White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-03-07
Worlds News

| ALBANY, ORE.-The poisoning o.
IL members of family here by eat
| ing home canned string beans was re
Gently made the subject of inquiry by
the U. S. Public Health Service
through Dr. J. c. Geiger of the Uni
versiry OF Chicago DR., Geiger, who
IS regarded as the foremost authority
on TIE little hnowa bacillus botulinus
was d rected to suspend his study OF
| aat subject at the university and g.
TO Albany.
NEW YORK.-Bernarr MacFadden
magazine publisher and physical cul
tnrist, has accepted challenge 10
| uphold the anti-censorship attitude in
debate with Supreme Justice Ford
and John H. Summers, secretary OF
the Society for the Suppression OF
Vice, at a mass meeting organized
by the Americanization Protective
League to protest against the pro.
posed clean book censorship bill OF
which Justice Ford is the author
WASHlNGTON.--To the individual
members Of its constituent bodies The
executive committee Of the Federal
Council OF Churches has Issued an ap
,e'l to Uphold by precept and prae
'ce, obedience and enforcement" all
he laws Of the land, specially the pro
iihition laws. They are also urged to
~ i,n In. 81 In, L., to-, 49,
forcement
NEW YORK-Th Congress OF Su
perior Mixed Races will be held here
October l to IS, 1924.
MUNICH - The trial of General
Ludendcrff, German war lord, for par
ticipation in the beer hall rebellion
Of November s, 1923, has been post
poned until February 90, at was an
nounced recently.
GENEVA. - Twenty-Five hundred
.ons of opium In excess of the all ounl
justified by medical and scientific use
Is produced yearly is the conclusion
reached today by the health organiza
lion of the League of Nations The
Total worlds annual output is 5000
tons, and the physicians and expert,
II the health commission estimate tn,
800 tons Is ample for the legitimate
needs of the world for opium and 1t,
derivatives including morphine.
LIVERPOOL.-The traffic to Can
ada is becoming so great that the
Cunard line Is transferring to Cana
dian service the steamer Caronia An
tonia, Ansonia, Albania and Athena
These were formerly in the New YorR
service. There will be seven sailing
in March, eight in April, nine In May
and six in June.
LOS ANGELES.-Mrs. Phoebe Fo
gel Davis recently died in Los An
geles. Mrs. Davis came to Los An
geles In a covered wagon in 1853. Sl'
Is survived by 80 descendants in Cali
fornia, including three great-great
grandchildren.
LONDON.-The diet imposed upon
the monks in monasteries Is believed
to be the cause of the remarkable
freedom from disease which they en-.
joy, especially from cancer, according
to the Investigations of Doctors
Monckton and Copeman, of the Brit
MONTREAL, Quebec.-The annual
outing of the American Baseball Writ
ers' Association, given an ua ] y
through the courtesy of the Canadian
Pacific Railway Company, will take
in this year the winter sports at Ste
Jovite, Montreal and Quebec. Last
year the railway took members of the
association on a moose hunt, and this
year the association was allowed to
decide where the excursion would be.
The members of the association who
will take the trip are: Melville Webb,
Boston Evening Globe; James w.
Gantz, Philadelphia North American,
wart Bell, Cleveland News. Fred G..
Lieb, of the New York Telegram Mail
and president Of the association, will
go as special guest.
SUDBURY, MASS.-Apparently as
eager as boy for what he termed a
real old-fashioned New England par
ty," Henry Ford, with Mrs. Ford and
a little party of friends, arrived at
Wayside Inn recently. For the old
hostelry, made famous by Longfellow
Americas Lorg