Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-12-12
Worlds News

| MODSo", ltuDDld- hO ooNASt
government has been obliged to aban-
don its plan for the exploration of
wheat, Leo B. Kamemeff announced
at a plenary sitting Of the central com
mittee of the Communist Party. This,
he said, was due to the failure of the
government organizations to realize
their original plan of acquiring AGO.
100000 pools (7222,600 tons) OF grain
to cover the state needs. The impor-
tation OF foreign goods would be linn
tied to articles Of absolute necessity,
among them $50,O0O,OOO worth Of
American cotton.
CHICAGO.-That the 15O,OOO,OO0
population of the United States pre-
dicted by statisticians in 1876 will be
fed by American farmers from idle
acres not now under cultivation and
from increased yields per acre Of
farms already cultivated, because Of
power equipment on every farm, was
the prediction of George A. Hanney,
vice president of the International
Harvester Company, speaking before
he annual convention of the National
Association of Farm Equipment Manu-
| facturers.
WINNIPEG.-Modi of the
restrictions on the loading of grain
cars for the Pacific Coast, in view of
the increased elevator facilities at
Vancouver, was announced as effec-
tive by the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Seventy-five cars per day may now
be loaded, instead Of fifty, the pre-.
vious limit.
VANCOUVER.-The Canadian Pa.
cific Railway is spending 100000 in
enlarging its Geographic facilities in
British Columbia and Alberta, the
largest addition being a new copper
wire between Calgary and Vancouver
which will give the Canadian Pacific
a total of II wires for transcontinental
service. Canada has a total telegraph
mileage of 262,343, of which the Can
adian Pacific owns in excess Of 1870,
900.
WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade
Commission has dismissed its com
|plaint against the Shawmut Knitting
Mills of New York City, manufac
Iturer of knitted scarfs and sweaters
In the complaint which named M
Goldman and N. LIGHTER as partners
lin the concern, it was alleged that the
respondents misled the public because
of similarity of trade names with
that of competing company In
Stoughton, Mass.
LOS ANGELES.-More than quar-
ter of million bars of assorted soar
will be shipped by local manufactur
ing concern to the Egyptian govern
ment, according to the trade extension
department of the Chamber of Com
merce. The order calls for ITO tons
much of which will probably have 8
share in washing the necks of young
descendants of King Tut.
LOS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. com
munication in Tokyo and other cities
in Japan, destroyed during the earth
quake, will be replaced with an auto
matte system such as in use here, &C
cording to Koichi Adiuma, admins
tration officer of the department o.
Communication in Japan, who is max
ing a survey OF the Southern Califor
mia Telephone Company's plant,
LOS ANGELES The possibility Of
q direct steamship service between
Los Angeles harbor and Australia |!
greatly increased, according to the
trade extension bureau of the Cham
Der of Commerce, as a result of the
promise by Swayne C Hoyt to open
the service il they are guaranteed
500 tons of cargo at each sailing.
WASHINGTON. = A Senate join
resolution authorizing a change o.
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