Ancient fingerprinting methods traced to India and Europe
Researchers find fingerprinting originated in India where artisans used prints as trademarks. The system evolved into a modern international tool for crime detection, with Europe later adopting and refining it. The article notes a theoretical duplication risk of one in 64 billion patterns and highlights film industry use of fingerprint research.
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India
Bombay
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Clark ¢Gable
Rosalind Russell
Europe
Screen Fare Capitol Showings Mix Big MGM lineup
The Capitol screens a mix of MGM novelties and cartoons headlined by They Met in Bombay with Clark Gable and Rosalind Russell and Barnacle Bill with Wallace Beery. Also playing are The Reluctant Drage and Crime Doesn’t Pay, Time Out for Rhythm with Rudy Vallee and Ann Miller, and other serials and features including The Great Lie and My Son My Son.
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Capitol
Bombay
Clark Gable
Roselind Russell
MGM Novelty and Cartoon
Wallace Bre
Marjorie Main
Lea Carrillo
Drage
Pricilla Lane
Jeffrey Lynn
Rorali Reagen
May ‘Robson
Morrie Melody Care Toon
Rudy Vallee
Ann ‘Miller
Rosemary Lane
Allen Jenking
God Gien Gray
Orchestes
Bud Abbott
Lew Castello
Dick Powell
Andrew Sisters
Priday
Rialto
Rio
Don Ameché
Allee Faye
Carmen Miranda
Wich
Richard A Atlen
Andy Devine
Belle Davis
George Srént
Madeleine Carroll
Barbara. Stanwyck
Henry ‘Fonda
Frank Morgan
Alt Rutherford
Dennis Morgan
Shirley Ross
William Boyd
Russell
Remarkable Fingal’s Cave amid strange island lore
A description outlines Fingal’s Cave on Stafia island with 71 acre area and a 227 foot cave length. Columns form arches 42 by 66 feet, sea lights shine on roof and walls, and basalt pillars rise 18 to 36 feet high. Various film titles and actor credits appear amid the text. The piece also notes Mississippi River flow and wartime assignments in the U S Army, with mentions of Gulf Coast figures and Greece’s carpet industry.
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Fingal
Fingal's Cave
Stafia Island
INYA Marks Sixth Anniversary Here
About 500 youths and 200 staff attended a two hour banquet at the National Youth Administration work experience project in South Charleston to mark its sixth anniversary. The resident school operates inside part of the U S naval ordnance plant with municipal government led by Mayor Carson Wilson. Glenn S Callaghan and Ernest L Bailey gave principal addresses, Jacob Fulmer directed the program, and performances included music acrobatics readings and group singing. Many trainees gain skills in various trades and several are hired by Carnegie Steel Company which runs the plant.
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Vesta
National Youth Administration
South Charleston
U. S. Naval Ordnance Plant
Carson Wilson
Glenn S. Callaghan
West Virginia
NVA
Ernest L. Bailey
Jacob Fulmer
Carnegie Steel Company
Naval Ordnance Plant
Barbering Prices Set Across Area Shops
Barbering prices rise in the Charleston district from Montgomery to Nitra with haircuts at 65 cents in union shops beginning Tuesday. Joan T. Harrison, secretary treasurer of the Journeymen, says 95 percent compliance expected as prices advance proportionally including fingerwave and shampoo. Beauty shops also raising rates with children’s cuts to 50 cents and Saturdays 65 cents.
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Montgomery
Nitra
Charleston
Joan T. Harrison
Journeymen’s Organization
Harrison
Washington, D. C
The
Union
Threatened Subway Strike in New York Averted
New York City faced a threatened subway strike by the Transport Workers Union CIO representing about 25,000 of 72,000 workers. After talks with Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, TWU President Michael J. Quill accepted a compromise ensuring contracts stay in force after Monday night, averting a strike that could have paralysed transit services.
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New York
New York City
Michael J. Quill
Tansport Workers Union
CIO
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Quill
LaGuardia
Small Catch Sparks Odd Drunken Ditch Arrest in Tucson
Police blotter reports a man arrested for public drunkenness after being found floating in an irrigation ditch at Simpson Street and Mission Road. The arresting officer Paesserby noted the party’s small stature and suggested returning him to the water.
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Tucson
Ariz
Tune Bas
Simpson Street
Mission Road
Paesserby
Camp Walhonde Staff To Prepare For Opening
Camp Walhonde staff of the Charleston Area Council coal river will report July 9 for opening prep. Leaders include Horatio Spector camp physician and Frank W. Goss director of aquatics. Executive Kinsey notes 6 529 boys have attended since 1926.
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Camp Walhonde
Charleston Area
Coal River
W. H. Penman
Horatio Spector
John Ankeney
Frank W. Goss
Charles O.hummel
Joe Pullen
David Baker
Earl Bathurst Thomas Beaver
Ernest Cobb
Ralph Harman
Lloyd Kennedy
Travis Knight
Charles Maloney
James Moore
Herbert Reid
Walter Riddlebarger
M. H. F. Kinsey
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