Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-05-21
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Free Boy in Murder Trial.

Free Boy in Murder Trial.
MARSHFIELD. Ore.-Harold How
ell. 16 years old, was acquitted of a
charge of having slain Lillian Leuth,
old, age 16, last July.
New Way to Get Booze.
SACRAMENTO, Cal.-Four men en-
tered the home of Thomas Kennedy
recently and told him they were
revenue officers and loaded into a
waiting automobile his private stock
of liquor, valued at $1,000.
Seattle shoremen Lose.
SEATTLE.-Member of Seattle To-
cal. International Longshoremen's
union, have voted to call off the strike
on the Seattle waterfront called May
for the purpose of enforcing the
union list system of selecting men for
work.
Harry New to Serve 10 Years.
LOS ANGELES.--HarrY New, con-
victed of second degree murder and
given sentence of 10 years to life in
San Quentin penitentiary for killing
his sweetheart, Freda Lesser, has
dropped his appeal to the appellate
court.
No Gasoline Famine.
SAN FRANCISCO.-There is not 60
ing to be a famine of gasoline and
other petroleum products in the Uni
ted States, A. G.. Bedford, chairman
of the board of the Standard Oil COM
pany of New Jersey, told the seventh
annual national foreign trade conven-
ton recently.
Suspends Gasoline Test.
PORTLAND.-The Standard Oil
company announces, following an
agreement by state officials not to
enforce for the present the law re-
quiring a specific gravity test on all
gasoline sold in Oregon, that allot-
ments to drivers of pleasure cars have
been increased from 20 per cent to so
per cent of tank capacity.
Building Trades to Arbitrate.
SEATTLE.-Throug the arbitra-
ton of Mayor Caldwell, at the instiga-
ton of group of international build
ing trades officers, blanket agree
ment covering all crafts and intended
to bring about permanent peace in the
industry was drafted. 1t pro-
vided for "closed shop but con-
tanned compulsory arbitration clause.
a concession union labor in Seattle
hitherto had refused to grant.
New Aircraft Record.
SAN DIEGO.-What is said to have
the admiral Ito adopt that course, the
been new Pacific coast nonstop rec
ord for 'lighter-than-air'' craft was
established recently when the Blimp
Bis winged its way from San Diego
to Los Angeles and return. The blimp,
carrying crew of four men, left
North Island at 9:45 a. m. and re-
turned here at $3.50 p. M, having
maintained an average altitude of 500
feet.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Ca
combination of speed on the track
and Drawn and agility in field events
won for the University of California
the second annual Pacific coast con-
ference track meet here Saturday.
california athletes took 51k points.
Oregon Agricultural college finished
third, with 20 points,; Washington
state college fourth, with 20 points:
he University of Oregon, fifth, with
a, and the University of Washington.
sixth. with liz. Every conference
'ecord was broken.
Crippled Ship in Port.
SAN FRANCISCO.-After a month
of incessant battling with every sort
u adverse weather, the schooner
aosamonde, her canvas tattered, rig
slng demolished, deck structures
wrecked, seams gaping and engines
Useless, was towed into this port
Nay IL, just two months after sail
ne from Port Angeles. Wash, for
ape Town Captain J. H. Brown
SAID 1t was his worst experience in so
ears at sea. The Rosamonde en-
a hurricane which lasted
u days when she was 1000 miles
south of San Francisco.
SIMS ROBBED" u. s.
CREWS or