The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-11-22

federal food administrators.
Persons unknown to officials of the
State Food Administration are said
to be circulating report that, when
the armistice was signed, the author
ity of the United States Food Admin
istration and its control over staple ar
ticles ceased, and that other war agen-
cies, such as the Arkansas State Coun-
Gil of Defense, also passed out Of bus
mess. Officials branded these rumors
as being untrue.
A committee of 40 carpenters were
ordered off the ground at the govern
ment aviation warehouse at Little
Rock when they demanded an increase
in wages and q 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.
]. 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 wheat flour were cancelled, effec-
tive Immediately. The rules rescind-
d regulations requiring that bakers
use certain amounts of substitutes in
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 The day with their
flags, horns and COW bells.
Two aliens not soldiers, We're made
United States citizens in United
states District Court at Little Rock.
This was the first time since the Unit
ed States entered the war that citizen
shin was granted alien enemies in
/ United States District Court here
and it is, perhaps the first time in
/ the entire United States.
Tire City Council of Little Rock de-
cllned to take action on the measure
putting in effect the sldp-stop plan of
operating street cars. The question
came up on the report of the Public
Utilities Committee and city attorney
to whom had been referred the COM
panys proposed schedule.
In a resolution to the governor the
Jefferson County Council of Defens'
asks him to make November IL, the
day of the signing of the al1nistice
and the ending of hostilities in the
world war, a holiday and perpetual
day of Thanksgiving from this year
on"
One million dollars for the farmers
give-a-busheI drive, is the figure set by
c. x. Elliott, state director of the
movement, as the goal to be reached
during the intensive campaign, which
will be waged from November 10 to
and including December ].
There are 41,405 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 H.
cense number issued November II,
1917. was 1864, which shows a gain
OF 1904
The total vote of the three-mill
road tax, according to the official
count Of the Pulaski County Board OF
Election Commissioners, was 235 fol
and % against.
Contest over the shenff's office in
Crawford county was ended when :
recount of the ballots cast in certain
townships was granted The candidates
Crockett Bledsoe, Democrat, and Jack
Rogers, Republican. The recount gave
Bledsoe the election by a majorit.
of IT,
There were 1874 bales of ccttor
ginned in Cleburne county prior K
october IS, 1918, counting round bales
as half bales, compared with 1,024
bales in 1917 for the same period.