Evening star., 1925-03-22


During the absence of the king and
| queen from England the empire will
| he governed by "A council of state,
| composed of some of the leading &
statesmen of Great Britain.
Economic.
The st. Paul Railway went into
| the hands of receivers last week,
| causing heavy selling Of its securi-
ties on the New York Stock Exchange.
| and this, together with Il sensational
| fall in the price of wheat, caused
| talk of coming business depression.
which was promptly denied by both
Secretary of Commerce Hoover and
| Secretary of the Treasury Mellon,
both of whom secuted the idea.
| Fluctuations in the price of wheat
| hit the spectators and not the
| farmers, both the Secretaries said
The Department Of Agriculture has
| begun an investigation to determine
the cause of the sudden drop in
wheat, Secretary Jardine having d.
rected the grain futures administra-
| tion, which comes under his juris- :
dietion, to make a full and immediate
investigation Of the situation.
| The economy policy to which the
| two administrations after the war
| have been pledged has resulted In
| cutting down Government expenses
! to a point where they can no longer
be reduced, according to the views
| OF some congressman last week, who
predicted that from now on there
| will be gradual increase in the
| yearly expenditures. 1t was pointed
| out that expenditures now have prac-
| tically reached the low-water mark
| OF pre-war times.
! Millions of taxpaying citizens in
| the United States filled out and
mailed to the collectors of Internal
| revenue last week their income tax
| blanks. inclosing the checks cover
| ing necessary payments. 1t will take
| Offices to have the records in shape
| for public inspection. In the mean
| time two cases to test the right of
| the newspapers to print the income
| tax returns are now pending before
the United States Supreme Court.
An oil company, consisting of sew
eral great companies with a COM
| bined capital of more than $1,000
| 000,00 and known as the Turkish
| Petroleum Co. entered into an agree
| ment with the Persian governme mt
last week to drill for oil throughout
| the whole country, with the eXcep-
tions of small areas specified. The
companies will pipe the oil across the
deserts to the Mediterranean, pro-
vided enough of II is found.
Alaska is to enter the meat mar
ket this season in earnest by ship
ping $4,000 pounds of reindeer
meat to other portions of the
United States, according to a
statement in New York last week by
an Alaskan packer. -Four packing
plants now have a total capacity of
1900 head of deer year, II was
stated, and there is room for grazing
100000 animals In northern Alaska,
it was declared.
Henry Ford entered the railroad
business some four years ago when
he purchased a Joke road" the De-
troit, Toledo and Ironton, for $4,939,-
100. His profits for the time he has
owned the road have almost equaled
the purchase price. He has received
during that time $4,53s,550. While
Mr.. Ford diverted most Of his auto
mobiles over the road after he bought
Il, thus Increasing enormously its
traffic. railroad men say he has done
wonders" with the line.
Science.
A study of the habitations of the
first men and some of their apelike
predecessors will be undertaken by a
party from the Smithsonian Institu-
tion in cooperation with the Buffalo
Society Of Natural History. The party.
under the leadership of DR.. Ales
Hrdlicka, curator of physical an
thropology at the Smithsonian,
will leave this week and be absent
about six months. They will visit
southern Asia, Java, Australia and
South Africa.
Scientists have been working on
Yale athletes to determine how and
what sort Of food is converted into
energy. Tests disclosed they received
most of their energy from fats rather
than carbohydrates, such as sugar and
proteins. An apparatus to measure
the air breathed in by a man rowing
4 miles on the crew showed that
the average amount taken on such a
trip amounted to Is gallons.
Radio from London, audible to. the
listener-in on the smallest crystal
sets, was broadcast last week in East
ern citles through the plants of the
Radio Corporation of America The
music from the Savoy Hotel, in Lon
don, was radioed across the ocean to
the radio corporations receiving sta
tion In Maine. where It was sent by
telephone to their stations for broad :
casting. The success of the expert
ment probably will lead to its repeti-
tion on a larger scale within a short
time.
This Is what the normal young
woman" must be able to do, accord
ing to scientists at Barnard College:
Jump feet 2 inches, hurl baske
ball 20 feet, run 25 feet In A. seconds.
climb feet and vault a height Of
3 feet inches
First direct cable communication
with Italy was established last week
when a new cable of the Western
Union Telegraph Company was
opened from New York with a mes
sage from President Coolidge to
King Vittorio Emanueie. Messages
from Secretary Kellogg to Premier
Mussolini, and from Frank 3. Moves.
president of the Associated Press to
Comdr. @. Cappelletto, director of the
Stefant Agencia, in Rome, also were
sent.
CiUics.
The Senate won it's long and hard
fight with the Presidant 80. a. ,