Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-06-06

WIN lHe american Legion IN Iull
charge, Port Angeles will celebrate
both July fourth and fifth. Three do
stroyers of the U. s. navy will be In
port to take part In the celebration,
which will consist OF small sports
baseball games, speaking, water
sports, smokers, dancing, fireworks
and other amusements.
The growers committee of the Wen
atchee chamber OF commerce., after q
conference, decided that 80 cents an
hour is the proper wage scale for in
experienced common labor in apple
thinning and SO cents an hour for ex.
perienced help. There is no prospect
Of labor shortage, as many growers,
because of frost, will work for others.
AT gathering of ColfaX business
men and the American Legion ii was
decided to hold celebration on July
4. Business men asked the American
legion TO take charge and promised
to give financial support. A commit.
tee will go around within the next few
days for subscriptions. The celebra-
ton will be much larger than ever
before
Announcement was made by Briga.
der Maurice Thompson. adjutant- gen.
eral of the Washington national guard,
of receipt of orders from the war de.
partment extending federal recogni.
, ton to c. B. Blethen, publisher of the
Seattle Times, as brigadier.general
of the first line, General Blethen will
command the S1st infantry brigade,
41st division.
The battle over changing the name
/ OF Mount Rainier and Rainier national
park to Mount Tacoma and Tacoma
national park, respectively, has been
adjourned so far as the present SEES
sion of congress is concerned. Under.
standing has been reached that moth
ing shall be done and the public land
committee will not conduct hearings
until the next session.
The state department of public
works gave permission to rail carriers
in the state to lower intrastate ex-
press rates to agree with the lowered
rate made by the decision of the inter
state commerce commission ron inter
state rates some time ago. The re-
duction will amount to about 10 per
cent cut in the rates now in force
The new rates will be effective
June 81.
After having been released from the
Mt Vernon Jail on $4,000 bail each,
David w. Nadeau, Russell R. Evans
Warren L. Ridley and Lawrence W.
Lee, the four Tacomans accused in
the robbery of the Citizens National
bank there last April, expressed conf
dence they will never be brought to
trial. They were bitter in their de-
Inunciation of the treatment accorded
them by the officials, and ridiculed the
idea of connecting them with the rob
berry.
Eighty-six live fish out of l62 live
fish sent through the whirling blades
of water turbine in the University
of Washington hydraulics laboratory
we're killed during an experiment to
determine whether fish could success.
fully go through the machinery, 1t WIS
announced by four members of the in
stitutions faculty. The turbine,
through which the fish were sent,
carried pressure of so pounds. The
fish we're caught in a net at the out
let of the machine. Eighty-three sal
mon and three perch were killed.
Railroads have no legal right to
charge shippers of live stock for dis
injecting cattle cars used in interstate
shipments, advised Frank R. Spinning,
assistant director of public works.
Under the provisions of the foot and
mouth quarantine order in force all
intrastate shipments of cattle must be
in cars which have been cleaned and
disinfected subsequent to February %
last. Railroads of the state have been
charging shippers $3.50 car for this
service, Mr.. Spinning said he was in.
formed.
Attorneys for the state department
OF public works and for the large cities
Of the state decided in a meeting held
at Tacoma to file petition for a re.
hearing of the telephone case in the
United States supreme court before
the expiration of the present term of
the court, June 6. In decision hand
ed down recently by Chief Justice
Taft of the United States supreme
court the district federal court here
was reversed, the supreme court hold
ing that the telephone company may
apply for increased rates in the federal
court if exhausting the statutory RENE,