Navy research ideas dominate science meeting at AAAS
At the AAAS session in New York 5008 members heard Captain C. S. Mc Dowell propose forming an American naval research reserve and a central navy information office to coordinate science data. Lectures covered heritage and habitus, statistics in math research, flood and immigration issues, rainfall in China, and new trends in biology and migrations of Asiatic races to North America.
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H. R. Ekins
United Press
New York
McDowell
Navy
William K. Gregory
Columbia University
American Museum of Natural History
Gregory
Dunham Jackson
University of Minnesota
Jan Ed ‘J. Henry
United States Weather Bureau
Father E. Gherzi
China
Henry
Helen M. Walker
Franz Boaz
North America
William M. Wheeler
Harvard University
Innocent Man Spared After Guilty Confesses
Montreal dispatch reports an innocent prisoner avoided a second ten lashes and months in the penitentiary after one of the real culprits confessed. The plotted victim was initially sentenced to two years in prison and twenty lashes on a robbery charge.
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United Press Montreal
Bix Rites In Wedding Different Doctrines Are Used
United Press reports the marriage of Miss I B Or and M Lloyd Williams in London on December 2. The ceremony blended six religious doctrines in the Sufi Chapel at Laine, reflecting ties within the Sufi community.
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United Press Ondon
Miss I. B. Or
M. Lloyd Williams
Laine
Births in England and Wales Rise in Latest Quarter
Births in England and Wales rose to 168 099 in the current quarter, up 15 345 from the previous quarter and 973 from the same period in 1927, reversing a downward trend and signaling a new increase.
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England
Wales
Duveen on Genius and Fame Says It Finds the World
Sir Joseph Duveen, renowned art dealer and philanthropist, offers a view that genius attracts the world’s attention quickly. He adds that it is better to be a genius known than to go undiscovered, sharing his idea in a December statement from Indon.
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Joseph Duveen
United Press Indon
Sir Josephen
Rhilanthro
United States Marines
Gene Tunney
Tunney
L. S. T. Haliday
British Royal Marines
Royal Barracks
Portsmouth
England
Gene
Statue to Cow Honors Record Milk Producer
A statue in Prospect, Indiana commemorates a cow named Pietertje, credited with record milk production of 33.5 pounds daily and 2,865 pounds per year. The animal’s owners claim the award as a tribute to her sustained dairy yield over two years.
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E. Wash
Segis Pietertje
Clown Seeks Divorce To Restore Laughing Power
Chicago December 29 A veteran clown known as Happy Jimmy Murphy seeks a divorce from his third wife alleging constant nagging has killed his ability to laugh and to make others laugh He recalls a solo stage act costing him ten dollars weekly in earlier days and says happiness mattered more than money in his career.
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Joe Love
NEA Service
Hicago
Jimmy” Murphy
Murphy
Streator
Ill
United States
Europe
Arm Found in Cementon Dump Linked to Local Murder Case
Police disclosed the partly burned arm of a young woman was found in a Cementon dump nine miles north of Allentown. Adele Wachter and her sister Francine, Whitehall high students, discovered the arm wrapped in a newspaper. Detectives questioned the girls and nearby residents as the investigation tied the dump site to a recent Philadelphia boxer and alleged gunman victim.
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United Press
Charles Blumberg
Joey Fox
Philadelphia
Congress wrestles with Kellogg treaty and farm relief
Washington reports show congressional leaders tangled over the Kellogg pact the naval bill and farm relief during the holiday recess Rumors of filibusters fill the air as Hoover plans an early return and possible extra session for a revised farm bill Borah Reed and McNary loom large in delaying or shaping action on key measures
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Paul R. Mallon
United Press
Washington
Hoover
Congress
Borah
Idaho
James A. Reed
Missouri
Rivalry crowns Mills plan in eighteenth amendment push
Mrs Chester P Mills wife of former federal prohibition administrator for New York district figures in a prize outcome. Wills won the Durant prize for the best plan to enforce the eighteenth amendment but Mills devised a close second plan. In Bloomington Indiana Ralph W Van Valer longtime head of the University Press Indiana University dies after a short illness. Senate must soon decide on treaty and naval bills with eight weeks left in the session and Reed's Vare election plan could affect action.
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Chester P. Mills
New York District
Wills
Mills
Times Special
Bloomington
Ind
Ralph W. van Valer
University Press of
Indiana University
Senate
Congress
Reed
Pins Plan to Let President Solve Prohibition
New York report notes Gifford Pinchot submitted a plan for Durants prize arguing the President should control all law enforcement to solve the prohibition problem. It states Major Chester Mills won the $25 000 prize. other plans, including Pinchots, were released by the prize committee. A separate line mentions a balloon needing about 100 dollars worth of coal gas.
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United Press
NEW York
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Chester P. Mills
W. C. Durant
Pinchot
Police chiefs' daughters accused of running saloons in Kansas City
Mrs. Maude Wilson, after wrecking a saloon with an ax, lashed at police for lax liquor enforcement and charged the daughters of two police officials were operating two major booze joints. Police officials denied the accusations and pledged a thorough investigation.
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United Press
Kansas City
Maude Wilson
Wilson
M. A. O’donnell
Hound Wins Liquor Case In State Court Of Appeals
Tony Medalgi appealed a liquor case claiming no dog or kennel ownership and no knowledge of liquor found under the back yard kennel. The state district court of appeals denied the appeal, ruling in favor of the dog.
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United Press
San Francisco
State District Court of Appeals
Tony Medalgi
Farmers color cattle to aid deer hunters in Westchester
Westchester county farmers color cattle with bright red and green stripes to deter eager deer hunters during hunting season. Report notes twelve cows killed per deer in recent years. Police pursue raids and a grand jury probe into an election eye liquor orgy with claims against the department. Prosecutor James R. Page cites poisoned liquor causing four deaths tied to a voting party.
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United Press
New York
Westchester County
Forgotten Rembrandt Portrait Found at St Louis University
Investigators recovered a copper portrait seven by twelve inches attributed to Rembrandt, depicting St Francis Xavier? No, St John Francis Regis. Found hidden in a discarded bookcase in a musty storeroom by Rev F A McKernan after Chicago expert Francis Raab recalled a 1907 catalogue listing. The grime will be cleaned and the work hung among the university’s prized art treasures.
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United Press
ST. Louis
St. Louis University
Rembrandt
St. John Francis Regis
Francis Raab
Chicago
F. A. McKernan
News Writer Dies in Columbia City Home
Russell B. Clapham a 33 year old newspaper correspondent and World War II veteran died at his home in Columbia City after an illness of one week.
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Columbia City
Ind
Russell B. Clapham
Newlin Files Bankruptcy in Federal Court
Danville Illinois jeweler and Plainfield Indiana op tician store owner Ernest Newlin filed a voluntary Chapter 7 petition listing debts of 4154 and assets of 3358 in federal court.
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Ernest Newlin
Winthrop Avenue
Danville
Ill
Plainfield
Ind
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