Ohio reformatories workers build modern prison city
In Chillicothe Ohio the industrial reformatory has evolved into a compact city of brick shops dormitories and workrooms over the past decade. Inmates run kitchens bake bricks grow vegetables milk and pork while guards double as foremen and instructors training men to craft mechanical goods and manage the facility.
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A. M. Pinkerton
Ohio
Sanford
Imhamed
Rmg
Fort Sherman
Belge
Priwe
Guanis
Chillicothe
New York pilot tops altitude record in passenger plane
Annette Gipson piloted a 90 horsepower weight light plane through a severe thunderstorm over Ft. Lauderdale Florida reaching an estimated 14 000 feet with a passenger aboard. The airwoman’s claimed jump in altitude set a national mark for small two seat craft despite hazardous weather conditions.
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Annette Gipson
New York
Ft. Lauderdale
Fla
Trade Instruction Schedule for Whop Crews
Two nights weekly the whop crews receive hands on instruction in their trade. One afternoon each week is set aside for studying theory including sources of materials, machine development, and industry operations.
Weather Balloon Robot Demonstration At Washington
Scientists at the American Meteorological Society demonstration watched a government project using an automatic radio balloon to collect data 20 miles up. The device records temperature, pressure, and wind velocity as it ascends and transmits readings to Earth, aiming for a 20 mile altitude to provide a full vertical air profile.
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Stephen J. McDorough
Washington
Weather Bureau
National Bureau of Standards
American Meteorological Society
National Geographic Society
Army Air Corps
Normance
Air Palace
Music Festival slated At Montgomery May 11-12
Montgomery April 30 AP The Alabama high school music festival sponsored by the Montgomery Junior Chamber of Commerce will be held May 11-12. J Mac Jones general chairman said housing is arranged for 220 delegates at Huntingdon College and a peak attendance figure values around 750 to 500 with Georgia Wagner listed as Montgomer y county public school mule festival association president.
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Montgomery
Steel piling driven for Guntersville dam cofferdam
Dam steel piling begun by the Tennessee Valley Authority for the first cofferdam of the Guntersville power and navigation dam on the Tennessee River. The cofferdam will have 36 cells and two shore connections, each cell 43 feet in diameter, with construction of the main dam to start behind the cofferdams.
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Guntersville
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee River
Gunteravidle
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