Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-11-14
Worlds News

LIB aNIhLEos- shh u luItuSI uloNS
in the campaign being conducted here
by the Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce to have this city designated as
one of the western terminals of the
air mail service, every bank and large
business house In the city was this
week asked to send five pounds Of
mail via the air route each week. Ev-
cry household is asked to send let |
ter week by air mail Providing |
mail planes can be assured OF collect |
ing 500 pounds OF mail here daily, It
has been definitely assured by Luth-
er Bell, traffic manager of the air
mail service, that this city will be In
cluded as western terminal with
San Francisco. Mail planes from Los
Angeles will connect with the main
route at Salt Lake City.
WASHINGTON, D. c. = "one-half
million men, women and children, ac-
cording to the best available esti-
mates, are sent to prison each year in
the United States" says statement
to pastors issued by DR.. Carl H. Bar
nett of the commission on social SER
vice of the Federal Council Of
Churches. 1t is issued in connection
with the fortieth annual observance of
Prison Sunday last month. The OBJ
servance of the day was initiated by
the ministers of New York In 1884.
LIVINGSTON, Mont.-The youngest
cross-country hiker ever seen in this
part of the country, Betty Rose, age 6,
arrived here with her mother, Mrs.
Blanche Rose Of Pittsburgh, Pa. They
were en- route to the Pacific Coast by
way of Yellowstone Park Mother
and daughter stop at hotels instead of
camping at night and accept lifts"
when they are offered.
AUSTIN, Texas.-The last yestige
OF the ancient bar against women in
office was swept away by the Texas
Supreme Court recently, in holding
Mrs. Miriam Ferguson, of Temple, and
all other women in the state eligible
to elective positions. Attempts to
bring out of the dim past and estab-
fish as present-day law the Pigments
of an old order were cast out by the
highest court Of the state which pro-
nounced women as independent en-
titles on an equality with men.
DAWSON, Y. T.-For the first time
in 80 years large bands of caribou
have invaded the southern part Of the
Yukon Territory. Thousands are on
the move over trail between Brae-
burn and Takeena, and the hills are
alive with them. Hunters and camera
i, men have engaged every available mo-
tor car in the White Horse district to
reach the scene.
CHICAGO.-Thirty-fve of the Hol-
stein prize-winning cattle of the Ma
tional Dairy Show invaded the Pacific
Northwest at the Pacific International
Livestock Exposition at Portland re-
Gently. They were from eleven of
Wisconsin's foremost herds, and in
cluded Madam Arts Wayne Denver,
grand champion COW at the national
show, and Johanna Rag Apple Pabst,
grand champion bull at the same ex-
hibition.
YOSEMITE, Cal.-Luey Brown, said
to be aged 100, last Of the original In
dians found in the Yosemite Valley by
white men at the time of its discovery
in 1851, is dead She died suddenly
recently from heart failure. She was
the oldest of six generations of the
Brown family now residing in Yosem-
lite Indian village. Mourning cere-
monies were held throughout one
whole night with huge bonfire and
loud wailing by squaws.
MARSHFIELD, Ore.-A wound in
the abdomen, suffered by Ray Gay, 20,
when shotgun was accidently dis
charged by Yeryl johnson, "a, late
one evening recently, proved fatal six
hours later. The accident occurred
at the Johnson farm near Myrtle Point
and Gay was rushed to a hospital
there for treatment, but failed to sur
yive. Both young men had been
hunting and Johnson, son OF Gays
employer, was cleaning shotgun. No
inquest will be held.
LONDON-London fogs are respon-
sible for the crumbling of the walls
of the Houses of Parliament, not the
ravages of time as had been generally
supposed The material of these
houses, which has been a great dis.