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Show In the capture of Albert Keffl and Lewis timber, hot h Auslriuns, who were; taken Into custody Sunday at the International boundary near Tijuana by customs officials, federal agents at San Diego believe; lliey have rounded up two of the mosl Important of Germany's Ger-many's agents In this country. Wlllard Kimball, his wife, three children, chil-dren, Clarence, 7; Charles, 5, and Louise, 2, were found murdered In their farm home near Ithaca, Midi., by a neighbor who was bringing bread to the family. S. J. Kouenknnip, president of the Commercial Telegraphers' union, notified noti-fied union telegraphers throughout the United Slates of plans for calling a strike if discharges occur following the union meeting Sunday. WASHINGTON Prospects of passage by .the senate of the Overman bill, giving the president presi-dent authority to reorganize government govern-ment departments promises to open the way for enactment of' a miscellaneous miscellan-eous lot of war legislation. Thousands of mechanics- and tool makers must be transferred from work on non-essential products if the munitions muni-tions output is to be brought up to the daily requirements of the nation's fighting fight-ing forces, according to a statement issued is-sued by the labor department. . When hospital construction now under un-der way is completed more than 95,000 beds will be available for army purposes, pur-poses, according to statistics compiled in the office of Surgeon General Gor-gasj Gor-gasj The president won a close victory in the senate Saturday when, on the first test of strength on the Overman bill, amendments proposed by opponents of the measure were defeated. Passage of the bill without amendment by the senate and house is now a certainty. Champ Clark, speaker of the house of representatives, has declined the appointment as senator to succeed the late William J. Stone. The house has adopted the senate resolution for the registration for military mili-tary service of young men who have reached the age of 21 years since June 5 last. The measure now goes to conference. con-ference. FOREIGN The stern opposition encountered by the Germans in their attacks in the region of the Somme and in Flanders, near Kemmel Hill, has prevented them thus far from developing their renewed offensive on the great scale which they undoubtedly intended. The Princess Marie Antoinette, mother mo-ther of Empress Zita, has been ordered to leave Austria and not re-enter that country until the termination of the war, according to a dispatch from Geneva. A violent earthquake shook the province prov-ince of Granada, Spain, April 28. Damage was not extensive. The political situation in Siberia lias been complicated during the last week by claims for recognition by the entente en-tente allies, made by the rival Russian History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN The rirst Utah soldier has been killed in action on the French front. News has been received in Stilt Lake of the death of James L. llendrickson of Gunnison. Mr. Hendrickson was a member of F battery, 145th field artillery ar-tillery (Utah regiment). . The Steel Shipbuilders' union of Seattle Se-attle has voted to join the proposed May-day strike as a demonstration for Tom Mooney. Five inches of snow fell in Denver . on April 27. An electrical storm preceded pre-ceded the snow. The Seattle Central Labor council voted Thursday to call a general strike for twenty-four hours, May 1, according ac-cording to official announcement, as n demonstration for Thomas J. Mooney, sentenced to hang, in California, following fol-lowing his conviction on the charge of murdering one of the victims of the San Francisco preparedness day bomb explosion. Twelve hundred and sixty-five men arrived at Camp Lewis, Wash., Friday as the first contingent of the new draft. A total of 3992 men is to arrive ar-rive at camp within the next few days. The Woolgrowers' association, through its committee, headed by S. W. MeClure of Salt Lake, has advised the price fixing committee of the war industries board that they would accept ac-cept the basis of wool prices fixed by the government. DOMESTIC Ivan McCann was taken into custody Sunday charged with the murder of Kenneth C. Folston of Oregon, who disappeared dis-appeared from his lodging house at Phoenix, Ariz., last November. The body f Folston was found on Saturday Satur-day afternoon by cowboys twenty-rive miles northeast of the city. Earl Austin, a farm hand arrested at Geneva, N. Y confessed to the police po-lice that he had piurdered Hank Mosh-er Mosh-er and Blanch Mosher, his daughter, aged 18, at Victor. Both were killed with an axe. Theodore Roosevelt will make a speaking tour through the middle west late in May, the National Security league has announced. The former president will deliver addresses in Ohio, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin, under the auspices of the league, which has been conducting a "patriotism through education" drive in the states named. American experts are adapting French methods for the manufacture of bullets for shrapneli and, shrapnel bombs. . ' Madame Marie K. de Victorica, believed be-lieved by officers of the department of justice to be one of the most active of Germany's agents in this country for the last fifteen months, was arrested at a fashionable Long Island hotel Saturday Satur-day as a dangerous enemy alien. Nineteen days of Liberty loan campaigning cam-paigning closed with the government assured of $2,178,877,050, 70 per cent of the three billion minimum requirement. require-ment. Three men, former subjects of Germany, Ger-many, were fined in federal court at Lincoln, Neb., following conviction of violating the espionage act by discouraging discour-aging enlistments. Charged with drilling holes in the wings of airplanes ready to be delivered de-livered to the government, an employee of a manufacturing company was arrested ar-rested by federal agents at Cleveland. Captain F. J. Butterfield, and till the deck officers of the American steamship steam-ship Florence H.; now are believed to have lost their lives when the ship was destroyed by an explosion, April 17, while off the French coast. Strong reinforcements came to the nation's third popular war credit on April 26, as a result of the celebration of Liberty day with parades and demonstrations dem-onstrations in practically every part of the country. Lincoln Steffens, magazine writer and lecturer, was prevented by the' police at San Diego from delivering an advertised address at a local church' on the "Menace of Peace." Chief of Police McMullen told Steffens that no man who criticized the government as he (Steffens) had done in a previous lecture could speak again in San Diego, especially in war times. The American line steamship St. Paul, famous passenger liner, overturned over-turned and sank at her pier at New York while being warped into a pier preparatory to loading for a trip to Europe'. Three men probably lost their lives in the accident. factions, each to the exclusion of the others. The Stockholm Aftonbladet says that definite reports have been received from Abo, Finland, that Grand Duke Alexis Nikolaievitch, son of the former emperor of Russia, bus been proclaimed pro-claimed emperor, with Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch as regent. Germany's attitude " toward the small European neutral nations, particularly par-ticularly Holland and Switzerland, has caused sharp protests from the Swiss press, an official dispatch from France says. Holland has placed an embargo on the exportation from the Dutch East Indies of tin, tin ore, cinchona bark quinine, quinine salts and kapok, all of which are needed iu large quantities by the United States for war purposes. pur-poses. Sir William Weir has been appointed minister of the air forces in succession to Lord Rothermere, brother of Lord Northcliffe, who resigned because of ill health. Diarmid Lynch, Sinn Fein food controller, con-troller, who has just completed a term of two months' imprisonment for seizing seiz-ing and slaughtering pigs in Ireland, will be deported. Lynch is an American. Ameri-can. Baron Rhondda, the Daily Mail says it understands, has resigned the office of British food controller. He has been absent from his post for some weeks owing to illness. The Finnish government has expropriated expro-priated the supplies' of tobacco and coffee. The surplus will be exported to Germany as compensation for grain. Requisitions made by the Austro-Ger-mans in Ukraine are so severe the peasants are revolting and are holding soldiers as prisoners. Clashes are occurring oc-curring frequently, says a diplomatic dispatch, and many persons have been killed on both sides. It is reported at Loudon that Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik minister of war and marine, has gone to Murmansk, Mur-mansk, northern Finland, to arrange for an effort by the Russian forces there to resist the German attempt to push northward. |