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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1932
Page
8
British planes drop parachute loads to ration 1,000 troops marching from Dargai to Chitral. Each day 56 loads of 120 pounds totaling over three tons. 12 of 14 loads reach ground within a marked circle. Air supply seen as pivotal for fast, secure troop provisioning where land routes fail.
In modern Turkey with western laws and women’s emancipation, divorce decisions take months or years. First Turkish divorce statistics show 2127 divorces in one year, 181 over three years, 56 two to nineteen months, 136 eighteen to eighteen months, 311 one year to nine months, 717 four months to one month. Incompatibility tops motives with 1529 cases, followed by polygamy infidelity desertion and unknown causes.
November 1914 saw the German cruiser Emden run ashore on Cocos Island by an Australian warship. Australia plans to return Emden s nameplate to Germany as thanks for the crew s conduct, per a note from the British ambassador to the German chancellor.
Austin Texas old days of wells throwing oil over the top are doomed. State railroad commission orders oil conservation to forbid wells breaking the top and require equipment to control flow to the side. Display fueled by advertising value attracted attention and sold stock but posed fire danger.
Mountain View California road crews on the new Bay shore highway uncovered five Fisher Indian graves with beads mortars and funeral belongings. The remains were reburied along the highway right of way.
Max Yalian, 19, received a 15 year prison term for burglary in Detroit after his mother Mrs. Caro lina Yalian asked judge McKay Skill hinn to consider the youth “out of my control.”
New York report quotes Mrs. William Sea brook claiming natives on the Ivory Coast seek white medicines. She says epsom salts are a coveted remedy for constipation among cannibals, who would mix witch doctor cures with a strong laxative for relief and profit.
Washington reports federal board for vocational education expanding home making studies in schools. Courses cover economy, nutrition, sanitation, textiles, child care, and appliance safety with simple methods that a fourteen year old can grasp.
Washington reports gains in enrollment across nearly all vocational education fields, led by agriculture, home economics, and trade and industrial courses with about 61 000 more students. The federal board cites unemployment as a driver, noting many new students seek available jobs or retraining after job losses from changing processes or machinery.
Oklahoma City reports quail supply has not kept pace with a 4 percent drop in licensed hunters. Licensed hunters fell from 12 748 in the prior period while quail numbers show only a slight increase. A restoration program is under formation, but agricultural expansion and predator pressure in small restricted areas continue to threaten quail. State game commissioner Ben Mobley comments on the situation.
Wooster Ohio reports Dr. Benjamin F. Vanney of Wooster College predicts four eclipses and meteoric showers in 1982. Two partial lunar eclipses on March 2 and September 14 will be visible across North America, an annular solar eclipse on March 7 in Australia, a total solar eclipse on August 21 in the United States, and a Leonid meteor shower between November 11 and 17 comparable to the 1865 event.
Washington reports Cuba's sugar crop moving from cane fields to dinner table via national effort. A National Geographic bulletin details steps from ox carts to railcars, crushers, and the sugar refining process including evaporation, vacuum pans, and crystallization leading to white table sugar and eventual blackstrap byproducts.
A calf born in Leong Prairie township, St. Cloud area, has a bulldoglike face with a protruding lower jaw and nostrils split on each side. Owner William Becker plans to sell the calf for display.
Elkhart Indiana inventor George L Stauffer works on new gyroplane ideas and a large Harrick aeroplane design. The planned craft combines a conventional plane with auto gyro and aims to extend gyroplane development after a fatality in Niles Michigan.
In Topeka Kansas a fourteen year old boy explains he skipped school to provide lunch for his siblings. Truant officer Kelsey Petro investigated and found the family in need and is now helping the boy find a job to support them.
William Marsh, a veteran rancher from Tonopah, Nevada, shot a 187 pound buck with a rare freak horn growing in the center of its forehead about four inches long. The unusual feature drew local interest and showcased Marsh’s hunting skills in the vicinity.
A reflective verse by Johan G R Bauer of Ironwood Michigan contemplates weather and mood. It contrasts gloom with glimpses of spring, noting rain and snow as possible blessings and ending with a turn from lute to flute.
German heart specialist Dr. Franz M. Groedel outlined twelve commandments for those with heart trouble or fear thereof. Key guidance includes moderate eating and exercise, limited nicotine and alcohol, daily rest, steady emotions, spaced vacations, weekly rest, and strict adherence to physician instructions. The list emphasizes treating exercise as therapy, not sport, and prioritizing calm, regular routines.
Government pay rolls and salaries may be slashed in economy measures but Detroit post office costs will continue from the miscellane ous fund. Cats are provided to keep mice from mail containing food stuff and to boost morale among women clerks.
Pick up small splinters of glass with moistened absorbent cotton. Old whisk brooms make good sink brushes when the worn ends are cut off evenly.
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