The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-03

strike II discharges occur following the
union meeting Sunday.
Federal agents are investigating
three fires which broke out simultane-
ously in the Lake Erie & Western
railroad shops at Lima, o., and prac-
tlcally destroyed the plant valued at
100000. One arrest has been made.
The shipping board has decided on
a substantial increase In its building
program for 1919 over the tonnage
planned for this year, and indications
are that the increase will be continued
IN 1870.
Preparations are being made by the
American Red Cross to handle Ameri-
can wounded from the troops brigaded
with the British forces on the western
front.
WASHINGTON
Champ Clark, speaker Of the house
Of representatives, has declined the
appointment as senator to succeed the
late William J. Stone.
The house has adopted the senate
resolution for the registration for mill
tary service of young men who have
reached the age of 81 years since June
last. The measure now goes to con-
ference.
Record breaking calls for draft men
during May and June have been de-
cided upon. The army general staff,
| 1t Is understood at the war department,
already has transmitted to Provost
Marshal General Crowder an order to
lnduct into service next month num-
Der of men which exceeds by far any
monthly quota previously called.
Direction of the army's great air
craft production program has been
placed in the hands of a civilian, John
p. Ryan, copper magnate, railroad man
and flnancier.
Guarantee of fair price for raw
wool to the producer is expected to
follow a series of separate conferences
Woolgrowers association and leading
wool dealers with the price fixing COM
mittee of the war industries board
Creation Of labor administration
with director general of labor is I'M
der consideration by President Will
son. The new office will take over
much of the work heretofore performed
by the labor department.
FOREIGN
Holland has placed an embargo on
the expectation from the Dutch East
Indies of tin, tin ore, cinchona bark,
quinine, quinine salts and kapok, all
of which are needed in large quantities
by the United States for war pur-
poses
Sir William Weir has been appointed
minister of the air forces in succession
to Lord Rothermere, brother of Lord
Northcllffe, who resigned because of i'll
health.
Diarmid Lynch, Sim Fein food con-
troller, who has just completed term
of two months Imprisonment for seiz-
ing and Strengthening pigs in Ireland,
will be deported. Lynch is an Ameri-
can.
Baron Rhondda, the Daily Mail says
1t understands, has resigned the office
of British food controller. He has
been absent from his post for some
weeks owing to illness.
The Finnish government has expro
priated the supplies of tobacco and
coffee The surplus will be exported
to Germany as compensation for grain
1t Is rumored at Montevideo, Uru
quay, that the German reply to Uru
guay's Inquiry as to whether the Ger
man government considered that ,
state of war existed between Urugua!
and Germany is an unsatisfactory one
! acquisitions made by the Austro-Ger
mans in Ukraine are so severe tn
! peasants are revolving and are holding
soldiers as prisoners. Clashes are oC
curing frequently, says diplomat
, dispatch, and many persons have bee
!, killed on both sides.
1t is reported at London that Leo
, Trotzky. the Bolshevik minister o
munsk, northern Finland, to arrang
! for an effort by the Russian force
!, there to resist the German attemp
| TO push northward.
I German and Austrian war prisoner
i in Siberia are estimated to humble
+ more than 100000 and In officiI
I circles ii is held tSat they constitut
a grave menace to the allied positio
- In the far east
d Major Raoul Lufbery of WallingforC
= Conn, destroyed his eighteenth Gel
German airplane Tuesday. Lieutenar
: Paul Frank Baer, Mobile, Ala
+ brought down his fifth German mt
! chine the same day, thus becoming tn
!. latest American "ace."
5 The number of Americans killed
the German attack of April 20 nel
= Seicheprey was less than dozen an
n the number of injured was abot
v twenty.
A Reuter- dispatch from Moscow