Railroads Unite Europe Show Path to United Europe
CORVALLIS Ore UP European athletes and railroads are showing a United States of Europe already real says Herr N Fischer Hungarian railway executive and sports enthusiast at Oregon State College. He notes freight handling crosses borders as if no international lines exist with shared timetables and free interchange of rail cars. Freight losses are not a subject for bitter bickering.
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Wedding to End an Old Romance
London reports the engagement of Major Ralph Alastair Morton Sinclair and Miss Gwendolen Forsyth Forbes, begun in Ayrshire, entwined through wartime service in France and Mandalay, and now set for a February wedding to conclude a romance that endured distance and fate.
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Haircut Habit Ignites Independence Day Trim
Rochester Courier reports a North Strafford resident keeps a haircut schedule tied to Independence Day and Christmas, but missed the 1931 Yule trim due to hard times.
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Rochester Courier
Flight Over Inundated Delta Lands Reveals Desolation
A United Press correspondent aboard an American Airlines liner surveyed flood waters between Memphis and New Orleans. For more than ninety minutes the plane traced the flooded Mississippi Delta, describing pathos and ruin from the air.
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Airliner Over Flooded Mississippi Discovers Vast Muddy Waters
United Press report from Memphis describes an American Airways flight over north Mississippi flood waters covering an area several times Rhode Island. Levee breaks marooned families and unseen communities are visible from the air as the Memphis to Jackson round trip passes briefly over the flood district.
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Merrill BE. Compton
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Flooded Mississippi Delta Homes Besieged by Rising Waters
Aerial observations over inundated areas depict isolated homes with no escape by land as water swallows roads and levees crumble. Ships note people waving from sheds, with Greenwood most affected and Belton nearby, while Tallahatchie area remains submerged and mobile routes vanish.
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Lee McBride
L. P. Hudson
EB. M
Kit) Carson
Lady Furness Sets New Style in Red Gloves
Lady Furness daughter of Harry Hays Morgan of New York, a leading member of the Prince of Wales circle, sets a new fashion by wearing long red gloves with a single stone ring on the outside.
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Harry Hays Morgan
New York
Prince of Wales’ Circle of Friends
Denver Kidnapping: Bower Missing After $50,000 Ransom Demand
Benjamin P. Bower, an elderly baking company official, remained missing 64 hours after being kidnapped from his Denver home by two gunmen. A man, Kenneth Coffman, 28, was jailed for investigation as the search expanded with 200 firefighters to conduct house to house inquiries and possible National Guard involvement. Police reported no clue to Bower’s whereabouts as motives remained unclear.
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Nebraska State Reformatory
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Pneumonia Claim Confronts Blind London Man
James Gardner, a blind London resident, died suddenly from pneumonia. The report notes the illness struck despite medical care and prevailing conditions.
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London
James Gardner
Near Centenarian Fancy Skater Stays Active in Sabattus
Alonzo Roy aged 82 skates on the local lake in Sabattus Maine. He still performs a figure eight as his winter hobby and favorite pastime.
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