The spectator., 1918-11-22

W iSHlnBtOn dllenuluS d uleSllhS oA federal food administrators.
 Persons unknown 10 officials of the State Food Administration are said 70 be circulating report that, when the armistice was signed, the author ity of the United States Food Admin istration and it's control over staple ar ticles ceased, and that other war aGen- cies, such as the Arkansas State Coun- ell of Defense, also passed out of bus mess. Officials branded these rumors as being untrue.
 ordered off the ground at the govern ment aviation warehouse at Little Rock when they demanded an increase in wages and a revocation of the or der stopping overtime and Sunday work, according to R. J. Covender. business manager of the carpenters union-60 cents per hour or $4.20 q day being the present scale. They demanded 70 cents per hour.
 J. P Buchanan, chairman of the bakers division of the state food ad- miniStration. announced that all food administration regulations providing for the purchase or use of substitutes with wheal flour were cancelled. effec- tive immediately The rules rescind- d regulations requiring that bakers use certain amounts of substitutes i the baking of bread and pastries.
 Joy greeted the news of the signing of the armistice terms when it reach ed Camp Pike. but no formal demon stration was made at any time during the day. save for the shouts of the boys in khaki to the auto loads of happy civilians that invaded the camp throughout he day with their flags, horns and COW bells.
 Two aliens not soldiers, were made United States citizens in United States District Court at Little Rock.
 
 cd States entered the war that citizen. ship was granted alien enemies in United States District Court hero and it is, perhaps, the first time in the entire United States.
 The City Council of Little Rock de clined to take action on the measure putting in effect the slip-stop plan of operating street cars. The question came up on the report Of the Pdblic Utilities Committee and city attorney, to whom had been referred the com pany's proposed schedule
 Tn a resolution to the governor the Jefferson County Council Of Defense asks him to make November II, the day of the signing of the armistice and the ending of hostilties in the world war, a holiday and a perpetual day of thanksgiving from this year on"
 One million dollars for the farmers give-a-busheI drive. is the figure set by C. K. Elliott. state director of the movement, as the goal 10 he reached during the intensive campaign, which will be waged from November 19 to and including December ].
 There are 41,Ao5 automobiles in Arkansas. according to the last num- Der license on the books of the Au- tomobile License Bureau of the State Highway Department. The last IT, ccuse number issued November 12, 1917. was 28,664, which shows gain of 12,664.
 The total vote of the three-mill road tax. according to the official count of the Pulaski County Board of Election Commissioners, was 235 for and 2S against.
 Contest over the skerift's office in Crawford county was ended when a recount of the ballots cast in certain townships was gronted the candidates, CrOckcll bjeuSoe, DtInocTdt. ana JACK Rogers, Republican. The recount gave Bledsoe the election by a majority of F.
 There were 1874 bales of cotton ginned in Cleburne county prior to October IS, 191S counting round bales as half bales, compared with 1.0..t bales in 1917 for the same period.