Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-10-17
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The question of national prohibition
for Denmark will be decided by a
plebiscite to be held in the near future,
according to the Copenhagen Politiken.
The Austrian battleship Franz Josef,
which had been allotted to Jugo-Slavia,
sank during hurricane, according to
a dispatch received in Rome from
Fora, Dalmatia.
Soldiers will be used to unload and
reload army vessels at New York if
the longshoremen's strike prevents
the normal handling of the ships, Sec
rotary Baker said recently.
One man was shot and killed and
four other men and a women were
seriously wounded at Chester, Pa, by
a negro. The black had been elected
from a saloon for disorderly conduct.
The American steamship Mount
Hood has been destroyed in the har-
Dor at Montevideo, Uruguay, by the
explosion Of an oil tank during fire
which broke out on the steamer. The
crew escaped.
A report from Tangier says that
Raisuli, the bandit, has offered to sur
render to the Spanish government
Spanish troops, according to Morocco
reports, have occupied Peni Mutuar,
Ruima and Escarnia.
A dispatch to the Petit Parisien,
Paris, from Vienna says white"
Magyar army under command Of
Admiral Horny is reported to be
marching on Budapest with the in
tention of expelling the Roumanians
Senate and house adopted Saturday
the conference report on amendments
extending the food control act to in
clude clothing and food containers and
providing punishment for profiteering
and boarding. The bill now goes to
the president, who asked for this legis-
lation as weapon against the high
cost of living.
Judge Sidney Ballou, attorney for
the Hawaiian Sugar Planters associa-
ton, in statement in Washington
Sunday, denied that next years
Hawaiian sugar crop had been sold
to Japanese interests, as stated by
Senator Smoot of Utah during the
course of debate in the senate on the
sugar shortage.
A dispatch from Berlin says that
$4,000 Let's have been landed at Libau
from British warships and will attack
the flank of Colonel Avaloff- Ber-
mondt's troops. A message from Riga
dated Friday, received by the Lettish
press bureau in Copenhagen, says the
Let's have abandoned the left bank Of
the Dvina river and hold the right
bank. The message reports the ar
rival Of Esthonian armored trains.
The transport Sherman arrived at
San Francisco Saturday from Vladi-
vostok with 80 casuals and IS dead
of the American expeditionary force in
Siberia.
The greater portion of the German
troops under General Won der Goltz,
whose recall from the Baltic provinces
was demanded by the allies and or
NV he
now are on their way back to Ger
many.
Extending it's recent order forbid
ding production of old films by mo-
ton picture houses under new names,
the federal trade commission has or
dered that where parts of old films
were shown in new exhibitions, they
must be so marked and advertised.
There are ample supplies of the
most essential food commodities to
feed the world until the next harvest,
but there must be an increase in city
productivity and readjustment of
industrial relations generally if ter
rible era of bloodshed is to be avoided,
Herbert C. Hoover told a gathering
at the commercial club in San Fran
cisco recently.
The United States has opened a
credit of s15,O00,0O0 to Ukraine, &C
cording to the Ukrainan press bureau
in London. The funds will be used
for the purchase of American goods.
Heads were broken on Fifth avenue,
New York, Friday when mounted po-
lice charged mob of several thousand
radicals who attempted to parade up
the avenue without a permit. Ban
ners, which bore ineendary slogans,
were confiscated by the police. A
number of arrests were made.