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WH.SON’S ( ONK1TION
• ISCKNKRALI.Y COOK
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• WASHINGTON. Oct.. 14— Phy*
• sicians sa., the conditio® of !*resi*
• dent Wilson is generally good. He
• did not have a restful night a> the
• result of the spelling of a pro*
• strate gland. Or. Grayson said the
• s*\idling of a prostrate gland is
• quite common and unimportant.
• Dr. Grayson expects to call a
specialist so the President will he
• mud«* more comfortable.
BULLETIN— CHICAGO, Oct.. II
— Officials report this afternoon they
have uncovered a plot to assassinate
the Mayor of Gary.
The authorities have discovered
great stores of dynamite near Gary.
The authorities have traced the
print ini' of “Red” circulars to Indian
apolis and arrested a man who dyna
mited the entrance to the Chicago post
office a year ago.
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Ml WUKII AL \>I\ A
No cable has been received regard
ing the sailing of the steamer Alaska
from Seattle. The steamer was to have
sailed Saturday but was probably
postponed until last night, and per
haps postponed another day.
BROOKS RADIO STATION
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It is announced that the Brooks ra
dio station has been closed by order
of Falcon Joslin, the manager, and
that no more messages for Brooks
will be accepted at the local telegraph
office. Mr. Myerson. who has been
running the office for the last few
months, has closed up the station. It
is possible that the station will be
leased from Mr. Joslin by private in
terests and opened at i latter date,
but nothing definite with regard to
this can be stated at present.
MINES ARE REMOVED
WASHINGTON. Oct.. 14— Fifty
six thousand mines, composing the
North Sea barrage. have been re
moved.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE C \TEWA V
WASHINGTON. Oct., U— The
Sup*-■■•me Court of the United States,
in dev^ion today, unheld the consti
tutionality of the Alaska legislature
act of 1 It I'» requiring the filing of af
fidavits si owing annual assessment
work to have been done on mining
claims .
The court declined to interfere with
conviction of G A. Vodin, of Fairbanks
■entenced to three years, under the
statue.
BRITISH W VK MEDALS TO
BE GIVEN BESTOWED ON
WIDE RANGE OF MEN
LONDON, Oft.. 14— The King ha
directed that the British war med d.
heretofore granted only to men of the
Kingdom's armed land and naval for
es. also be awarded certain men of the
British. Dominion. Colonial and Indian
j Mercantile Marine. The medals, in sil
j vor. will be given men of the classes
; .vho served at sea for not less than
>ix months in the war period. A hronv
Mercantile Marine War Medal, in ad
dition. will be given men of tho class
, »s named who served at sea on at least
1 (.tie voyage through a danger zone.
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I «RAYES OK AMERICAN
\VI VTORS KII.I.EI) ABROAD
ARE NkARI.Y VI.I. MARKED
PARIS, Oct.. 14— Of the one lion
I dred and fifty American aviators who
J met death in aerial combats there are
only seven whose graves have not
been located. Th«* search for the bur
ial places of the heroes of the air is
! being conducted by an army officer
j and a representative of the American
; Red Cross and thousands of kilometers
i have been covered in France and Ger
many.
The hundred and forty three grave*,
have been decorated according to the
rules in force in the American Kxned
itionary Force and photographs have
been sent to the relatives of the dead.
The seven remaining graves are being
sought with particular care.
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CROWDER IS HONORED
WASHINGTON. Oct., 11— The sen
ate has passed a resolution crrnntinjr
Crowder the rank of lieutenant Ken
eraP*upon retirement. The honor is
conferred in recognition of General
Crowder’s work in connection with the
j draft law.
UPTON ISSUES UH \LLENGE
NEW YORK, Oct., 14— The secre
j tary of the New York Yacht club ha*
1 announced the receipt of a challenge
• from Sir Thomas Lipton for the Am
erican cup next year. Lipton has nam
ed his yacht Shamrock the Fourth.
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NKVV YORK . Oct., 14— Fears of :i (
serious food shortage in this section,
as the result of the longshoremenV
strike, also the teamsters, is feared, li
is estimated 220,000 workers are strik
ing. No coal has reached here for sev 1
oral days.
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FLIERS ARE
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SAX KRAXC1SCO, Oct., 14— Lieut.
Maynard expects to start on his flight
to Mineola leaving late this afternoon.
It is expected all fliers will reach the
seaboards by tonight.
MINEOLA, Oct., 14— The fliers
from the west are not enthusiastic
about the return flight to the Pacific.
They are all fatigued and say the re
turn flight will serve no good purpose.
The weather in the east is extremely
bad for flying.
OMAHA, Oct., 14— A Martin
bombing plane carrying ('apt. Roy \.
Francis in the transcontinental flight,
was wrecked here this afternoon.
Three passengers and the pilot were
badly shaken up. The plane landed in
a fog in telephone wires.
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WILL HI’I LI) TUNNEL
OF FOURTEEN MILES
THROUGH GRANITE
SEATTLE, Oct., 14— Construction
of a fourteen mile tunnel through sol
id granite- the largest of its kind in
the world — is to he part of the en
gineering feats connected with the
Methew-Okanogan irrigation project
in Washington. This project, when
completed will furnish irrigation for
approximately 45,000 acres of land.
The cost of the development voted by
the districts embraced in the project,
and to be aided by the state, is esti
mated at $8,000,000. Four years will
he required to build the tunnel, it is
said.
The Methow-Okanogan project is
but part of an ambitious program of
reclamation work undertaken by 'the
recently passed state reclamation act.
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FIRST REFNION OF THE
FAMOUS SECOND IS TO
BE HELD IN NOVEMBER
CHICAGO, Oct., 14— November 11
is the date set for the first reunion of
the famous second division. The re
union will be held in Chicago and the
date is the first anniversary of the
time the second division suspended
fighting after crossing the Meuse riv
er.
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JAPAN HAS
PLANS FOR
AN EMPIRE
WASHINGTON. Oct., 14— Senator
Ixidge this afternoon told the Semite j
Japan was building a Far Eastern I
Empire which will become a peril to
America and will threaten the world’s
safety.
Senator Lodge urged the adoption!
of the Lodge amendment returning
German Shantung rights to China.
Senator Lodge said Japan was get
ting control of China steadily and re
lentlessly and that Japan intends to
use China’s vast man power to en
danger the safety of America and
Europe,
The Senator said it is impossible to
*ee how any conscientious American
can consent to any act of the treaty .
that will extend Japan’s power to
China, especially when America drew j
China into the war with the implied
promise to protect China’s rights at
the peace table. I
GET READY
TO FIGHT !
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HKI.S1NO.FORS, Oct.. 14— The •
Soviet has ordered all Russian trains ,
immediately for the military accord
ing to reports received here today.
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INTEREST OF LIABILITIES
OF RUSSIA AMOUNTS
INTO THE MILLIONS,
LONDON, Oct., 14— Interest on
Russia’s state liabilities today
amounts annually to approximately
$643,500,000, according t,<> a statement
issued from Omsk by the Minister of
Finance of the Kolchak government.
In 1014 the national debt was 8,637,
000,000 rubles, the statement says. In
ternal war time loans aggregated 33,
000,000.000 rubles while loans con
i'acted abroad amounted to 8,000,000,*
000 rubles, thus bring the debt to a
total of about 50,000,000,000 rubles.,!
About 50,000,000 rubles yearly would
be required for the amortisation of
this tremendous sum.
The statement points out the fact
that the figures quoted in rubles re
nresent fictitious values as the foreign
loans were issued in English, Ameri
can, French, Japanese and Italian cur
rencies which cannot be converted into
rubles at the old gold rate of ex
change.
Whereas Fiance, in pre-war days,
was Russia’s largest creditor, it is
noted that Great Britain supplied the
hulk of Russia’s financial requirement
during hostilities with France, Amer
ica, Japan and Italy ranking in the or-,
der named.
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FISH QUOTATIONS
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SEATTLE. Oct., 14— Fish prices
are as follows; halibut, nineteen and
one quarter cents; chicken halibut, ten ,
and one quarter cents,
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OUTRAGES
REPORTED
PARIS, Oct., 14— The Montenegrin
forces have inflicted heavy losses on
Serbian detachments in the Montene
grin insurrection which is continuing
according to all reports received here.
Montenegrin Minister of Foreign
Afairs says Montenegro was ask
ed by the Allied Powers to order all
Serbians out of Montenegro.
Outrages on old men, women and
girls are charged against the Servians.
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CHICAGO, Oct., 14— Federal offic
ials at Gary, the steel center of Illi
nois, have arrested the alleged maker
of the bomb that exploded July 3rd at
the borne of A. Mitchell Falmer, at
torney general, in Washington, D. C.
It is reported the federal authorities
have obtained evidence clearing up the
terrorist’s bomb plots of May 1st and
June 2ml.
The evidence reveals the entire ter
rorist organization is responsible for
attempts against the lives of various
Federal officials throughout the Cnit
ed States.
It is believed the man held at Garv
offered thirty six bombs sent through
the mails in April. It is believed the
bombs were made at Gary and carried
to New York by a radical leader nam
ed Ivanoff who will shortly he taken
into custoday.
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CREW OF SHIP
WRECKED HAVE
REACHED NOME
NOME, Oc t., 14— The crew of the I
vhaler Belvedere arrived this fore
toon from Diomedi. The Belvedere
vas crushed in the ice and sunk on
September 16th.
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i ERM A NS DO NOT GET
THE GAME OF PUBLICITY
WEIMAR, Oct., 14— Minister Nau
nann, for nearly a year head of the
'let-man press, has resigned after a
misunderstanding with President Kb
*rt over an interview which the Presi
lent granted a New York newspaper
orrespondent. He has been succeednl
by Ulrich Rauscher.
The change arouses little enthus
iasm among the foreign correspon
dents who see in it small hope that .
Germany can obtain favorable publi
city in the press of other nations.
CHICAGO, Oct., 14— Three steel
plants here, closed since the strike,
opened this morning with fifty per
cent of the forces at work.
COMMITTEE TO
SETTLE STRIKE
OE STEEL MEN
WASHINGTON, Oct., 14— 'Hie In
dustrial conferenced steering commit
tee suggests a committee of six repre
sentatives of the public, not attending
the conference, to be named to arbi
trate the steel strike providing the
conference approves of labor's de
mands that the conference arbitrate
the strike.
BOURGEOIS IS NAMED
TO LEAGUE OF NATIONS
PARIS, Oct., 14— Former Premier
Leon Bourgeois has been named as
France's representative to the League
of Nations council.
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