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Western Union engineers have long since completed their surveys of alternative routes for a new Pacific cable to carry 2,500 letters per minute. They can put it down alongside the Commercial Pacific sections from San Francisco to Honolulu, to Midway Island, to Guam, to Manila, to ShanghaiOSE...
Died. Charles Fuller Baker, founder and dean of Los Banos Agricultural College* at the University of the Philippines, brother of Author Ray Stannard Baker ("David Grayson"); at Manila, P. I. For eight years he had lived in a village shack, sleeping on a broken bamboo bed, halving his salary with War-impoverished fellow-scientists in Europe. He furnished the Universities of Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Moscow, Vienna and the Philippines with extensive zoological collections; left a collection at Los Banos including 50,000 insect specimens...
...hoped that the proposed 'change in Philippine control would not be taken as a criticism of General Wood, to whose administration the President paid high compliment. The General arrived in Manhattan last week, stopped at the Waldorf-Astoria, continued to announce that he would be back in Manila by September. He said that President Coolidge was "a great President," that the Filipinos were the "happiest people on earth" and that though most of them undoubtedly wanted independence, they really did not understand what independence would mean...
While on the boat bringing him back to the U. S., General Wood was thrown to the deck by a sudden lurch of the boat; refractured three ribs which he had broken in a recent automobile accident near Manila...
Samuel Untermyer, able Manhattan lawyer, now on a round-the-world cruise, stopped in Manila for two days, talked with Governor General Leonard Wood, found the Philippines "bristling with complications." Also, said Mr. Untermyer, "I found less interest among the natives than I expected on the question of independence, except among the politicians...