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Show One policeman was' killed, another badly wounded and sixty other persons were Injured In street fights between whites and negroes In the southern section of Philadelphia on Sunday. District Attorney Charles M. Kick-erf Kick-erf of San l'Vanclsco, according to the ; Sacramento liee. sent n letter to Governor Gov-ernor William D. Stephens requesiing him to make public the communication communica-tion lie has received from President Wilson regarding the Thomas J. Mooney case. Inroads upon class 1 of the selective selec-tive draft registrants in I lie past two weeks by the navy, marines and shipbuilding ship-building and other industries were so great that army officers nave- predicted predict-ed that men of class 2 will be called to the colors in September, unless wages are raised by congress. WASHINGTON. Complete governmental supervision and control of the oil industry from the well to the consumer is foreshadowed by Mark L. liequa, bead of the oil division of the fuel administration, In a statement to the Universal Service. Releases of hotels' and public eating places from the voluntary pledge to use no wheat until the new harvest was in, is announced by the food acl-ministra acl-ministra I ion. Homes operated on the same basis are also released. The war department announces that the army is in need of chaplains' and it called for volunteers to take a five weeks' course of training at the school for chaplains at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. The railroad administration has announced .i he .appointment of three special investigators to represent tne division of labor in settling wage or employment disputes throughout the country. Professional baseball players are given until September 1 to seek essential essen-tial employment or be called to th colors, in an order issued by Secretary linker on July 2(5. The nge limit for civilian applicants to the central officers' training schools has been raised from 10 to 4' years, the war department announced July 25. Announcement is expected this week of the decisions in about 254 railway wage appeals which have been heard by the national war labor board. All the street car cases will come together. FOREIGN. rj History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed a INTER MOUNTAIN. A service flag boasting two stars hangs in the window of a Denver store. The doors to the shop are locked. Within the plate glass window is a placard reading. "Store closed for duration of war. Proprietors enlisted in I'nited States navy." Sixty-three new Alaska fish industries, indus-tries, including canneries, salteries, mild cure and fresh cure fish plants, have been listed since January by the Alaska bureau of the Seattle chamber of commerce and Commercial club. The bureau estimates that the Alaska fishing fish-ing output this year will have a value of between $55,000,000 and .$70,000,000. J. Harry Humphreys of Huntington. W. Va., was re-elected president of the Gideons, the Christian Commercial Travelers' association in session at Denver. A conference of gold producers of the western states to consider the gold situation and to work out some plan to stimulate the production of gold in the west has been called jointly by Governor Boyle of Nevada and the American Mining congress, to be held in Keno on August 12. The armyhospital to be established at Fort Douglas, . Utah for the treatment treat-ment of wounded soldiers returned from France when completed will accommodate a maximum of 2500 men. Seattle city officials before tlie Capital Capi-tal Issues committee appealed for authorization to issue $5,500,000 worth of bonds for building extensions to the municipality owned hydro-electric plants which they said were overburdened overbur-dened by shipbuilding and industrial transportation requirements due to war. DOMESTIC. Territorial market commission composed com-posed of five members, .all "dollar-a-year" men, has been appointed by Governor Gov-ernor McCarhy to stimulate food production pro-duction in the Hawaiian islands and to endeavor to bring the products to the consumer at less expense and to promote the efficient and economic distribution and marketing of all agricultural agri-cultural products. Hostilities have broken out between Bulgarian and Turkish troops along the Dedeagateh-Adrianople railway, according to Swiss advices reaching Rome. The Turks' are claiming this railway ahd both towns. The Italian troops in France have requested to be permitted to serve without rest until the battle of the Marne has been definitely decided, according ac-cording to an official telegram from Rome. The Italians have been given credit by the French press for saving Rheims. Switzerland, according to a Berne dispatch, has received the apologies of the German government for the sinking sink-ing of the Spanish steamer Sardinor carrying American supplies for Switzerland. Swit-zerland. Germany in her note of apol ogy placed the blame on the submarine captain. Thirty thousand prisoners have been taken by the allies since July 15, it is' authoritatively estimated July'27. Of this total the Americans are alone officially of-ficially credited with at least one-half. Premier Lloyd George has announced announc-ed in behalf of the government that all men who are wilfully absent from work after Monday will be deemed to have voluntarily placed themselves outside the munitions industries. The provisional government at Omsk has' assumed supreme authority In Siberia and "proclaimed Siberia's in dependence, according to a Reuter dispatch dis-patch from Berlin. Second Lieutenant Coeffard of the French army has broken all records in aerial fighting, according to the newspapers'. He won fifteen aerial victories vic-tories in fifteen days. The Rumanian press bureau says that, according to the Spanish embassy's em-bassy's doctor at Constantinople, 50 per cent of the Rumanian prisoners have died from typhus in Turkish camps. Cuba will send at least one regiment of regulars to France, as well as all the volunteers who offer themselves, according ac-cording to the military service bill adopted by the house of representatives. representa-tives. From the aged civilians who were left in Chateau Thierry, details were learned of the German occupation of the city and .of a visit by the kaiser. The latter arrived on the Marne on June 3. He expected to stand on hill 204 and watch his troops debouche from Belleau wood, reach the Paris highway in the rear of the prepared positions, ajid capture La Forte, then Meaux and finally Paris. But he didn't. An investigation by the government of Argentina develops the fact that German endeavors to acquire colonial lands in southern Chile caused the recent outbreak there, near Lake Beunos Aires, on the Argentinian frontier, fron-tier, which was reported as being caused caus-ed by bandits.' According to careful estimates warranting war-ranting acceptance, says Reuter's 'correspondent 'cor-respondent on the French front, the Germans have employed between Off and 70 divisions since July 15, and have lost ISO.000 men killed, wounded and prisoners. Thomas J. Mooney, in "death row" at oan Quentin prison under sentence to be hanged for murder in connection with a bomb explosion during a preparedness pre-paredness parade in San Francisco in 1916, will not be executed August 23 next as decreed by court, Governor ..illiam D. Stephens having granted a reprieve until December 13. For the first time, Yukon king salmon, sal-mon, which run in millions up Alaska's big river,, will have to dodge cannery traps this year if they want to reach the upper river spawning ground. Union labor gathered in 500 great mass meetings in the larger cities of the country on Sunday to plan further action in defense of Tom Mooney of -San Francisco, convicted of murder in he preparednesss day bomb outrage. America's great chain of ship manufactories manu-factories is approaching completion. There are now 11S fully equipped yards in the United States, and 44 others partly complete, of which 23 are more than 75 per cent finished and only ix less than 25 per cent ready to be-- be-- -gin building tonnage. Latin-American diplomats, the guests of the shipping board at an inspection of the Hog Island shipyard, were told by Chairman Hurley that the great .merchant marine now being built by the United States must -bring prosperity prosper-ity to America's neighbors, as well as to 'this country, or the pride of the United States in the achievement would be diminished. Ten special wardens will be sent to Alaska soon to prevent violations of the fisheries law. Five will be detailed de-tailed in southeastern Alaska and the others to the Copper and Bering rivers, Prince William sound and Cook inlet. Twenty-one persons were indicted at New York by the federal grand jury on a charge of being implicated in the theft of beef consigned to the United States army. Felix Frankfurter, chairman of the war labor policies board, has telegraphed telegraph-ed to Governor Stephens of California denial that while acting as secretary of President Wilson's medium commission commis-sion he expressd on opinion that Thomas' J. Mooney was guilty of the San Francisco preparedness Hay bomb plot. George Sylvester Viereck, publisher of Viereck's Weekly of New York, and formerly editor of the Fatherland, which was barred from the mails because be-cause of its pro-German views, has admitted ad-mitted that he received approximately 3100,000 from Count von Bernstroff, Dr. Constantin Theodor- Dumba and others for disseminating propaganda In the form of pamphlets and books. In the face of a threatened strike of seamen on the Greut Lakes, which would tie up the transportation essential essen-tial to the, war program, the shipping board has issued a statement declaring declar-ing that the board "does not feel that there are any grievances to justify a strike at this time." Dr. Stephen Wise of the Free Synagogue Syna-gogue in New York City is working as a day laborer at a local marine construction con-struction plant. Dr. Wise said Friday that he took up the work because he believed it the duty of every man who ' could not enter military service to contribute con-tribute .directly his labor to essential production for war needs. In order to curtail the consumption of fuel oil, newspapers on the Pacific coast must" cut down the number of their editions and pages sufficiently to save at least 25 per cent of the print paper now being used. It is asserted. |