The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-04-25

ton, Arizona and Nevada have voted
IN favor of Joining a national strike
to force government recognition of
telephone employees unions.
Widespread distribution Of the fifth
and final Liberty Ioan--the S4,500,oO0-
OOO victory loan--as an antidote to
BolsheYism was urged by Carter Glass,
secretary of the treasury, in an adj
dress before 1000 loan campaigners
of the New York federal reserve dis
trict.
WASHINGTON.
| Great interest has been aroused In
official and diplomatic circles at
Washington by private advices from
London, stating that Great Britain,
France and Italy and the United
States propose to recognize the Omsk
government as the defacto government
of non-Bolsheviki Russia as soon as
the peace treaty is signed and the de-
tails incident to it have been con-
! cluded.
julius r. Barnes, president of the
Federal Grain corporation, has been
appointed wheat director of the United
States by President Wilson. Mr..
Barnes will direct the handling of the
entire 1919 wheat crop and win adj
minister the S1,0O0,0O0,00O fund APP
propriated by congress to take care
of the wheat crop under the govern
ment guaranteed price.
In eabIegram to Senator Hitchcock
of Nebraska, President Wilson de-
clared himself "cheered and encouf-
aged by reports he had received of the
favorable reception awaiting the
league of nations covenant when it
reaches the United States senate"
March was the first month in which
decided decrease in army expendi-
lures occurred, an official statement
issued April 16 showed. In that month
expenditures We're S494. 100000 or just
% per cent of the previous monthly
average.
| Acting Secretary of State Polk has
authorized the statement that no ser
ious questions were pending between
the United States and Japan, and that
the indications were that minor issues
| arising from the situation in Siberia
and the recent trouble at Tien Tsin, as
well as peace conference problems,
soon would be amicably settled.
FOREIGN.
German and Baltic German troops
have forcibly seized Eibau and over
thrown the Lettish provisional gov
eminent, according to advices received
by the Lettish press bureau at Copen-
hagen.
Six candidates are in the field for
the presidency of Mexico in July, 1920,
despite President Carranza's request
that politics be put aside for the
present, according to advices from
Mexico City.
The government has begun the work
of re-establishing normal telegraphic
communication through Spain which
was Interrupted by recent strikes. The
latest news received at Madrid indi-
Gates that quiet prevails generally.
The Bavarian anarchist Sondheimer
has succeeded in obtaining control of
the new communist government in
Munich, according to advices received
at Berlin from the Bavarian capital
1t was stated at Paris, Friday, that
the situation of the peace negotiations
was such that President Wilson prob
ably would be able to sail homeward
May 20, and possibly little earlier
MAY 10.
The body of Edith CayelI, the Eng
fish nurse who was executed by the
Germans in 1915 at Brussels, will be
brought to England May 10 and taken
to Westminster abbey, where cere-
monies will be held.
German and Baltic-German troops
have forcibly seized Libau and over
thrown the Lettish provisional govern
ment, according to advices received by
the Lettish press bureau at Copen-
hagen.
The allied governments, according
to the Temps, apparently have decided
not TO wait beyond May 10 for def
mite answer from Germany as to
whether she viii sign or refuse to
sign the peace treaty.
The entente delegates to the peace
conference believe Germany will re-
quire at least one week after receiv-