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\V\S|JIM;T0N. May 27— Of
Iicial figures issued today show
that the recent < i ». * Loan to
talled fi\e Hi!*i .r i**o hundied
and fort* mm •a.uion nine hund
red and eight* thousand, three
* hundred dollars.
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SIX I llor> VM> V.OlHvl.iCS
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w \i.i*i:n oit this morni\r.
I .OS ANC.KI KS May 27— S'x
thousand sh’pya ie’s struck this
morning at the Lo- Angeles Sh.n
Pudding Com pan* \s p’ant at San IVd
ro . A d' mand for higher wages is tl ••
oaus- of the -trike.
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SKATTLK, Ma 27 • Carl Chil
berg . on of llan’o r d. K. Chi! hong,
died this mo»ning as the result of »n*
jurie receive'! early yesterday morn
ing in a collision of autos on the Seat
tle-Kvcre11 high\vay.
WASHINGTON, May 27— The
|*ini*.essive Republican Senators lost
their fi^ht today apainst the selec
tion of S nator Crane is K. Warren, ot
W’y«»»ninp, as chairman o! the 1 inane**
and appropriations committees. The
pa* \ \ coni *rence approved of W’airen
both positions. Senator Johnson,
of C iitVnat. lead tin* Progressive Re
pub1 ican ’i their field, but was de
feated b\ to •'». not enough to car
ry th.* fijrht t > tin* floor of tin* Senate.
Other chairman selected are as fol
lows:
Senator Hnr»*y S. New. of Indiana,
on tlm committee of Territories.
Senator K**ed Smoot, ot Utah, pub
lic Inn*I committee.
S- - •* >»* Mites Poindexter, of W’asb
•nrton. mines committee.
S *na*o Charles R. McNary, ot Or
. r m re tarnation and irrigation com
mittee.
S< nntor Newberry, of Michigan.
f: h ri»*s committee.
Senator Henry C. Kodffo, of Massa- J
chu ’*s i’oreipn relations committe**.
S nntor Carrot S. Pare of Vermon*
Navy committee.
S* nafot W’e b*y l<. Jones, ot Wash
inpton. commerce committee.
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* TEN MILE DRY ZONE
* ON MEXICAN BORDER *!
* IS NOW PROPOSED #
LARDO. Tex.. May 27— A hill *
* to create a ten-mile dry zone
* alone the international border *
* will he introduced in the Mexican
* Congress, according to Mexican
* officials »n Nuevo 1. a re do. The
* zone would extend from the Pa* *
* cific coast to the mouth of the Rio
* Grande.
To offset the revenue losses to * <
Mexican border merchants incurr
* ed the law. another hill will he in
* troduced for a ten-mile free /one
* having the same radius which
* would admit imports to the dr\
territory free of duty.
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WEATHER REPORT
The following >s the weather re
tort for the 2? h^rrs ending at 7 o'
<»ork this morni"?:
Seward 65, Raininpr. Calm.
A nr horn ire 46. Pt. Cloudy. Calm.
Matanuska 54. Cloudy. Calm.
Thirkaloon 4:1. Clear. Calm.
Wasilla 48. Clear, aim.
Tulkeetna 50 Cloudy. Fast
The well known boat Carl White,
used on the Tolovana. has been chang
ed from fas to steam power.
CHICAGO, May 27— Five thous
and att» nded a prohibition meeting
l e'e last night and , all standing, vo -
! against P-o-ident Wilsons proposa*
a-i given in his message to Congress
o remove the ban on wine and bee**.
Viliiam Jennings Pryan spoke at th
mooting and predicted that t ongres
vould not adopt President Wilson’:*
• commendation regarding lifting pro
hibition ban to a certain extent.
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itt LING IS UEFl’SED ON
ST CITS OF H \KI> ('II)KU
WASHINGTON. May 27— Attor
ney General Palmer has declined to
render an opinion asked for by the in
1 M'lna1 revenue bureau on the question
.)♦* whether the law forbids the manu
fact are of “hard” cider.
PREACHER REFUSES A
VERY FLATTERING OFFER
RAPID CITY, S. D., May 24— R^v
Paul -S. Johnson, a local Presbyterian
minister recently rejected a telegraph
ic offer of $f>000 a year and expenses
fr >m a Canadian chautauqua company
located at Calgary. Rev. Johnson's
present salary is $1,500 a year. He
gave as his reason that he felt that
there were more possibilities for doing
good in his work here.
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LONDON. May 27- A merry P 'lty
is the one at tlu* home of Harry Haw
ker, British aviator who stalled -t
week apo lust Monday f.om St. John
to fly across the Atlantic, was sup
posed to have hoen lost, hut has been
found and is now on his way to Kup
land on a destroyer. Many have cal1' d
at thr home of Mrs. Hawker and con
gratulated her upon the pood news
that her husband is alive. The little
child of Hawker also comes in fo*
much attention.
Last Saturday, the Kinp tclepraph
ed Mr>. Hawker that he feared for the
wo-st and believed her husband hail
been lost.
Mrs. Hawker replied in a trlepraph:
Tomorrow pood news is cominp to me. 1
Sunday is my lucky day.” Althouph
the news came one day lat<. it was a.
‘h<* brave little woman predicted, poo 1
news.
Hawker's plane is lost, according
to the Daily Mail, which also announc
'd today that-Hawker will be piv< n
th' consolation prize of five thousan 1
pounds.
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WASHINGTON. May 27— Official
advices from Paris say that the Coun
cil of the four has reached an under
standing whereby America keeps all
of the German ships seized when the
United States entered the war.
ITALIAN SETTLEMENT
PARIS. May 27— It is indicated
that negotiations for the settlement of
the Italian controversy is being re
sumed and it is understood an effort
is being made by the British, French
and Italians to have the London treaty
made during the war, to ho the main
vie wpoint and not to he changed.
WILSON H\S OBJECTIONS
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PARIS, May 27— It is unofficially
Mated that President Wilson still op
1 poses the settlement of the Italian
controversy on the basis of the Lon
don treaty.
RECOGNIZE ANTI- POLS
PARIS. May 27— The Council of
the Four conditionally announce that
, the anti-Polsheviki governments of
Kolchak and Deminkines have been re
cognized.
BERNE, May 27— It is reported
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WASHINGTON. May 27— Ma
chine guns and mall aims produced
by the millions, ammunition turned
out by billions ol rounds and tanks
built by thousands when the armistice
end 'd hostilities, furnish the subject
of chapters made public today o; tno
Wa lb parln.cat's history of the "mil*
te- ial" side of winning the war.
The stovy of machine gun produc
tion about which uch a hot contro
ve ivy waged in Congress as a result ol
the failure of tin* American aim\ t i
adopt for standa d general use the
Li* is weapon used sueccssfu *v
ali oad is told as follows:
“Ti'n* manufacturing f:u;ticw f.e
m i bine guns in this country were
much more limited in extent that the
?v bile bad any notion of them (wh 1
th * United States entiled the war) or
tiday. We had at the outbreak of
ar only two factories which were net
nally producing machine guns in any
quantity at all.
“It was therefore evide nt Ua* *
to bai’d up ;dmo; t a comph to tv- .
capacity for production. >,’ovor4k*h»
we took advantage of v.hat furGiti*
wen* at hand; and at once . in fact
within a week after the »W]n.rat;on of
war, were placing orders for machiiv
grin*;. In this connection the - >• s >
should bear continually in mind that
throughout the development of ma
chine run manufacture we utilized nM
existing facilities to the limit hi ad
dition to boiMing rp new source; of
"upply.
Ip 0ll*(V '"O'll ; Vfir*p »Vc” t
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uro of machine gnn . • 1 »*rvor *
make or type, \vo did not stop tlio nr >
lpfti»»n of tk»*«o tv**oi Ip these nlAn* *
and converted *b'» e d.'ddLhmcnt ; udo
facto* lev; f.r making other weapon ;
but wo had them continue the manu
ractu'T *n wli'/,h tkoy wore engage!,
-iving thorn orders which woidd en
nhln 4horn ty oxnand their1 facilities in
4hAi>* particular 'inc- of production;**
The statement hows that the two
Trnvning guns , the heavy and the
,;gld automatic lifle tof the type now
‘n use h\* the troops in France) were
pronounced by tho - a eird t wt beard
"•kich hehl a conference in Mav . 1!)V)
“the most effective guns of their tv
oo. known to tho memhers,” in ad
dition to being designed for the puv
no a of quantity production. At the
cpmp tost improved l ow's guns al°o
proved highly efficient and were rA
commended by the board, Sub a;"'n*
’v 4bo Lewis guns were shifted *o air
craft work because of special adnnt
Ivk'tv and on recommendation of Gen
ornl Porsh*ng*s staff. '
Tho report says there was great
dearth of heavy machine guns for air
craft work to ho synoronized with
propellers. This shortage existed in the
French and British service as well as
in the American. The Browning air
craft gun would have met the require
ments, but it would be a long timo be
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here that Karl Renner, head of the
Austrian peace delegation has appeal -
od to Premier Clemeneeau to expoddo
the peace negotiations between the Al
lies and Austria. Karl Renner express
es fears of internal disorders as a re
sult of the continued delay in peace
settlements.
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BUENOS AIRES, May 27— The
world’s record cattle sale took place
here yesterday when ten thousand fat
steers were sold for two and one-half
million pesos.
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Kalut, ov *! i * - liaml of Java, burst in- I
to <> i" <>• *< yesterday wiping < at i
tventy viPaiiO.? ir: the ci stricts of
Brnpat and Klenen and in the vic'n
•v ot‘ Blite/. It is estimated 15,000
na-e been killed by the hot lava or the
poisonous pasos.
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W \ ' )N, May 27 - J. L.
McPherson, ieanag* r of the Alaska
I’.Mira1 of th Seattle Chamber of
• .» : n. appealed late yesterday
1* f > o the appropriations committee
o th- House and urged the passage
of Secretary of the Interior Lanes
rcqur sted appropriation of one million
nine hundred and sixty four thousand
three hundred and fifty one dollars
for the government railroad in Alaska.
This amount was asked by the Secre
tary of the Interior for work during
June, the end of the fiscal year.
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HI’M.ETIN— WASHINGTON
'lay 1!7— The House Appropriations
Committee has decided to include in
ral d ficlency bill, $2 000,000
r*»r the Alaska Railroad for immediate
use. The Committee is also consider
ing the Alaskan Engineering Commis*
sion’s request for an increase in the
original $:r>.000,000 appropriation and
this will probable be taken into the
sundry civil bill when appropriations
in the measure are framed up. —.
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* TO GET DEMOCRATS
< INTO FIGHTING FORM #
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* WASHINGTON, May 27— Hem- *
* ocratic National Chairman Cum
M tnins announced today that he ’
* plans a tour of the western states *
* to organize Democrats for the *
* 102ft campaign. Mr. Cummins will •
* visit Seattle on July 2nd.
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LONDON, May 27— One was killed
and several seriourly injured when the
giant Tarrant airplane was wrecked
early this forenoon. The Tarrant air
plane was the largest ever made in
the world and was Wrecked on the init
ial trip, made today. The plane weigh
ed twenty tons and had six engines.
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 27— Mes
sages received here today by the wid
ow, says Captain Herman Dahloff, a
sea captain on the Pacific for the past
20 years, died aboard the gasboat
Eloise, near Unga, on May 14th,