The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-05-28
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

The Massachusetts state senate has
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 it's
favor.
Nebraska prohbitionists in state
convention at Lincoln adopted plat
form favOring the league of nations
with such reservations as will safe
guard legitimate American interests"
prove use of tobacco by youths under
IS and oppose Sunday amusements.
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Virginia Democrats in convention at
Roanoke elected eight delegates at
large to the national convention pledg
ed to support Senator Carter Glass
for the presidential nomination. en-
dorSed the Wilson adminiStra ton, adj
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 F. 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 S125.0OO 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 over 75-cent hair cuts has
prompted number Of the leading bar
Der shops there to announce that the
5O-cent limit would be maintained de-
spite the previous publication of n
higher tariff.
An average reduction of 10 per zen.
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 mi |
tiative from desire to help reduce
the high cost of living.
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Miss Agnes Proctor. &C wears ,la
who was the leading woman with 4
IL. Sothern, the elder. in "Dundreary
David Garrick," and other PLAYS is
dead al Chicago hospital. Her STEM
father was George kunkel, the original
Uncle Tom in Uncle Toms Cabin "
She retired from the stage seyera,
years aso.
The Syracuse. y. Y. newsnonarS
have announced that ION account of !,
shortage of printers" all display nd.
vertiSing would he eliminated hecin.
ming nj once.
Mount Vernon, y. Y. has woman
censor who travels after
larE and covers up female legs in mo-
non picture and other posters with
white strips, on which is written.
censored. II is known the censor is
woman, but Acting Chief Atwell has
'een unable to learn her name.
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Switzerland, in a referenoum On tho
question of accepting or rejection of
membership in the league of nations
'o'ed IN favor of the proposition. The
'o'e was narrow one, liz of the
votes being in favor and lOIs
against The popular vote in favor
y the league was approximately 400.
W. and against il 100000.
1T 1harles ", Eliot. president emer-
tus OF Harvard university. Speakins at
he New England Red Cross confar.
nee in Boston, denounced the nronoS.
u s"idierS bonus bill as Immoral"
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rive dollar wheat may be exnectad
eiore me 1927 crop is harvested
.ouls W, Hill. chairman of the hoard
directors of the Great Northern
abroad, said in Seattle He said !,
au been impossible for the growers
hire enough men TO plant the cron
no 'na' they would be hampered by !,
acs OF labor at harvest time