White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-08-28
Worlds News
GREENWOOD, Ark.-An injunction


mines of the Greenwood Coal Co,
Greenwood, Ark, has been suddenly
revived to effect the arrest of two
officials of the miners union in that
town. Conner Jones, vice-president of
District 81 of the United Mine Work
ers, and S. A. Robertson, another Off
cial of the miners union, have been
ordered to appear in Chancery Court
at Fort Smith, Sept. Is, to answer the
charges brought against them by the
coal company Jones and Robertson
are alleged to have aided in carrying
out plans to parade through the
streets of Greenwood, to have tres
passed on the property of the coal
company and to have annoyed" the
company's representatives. All these
acts, it is alleged, are in violation of
an injunction granted by the Chan
Gerry Court in 1917. In wire to the
district president, the American
Civil Liberties Union has offered
legal and financial aid to carry the
case of Jones and Robertson to the
highest courts if necessary, to protect
the civil rights of the miners in that
district.
NEW YORK.-Prof. Marius C. A.
Latour will visit the United States
again in September. The French radio
wizard, who claims that his devices
under eighty patents are used in al
most every receiving set, authorized
this announcement through Joseph
ID. r. Freed, president of the Freed
just returned from conference with
Prof. Latour in Paris. Last winter
Prof. Latour sold licenses to use his
inventions to the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company, the
Postal Telegraph Company, the Radio
Corporation of America, the Freed
Eisemann Radio Corporation, and the
Hazeltine Corporation. The sudden
discovery of the vast Importance OF
his patents to the radio industry, it
will be recalled, created great SEN
sation, and several hundred thousand
dollars were paid to Prof. Latour for
rights, although he said that he had
no intention Of pressing claims for
fv,i, 10 lint do II n.
derstood that he would watch for fu
ture violations, to that end forming
the Latour Corporation of Delaware
NEW YORK.-Thirty-fo deaths
resulted from accidents caused by wet
road surfaces, rainy weather and skid
ding mishaps in June, according to-
the monthly report made by the State
Bureau of Motor Vehicles to the Ma
tional Safety Council.
Out of 545 accidents on wet sur
faces, 16 fatalities resulted. Eight
deaths resulted from POI accidents in
rainy weather. Five deaths were re-
corded as the outcome of 218 skid
ding accidents. Four deaths resulted
from 1O2 accidents charged to the fail
ure to use non-skid chains on wet and
slippery roads. One death was caused
by muddy road surface. The Mo-
tor Vehicle Bureau Is now engaged in
campaign to emphasize to motorists
the Importance of the accessories of
safe travel such as dependable brakes,
non-skid chains, proper lights and
clear vision windshields. One hundred
and eighteen accidents in which eight
lives were lost in June was caused
by cars out Of control going off the
roadway.
NEW YORK.-Drastic revision of
bag limits and open seasons is i'm
perative," DR.. w. T. Hornaday, trus-
tees of the permanent wild life protec-
ton fund, reiterated recently, if ex-
tinction of migratory bird life is to be
averted. While the biological survey
through it's acting chief, DR.. A. X.
Fisher, defended it's competency to
fix bag libits, DR.. Hornaday contend
ed existing restrictions and open sea-
sons have not served to halt the rapid
increase of licensed hunters.
Fannie Hurst the au-
thor, was last week awarded $4,000
prize which the magazine Liberty, in
conjunction with the Famous Players
Lasky Corporation, offered for story
suitable for Liberty and for motion
picture. Almost 100000 manuscripts
and plot synopses were received, com.
ing from virtually every quarter of
the globe.
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