Three Adventurers Set for Antarctic Summer and Winter Flight
Three explorers from the United States Australia and Britain plan six months in Antarctica. Commander Richard Byrd sails from New York with fifty five men and dogs heading to New Zealand. Captain Sir George Wilkins will head from San Francisco to Panama then Tasmania to the Ross Sea with seven companions. Commander Douglas Jeffrey plans solo southward via Argentina to Graham Land with a crew of about twenty five aboard a whaler. Jeffrey aims to reach the Ross Sea around November and depart next May after the Antarctic summer.
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United Press
New York
Antarctic
Richard Evelyn Byrd
United States Navy
United States
Sir George Hubert Wilkins
Australia
de Villiers
Douglas George Jeffrey
Royal Navy
England
Byrd
Wilkins
North American
Sir Hubert
San Francisco
Jeffrey
Argentina
Montevideo
South America
Antarctice Circle
Graham Land
Weddell Sea
Commander Byrd
New Zealand
Pacific Coast
Panama
Tasmania
Ross Sea
North Pole
Alaska
Spitzbergen
Grhaam Land
Civilization
Currency collection added to Ball Teachers College in Muncie
A 1904 collection of forty pieces of old U S currency donated by Dr H D Fair to Ball Teachers College, displayed since 1915 at a bank, valued above 300 dollars. The banked fractional notes span years 1862 1863 1864 1869 and 1874 and will aid economics teaching, says Prof. Robert La Follette head of social science.
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United Preas
Robert la Follette
Travelers wage war on Pullman surcharge
Traveling salesmen, 912,000 strong, fight the 50 percent Pullman surcharge added in 1920. The fee, totaling $40,000,000 yearly, goes to railways, not Pullman, and reduces value of many tickets. Secretary William G. Adams campaigns to repeal, noting Senate votes in favor and House defeats.
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Palo Alto
Cal
Pullman Company
Los Angeles
San Francisco
William G. Adams
Travelers’ National Legislative Committee
West
United States Senate
House
Adams
New Aluminum Use Process Found for Electroplating
EVANSTON Ill Aug 9 Alum inum once deemed non plating will be electroplated by Prof D B Keyes and assistants at the University of Illinois chemistry labs. This is the first known process for plating aluminum to other metals and its industrial importance is described as tremendous.
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Evanston
Ill
D.B . Keyes
University of Illinois
American Chemical Society Institute
Installment Plans Spread to British Car Sales
London reports that installment buying of automobiles has become common in Great Britain. A leading agency manager stated that at least 55 percent of his sales are now on the installment plan.
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United Press
London
Great Britain
Anita Page lookalike contest winners announced at The Times
The Anita Page contest judged by Walter D Hickman of The Times and Loew's Palace awarded Esther Gebauer first prize of 25 dollars. Betty Worman won a three month Loew's Palace pass, with twenty runners up receiving Loew's tickets and listed winners and addresses across Indianapolis. George Fitzmaurice announced as directing First National’s first talking picture Changelings starring Dorothy Mackaill, with Lilac Time and The Barker highlighted. Indianapolis theaters list Kempy Garden of Roses Four Sons Beau Broadway Lights of New York Street of Forgotten Women.
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Walter D. Hickman
Ftery
Anita Page
The
Times
Loew’s Palace Theater
Esther Gebauer
Loew's Palace
Betty Worman
E. Maple Rd
Loew’s
George Fitzmaurice
First National
Fitzmaurice
Stuido
Dorothy Mackaill
Burbank
Colleen Moore
Los Angeles
the Barker
Fitz
Maurice
Barker
Jazz
Billie Dove
Mary Astor
Changelings
Donn Byrne
Indianapolis
Kempy
Keith's
the Lyric
Robert St. Clair
English’s
Ade Back Circus Day in Kentland Invites Hagenback-Wallace Show
Kentland Indiana enjoys a special circus day as humorist George Ade brings the Hagenback-Wallace circus to town. Ade invited the show and urged townsfolk to have a good time, despite Kentland's small size, and the bid to attract the circus was accepted.
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Kentland
Ind
George Ade
Ade
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