Paris Extends City Building Zone to Include Suburbs
Paris plans to ask parliament for funds to finance a building and zoning plan extending the metropolitan area thirteen miles beyond current limits. The Greater Paris movement notes population shifts as amusement venues and garages expand the center, while city proper declines.
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International News Service
Paris
Ministry of Interior
Louis Dausset
Greater
Seine Department
England to Send Drum to Boost Trade Prospects
London May 18. The British government appoints Douglass Hacking as a drummer to tour Great Britain meeting local chambers of commerce. He will discuss trade prospects and Britain's overseas markets under the export credits scheme, which has contracts worth 10 million dollars and rising trade activity.
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International News Service
London
Great Britain
Douglass Hacking
Overseas Trade
Hacking
Sealing Herds Grow as Pacific Fur Seals Return to Pribilofs
Coast guard and Bureau of Fisheries guard the Pacific fur seal herd as 808,870 seals migrate toward Pribilof breeding grounds from southern California to Alaska. Indians may kill at sea and near shore under treaty, but pelagic sealing is controlled. In 1927, 24,942 seals were taken, and the herd’s value exceeds $30 million with pelts auctioned for about $745,410 in 1926.
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Coast Guard
Federal Bureau of Fisheries
Uncle Sam's
Pacific
Pacific Coast
California
Pribilof Islands
Alaskan
Bering Sea
Bureau of Fisheries
Alaska
British Columbia
United States
Treasure Islands
Paul
St. George Islands
Amarillo Summer School to Open May 28
The Amarillo Tyler street school will open a ten week summer session starting Monday May 28. Classes run daily from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. for grades one through eight. Director BF King and staff C. G. Truitt Miss Thelma Smith Oscar Wise E C Potter J S Evans Miss Ethel Jackson and Miss Sarah Miller are listed.
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Amarillo
Tyler Street
BF. King
Mr. King
C. G. Truitt
Thelma Smith
Oscar Wise
E. C. Potter
J. 5. Evans
Ethel Jackson
Sarah Miller
Fire damages in Midland oil tanks hit 200000
Lightning struck two large oil tanks in Midland Texas causing damage estimated at about 200000. Firefighters fired a 6 inch cannon to prevent boiling and spread of the blaze as the inferno raged last night.
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Associated Press
Midland
Tex
Heavy hailstorm hits area southeast of Amarillo
Hail stones up to hen egg size fell at 5 pm yesterday about 15 miles southeast of Amarillo, covering a five by 25 mile strip toward Claude and damaging 35 to 50 percent of wheat crops.
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Amarillo
Claude
Dame Ethel Smyth Defends Women Against Sex Jealousy
London readers report Dame Ethel Smyth, famed English composer and Doctor of Music, rebutting Lord Birkenhead's claim that men are better than women. She argues men obstruct women’s progress through a covert anti social conduct to keep them from opportunities and recognition.
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International News Service
London
Ethel Smyth
Dame Ethel
Lord Birkenhead
India
Hearing impairment among school children in Berkeley
In Berkeley California on May 18 eighty of every hundred school children are reported to have a hearing defect of some kind. The article notes that fifteen of these eighty are hard of hearing with varying degrees of impairment.
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International News Service
Berkeley
Cal
Globe Classified Ads Offer Wide Opportunities
Classified readers notice a broad range of offers in the Globe column. Interested buyers or sellers are urged to phone 6262 to place a classified ad and gain exposure in the daily listing.
University course on lip reading for hard of hearing children
The University of California announced a course titled Methods of Teaching Lip Reading to Hard of Hearing Children. Miss Agnes Stowell will lead the program, stating that lip reading lessons can help children threatened with deafness maintain school efficiency as their hearing declines.
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Ing
University of California Today
Agnes Stowell
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