Labor Unions Meeting Notes Seek New Delegates
Regular Cen tral Labor union meeting reports record attendance and routine work. New business calls for automatic suspensions after three absent meetings. unions must elect new delegates. Updates include officers elected and transfers, plus social notes from the Painters Auxiliary and various union reports on employment, quarantine, and building trades activities.
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Central Labor Union
H. ©. Anderson
The
Plains Capital News
Typographical Union No
Charles Griffith
Ted Mahon
Painters Union
Pampa
Harry Bishop
Painters Local
Painters Hall
Jack Woods
Marve Thomas
S. W. Trent
Dance Into Who's Who To Become Important
Chicago April 12 The article notes that social prominence can lift a person into Who's Who, citing Professor J A Tobin of DePaul University who defends the rising campus social figure as essential to academic life. The piece discusses society icons, campus appearances, and the guesswork of social status.
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International News Service
Chicago
Who's Who
J. A. Tobin
de Paul University History Department
Tobin
Not Dancing Yet Aids With Midol For Pain Relief
A vintage ad urges women to use Midol for menstrual pain. It claims quick relief within five to seven minutes and notes the product is non narcotic and safe for regular menstruation. Buyers are told to purchase a slim aluminum case of fifty cents from drugstores.
Social grace and leadership in historical study
Professor Tobin highlights hundreds of past leaders famed as social lions who gained power not by force but by their ability to get along with others. He argues that while social grace alone isn’t enough, without it talent struggles to shine in feudal courts and modern life alike.
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Professor Tobin
Tobin
Long association makes people grow alike
Chicago April 12 Professor Frank M Freeman of the University of Chicago told a Child Welfare League conference that long cohabitation causes people to resemble each other. He said orphans adopted by a family may facially resemble their foster parents, while separated brothers and sisters show similar likenesses.
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International News Service
Chicago
Frank M. Freeman
University of Chicago
Child Welfare League
Woman Freed On Charge Of Husband Death
Mrs Lena Kirchhofer 24 was released on a five year suspended sentence for shooting and killing her husband John G Kirchhofer 28 at their Houston home in February The verdict came after a trial that began Monday with Mrs Kirchhofer testifying that her husband threatened to shoot her and she beat him to it The widow smiled and thanked her attorneys as she embraced her mother after the ruling
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The
Associated Press
Houston
Tex
Lena Kirchhofer
Liberty
John G. Kirchhofer
F. L. Page
Kirchhofer
Intelligence and environment shape a child’s development
Prof Freeman argues intelligence is not hereditary and that orphans placed in intelligent homes show rapid gains, while those in less capable homes improve more slowly. Experimental balloons note a slight drop in temperature beyond 6 1 2 miles.
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Prof. Freeman
Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi Failing Health Sparks Anxiety
India’s Mahatma Gandhi, revered as the people’s leader, shows rapidly failing health. His illness has forced him to curtail public preaching, raising concerns among followers and weakening his hold on supporters.
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Mahatma Ghandi
India
Woman Sheriff Helen Colder Wins County Election
The Associated Press reports that Mrs. Helen Colder, widow and interim sheriff after her husband’s death, defeated three male opponents in Tuesday’s voting. She did not campaign, but said she treats guilty and innocent alike and proved capable during a winter riot with a fire hose and cold water.
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Associated Press
Lerals County
Helen Colder
Japan device records quakes with radio pendulum gauge
An experimental Japanese instrument uses a radio vacuum tube with a pendulum held ten degrees from vertical by a prop against a thin metal diaphragm forming a condenser. Variations in pressure move the prop and alter capacitor distance, read by a galvanometer to record earth movements.
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Japan
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Carpenters Local
Ed Tull
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