THE DAVIS NEWS
TOLD BRIEFLY
THE NEWS bF SEVEN
DAYS IN ALL LANDS
PEACE NOTES
The o uncll of four of the peace con-
ference has decided conditionally to
recognize the anti-Bolshevist govern-
ments of Admiral Kolchak and Gen-
eral Denikine The conditions for the
recognition are that regarding the fu-
ture of Russia the governments agree
to convoke and accept the verdict of a
genuine constituent assembly
The Italians have effected further
landing of troops at Sokia in Asia
Minor fifty mileB southeast of Smyr-
na The Turkish government has pro-
tested to the peace conference It
also has expressed regret that the
Greeks were permitted to occupy
Smyrna
With the exception of one minor con
cession all suggestions and counter-
proposals by Germany for the disposi-
tion of the Saar basin have been re-
jected by the reply of the Allied and
associated powers Count Von Brock-
dorff Rantzau’s appeal for an oral dis-
cussion of the points at issue on the
subject was Ignored
—
Dr Karl Renner Aifttrian chancel-
lor and head of the German-Austrian
peace delegation has addressed a note
to Premier Clemenceau complaining
over the delay of the Peace Confer-
ence in submitting the peace terms
which he says "is arousing grave anx-
iety regarding the maintenance of
peace and older in our fatherland”
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Germany’s economic status under
the teams of the peace treaty is the
result of her own behavior particu-
larly through the ruthless submarine
warfare the Allied and Associated
council informed Count von Brock-dorft-Rantzau
in answer to his note
on the economic questions
Chancellor Scheidemann Dr Bern-
hard Dernburg Count von Bernstoff
and Mathias Erzberger left Berlin for
Spa recently to meet Count von Brock-dorff-Rantzau
and decide upon the fi-
nal wording of the counter-proposals
to be presented by the Germans at
Versailles says a Berlin dispatch
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Lieut Gen Hunter Llgget com-
mander of the army of occupation and
Maj Gen John Hines commander of
the Third corps who were on their
way to London have been recalled to
Coblenz by orders from American gen-
eral headquarters This action is part
of the new programme for the Amer-
ican army in tbe event the Germans
do not accept the peace treaty
Four hours of furious debate in the
Senate on the Republican demand for
the complete text of the Peace Treaty
now locked up in the State Depart-
ment inaugurated the great battle
over the League of Nations covenant
which is expected to continue several
months
WASHINGTON
President Wilson has Informed offi-
cials in Washington that the Council
of Four at Paris has reached a full
understanding by which the United
States will letain the 700000 tons of
German shipping seized in American
ports when this country entered the
war
No more welfare workers are to be
sent overseas except in cases where
a supervisor or director may be need-
ed or in reeponse to a request for a
specialist The order cutting off the
supply of war workers came direct
from General Pershing according to
Assistant Secretary of War Keppei
Possibilities of aviation as a fattcjr
in tbe development of trade between
the United States and Latin-America
will be discussed at the second Pan-
American commercial conference to
be held in Washington under the au-
species of the Pan-American Union
t
The House halted Its debate the
other day to stand and cheer for Sergt
Alvin C York of Tennessee w ho killed
twenty-five Germans captured 132 and
cleaned out a bunch of machine gun
nests as a 1-day job York stood at
attention during the demonstration
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Under a plan approved by the War
Department discharged soldiers can
deposit their final pay at tbe discharge
camp and have the money transferred
without charge to their home banks
DOMESTIC
Repeal of the Daylight Saving Act
is to be Incorporated in the Agricul-
tural Appropriation Bill which will be
drafted by a subcommittee appointed
by tbe agriculture committee Chair-
man Haugen said it had not been de-
termined whether tbe repeal act
should be made effective this year
Unable to pay death claims of $580-
000 as a result of influenza epidemic
tbe Catholic Mutual Benefit Associa-
tion will notify members within tho
next few days that extra assessments
must be levied until tbe deficit is
wiped out
Fire losses aggregating 290 million
dollars the greatest in any year except
1906 when the San Francisco earth-
quake and conflagration occurred
were reported for 1918 to the national
board of fire underwriter in New
York recently
The Inquiry over the bodies ot -itis
men who lost their lives in the Douglas
Starch works explosion at Cedar Rap-
ids la has begun under direction
of Coroner David King and the county
attorney Tbe total number of bodies
now Identified and unidentified is
twenty-four leaving it is belived
twenty-four still in the ruins
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Two men were killed and another
was probably fatally injured when the
boiler of a locomotive exploded a short
distance east ot Palestine O The en-
gine was on a trial trip on tbe Penn-
sylvania Railroad from Pittsburgh to
Chicago and was drawing forty freight
cars
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Hundreds of persons saw Frank Me
Cusker of New York pilot of a mail
airplane leap 200 feet to his death
from a burning machine at Cleveland
Ohio Fifteen minutes before' he had
announced that he would attempt to
establish a record on his flight to Chi-
cago Alfred Coleman stevedore on tbe
Bay line steamer Virginia burned
early the other day in Chesapeake Bay
with a reported loss of from three to
ten lives has been arrested charged
with setting fire to the steamer
“Buy coal now-” That Is the urgent
message given flat owners home
dwellers and factory proprietors by
Dr Harry A Garfield United States
Fuel Administrator tecently He was
in Chicago to address tbe one thou-
sand coal mine operators of the Na-
tional Coal Association
More than twenty-five persons were
killed and a hundred Injured by an ex-
plosion at the Douglas Starch works
at Cedar Rapids la Of the 150 men
and boys who bad just gone to work
in tbe night shift few escaped injury
or death The entire plant was burn-
ed by resultant fire which was confin-
ed to the Douglas plant The loss is
83000000
SOUTHWEST
A telephone message from Harrison
Ark said that flood waters are four
feet deep in the business district of
that city and rapidly rising Ten busi-
ness blocks are inundated The light
plant was put out of commijsion and
tbe city is in darkness
The army worm is making slight
inroads on the wheat In Commanche
County Okla according to J F
Neeley county farm agent but so far
the danger is not serious Recent
rains have bad a tendency to check
them
By a vote of more than 2 to 1 the
proposal to issue 6 Vi million dollars in
bonds to build a complete system of
permanent highways in Dallas Coun-
ty Texas was carried A road tax of
fifteen cents on the 9100 also received
a majority vote
A band of twenty Yaqul Indians at-
tacked the truck train of La Colorado
Mine while it was en route to Hermo-
sillo Sonora Mexico from San Xavier
with ore killing H S White an
American and several Mexicans ac-
cording to a brief telegram received
in Nogales Arlz'
Property loss In the recent storm
in south-eastern Texas will not exceed
8500000 reports indicate The death
list stands at two and the seriously
Injured at probably ten
FOREIGN
Missing for six days and virtually
given up for lost Harry G Hawker
and his navigator Lieut Com Mac-
kenzie Grieve British airmen who es-
sayed a flight across the Atlantic
ocean without protection against dis-
aster save what their trail airplane af-
forded are safe aboard a British war-
ship off the Orkneys They were
picked up by tramp steamer 800 miles
from tbe Irish Coast
While there is no confirmation from
other sources that NokolaiTonine the
Bolsheviki premier of Russia has pro-
posed an armistice to Admiral Kol-
ebak head ot the all-Russian govern-
ment at Omsk there are indications
that the Bolsheviki are anxious over
the fate of Petrograd and Moscow
The volcano of Kalut in Java has
burst into eruption destroying twenty
villages in the district of Brengat and
eleven in the vicinity of Blitar and
causing deaths estimated at fifteen
thousand
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Chao Mlng-wang and three other
representatives of the Chinese govern-
ment at Canton who are now in Paris
have cabled to the United States con-
gress an appeal for assistance against
the transfer of Germany’s interest in
China to Japan
A ditpatch to the Central News from
Paris says the correspondent under-
stands from an American source that
President Wilson again is considering
the acceptance by tbe United States
of a provisional mandate for Constan-
tinople Instead of for Armenia
Tbe Allied troops on the North Rus-
sian front have carried out a success-
ful turning movement against the
main Bolsheviki position forcing the
enemy to retreat southward according
to a North Russian official communica-
tion Several towns were captured
and many prisoners taken
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The Bolsheviki have begun ths
evacuation of Moscow according to
reports brought from Petrograd to
Copenhagen by travelers Typhus is
raging in Moscow and tho situation
there is considered desperate
NOW ANGELES IS PRESIDENT
VILLA’S PRESTIGE GROWS IN
NORTHERN MEXICO
Chihuahua Torreon and Juarez in
Danger of Another Villista
Attack
Dallas — General Felipe Angeles has
been declared provisional president of
Mexico by Vlllistas and Francisco Vil-
la has been proclaimed secretary ot
war according to confidential inform-
ation received here by Dario W Silva
formerly a member of Villa’s staff
The action was taken it was an-
nounced at a meeting May 22 at Par-
rel present headquarters for the new
provisional government
The first act of General Angeles
was to issue a proclamation calling
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“President” Angeles
on all to rally ' for concerted action
against the Carranzistas The mani-
festo contained a clause guaranteeing
protection to all Americans
Silva declared he had information
to cause him to believe Torreon Cbi-
hauhau and Juarez would fall to the
Villa forces
War Cloud Along Rio Grande
Nogales Ariz— Regardless of the
announcement from the state depart-
ment at Washington today that Mexi-
can troops from Sonora would not be
permitted at pr&ent to cross Ameri-
can territory en route to Juarez Mex-
ican federal troops were reported to
be mobilizing at Epalme Sonora for
shipment In bond through this port-
Telegraphic advices from Epalme
were to the effect that twelve box cars
had been loaded with a contingent of
600 men
Hobby Insists on Protection
Austin — Governor W P Hobby ol
Texas sent another telegram to ths
state department at Washington in
jvhich be stated "that unless measures
to protect Americans on the border
and ia Mexico which seem ample and
sufficient to me” are taken approval
of the passage of Mexican troops
through Texas will be withheld
Peace by June 20
Paris — June 15 is the earliest pos-
sible date on which the German treaty
can be signed if no obstructions are
encountered but June 20 is the more
probable time for its signature and
the departure of President Wilson for
the United States according to a
member of the American peace dele-
gation who discussed tbe situation
with the correspondent The German
counter proposals have been received
with the greatest interest by the mem-
bers of the peace confrence especially
on the claims of the Immediate mem-
bership In the league of nations for
a plebiscite to decide the disposition
of Silesia and for fixing a definite
sum for reparation
Paris — The Temps says that an
agreement has virtually been readied
on the Adriatic question and that
President Wilson who saw the Jugo-
slav delegates has given his consent
to the arrangement which Premier Or-
lando of Italy has accepted Accord-
ing to the Temps the essential points
of the agreements are: First Flume
not including the suburb of Sucbak
forms with the region to the west an
independent state under the league of
nations This state will be bounded
by Italian territory and contain the
railroad from Flume to Laibach
Second Zara (capital of Dalmatia)
and Sebenlco (70 miles southeast of
Trieste on the Adriatic) will be placed
under the sovereignty of Italy which
renounces any other part of the Dal-
matian coast and the Hinterland
Third Italy will exercise sovereignty
over islands called strategic namely
Cherso (12 miles southwest of Fluiye
belonging to Istrla) Iussin (south-
west of Cherson and also Jstrian)
and Llssa (33 miles southwest of Spa-
lato In the Adriatic belonging to Dal-
matia) with the outlying iBlanda The
league of nations grants Italy the man-
date over Albania
Lynching in Missouri
Lamar Mo— Jay Lyn£ confessed
slayer of Sheriff John Harlow of Bar-
ton county and tbe sheriff s son was
hanged here by a mob which took him
from the bands of the officers in the
courtbouse and lynched him iq the
yard ot the building Lynch had
pleaded guilty to the charge and had
been given a sentence of life Impris-
onment by Judge B G Thurman The
murder took place March 8 Lynch's
wife mother and sister were in tbe
judge's office when he was taken out
by the mob
BUILDING
ATTENTION TO EARTH ROADS
Authority on Highway Construction
Likes Concrete but Fivors More
Care bf Lane ’
“More attention has got to be paid
to the earth roads if tbe coming bond
elections are to go over’' This is tbe
opinion of E L Stevens inventor and
road expert Mr Stevens is perhaps
one of tbe most unique characters in
the road-building world A graduate
civil engineer he felt tbe tremendous
need for the perfection and develop-
ment of the road system of America
He stepped out from the promising
channels of the regular engineering
profession and went down almost be-
low the level of ordinary men to study
road building says Rocky Mountain
News He has made road building and
maintenance his life work and is now
probably as well qualified as any man
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Sand-Clay Road Well Cared For
to tell tbe methdfis for the proper up-
building of tbe nation's highway sys-
tem For a number of years Mr Stevens
has been highway commissioner for
the Estes Park highway This piece
of road work In itself is a testimony
to his Ideals He is also the inventor
of the Stevens Improved road drag
one of the simplest and most efficient
road machines on the American mar-
ket x
Mr Stevens believes In concrete
highways and prepared boulevards
but be also believes that the earth
road which comprises more than 80
per cent of the country's highways is
of no less Importance “A concrete
highway Isn't going to do a farmer
much good if be has got to haul his
load three miles through hub-deep mud
before he gets to It” is Mr Stevens’
attitude
The farmer is the man who Is going
to pay for most of the country roads
and although concrete roads are need-
ed where the traflic is sufficiently
heavy the earth roads that feed the
concrete road must be kept up
As an Inventor of road machinery
a road engineer a road supervisor and
a road worker for his practicalities
and tbe life dream of better roads as
his idealism Mr Stevens is ably qual-
ified to judge highway problems
UTAH TO SPEND $8000000
Part of Money Is to Be 8pent for Im-
provements on Arrowhead Trill
to California
The state of Utab has decided to
spend about $8000000 on roads in the
next two years with an expenditure
this year of about $2000000 Some ef
the Utah millions which are made up
of state nnd federal funds are going
to be used on the development of the
Arrowhead trail which is tributary to
all parts of southern California from
San Diego and Imperial valley on the
south to Fresno and San Lnis Obispo
on the north
$300000000 FOR HIGHWAYS
Sum Which If Capitalized at 8 Per
Cent Would Represent Invest-
ment of $6000000000
Government road officials estimate
that road construction and mainte-
nance in the United States Involve an
annual outluy of over $300000000 a
sum which If capitalized at S per
cent would represent an investment
of $6000000000 There has never
been a nation-wide traffic census to
show either the direction or volume
of traffic over these highways
Road Must Be Linked Up
If we are to keep costs down our
highways must be linked up and there
must be through trunk lines provided
to which feeders can be built
Lower Hauling Costs
Hauling costs are lowered by good
roads because the size of the load is
limited by the worst spot in the road
On of Major Activities
Road building wilt shortly become
one of the major activities of our
government
PHYSICALLY FIT
AT ANY AGE
It Isn’t age It’s careless living that
“Jo - ”
its men “Jown and out” Keep yonr
Internal organs In good condition and
iron will always be phydcally fit
Ths kidneys are ths most over-
worked organs In tho human body
When they break down under the
strain and the deadly uric acid ac-
cumulates and crystallizes look eutl
These sharp crystals tear and scratch
tot delicate urinary channels causing
excruciating pain and set up irrita-
tions which may cause premature de-
Seneration and often do turn - into
tadiy Bright's Disease
One of the first warnings of slug-
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sh kidney action is in or stiffness
the small of die beck loss of sppo-
tite indigestion or rheumatism
Do not
wait until the danger is upon
you At the first indlcsUon'of trouble
K after the cause at once Get a trial
Z of GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil
Capsules imported direct from the
laboratories in Holland They will give
almost immediate relief If for an:
cense they should not yonr money will
Be refunded But be sure to get GOLD
MEDAL- None other is genuine Ia
sealed boxes three eises— Adv
He Had Reason
Though the weather was beautiful
little Clifford kept his mittens on all
day —
“Why do you wear your mittens on
wch a nice day?” asked his sister
“So I v won’t have ' to wash my
hands” was his quick reply - -
HAD DECK OFFICER WORRIED
Lookout’s Report of “Light Ahead”
Naturally Caused -Alarm and
Quito Likely Some Profanity
The lookout had been given orders
to keep a sharp watch for any lights
As the ship was just about twenty
miles from port and It was a bit hazy
the officer of the deck put on run-
ning lights
Suddenly a hail came from the
crow’s nest :
“Light ahead sir I”
“Where away?” shouted the 0 D
“Dead uhead!” came the reply
The O D grabbed his glasses and
not finding the light ran from the
port to starboard side trying to pick
it up Not seeing It he yelled again:
“Where’s the light now?”
“Dead ahead sir" -
Calling the quartermaster to swing
the boat around he asked once more:
“Where Is the light now?"
- “Dead ahead”
“Come down here and show It to
me” cried the O D getting excited
Down came the man from the
crow's nest and pointed out a light
“You fool that's our own mast-
light” — Judge
Toe Much 8o
‘Tve got one here I've dramatized
a spring cleaning”
Why Complain of Poor Coffee i:
Or The High Price of Coffee i:
‘when you can have a superior
beverage of rich flavor and
health value by drinking the
original
POSTUM
It’s an American drink whose
high quality never varies Its
price doesn’t change and it’s
economical
Two sizes usually sold at 15c and 25c
Everywhere at Grocers v
“FAKE” ASPIRIN
WAS TALCUM
Therefore Insist Upon Gen-
uine “Bayer Tablets -of
Aspirin”
Millions of fraudulent Aspirin Tab-
lets were sold by a Brooklyn manufao- -turer
which later proved to be com-
posed mainly of Talcum Powder
"Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" the true
genuine American made and American
owned Tablets are marked wtth tho
safety “Bayer Cross"
Ask for and then insist upon “Bayer
Tablets of Aspirin" aid always buy
them in the original Bayer package
which contains proper directions and
dosage
- Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer
Manufacture of Monoacetlcaddester of
Sallcyllcadd
A cream sauce poured over ten-
der uniformly wafer-like slices
of Libby’s Dried Beef makes a
delightful luncheon at little cost
Ask your grocer today for Libby’s
Dried Beef
Libby M?Neill A Libby
Chicago
Joe Cannon's 8arcatm
Senator William M Calder at ths
-dinner of the Men's union of ths
Central Congregational chnrch told
this story :
"A congressman had prepared what
he considered was an epoch-making-address
and was on tenter books to-
deliver it He appeared to be more-
interested In his speech than he was
In his bill His bill however was a
good one and Speaker Cannon was
trying to help It along There were
only a few moments left in which to
do business and the man with the
speech finally got Uncle Joe riled
“ ‘If tbe gentleman will just wait
few moments till I pass his bill’ said
the speaker ‘he ciA then make his
speech’”
Fox on Load of Hay
A teamster In Pennsylvania carry-
ing a load of hay not long ago notlcfed
a number of fox hm ters and dogs
and waited to see If anything hapnen-
ed When the hunters came up tney
asked if he had seen a fox He said
ha had not
Some miles further on the team-
ster stopped to talk and got off ths-
load of hay As he was chatting h
saw a fox leap from tbe wagon and
trot off The fox had evaded the dogs
by leaping on the load of hay and
burrowed into It before the dogs cams
up at his last stopping place
CEREAL
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