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Show Ik cbjfvx3o J WASHINGTON". 1 1. Congressmen Congress-men ar- ln-lnu hciejceil I". requests 'from gov rnment employes above 70 I to hold thorn In their Jolts. They I don't want 'o ho retired on a pension, j Some men who are setting $5,000 a jnuf are about to be retired on a pen- sion of $7i'0 a year. The young employes. aped. say, ! from 20 to 30, are also eom pla Inlng I In eor.K reunion that it l. an Iniustlce to require them to pay 2 1-2 per cent of i heir salaries lo the pension fund Kor two score years employes have been agitating for a pension system. And now that they have one. none of them Is satisfied. A new drink Just Introduced Into j Washington Is called "razo." It Is nieil leated, and rontalns 20 per rent nl-eohol. nl-eohol. It is being sold In soda fountains, foun-tains, drug stores and former beer ' saloons. This new drink threatens to drive COd-llVer oil. vvhleh contains only 17 ; per cent alcohol, off the market. B Xouiteva, secretary to I aid wig Marions. Kusian representative In America, couldn't get a passport from , the state department here to leave the eountry, so he slipped across the lino Into Canada and there got a passport pass-port to Kngl.ind NOurteva waj "persona non grata" I In the 1'nlted States, but when the state department found thai ho uant-I uant-I ed to go. It of course had to take an 1 opposition stand and It said "Slav." m A shipment of dollars made by Jun-1 Jun-1 lor Ked CltOSS workers at Moorosville, N. C, and intended for children In , Europe, was scut l.v mistake to ex-; ex-; service men convalescing at ntton, H. C. a requesl !.r return of shipment brought this re;. "If the niukers of the.(- ilollirt (i. ill. I have seen the merriment and actual pleasure thej gaVS th men, the error In shipment would not be regretted. .Nothing dls- , trlbutod In a long time gSVS the boys 1 Sf much fun." Cooties can Interfere with peace negotiations ne-gotiations as well as army plans. When the Soviet commission to negotiate peace with Bsthonia crossed the lines j into the City of Narva, on Its way to i Reva). its members were promptly clapped Into ' jtia r i n ll nc b the Aniori-; Aniori-; can Hod Cross typhus fighters, and. in spite of desperate protestations, and illations of diplomatic privilege w.-ie j forcibly detained for disinfection before be-fore being permitted to procei d. oo |