White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-11
Worlds News

1t was estimated by the census
bureau that in 1922, 24,73S, 75S, 7S9
telephone messages or talks passed
through the telephone offices of the
country This was an increase OF
1872 per cent over 1917.
Naples, Italy, has Just lately ex-
perienced snowfall, for the first
time in many years; the mountains
around Naples are covered with snow
and the temperature Is low. The
outline of the crater of Vesuvius can
be traced in white.
Sentences have, been imposed by
naval court-martial on the Officers
in command of the destroyer squad
ron off the California coast several
months ago, resulting in the loss of
more than score of lives. The Off
GERS have been denoted. Captain
Watson, who was in command of the
squadron, has been reduced $50 mum
bers, and Commander Hunter, 100
numbers. Captain Watson now
stands sixty-si1th on the list of cap
tainS.
Educated in England, graduate
of Oxford, and possessed OF many
modern ideas, the young monarch
Siam has been threatened with ope1
rebellion by his people because he
was determined to abolish the roya
harem; but he found that he coult
not overthrow the age-old custom; So
the young king capitulated and began
to assemble. the quota of 1000 wive'
allowed Divorce in Siam is easy
costing only SO cents.
Because of the law providing thai
. district judge cannot pass on cases
involving articles worth more than
half billion marks, lawsuit for thu
possession of a darning needle, ha
been carried from the Holstein dis
trict court to higher tribunal A.
a darning needle in Germany nov
costs billion paper marks, the
woman who lost her suit in the lower
court for the possession of the needle
is carrying the litigation further in
an effort to get the better of the
neighbor with whom she is disputing
the possession of the needle.
Major H. G.. L. Strange, K. c., of
Fem, Alberta, winner of the worlds
championship wheat seed prize at
Chicago, is advocating the more gen.
eral growing of alfalfa in Alberta as
sure and profitable crop. He claims
that Don Bark, of the Canadian Pa
cific Department of Natural Re.
sources station at Brooks, Alberta,
has perfected alfalfa seed that is
ideal for that province.
Production of meat in 1923 was the
greatest in history, exceeding 1922
figures by one and a half billion
pounds, according to estimates by the
Institute of American Meat Packers.
A big jump in pork production was
largely responsible for the increase,
100000 more hogs being bought
by the packers than in 1922
The National immigration Confer
ence, which met last month at the
Hotel Astor in New York, resulted
in the first interchange of views by
competent authorities representing
all phases of American life, on this
vital subject which is at present en-
crossing the attention Of business
and the nation. Originally projected
by the National Industrial Confer
ence Board as an "open forum"
wherein the widely divergent views
of various social groups and indus
trial organizations might find ex-
preston, the conference resolved It
self into constructive means Of
placing on record recommendations
for an orderly and broad revision of
the nations immigration laws. More
than 500 persons attended the ses-
sions of the conference, which were
held in the north ballroom of the
Hotel Aston, and included among the
500 delegates were prominent repre-
sentatives Of industry, finance, educa-
tion and public service.
Detailed figures on the cost Of liv-