Modern Robin Hood Helps Wounded GIs at Barnes Hospital
Howard Hill, a Warner Brothers archer and actor, gave 18 archery exhibitions for wounded GIs at Barnes Army Hospital in Vancouver Washington. He demonstrated historical and film archery techniques, split arrows, pierced apples, and even shot a prune from a companion’s head. Hill, who played 16 Indians on screen, notes archery as a practical hobby with feeding and fishing uses and cites about 1,500,000 archers in the United States.
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Rotary milk fund gains from Thomasville softball game
Thomasville Rotary Club reports about 1850 dollars raised for the Rotary school milk fund. Funds come from local business ads in the souvenir, donations, and ticket sales after a Lions softball game. Milk will cost one cent per half pint in city schools. Treasurer Robert C. Rapp presented the report.
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Crossword by Eugene Sheffer April 15 194?
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Man's Head Changing But Brain Space Still The Same
Albuquerque report notes Franz Weidenreich says the human head is shrinking in height and widening due to erect posture. He argues brain capacity is unchanged from Neanderthals, and the shift is a universal evolutionary trend not tied to race, per Southwestern Journal of Anthropology.
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Albuquerque
N. M
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Franz Weidenrich
American Museum of Natural History
Weidenreich
Southwestern Journal of Anthropology
New Journal of Anthropology
University of New Xico Press
Congress to take control of most government corporations
Congress moves to require 41 federal corporations including the reconstruction finance corporation to submit annual budgets and face revision or rejection by lawmakers. An annual commercial audit would be required for these and 40 other agencies, with the Tennessee Valley Authority and credit agencies exempt. Senate sponsors Byrd and Butler oppose the exemption.
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Mayor Pope Addresses Thomasville Rotarians
Mayor R L Pope spoke at the Thomasville Rotary Club luncheon at the Woman's club. He listed needs for the city including playgrounds cemetery space hospital facilities housing a hotel rail crossings sidewalks streets sewers a bus station a beautification program and a building code. Visitors included Ben May and Finley Atkinson. D A Long presided. The note ends with the first Oscars winners Janet Gaynor and Emil Jannings for 1928.
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Woman's Club
R. M. Cooksey
Nazi Fascist Kin To Be Segregated In Shanghai Ghetto
Shanghai dispatch reports Gen Tan En Po, military commander for the Shanghai Nanking area, plans to segregate Nazis and fascists in the Japanese established Ghetto for European refugees. He favored treating Nazis and collaborators like Japanese and said 250000 Japanese will be disarmed. those in Shanghai will be disarmed and sent outside the city to await transport to Japan within five days.
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