Samarcand Manor Impresses New Visitors In North Carolina
Samarcand Manor near Pinehurst attracts visitors with open grounds and dormitories. Superintendent Miss Agnes MacNaughton explains the campus runs on an honor system and blends work with schooling for 2381 girls committed by court, many from neglected homes.
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Baskervill
Samarcand Manor
Pinehurst
North Carolina
Saimarcand
Agnes MacNaughton
Miss MacNaughton
Samarcand
Plans for Japan's Para Colony in Brazil Unveiled
Tokyo reports reveal Hachiro Fukuhara proposing a colonization venture to develop over 1.5 million acres along Brazil's Acara river in Para. Japanese capitalists would fund a company to move 10,000 families, allocating 60 acres each with 30 percent crop levy to cover sanitation transport and schools. Government pledges no direct participation.
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Tokyo
Para
Brazil
Hachiro Fukuhara
Acara
Amazon
Japan
Tanaka
Radio Schedule Highlights From Apr 24 Listings
Eastern stations present Voters' Service and Secreline Seiberling Singers with Wor, Stromberg-Carlson Sextet, Chequot Eskimos, Federation of Music Clubs winners and Eveready Hour programs across WEAF WJZ WOR WBAL WBB etc. Top lines show detailed time slots, call letters, and featured acts for a broad regional broadcast slate.
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WTIC
WJIAR
WCSH
WFI
WRC
WGY
WGR
WCAE
WSAI
WEBH
WHAS
WSM
WMC
WBT
WTAG
Stromberg-Carlson
WJZ
WBZ
WBAL
WHAM
KDKA
WSB
WBT $:30—Seiberling Singers; Vocal Half Hour--Weaf Wee! Wtic Wjiar
WEI
WTAM
WSAL
Eveready
Elsie Ferguson
WWJ
Federation of Music Clubs
WJZ Weal
KYW
Chequot Eskimos Orchestra
WEEI
WIAR
WGN
Punch and Judy Land
Waldorf Astoria Orchestra
Soconyland
Seiberling Singers
Eveready Hour
Chcquet Eskimos
Baltimore
Seconyland
Chequot Eskimos
Sue & Lack
Tonic
Philadelphia
WOO
Koka Pittsburgh
Vili
Little Symphony
Bakers
Stromberg Carlson Sextet
Allegheny College
Voters
Socongvliand
Clicquot Eskimos
Rochester
Socomyans
Chequet Eskimos
Symphony
WBZ Springfield
King Comfort
Zeke
Horace
Dusk In Dixie
Washington
Atlanta
Stromberg Carlson
Seiberling
WDOD
Chattanooga
WJAX
Jacksonville
Louisville
Voters’ Service
Liberty
WMC Memphis
Eskimos
WSM Nashville
Pupiis
Raleigh club grows seedlings for state roads project
More than 3,000 seedling trees are being grown by the Raleigh American Business club for highway beautification. The stock will cover about 15 miles of roadway on both sides at 54 foot intervals, with planting set for spring. The effort involves state nurseries and cooperation with F. H. Claridge, assistant state forester, and includes 11 varieties such as dogwood red maple willow oak Ginkgo tulip poplar American elm box elder white oak black walnut and red oak.
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Raleigh
Raleigh American Business Club
American Business Club
State Department of Conservation and Development
F. H. Claridge
Clayton
National Parent-Teacher Group Plans Cleveland Convention
The thirty-second annual convention of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers heads to Cleveland April 28 to May 5. About 1,590 educators and parents will discuss a seven fold educational program across four childhood ages with speakers including John J. Tigert and Dr. Miriam Van Waters. Mrs. S. M. N. Marrs is named president at the meeting. Special classes and sessions will be led by national officers and staff.
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Cleveland
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Congress
A. H. Reeve
The
National Congress
John J. Tigert
United States
Henry T. Bailey
Cleveland Art School
Cincinnati
Robert E. Vinson
Western Reserve University
S. M. N. Marrs
Austin
Tex
Superintendent of Public Instruction of
Texas
Marrs
National Organization
Arthur C. Watkins
Chas. E. Roefield
Frances S. Hays
U. S. Plans Expansion of Panama Air Fields
U S plans multi million dollar upgrades to Panama air facilities. Albrook Field on the Pacific side will gain five hangars a 4400 by 1200 foot runway and space for 1500 people. Coco Solo and France Field will also receive dredging land filling and seawall work with 2 to 3 million dollars planned for Coco Solo.
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U. S
Panama Air Fields
Cristobal
Panama
Panama Canal
F. Trubee Davison
James C. Fechet
Washington
Albrook Field
Uncle Sam
Atlantic
France Field
Army’s
Coco Solo Naval’air Base
Pacific
United States
Coco Solo Naval Air Base
Groundhog Menace Prompts Gas Extermination Plan
The federal biological survey reports woodchucks as a serious crop menace across eastern and midwestern states. April and May are ideal for gas extermination, with fumes directed into burrows now without harming animals that hibernate inside.
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Washington
Federal Biological Survey
Davidson Farmer James Myers Buried in Davidson County
Funeral services for James A. Myers a Davidson county farmer and Confederate veteran were held at Reeds Baptist church. He died after a long illness at his home in the Reeds community aged nearly 83. Surviving are his widow six children and a large line of descendants numbering 182 with forty four living. Known for a record corn yield at age 70 producing 100 bushels per acre for five consecutive years.
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Lexington
James A. Myers
Davidson County
Reeds
Reeds Baptist Church
R. C. Foster
Myers
Reeds Cross Roads
Co. B
37Th
North Carolina Volunteer Regiment
Sarah Sowers Myers
J. M. Farabee
Lindsay Leonard
Tullia Hartley
C. A. Snider
IL. CC. Snider
Co. W. Sink
Billy Myers
Mr. Myers
J. C. Farabee
North Africa hailed as land of promise
M Dal Piaz of the French Line told American business men in Paris that North Africa will be the future surprise. He predicted rapid development in the next half century driven by irrigation. Water from Atlas mountains and discovery of subterranean streams could transform Algiers Morocco and even the Sahara into a vast area of activity.
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Paris
North Africa
M. Dal Piaz
Algeria
Morocco
Sahara Desert
Atlas Mountains
Europe
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