Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-24
Worlds News

minOus coal mines In independent
fields was 80 per cent higher during |
August than in mines in union fields
declared statement issued by the
chairman of the open Shop Commit
tee of the National Association Of
Manufacturers, Charles b. King, vice.
president Of the Marion Steam Shov.
el Company, Marion, Ohio. Mr.. King
declared that this ability Of independ'
ent mines to operate more continu'
ously than union mines Is entirely log
ical in view of the facts brought out
by Warren Z, Stone that the mines
owned by the Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Engineers cannot operate at a
profit under conditions insisted upon
by the United Mine Workers.
WASHINGTON.-The Federal Trade
Commission has issued complaint
against A. Singer and Charles Schaf
fer, trading under the name Califor
MIA Grape Growers Exchange, New
York City, charging unfair competi.
ton in the sale of California grapes,
against the California Grape Growers
Exchange, a marketing association Of
over $50 southern growers.
WAsHINGToN.-The Federal Trade
Commission has issued complaint
against the Blue Valley Creamery
Company of Chicago, ILL., The com,
pany has creameries in Nebraska,
Iowa Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Kansas, Missouri and Ken
lucky, and by the terms of the com.
missions order it must discontinue
attaching to shipping cans or contain.
ars not belonging to 1t any plates or
'ags bearing shipping instructions
such as when Full, Ship to the Blue
Valley Creamery Company" or their
equivalent, without the consent of the
owner of such cans.
NEW YORK.-The American Asso.
citation of Passenger Traffic Officers,
the oldest railroad association in the
United States, held its annual conven-
ton here last week at the Hotel
Pennsylvania.
PETERBOROUGH, England. - 1t
will cost $4,000 to repair the damage
done by death-watch beetles in Peter.
borough Cathedral during the past
year,
VANCOUVER, B. C.--Mistaken for
deer, Albert Hoover, 14-year-old son
of ]. Hoover of Langley Prairie was
fatally shot by James Gates, another
farmer.
TEHERAN, Persia.-The American
legation at Teheran, Persia, reported
to the state department at Washington
recently that Private Morteza, the Per-
sian soldier found guilty of having in.
cited the mob which murdered Ameri-
can Vice Consul Imbrie several months
ago, was executed.
NEW ORLEANS-Ori of the out
break of foot.and,mouth disease of
Harris County, Texas, has been traced
to a shipment of Brahma cattle re-
fused admittaance at New Orleans
last fall by DR.. A A, Stub, head of the
/ Agricultural Bureau of Animal Indus
! try here, Dr.. Stubs announced later.
/ LoNDON.-A resident of ireland,
Bolton Walter of Bray, County Wick
low, is the winner of the first prize
/ Of 1000 pounds sterling in the British
] Empire competition for peace plan es-
says, under the awards established by
Edward A. Filene Of Boston, Anoth-
err 1000 pounds sterling will be diyid-
ed among So Britons, selected from
400 contestants who submitted es-
says from all parts of the empire. OF
the 50 winners, 26 reside in England,
2 each in Scotland, Canada and New
Zealand, and l each in South Africa
and Tasmania. The Canadians are
William Wilkie Edgar of the depart
ment of labor at Ottawa and Major
Gladstone Murray of British Column
bia.
Prolonged cheering in
terrupted a reference by Paul Loebe,
former president of the reichstag, to
the late President Wilson as "the
father of the League Of Nations" at
a memorial meeting for the war dead
held in the reichstag building recently
under the auspices Of the world peace
congress.
BEND, Oregon.-Buried on the
banks of the Deschutes River, perhaps