White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-09-25
Worlds News
Los ANGELEs.-ways and means

LOS ANGELES.-WayS and means
of raising 100000 fund to fight COM
pulsory metered telephone service,
scheduled to so into effect in the Los
Angeles district January next, were
discussed at meeting of the General
Citizens Telephone Committee. The
State Railroad Commission some time
ago granted the Southern California
Telephone Company's application for
increased rates and metered' business
service, but specified that metered
service was to be optional until jan
uary 1, 1926, and compulsory on bust
ness lines after that date. A rehear-
ing of the case promptly was ordered,
however, and set for November A.
VANCOUVER, B. Chatham Eek
stein, of Seattle, delivered one of the
principal addresses at the unwilling
of the Harding Memorial in Stanley
Park, Vancouver, B. c., September 16.
The memorial commemorating the
visit of the late President to British
Columbia was erected under auspices
of the International Kiwanis Club and
a large delegation of Seattle Kiwani-
ans attended the ceremony. John H.
Moss, international president of the
organization, unveiled the monument,
and prominent representatives of the
Canadian and United States govern
ments attended.
AFRICA, Chile.-General Pershing
celebrated his sixty-ffth birthday,
Sept. 10, by taking the first rest since
he came here on the Tacna-Arica
mission.
WASHINGTON Commander John
Rodgers of the PN-9, No. 1, appointed
assistent chief of the Bureau of Aero
nautics, advised Secretary Wilbur last
week that his personal preference is
to remain on sea duty with airplanes.
Commander Rodgers added, however,
that he would accept the position if
in the opinion of the secretary, my
services will be more valuable in the
department" The message was sent
by Rodgers by radio from Honolulu.
1t conveyed the thanks of the crew
of the PNP-9, No. /, and his own ap-
probation for 'the honor attached to
my selection as assistant chief of the
bureau"
GLACIER PARK, Mont. Expert
ments to determine the feasibility of
the use of the radio for the dispatch
ing of trains over the Rocky Noun
tains on the main line of the Great
Northern Railway have been con-
Quoted during the past week by the
telegraph department of the railroad
and by radio experts from New York.
The work was in charge of ]. G.. Ran
kin, Superintendent of Telegraph, who
was assisted by some of his men,
while an effort was made by the rep
resentatives of the radio concern to
demonstrate the practical ility of the
plan. For several days a compart-
ment car, fitted with batteries, wire
less equipment and antenna, was sta
toned at Glacier Park and commune
cation was established with sets in
stalled at Whitefish, the division point,
and stations between Glacier Park and
Whitefish Trouble was experienced
in securing proper communication
with Whitefsh, due to static, and the
experiments could not be said to have
worked out satisfactorily, unless some
means can be devised to overcome the
obstacles. The telegraph department
of the Great Northern Railway is very
anxious to bring about the installation
Of radio equipment for emergency SER
vice during long severe winters when
considerable interference is exper-
fenced in the operation of the tele-
graph lines through the Rocky Noun
tain region.