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NEWS OF THE WEEK
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Anarchy, famine and war are
threatening the inhabitants of Al
bania.
January 1, 1915, has been set for
the opening of the Celilo canal on the
Columbia.
A prominent baseball pitcher de
clares the uniform honesty of players
kills all possibility of gambling in the
game.
A piece of radium about the size
of a pinhead and worth $4500 has been
lost, mislaid or stolen at a Chicago
hospital.
The kidneys of a woman in a St.
Louis hospital were taken out,
cleansed of poisonous accumulation
and replaced.
New York now leads London in pop
ulation by nearly a million, according
to statistics prepared by New York
health officials.
Secretary Redfields, of the bureau
of commerce and labor, says he be
lieves the 8-hour day would be a bene
fit to all industries. ‘
The Massachusetts state board of
conciliation and arbitration urges that
every possible means be used to avoid
labor troubles during 1914.
Convicts in the penitentiary at Au
burn, N. Y., organized a “ Good Con
duct League,” and will endeavor to
enforce perfert discipline in the pris
on.
More than 1000 unemployed men
gathered in front of the residence of
Gov. Johnson, of California, and de
manded steady work at not less than
$3 per day.
Twenty-seven $1000 bills were
trampled under foot several hours by
the crowd paying taxes in the sheriff’s
office at Detroit, Mich., before their
loss was discovered.
Professors in the biology depart
ment of the University of Washington
believes the time soon coming when
the salmon fishing industry will be
carried on continuously by means of
deep sea fishing.
Mexican rebels have completely
routed the federal forces in Northern
Mexico.
Bank robbers tunneled 150 feet and
dug into the vault of the First Na
tional bank of Oroville, Cal., securing
$3500.
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Many Mexican federal soldiers who
refused to fight the rebels were shot
down by their officers.
Methodists have asked the Portland
school brfhrd to prohibit the teaching
of dancing of any kind in the public
schools.
It is stated by the department of
agriculture that 1913 was the most
prosperous year ever known for the
American farmer.
It is reported that many Eastern
cities are not at all anxious for the
location of the reserve banks under the
new currency law.
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PORTLAND MARKETS
Wheat—Track prices: Club, 85c;
bluestem, 96@96c; forty-fold, 85}@
86c; red Russian, 84c; valley, 85c.
Oats—No. 1 white, $25.60(026 ton.
Barley — Feed, $24.60 per ton;
brewing, $25.60; rolled, $26.50@
27.60.
Millfeed—Bran, $20.50(0)21 per ton;
shorts, $22.50(0)23; middlings, $29(0
30.
Hay—No. 1 Eastern Oregon tim
othy, $16.50; mixed timothy, $14;
alfalfa, $14; clover, $9(010; valley,
grain hay, $11(0)13.
Onions—Oregon, $2.75(0)8 per sack;
buying price, $2.50 f. o. b. shipping
points.
Vegetables—Cabbage, 11(0)1 jc per
pound; cauliflowers, $76(0)1.25 per
dozen; eggplant, 10(0) 121c per pound;
peppers, 6(0)7c; head lettuce, $2.25(0)
2.60 per crate; garlic, 121(0}15c per
pound; sprouts, 10c;
artichokes,
$1.76 per dozen; squash, ll(0)llc per
pound; celery, $3(0)3.50 crate; rhu
barb, 31c per pound; tomatoes, $1.75
(0'2 per crate; turnips, $1.25 per sack;
carrots, $1.10;
parsnips, $1.25;
beets, $1.25.
Poultry—Hens, 16(016c per pound;
springs, 15(016c; turkeys, live, 20c;
dressed, choice, 271(q)28c; ducks, 12
@16c; geese, 121(0)13c.
Eggs—Oregon fresh ranch, 41(045c
per dozen; storage, 35(0'371c.
Green Fruit—Apples, 60c(0$2.50 per
box; cranberries, $12(0)12.60 per bar
rel; pears, $1.26(0(1.75.
Potatoes—Oregon, 80c(0)$l per hun
dred; buying price, 70(080c at ship
ping points.
Butter—Creamery prints, extras, 34
<035c pound; cubes, 32c pound.
Pork—Fancy, 10(O101c per pound.
Veal—Fancy, 141c per pound.
Hops—1913 crop, prime and choice,
20(0)21c; 1914 contracts, 16(0l8c.
Wool — Valley, 16<017c; Eastern
Oregon, ll(0)16c; mohair, 1913 clip,
26c.
Cattle—Prime steers, $7.50(08.10;
choice, $7(07.60; medium, $6.76(07;
choice cows, $6(06.85: medium, $5.75
(0.6; heifers, $6(06.85; light calves,
$8(09; heavy. $6(07.75; bulls, $4<0
6.76; stags, $6(06.50.
Hogs—Light, $7.26(07.90; heavy,
$6.50(06.90.
Sheep—Lambs, $5.50(06.35: weth
ers, $4(06.50; ewes, $3.60(04 36.
May Fish for Salmon
During Entire Year
Seattle—The salmon fishing indus
try, worth millons of dollars to the
Northwest, will be extended from
Puget Sound and the Columbia river
to the outer sea and a continuous sup
ply of salmon made available irrespec
tive of whether the fish are running in
the rivers, according to professors in
the biology department of the Univer
sity of Washington. This possibility
was revealed when it became known
that the United States deep sea dredg
ing vessel Albatross had been assigned
for work on the fishing banks outside
Puget Sound and the mouth of the Co
lumbia river.
Professor Trevor Kincaid, head of
the department of biology, has ex
plained the significance to Washington
of the work to be done by the Al
batross.
“ It seems probable,” he said, “ that
the salmon have fixed locations in the
ocean and that they do not go very far
out to sea. If this is so it should be
a fairly easy matter to locate the sal
mon banks outside the Sound. A con
tinuous supply of salmon would then
be available without regard to the run
in the rivers.. Little is known of the
deep-sea history of the salmon, but it
has been thought by scientists that
they migrated far out into the sea,
returning to the rivers to spawn.
“ It now seems probable that they
never go far from shore, but have
definite geographical locations in com
paratively shallow water.
The Alba
tross will endeavor to locate the sal
mon banks and an entirely new face
will be put on the salmon fishing in
dustry in the Northwest.”
$230,000 GIVEN BY HEIR TO
CHAIRTABLE INSTITUTIONS
Minneapolis—Twelve colleges, hos
pitals and charitable institutions of
Minnesota, nine of them in Minneap
olis, are the recipients of New Year’s
gifts aggregating $230,000 from
David D. Stewart, of St. Albans, Me.,
who inherited the estate of the late
Levi M. Stewart, of Minneapolis, a
pioneer who died here two years ago.
No restrictions are attached to the
gifts.
Mr. Stewart’s charities in the past
year have reached $630,000, nearly
half of the estate that was left him.
He had given about $40,000 to the
churches, colleges and charitable in
stitutions in Maine.
Color Line Is Barred
From Oregon Schools
Salem—“ It is the imperative duty
of all school boards of our public
school system to admit to the schools
within their districts all children re
siding therein, between the ages of 6
and 21, without discrimination as to
color or race. When the legislature
has not passed any act expressly au
thorizing them to do so, school boards,
created for carrying or. the public
schools of the state, have no lawful
power to provide separate schools for
the education of the white and colored
Oregon Better Com
State Than Average
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis—Oregon produces 25 per cent
more com per acre than the average
produced in the United States. Also,
Oregon produces 10 per cent better
corn than the average United States
crop. Yet Oregon produces less than
one-tenth of one per cent of all the
corn grown in the United States.
The average yield per acre in Ore
gon is 28.5 bushels, and the average
yield for the whole country is 23 bush
els per acre.
The average quality of the Oregon
corn crop is 93 per cent, and the aver
age quality for the whole country is 82
per cent.
The amount of the Oregon com crop
Tampa, Fla.—The first daily aero
plane passenger and express service
between two cities in the South, pos
sibly in the country, was opened Jan
uary 1, with a successful flight of a
hydro-aeroplane from St. Petersburg,
Fla., across the bay to Tampa, an air
line distance of 18 miles. A. C. Pheil,
ex-mayor of St. Petersburg, was the
passenger.
The flight was made in 23 minutes,
at an average height of 80 feet above
the water.
The return flight was
made at the same average speed.
Japanese to Aid Strikers.
Brother Sends Chickens.
San Francisco—The dream of find
ing a modern Utopia on Easter Island,
in the South Pacific, which has claimed
the attention of many aspiring young
swains who seek to wed the island
beauties and thereafter lead a life of
luxurious ease, was rudely shattered
by Steve Drinkwater, one of the sur
vivors of the schooner Eldorado, who
recently found a refuge on the island.
" I spent three enforced months on
Easter Isalnd, ” Drinkwater said,
“ and if that place is Utopia, give me
the nether regions.”
In view of these and other facts re
garding the island, Major Frank
Pooley, a retired British army officer,
has announced that the proposed ex
pedition with a party of young men
has been indefinitely postponed.
500 American Troops to
Receive Federal Army
Washington, D. C.—Full confidence
in the ability of the 500 American
troops at Presidio to deal with the
situation there was expressed by offi
cials of the War department. It was
said no special orders had gone from
Washington, the department deeming
it unnecessary to interfere with the
plans of Brigadier General Bliss, com
manding the forces at the border.
If the Mexican federáis seek Bafety
on American soil they will be dis
armed and held as refugees. No fight
ing will be tolerated on the American
side of the line and if the rebels fol
low the fugitives across they will be
given the same treatment accorded
the federáis. Officials here are satis
fied the chase will end at the border.
Aerial Express Line Open.
Seattle—At a recent meeting of the
Central Labor council, a delegate of
the Teamster's union announced that
the Japanese grocers of the city had
taken official action indorsing the
teamsters’ strike and pledging them
selves to patronize only wholesalers
employing anion team drivers, and al
so had adopted resolutions commend
ing trades unionism. The Japanese
own many retail grocery stores here,
some of them large.
for the year 1913 is 598,000 bushels.
The entire yield of the United States
is 2,463,017,000 bushels.
The above figures are taken from
the November Crop Report issued by
the United States bureau of statistics
and the weather bureau.
That com may be successfully and
profitably grown in Oregon has been
demonstrated by the Oregon Agricul
tural college, and by many private
growers as well. The reports of the
federal government show that not only
can more and better corn be grown in
Oregon than in the average state in
the Union, but that corn prices are al
so higher in Oregon.
Progress of County
New Fish Hatchery
Demonstration Policy
Gives Great Promise
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis—The policy of securing county
field and farm demonstration agents is
making rapid progress among the
counties of Oregon.
Already five
counties in various parts of the state
have complied with all requirements
and made the necessary appropriations
for maintaining the county agents in
co-operation with the Oregon Agricul
tural college. These five counties, to
gether with the sum appropriated by
each, are as follows: Lane, $2000;
Crook, $1500; Coos, $2000; Tilla
mook, $2000, and Harney, $2000.
Two counties, Baker and Grant,
have taken steps to establish a district
for demonstration work, expenses and
benefits to be shared according to
agreement. As mining and lumbering
are important industries In these coun
ties, it is felt that one farm agent can
serve both counties for a time, at
least.
Legislative provisions have
been made to cover such cases.
Wallowa and Marion counties will
be among the next to make provision
for securing county agents.
Malheur, Union and Klamath are
seriously considering the question.
Douglas county officers are being im
portuned by influential farmers to es
tablish the system, and Jackson coun
ty has taken up the matter with Pro
fessor French, state leader of agri
culture, who expects to see the system
adopted there at an early date.
The policy of maintaining county
agents of field and farm demonstration
work is heartily approved wherever it
has been tried. A convention of 175
farmers and business men of Spring-
field, Mass., passed resolutions ap
proving the work and providing means
of raising funds for its support. The
State Bankers’ association of Colorado
commended the plan, and pledged its
moral support of an effort to finance a
county agency in co-operation with the
agricultural college and the federal
department of agriculture, in every
county in Colorado.
Aside from their work in farm dem
onstration, the county agents have be
come active agents of co-operation.
The county agents of two Ohio coun
ties were able to effect the co-opera
tive marketing of a large lot of sur
plus potatoes that were grown in one
county, to the farmers of another
county in which there was a great
scarcity. A county agent of Southern
Colorado was the first to recognize a
disease that was killing large numbers
of hogs, as cholera. He found it very
difficult to convince the farmers of the
fact that the disease was cholera, and
succeeded only when his diagnosis was
confirmed by the veterinarian of the
agricultural college.
He then ex
plained the impossibility of eradicat
ing the disease single-handed and the
imperative need of a co-operative
campaign. By his skill and determin
ation, he saved an industry that is
worth to the county $5000 annually.
Southern Sea Utopia
Proves to Be a Myth
children.”
This was the finding of the Supreme
court in an opinion by Justice Ramsey
on the application of William Craw
ford, of Klamath county, for a writ
of mandamus to compel the school
board of district No. 7 of that county
to allow two of his children to attend
the public school. Crawford and his
wife are half Indian.
The children
were excluded from the school by the
board and the act was upheld by the
Circuit judge.
Albany — Three white-faced Black
Spanish chickens were a Christmas
present from Judge McKnight, of Mal
heur county, to Judge McKnight, of
Linn county. The two jugdes are
brothers, each having been chosen
county judge of his respective county
in the same election.
The significance of the present is
that when the two judges were young
men on their father’s farm in this
county, they raised this kind of chick
ens and had the only ones in this sec
John D. Gives to Church,
Cleveland—John D. Rockefeller’- tion of the state.
New Year greeting to the Eaclid Aves
1914 Motor Plates Sent Out.
nue Baptist church, which he attends,
was a gift of $7000.
Three months
Salem — Secretary of State Oleott
ago he pledged himself to give one has delivered to 8600 autoista automo
dollar for every 40 cents contributed bile and motorcycle plates for 1914.
by the remainder of the congregation There are about 14,000 automobile and
from November 1 to January 1. The motorcycle owners in the state, and
congregation gave $3000. The money plates have been sent only to those
will go to the church’s reserve fund.
making application for them.
Astoria—-The members of the state
board of fish commissioners have re
turned to Portland after visiting the
Klaskanine hatchery. Chairman Bil-
yeu stated that the commissioners are
pleased with the location of the Klas
kanine plant and can see no reason
why it should not be made eventually
one of the largest on the Coast. He
also stated that the commissioners had
visited the Bonneville hatchery and had
found the young fish at both places in
excellent condition, much better than
anticipated after hearing the numer
ous reports in circulation.
Warden Clanton was directed to
proceed with the improvements at the
Klaskanine hatchery that were inter
rupted by the dissolution of the old
board. This work will consist princi
pally of finishing the retaining ponds
that were under construction and the
improvement of the grounds generally.
Oregon City Proposes
to Have Mountain Water
Oregon City—The peope of Oregon
City are to be asked for $300,000 in
the form of a bond issue to construct a
pipe line to the south fork of the
Clackamas river. At a meeting of
the Mountain Water league the mem
bers decided to ask the city council to
present the matter to the people at
once.
The report of H. A. Rands, the en
gineer who has been making the sur
vey, shows that a pipe line can be run
to the south fork of the river at a cost
of $288,000. This includes the best
wood stave piping and provides for
the reservoir in the city.
The plan
includes a delivery of 3,000,000 gal
lons of water every 24 hours with a
total availabe supply of more than 15,-
000,000 gallons in the same length of
time.
Because of the adverse publicity
that the city has had during the sum
mer months and the number of typhoid
cases that in the popular mind have
been traced to the water, the commit
tee in charge of the work of the
league has been making surveys and
conducting investigations independent
of the city council.
The report of the engineers gives
the first estimate of the cost of con
structing the line for 26 miles and
gives a detailed description of the
route that might be used.
Band Will Go to Fair.
Baker—The Baker band, which at
tended the Lewis and Clark fair at
Portland in 1906, the Elks’ convention
at Los Angeles in 1909, and the Elks’
convention in Portland in 1912, has
decided to go to the Panama-Pacific
exposition at San Francisco in 1915.
Heretofore the members of the Baker
band, which is regarded as one of the
finest amateur bands in Oregon, have
paid their own expenses to these
events, and this will be the case in
the 1915 trip, unless the fair manage
ment aids them. The band numbers 32.
More Oysters Demanded.
Portland — Concluding that oysters
are not oysters when they are 25 per
cent water. City Sealer of Weights
and Measures Jones has started a cru
sade against oyster dealers which may
result in arrests on the charge of
shortweighting. Mr. Jones says that
he has found that the dealers in sell
ing a pint of oysters make 26 per cent
of the pint water. He says that from
now on he will insist that the water in
a measure of oysters shall not rise
above the level of the oysters.
Rebels Drive Federals to
Death, Defeat, Desertion
Presidio, Tex. — A battle in which
6000 or more rebels are seeking to
exterminate or drive across the United
States border the northern division of
the Mexican federal army is in pro
gress around Ojinaga, Mexico, oppo
site here.
For 36 hours the opposing forces
have been under a fire which caused
many dead and wounded or both sides.
General Toribio Ortega's rebel army,
reinforced by flanks to the right and
left, kept steadily on the offensive,
gaining and holding foot by foot the
approaches to the federal stronghod.
The federal army, dazed and disor
ganized by the first puff of rebel
smoke, clung to the trenches dug on
the hillside where it had decided to
make a last stand.
Though whipped
in the first rebel onslaught, which
drove their outposts to cover, and
though some of their wounded, with
deserters, jumped into the river and
waded to the American side, the fed
erals put up a plucky fight against
insuperable odds. Something like a
rally occurred among the federals
when daylight disclosed the position
of the enemy and encouraged the fed
eral generals to promise a slight hope.
The net results of the battle, so far
as they are obtaionable on this side,
w ere:
Many fell on each side. It was im
possible even to approximate the num
ber.
Several score deserters jumped into
the river and waded to the American
side.
They were disarmed and sent
back by Major McNamee, command
ing the border patrol. About 15 of
the deserters were wounded and were
permitted to remain on this side on
grounds of humanity.
They were
cared for by United States army phy
sicians.
That the federals will surrender is
improbabe, because of General Or
tega's explicit orders to execute the
so-called volunteers and their com
manders, Generals Pascual Orozco,
Ynez Salazar, Antonio Rojas, Bias
Orpilan, Lazaro Alanis and Roque
Gomez. Eighteen hundred volunteers
also come under the sentence of death
imposed by order of General Villa.
That the federals, with all their
generals except perhaps General Fran
cisco Castro, General Joe Mancila and
General Manuel Landa, of the regu
lars, will be forced over to the United
States in case of utter defeat, was be
lieved on the American side to be
most likely.
Big Siegel-Cooper Stores
In Hands of Receiver
New York — Two great department
stores in New York and one in Bos
ton; an express company, a wholesale
house and a private banking house run
in connection with the departments
stores allied with and controlled by the
Siegel Stores corporation, of which
Henry Siegel, of this city, is directing
head and president, were placed in the
hands of receivers Thursday through a
suit instituted by the holding company
in the federal courts.
None of the concerns, according to
statements of counsel, is insolvent,
and the action was taken to conserve
the ability to rehabilitate and reor
ganize them. The assets and liabili
ties were not given. Curtailment of
bank credit made receivership imper
ative, it was said. Their gross earn
ings heretofore have been estimated
at $40,000,000 annually. The Green-
hut-Siegel-Cooper company, of this
city, has no connection, direct or
otherwise, with the firms controlled by
the Siegel Stores corporation, and in
Chicago the store of Siegel, Cooper &
Co., although its stock is owned by
the Siegel Stores corporation, is pros
pering. Counsel here issued a state
ment to this effect, which was con
firmed by Max Pam, general counsel
for the Chicago store. The business
there, he said, would be continued
without interruption.
San Francisco Places
Ban on Auto Speeders
San Francisco--Half a dozen speed
ers were fined Thursday between $20
and $50 in Police court, although it
was their first appearance. Several
second offenders will be sentenced
soon. Since the Police court judges
adopted resolutions to fine all first
offenders and jail all second offenders,
the number of arrests for reckless
driving has been cut in two. An epi
demic of recklessness, culminating
last week in two brutal killings within
as many days, decided the judges, the
mayor and the board of supervisors
that drastic action was necessary.
Canned Skin to Be Used.
Baltimore—A departure in surgical
operations which will be watched by
several leading surgeons will be per
formed at a hospital here. Twenty
square inches of skin procured from
volunteers at the Rockefeller Institute,
of New York, will be grafted on the
body of Harry Stabler, who was
burned in an explosion. The skin is
in a glass receptacle, kept at a tem
perature that maintains what is known
among medical men as latent life.
During the operation the skin will be
Eggs Down to 30 Cents.
Medford—-With Christmas over, the warmed to the patient's temperature.
hens of the Rogue River valley aban
Beachey Flies Indoors.
doned their policy of inaction and eggs
San Francisco—In the first flight
were so plentiful Saturday that the
price fell 16 cents. Christmas Day ever attempted underneath a roof,
eggs were 45 cents, but now there are Lincoln Beachey, circled successfully
plenty at 30 cents. According to local the Interior of the Panama-Pacific ex
poultry dealers eggs probably will be position palace of machinery, but
down to 20 cents a dozen within a made a poor landing and smashed his
biplane. Beachey was uninjured.
week or so.
Giant Banking House Withdraws
From Big Coniorations.
Four Other Prominent Financiers
Follow—End of Interlocking
Directorates Is Seen.
New York—The withdrawal of J. P.
Morgan & Co., from more than a score
of great corporations and the state
ment by George F. Baker, an almost
equally dominant figure in American
finance, that he soon would take simi
lar action gave Wall street a thrill that
almost brought trading on the Stock
Exchange to a halt.
While it is probably true that many
of the prominent bankers had inform
ation foreshadowing this momentous
move toward ending interlocking di
rectorates, the public and brokers had
no advance knowledge of what was
taking place in the inner councils of
the greatest of all American houses of
finance.
Wherever telephone and
ticker flashed the news about the
street, groups of men gathered to dis
cuss what was the all-absorbing topic.
Mr. Morgan, departing from his
firm’s traditional policy of silence,
made a public statement announeng
the withdrawal of five members of J.
P. Morgan & Co. from directorships in
27 corporations and the intention to
withdraw from more. The statement
said:
“ The necessity of attending many
board meetings has been so serious a
burden on our time that we have long
wished to withdraw from the directo
rates of many corporations. Many of
these directorships we have accepted
with reluctance, and only because we
felt constrained to keep in touch with ,
properties which we had reorganized
or whose securities we had recom
mended to the public, both here and
abroad.
“ An apparent change in public sen
timent in regard to directorships seems
now to warrant us in seeking to resign
from seme of these connections.
“ Indeed, it may be, in view of the
change in sentiment on the subject,
that we shall be in better position to
serve such properties and their secur
ity holders, if we are not directors.
We have already resigned from the
companies mentioned and we expect
from time to time to withdraw from
other boards on which we feel there is
no special obligation to remain.”
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED
AND SALOONS CLOSED
Copperfleld, Or. — Martial law has
been declared at Copperfleld by Colo
nel B. K. Lawson. He was supported
by five members of the Coast artillery.
Miss Fern Hobbs, private secretary to
Governor West, demanded that the
saloonmen in the council resign, and
they refused. She then left town and
martial law was declared, all the sa
loons were seized, and the city officials
placed under arrest.
The saloonmen were given 24 hours
to ship their bar fixtures and liquors
out of the county, on penalty of their
confiscation.
The city officials under arrest are
not even permitted to communicate
with their attorneys.
Lazy Husbands Earn
Much Cash for Families
Seattle Wash.—Husbands and fath
ers to the number of 80 earned $901.60
for their families at the King county
stockade, near Ballard, during the
month of December, according to the
report of Sheriff Edward Cudihee,
filed in the county commissioners’
office.
The husbands and fathers are sent
to the stockade on the commitment of
Justice Fred C. Brown, who was the
father of the law, and specific sen
tences are given at a rate per day ac
cording to the size of the man’s fam
ily. The rate varies from $1 to $1.50.
Employes Share $30,000.
Washington, D. C. — Nearly 1000
employes of the Washington Street
Railway company began the new year
with a portion of the company’s surlus
for the last 12 months. Under a
profit-sharing plan, more than $80,000
was distributed among employes.
Each check was accompanied by a let
ter from President King thanking
the employe for his faithful service.
Motormen and conductors who had
been in the service only one month
got $3.56 each; those in the service
more than a year got $42.53.
Woman in Air Loops Loop.
Hendon, England.—Gustave Hemel,
for the first time in the history of avi
ation, looped the loop in an aeroplane
with a woman passenger. Miss Mary
Trehawke Davis.
She had accom
panied Hemel on many previous
flights, notable among them one from
London to Paris. In the Paris flight
Miss Davis gained the distinction of
being the first woman to cross the
English channel in a heavier-than-air
machine.
Radium Land Withdrawal Indorsed
Washington, D. C.—The proposal of
Secretary Lane to withdraw all lands
of the publie domain believed to con
tain radium, in the interest of the
public good, meets with the hearty
approval of Dr. George Otis Smith,
director of the Federal geological sur
vey.