Heatproof fur and fish tale in Acapulco and rodeo notes
A 13 foot sea horse ashore near Batani prompts museum plans for skeletal study. Amarillo rider Earl Wilson returns to Will Rogers Range Riders Rodeo with Red Cloud at the Tri State Fair grounds May 10 to 12 sponsored by VFW Post 1907. In Los Angeles Dr. Raymond B. Cowles challenges textbook views on fur and feathers aiding survival, proposing sun protection as a factor in prehistoric mutations.
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Acapulco
Mexico
U.P
Earl Wilson
Amarillo
Earl
Red Cloud
Tri- State Fair Grounds
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Jones Brothers
Amarillo Hotel
Ralph
Claude
Bill
University of California At Los Angeles
Cowles
Chinese Give Japs Chance To Gripe
In Shanghai a Chinese office opened ten public opinion boxes on street corners for 80,000 local Japanese in Hongkowg to submit grievances, suggestions, and opinions. Participants must provide names and addresses. slanderous letters are not allowed and false charges may be ignored.
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Shanghai
Hongkowg
Sons of Nippon
Department of the Stars and Stripes
China
Milk Dealers Band Together in Denver Trade Group
Fluid milk dealers in this area formed the Denver Dairy Products Assn. to foster cooperation among producers distributors and consumers and to elevate the industry to a higher plane of ef
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Denver
Denver Dairy Products Assn
Price College Graduation Set for May 29
Commencement for Price College graduates led by David Hardin of San Francisco will be held May 29 with two students from multiple states. The baccalaureate sermon is May 26 at Sacred Heart Cathedral, with St. Marys Academy also hearing the sermon. The class president has passed a Navy V-5 test and will attend St. Marys in California next September for pre flight training.
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David Hardin
San Francisco
Sacred Heart Cathedral
St. Mary's Academy
Price College
St. Mary's
California
Rabbit skins used to make a felt hat
Three or four rabbit skins are required to craft a single felt hat. The process highlights the material cost behind traditional millinery.
Jerusalem Turmoil as Arabs Protest Palestine Plans
Fifteen thousand Arabs marched toward Damascus Gate in Jerusalem shouting Down with the British and Americans. Police and army barred gates as clashes left a few wounded while Jamal Husseini led protesters amid calls for a worldwide holy war against Britain and the United States.
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Jerusalem
Damascus
Palestine
Britain
United States
Old City
Gesthemane
Herod
Absalom
Jaffa
Zion and
St. Stephen
Anglo- American Commission
Chinese sailors rescue Mexican family near Acapulco harbor
Chinese goodwill mission sailors from eight vessels spotted a burning motor launch off Acapulco. They rescued Miguel Abed his wife and three children several miles offshore. The convoy of 250 sailors and Marines arrived May 1 and planned to march to Puebla on May 5 for the 84th anniversary of Mexico's defeat of French forces.
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Acapulco
Mexico
U.P
Miguel Abed
Puebla
British Play for High Stakes in Palestine
United Press reports Britain seeks US partnership to manage Palestine crisis. Disarmament of Jewish and Arab forces is key before mass Jewish immigration, with Britain aiming to preserve empire communications and bases in Trans-Jordan and potentially Sudan or Tripolitania amid Arab league unity and threats.
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Palestine
United Press
Great Britain
United States
Britain
Middle East
Arab League
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
trans-Jordan
Iraq
Syria
Lebanon
Yemen
Russia
Sudan
Tripolitania
United Nations
Fort to Ranch: B 17 Gift for Boys Ranch Prize
B P Brents of Van Buren won a B 17 Flying Fortress offered through the Bride and Groom Program. He plans to donate the aircraft to Boys Ranch via the American Business Club, after a letter contest titled What Would You Do With a Flying Fortress.
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Boys Ranch
B. P. Brents
van Buren
Hollywood
John Nelson
Amarillo
Brents
American Business Club
Czech Rotarians 15 Percent Died Under Nazis
Prague officials for Rotary International report that 15 percent of Czech Rotarians were executed or died in Nazi prisons after the German ban on the organization. President Beneš received Rotary’s gold honorary governor insignia, hidden in a coat collar to endure Gestapo interrogations.
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Prague
U.P
Rotary International
Czechoslovakia
Benes
Rhode Island House Honors an Imaginary Lt Governor
Rhode Island's House of Representatives adopted a special resolution inviting his honor the lieutenant governor to a memorial observance. The catch is Rhode Island does not have a lieutenant governor.
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Providence
R. I
Rhode Island
House of Representatives
French Scientist Urges US Diet Knowledge for France
Paris based Prof. Jean Javillier of the French Institute says France lags the United States in diet knowledge and dietetics education. He cites American menus listing vitamins and urges French people to embrace vitamin rich foods like oranges despite current scarcity.
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Paris
France
America
Jean Javillier
French Institute
United States
Javillier
School for Deaf Denied Admission to League
In Austin on May 3 delegates rejected the Austin State School for the Deaf’s bid to join the university interscholastic league. Weaver Baker cited the school’s strong showings in Fort Worth and Houston fat stock shows, with 17 prizes, but the motion to admit the school failed unanimously amid one objection labeled mercenary.
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Austin
U.P
Austin State School For the Deaf
Weaver Baker
State Board of Control
Fort Worth
Houston
Who Put Fence Up in McKeesport
City officials in McKeesport Pennsylvania seek who erected a fence around the municipal swimming pool after a 1937 $50 check and a Volkwein Bros. Wire Works bid from Pittsburgh for the fence were found in city hall.
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Mckeesport
Volkwein Bros. Wire Works
Pittsburgh
Unknown fence mystery at city pool sparks query
City Clerk Clifford W. Flegal asked a company if it built the fence but the firm admitted uncertainty. The check was returned and the municipal swimming pool fence remains, though no one knows who erected it.
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Fivm
Clifford W. Flegal
116th Birthday Party Stuns New Bedford Woman
Mrs Rose Lia De Barros aged 116 surprised New Bedford residents by revealing that the birthday party given in her honor was her first ever.
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New Bedford
Mass
U.P
Rose Lia de Barros
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