White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-01-16
Worlds News

NEW YORK.-Award Of the James
Douglas gold medal to William h.
Bassett, metallurgist of the American
Brass Company, Waterbury, Conn,
was announced by the American In
stitute of Mining and Metallurg1cai
Engineers. The medal, comm enorat-
ing DR.. James Douglas, twice presl-
dent of the institute, is bestowed an
nually for distinguished achievement
in nonferros metallurgy.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Vernon w.
man of the Federal Trade Commission
on December l, succeeding Huston
Thompson of Colorado. Van Fleet be-
came a member of the commission in
July, 1922. Prior to that he had
served as judge in Indiana.
" ALISPELL, Mont. = Charles j.
Kneber, superintendent of Glacier
National Park, has made application
for passport for the purpose OF Wis
iting Italy, France, Switzerland, Bel
GUM, Germany and England, where
he proposes to make study OF parks
and methods Of building mountain
highways.
MONTREAL, Canada.-Canada has
944O29 of the worlds 22,904,415 tele'
phones, according to a world tele'
phone census as at January l, 1923,
made by the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company. Canada ranks
second only to the United States In
telephone development, there being
1914 telephones to every 100 people In
Canada, as against 1871 in the United
States and 8.3 in Denmark, the next
country.
NEW YORK.-Two Of the wealth.
est families in the country were re-
Gently united by the marriage OF Gill
bert w. Kahn, son of Otto H. Kahn,
to Miss Anne e. Whelan Of East
Orange, N. j., daughter of Charles A.
| Whelan, president Of the United Cigar
Stores Company.
WASHINGTON. - Cooperative or
CARNATIONS through which groups OF
producers or consumers band them
selves together to deal In CONNER
cial markets has become lone of the
most prominent features of the eco
nomic structure of the world" the
Federal Trade Commission declared
in a special report.
A description of the cooperative sit
uation in Is foreign countries, pre-
pared largely from data collected BY
Chairman Thompson and DR.. William
Notz, chief of the commissions ex
port trade division, was given in thu
, document.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska. = Within
short time the government intends tt
, invade Alaska with army, and pos
sibly navy, airplanes for the purpos'
of collecting data, mapping the terri
tory, photographing remote places
) and experimenting with winter fly
: ing, according to a letter receive
here from Lieutenant Ben Ellison, I'm
ted States pilot, who is stationed 4
J. Langley Field, Virginia. He base
i this prediction on orders already n
q ceived by government aviators.
j. LONDON-The number Of person
who have taken out wireless recei
ing licenses has passed the one millio
mark, and Is growing steadily 1t
estimated that the actual number {
listeners-in exceeds four millions.
It MINNEAPOLIS University
n Minnesota has before 1t an offer
" $1,35O,0OO from the General Educ
ton Board, Rockefeller institution
Is to be used toward creating at tt
v University a great medical cent?
g which would make Minneapolis "Tf
( Vienna of America" The Gener
k Education Board is an organizatiC
IS established to distribute gifts maj
by John D. Rockefeller for educatio
al purposes.
1T PORTLAND, Oregon.-Forest OF
g. Gals apprehended 222 persons in Il
re national forests of Oregon and Was
ell ington for violation of the forest fl
laws during 1924, figures. at the d.