The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-31

4 az 0Akdale, Ia, WIS destroyed was
Increased May "a 70 i07 by the dis
covery of SIX bodies IN the INT honna.
john Calhoun. q negro farfn hand
who shot and killed John A. willis,
re- white farmer near Evansville. Gu.
WAS shot 70 death while resisting mr.
ress By posse headed By Chief of
Police Evans. TIE chief was wounded
slightly IN The thigh
railroad transportation charges
Smnst be paid ~ advance after July !,
under M order issued Is director Gen
eral MeAdoo. nhoilshing The present
system by which muny large slippers
and consiEHees are given credit Oh
thelr freight bills FOR weeks or months.
white small patrons are required 10
settle on a msh basis
WASHINGTON.
Director General McAdoo has an.
n0uneed thar soldiers would be enr-
rled on the American railroads for the
duration 0f the war at the rate OF one
cent nile.
Another move toward full utilization
Of the eountry's man power was made
May - when Secretary Baker sent 10
congress the draft of u bin proposing
70 raise the maximum age limit for
yalunlary enlistment Ia the army from
40 % 80 years All men over 40 SO
enlisted would be- hsslgned 10 non.
coubatants service.
Expenditure of S20.O00000 for steel
barges ana boats for transporting ex-
port freight down the Mississippi TO
New Orleans and thus relieving the
railroad situation win be urged ut a
conference ut Washington May 81 be-
tween Director General AicAdoo and
a delegation Of 100 members Of the
Mississippi Valley Waterways assocla.
tlon.
Slaekera who leave the country to
escape the draft viii be prosecuted
Under the aeleetiYc service net on their
return, Attorney General Gregory has
nnnpunced.
Every man Of draft age must work or
fght after July ! under drastic
amendment - the selectlve service reg
uiatlons announced May "a by Provost
Marshal General CrOwder.
Unlimited power 10 draft men within
the ages prescribed by the selectiye ser
vice act was granted Secretary OF Wnr
Baker May 20, BY the house military
affairs committee.
FOREIGN.
Mrs. Max Green. who formerly was
Miss Johanna Redmond, daughter of
the late John NJ. Redmond, makes
strong appeal for unity between Ire
land aud England against the com
mon enemy Germany, Ia Il letter print.
ed In the Manchester Guardian.
The British armed merchant troop
ship Moldavla with American troops
OH board has been torpedoed and
sunk, according 20 an official bulletin
Issued hy The admiralty. Fifty.slx
Americans have not been accounted
for.
The government OF Costa Rlea has
declared war on the central powers, ne
eording to adylces received at San
Juan, Nicaragua.
knud Rasmussen, the Danish ex-
plorer, according TO ain Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Copenhagen. has
reached Longs firth with his Arctic
expedition and has eharted all the
firths OF northern Greenland. Import.
ant scientific results, the explorer says,
have been attained.
Further reports Of disorders Ia 10.
henlla are published In the Lokal An.
zeiger OF Berlin. 1t appears that re.
Gently there were extensive demon.
STATIONS In Prague, which the police
found difficulty In quelllng.
August Philips. Dutch minister to
the United States, who recently re-
turned ON leave of absence because
Of III health, has requested that he be
relieved Of his post az Washington, &c.
eording to adyices from The Hague.
German avIators made an inefrect.
uai attempt Tuesday night to raid
Paris, Three persons we're killed and
several wounded In the outskirts Of
the city, but none Of tho raiders
reached Paris itself
Turkish troops az Aidln. In Asla
Minor, have mutlnied, Two thousand
soldiers sent from ManIssa, 20 miles
northeast d Smyrna. 10 quell the dis.
tnrbanccs have deserted. Numerous
assertions also are reported from the
coast garrssons
John Dillon, tho nationalist leader.
Ia an interview Tuesday, emphasized
the divergence between his party and
the Sim Feln. whoes policy he de-
eiared to be wrong aud foolish and
bound to end In disaster"
The znrieher zeit,mg says the Ger.
man military authorities have demand.
81 Ut Poland 10 furnish Germany with
t0o,oo0 head Of attic, Including $1,000
pigs The amount demanded repre-.
scots one.fifth Of Poland's livestock.
Grave events are reported from
Manehuria. where the Transhaikal
Cos~acks opposed to the soyiets aud
fighting under General Ssmenoff have
Joined forces with Chinese detach-
meats and are marching on Chita.