The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-04-11

The war in Europe is not over, de-
spite the verdict of United States,
District Judge Walter Evans of Louis
vile, KY, United States District Judge
Il. r. Cushman of the state OF Wash
ington ruled at San Francisco in re-
fuslng to dismiss complaints against
two alleged yiolators of the seIective
draft act
Two white men entered the state
/ bank at Bastrop, La, and, after Gov
ering the assistant cashier with re-
yolvers and locking him in vault,
gathered up about $4,000 in cash and
made their escape.
Records show that at the three Fort
Worth air fields where flying practic-
ally ceased April 3, and all enlisted
men We're discharged, JOG men were
killed from November Z, 1917 to April
| 1, 1919.
Two sons of the Navajo Indian chief
Uatiltonny, said to be the confessed
murderers of Charles Hubbell, whose
charred body was found March % in
the smoldering ruins of his trading
post near the Indian village of Oraiga
forty-fiye miles north of Winslow.
Ariz., are barricaded in cave in the
mountains 125 miles northeast of
Flagstaff
WASHINGTON.
Members of the special mission of
the Philippine legislature at Washing
ton seeking immediate independence
for the islands were told by Secretary
Baker that he spoke President VIII
sons mind when he said he believed
the time had come to grant the com
plete independence desired by the
Filipino people.
Reconsideration by congress of all
antitrust legislation is recommended
by the chamber of commerce of the
United States as the result of refer
endum vote of its affiliated trade and
commercial organizations.
Attorney General Palmer has been
asked by John Barton Payne, general
counsel of the railroad administration,
TO take action against the prohibition
might riders of Virginia.
Improvement in general business
conditions and the continuance of an
undertone of confidence in the essen
tial strength and soundness of the
country's economic position was re-
ported in the federal reserve boards
review of the business situation toward
the end of March.
Army reorganization plans upon
which the war department is now
working, it is learned, provide for an
air service with approximately 100
airplanes in actual commission and
a minimum available reserve of 34O0
additional planes.
FOREIGN.
The Italian transport Umbria, with
1000 officers and soldiers on board,
bound from Venice to Tripoli, has
struck mine and sunk, according to
advices from Bari, Italy, quoting news
papers of that city Several on board
We're killed and 100 injured.
President Wilson has been confined |
to his room in Paris with a severe |
cold. The presidents physician order |
ed him to bed as preventative |
measure.
Private and official advices from |
Mexico City within the last few days |
are interpreted as clearly indicating a |
sudden change in sentiment in the re- |
public toward foreign investments in |
Mexico and that the coming session of |
congress will clear the atmosphere of |
much of the hostility shown since the
adoption of the 1917 constitution.
Recent reports that Japanese We're
to the Philippine islands
n increasingly large numbers are
lenied by Manuel L. QuezOn, presi-
lent of the Philippine senate and
chairman of the independence mission.
NJ. Tchitcherin, Russian BoIshevik
oreign minister, continues TO use the
wireless to deny authorship of the re-
'ent message picked up by the French
government wireless operators regard
ng the spreading of Bolshevism in
america.
Reginald Dovuelle, a fashion de-
igner, formerly of New York, was
ound not guilty of manslaughter in
with the death of billie"
iarlton, an American dancer, in the
Did Bailey court, London. The dane
r was found dead under mysterious
in London hotel last
December
Leon Trotzky, the BolShevik minis
err of war and marine, has ordered
he Russian Baltic fleet TO put to sea
nd attack the allies, threatening to
ave all the crews shot if they dis
hey the order, says the London Mail.
The Ukrafnians continue to lombard
.emberg with guns of large caliber. q
ausing casualties and damage to J