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Show A naval seaplane attached to the Hampton Itoads base has just completed com-pleted a 20-hour flight, in which it covered a distance of 1250 miles, the navy department has been advised by the commandant at Norfolk. Lost in the wilds near Finlayson, Mich., for forty-eight hours, during which time they were attacked by wolves and saved by their dog, the three young children of Peter Kalmas of Finlayson were found Sunday. Searchers came upon the children about eight miles from their home. Edward N. Hurley, chairman of the I United States shipping board, in addressing ad-dressing the .sixth national foreign I rude convention at Chicago, declared lhat, with an American merchant marine ma-rine established, business men of this country had no reason to fear the competition com-petition of Great Britain or any other country in extending their export trade. WASHINGTON. Special efforts to obtain oversubscriptions oversub-scriptions from communities to counterbalance coun-terbalance possible undersubscriptiou from others are being made this week by Victory Liberty loan committees at the request of the treasury. The government is about to start a great roundup of draft deserters who are to be tried and punished as fast as apprehended. Cancellation of contracts made during dur-ing the war for construction of two i million tons of steel ships is announced by the shipping board, which is preparing prepar-ing to close government work in many yards throughout the country. Units of the reserve officers' training train-ing corps are being maintained at 30S institutions ami comprise in their membership 100,000 students. The Mexican government's denial of the Monroe doctrine was characterized character-ized by members of congress now in Washington as another "Carranza" blunder. It will be strictly enforced, the statesmen said without regard to the attitude of Mexico. Replying in a statement Thursday to the charge of Postmaster General Burleson that he is the victim of an "organized propaganda," Charles Johnson John-son Post, director of the publisher's advisory board, declared that it was not the publishers of the country who needed defense but the postmaster general himself. FOREIGN. t Reportsfrom Bavaria state that the communists of Munich threaten that when the city is besieged, the citizens will be shot in rows on the Marien-platz. Marien-platz. Numerous peasants, tradesmen and work people are volunteering to march against Mtihich. Among the students enrolled at Edinburgh university are 160 Americans Ameri-cans and fifty-five Canadians. The total enrollment is a thousand more than last year and within 250 of the pre-war figures. The Costa Rican government has issued an official denial of the report from Managua, Nicaragua, that Costa Rica had mobilized troops on the Nic-araguan Nic-araguan boundary. Indications that an organized German Ger-man propaganda is being carried on in the American area of occupation continue con-tinue to reach advanced general headquarters. head-quarters. The Socialist parliamentary group has adopted and sent to Premier Orlando Or-lando a resolution emphatically declaring de-claring against a new war, warning the government not to submit to parliament par-liament a "fait accompliq" (accomplished (accom-plished fact) which would lead to the resumption of hostilities or the delay in the demobilization. The inhabitants of Olonetz, 110 miles northeast of Petrograd in the government govern-ment of Olonetz, have revolted against the Bolsheviki. The revolt is spread- History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed e . . m (NTHRMC'JNTAIN. Twenty persons were injured, none seriously, when a Denver & Rio Grande train jumped the track and turned Over near Cerro .Summit, Colo. Among the injured were several soldiers sol-diers returning to their homes. Lewis B. Harris, arrested by the police po-lice at the public library at Denver, Is believed by Denver police to be the leader of a gang of robbers who some time ago robbed the First National bank or Artesia, Ga., of $10,000. Federal Judge Lewis, at Denver, has sustained a demurrer to an indictment against E. L. Simpson, who was charged with violating tiie Reed pro- (htbltlon amendment by bringing five quarts of liquor into Colorado from Wyoming in a motor car, which he owned. By his ruling, Judge Lewis held that Simpson was not engaged in interstate transportation. Indians on Tulalip reservation near Everett, Wash., with Victory loan allotment al-lotment of $11000, have subscribed $23,200. Their subscription to the fourth Liberty loan was $9200. Charles Sar, 43; his wife, Susie, 41, find her son by a former marriage, David Hardwick, 10, were found dead in their home on a ranch near Madras, Ore. All bore bullet wounds. Mrs. Sar and' the boy were in their beds. Tom and Earl Combs, confessed murderers mur-derers of Jacob N. Mellinger, Rush, Colo., merchant, shot to death in his store April 21, have been identified by Jack Parker, a Pueblo chauffeur, as the men who killed Elton C. Parks, Pueblo automobile merchant, and William Wil-liam Hunter, wealthy stockman, near Rye, Colo., on April 20. DOMESTIC. With his clothing ablaze and flames rapidly mounting toward his face, Paul L. Ferron, 31, an aviator in the government gov-ernment mail service, volplaned 2000 feet to earth at Belmont Park New York, Although he was badly burned about the body his chances for recovery recov-ery are said to be excellent Samuel Gompers, president of the ' American Federation of Labor, U (assailed the administration of Postmaster Post-master General Burleson in a statement state-ment issued at New York on Saturday, declaring that he must "walk the plank eooner or later." A concert in German held by the Bayerlsche Volkfest Verein was "raided" "raid-ed" by 300 soldiers, sailors and marines armed with American flags and Vic-i Vic-i tory l.'HLn irbscription blanks and was , ' '-.transformed into a patriotic demonstration, demon-stration, at which subscriptions for $5000 worth of bonds were obtained. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was hurled from an automobile when the machine collided with a street car in New York City. He was taken to his home suffering from contusions and fractured ribs. Suspension of the order prohibiting the attachment of railroad employees' wages is announced by the railroad administration. This action, however, does not make wages subject to attachment at-tachment which are not subject to at- tachmeut by the laws of the individual siules. Mrs. Happy Theodore Van Wyck Benner, daughter of the late United Slates Senator Charles H. Van Wyck ing northward. A dispatch to the Central News says Vienna newspapers report that Dr. Alexander Wekerle, the former Hungarian Hun-garian premier and minister of finance, has died in prison. An increase in the milling percentage percent-age which will virtually put the world back to a war bread basis for the next three months is part of the program adopted by the supreme food council under the chairmanship of Herbert C. Hoover. Party of the Hungarian communist army facing the Rumanians southeast of Budapest has surrendered and the rest is in flight, according to a Rumanian Rum-anian official statement. According to the official figures of those paying the "out of -work" donation, dona-tion, there are exactly 1,700,C7S men and women today who are jobless in the British Isles. An official statement by the Japanese Japan-ese embassy characterizing as exaggerated exagger-ated current reports of cruel meas ures. employed by the Japanese author Hies in suppressing Korean disturbances, disturb-ances, says one person was killed and six wounded in outbreaks at Seoul and that th(! tolal number of casuallies in the provinces has been 331 killed and 735 wounded. The Munich Spartacans have secured se-cured the services of six trained mili-I mili-I lary officers as lenders of the red guard. The first panic over rabies in twenty-one years is spreading through England. Several cases develop' d in (he country recently and two were discovered in London in the last week. Great loss of life among the na lives of the Belj.'ian Congo as a result of an influenza epidemic is reported in dis- pale-hc.s received at Brussels. Some estimates place the number of deaths . til ;'.!K.0:K). I The clock strike at Liverpool was j ve'iled Thursday coning. The griev- ! ' aiioes cf I he clock wor a ;'" to .e ( urbiimlH. ' ul Nebraska and divorced wife of Fer-.r.ndo Fer-.r.ndo B York, swallowed r n,j- ii 'p" '"-"' at Omaha t;:cd 'died soon af r' Under the "nrAQr Pry'" Dl'' Hug0 S.-hweitzer, r;ornii.l agents in this country reported (V 1,t'1'lin b-v coh every detail of .tJ,. ' business life, kept from I hc-.uv.UT 4,500,000 pounds of explosives ana sjent overseas the formula for the doaYlly mustard gas I which laid low thousands of American I soldiers, according ViV'rancis P. Gar- I van alien property custodian, i The Michigan senate has passed a I bill legalizing ten-round, no-decision I boxing matches and creating a slate I athletic commission which will have V supervision over boxing and wrestling matches'. See-rotary of the Treasury Glass, on wctVrn tour in the interest of the yj'or.y loan, expressed surprise at the Yhusiasm cjf midwestern cominuni-rs. cominuni-rs. He expressed the belief that the Vi would "undoubtedly he subscribed Vverv likelv oversubscribed." 2kpiimim weekly wage of $13.50 w'y.cim fixed for all experienced s.ijfifu workers in mercantile estab-r estab-r 'Vhniciits in California by the state Vduslt 'al welfare commission. This J compares with a minimum wage of $10 f fixed in September, 1017. Mrs. Emma G. Simpson shot and probably fatally wounded her husband, Elmer K. Simpson, a telegraph opera-tur, opera-tur, in a court room at Chicago just i alter she had been granted a divorce. Seven were killed and four injured j when two jitneys, carrying nearly a score of passengers en'ii, crashed he ad on in the government, reyrval ion at ' 'amp -Merrilt, N. J. i j . . i : I by I he i : 1 1 :-;c 1 1 i i -c I economic r-omic.'i of ii 1 1 ra i ion 1 i mi I a I ions on c . i i.n'.'k ; o norlhiTii neutral count rlc.-.. " '. iuiilie'l munitions nl' unr. is .i fVrl l,v Mie war Ir-iile liOMI'd |