Brewery Owner Cooperates With Police Raids in Steelton
Fred Smith owner of the Smith brewing plant in Steelton has offered police a permanent key to his plant and invited raids on request. He said prior enforcement visits caused heavy damage from door breaking and window smashing and that keeping doors closed protects the property from neighborhood vandalism.
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Harrisburg
U.R
Smith Brewing
Steelton
Fred Smith
Duncannon
Smith
Swedish explorer praises camel for surveying desert
Stockholm June 2 Dr Sven Hedin explorer states the camel is the best aid for surveying desert regions of Asia. He describes mapping methods using only a compass watch measuring tape paper pencils and a camel as a primary instrument. He measured distances by the camel's steps as a reliable basis for preliminary computations.
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Stockholm
Asia
Sven Hedin
Pitt Weekly survey on who will succeed at Pitt
The Pitt Weekly questionnaire asks which student is most likely to succeed after graduation. Student V boasts of innate ability, while Student M credits himself as a destined standout. Coed comments praise Broadway ambitions, with other notes citing “What it takes” and “the socko that it takes” as reasons for future success.
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Broadway
El Paso V town for hoboes says easy mark to beggars
El Paso earns the label V town in a hoboes’ city ranking. Mrs. Olive D. McGuire, community chest director, says an easy mark town yields $2 to $5 an hour for beggars on streets and in neighborhoods. A circle signals poor pickings, a rectangle with a dot means cooties, three circles urge moving on, and pendulums show mixed kindness. Interlocked squares mark towns good for hoboes to meet others.
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EL Paso
Tex
Olive D. McGuire
Community Chest
McGuire
Ideal husband chosen by coeds at state teachers college
Albany June 20 coeds at State Teachers College pick the ideal husband from a questionnaire. Most value toleration and morals over looks. Laura Styn wants courtesy and intellect and thrill, not wealth. Violet Putnam prefers a large, gruff athlete with either youth and innocence or older experience. New Orleans plans a £59 fire alarm system for the city.
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Albany
N. Y
State Teachers College
Laura H. Styn
Violet Putnam
Uneasy Lies the Head in Japan's Turbulent Era
NEA summary analyzes a series of Japanese assassinations over ten months, noting Tsuyuhi Inukai as the latest target and detailing prior victims Yugo Hamaguchi Junnosuke Inoue and Baron Takuma Dan. It explores motives, loyalty, and the view of young military zealots among Japanese subjects.
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NEA Service
Shakespeare
Japan
Tsuyuhi Inukai
Yugo Hamaguchi
Junnosuke Inoue
Finance
Takuma Dan
J. P. Morgan
Hirohito
Frank B. Kellogg
Henry L. Stimson
Andrew W. Mellon
United States
Law and Order
Tsuyoki Inukai
Baron Takuma Dan
Inukai
Skunk Shows Its Gratitude in Monument Square
In Concord Massachusetts on June 2 a brave Edmund Horton freed a skunk whose head was jammed in a preserve glass in Monument Square. A police officer admitted helplessness due to a new uniform. Horton removed the glass and the skunk departed quietly, leaving Edmund unscented.
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Concord
Mass
Edmund Horton
Edmund
Historic Monument Square
Wilson views Jefferson as not a great American
Dr. Louis A. Warren of the Lincoln Historical Research Foundation cites Woodrow Wilson’s 1894 Forum article ranking Jefferson as exotic and not a thorough American due to French philosophy. Warren notes Wilson called Lincoln the supreme American and lists Henry, Houston, Marshall, Webster, Lee, and Grant among other greats.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Thomas Jefferson
Woodrow Wilson
Louis A. Warren
Lincoln Historical Research Foundation
Wilson
Forum Magazine
Jefferson
American,” Dr. Warren Said. “Wilson
West Texas Chamber Sets Budget Reform and Beautification Plan
The central committee of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce outlines a budget procedure for local committees and proposes an institute on budget making. It urges reducing public expenditures, home rule county government, state administrative and judiciary reorganizations, and tax collection reforms. Additional aims include beautification, industrial development, and breeder feeder work with a Texas Meat promotion. A woman organizer may be hired to aid in hometown Buy At Home efforts and Manufacturers’ Shows.
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Central Committee
Texas
United States Congress
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
German Savings Banks Report Bigger Deposits
Berlin June 2 UP Economists note relief as the drain on German savings deposits ends and deposits rise again after a crisis. May 1931 saw deposits at 11.225 billion marks. seven months later 1.543 billion were withdrawn. The bottom came in December, with a rebound in early 1932 increasing deposits by 267 million to near 10 billion.
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Berlin
U.P
Germany
Rail And Road Mileage In U S World Share
The U S rail network makes up about one third of global railway mileage while U S highway mileage accounts for roughly 38 percent of the world total according to the Department of Commerce.
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United States
U.S. Department of Commerce
Hay crop loss from spontaneous combustion noted
About ten percent of the yearly hay harvest in the United States is destroyed by spontaneous combustion, a loss attributed to internal chemical heat buildup and ignition risks in stored hay supplies.
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United States
Shanghai investment mirrors Japan in U S funding
The United States has invested about 356 million dollars in the City of Shanghai, nearly matching its roughly 500 million dollar total in Japan.
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United States
Shanghai
Japan
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