Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-05-25
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

The Massachusetts state senate hat
refused to pass over the governors
veto the bill fixing the alcoholic con
tent of beer at not over 2.75 per cent
The vote was: Yes, IA; no, %. Be
fore the measure went to the governor
the senate was recorded 26 to 6 in its
favor.
= Nebraska prohibitionists in state
convention at Lincoln adopted a plat
form favoring- the league of nations
with such reservations as will safe
guard legitimate American interests"
Other planks in the platform disap-
prove use of tobacco by youths under
Is and oppose Sunday amusements.
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Virginia Democrats in convention at
large to the national convention pledg-
ed to support Senator Carter Glass
for the presidential nomination, en-
dorsed the Wilson administration, ad-
vocated adoption of the peace treaty
without reservations and unalterably
opposed a soldier bonus.
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Attempts to swim the English chan
mel are to be revived. Henry #. Sui
Ivan of Lowell, Mass, who has made
several notable long distance swims,
has applied for passports and an
nounced his intention of again attempt
ing the feat this summer. In 1913 he
fell short Of success by two miles.
One thousand cases of whiskey said
to be worth $125.000 were seized by
federal officials near Columbus, Ohio,
and brought to that city. Drivers of
seven motor trucks on which the liquor
was loaded exhibited papers purport-
ing to show the whiskey had been ship
ped from Frankfort, KY, to Summit
Hill, Pa.
Lack of enthusiasm of the San Fran
cisco public yer 75-cent hair cuts has
prompted a number of the leading bar
U0I CllOlH lliCiC " announce lluI the
limit would be maintained. de-
spite the previous publication of a
tariff.
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An average reduction of 10 per cent
In the prices of all grades Of lumber.
effective at once, has been announced
by the Bloedel Donovan Lumbes mills
at Bellingham, Wash. 1t was said the
company made the cut on its own ini-
from a desire to help reduce
the high cost of living.
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Miss Agnes Proctor, 66 years old.
who was the leading woman with Il.
II. Sothern, the elder, in "Dundreary."
David G~arrick," and other plays, is
dead at a Chicago hospital. Her STEP
was George Kunkel, the original
Uncle Tom in "Uncle Toms Cabin"
She retired from the stage several
years ago.
The Syracuse, n. Y, newspapers
have announced that ION account Of a
shortage of printers all display adj
gertising would be eliminated, begin
hing at ouce.
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Mount Vernon, N. Y, has a woman
billboard censor who travels after
lark and covers up female legs in mo-
ion picture and other posters with
strips, on which is written:
Censored" 1t is known the censor is
woman, but Acting Chief Atwell has
been unable to learn her name.
Switzerland, in a referendum on the
of accepting or rejection of
membership in the league Of nations,
'oted in favor of the proposition. The
rote was a narrow one, 11M of the
'antonal votes being in favor and 1O1s
The popular vote In favor
II the league was approximately 400
and against II 100000.
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DR.. Charles w. Eliot, president emer.
tus Of Harvard university, speaking at
he New England Red Cross confer
nee in Boston, denounced the propos
d soldiers bonus bill as immoral"
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Five dollar wheat may be expected
'efore the 1921 crop is harvested,
.ouis w. Hill, chairman of the board
4 directors Of the Great Northern
abroad, said In Seattle. He said II
ad been impossible for the growers
o hire enough men to plant the crop
nd that they would be hampered by
Ack of labor at harvest time.