Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-11-07
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Extension of the Lever food contro
act six months after confirmation oil
peace, was requested Of congress Sat
urday by Acknowledgement Palmer.
An unconfirmed report has reached
the London Globe that three bolshevih
vessels were sunk when the bolshevik
attempted to land on the coast in the
neighborhood of Petrograd.
Suit to enjoin the government from
enforcing the wartime prohibition ACT
and attacking it as unconstitutional
was filed in the United States district
court late Saturday by Levy Mayer
counsel for the distillers.
By an overwhelming vote, the house
Friday adopted the senate resolution
pledging support to the national ad-
ministration and all others in author.
ity," in their efforts to meet 1.-THE
present industrial emergency"
That more than 5000 eastern Ohio
miners did not work Friday, is indi-
Gated by reports of the larger com
panies at Bridgeport, o. One mine in
Barton, which normally loads 900 tons
daily, only mined so tons, it is report
ed.
Governor Louis F. Hart of Washing
ton proclaimed Tuesday, November II,
as state holiday in double commem-
grafton of the signing Of the armistice
and the twenty-ninth anniversary of
the admission of Washington as a
state.
Samuel Gompers, speaking in Wash
ington Friday night for organized la
Dor, declared the injunction in the
coal strike case "can only result in
creating new and more disturbing is
sues which may not be confined solely
to the miners"
Rescue parties Saturday night found
the body of James Gray, foreman, and
six other bodies of the 20 entombed
miners in the Youghiogheny G Ohio
Coal company's mine No. 2, at Am
sterdam, O., as they reached the en-
trance to entry No. Is.
The Lettish press bureau reports
that up to October 20 the number of
victims taken to hospitals as result
of the German bombardment of Riga
was 70 men, women and children, of
whom 26 had died. These figures do
not include any killed or wounded by
poisonous shells.
In letter to the Ohio republican
state advisory committee in session
at Columbus, United States Senator
Warren G. Harding announced that
he is not candidate for the republi-
can nomination for the presidency, and
asked for the committees support for
reelection to the senate.
In many important respects dissent
ing from the programme recommend
ed by the war department and the
general staff, General Pershing told
the military committees of congress
Friday that 100000 men, raised entire
ly by voluntary enlistment should be
the outside figure considered for a
standing army.
Governor-General Francis Burton
Harrison at Manila proclaimed Octo-
Der 30 as a holiday. Filipinos will
celebrate the hosting of the old in
surrecto flag.
While employees of the Page Lumber
company at Eagle Gorge, Wash, were
preparing to retire late Saturday night
two masked men entered the bunk
house, robbed them of 5000 and es-
capped.
The singing of German opera in the
German language is banned in New
York until after the peace treaty is
signed. Supreme Court Justice Gle
gerich vacated the temporary injunc-
zion obtained by the Star Opera com
pany restraining the municipal au-
thorities from preventing presentation
of opera in German at the Lexington
theater.
Alfred Flamval, a French aviator,
looped the loop 624 times in a single
flight in military airplane at Madrid
Monday. The previous record was a
little over 800. Flamval was in the
air two hours.
(Operation> of the Edilroadsunder the
objection of federal transportation
board is recommended to congress in
a plan which has been submitted to
business organizations throughout the
country by national committee of
leading commercial men.