White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-10-23
Worlds News

and Dwight F. Davis of Missouri
stepped in as the new secretary of
war. Davis was sworn in by Chief
Justice Taft.
Formal announcement of Weeks
resignation because of i'll health, and
the appointment of Davis as his sue
cessor, was made at the White House
confirming cabinet shift that had
long been anticipated in the capital.
Davis has been secretary OF war
in everything but name for nearly SIX
months. He assumed the duties OF
acting secretary last spring when a
nearly fatal attack Of illness com.
PEELED Weeks to leave Washington.
The retirement of Secretary Weeks
after five and one-half years of service,
leaves only three members of the orig
inal Harding cabinet still in Office
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Sec
rotary of Commerce Hoover and Sec
rotary of Labor Davis. Deaths and
designations have claimed the rest.
The new secretary is native of st.
Louis and is As years old. He held
many quasipublic posts in ST. Louis
prior to his entrance into the official
life of Washington several years ago
as a member of the war finance cor
poration. His name is indelibly linked
with tennis as the donor of the famous
Davis cup.
Secretary Weeks attended his last
cabinet meeting at the White House
and made his farewells in per-
son. His resignation was already in
Mr.. Coolidge's hands, effective i'm
mediately.
Weeks plans to depart soon on a
trip to South America He has been
warned by his physicians to give up
business entirely.
PHILADELPHIA Model retail gro
Gerry stores will be one of the interest
ing features of the Sesquicentennial
International Exposition, according to
the recently announced plans Of two
of the leading corporations which OPP
crate such establishments in hundreds
of cities and towns throughout the
country. These store exhibits are
especially designed to attract the fem
mime visitor and will be operated &C
cording to the most. approved modern
( systems of retail merchandising. Ev-
erything will be standardized to the
last degree, including the arrangement
Of foodstuffs, waiting upon customers,
and wrapping of packages. Millions
of visitors to the Exposition will thus
be enabled to shop in the homelike
atmosphere of their Gown home town"
stores.
MONTREAL.-If all the wheat mar
keted during September along the
Canadian Pacific Railway were baked
into bread and loaded on standard de-
livery wagons, each wagon containing
1000 loaves and travelling at the rate
of five miles per hour, it would require
eight and half weeks for these con-
veyances to pass given point. These
unusual figures, revealing the ire
mendous wheat traffic along the rail
way recently, have just been given by
the statistician of the transportation
department of the Canadian Pacific
lines. In September 61,694,957 bushels
80 orIyo IN fhic
TEN. This signifies that in Is working
days of nine hours each rs bushels per
second were shipped. According to
the statistician the railways in West
ern Canada are transporting every "a
hours an amount of wheat in excess
of the entire crop of four decades ago.
NEW YORK.-An indictment charg-
ing the Greater Atlantic and Pacific
Radio Corporation, New York, with il
legally using the trademark "Neutro-
dyne" on radio sets has been handed
down by the New York County Grand
Jury. The indictment follows an in
vestigation upon the complaint of The
American Fair Trade League, the In
dependent Radio Manufacturers, Inc,
and the Hazeltine Corporation. The
Grand Jury indictment follows a pre-
vious hearing.
PHILADELPHIA reorganized
International League of Press Clubs,
following a spring meeting, will hold
a convention in Philadelphia during
the term of the Sesquicentennial In
ternational Exposition. The exposition
management will soon assign a date
to be known as international Press
League Day." A reorganization meet
ing held this week at the home of the
Pen and Pencil Club, Philadelphia,
was attended by representatives OF
press clubs in New York, Washington,
Baltimore, Pittsburgh and London and
two from Rio de Janeiro organizations,
the Associacao Brabileira de Imprensa
and the Circulo de Imprensa.
PARASITIC prospect of having to
pay $400,000,000 for war stocks in a
lump sum in 1929, If the temporary
debt settlement proposed by the Amer
lean debt funding commission is not
accepted by France, is exercising a
strong, influence on the attitude of the
government, it is said in Well-infOrmed