The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-05-24
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

Five million more silver dollars have
been melted into bullion for export
| under the new silver bill, the treasury
| has reported, and this probably will be
continued to meet the allies needs for
the metal for subsidiary coinage. About
$3O,0O0,O00 in silver already has been
exported to India.
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A prisonep%in Germany since the
| fall of Antwerp in 1914, DR. Henri s.
Beland, formerly postmaster general
of Canada, has been released and is on
his way home.
A shipment of 800 pounds of whale
steaks received in Evanston, Ill.,, re-
tailed for % cents a pound and soon
appeared in the restaurants.
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The Austrian food controller is con-
| considering the Introduction of one
breadless day week, according to a
dispatch from Switzerland.
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Stockholders of Swift & Co., Chica-
go packers, have formally approved
the plan to increase the capital stock
of the corporation from $100,OOO,OOO to
$15O,OOOOO0. Half of the increase is
to be distributed among the sharehOld-
ers as stock dividend while the other
$20,OOO,OO0 will be offered to share
holders for cash at par at the rate of
one share of new stock for each four
shares of old stock.
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Secretary McAdoo has authorized
further loans of $2O0,OOO,OOO to Great
Britain $10O,O0OOOO to France and
$lO,OOO'OOO to Italy, making the total
loans to all the allies So, 763, $4,000.
4 4
James Gordon Bennett, proprietor
OF the New York Herald is dead of
Beaulieu, France.
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Under an announcement of army
regulations approved by Secretary |
Baker, necessary dental work is added |
to the remedial treatment to which all |
soldlers are required to submit under |
penalty OF court martial. The num- |
Der OF cases in which fighting men
qualled before the dentists forcens iS |
said to have made the order necaSsorv
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An amendment to the postoffice an
preparation bill providing for an in
crease of $500 year in the salaries
OF clerks, letter carriers and certain
other postal employees, and increases
Oh ~ per cent for rural mail co.,
rlers and for employees receiving 1os,s
IMAM $500 year, has been adopted NV
the senate. p''u u!
proceed Immediately on large sc.Io
win the building of concrete shinS
anu VIII increase the program. o,+ -
the appropriation of two md 80
quarter billion dollars asked for rho
next fiscal year. " '"'
Alexander F. KerenSky who hoo.
premier OF Russia in 1917 and -
poSeu III November by the Bolsbeviki
~ expected to arrive in The Init
states soon according to report nnh
tlSheo IN the New York CAN So
'cb organ.
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by vote of - to o the sa,a,o
'eu''.'NeiS accepted com,nitt"S
.'ii'enument to the poStoffice o,,nra,,',
non on. appropriating sIOOOno for tho
: rs'aonSiment of postal motor ror,S,
from lr U'u .s,., 10 transport food products
from agricultural districts to ritv
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our unmasked men entered ~,
oo,n IN the herat of the business p az
'Iic' IN Richmond, Va. robbed ~ u,S'
supantS OF about 5000 in caS nv &c,
Je"elry valued at $1,000 and eS ,,,,1 su i
an automobile. e>'"Peu In
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- An american soldier. John Rrra =.
- ''nhnn, y, j., testified ar tbo -.
VI VI ~ Industrial Workers ns '.Ial
world, orlu' being held in Chicago ,hot she
-, ~. sentative of the orgo,i."t.
ta i"IlISed him and his fellow man .lon
,gT,iSn from the authorities If PRO pro
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