World Happenings Briefly Told From The Buckingham Fine Cut
A Royal Institute of British Architects delegate predicted 15 liner ships the size of the Queen Mary could someday dock at Southampton. Montreal Gazette editor T. H. Cunliffe, 65, longtime assistant financial editor since 1919 and prior advertising manager, has died in Montreal. A Sheffield confectionery firm was fined 8 dollars for employing an 18 year old girl 71 hours weekly with improper meal intervals. Fred R. Goodwin, with five hours solo flight experience, arrived at Croydon after a trip to India and back. his wife accompanied him. Three women magistrates heard motoring cases at Eastbourne before a male colleague joined them. A 7000 mile three minute telephone call between South Africa and Sweden was made, thought to be the first commercial link between the countries. J Selby Walker cites wildlife losses in Alberta as thousands of young ducks die as lakes dry. Spruce bud worm invasion threatens vast Manitoba Jack pine forests, says Col. H S Stevenson. The world's largest private nursing home is planned in Johannesburg, South Africa, to house 250 patients, 30 more than the next biggest home in New York.
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Royal Institute of British Architects
Southampton
T. H. Cunliffe
Montreal Gazette
Montreal
Sheffield
England
Fred R. Goodwin
Croydon
India
Eastbourne
South Africa
Sweden
Crouth
Alberta
J. Selby Walker
Calgary
Manitoba
Col. H. S. Stevenson
Johannesburg
New York
New Ceramic Process touted as major 3000 year advance
A MIT color conference revealed a new porcelain type with a surface finished by nut frost a metallic frost formed when metals freeze at 2000 degrees Fahrenheit. Described by Prof. F H Norton the process uses controlled crystal formation under glaze to produce brilliant rainbow colors and lustrous textures.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
F. H. Norton
Norton
Maharajah of Mysore Visits London First Time
The Maharajah of Mysore, worth about £80 million, visits London in his first trip abroad since 1895. He abstains from meat, alcohol, and smoking, and a temple room with a golden Chamundeswari statue will host daily rites.
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Maharajah of Mysore
London
Mysore
Indian Prince's Hotel
Chamundeswari
Hold Seed Wheat Warned By Alberta Minister
Hon. W. N. Chant, Alberta Minister of Agriculture, cautioned farmers against excess seed wheat export across the border despite high prices. He urged dry-area farmers to conserve seed, noting relief seed distribution will not cover grain already threshed and suitable for seed.
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Alberta
W. N. Chant
Chant
South Africa Census Counts by Notched Sticks
The 10 year census used an old tallying method with sticks showing male and female counts, collected at dipping tanks in Zululand. Over 8,000 enumerators conducted the survey assisted by motor cars in some districts while horses donkeys and Cape carts served locations without roads.
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South Africa
Zululand
British aviator escapes after storm near Belfort
British amateur pilot Phil Avery narrowly escaped injury when his borrowed aircraft struck high tension wires near Belfort Fortress on the French frontier during delivery. The wires carried 70 000 volts but Avery was unharmed and landed the damaged plane safely.
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Phil Avery
Basle
Switzerland
Belfort Fortress
Avery
One Thing Lacking Not for the first time the English man
An Englishman belittles Scotland and asserts he could write as well as Walter Scott. A patient Scot replies that all that is missing is the mind. The exchange unfolds over a whiskey glass with dry humor.
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Scotland
Walter Scott
Scot
Copper Cylinder Said to Link Queen Charlotte Islands Claim
A small cylinder of old sheet copper possibly left by Captain James Strange during Britain’s claim of the Queen Charlotte Islands was found on one of the islands. Researchers W M Halliday and B A McKelvie reported the discovery after returning to Victoria with the artifact.
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James Strange
Queen Charlotte Islands
Great Britain
W. M. Halliday
Queen Charlottes
B. A. McKelvie
Victoria
Long Arctic Flight Set Record For Soviet Flyers
Soviet pilots Chekaloff Baidukoff and navigator Belia koff completed a 56 hour 20 minute Arctic flight covering 5858 miles to Nicolaievsk in Siberia. The heavy industry commissariat sponsored the test and officials plan to award them hero titles and cash grants.
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Arctic
Moscow
Chekaloff
Baidukoff
Beliakoff
Nicolaievsk
Siberia
Commissariat For Heavy Industry
German glider tour stirs interest in Japanese aviation
A German glider towed by an airplane tours Japan, piloted by a famed Osaka aviator. It covers about 2,500 miles, visiting major and many small cities. The craft mirrors Wolf Hirth’s model used to train Japanese glider pilots, rivaling army air force machines as the best in the country.
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Osaka
Japan
Wolf Hirth
Army Air Forces
Four Saskatchewan VC recipients honored with lakes named
Hon. W. F. Kerr proposes naming northern lakes after four Saskatchewan Victoria Cross winners. Zengle Lake honors Zengle of the Sth Battalion, Cairns Lake honors Hugh Cairns of Saskatoon with the 46th Battalion, Mullins Lake honors Henry Mullins of Moosomin with the Princess Pats, Combe Lake honors R. G. Combe of Melville with the 27th Battalion.
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Saskatchewan
W. F. Kerr
Kerr
Geographic Board of Canada
Mullins
Nudists Return to Clothes at Heliopolis Island Colony
Members of the back-to-nature colony on Heliopolis Island in the Seine near Paris have resumed wearing clothing. Only babies under three may stay unclad, as hundreds of tents and asbestos cabins remain on the island. The group now wears more than typical seaside bathers.
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Heliopolis
Seine
Paris
Kittens Crochet Carriage Set Pattern 5672
Adorable airings for Baby feature a crochet carriage set pillow and cover in white with blue or pink. Pattern 5672 includes instructions charts and illustrations with material needs using Germantown wool. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Sunday School Lesson Golden Text and References
The lesson centers on Acts 26 19 as the guiding verse I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision. It covers Acts chapters 9 22 26 31 Galatians 1 11 17 and I Timothy 1 12 17 with a devotional reading from Isaiah 6 1 8.
The Persecutor Becomes a Convert in Damascus
Paul, known as Saul, darkened by murderous zeal against believers, encounters a divine light near Damascus. Jesus speaks, and Ananias, a trusted Damascus Christian, restores sight, baptizes, and welcomes him. This pivotal meeting fosters Paul’s future mission to spread the gospel.
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Philip
Paul
Jerusalem
Albert Barnes
Damascus
Saul
Jesus
Ananias
Self-Sufficiency Push Reduces Imports in Soviet Plan
Foreign Trade Commissioner Archibad Rozentglotz announced Russia will buy less, borrow less, sell more, and save more to reach self sufficiency. He cited military dangers and the need to bolster gold reserves and defence, saying imports will be reduced and the country will strive to proceed with almost no imports during the current five year plan.
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Russia
Archibad Rozentglotz
Conference For Foreign Trade
Moscow
Rozentglotz
High Salaries and the United States Industrial Leaders
The Toronto Star reports five American industrial men earning $200,000 annually and nineteen others over $100,000. Salaries reflect rewards for building large production organizations and competing globally, a debate on whether such pay is justified versus standard wages in other industries. Stars in film and baseball earn more but do not employ large dependent families, prompting questions about the merit of high creative and skilled pay versus alternative systems.
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Toronto Star
United States
St. Catharines
Aboriginal Population Decline Highlighted in Canberra Census
Canberra reports reveal only 60,000 full blooded Aborigines in Australia with 24,000 in work or supervised camps and 36,000 nomadic. The piece notes a dwindling Indigenous presence comparable to coincidences in U S demographics and mentions 7,000,000 in athletic clubs in Germany.
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Australia
United States
Canberra
Strangest Foods Across Britain and Ireland
A survey of unusual dishes from Swindon to Lands End and John O Groats notes snails in pubs, rabbit eyes in Radnorshire, fifty fish for a deluxe trouts cheek, squab pie in Devon, treacle and Devon cream jelly, jellied eels, seaweed in Wales, Singin Hinney cakes, and iced ice cream in chocolate. It recalls royal lion chops and safari banquets with antelope, bear, ostrich, locusts, and parrot pie.
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Swindon
Wiltshire
Lands End
John O
Radnorshire
Epicures
England
Devonshire
Wales
Ireland
Scotland
Duke of Gloucester
Odd Uses For Electricity In Farming And Food Storage
An article notes electricity widens farm work from heating cooling lighting and freeing crops from frost to insect control and grain cutting. It cites duck farm illumination reducing timidity, soy beans cooked cheaply for hog feed, electric pumping keeping vegetables warm, and egg storage requiring precise 50 degree cooling with thermostats.
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Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Underground Phone Cable And The Future Of Wires
Dr. Oliver E. Buckley of Bell Labs told Denver telephone staff that birds on wires will roost no more as science moves to underground pipes for hundreds of simultaneous messages. He described coaxial cable as the latest step, while a Swiss expert warns of 35 poisonous gases ready for use in the next war.
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Oliver E. Buckley
New York
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Denver
Col
Buckley
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Thames
Westminster
Lady Ritchie
Lord Ritchie
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