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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1924
Page
7
Dublin June 13 The inquiry commission reports a low mood in farming noting farmers earn 40 percent more for produce than before the war, while living costs and trade expenses have risen sharply. It backs education and organization, opposes subsidies, and urges reduced railway freights plus better water transport.
President Er nest De Witt Burton states military education has real value when properly grounded in education. He argues full university endorsement is needed, while stressing no coercion for students to choose military study and noting potential need to defend the nation with trained officers.
In Sofia on May 24 Bulgarians observed the name day of the Slavic alphabet and its creators Cyril and Methodius. The observance recalls their ninth century mission from Salonica to spread Christianity. A notable ceremony occurred at the Monastery of St. Ivan of Rila where Bulgarian letters were preserved during five centuries of Turkish rule. The Orthodox Church marks the day to honor the introduction of Christianity by Cyril and Methodius followers.
The Delevan Club has purchased the village of Delevan in Colusa county. The deal covers 72 acres of buildings and town lots and 2,000 acres of rice fields flooded for duck hunting. The town includes a hotel several bungalows waterworks a mile of streets and sidewalks with plans for golf links and year round sports.
The steamer Guide of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey uses a radio position finder and depth measurer to locate its position and water depth up to 1,000 fathoms off the Pacific Coast. A TNT blast creates hydrophone signals to shore stations that triangulate the vessel’s position. The project resumes summer off Oregon and Washington and winter off California, after a 1922 pause.
A Tokyo group of advanced thinkers has formed the Non-Voting League pledging abstention from elections. They aim to replace the present system with plan rule and rely on non cooperation as their weapon. Members include Dr Suzuko Yoshino Prof Isoh Abe Tatsuji Fuse and Kosaya Yamasaki.
In Danzig night guards complain of thieves disturbing sleep. Robbers bored into a food store basement to cut a panel for entry. an asleep watchman felt a pricking bite from the tool, cried out, drawing police and guards who quickly captured the intruders.
Military authorities in the Philippines discuss gradual concentration of U S forces on the islands. Fort McKinley and Corregidor would host remaining troops while five forts including Fort Santiago Camp Stotsenberg Pettit Barracks and Camp John Hay would be abandoned or repurposed. Fort Santiago likely to become Philippine constabulary HQ. Camp John Hay to become a convalescent hospital. Fort McKinley sits on 2000 acres five miles from Manila. Corregidor Island hosts Bay entrance fortifications.
Washington announces President Coolidge will receive formal nomination notification on July 24 while running mate Charles G Dawes will be notified on July 31. Peking reports the Chinese cabinet has resigned. Tokio cites a Japanese embassy incident as regretted. New York notes Germany complies with the Dawes plan per Ambassador Alanson B Houghton.
Sweden reports a new process to derive fuel oil from bituminous shale with an estimated 245 million tons available. Production to begin at Kinnekulle with tests by the navy and industries confirming shale oil can compete with most petroleum grades.
Anchorage June 3 Residents along the Yukon River gain a weekly mail service for the first time since the gold rush era. The Alaska Railroad carries mail from Seward to Nenana where steamers transfer it to Tanana River boats bound for Fort Gibbon and river mouth deliveries. Northern Commercial operates launches to Nome St Michael Innoko and Iditarod corridors.
A committee of Irish farmers began negotiations with Holland to establish a sugar beet industry in the Free State. It is stated that promises to grow sugar beets on 3000 Irish acres could be secured in a short time.
Williams W. Ellsworth, magazine editor, spoke at Mills College in Oakland noting statistical counts of poets in the United States. He said about 25 poets per 115000 people, one real poet per 6000000, and 200 poetry books published yearly with 25 surviving. He added that US verse quality has improved in the last decade.
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