The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-03
NEWS OF 4 WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
lNTERMouNTAIN


The Seattle Central Labor council
voted Thursday to call general strike
for twenty-four hours, May /, ac-
cordlng TO official announcement, as
1 demonstration for Thomas =. Mooney,
sentenced to hang In California, fol-
lowing his conviction on the charge Of
numbering one Of the victims Of the
San Francisco preparedness day bomb
explosion.
Twelve hundred and sixty-five men
arrived at Camp lewis, Wash, Friday
as the first contingent OF the new
draft. A total Of 1902 men is to ar
rive at camp within the next few days.
The Woolgrowers' association,
| through Its committee, headed by =.
| w. Mcclure of Salt Lake, has advised
the price fixing committee of the war
industries board that they would ac-
cept the basis OF wool prices fixed by
the government
Gov. Simon Bamberger Of Utah,
German-born American, declared in an
address at Topeka, Kans., that the
people of Germany, millions Of them,
are hoping and praying that America
will win the war"
A small fire In building occupied
by government employment agents at
Seattle and which destroyed govern
ment records containing the names of
thousands of skilled and unslSilled ship
yard workers who had applied for em-
ployment at local yards, was said by
the police Thursday TO have been the
work of an incendlary.
DOMESTIC
Charged with drilling holes in the
wings of airplanes ready to be de-
liyered to the government, an employee
Of manufacturing company was ar
rested by federal agents at Cleveland.
Captain f. j. Butterfield, and all the
deck officers of the American steam
ship Florence H., now are believed to
have lost their lives when the ship
was destroyed by an explosion, April
IL, while off the French coast.
Strong relnforcements came to the
nations third popular war credit on
April 20, as result of the celebration
of Liberty day with parades and dem
onstratlons in practically every part Of
the country.
Lincoln Steffens, magazine writer
and lecturer, was prevented by the
police at San Diego from delivering
an advertised address at u local
church on the Menace of
Peace" Chief of Police McMullen told
Steffens that no man who criticized
the government as he (Steffens) had
done In previous lecture could speak
again In San Diego, especially in war
times.
The American line steamship st
Paul, famous passenger liner, over
turned and sank at her pier at New
York while being warped into Il plel
preparatory to loading for trip e
Europe. Three men probably lost thell
lives In the accident,
Alaska will be called on In May ant
June for G9G draft registrants, Proves
, Marshal General Crowder has an
| nounced. They Will be trained a
7 Fort !, liam Seward, Haines, Alaska
, Harry +. Flannery, former polio,
/ commissioner at San Francisco, ha
J been brought to trial in the Unite'
{ States court on charge of conspir
: ing TO sell Intoxicating liquor TO Unite'
{ States soldiers and sailors,
Sauerkraut may be camouflaged un
der the name Of Liberty cabbage"
!. the federal food board at New YorI
Z acts faverably on the recommendation
: Of local vegetable dealers, who asser
that the pro-German stigma of the dis
!, has been responsible for falling Of
I Of 75 per cent in consumption sine
America entered the war.
SIX men were killed in Il collisio
/, between Burlington fast freight an
work train in the outskirts u nay
! ard, Neh.. Thursday.
: A decision of the government TO fl
: the price of raw wool ON the basis Q
/ that prevailing on July 30 last prot
5 ably will be announced at the cOnclJ
. sion OF conferences to be held in 30;
n ton.
q Three fires breaking out simultan,
I ously, In the Lake Erie & wester
d shops az Lima. Ohio, PRACTICAL
wiped out the $5o0,0to plant,
Z Two masked men, armed with sho
q guns, robbed the bank Of yaleria, In
/ OF 500 In currency, and escaped in a
automobile Yaleria Is fifteen mile
q northeast OF Des Molnes.
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