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Show WASHINGTON. "Taps" In the volunleer system of rulsiiu; armies In war lime by the I'niled Stales was sounded here by Major (icneral Fnoch" II. Crowder, pi'ovusi marshal general, In an address lo the r't li'ln;; nieiubers of 1 St New York dra I' I boards. lie earnestly advocated ad-vocated that tin' selective service system sys-tem should become the periuanenl method of raislni;' American armies In the fill lire. "Abandonment' of nil construction work in progress or projected at so-called so-called tent camps," originally laid out for mobilization of the national n'liurd and later used I'm' general Irninln;,' purposes, was ordered by the war department. de-partment. Coverninent ownership of telephone and telegraph Hues was advocated ill the house by Chairman Moon of the poslol fice coniuiil lei', who Introduced the administration measure coitlein-plalinu; coitlein-plalinu; government purchase of the Uti'ilies. l.oadini; of two more vessels with cargoes for liussia and completion of arrangements for continued, shipments through January and February by the I'nited ...States-Kiissian ...bureau. Inc., was announced Saturday by the war trade board. The resignation of 17'J nihbtioual officers of-ficers and IS 15 men by (ieueral l'er-Shiui; l'er-Shiui; for early return home was announced an-nounced Saturday by the war department. depart-ment. The largest unit Included is the Fifiy-lirst regiment, coast artillery, with 7(1 officers and 1770 men. The stale department was advised Friday thai a passenger train between Vera Cruz and Mexico City was wrecked by Mexican rebels. There were no casualties and the report did not identify the rebel band. liaiiti:,' caused by the burnini; of '.lie power house at the Hampton Uoads, Va.. naval base will not exceed "iit.(HM), the navy department announced an-nounced Friday on estimates received from the coniniandam . Plans for resuming general trade with parts of Russia and Finland were disclosed Friday by an announcement from the war trade board that applications appli-cations now will he considered for Import Im-port licenses for commodities, .the chief of which are platinum, various hides and skins and fuels, sulphur and various var-ious kinds of seeds. Shipments will ha mad-e to Pacific ports on vessels ullo-caied ullo-caied to the United States-Kussian bureau, bur-eau, Incorporated, of the war trade board, under conditions to he defined by the board. By a vote of 111;! to 7!) the house passed a hill providing salary increases of Sl.'iOO a year for each of the "idires of the T'nired Stares district 11 -E History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTFIR MOUNTAIN. The sentence of death Imposed on Pn'ii F. Kuhl, murderer of Fred Searcy. Jarbldge stage driver, was conimuti to life imprisonment by the slate board of parsons at Carcon City, Nov. Ivulil was ti have been shot at the slate prison on IVcoinhor 'JO. Kcsignations of every member of the tire department at Colorado Springs, except the chiefs, were accepted by the city council Thursday. The men, thirty-five in unmoor, resigned because their request for increased wages was refused. l.eigh & Oreen of Fund. Utah, has filed application with the state public utilities commission for a permit to operate a motor freight truck service between Fund and Parowan. liiuie will see unusual building and ! real estate activity in the spring of f P.MH. Homer Townsend, chief clerk of I the city department of public works, I predicts. j Keconstruction and readjustment periods pe-riods will not be characterized by ! panics or depression, according to .lore Sharpe, prominent Minneapolis banker, who is visiting in Piute. An attack upon the Washington stale mothers' pension law of P.M5, brought by Mrs. Pose Snyder of Seattle, Se-attle, who alleged it was unconstitutional unconstitu-tional in providing pensious for widows and not for deserted mothers, was dismissed Monday by the supreme court. Washington court decrees upholding up-holding the law's validity were affirmed. af-firmed. A. E. Spriggs. chairman of the Montana Mon-tana state industrial accident hoard, has indorsed a suggestion that an effort ef-fort he made to have the government turn over Fort Harrison for a school for the rehabilitation of industrial cripples. Holland is seeking trade in Utah, according ac-cording to a letter received by Earl J. Glade, secretary of the Utah State Fair association. 'The letter come from the intelligence office for com--niercial relations at Amsterdam and requests re-quests him to send a catalogue" of the exhibitors. The letter adds that fill offers and inquiries emanating from firms in Utah will be welcomed and laid before importers and exporters expor-ters in Holland. A penchant for writing letters, the character of which precluded them from admission to the mails, has landed land-ed O. J. Langforif of Carbon county, Utah, in the insane asylum at Provo. DOMESTIC." Recruiting in each community of n trip of "sea scouts," intended to prepare pre-pare boys for the mrchapt marine, will be one of the features of "anniversary week" of the boys scouts of America. February 7 to February 13. A special rate will he granted t clergymen over the railroads, begin ning January 1, according to a lettei received by the Rev. W .S. Foremai from Director General McAdoo. Operations of the German propa ganda system in the United States through which valuable information fo transmission to Berlin was gathered a the .same time that Gerwian doctrine -were spread over thh country wen laid bare Friday by Captain G. B Lester of the army intelligence ser -vice in testimony before the senate -committee investigating beer and German Ger-man propaganda. Most of the evidence related to activity of Teutonic agents before the United States entered the war. Buffeted by high seas, which carried away a deckhouse and wrenched a four-inch gun from Its mounting, the American transport Dekalb arrived liere Friday from France with approximately approx-imately 1150 soldiers, sailors and marines, ma-rines, nearly 400 of whom had been -wounded in action. She was preceded Into port by the mail boat Oregonian, carrying a solitary doughboy, Sergeant Leland- A. Kuaffman of the Second division headquarters troop, who brought home the favorite charger of his commander Major General Omar Bundy. Striking street car men at Omaha returned re-turned to work at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Not a street car had been moved in Omaha during the past eight days. The local union voted unanimously unani-mously to obey the request of International Interna-tional President W. C. Mahon that they return to work. Henry Youtsey, who has been serving serv-ing a life sentence on a charge of complicity' com-plicity' in the murder in 1000 of former for-mer Gov. William Goebel of Kentucky, was paroled Wednesday by the hoard of prison control, according to an an- noiincemcnt made by Herbert Carr, member of the board. Formal announcement vasiTTWT Thursday by the shipping board at Washington that Charles Piez has been elected director general of the Emergency Emer-gency Fleet corporation to succeed Charles M. Schwab, who resigned last week. Sailing of four army transports bringing additional units from France was announced Friday by the. war" department. de-partment. The ships are the transports trans-ports IT. R. Mallory, Rappahannock, Leviathan and Celtic, with about 9000 men. Prohibitory legislation against the teaching of the German language in the schools of Washington, D. C, was re-enacted for another year on Wednesday by the house, in considering consider-ing the District of Columbia 1920 appropriation ap-propriation bill. FOREIGN. An order-In-councll adopted Monday authorizes the seed purchasing commission com-mission to buy in the United States seed oats required in Alberta and Southern Saskatchewan, and provides that the oats purchased shall not be subject to customs duties. It is estimated esti-mated that at least 1.000,000 bushels will be required from the United States' to make up the shortage in Canada. The last contingent . of American prisoners from Germany, numbering 500, left Genoa Wednesday night for Vichy, where they will rest before leaving leav-ing for h"nie. |