White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1922-12-15
WORLDS NEWS
BRIEFLY RET0LD
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH
HEMIsPHEREs BOILED DOWN
TO LAST ANALYSIS.

10 LAST ANALYSIS.
Captain Mason Bernard and six
members Of the crew of the Canadian
steamer Maplehurst lost their lives
December when the ship broke up
mile west OF Portage lake canal near
Calumet, Michigan. during a heavy
gale Nine others of the crew were
rescued, jumping from the bridge into
a lifeboat
Prince Andrew of Greece has been
sentenced to perpetual Punishment
by the court martial sitting at Athens,
according to a Reuter- dispatch.
With the announcement from Lon
don that the royal assent had been
given to the Irish constitution and
that Timothy Healy had been appoint.
ed governor general. all formalities
have been concluded for the inaugu-
ration of the Free State government.
Congress closed its two weeks ex-
ira session and started its regular
session December 4 with an interyen.
ing period of only 10 minutes.
The Columbia basin project is In
the same class as the Panama canal
and the Alaska railroad, General Goe-
thals told the committee investigat.
ing the project Hearing on the bill
was opened recently with all members
of the committee in attendance.
Lester Forsgren, son of railroad
section hand, living near the tracks
of the Great Northern railway at An.
dover, Minnesota, recently confessed,
according to authorities, to having
| miss-set switch Just outside the sta
ton, causing the wreck of a freight
train November 26, when two train
| men were killed and a third seriously
| injured.
An agreement formally restoring
the German leased territory to Kiao.
chow to China under the terms of the
Washington conference treaty was
signed recently by representatives Of
Japan, in possession of the land, and
China from whom the territory was
seized In 1898 by Germany.
Escorted back to American soil by
feet of welcoming craft which met
her several miles at sea, the 9S-foot
motor cruiser Speejacks, said to be
the smallest boat ever to encircle the
globe, slid safely up to dock at Mi
ami, Florida, November 80, with her
party of adventurerers, headed by AZ
bert Y. Gowan, her owner, of Chicago,
and ended a 35-000-mile voyage which
started from Miami in September,
1921.
Major Guy l.. Gearhart Of Leaven-
worth. Kan; Captain Benton A. Doyle
Of st. Louis, Mo-. and four enlisted
men were killed at Langley field, Wiz.
ginia, December 6 when a Martin
bombing plane carrying five of them,
and a Fokker scouting machine, pilot
ed by Major Gearhart, collided while
$50 feet in the air.
Outspeeding the police tug Manhat-
tan, which had been ordered to over
take her, the Cunard liner Assyria
December flashed past Sandy Hook
and headed for Scotland, carrying
with her 1866 cases Of whisky de-
ported by federal prohibition agents,
and two deputy sheriffs alleged to
have been kidnapped" while execut-
ing an order to seize part Of the
cargo.
Clara Phillips climbed out Of win
dow in the woman's section of the
county jail at Los Angeles December
5 and escaped. She was under sem
tence of 10 years to life imprisonment
after conviction for the hammer muir
der of Alberta Meadows
Reports received recently say that
Chinese bandits have taken control
Of Tsingtao, Shantung, the Kioachow
port, whose stormy career in war and
diplomacy was to eliminate Decem.
Der in its return to China after "a
years of alien rule, the first 18 under
Germany and the last eight under
Japan.
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