White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1922-12-08
WORLDS NEWS
RET0LD BRIEFLY
important News of Both Henri
spheres Boiled Down to
Last Analysis.

a membership of nearly 100000
farmers in the United States, in con-
yention at Wichita, ansas, recently
went on record by margin of seven
votes as favoring election Of the pres
ident and vice president by direct
vote of the people,.
Complying with the desire of the
| five central American governments,
| the state department announced re-
Gently that the United States would
participate formally in the conference
| on Central American affairs which
will meet at Washington December 4
to discuss matters of mutual interest
to all six countries, including limita-
| ton of ornaments.
Administration forces in the senate
lost the first major legislative contest
of the extra session November ~
when democrats and progressive re
publicans united 20 recommit the res
olution authorizing a. loan of $4,000
| 900 to Liberia.
| Great Britain will scrap no more
| warships under the Washington dis
armament treaty until the other ma
lions have taken action and scrapped
| their quota, according to the recent
| assurance given questioner in the
house of commons by Eyres Monsell,
| financial secretary to the admiralty.
A special Thanksgiving mass was
| celebrated at the French church of
| the Holy Trinity November 80 as an
expression of the friendship Of France
| for America. This was the first time
the French church has recognized the
American holiday.
The six former Greek cabinet off,
GERS and army officials convicted Of
high treason in connection with the
Greek military disaster in Asia Minor
were executed November 90.
Discovery of the cause of gravita-
| tion-something that Sir Isaac New
| ton, discoverer of the law of gravita-
| ton, could not find-has been made
by an American naval officer, Captain
T. j. j. See, government astronomer
at the Mare Island navy yard, near
San Francisco.
Lord Curzon, the British foreign
secretary, November 81 authorized an
official statement to. the press that
England supports the American eopen
door" policy in Turkey and regards
| the San Reno agreement for division
Of the Mosul oil district as null and
void
Administration forces in the senate
lost the first major legislative contest
of the extra session November "a
| when democrats and progressive re-
| publicans united to recommit the res
olution authorizing loan of $4,000
900 to Liberia.
Representative James r. Mann of
Illinois died at his ohme at Washing
! ton November 80 after a brief illness.
Hsuan Tung, IL, deposed boy en-
peror of China, was married Novem-
Der l according to the customs of
the old Manchu dynasty, to Chinese
princess one year his Junior upon
| whose face he has never gazed.
What is0 probably the most daring
aviation feat yet recorded in South
| America is the recent fight by an
| American aviator, Elmer J. Faucet,
from Lima to the Amazon port Of
Iquitos.
The new administration program
| for immediate financial relief to farm
ers was formulated and virtually per-
| fected November 80 at conference
between President Harding, Secretary
Wallace and IL republican senators,
i
headed by Senator Watson of Indiana.
1t will be put before congress at once
and pressed with the full force of the
administration.
Representing SO states, the conven.
ton of the national farmers union
concluded three-day session at
Lynchburg, Va, November %, by en-
Enthusiastically and unanimously in
dorsing the Columbia river basin
project.
Approval of ten advances amount
ing to $141,000 for agricultural and
livestock purposes was announced at
Washington November "a by the War
Finance corporation. At the same
time the corporation announced the
receipt Of repayments Of $S,O00,OO0,
making total of $159,000,00O repaid
to date on account Of all loans
Swept forward by 120-mile an
hour gale, waves swept over the
bridge and threw spray over the fun
nels, crashed through portfolios and