Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-04-24
Worlds News

LONDON. - Gettlr Algarsson, ia.
n,ous explorer, will leave Liverpool
May / with London.built airship
In an attempt to reach the North
Pole, according to the Daily Express.
NEW YORK. Famous Players.
Iasky Corporation has fled building
plans for the construction OF tho 30.
story Paramount Theatre Building, to
front on the west side OF Broadway
between Forty.thlrd and Forty.fourth
Streets. 1t will house beside offices
a motion picture theatre seating 1000
persons, Famous Players.Lasky
bought the site from Vincent Astor
six years ago for S6,000,00O. The
building Will cost $500. 1t is expect.
ed to be opened Labor Day, 1895.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that mem.
bers OF the national guard are state
militia and not United States troops,
the court of claims ruled that they
must pay full transportation rates
when travelling to and from lnstruc.
ton camps on land grant railroads.
The case, raising the question wheth.
er the national guardsmen were en-.
titled to the land grant rates pro.
vided for troops OF the United
States" was brought by the Oregon
Washington Railroad and Navigation
Company in behalf Of all grant rail.
roads.
JERSEY CITY.-Georse Eastman,
philanthropist and founder Of the
Eastman Kodak Company, was elect.
ed chairman Of the board Of directors
OF the company at meeting Of stock.
holders here. The retirement OF East.
man from the presidency is In line
with his previously announced inten.
ton to devote the greater part Of his
time to philanthropic matters.
SALINAS, Cal. - Edward Kirby
Brown, 81 proprietor of Ocean View
Sanitarium at Manhattan Beach, was
killed at death curve" a dangerous
crossing three miles south OF this city,
at midnight, when his machine skid.
ded and turned over.
LOWELL, Mass.--Mrs. Edith N.
Rogers, widow of Congressman Rog.
ers, has announced that she will be-
come candidate to succeed her late
husband.
BALTIMORE.-Radio fans will be
able to see the next Olympic games
as well as hear the cheering, as the
result of experiments now being con.
Quoted in the development Of radio
movies, G. Francis jenkins of Wash.
ington, predicted before the American
Chemical Society recently. Jenkins
said the sending of pictures through
the air Will be accomplished by what
is known as the "prismatic ring" de.
vice of which he is the inventor. Its
possibilities, he declared, are limit.
less.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. 1.-The death
rate in this country decreased IL per
cent during the period 1911.1923, ac-
cording to H. J. Miller, vice. president
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, at a meeting of life insur-
ance men here.
LOS ANGELES,-Members Of the
Association of Motion Picture Pro
ducers took a step toward the elmina-
ton of the high cost of obtaining en-
ployment which faces the average
movie extra. The association voted
TO establish central casting office to
be operated upon nonprofit basis.
The Observation-Disclosures, Cecil de
Mile and Harold Lloyd corporations
were elected members of the associa.
ton, it was announced.
NEW YORK. William Sproule,
president of the Southern Pacific, said
here that the Southern Pacific has
not purchased the Lake Tahoe rail-
road as has been reported. As to any
negotiation that may be in offing
Sproule said he was not in position
to discuss that.
PHILADELPHIA Industrial acci.
dents due to defective lighting involve
on annual loss of 100000 in the
United States, according to a report
of the Eyesight Conservation coun-
Gil OF America. The report cites
the findings of insurance engineers
who examined more than 1000 acct.
dent records.
SToCKHoLM.-It is stated authori.
tatively that Axel F. Wallenberg,
Swedish minister to the United States,
will leave his post in September or
earlier and return to Sweden to look