The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from Al!
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
INrERMouNTAIn

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INTERMouNTAIN
The name of A. c. Kemmis, Sand |
Point, Ida, appears on the Canadian
casualty list issued Thursday as
wounded.
Until after the war no evening
clothes viii be worn by the men and
women at the Spokane Country club.
Decision to bar formal dress has been
made by the entertainment committee,
and it is declared to be in keeping
with other war economies.
The school board at Butte voted that |
all German books in the school libraries |
should be burned Saturday night fol |
lowing a war chest" parade.
Governor Lister Of Washington has
been asked by Secretary Of the Treas
ury w. G. McAdoo to assist in every
way possible to hold down taxes on
railroads in this state to the minimum.
McAdoo explains that railroad taxes
must now be paid by the government,
whereas heretofore they have been
paid entirely by private owners. :"
Joey Miller. lightweight of San
Francisco, knocked out Frankie Gage
Of New Orleans in the ninth round Of
scheduled twenty-round bout at Og-
den. A left hook to the heart did the
business.
n0MEeTIr
The United States navy will be in
creased to nearly 100000 men before
the end of the year, declared Franklin
d. Roosevelt, assistant secretary OF
the navy, in an address at Brooklyn.
n. S. Randall, national Nonpartisan
| league organizer, was found guilty OF
''utterances tending TO discourage en-
listment in the army and navy" at
Red Wing, Mimi, after trial which
| lasted three days. The charge on
which Randall was convicted was the
result of a speech made by him be.
fore a gathering of farmers at Kenyon
last August.
Complaints will be issued by the
federal trade commission hereafter
against all concerns refusing TO sci
their products unless the purchase
agrees to maintain resale price fixet
by the seller.
Upon receipt Of information from
The state department that his fathe
had been living in Berlin since th'
declaration of war, George Ehret, Jr.
of New York, has reported all OF hi
fathers property, valued at S4O,OOO,ooO
as an enemy character and has an
nounced his readiness to turn 1t Owe
TO the custody of the government.
Construction of fifty wooden barge
of $500 tons each for use in the coast
wise coal carrying trade has beef
authorized by the shipping board. tn
vessels will be built at New Englan'
and South Atlantic shipyards.
Orders for 10000 additional freigh
cars TO supplement the 10000 contract
ed for several days previous, wer
placed May by the railroad admins
tration with fifteen car building cor
! Germs. The aggregate cost is betwee
+ s170,OO0,OOO and S2lo,Oo0OOO.
i Hayelock Wilson, president OF tn
seamen's and firemen's union, in
0 statement at London regarding IA
4 sacrifices of the mercantile marin
d said that $4,000 British seamen hay
|, been murdered by German pirates du
: ing the war.
Death threats against William
Davis, editor and publisher OF Il
I Pleasanton tCal.) Times, unless !
! stop printing anti-German articles
q his newspaper. are contained in no
4 signed "A Subject of the Kaiser
: found under the door Of Davis. ofIlc
Two soldiers were burned to dea
10 and eighteen men We're burned SCI
y ously when a captive Observable
. balloon of the Cacquot type explode
d Thursday at Florence field, the arm
n balloon school at Fort Omaha, Neo'
e Sixty.six persons lost their hF
when the steamship City OF AtheI
i. hound from New York for Savanna
d was rammed and sunk by a Fren
ID cruiser off the Delaware coast May
lie The missing include ten men ana 9
women. who were passengers, seE
g. out of twenty-four United States Il
II rines, who were on board, fourteen
u of twenty French sailors and thir
three members of the crew.
~ The war department has been ash
y TO close saloons in Vernon, adjoini
y. Los Angeles, in resolutions passed
the Los Angeles city council and
dered telegraphed to Washington,
was said Vernon had become men,
to soldiers and sailors.