White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-12-07
Worlds News

Retailers VINO represent themselves
to be selling army and navy surplus
supplies from the United States gov.
eminent, when in fact they are not
so doing, will encounter opposition
from the Federal Trade Commission
An order in the matter was issued
yesterday by the commission against
an operator Of stores in Indiana, re-
curing him to desist. The custom
is said to give the dealer an unfair
| advantage over competitors, based
on Misrepresentation.
Lincoln Hutchinson OF Berkeley,
Cal, has been appointed by Secretary
Hoover to take charge of the inyesti-
cation recently authorized by the
Department of Commerce into trans
portation difficulties confronting ship
pers in the West. The shipping sur
yey is being undertaken at the re-
quest of more than 80 associations
of shippers and growers on the Pa
ciflc Coast.
The Chicago wholesale prices of
fresh pork loins have declined approx
imately SO per cent during the last
two and half months. and today
are 10 per cent below the quotations
which prevailed at this time in 1913,
statement issued today by the In
stitute 'of American Meat Packers
said.
A $5,000,000 advertising campaign
to be spent almost entirely with
the Portland Cement Association, it
was decided at their annual meeting
at Chicago. The campaign will be to
extend and improve the uses of &C.
ment
Charges that 500 Koreans were
massacred and $4,000 imprisoned by
the Japanese during the period fol
lowing the recent earthquake are con
tanned in protest filed with Secre-.
tary of State Hughes by DR.. Floyd
w. Tomkins as president of the
Friends of Koreans in America.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.
announces that it has decided to re-
establish service to Manila. Begin
ming March 6, 1924, sailings will be
resumed from aVncouver by the
Empress of Russia and Empress of
Asia. Passengers and freight will
be carried. This service was discon-
tinued March, 1928
Preliminary arrangements are being
made by the Canadian Pacific steam
ships for the placing of contracts
for the building Of two modern and
speedy passenger boats for the tri-
angular service between Victoria, Sc
attic and Vancouver. The two new
boats, it is stated, will be larger than
The steamer Princess Charlotte, the
largest vessel plying in the com
pany's Pacific coast service with the
possible exception of the Princess
Louise. They will be faster than
the Princess Louise, which has
speed of 81 knots an hour.
Breaking all previous records, the
American people are purchasing SILL
710,000,OOO new life insurance this
year, accding to a report submitted
to the seventeenth annual conven-
ton of the Association of Life In
surance Presidents at New York.
About 400 Christmas trees were
loaded on the steamer Manukai, at
the Tacoma dock recently, for ship
ment to Hawaii One hundred and
fifty thousand little Douglas frs are
now being cut for the Eastern mar
ket.
America, we thank you. With all
our hearts we thank you" Such
was the reward that the peace-loving
Quakers received from thousands of
young German children for their eff
forts in German children relief work
AS means of encouraging the pro-
duction Of better-bred livestock, the
Institute of American Meat Packers
that at this years Inter
national Livestock Exposition, held
att Chicago from December l to 8,
1923, it will offer Is silver cups and
the same number of prize ribbons for
the best-bred carload lots of the va