White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-03-06
Worlds News

VICTORIA, B. Can association
composed of Seattle, Tacoma and Bel
lingham, Wash, and Vancouver and
Victoria, B. c., decided at a meeting
here to begin $4,000 advertising
campaign in March which will end in
August. Full-page advertisements are
to be carried in Arizona, California.
Eastern Washington, Idaho and Ore
gon newspapers, the association de-
cided.
NEW YORK. - Tuberculosis and
sleeping sickness have so taken hold
in Central Africa that the health COM
mittee Of the League of Nations has
undertaken study Of these diseases
as they manifest themselves in the
tropics. These facts are announced
in report to be filed with the Coun-
Gil Of the League, copy of which has
Just reached this country. It seems
that tuberculosis is a direct curse Of
civilization to Central Africa and the
black man, because there was little
or none of it before the coming of the
white man. Sleeping sickness, which
used to be confined to small and def
mite localities, has been spread very
rapidly by the increasing means of
travel and communication which civil
ization has brought.
CINCINNATI Support of the fed
eral arbitration bill providing settle
ment Of commercial disputes outside
of legal channels was urged in re-
port adopted unanimously by the Ma
tional Food Brokers' Association,
Meeting here in conjunction with the
National Gamers Association conven-
ton. The bill is expected to come
before the United States Senate at
the next general session.
NEW YORK.-John d. Rockefeller,
Jr, contributed 100000 to the build
ing fund of the Cathedral of st. John
| the Divine, announces Bishop Man
ming. This is the largest donation the
fund has received. OF this amount
| $4,000 will go toward the fund being
raised by the business mems division
to build the west front Of the big edi-
fee. The business men have agreed
to raise $2,50O,OOO for this purpose.
The rest of Rockefeller's gift will go
into the general building fund.
CHICAGO. - The present mild
weather constitutes a threat to the
winter wheat crop, according to farm
implement men who attended a divi
sional meeting of the National Farm
Equipment Manufacturers Association
here recently. should the snow and
ice melt into a sheet Of water and
then freeze the wreat crop might be
sealed up for weeks they said. Win
ter wheat farmers in Indiana, Illinois
and Ohio have been working to break
! the ice to save the wheat, according
to Frank G. Johnson Of Springfield
Ohio, and now face the fear of thaV
followed by another freeze.
CEICAGO-Producti of rail stee
for reinforcing bars is expected t.
shatter all previous records during tn
present year. A survey just con
pleted by the Rail Steel Products As
ISOLATION shows that most mills ar
running at capacity to meet the dc
: mand.
NEW YORK.-A commission t
study cancer to consist of information
al medicine authorities has been al
: pointed by the health committee 9
the League of Nations. The commits
sion will consist Of Sir George b
chanan as chairman, and DR.. Lutrarit
an Italian; DR.. Jitta Of the Nethel
lands, Professor Leon Bernard an
DR.. Carriere Of France. The first wor
of the commission will be compar
son of the statistics of Great Britain
Italy and the Netherlands relatin
). to the cause of the difference show
to exist between the cancer mortalit
: of these countries. The cancer con
!, mission was further empowered I
extend its Investigations into the ep
technology Of cancer in general as ia
as circumstances will permit. So ia
European medical authorities hav
discovered that there is more canoe
in England than in Italy and the