans to withdraw from Hungary. independence under the United § as mandatary. Premier Nitti sees no glarm in the outlook for Italy, country, he deciares, is looking e ly for a mutually beneficial trade with the United States. The British government has made a cause fo assume the task of maintaining order in the Caucasus region, from the British will be forced to withdraw in the next two weeks, the job will 80.000 American troops. pally recognized the German ment of President Ebert. General von Falkenhayn submits himself to the allies for trial.instead of the ex-Kaiser, Archduke sontrol of Joseph, who took the Hungarian government, gas been invested temporarily supreme powers in the government I'he entente miss gated governmental authority to juke Joseph, when the Peidl went resigned, Herbert Hoover, allied relief commission, all relief supplies on thelr way Budapest until the Rumanians retire. WASHINGTON E Advocates of the Plumb plan for the management of railroads gtatement be followed in testing any solution of program. Attorney General Palmer asks all former state food administrators to revive their county organizations and ald the government in the collection of evidence of hoarding and other vio- lations of the food control law. At the same time the Federal Reserve Board declared against proposed de- flation of the currency at this time. Senate leaders are determined to defeat ratification of the Colombian treaty unless there be attached to it a reservation which will guarantee complete protection to American oil interests in Colombia. Organized labor Informed Congress it would shortly reveal “a systematized plundering of virtually all of the pub- lie transportation highways of the United States” as a part of its pro- gram to force government ownership of the railroads of the country. President Wilson accepted the chal- lenge of Congress that he deal directly with the raliroad Iabor crisis under the, powers granted him In the war emergency railroad control act, Walker D. Hines, director general of the rallroads, was authorized by the President to open negotiations with the railroad shop employees look- ing toward a meritorius settlement of the shopmen’s demands for wage in srenses aggregating more than $165.- 000,000 annually. GENERAL u Aviators found they could use mag- netic compasses by mounting them on horsehair cushions, counteracting vi- bration, All foodstuffs held by the war de partment in Holland have been soid to the Belgian government on an ad- vantageous basis, according to a cable from Judge Edwin H. Parker, chalr- man of the liquidation commission in Europe. The price, it was stated, would probably be about $10,000,000, Representatives of 24 corn and wheat growing states attended a meet. ing in Washington to discuss the high cost of living, A nation-wide plan for Industrial training by 20,000 industrial corpora. tions throughout the country, which are to pay workers a sufficient living wage during their apprenticeship, was inaugurated by Colonel Arthur Woods, former police commission of New York and now nesistant to the secretary of war, Transportation service on the lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co, was resumed almost equal to its normal ‘condition following an agreement in conference to settle the em- cl: wage and hour demands by Reports that President Wilson would take up the high cost of living as well as the peace treaty in his ad dress on his tour to the Pacific coast were curent in Washington, Captain Lowell H. Smith delivered a letter by aero to Admiral Rodman San Francisco. He travelled 610 miles at the rate of 120 miles an hour, North Dakota announced purchase of a flour mill and has decided to erect four more, in addition to terminal ele- vators, It Is planned to reduce the high cost of living, Nine saloon keepers and eight bar- tenders with businesses in the central section of Philadelphia were arrested by Deputy Marshal Edward McCaffrey for selling beer eontaining more than one-half of 1 per cent, alcohol. The proprietors were held under $1,000 buil and the bartenders under $500 bail for the September term of the United States distriet court, A Hillsboro (N. D.) Jeweler has made a tiny engine, run by compressed air, which is only three-quarters of an Inch long and weighs two and one-half former union was ap- Miss Mary Anderson, Seventy-one American companies now own and operate 358 steamships of 1.720000 tonnage which before the Secretary Danlels reviews the Paclfie fleet under Rear Admiral Rodman, off California, Mayor Hylan proposes that a great system of bus lines be inaugurated in York and that surface cars be ousted entirely and the rails torn out of the streets, The New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad suspends 102 trains and its present as the shopmen's strike spreads New England, and pas- time table SPORTING N.Y At Saratoga Springs, champion, The fight hac carcely started when Levinsky hit his teur light heavyweight w4 than two minutes ppohent ao ow im to the fio y Count, pinion of h of the Ps, ror Pe y best k inpang ul ortstop | with } : his fled Next to Pe comes Weaver by Chapman of Pie K \ Sox, followed Neott of Red Sox and ands, Ty Cobb says he never der from spring traini: the camps. ig trips of ana abolishment Louis H. Mang, formerly of the Mo and now head master in physical train. Ing at the academy. Another player has been converted to the batting style affected by Heinle Groh, that of squarely facing the pitch- er while waiting for the ball to be de livered to him. The latest to adopt the style made famous by the Reds’ third sacker Is Jack Smith of the Car dinals, who Is meeting with fair sue cess In pursuing these tactics, Vexatious won the Alabama stakes of $10,000 for three-year-old fillies at one mile and a quarter at the Saratoga race track. Ichiva Kumagae, tennis champlon of Japan, defeated R. Lindley Murray, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., American na- tional champion, In five sets in the fourth round of the Newport Casino tournament. The score was 3-8, 708, 8-6, 8-8 6-3, In deflance of “organized baseball” the Yankee management allowed Carl Mays to pitch In the second game of a double header in New York and he made a dramatic debut by striking out the first threo batters and winning his game, 8-2 The Browns won the first game, 6-2, FOREIGN = German marks reached thelr lowest point In history on Thursday, being quoted in Switzerland at 33 centimes, instead of at the pedce price of 120 centimes, The depreciation is said to be due to the proposal to stamp all bank notes and eliminate regulation of foreign bills of exchange. Fifty persons were killed in disturb ances near Chemnitz, Saxony. Troops were overpowered and their horses slaughtered and the meat distributed to the mob, General strike at Basle ended In a complete failure, Communist leaders who hoped to spread the strike ovet the country and establish a Soviet were defented, One hundred thousand race patrons were compelled to use emergency con veyances to reach Grunewald race track, where the German Derby was held, owing to a car strike, British Food Controller Roberts an nounced the government decided to re sume supply and distribution of bacon ham and lard and to supervise prices Ruggerio Leoncavallo, noted opera tie composer, is dead, Premier Hara of Japan told a polit feat delegation that “should the dis turbances In China continue, Japar may be compelied to adopt suitable measures for safeguarding Japanese interests.” Great Britain will not appoint an ambassador to Mexico until Carranza’s attitude towdrd British interests justi files recognition of his government, CALLS ON CITIZEN VIGILANCE AIDS Nationwide Plan Devised by Gov- ernment to Curb Undue Food Surpluses. SET TRAPS FOR HOARDERS. “ MAJ, GEN. LEJEUNE. Led Hig “Devil Fifth Avenue, Dogs” Up New York. - = Show No Mercy to Gougers—Falr Price Bodies All Over U, 8, to Collect Evidence, eltl- urged Washington. zens of by Attorney natural tion's campalgn prices for ti Cooperation life General Palmer # 0 to the ngninst by every walk of is administra altitudinous life. sone adiunet 1 necessaries of A scheme of prodigious apparent which the general ganization in profits unity attorney advocates Includes the of community “falr price committees” every who will means of restricting unfair su and seck duses In costs, and price and in the pri markets These It also operate undue both mary secondary fair commit. (oes, is suggested, with the officers throughout the with stances t federal prosecuting id and report all In- existing Ilaws int of affences, substantiating evidence of vielution of wgninst hoarding, markets and si ir With this gener Palmer restra has despatched the f elegrams to ali state ¥ adminis trators throughs “In mation re iteering by modities it order to secure accurate infor. of prof ATY govern dative to charges dealers In necess is the 0 ascertain wih desire of tl ment t« ther or nd more th iii be an extra sum prices, is requested, ascertain the a fair margin and prices are ln excess of what mittee regards a published its list porting you for “Any evidence of hoarding violations of food control which may be developed In of such committees should over to the United Nt who will be ins employ lils resources as well as those of the bureau of investigation to co-operate with you and your committee in seek. ing out and punishing all violators of the law, “There is a pressing necessity for the restoration of normal conditions and it is believed thas through the game organization which you had as federal food administrator you and your county administrators together with their appointees can render a valuable service to the country at this time, and your cooperation and theirs, without compensation will be greatly appreciated, “The widest publicity of this move- ment and the results obtained by the county committees it is believed will be an important factor in its success. Please wire whether the government can count upon your active co-opfera- tion.” mon withesse It however, cost prices, of profit falr price to of fair prices, review, re to the act he ales fructed to British Cut Food Prices. The British people, like the French, gre in revolt against high prices and profiteering and are seeking to dis cover some means by which to reduce the cost of living. The inauguration of open alr markets is the latest idea by which to defeat the profiteers and has proved a great success, MARNE BRIDGE, iI8 BEGUN, General Mowze Lays First Stone With impressive Ceremony, Chatean-Thierry. — Major General Robert LI. Howze laid the first stone of the new bridge which is to be con- structed over the Marne river, funds for which were raised by the Ameri can Society for the Relief of Devastat- ed France, The old bridge was blown up by the American Third Division the night of May 81-June 1, 1010, to stop the Ger. man thrust toward Paris, AVION SWOOPS UNDER ARCH. e Frenchman Flies Through Triomphe Easily, Parig. — Lieutenant Godefroy, =a French aviator, performed the feat of passing under the Are de Triomphe in an airplane flight. The airman had been training several months in prep. aration for the feat. His practice work was done at Villacoublay, where an arch of the same dimensions as the Are de «1 New regulars in and Belleau nue from Washington { One Hundred and Tenth | jor General John A, Lejeune command, York.-—Twenty-five thouss and ma of the Chateau Wood, ins ched rines See ond vision, heroes of Chilerry fih p Fifi ave Bidding for All Lines of Products. New need York urope’'s greatest ufls manufac +5 £4 oist nog tures has record was when, according uted lieved that tae exceed the amou figures for July “Americans against high pric the foreign and wearing who are protesting es should comprehend apparel and other thi and comforts ‘a represent needs concern sald “American have always been foreign customers. | war American-made stuff ahroad cheaped than In markets, There have always been go- ‘export prices’ thst are lower than prices made to domestic summers “The diferential is still controlling I should say that shoes which are be ing exported by the million dollars’ worth are sod to foreigners 20 per cent cheaper than to American jobbers and retailers” WARNS BRITAIN OF DANGER. increase Production and Cut Expenditure, London. "If we continue spending at the rate we are now It will lead straight to national bankruptcy,” was the strong warning J. Austen Cham beriain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, gave the House of Commons, “If we cannot increase production™ he continued, “we shall go straight to national bankruptey. Neither in- creased production nor reduced ex- penditure alone will be sufficient. We have got to do both If we are to pull through and turn the corner.” about domestic Must WORLD'S NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM PITTSBURGH Murray Livingston, city ordnance officer, In a drive to curb profiteering among farmers who sell foodstuffs In this city at abnor mal prices arrested 32 farmers, charg: ing them with misdemeanor, The ar rests were made at markets In dif. ferent parts of the city. NEW YORK. With the settlement of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit strike union officials turn thelr attention to Manhatten for the strengthening of the organization here, PARIS One hundred thousand refugees from the evacuated parts of Siberia have passed through Omsk. NEW YORK, « John Edward Ad- dicks, eapitnlist, gas magnate and three times eandidate for United States senator from Delaware, died In a private sanitarfum here of heart dis. ense, BUDAPEST. While troops are main. taining order In Budapest the Bolshe. viki are reported to have selzed con. trol in southwestern Hungary and are sald to be slaughtering the population, WASHINGTON. — Official Washing- ton is confident that the railway wage question would be settled by Peitcutut arbitration rather than through the medium of strikes, WILSON ASKS GUT LIVING GOST ident for Legislation to Solve High Prices Problem. | URGES THE PEACE TREATY. | Licensing of Corporations and Curb on Security issues Proposed-—Ap. peals to Producers, Middlemen, and Retailers to Deal Fairly, Washing base for President Wilso fore Congress ton pen red plans of the He told ent higl dealing Cost f Hying. Of any Prospes Het 10 peace soone 10 i i whe ont of stor the CRERTS raw surplus sie put them upon ion 4. Prosec age and market by wherever ned ite combinations of produc. raders formed for the con iiies and prices 1 1 loy publicity, npl throu of 1 the de cotnmerce, ricalturs Federal Trade Com- the 1 labor and the nequain public with not ailable because { and methods of price fixing. In his address the clared that the world supplies nv President de faced nn supreme crisis In which prove ker mettle and by action in peace just as she had saved Eur by her action In arms “The world,” sald he, "has strayed the arbitrary force of tary junta, It wil er. All that is arbitrary and coercive ig In the discard, Those who seek to America must Europe wAVEe her pe just de struction.” Almost in the next breath the Pres. ident declared his belief that more extreme leaders of organized ia- bor will presently yield to a spber second thought and, like the great mass of their associates, get like true Americans” “They will see,” the President went on, “that strikes undertaken at this eritienl time are certain to make mat- tors worse, not better-—worse for them and everybody else” While the President was frequently applavded during his address, the loud. est demonstration followed this refer ence to the threat of railway strikes, The President appealed to producers, middlemen and merchants to deal fair ly with the people and concluded with a strong appeal to employees and workmen to aveld temper and passion and unite to deal soberly with a sit. uation wherein, ag he had previously socially, the world is on the operating table.” Johnson Against New Army, Washington. ~The War Department's plan for universal military training Is “pence conscription,” Senator Hiram Johnson of California asserted 1h com- menting on the proposal of General March, chief of staff, FIFTY KILLED IN GERMAN RIOT, Mob Slaughters Troops’ Horses to Ob. tain Food. Berlin. ~Pifty persons have been killed In riots near Chemnitz, a rall- road station 38 miles southwest of Dresden, Troops were overpowered and dls. armed by a mob. The soldiers’ horses were slaughtered and the flesh dls tributed to the crowd, Many wounded persons are In the Chemnitz hospital, Additional troops were sent to quiet the disorders, » ANDREW CARNEGIE. ‘Noted ironmaster Expires in His Eighty-fourth Year, NAINA AANA ASN -MEXICAN AGTION SEE vit SEE ission. part COMM Mexico's ISIOMR Ule juidated to estimate the that Americans will claim,” tor King. “Fully thousand Americans from Utah Arizona have been driven out of Mexico and have damage claims, Some up to $150,000 or $200,000, These are entirely aside from in They likewise include the damages sustained railroad, ofl, sugar and impossible nt of damages said Bena and eVen do not mining, like. The aggregate of damage claims will be from S200.000.000 to $500,000, 000 and perhaps still larger.” NITION NTN AA NTN TN GNIS iit PITH OF THE VICTORY NEWS A gharp note was sent last week to the Rumanian government by the peace conference accusing it of in. tentional defiance and a desire to separate from the Allies and ask. ing Rumania to state her position at once. Turks are already massing on the Ane menian border ready for a big mas. sacre when the British troops with. draw, . General Bridges, the British commander, is in Maris urging their replacement by Americans, and Gen. eral Harbord has left at the head of a mission to investigate and deter. mine what action to take, Several commissioners having to de with reconstruction and other work in connection with the German dele. pation went te the Paris offices of the Eastern Railway, Paris, to work out with French commissioners the railroad schedules for the transpor.
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