The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-12-26

according 10 wireless message Inter
cepted at Halifax.
Anarchists and undeslrabIes from
all sections of the United States are
being rushed by special trains TO Ellis
Island to join the large colony OF rad
icals already assembled there await
Ing deportation TO soviet Russia.
Herbert Hoover has announced
plan whereby the aid Of Americans Of
foreign descent would be enlisted in
supplying to the needy children of CEN
trail Europe food and clothing at cost
prices.
WASHINGTON.
The urgent deficiency bill proyid-
ing 100000 for miscellaneous sub
jects including $30,000,000 for increas-
ed war risk insurance allowances, has
been passed by tile senate.
Secretary Of the Treasury Glass has
informed congress Of his intention to
defer for two or three years the col
lection Of interest accruing on loans
made by the United States TO the al
He'd powers during the war.
The war department on January 1
VIII inaugurate three months "ad-
vertising campaign IN more than 300
newspapers I'M more than 500 cities of
the country where auxiliary army re-
cruEtlng stations are located" 1t is
announced.
The United States court OF appeals
granted William u. Haywood and the
other /. w. w. who have appealed
from conviction In 1917, on a charge
OF violation of the espionage act, fur
ther time to file their appeal briefs.
Automobile tires worth more than
$50. 100000 thrown in pile many
feet deep, and covering more than an
, acre Of ground, were ruined through ex-
posture to the weather at the motor
| transport corps base at Verneuil,
France, Capt. Robert Clendening, an
officer at the camp, told a house COM
mlttee investigating war department
expenditures
The governments antitrust action
against the great meat packers, be-
gun at President Wilson's direction
last summer as part of the fight on
| the high cost OF living has been COM
promised under an agreement by
which the packers will conflne them
selves hereafter to the meat and pro-
vision business
FOREIGN
Capt. Sir John Aleock, the first avi-
ntor to make nonstop airplane flight
across the Atlantic, died at Rouen,
France, as result OF injuries ne re-
ceived when his plane crashed near
Cottevrard.
Severe fighting In the vicinity OF
Narva ON the Esthonian front where
the Bolsheviki broke through wire
fences and captured several villages,
Is reported IN an official statement
issued by the soviet government at
Moscow
The police on December 10 arrested
one of the men who attempted to as
sassnate Field Marshal Lord French.
discriminating papers said to show that
there was money transaction in
volved in the plot to kill the lord
lieutenant governor were found on the
prisoner, the police assert.
The prussian state assembly by a
vote Of 210 to 81, has adopted reso-
luton In favor of centralized Ger
mGn state
Sir Robert Borden viii remain prime
minister of Canada. This decision has
been reached after considerable pres
sure was brought to bear upon the
premier by his colleagues and from
various sources outside of the cabinet
A weekly atrship service from Eng.
land to America Is contemplated by q
combination of aviation firms, which
are credited with the intention of ac'
quiring the famous R-34 and her sis.
tership, the R-S9. These are being al
tered to meet passenger and cargo re
quirements.
Admiral Sir John Jelllcoe, who com
manded the British grand fleet in the
battle of Jutland, and Lady JellicoC
/ win visit the United States naval aca
, denny the first week in January.
| Starvation faces from 100000 t
{ 20,O000O0 persons in central Europ,
outside Germany unless "some means
) can be discovered for their assistance,
: Herbert Hoover, former food admins
r traitor declares.
I Great Britain Is prepared now to re
lease American-owhed goods selze'
n during the war upon the establishment
Q OF their American ownership at tn
o time the goods were shipped, the stat
; department was advised Wednssda
/ by the British foreign office.
e German and allied experts met q
Paris, Tuesday. to discuss the mode o
IS reparation to be followed by the Gel
e mans in payment for the sinking O
= German warships at Scapa Flow. TIL
/, conference was presided over by Loui
n Loucheur French representative o
r the reparation commission.
The bubonic plague is reported I
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