Twins Toss Coin For School Honor
ASHEVILLE NORTH CAROLINA Pi Ruth and Eloise Cobb twin daughters of Mr and Mrs EC W Cobb of Polk county made the same grades during their four years in high school and had to toss a coin to determine who should be valedictorian of the senior class. Ruth won and became valedictorian while her sister is the salutatorian. The two girls daughters of the county superintendent of schools bear a striking resemblance and teachers have difficulty telling them apart.
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Asneville
N. C
Ruth
Eloise Cobb
Ec. W. 3. Cobb
Polk County
Coffin Foundation Awards Fellowships
Eight one year fellowships awarded by the Charles A Coffin Foundation to support original research in electricity physics and physical chemistry. Recipients may study at institutions of their choice andGE announces the awards to encourage further research by students already engaged in this field.
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Schenectady
N. Y. UP
Charles A. Coffin
General Electric Company
Radio Commission Names Starbuck and Saltzman to Board
The federal radio commission fills its remaining seats with Wolligin D. L. Starbuck a New York Democrat patent attorney and mechanical engineer from the first zone and Maj. Gen. Charles Saltzman former chief of the signal corps taking the fifth zone seat. The board now includes veteran lawyers Robinson and Judge Eugene Sykes along with Ira E. General Saltzman and Harold Lafount.
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Washington
Wolligin D. L. Starbuck
New York
Federal Radio Commission
Twu
Starbuck
O. H. Caldwell
Charles Saltzman
Signal Corps
Sam Pickard
Middle Western
Middle West
Diegel and Duncan Shine in Ryder Cup Singles
Leo Diegel and George Duncan led their sides in 28-hole Ryder Cup singles. Diegel shot 102 for the day with 13 birdies and 9 pars, finishing 10 under for 28 holes and winning his match nine up. Duncan posted 105 for 28 holes, with one eagle, nine birdies, 15 pars, and eight under, winning ten up with eight to play.
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Diegel
Duncan
Leo Diegel
George Duncan
United States
Canada
Abe Mitchell
Rock
Moortown
Gibraltar
Talk Two Hours Over Wire From Speeding Train
The feasibility of two way telephone conversation from a moving train to a stationary point was demonstrated on Canadian National Railway. A Toronto Chicago line test used railroad wires and radio to carry voice from a train at 40 miles per hour to Toronto offices for two hours on May 5.
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Torontop
Canadian National Railway
Chicago
Toronto
Ontario
J. C. Burkholder
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Newark
N. J
W. D. Robb
Barber
Robb
Warsaw Purchase Upsets Forest Herds After War
War saw Warsaw acquire several hossen for the forest of Jalowierzx where shaggy herds once roamed. The animals were killed during the war by soldiers or poachers.
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Warsaw
Skinny Ironized Yeast Promise Gains In Weeks
A sensational weight gain pitch touts Ironized Yeast with iron as the key to rapid pounds. Claims of 10 pounds in 3 weeks and other letters support the claim, noting improved blood and complexion. The ad promises a full course treatment with a money back guarantee if results aren’t seen.
Ship Overladen Says Another Vestris Officer
London testimony at the Board of Trade inquiry into the Vestris disaster attributes the sinking to a combination of circumstances. Leslie Watson, second officer, says the ship was overladen and steering failure at noon on Sunday mattered little without the master’s guidance. He rejects timely SOS necessity and notes he disclosed the draught only after reaching New York and telling Captain Coombs of N G Insurance.
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London
Leslie Watson
Board of Trade
Vestris
Watson
New York
William H. Coombs
Navigation and General Insurance Company
Reds Dwindle As Mid Europe Wins Stability
Vienna report notes postwar Central Europe offers a field for Communism but after ten years of effort the movement weakens. Austria shows least power with no Communist in Parliament and no viable Communist press, aided by Social Democratic measures aiding workers and the poor.
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Mid-Europe
Vienna
Europe
Balkans
Austria
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Social Democratic Party
Michigan cancels fourth Greenland expedition
ANN ARBOR Mich UP Cancella tion of the fourth University of Michigan Greenland expedition due to insufficient funds is announced by Prof. William H Hobbs director of the three previous expeditions The work of the university continues to seek support for Arctic research plans
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Ann Arbor, Mich
University of Michigan
William H. Hobbs
Greenlax station opened in 1926 gains rescue fame
A meteorological station in Greenlax, established in 1926, drew notable attention last summer for aiding the rescue of Bert Howe Parker Cramer and Illinois expedition members. The report notes dramatic Turkish breadmaking methods and a Prefect’s directive about using machines in a hidden Bakers context.
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Greenlax
Bert Howe Parker Cramer
Smyrna
Escaped convict admits he set fire to prison
Ivan Pickering, 24, captured near Hamilton Ohio, confessed that he and two other prisoners deliberately set the Junction City prison brick plant fire last October, causing the deaths of 14 men.
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Hamilton
Ohio
Ivan Pickering
Ohio Penitentiary
Junction City
Here
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Birmingham
Ala
Coffin Foundation
Dothan
van Ritch
Albert Logue
General Insurance
Radio Commission
Ordinance Department
Army
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Royal Society of Mechanical Engineers
Mr. Starbuck
New England
North Atlantic States
Commission
General Saltzman
Harold Lafount
Utah
Far West
Walter Hagen
Marshall Field
Michigan Cancers Arctic Expedition
Hanes
Samsonbak Union
Vo Holds
Samsonbak
P. H. Hanes Knitting Co
Winston-Salems North Carolina
Samson
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