Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-01-02
Worlds News

LOS ANGELES, Cal. Shipments
of oranges are moving week to ten
days in advance OF any recent year,
and the fruit is ripper than usual, &C.
cording to a report just issued by the
California Fruit Growers Exchange.
| Generally at this season OF the year
fruit is being held in the packing
houses, the report states. 1t is also
shown that the market supply Of
citrus fruits in United States and
| Canada for the 1923.24 season exceed.
ed the previous season by Is per cent
or marked rise over any other per-
iod. Out of the total of 100000
boxes of oranges and grapefruit sold,
California supplied 22,0OO,O00 boxes;
Florida, 20,000,000, and the remainder
came from Porto Rico, Louisiana, AL
ALBANIA, Texas and Arizona, with some
importations from Japan.
NEWPORT.-The late Paul J. Raj
ney OF New York and Newport, famed
as hunter of African game animals,
will have his name linked with the
| preservation of the records of nature.
Forty square miles of territory in Yer
million Parish, Louisiana, have been
presented to the National Audubon
societies by his sister, Mrs. Grace
Rogers, to be maintained in perpetu-
ity as haven for birds and to be
known as the Paul ]. Raney Life
Sanctuary. All hunters will be kept
out OF the preserve.
NEW YORK.-Eight persons, two
of them women, dead, and several
other persons unconscious, and all
said to be in serious condition, were
taken to Bellevue Hospital recently as
result OF what the police and hos
pital surgeons report as a holiday cpl.
demic of poisonous liquor cases.
Sixty-seven persons, including IL
women, are now in the alcoholic ward
of the hospital.
aL&N1S AS u1AASuAIy "a VI d1luS
a general plan to curb opium smoking
in the Far East while the production
of opium continues heavy in China,
was the subject OF discussion among
the powers having Far Eastern pos
sessions during the International con.
ference. 1t was commended that so
much opium is struggled out OF China
into other Far Eastern countries that
any plans the powers themselves
might frame would be made ineffec-
/ tive by contraband activities. s. Al
fred SEE, Chinese minister to the Uni.
ted States, admitted there was con.
siderable illicit production of opium
in China, but said this was due to the
ambitions Of militarists who encour-
age local production of the poppy as a
means Of raising revenue to purchase
arms. He said that the internal sit
| uation had improved and an important
! conference Of provincial leaders would
open soon at Picking to discuss admin
| istrative reforms. China's annual pro.
duction of opium was estimated at
between eight and fifteen thousand
tons.
LONDON.-Among 200 Boy Scouts
who have just arrived here from Brit
ish East Africa is Ronald Ryan, who
holds the distinction Of being the
youngest lion hunter in the world.
Ronald, whose grandfather emigrated
from Ireland, is Is years old. He was
born in East Africa and from the age
of 10 helped his father to clear their
farm of lions. In Ronald's very first
hunt he and his father narrowly es.
capped being devoured by the beasts.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
The next rs years probably will de-.
eide the question once and for all
whether the white race is to have any
part in the ultimate development Of
South Africa or whether it is to be
crowded out by the native negro pop.
ulation, according to statement in a
government blue book analysis of the
1921 census, issued recently. Failing
additions from abroad to the ranks Of
the whites, the blue book says, that
the whites must forever abandon the
present prospect of maintaining their
civilization in South Africa except as
diminishing minority and the whites
may then be forced to abandon the
country entirely.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Reorganiza-
tion of the department of commerce
to include control and development of