White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-06-19
Worlds News

WASHINGTON.- President Cool
idge issued an executive order trans
ferring the bureau of mines from the
interior to the commerce department,
under Secretary Hoover. It was ex.
planned in connection that the presi-
dent desired to have all governmental
agencies having anything to do with
business concentrated under the COM
merce department. The interior de-
partment will retain control of leas-
ing of mineral and oil lands. Attor-
ney General Sargent ruled that the
transfer would be legal.
PORTLAND.-There will be no
bathing beauties on display in Rose
Festival parades here this year. The
Rose Festival directors have gone Oh
record against participation of the
feminine charmers in abbreviated
swimming costumes. It was a vic
tory for the Federation of Womens
organizations and the Y. w e. A..
who protested vigorously against the
members Of their sex taking part in
the festival in bathing suits.
Observation-Disclosures General
Cumming of the public health sscvice
appointed seven experts to look into
any health hazard" in the use of
tetra-ethyl lead gasoline.
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ. Seth
Shoemaker of Scranton, Pa, was
elected president of the Certified Milk
r. Ferguson Of Chicago was chosen
secretary treasurer. The Adohr
Farms, Los Angeles, won the first
prize for purest samples Of milk sub
mitted in a contest against twenty
other milk farms.
WINNIPEG.-Whea seeding is now
completed in the four western prov
inces, with abundant subsoil moisture
in almost every section, according to
the weekly crop report of the agricul-
tural department Of the Canadian Pa
cific Railway. On Vancouver Island
the conditions are good, apples and
sour cherries givin gpromise Of much
larger crop than last year. Conditions
of plums, pears and sweet cherries
at present time also good. In Okan-
ogan vegetable crops looking we'll,
and moisture conditions good.
MONTREAL, Quebec. - A party of
twenty-four boys are expected to
reach here about the end Of this
month on the Canadian Pacific steam
ship Minnedosa to take up farm work
in the western provinces. They are
receiving free passages to the Domir
ion and have agreed to stay until they
are 18, when they will be at liberty
to engage in other work If they desire
to do so. Other parties Of boys will
sail for Canada later under similar
conditions.
WASHINGTON - One does not
expect a meal when he drinks bot
tie of carbonated beverage, commonly
called "soda-water," but he comes
nearer to getting one than the aver
age person is. aware, according to DR..
Lewis B. Allyn, director Of the West
field Food and Research Laboratories.
His laboratory tests, DR.. Allyn de-
clares, show that bottled carbonated
beverages give their consumers about
174 calories Of energy to the pint IL
Illustrating this food value, which is
due mainly to their sugar content, DR..
Allyn states that an average bottle of
the same calory value as an average
portion of sliced bananas, three orders
of cantaloupe, one order tomato soup
with rice, one-half order spaghetti
with cheese.
OAKLAND, Cal.-Efforts by group
of stockholders Of the West End Con
solidated Mining Company to wrest
control from F. M. (Borax) Smith and
the present board of directors proved
futile at the annual meeting here,
when Smith, president and one Of the
largest stockholders, failed to put in
an appearance, thus preventing a
quorum. The meeting was adjourned
until July Is.
The group of stockholders, headed
by Gavin McNab, San Francisco at
torney, complain that of $6,000,000
produced by the company in Nevada
in the last five years, only $25O,O00
in cash has been paid to stockholders,
and that the board of directors has
refused stockholders information con-
corning the management of the COM
pany.
WALLA WALLA. - Miss Harriet
Emigh Of Spokane, Whitman College
junior, is one Of Is American under
graduate students who have been
awarded an opportunity to compete
for prizes of $1,000 in the essay con-
test being conducted by the Ameri-
can Chemical Society. Miss Emigh's
first essay was one of the three best
Of those written by hundreds Of col
lege students.
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club, and elkhorn implements, the
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