The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-11-30

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|. foreign trade advis-
- '.'>''''' er to the RFC. Mr..
o. oayre Sayre is professor
in the Harvard law school and will
remove from Cambridge to Wash
fngton as soon as arrangements can
be made with the university.
As adviser on foreign affairs to
the government of Siam, Mr.. Sayre
has had wide experience in the ne
gotiation of political and CONNER
cial treaties. Since 1925 he has ne
gotiated treaties between the ST.
amese government and the govern
ments of France, Great Britain, the
Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Den
mark, Sweden, Norway. and Italy.
He holds decorations from all Of
the principal nations of Europe.
T LIEUTENANT COMMANDER
- Settle of the navy and Major
Fordney of the marines finally
found q day of favorable atmos-
pheric conditions and made their
1ong-delayed flight into the strato-
sphere. Their big balloon ascended
from Akron, Ohio, and reached an
altitude of 61,237 feet. This beat
the existing record by about 5000
feet, though Russia's stratosphere
explorers claimed to have risen
above $4,000 feet.
Settles balloon and aluminium
ball came down in a southern New
Jersey swamp and the two daring
explorers extricated themselves
safely and were taken by airplane
to Washington where they were re-
ceived by the secretary Of the navy
and other officials.
G EISMOGRAPHS all over the
y world showed the other day
what scientists declared was the
greatest earthquake ever recorded.
But fortunately it occurred way up
toward the North pole, between
Greenland and Baffin island where
there was nothing to destroy except
land formation and no lives to be
taken.
ERNEST w. GIBSON, who for
- merly was a congressman from
Vermont, will go back to Washing
ton to represent that state in the
senate. He was appointed by Gov
ernor Wilson to fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of Senator
Porter III. Dale.
yXIISCONSIN'S farm strike fiz-
Wv zled out, so 1t was called off
by the heads of the Farm Holiday
association and the milk pool. The
pickets were all withdrawn and
shipments of milk and other farm
produce to the markets were re-
sumed. The milk pool leader said
another "holiday" probably would
be ordered in February.
NEWFOUNDLAND is about to
" lose its status as a British
dominion and be denoted to that of
a crown colony. This course has
been recommended by a royal COM
mission that has been investigating
| the dominion's tangled financial af-
| fairs. The report of this body
charges that Newfoundland debt,
which has reached the point where
| the interest consumes SO per cent
of the states income, is largely
| due to reckless waste and extrav-
! agance and to the absence of con-
| structive and efficient administra-
! tion."
Newfoundland was the first of
| Great Britain's overseas colonies.
Labrador is included in its govern
ment, and one Of the suggested So
lutions for the islands difficulties
has been to sell Labrador to Can
ada, paying the public debt with the
proceeds.
i'm DECEMBER 5 the Fascist
" grand council will be convoked
to discuss the question of Italy's
membership in the League of Ma.
lions, and informed opinion in
Rome is that Italy will withdraw
from the league unless France con-
sents to the holding of a disarma-
ment conference in Rome under the
four power pact that was engineered