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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT; EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of tha Globe and Given In a Few Line. INTERMOJNTAIN. Acting Oovornor Louis I- Hart; rained a liill passed 1 y the Washington ! legislature intended In restore tin- j death penally in Washington fur firsi-' degree murder. Tin' bill is subject to referendum fur iiini'ty days. The last legal execution In Washington was on February Si, l'.Hl. More than 1WI natives of Sweden, Norway. Switzerland and Holland were forever denied the right to become citizens of the I'nited States by .fudge Stapleton at I'ortland. These men. it was shown, when America was at war withdrew their first papers ami claimed claim-ed their rights as aliens as an excuse lor not going to war. Thiny-elght prominent Colorado Republicans Re-publicans have filed articles of incorporation in-corporation with the secretary of state of the "Leonard Wood Republican clun . .-- i'i C"lonido," the object being ti Tro-mote Tro-mote (lie candidacy of the Commander of the central department of the army for the Heptibliean nomination for president next year. . Albert .1. Terry, a naval aviator, announced an-nounced at Spokane that lie has been ordered to report shortly at Cape May, N. J., to act as chief engineer of a dirigible balloon with which it is planned plan-ned to attempt a .trip, across the Atlantic At-lantic ocean under government direction. direc-tion. Sixty per cent of the men of the Idlst infantry of the Sunset division, national guardsmen, who entered the service as members of the second Washington, were disutilities, either .killed or wounded in varying degrees. Air gun riveters, silent in the Seattle shipyards for weeks, ou March 12 .started the prelude to the great industrial indus-trial reopening that will again. l l.eard along Elliott bay here when the yards get into full action again, DOMESTIC. . . A tornado which swept over Malmo and Colon, Neb., caused the death of one, the probable fatal injury of two othe.-s ami considerable propery damage dam-age in the limited district tlirough which it swept. Action by the peace conference to eliminate race prejudice, which lie termed "a fruitful source of discontent discon-tent and uneasiness among nations in the past," was urged by Viscount lshii, Japanese ambassador to the I'm. oil States, speaking before the .la; :.;i society at New York. II' the present league of nations .l;v. i is adopted, Oreat Britain will rule the league and I object to America's bci.-.iiing again a subsidiary country to the British isles." declared United States Senator Fall ot -New .Mexico. ( in addressing the chamber of com- merce at Albiioueniue. Fear that action of the peace com- j mission in restricting Germany's army j to a small unit of volunteers and abol- j ishing the conscription system may operate against proposed universal military training in the United States "has been aroused among advocates advo-cates of universal training in this country. Kestrtelion of immigration into Palestine Pal-estine to olUXM a year during the first period of development of the new Jewish Jew-ish commonwealth set tip under British Brit-ish trusteeship lias been decided upon by the interallied Zionist conference in London. Commandeering by the government of a fleet of harbor craft sufficient to restore traffic in New York's strikebound strike-bound harbor to normal conditions. hits been decided on by otficials ot the armv, navy and United States shipping board, according to apparently apparent-ly autiivntie reports. " In an opinion rendered at Lincoln. Neb.. Attorney General Davis held it was not a desecration of the flag for a mother of a soldier who died in the service to embroider upon it the name of her son. Attorney General Davis said his office would refuse to prose-cuts prose-cuts any such alleged desecration. ' Putting the United States on a sugar ration did not reduce consumption in 1SUS. according to the annual report of the American Sugar Refining company, issued March 12. which stated that the dailv consumption approximated 10,000 tons. Oo same as for the last ten youis. Joe V.'uiUcr, a negro, charged with l-Rving shot a watchman at Greenville. Fla.. was seized by a mob and shot to !cf.-j March 1.', while being taken to J". ::..'!:, i'-.-. for safe keeyi;:g. Robert Llrtacrton ot I.fC .Csi.ftfe convicted by court tnirtM ttr desertion deser-tion and evading the selective draft, was sentenced to ten years in military prison and Ids sentence lias been aj proved by the proper authorities. Mrs. Mary 1. King was bound ov for trial at the June term of the district dis-trict court at -Harnett. Kans.. on a charge of killing her husband. N. J. King, a well known stockman. The body of a young woman found in a ravine near San Mateo, south of San Francisco, was identified Thursday Thurs-day as that of Miss Inez Elizabeth Keed. a San Francisco and Fort Ilfley, Kan., lied Cross nurse. What may be Ids farewell public address before he begins serving n ten-year ten-year sentence imposed by the federal court at Cleveland ou a charge of violating vio-lating the espionage act, Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader, upheld the Bolshevist Bol-shevist rule in Russia and referred to l.enine and Trotzky as the foremost I statesmen of the age." WASHINGTON. Senator Borah of Idaho, who will be chairman of the committee on labor in the next senate, is quoted as declaring that the government must, without delay, de-lay, formulate a definite labor policy, and. incident to a reorganization of co-relationship co-relationship between capital and labor, labor must be given a direct interest in the industry in which employed. Car and locomotive buHders were told by Director General Hines that means would be found to finance the railroads and contemplated big purchases pur-chases of rolling stock. He emphasized empha-sized that there was no cause fA alarm among industries affected. A brand new political party to be known as the "Liberal party" is preparing pre-paring to make its debut in the next presidential campaign according to advance agents who have interviewed members of congress. It will seek to nominate candidates in opposition to both the Republican and Democratic nominees. Following a conference with Secretary Secre-tary of the Treasury Glass and officials offi-cials of the war finance corporation. Director General of Railroads Hines expiessed confidence that the situation situa-tion confronting the railroad administration adminis-tration through the failure of congress to pass the SToO.OOO.OOO appropriation will be satisfactorily adjusted. The Victory Liberty loan campaign will open Monday, April 21, and close three weeks Intel- Saturday, May 10. FOREIGN. The decision of the allied powers providing for the turning over by Germany of merchant ships and securities secur-ities in exchange for food was presented present-ed to a German delegation at Brussels on March 13. Leon Trotzky,. Uie Russian Bolshevik Bolshe-vik minister of war and marine, escaped es-caped assassination by an inch, according ac-cording to a dispatch to the Daily-Mail Daily-Mail from llelsingfors. The bullet went through his hat. 1'resident Wilson, returning to the peace conference after his trip to the United States, arrived in Paris shortly after noon, March 14. The courtyard of Moabit prison at Berlin, was a shambles Friday as a result of the execution by machine i guns of 200 Spartacans, chained in couples and lined up in column forina- tioti. - Vice Admiral William S. Sims, ! . , - ..... 1 coilliiiainiei in me --i.uiei 11 in. 11 forces ill the war zone, in a farewell speech at the American Luncheon club, said that in 1010 lie predicted that the world war would come. I The Russian soviet government with ' a view to promoting a plan for a world-j world-j wide communist revolution has ap-; ap-; pointed a new minister to be known ' as "international commissary," accord-! accord-! ing to a llelsingfors dispatch to the llail, emoting advices from Moscow. Three Chinese were killed when Ramon Vega's Villa command entered and looted Pearson. Chihuahua. 150 miles south of Juarez-William Juarez-William Hohenzolleru, two months before the armistice was signed, planned plan-ned an asylum in Sweden, but was prevented from going to that country by the Swedish government, diplomatic advices made public last week dis-. I closed. The Mexican congress has been cau-j cau-j ed by 1'resident Carrauza to meet in extra session May 1. Despite the severe and peremptory j terms of the preliminary peace treaty, which now is practically completed and ! i ready for delivery to the German dele- I gaiiou at the end of this month, the j peace conference, so far as can be ! I learned, is making no preparations re- ' ! garuing the course it will pursue if Germany refuses to accept the con- ditions and sign the pact. j The Spanish cabinet has decided to i . grant an eight-hour working day to the i building trades throughout Spain, 1 wages to be fixed by committees of ' employers and workmen in each dis-i dis-i trict. j- Fighting is still going on in Berlin I with great fury, according to undated : reports received from Copenhagen from the German capital and for-i for-i warded by the Exchange Telegraph , eompary. |