White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-04-17
Worlds News

WASHINGTON.-R will soon
begin new gold coinage based on
the standard of the tscherwontzy,
which has a par value Of $5.146 and
has recently been quoted at $5.16 on
the European exchanges, says re-
port to the Russian information bu-
reau here. 1t is planned to coin the
! entire gold reserve of the state bank
into the new currency.
NEW YORK.-Licenses to use the
radio patents of Prof. Marius c. A.
Latour French electro-physicist, have
been acquired by the American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Company, the
Radio Corporation of America, the
Postal Telegraph Company and the
t'reed-Eisemann Radio Company, it
is announced Professor Latour, who
took out a patent 10 years ago on a
negative resistance which is declared
to be the basis of application used
in many receivers, said that almost
every receiving set used by amateur
radio operators Is violation CT some
of his SO patents and patent applica-
lions.
PARIS.-Former President Miller
and was elected senator for the de-
partment of the Seine to succeed the
late Senator Magny. M. Millerand
received $40 votes and M. Autrand,
his chief opponent, It's.
Observation-Disclosures l.. Kagey,
minister to Finland, and Edward Il.
Brodie, minister to Siam, have pre-
scented their designations and they
will be accepted by President Cool
ldge, it was learned here. Brodie is
publisher and owner Of a daily news
paper at Oregon City, Ore, and will
return there. No names have been
mentioned as successors to either
kagey or Brodie.
LEAVENWORTH, kan.-Dr. Fred
erick A. Cook, former Arctic explorer
and self-styled discoverer of the
North pole, has arrived at federal
prison here in custody OF Texas Off
GERS, to start serving a sentence Of Ii
years, five months, for using the mails
TO defraud. Cook was convicted in
Fort Worth, Texas, of fraud in the
promotion OF oil stock sales. He was
assigned to the hospital section of the
prison. He became convict No. % ,118.
WASHINGTON, ID. c. - Expendi-
lures by the Russian soviet govern
ment this year for public education,
amounting to between S160,000,00O and
$l9O,OOO,OO0, will exceed by more than
IL per cent the outlay for that pur-
pose in the fiscal year 923-1924, &C.
cording to statement issued here by
the Russian information bureau. The
appropriations said to have been pos
sible by the remarkable economic i'm
Drovement" Of the country in the past
year, are substantially larger" the
statement asserted, than the pre-war
expenditures for education under the
czarist regime.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.-Collectin
rare editions Of famous works Is the
latest fad Of Yale undergraduate life.
Recently an exhibition was held in
the Yale library Of a host of volumes,
mostly first editions, worth 100000.
The exhibit was under auspices of
photography, Of which Prof. Andrew
keogh Is chairman. Several rare
European editions were purchased by
Samuel Thorne, Jr., Of New York City,
and James j. Hall of st. Paul. Mark
Twain's Life on the Mississippi and
original manuscripts of Timothy
Dwight's Travels of New York and
New England" were on view.
WASHINGTON-Attended by
naval guard of honor, the body of Ad-
miral George Dewey, hero of Manila
Bay, was moved from Arlington Ma
tlonal Cemetery and placed in Bethle-
hem Chapel of the National Cathedral
here. The removal was requested by
the widow of Admiral Dewey, who an
nounced that George G. Dewey, son
of the admiral, had concurred. A
crypt at the chapel will be the tenn
Dorary resting place Of the admiral.
When the cathedral is completed
memorial will be built In the transept
reserved for famous military dead.