Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-04-17
Worlds News

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. will soon
begin a new gold coinage based on
the standard OF the tscherwontzy,
which has a par value of S5.l48 and
has recently been quoted at $5.1s on
the European exchanges, says re-
port TO the Russian information blu.
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.
Latourr French electro.physicist, have
Oeen acquired by the American Tels-
phone & Telegraph Company, the
Itadio Corporation OF America, the
Postal Telegraph Company and the
freed-Eisemann Radio Company, It
IS announced. Professor Lstour. wis
LOOK out patent ~ years ago on .
Negative resistance which 10 declared
10 be the basis OF application used
IN many receivers, said that almost
every receiving set used by amateur
RADIO operators is a violation Of some
OF his SO patents and patent xpplica-
ions.
PARlS.-Former President Miller.
and was elected senator for the de-
partment Of the Seine to succeed the
late Senator Magny. N. Nillsrand
received $40 votes and N. Autrand,
nus chief opponent, It's.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. l.. kassy,
minister to Finland. and Edward Il
Brodie, minister to Siam, have pre-
sented their designations AID they
will be accepted by President Oool-
ldge, 1t was learned here. Brodis b
publisher and owner of 4 daily news.
paper at Oregon City, Ore, and viii
return there, No names have been
mentioned as SUCCESSORS to sitksr
Kagey or Brodie.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan.-Dr. Fred.
erick A. Cook, former Arctic explorer
and self-styled discoversr of the
North pole, has arrived at federal
prison here In custody of Texas OH.
GERS, to start serving sentence OF Ii
years. five months, for using tho mails
TO defraud. Cook was convicted tn
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. 3s,1l3.
WASHINGTON, D. G. - Expendt-
lures by the Russian soviet govern.
ment this year fo1 public education,
amounting to between s16O, 900, 900 and
$190,0O0,O00, will exceed by more than
II per cent the outlay for that pur-
pose in the fiscal year 1923-1924, 40
cording to statement issued here By
the Russian information bureau. The
appropriations said to have been pos
sible by the remarkable economic In.
proyement' Of the country In the past
year, are substantially larger" the
statement asserted, than the pre-wAr
expenditures for education under thu
czarist regime.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.-Colectins
rare editions of famous works is tbs
latest fad Of Yale undergraduate life.
Recently an exhibition was held In
the Yale library Of 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" we're on view.
Observation-Disclosures BY q
naval guard OF honor, the body Of Ad-
miral George Dewey, hero Of Manila
Bay, was moved from Arlington Na-
tional Cemetery and placed In Bethls-
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 tam
porary resting place Of the admiral.
When the cathedral is completed 4
memorial will be built In the transsDt