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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY CHICAGO 111 June 5 Weather forecast Illi ¬ nois Generally fair in south portion tonight and Saturday partly cloudy in north with probable showers not much chance in temperature Mis ¬ souri Generally fuir tonight and Saturday except prolmlily unsettled in northeast portion not much change in temperature temperatureGeneral General weather forecast Showers will probably continue in the western lake region and upper Mississippi valley but elsewhere throughout this forecast district fair weather will prevail during thqv next thirtysix hours the temperature will notv change materially materiallyWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C June Postmaster Gen ¬ eral Iturleson has not turned back the telephone mid telegraph systems to their private owners in the opinion of Nathan C Kingsbury vicepresident of the American Telephone Company Testifying today before the Senate Interstate Commerce com ¬ mittee Kingsbury said thnt Iturleson had simply done away with the board of operations The rompanlcs are now in operation with control of their own officials Kineslmry continued but operating for the government and reporting direct lo the postmaster general instead of to the board of operationsx operations x operationsWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C June 6 Legislation abol ¬ ishing the food administration and requiring the department of agriculture to reduce the price of wheat to a level based on the law of supply and demand on world markets the United States gov ¬ ernment to assume the loss between this price and the guaranteed price of J1 per bushel is pro ¬ vided in a resolution introduced in the house this afternoon by Representative Fitzgerald of Massa ¬ chusetts chusettsWASHINGTON WASHINGTON D C June Ii Establishment of st national employment service under the department of labor with an initial appropriation of 4000000 for 19UO is proposed in a bill drafted by the depart ¬ ment and introduced today by Chairman Kenyoii of the Senate labor committee A directorgeneral of the employment senice at 3000 appointed by the president would have charge of the work workLONDON LONDON England June i tJnder pressure from British forces the Bolslicviki have evacuated Alcx androvsk on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea siccording to advices received here The Itritish had bombarded the town and British airplanes had dropped bombs on it itPAIU8 PAIU8 France June fl I nm convinced that out treaty project violates none of my principles 1rosidiiit Wilson is quoted by the Matin as having said when lie was made acquainted with the Ger ¬ man counter proposals to the peace treaty treatyBUENOS BUENOS AIRES Argentina June C The heaviest snowstorms in recent years probably have stopped communication between Argentina and the United States by way of the trausAndine railway and the west coast until spring
