Alcohol from tropical plants eyed as future fuel source
H N Whitford of the Yale forestry school told the American Chemical Society in Rochester that alcohol could be made from tropical vegetation to avert a looming liquid fuel shortage. He noted tropical sun energy surpasses temperate sun and urged development of profitable methods to convert plant resources into fuels, citing Philippine alcohol yields and refinery costs.
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Rochester
N. Y
H. N. Whitford
Yale School of Forestry
American Chemical Society
Tropics
Mr. Whitford
Whitford
Philippines
House of Poets Plans American Shrine in New York
Plans to establish the House of Poets as an American shrine, modeled on London’s palace of song, will house the American dean of poets. Edwin Markham is the first nominee for the post, with major poets nationwide showing interest in the $100,000 project led by Robert Mackay.
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New York
House of Poets
Palace of Song
London
Edwin Markham
Robert Mackay
Ralph Waldo Trine
Henry van Dyke
Zena Gale
Don Marquis
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
George M. Judd
Henry Irving Dodge
Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff
No Appeal in German Films Says American Producers
An American film producer touring Germany reports German movies will not threaten American cinema soon. They fault German plays and waiters, argue German studios overdo gruesome plots, and note aging actresses and gloomy themes fail to satisfy American audiences.
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Berlin
Germany
America
Ancient fossils found in Torrance California reported
Teeth of a wild horse about four inches long and eight rings indicate age. Saber tooth tiger tusks whale bones and a ten pound stone weapon were found in lime pits at Torrance near Los Angeles. Dr. C L Edwards notes deposits are at least 1 000 000 years old and show animals larger than any other region once lived there. Smithsonian representatives have examined the evidence. No decision yet on national involvement.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Torrance
United States
C. L. Edwards
Edwards
Smithsonian
Tea trade slump prompts guilds to halt orders
Shanghai based Kimen Tea Guild and allied dealer groups in China announce a yearlong hold on orders to country dealers due to weak market mood. Similar actions are expected from other tea guilds.
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Shanghai
China
Kimen Tea Guild
Girl Bookkeepers School Opened in Peking
Madame Hsiung wife of ex Premier Hsiung Hsi-lin opens a girls only bookkeeping school in Peking supported in part by the Chinese bankers association.
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Peking
Madame Hsiung
Hsiung Hsi-lin
Chinese Bankers Association
Confessed Car Robbers Held in Greenville Jail
Irvin Stone Foster Owens and Ferdinand Martina confessed to Sheriff Rector after thefts of 800 pounds of flour and 150 pounds of coffee from a freight car on the Piedmont and Northern rail line in Greenville. The arrests close a series of local car robberies.
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Greenville
D. C
Piedmont & Northern Railway
Irvin Stone
Foster Owens
Ferdinand Martina
Rector
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