The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-06-08

Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary OF
the department of agriculture, in an
address at New York on the food stu
alton before the convention of the
American Neutrality-suspicious. associ-
alton, attacked food spectators as
vicious, recalcitrant Americans" who
will be ''clubbed into submission" by
congress, using unified public senti-
ment against them as a weapon.
Charges of treason, capital offense,
were filed Thursday night against
three men who, with several others,
We're arrested May 81 in connection
with anti-registration plotting in Co
lumbus, Ohio.
Victor Berger, Milwaukee Socialist
and former member of congress, has
abandoned his attempt to get a pass
port to attend the Socialist peace con-
| ference at Stockholm, The state de-
partment was unrelenting in its deter
mination to grant no passports.
WASHINGTON.
| Important revisions in the plan for
training the war army have been made
by the war department, which an
nounced June that the half million
men to be called to the colors in Sep
| TENDER will be concentrated in sixteen
environments instead of thirty-two and
that many of the forces probably will
be put into tents instead of wooden
barracks,
Exemption of popular price moving
| r1tp ft,AE, ar1f
taxes and the levying of new fed
eral license tax on automobile owners,
ranging from $3.50 to $25, with reduc-
tons for cars used a year or more,
were agreed upon by the senate
finance committee.
The Prince of Udine, head of the
Italian war mission, on the floor of the
senate on May 30, delivered mes
sage to the American people in the
name of King Victor Emmanuel, vel
coming the entrance of the United
States into the war as the final moral
justification of the cause for which the
allies are fighting.
Hoarding, storage or destruction of
food, fuel, or other necessarieS of life
to limit supply or affect prices would
be a felony under an amendment to the
governments first food bill adopted in
the senate without a record vote.
Reduction of the present high prices
the consumer pays for food, it is an
nounced, will be one of the aims OF
the new food administration which will
be created with Herbert G. Hoover al
!, it's head as soon as congress passes
the governments food control legisla
ton.
FOREIGN.
The American sailing ship Dirigo
] 3005 tons, has been sunk by German
J submarine. The crew has been LANDED
with the exception of John Ray, thir,
l mate who was drowned when TIL
| small boats We're being launched. Til
ship was attacked without warning.
4 Great Britains losses in cereal ship
: has been only per cent, according t
! a statement made by Kennedy Jone;
! director Of food economy. The minis
! try of food, he added, had made allow
ances for the loss of % per cent Q
: this kind of shipping.
5 1t is reported that the province 0
: Anhwel, Honan and Hupeh, China
f have declared their independence
This action is said to have been takel
/ to express disapproval of the pro-GeI
5 man policy of the Kwo Min Tang, tn
5 political party now ascendant il
| Pekin.
i According to news received from
Madrid, the government has ordered
i die seizure of cargo of Argentine
wheat on board the steamer Rosario
which arrived there Wednesday. The
cargo was consigned to Switzerland
by way of Cette.
British casualties, as published il
May, show a total of 1902 officers anG
106,331 men.
Maxim Gorky, the noted Russian
author, publishes sensational ac
count of an attempt by d. Rizow, the
Bulgarian minister at Berlin, to in
veigle him into clandestine negotia
tions for separate peace.
Forty-two million dollars worth OF
orders were taken by American houses
during the second Lyons (France) fair
just closed. The buyers were from
France, Switzerland Spain, Holland
Portugal and the Scandinavian coun-
tries.
The Dutch and Scandinavian Social
list committee has been Informed that
the British Labor Socialist organization
will send representatives to the Stock
holm conference.
Wearing trim dark blue uniforms
and glazed straw hats with the French
tri-color ribbon, the first women let
ter carriers made their appearance on
the streets of Paris on Thursday.
The congress of delegates from the
front has decided to demand that the
next congress of workmen's and sol
diers delegates from all Russia should
cause the transfer of former Emperor
Nicholas to the fortress of St. Peter
and st. Paul.