The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-11-07


.'false in many particulars, and vic
iously misleading as whole charges
of "chaos' and "grSss negligence" By
the committee In handling government
funds
Five million dollars in stolen auto
mobiles Is the record Of San Francisco
for the first five months Of the pres
ent year These are figures compiled
by the automobile organizations.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox author
and poetess, died at her hon e, 1.-THE
Bungalow IN Branford CONF, 0cto-
her 80. Mrs. Wilcox had ben i'll for
some months having had nervous
collapse while engaged Il war relief
work IN England
WASHINGTON.
President Wilson by executive order
has fixed maximum prices of soft
coal.
Dissenting in many important re
spects from the program recommended
by the war department and the gem
ernl staff, General pershlng told the
military committees Of congress that
100000 men, raised entirely by yolcn-
tary enlistment, should be the outside
figure considered for a standing army.
King Albert and President Wilson
clasped hands on Thursday The meet
ing Mt the presidents bedside, brief
as II was proved the climax Of the
American visit of the Belgian mon
arch, who left for home Immediately
after visiting the president,
With only the French capital dele
gate opposing the action, the interna.
tionnl labor conference at Washington
decided TO admit representatives Of
Germany and Austria, Immediately
upon their arrival here, TO full mem
bershlp In the world labor organlza'
ton.
The order re-establlshing the old
maximum coal prices of the fuel adj
mlnistration was completed Thursday
at conference of Or. III. A. Garfield
and railroad administration officials.
DIR. Harry A. Garfield has been re,
called to his position as fuel adIninis
traitor, in the governments eight
against the coal strike.
FOREIGN.
The American system Of train dis
patching has just been adopted on the
Paris-Lyons-M edlterranean line, the
longest French railway.
Before we go, we shall close the
gate behind us and make the whole
world tremble," Mccall Lenine, the
Bolsheylst premier, is quoted in Re-
val dispatch as saying In discussing
the danger of Petrograd being cap.
tured.
Twelve thousand French families
have applied for the grant OF $4,000
from the great fund established by
Theodore Cognaeq, the French million,
aire philanthropist, to assist families
Of nine children or more from the
same parents.
Airplane bombs are to be used
against the tribes of Waziris and Nah.
suds in Afghanistan unless the tribes.
men discontinue the continual attacks
on British posts and conveys and the
raids Into British territory, in which
they have been lndulging during and
since recent troubles with Afghanistan
Heavy pressure is being brought to
bear by Syndicalist leaders on railway
men in France to endeayor to induce
them TO join the movement for rev.
olutionary general strike November Z
The ravages of the hook worm
among the gold miners In Colombia
are seriously interfering with the pro.
duetion of the precious metal, accord.
ing TO DR.. D. Il. Broslus, mine ply
stefan.
Governmental and municipal author
titles and coal merchants virtually ad
init the imposslbility of finding a rem
edy for the situation which has ariser
in Paris because Of the coal shortage
Ratification of the peace treaty will
be completed ON November IL, "armls
tee day by the deposit of the slgnet
copy OF the document IN the foreign
office ut Paris, 1t Is predicted by Brit
ish statesmen.
AS protest against the decision OF
the government not to give them the
vote, French women will hold ma
ton elections on the same day as tae
male voters. Ii their candidates arC
rejected they viii form ''womanS
parliament"
Hundreds of French girls are marry
ing Chinese laborers, according to NJ
PANS, minister of the interior, who Is
tnaugurating campaign against "thC
yellow peril invading French homes
England hopes to win back her pre-.
dominant place in the shipping world
through oil-burning steamships, which
viii be far more economical to oper
ate than coal burning vessels.
Manitoba has suffered a loss Of
nbout 2,SOOOOO bushels of potatocs