White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-07-11
Worlds News

PARIS.-Over $500 plans were sub
mitted to the French Peace Aware
Committee established last year b!
Edward A. Filene Of Boston, Mass.
in the interest of peace.
BOSTON.-Seattle was chosen al
the meeting place of the 1925 conven
ton Of the National Foreign Trade
Council, which met here last week
About 1000 delegates will probably
attend the event. The meeting here
was featured by speech by Frank
lin Remington, chairman of the Foun
dalton Company of New York. who
urged that the money loaned to for
eign governments should be spent fol
supplies in this country.
CANTON, China.-T hree were
killed when an unidentified assassin
threw a bomb among the guests at a
reception recently at the foreign quar-.
ter to Governor General Merlin of
French Indo-C China.
WASHINGTON fisheries
reservations have been abolished by
an executive order of President Coo
ldge, the department of commerce an
nounced recently. Action was taken
following passage Of the fishery law
by the last Congress.
WINSTED, Conn.,. w. Markham,
driving jitney, stopped his car in
Canton and rushed to assist young
buck which was attempting in the
snow to get over a wire fence. Mark
ham got his arms around the deer's
neck and wrestling bout followed.
The deer, after throwing his antagon-
list and breaking his grip, ran away.
The bout provided excitement for the
passengers.
LONDON.-A pavilion has been
erected in the grounds of the British
Empire Exhibition at Wembley by the
International Council of Women. 1t
will be the headquarters of the world
women. Millions of organized women
will be represented in the building,
and from week to week feminine
hopes, aspirations and ideas for the
solution of the worlds most difficult
problems will be considered.
STOCKTON, Gala double tragedy
followed the kick Of a horse on a
ranch at Waterloo recently when Mrs.
Patrick Lyons succumbed to shock at
finding the body of her husband in
the corral. Lyons had been dead sew
eral hours, having been kicked just
below the heart. Mrs. Lyons collapsed
and failed to recover, following medi-
cal treatment.
LEIPSIC.-"Don't study medicine"
is the advice to prospective students
by the German Physicians Associa-
ton, pointing out that for years to
come the medical profession will be
overcrowded. One reason assigned
is the fact that old doctors find them
selves unable to retire from active
practice, since their savings were
wiped out by the depreciation Of the
mark. Other reasons assigned are
the loss of colonies, the disarmament
of Germany and the poverty Of the
masses, who will not call a doctor &C.
cept in the most necessary cases.
CALGARY, Alta-Every week sees
new grain transportation records
hung up by the Canadian Pacific Rail
way in Alberta. Records compiled up
to the end of April showed that since
the first of September, 1928, no less
than 114,250,000 bushels Of grain, in
Guiding 94,250,OOO bushels of wheat,
had been handled in this province by
the Canadian Pacific Railway. The
total for the entire previous shipping
year was 63,75O,OO0 bushels of all
grains.
NEW YORK.-The French govern
ment has definitely acquired the Alsa-
tian potash mines which formerly be-
longed to Germany and had been Sc
questrated since the end of the war,
according to word received by the
Bankers Trust Company from it's
French Information Service. The
Chamber of Deputies will be called
upon during its next session to ratify
this purchase, the price Of which was
fixed at 200 million francs, payable in
20 years.
BRUSSELS. - The Belgium gov
eminent has ordered the release Of so
German political prisoners condemned
for offences in the Ruhr. The action
is intended to make easier the Ger
man governments acceptance of the
Dawes reparation settlement report.
GLACIER PARK, Mont. The an
nual convention Of the Alpha Phi So
rority was held at the Glacier Park
Hotel There were 26 chapters from
all parts Of the United States repre-
sented at the convention. A large
number Of the delegates arrived by
special train from the East. Aside
from the regular business sessions
the members will spend several days
taking excursion trips to the various
points Of interest in Glacier National
Park.