White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-05-29
Worlds News

PLYMOUTH, England-Dr. Erskine
Gray of the Cunard liner Antonio was
kept busy on the last voyage Of the
Antonio from New York to Plymouth
with calls for medical assistance from
other vessels. Four times daily for
five days he prescribed by radio for a
sailor who had been badly injured on
the steamer Bosworth, hundreds of
steamer Antonius reported its captain
seriously Ill. Dr. Gray diagnosed the
case as one of pneumonia, and for
three days prescribed treatment,
which proved successful. Several
other cases of minor nature from
ships many leagues distant were pre-
scribed for over the radio.
Observation-Disclosures of the Unitar-
ian Church who have reached IS years
Of age and have record of 20 years
in active service will receive pension
of $500 this year, it was announced
at the annual meeting of the United
Service Pension Society here The
total amount available for pensions in
1925-26 is approximately $4,000.
MEXICO CITY.-The negotiations
aimed at recognizing the sisal in
dustry on cooperative basis have
ended without agreement, according
to Luis Morones, secretary Of indus
try, commerce and labor.
BELOIT, Wis.-Dean George l.. Col
lie, head OF the anthropology depart
ment of Beloit College, will sail for
France this summer to arrange a
school Of archaeology in the southwest
ern part of that country, it was an
here. 1t is planned to estab-
fish the school in cave with accom-
modations for lodging and laboratory
purposes close at hand.
CHICAGO.-A successful test of the
telefotic transmission OF fnger-prints
from New York to Chicago was car
ried out last week. The finger-prints
were transmitted after John. j. Carly,
Of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company had
given q radio address, Five minutes
after the first tlnger-prints had been
received, they had been identified in
he Chicago Bertillon room as those
of John Brooks, acknowledgement
NEW YORK. - Large engineering
and construction operations are at
least 8 per cent larger than on the
date year ago, while
building costs are about per cent
over. Value Of contracts let in the
week just ending amounted to $48,-
$4,000, which compares with $53,784,-
700 week ago, and $44,386,0O0 two
weeks previous, Engineering News
Record reports.
NEW YORK.-Represent deal
,rs In electrical and radio supplies,
musical instruments and fountain
,ens, including department stores, re-
all jewelers. and druggists in almost
avery state Of the Union, whose opin-
ons were sought by the American
Fair Trade League, are virtually
unanimous in declaring that the name
Edison" attached to any of these
products suggests only Thomas A.
Edison, the electrical wizard. Their
replies were collected and tabulated
~ Fair Trade League for the purpose
of ascertaining the extent to which
he commercial enterprises In which
Thomas A. Edison is interested are
,eing injured by the unauthorized use
II the Edison name. In announcing
he result Of this investigation, Ed
nond A. Whittier, secretary-treasurer
" the league, points out that the un-
authorized use OF the names Of ma
manufacturers to de-
Icribe certain similar types Of mer-
manufactured and sold by
Is growing practice
which deserves the attention of the
Federal Trade Commission and local
responsible for the en-
lorcement Of laws governing COM
nerce and advertising.
WILMONTON, Del.-The federal
district court in the suit Of the Amer
can Telephone G. Telegraph Company
against the Radio Audion Company
md the DeForest Radio Telephone
& Telegraph Company decided that
reasonable royalty" for the alleged
Of tubes made by the Radio
Audian Company between January 1,
1921, and January 8, 1923, will be 80
cents each.