The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-26

a nation-widc strike Of Baptiss
cIergymen unless they are granted
\ higher salaries was advocated IN
statement issued ~ New York By
Charles a. McAipIne, 4 member Of the
4 national committee OF northern Baptist
nymen
WASHINGTON.
Prices Of food increased per cent
IN August as compared with July and
reached the highest point In the ma
lions history despite the governments
campaign to reduce the cost OF living.
Al Joint session Of the senate and
house on Thursday, General Pershing
received the thanks OF grateful ma
ton for his leadership during the
world war
No wage Increases win be granted
~ this time 10 navy yard employees
f or wOrkmen In shlpwards engaged on
1 government work, representatives Of
The Emergency Fleet corporation and
& the navy department have decided at
n conference held at the navy depart
inent
Opposition of several members, pri-
4 yntely expressed, caused house lead.
ers 10 abandon the proposed appropri-
alton OF $4,000 for tile gift Of Il sword
70 General Pershlng,
Consideration Of the German peace
4 teuty began Monday afternoon in the
\ senate. II was called up by Chair
I man Lodge Of the foreign relations
committee and became the first great
4 document Of It's kind to be discussed
in the senate in the full light Of pub
4 liclty.
\ The house has passed and sent TO
4 the senate bin making transporta-
4 ton OF a stolen automobile from one
stnte TO another subject to five years
/ Imprisonment and $4,000 fine.
FOREIGN.
Premier Clemencenu's intervention
/ In the debate ON the electoral law,
which threatened to be prolonged in
| definitely, settled the discussion in a
few minutes, the government taking
/ The stand that the elections should | e
held according TO the law OF July last,
I providing for proportional represen-
tatlon.
Fritz Seidl, the former Spartacan
leader, and five Of his associates, who
1 We're sentenced 10 pay the death pen
alty, having been found guilty Of the
murder Of hostages during the soviet
regime, were executed al Munich, Sep
TENDER 10.
The Spanish passenger steamer Val
baneia bound from Spain to Havana,
and missing since the gulf hurricane,
sank In forty feet of water after going
aground IN qulcRsand at Half Moon
Key, reports received at Key West,
Fla, stated
A rumor has again reached Paris
by way Of Zurich that former Crown
Prince Frederick William of Germany
has returned to his native country
The Polish forces In Russia have
driven the Bolsheviki TO the northern
bank OF the Dvina river as far as Dis
M and have occupied korohtenehtop.
ON the ukranian front. the Bolsheriki
have forced General Petlnfu out of
ltadomysl, but apparently are not at
tempting yet to reeapture kiev Itself,
Summary of the bulgarian treaty OF
peace. cabled TO the state department
by the American mission at Paris,
shows the pact Ia follow the same gen
eral plan as tile Austrian treaty.
Germany VIII comply with the de-
mand OF the allied supreme council to
declare null and void the objectionable
paragraph in the German constitution
looking to Austra's union with Ger
many and providing for Austrian rep
resentation =, the German reichstdat,
or council al the realm, which may be
compared to our senate.
( The secretary of the Mexican treas
| ury has been ordered TO make immedi-
ate payment 10 the United States gov
, eminent of 10000 pesos representing
| the sum paid TO obtain the ransom OF
) lieuts. Harold G.. Peterson and Paul
, H. Davis, American ayiators, who Were
! captured by Mexican bandits In
August.
: An important conference has been
E In session at Riga considering not only
{ peace with the soviet government OF
a Russia but the formation of Baltic
e federation.
The assertion is made by the Vor
waerts correspondent that the German
n military movement In the Baltic prov
: inces is rapidly growing and that Off
I, GERS and men are arriving there dali.
n from Germany. Posters displayed o.
y Courland, says the correspondent
n read; Flight for the kaiser and th'
empire against democracy"
4 Soaring prices for rice have cause'
d an Industrial crisis in the Philippine
o Islands. For years the islands hav,
n not produced, enough rice for hom
consumption and at present, owing 4
IS unfavorable exchange rates and higl
n prices obtainable for the cereal il