Veterans win acreage as public lands open for WWI servicemen
Interior Department opens more than 678000 acres to World War I veterans with preference in selection. Many acres will be added. veterans can credit service to shorten proof of homestead title. The policy, echoed by Julie Edward Finney, applies to lands across 24 states, with mineral rights retained by the government.
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Public Land Restorations Offer 90 Day Soldier Entry Right
Public land withdrawals for Indian, forest and other reservations are restored to the public domain as classifications complete. Soldiers have a 90 day preference entry on these lands. Restorations vary from irrigated to large stock raising and dry farming tracts. Notices will be published and locals informed at land offices. Information on specific tracts is available at local fund offices, about ninety nationwide in the West.
School Exits Not Safe For Most Children In US and Canada
A report by the Building Exits Code Committee of the American Engineering Standards proposes that 90 percent of school children in the United States and Canada face unsafe exits due to inadequate school exits. It also notes department store exits are inadequate for fire and panic egress. The committee, including representatives from 22 states and federal departments, aims to harmonize exit standards and improve fire safety across buildings at minimal expense. The document says 100,000 are idle.
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Canada
Committee On Safety To Life
National
American Engineering Standards Committee
Unemployment to rise in Japan due to factory layoffs
The Japanese jobless total is expected to grow through mid year as about 100000 workers, largely idle, remain without steady employment after mass dismissals since last spring. Another 3000 will be discharged from Tokyo and Osaka arsenals this summer, with more from government offices, amid ongoing business readjustment across the empire. London tax valuations show Westminster as the wealthiest parish, St. George's in the East the poorest, with the City of London ranking second in value.
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Londo England
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Insect-eating Plants Captivate and Digest Prey, Prof Says
Prof Heber W Youngken of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy describes how 500 insectivorous plant species trap prey. Sundews lure with glandular tentacles, flytraps snap shut when sensitive hairs are triggered, and trapped insects suffocate in digestive secretions.
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Heber W. Youngken
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science
Professor Youngken
Five years of crime within Portland police force exposed
Henry E. Travis a former Portland police patrolman now under arrest for burglary admits five years of crime mixed with police work. Discharged after an assault, he describes robbing stores during lulls in duty, including a haul of bags and tobacco, then reporting heroics to headquarters.
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