Fire Risk On This Flat-Top Carrier Featured Fire-Eater Seaman
Aboard HMAS Sydney 19 year old Able Seaman John Poole of Burwood Melbourne showcases fire eating sword swallowing and knife throwing on a carrier. He jokes about near wardroom fires and says wind on the flight deck limits demonstrations. Poole learned tricks with a circus rouseabout background and heads to a fire control drill as an emergency party runs.
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Hmas Sydney
John Poole
Burwood
Melbourne
Poole
Nantes
Navy
Three Apples a Day to Protect Teeth Says Paris Professor
Paris professor Michel Dechaume says three apples per meal can keep many from the dentist chair. He notes diet matters most for dental health, praises raw apples for cleaning the mouth, and warns sweets threaten teeth.
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Paris
Michel Dechaume
Dechaume
France
New Uses for an Old Invention
A moisture tester once a British export now aids Brazil’s racecourses in assessing sand and grass track conditions after rain. It helps farmers test grain moisture before storage to prevent losses and aids efforts against soil erosion in food producing regions. The simple device serves about 50 trades and can be operated by unskilled labor to determine moisture percentage in grain soil sand or other materials in minutes.
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Brazil
Stamp collecting tops US hobbies in Hobby Federation report
The Hobby Federation says stamp collecting is the most popular hobby in the United States with about two million collectors. It notes 15 million hobby club members nationwide, including 10 million women and 7 million men, plus 2 million children. Other popular pastimes include glassware collection, woodworking, model making, doll making, autograph hunting, coin collecting, painting, needlework, and miniatures.
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Hobby Federation
America
Dark Hobby-Horse
Sun
Truffles Seekers Use Dogs and Pigs in Hidden Hunt
Truffles grow underground and are located by their strong scent with dogs or pigs. Pigs dig up the ground and are bribed with chestnuts. Italian truffle zones are guarded to prevent poaching while poachers send dogs through guards. Retrievers are among the best suited breeds for locating top quality specimens.
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Italy
Thrush Interrupts Folkestone Outdoor Concert
A thrush perched on a bandstand during a Folkestone open air concert of about 1000 people. The bandmaster shifted to In a Monastery Garden, but the bird sang louder and sweeter, drawing attention away from the band until the performance ended.
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Folkestone
Liverpool thieves open safe with oxy acetylene torch
Thieves used Henderson and Glass Ltd. equipment to blast open a safe and abscond with more than 190 pounds in notes. Police appeal for information as the incident is investigated.
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Liverpool
Henderson and Glass Ltd
Hollywood Notes on Claire Trevor and New Year Film Plans
Claire Trevor earns 20000 dollars a picture and signs with Milton Bren for Borderline. Nadia Gray, survivor of a German camp, teasers in Paris and will play in The Spider and the Fly with Eric Portman. Cecil B De Mille to star in Sunset Boulevard reviving Gloria Swanson. Ray Evans and Jay Livingston debut, performing The Paramount Dont Want Me blues at a Hollywood New Year's Eve party. Dennis Price eyes remake of The Bad Lord Bryan after Vienna stint. Cedric Hardwicke plays King Arthur in A Yankee In King Arthur's Court with Oscar Rudolph calling him Slats.
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Nadia Gray
Britain
Nadia
Noel Coward
Paris
Eric Portman
Paramount
Cecil B de Mille
Sunset Boulevard
Gloria Swanson
Gloria
de Mille
Hollywood
Ray Evans
Jay Livingston
King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
Oscar Rudolph
King Arthur
Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Rudolph
Sir Cedric
Knight Bachelor
Cedric
Duke
Ime
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