The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-22
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

nounceS that the American government
has advised the Swiss government ii
was making continued efforts to solve
the cereal supply in accordance with
the promise contained in the agree
ment between the United States and
Switzerland reached December 3, last.
The note said the Washington govern
ment was fully alive TO its obligations
and that they would be fulfilled even
II to do so it was necessary TO deprive
American consumers of certain food
stuffs.
son has been born to Empress
Zita of Austria ut Baden-Baden.
4 4
George l.. Won Meyer, former cab
met member and diplomat, is dead at
his home in Boston after an illness
of several weeks.
The start of the airplane mail serv-
ice between New York PHILADELPHIA
and Washington viii be delayed prob
ably as late as May - because land
Ing fields at Philadelphia and New
York have not been found The service
was to have been begun April 10.
Il 4
Consideration of disloyalty charges
against Senator LaFolette of Wiscon-
sin soon will be resumed by the sem
ate privileges and elections commit
tee, Chairman Pomerene has stated
4
Organization of new nationwide
patriotic body to be known as "The
Soldiers Families of America" has
oeen started in New York CITY nv
Judge William Fl. Wadhams and other
prominent persons. The object of the
organization, primarily is to see that
no family of soldier is neglected
| Relatives of all soldiers will be entitled
| 10 membership.
Fifty-seven New York restaurants
and lunch rooms, whose proprietors
had confessed to ignoring food repulo-
tons, were closed for period of 16
hours by the local food administrators
with the approval of Herbert Hoover
= Il
Naval experts anticipate an unfayor |
able report from the board headed nv
Rear Admiral Albert c. Winterhalter |
which has just completed tests of tho
FORMER Austrian steamer Lucia. which |
mas been equipped with interior huov.
ancy boxes designed to make her nm. |
sinkable.
government authorities have begun |
an investigation of the death of 10 |
horses out of shipment of 7o6 from
Camp Rockford, H., consigned 70
Newport News, Va. Many more of tho
horses are expected to die. A veter
marian says the horses were poisoned
with belladonna and croton Oil
4 4
Inc department of labor at WASHING.
ton reports that there are more Farm,
hands in the west than are needed and
there is only a slight scarcity in the
south and east.
Arrangements for training 5OO ,,.r,,,
'len IN alrplane mechanics at the Uni
VerSity of Minnesota. for two mantle
beginning April s, virtually have hen
completed.
Z 4
General Speck, president of tba Soc;
ETY. of the Army of the Potomac e
dead Mt his home at Burlington I'm
Declining an Invitation to addross
convention of the NoD-portiso,,
league, Governor BurnquiSt az NIinna
sofa made scathing arraigpmant ~
the league and some of its memharS IN
letter TO the executive Secretary 80
the organization in st. Paul.
Eugene Dean of Mexico. No no.
neen sentenced 10 imprisonment in
'he federal penitentiary at Leavan'
worth Kansas, for n year ana n day
Tor violation of the espionage act IT.
was found guilty Of having offered =
put a drug in the eyes of w. a. Jobn.
son ot Mexico, 50 thar johnson wo,,I,
be rejected in the army draft.
= =
Marshall EberStein of the fsd,-.l
bureau of investigation made The an
houHcement in Omaha thar bsr,.,f,,.-