White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-09-19
Worlds News

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when the boy fell into the we'll and
the father jumped after him to rescue
him.
TOLEDO, Ohio. = Seven persons
were killed and one child seriously
injured recently when Baltimore &
Ohio Railway train struck an automo
bile on grade crossing at the south
ern limits Of Perrysburg, a village in
Wood County, Ohio, IL miles south Of
this city, on the Dixie Highway.
NUREMBERG, Germany.-German
women vote exactly as their men
folks do, is the result of statistical III
vestigations of the last Reichstag's
vote in the Nuremberg electoral dis
trict. When 34.9 per cent of the male
constituency voted for the Socialist
ticket, the percentage of women cast
ing their vote for that party was 1873.
If IS per cent Of the ment with the
Stresemann party, there were ex-
actly A per cent of females doing the
same.
ATHENS.-The Near East relief
protested the action of Greece in in
Guiding several thousand Armenian
orphans under it's care in orders for
the removal of $4,000 Armenians from
Greece.
| McCLOUD, Cal. - A great natural
dam has been formed on the side of
Mount Shasta, stemming for a time
the flow of mud and Morainal sand
from the glacial pocket high up en-
the side of the mountain. So abrupt
ly did the flow Of mud cease recently
that feeling of apprehension was
manifest throughout the area for fear
the dam will break under pressure
and pour an avalanche of sticky slime
down upon this settlement. The
slackened flow Of mud enabled work
men to reopen the McCloud River
Railroad, which has been blocked for
three days, and repair the mains sup
plying McCloud with water.
BOSTON. = New England recently
pC6ah SACdliH6 UP ohS VI ShS
worst hurricanes that ever dashed this
section of the country Leaving
wide trail Of wreckage, the storm.
which, swept the coast, passed out TO
sea during the night. Crops in many
sections were ruined, shipping was
virtually stopped, trees were uproot.
3D. highways were flooded and total
rainfall of 4,73 inches was recorded.
BURLINGTON, England.-A clock
in church tower here has neither
face nor hands, but has given the
parishioners accurate time for nearly
! four centuries by striking the hours
on the church bell. Built In the 18th
century by the village blacksmith, 1t
comprises heavy stones, a rope 30 feet
long and crude escapement. 1t is
wound up daily by the sexton, the
winding barrels being of oak, like the
beams in which the iron bearings
work.
TOKYO.-Many persons have been
entombed by landslides in the Ha'
kone mountains following torrential
rains which have been sweeping ia
pan for several days. The homes
surrounding the factory district of
Tokyo were practically submerged,
and police said that 1900 houses were
partly under water. Fire broke out
in Hakodate, where public services
were demoralized by the downpour
and houcoo hurpa6
| TOKYO. More than 800 deaths
from sleeping sickness have been re-
ported from the Island Of Shokoku,
and the disease has now appeared In
Yokohama Three cases were report
ed from Yokohama recently. The
Kobe district reports more than 100
cases there. From Shikoku 1926
cases are reported, more than half OF
which have been fatal. 1t has been Ia
years since the disease last appeared
in Japan.
CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y.-Urging the
| United States not to cancel outright
the war debts but to trade them for
general disarmament policy, reduc-
ton Of reparations and reduction OF
all inter-allied debts, j. Henry Scat
tergood, a Philadelphia business man,
has proposed a new Washington con-
ference on the three questions OF
debts, reparations and disarmament.
He made the closing address at the
Institute on International Relations
from the Christian Point of View I'M
der the auspices Of the Commission
on International Justice and Good
will Of the Federal Council of
Churches.
LAPWAI-At the request Of Red
Elk of Ferdinand, Amos Wilkinson,
an Indian Of Lapwai, has consented to
speak before the grandstand at the
fair devoting his talk to old times.
His subject will be the Indian, the
Flag and the Government-You Gov
eminent and Our Government" Mr.
Wilkinson was born at Alpowa 81