The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-04-26
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EvgNTs TOLD in RRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters o. the Globe and
Given IN Fe~ Llnea.
sNrERMouNTAiN

Quietly lnpi0ring the American BUSH
ness man 20 cast aside all plans for
building up his business after the war
and ccuier ais activities on The pres
emf situation. Hon. William q, nedfield.
secretary 81 commerce. addressed the
Commercial club members AZ Salt
I.ake. Friday night
Wear a uniform OF stay IN bed was
the uitImntun 10 the fifty conseien-
tlous DIRECTORS attached 70 the base
hospital u the Wild west division az
Camp Lewis. Wash, And every one
Of the fifty nonresisters chose 10
eiolhe themselves n the olive drab
garments
Miss Jeanette Rankin Of Missouri,
Montann's representative IN congress-,
wps refused permission 10 speak Ia
Deer Lodge. Mont, Il IL said, where
she had been scheduled to give LIB
erty loan speech A citizens commit
tee objected because Miss Rankin was
chnreed with associating with strike
leaders az Butte.
Both North Dakota and Montana had
oyetsuhseribed their respective quotas
OF s0,5O0OO0 and S0,OO0O00 by more
than 81 100000 each on April 49,
benjamin Kahn, billings, Mont,
liquor salesman. WAS sentenced ~ Red
Lodge 20 from seven and one.hulf 70
twenty years In the penIteutlary for
scdItious nttcrances The conviction
was the first under a new state law.
The information section OF the sig
nal corps at Portland announced ON
the authority Of Col, Bryce y Dlsque,
head Of the spruce production cam
paiRn that the new cut-up plant at Van
couyer, Wash. now Is producing fin
ishcd material sufficient for the manu-
faeture Of 300 airplancs daily.
DOMESTIC
Clarence Rogers, 10 years old. was
shot and killed In the home 0f Mrs.
Mamie Stachet, a widow. by John Wei.
lard, "a years old. Both We're counting
Mrs Satchet and she had rejected Wei
lard few days previous.
These Temporary successes" OF the
Germans on the western front mark
their last desperate stroke and wheth
er II succeeds or falls does not mean
final triumph FOR Germany, Secretary
~ the Nevy Daniels told the thous.
nnds % young men who greeted him al
Boston on Friday.
Ground has been broken cer the
largest powder plant In the United
states. within two months the daily
output win be from 100000 70 100000
pounds Of anokelcss powder and the
plant, which II being constructed In
nine sections, will be three ana Il half
miles long aud one aud one.half miles
mide.
Enemy aliens viii be excluded from
employment Ia Illinois institutions, the
state civil service commission ruled
Friday. All such persons now en-
ploycd VIII be discharged at once, ii
was announced.
Thlrty.flve states now are repre-
scented In the enrolment for the "col-
iege wonien's Plattsburg" the train
ing camp for nurses 20 be held at
Nassar college this summer
The Church OF the Living God, a
large canvas tabernacle. used by re-
ngious sect az Berkeley Cal. was
burned down by a mob OF men and
bots because the pastor, Joseph Sykes,
and hts elders refused TO lower the
American flag az shutdown and Join
with the congregation In singing the
nationai anthem.
Another German offensive In italy or
on the west front in June was pre-
aicted by Lieutenant General Bridges
~ the British army. who has arrived
ut an Atlantic port.
The American Red Cross has ar
ranged to furnish life. health and ac,i.
dent insurance 10 It's workers abroad
Who are not eligible for the benefits OF
government war risk Insurance.
-Four hundred conyiets In the state
psnitcnttary az Santa Re N NJ. tarred
and feathered and led around with u
Fope about his neck Major John A.
nirkner Of Camp Cody. Deming. n. 81
held In the penitentiaFy as federal
prisoner, IN default II 5000 bail He
= charged aiih violation Of the espion-
age act
Clnud Singleton. negro convicted
~ the murder Ia March q ~ j.
Bounds. D railroad worker, WAS taken
sruH The county laii az Poplaryilie.
Niiss rs meb and hanged 20 tree
o. the untskirts u the town
A bea Scale q wages Tor civilian
workers in Atlantic coast navy yards
win BE- put into effeet May J. Il grants
- % - Per cent pay Increases and
makes the nayy yard pay conform with
wage paid - shpyards
The "drles" were victorious 10 three
out u four local option elections Ia
southern New Jersey Tuesday
A sentence ~ four years ID Leayen.
worth prison was pronounced On HacOb
Hendricks. former constable Of Aurora
III for attempting 20 raise funds fol