Federal building program creates jobs across the U S
The emergency relief and construction act funds a federal building program to employ hundreds of thousands. Assistant Secretary Ferry K Heath notes 400000 already at work on 41 post offices and other buildings, with 860000 in fabricating and materials plants. The plan includes 142 more projects costing up to 100000 each and a Los Angeles water district loan to support a Colorado river aqueduct.
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Ancient Ponca Tribe Guard Rituals and the Last Medicine Man
Story recounts Little Dance, an elder Ponca from Ponca City Oklahoma, as the last keeper of clan secrets and medicine man rites. He recalls 1833 comets and the forbidden son dance rituals, saying the knowledge will die with him.
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Okla
Little Dance
United States
Wes
Here
Weteor
Legion Commander Louis A. Johnson Elected National Leader
Louis A. Johnson of Clarksburg West Virginia was elected national commander of the American Legion at a convention in Portland Oregon. He is forty two and saw active combat in the Meuse Argonne offensive before serving in the Occupation Army in Germany.
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W. Va
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Portland
Ore
Germany
Occupation
Eleven camels unearthed in Nebraska head to Colorado Museum
A herd of eleven three foot high camels from Nebraska, 3,000,000 years old, will be displayed at the Colorado Museum of Natural History. Director J D Figgins notes they lived in a Miocene desert as sands preserved their remains. Archie the mammoth also from Nebraska sits nearby, though his age is about 20,000 years.
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Nebraska
Colorado Museum of Natural History
Bere
Sahara Desert
Emmels
J. D. Figgins
Sanod
Denver
Archie
Modest Dress Rule for Kansas Holiness Camp Choirs
At the annual old fashioned camp meeting the Kansas Holiness association bans bobbed hair for girls and women in the choir and requires modest dress. The services feature simple prayer at 7 pm, followed by song and preaching with an afternoon session following the same routine.
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Wichita
Ekan
Kansas State Holiness Association
Window in chest aids study of internal diseases
Dr Walter L Mendenhall of Drake and Boston University demonstrates a photographic film window placed in the chest to observe the heart lungs and diaphragm in animals. The device aims to help treat tuberculosis heart disease and lung disorders, with prospects of ultraviolet light therapy via a quartz window. He showed the technique in April before the Federated Societies for Experimental Biology in Philadelphia.
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Iowa
Walter L. Mendenhail
Drake University
Mendenhall
Boston University School of Medicine
Mendeshall
Federated Societies For Experimental Biology
Philadelphia
Veteran Regains Memory and Kin After 14 Years
Army veteran Lewis M. Greeney, 39, separated from wife and children for 14 years, was reunited with his family in New York after memories returned. He was injured at Camp Wadsworth, South Dakota, in 1918 when he saved a child from a truck and later recalled living in Blossvale, New York with help from the American Legion.
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N. Y
Lewis MN
Greeney
Camp Wadsworth
Blossvale
American Legion
Detective's Daughter Proves Self Good Sleuth
Seattle girl Rita Callahan ten, daughter of Detective H. Callahan, returns a wallet found at the scene. She questions a man seeking the lost article, confirms ownership, and hands the wallet back. He rewards her with five dollars for her sleuthing.
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Rita Callahan
H. & Callahan
Rita
Kim
Free Gas After Tank Truck Overturned in Seattle
A large gasoline truck overturned into a ditch in Seattle Washington forcing it to dump its 3 000 gallon load before tow trucks could remove it. Motorists lined up to dip up free fuel as hundreds of gallons spilled into the scene.
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Seattle
Wash
Insull Detained in Greece and World Finances Rise
Samuel Insull, ex-utilities magnate, was detained in Athens on a passport inquiry and released after the Greek premier intervened. US officials planned further action under pending extradition and a broader inquiry into the Insull collapse. Senate banking investigators move on to probe the crisis as Hoover and Roosevelt debate policy. Stalin purges senior Bolsheviks Kamenev and Zinoviev, with 20 others ousted for alleged plotting against him.
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Insul
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Orl
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Communist Party of Russia
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Moscow
People's Commissar
Leon Trote
Stalin
Zinoviev
Leningrad
Communist Internationale
Central Executive Committee
Communist Party
Gaypayou
Parity
Tariff Increases Hit Canadian Trade and Campaign Acreage
Canada raises tariffs on iron and steel anthracite leather chemicals toilet goods and cotton goods against US trade under imperial conference terms. The presidential campaign narrows to speeches as Coolidge defends Hoover policies and Roosevelt faces sharp Democratic rebuttals.
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Canada
United Kingdom
Guinea
Dominion
Great Britain
Davys Diplomacy in London Shapes Geneva Disarmament Talks
Norman Davis American delegate to the Geneva disarmament conference seeks compromise among naval powers. He met Prime Minister MacDonald and Sir Belton Eyres-Monsell to discuss naval limits and broader disarmament. Premier Herriot also conferred with MacDonald on Germany's demands.
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Norman
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Geneva
London
America
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MacDonald
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Admiralty
Wootter Layton
England
Herriot
France
Germany
United States
Mr. Davis
World voyagers rescued after Indian Ocean crash
APT. WOLFGANG VON GRONAU and three companions on an 8 round-the-world flight crashed in the Indian Ocean when a water pump failed. The radio remained operational and the British steamer Karagola answered their distress call, rescuing the crew from the damaged aircraft.
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Wolfgang von Gronau
Indian Ocean
Belfast riot tests unemployment unrest and troops
A two day Belfast mob of about ten thousand jobless men clashed with police and set fires to large buildings. Dozens were wounded as disorder surged again triggering British troops to quell the unrest. Enniskillen Fusiliers and King’s Royal Rifles deployed.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation funds for agricultural credit grants
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation deposited 6 000 000 with the Treasury as capital for its agricultural credit corporations in Minneapolis Minnesota and Wichita Kansas. These regional concern loans will start immediately to farmers and stock raisers in their districts. Other loan agencies in Columbus Show City Spokane and Salt Lake City already had funds. Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform polls show 247 candidates favor repeal 42 evasive and 23 oppose repeal. Among Democrats 23 replies 1 opposed repeal. among Republicans 170 replies 100 favor repeal 42 evasive 22 oppose repeal.
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Treasury Department
Minneapolis
Minn
Wichita
Kan
House
Gente
Women's Organization For National Prohibition
Reform
Einstein to Head Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton
Alexander Flexner announces Prof. Albert Einstein will accept a life appointment as head of the Institute's school of mathematics to be based in Princeton New Jersey. Oswald Veblen joins as professor. institute to be a pure graduate facility separate from existing universities.
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Institute For Advanced Study
Princeton
N. J
Albert Einstein
Mia Einsteing
Germany
Mada Nrge
Oswald Veblen
Rinceton University
Institute
School of Mathematica
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