Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-03-27
Worlds News

WASttlNGlON' JOnn GaTlDalul
Sargent, former encouragement OF
Vermont, was nominated as U. S. At
torney.General and confirmed imme,
diately by the Senate, after Charles
Beeches Warren, of Michigan, had in
formed the President that he would
not accept recess appointment
President Coolidge twice presented
Warrens name for confirmation and
the Senate refused 10 confirm both
times.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of In.
terror Work will make an official trip
to investigate reclamation, national
park and Indian reservation problems
in the West during March and April,
1t has been announced here. He will
be accompanied by Reclamation Com.
missioner Mead and National Parks
Director Mather. His itinerary will
probably includ estops at Yosemite,
Sequoia, Yellowstone, Zion and Gla-
cier National Parks.
NEW YORK.-Walter Camp, noted
athlete, called the father Of American
football" died suddenly in his sleep
here from heart disease. He was in
New York to attend the annual meet
ing of the football rules committee at
the Hotel Pennsylvania. He was Sc
years old. A widow and two children
survive. He was probably best known
for his daily dozen" sets of exercises
and his All-American football selec-
tons published each year in Golfers
magazine.
DETRO1T.-A boy was born to Mrs.
Edsel Ford, wife of the son of Henry
Ford. He is their fourth child.
CHICAGo.-Eugene Debs has an
nounced that the Socialist party has
severed its relations with the Confer
ence for Political Action"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. R. Mar
shall, former vice-president, celebrat-
ed his list birthday last week.
CHICAGO.-A floating broadcasting
station to be operated on Lake Michi-
gan during the summer months may
be a solution of the difficulties of
summertime radio reception, accord
ing to Gustave Frankel, president of
the Mohawk Electric corporation. His
company is now investigating the
feasibility of installing a fiyekilowatt
station on ship or barge, and if the
technical obstacles to broadcasting
in this way can be overcome, it is
probable that it will be put in opera
ton some time early in the summer.
WASHINGTON.-The second an
nual meeting of the National Confer
ence on Outdoor Recreation will be
held here on May Is to May 80.
BEDFORD. md.-Home-building on
a broad scale is in progress through
out the nation, according to survey
by the Indiana Limestone Quarry.
mems Association.
Prospects are for the biggest year
since the own-your-own-home move
ment began the stone men say.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The Federal
Trade Commission has dismissed its
complaint against the Best Foods,
Inc, of New York City, formerly
known as the Nucoa Butter Company.
The firm was charged in the COM
missions complaint with unlawful
maintenance of resale price plan.
VANCOUVER-A new industry has
been found for the utilization of Brit
ish Columbia cedar logs, and some
time during the present month car
go of cedar logs will be shipped to
the Orient to make Chinese caskets.
For about ten years experiments have
been going on in China to the dur
ability of cedar underground and re-
Gently an order was received from the
Orient for 2,40O Chinese caskets.
NEW YORK.-Two hundred thou
sand dollars has been raised by the
New York County American Legion
toward building an American Legion
center in this city, it was announced
by County Commander Robert G.
Paterson at a meeting at the Hotel
Pennsylvania. The total cost of the
center, it was estimated by Mr.. Pat
erson, will be more than 100000.
CHICAGO. = Consolidation OF the
railways should be encouraged by the
government, but should not be made
compulsory, according to the consen-
sus of opinion of the presidents of
several large railroads as made public
by the Railway Age. The heads of
the railroads also said that it is un-
desirable from the point Of efficient
management that all lines should be
combined into a small number of huge
systems. Carl R. Gray. president of
the Union Pacific system said he be-
iieVed consolidation will be advanced
if permitted on logical and not forced
on arbitrary lines and that his con
Germ was that there will be ten
dency to create units of such magni-