New Weapon for S Aircraft Use Is Revealed
A new weapon for S aircraft use is announced with details implied by the release, focusing on improved capability and deployment potential. The item identification remains uncertain in the fragmented source.
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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1925
Page
14
Developing weapon to counter aircraft, says Army chief
Washington reports Maj Gen John L. Hines disclosed an annual army chief of staff report detailing a 37 mm automatic cannon with 2000 ft/s velocity and 15000 ft vertical range. He notes ground defense improvements and cautions that production must wait until sufficient quantities test and standardize, while urging continued joint air defense training and field maneuvers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John L. Hines
Army
Ordnance Department
Hines
Hawaiian
Dawes Urged to Quit Smoking by No-Tobacco League
Washington December 26 The No-Tobacco League asks Vice President Dawes to make a New Year resolution not to use tobacco He told Senate pages in Washington last week to quit smoking swear chewing and avoid hip flask culture His grin was expansive but not responsive to the telegram seeking to abolish the upside down pipe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dawes
No-Tobacco League
Idianapolis
Senate
Editor of Prison Pamphlet Retires
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 26 AP After serving 15 months as editor of Good Words the monthly magazine of the Atlanta Federal prison Indiana an inmate of the institu tion former Governor Warren T McCray has relinquished the editorial pen High blood pressure has made it inadvisable for Mr McCray to continue as editor of the magazine and supervisor of the prison print shop He will be assigned to less arduous duties The former governor was sentenced to the penitentiary for using the mails to defraud Another inmate will be named as editor by Warden John W Snook
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
John W. Snook
Chinese Forces Take Tientsin After Weeks of Battle
Peking reports Marshal Feng Yo-pang’s national army entered Tientsin this morning after days of heavy fighting that left thousands dead or wounded. Li Chen-lin’s Li party fled in disorder as Choai troops looted the native quarter. Foreign volunteers and troops guard the foreign settlement gates as Feng names Sun Yueh civil governor of Chihli. A work train departs Peking to repair the railway closed two weeks by the fighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
Feng Yo
Tupan
Chihli
Fifteen Firemen Overcome By Gas At Fulton Street Fire
In Boston on December 24 a four alarm blaze damaged a six story building on Fulton street near the market district. Fifteen firefighters were overcome while battling the undetermined origin fire. Ralph Melgard, a gas company employee, was carried out after shutting off gas on the first three floors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
Fulton Street
Market District
Ralph Melgard
Women and men librarians on sick leave studied
A Bureau of Public Personnel Administration and American Library Association survey of sixteen U S public libraries finds little difference in illness days between women and men librarians on sick leave with pay, challenging the belief that women in public or industrial work are absent more often.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Bureau of Public Personnel Administration
American Library Association
United States
Artistic Temperament Is Advertising Says Ott
Chicago impresario Bertha Ott denounces the phrase artistic temperament as advertising not truth. She cites artists like Galli Curci Rachmaninoff and Kreisler who fill houses on mere announcements and notes that audiences attend for the reputation and performance quality rather than temperament. Ott sees public schools boosting music and predicts jazz will broaden the appeal of high art without displacing classic pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Bertha Ott
Miss Ott
Babe Ruth
Ball Park
Bambino
Mme. Galli Curci
Rachmaninoff
Kreisler
America
Italy
Paul Whiteman
Concerts arranged by Miss Ott showcase varied talent
Miss Ott organizes concerts and notes men and women appear in roughly equal numbers but singers are a minority. She explains that not everyone has a voice, but anyone with talent and effort can learn to play an instrument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Ott
Prison Christmas Dinner at Petrol State Prison
Native fresh beef and pork fed a Christmas dinner for inmates at the state prison in Petrol Tennessee. Warden W H Nelson and welfare worker Mrs Mattie Hunter oversaw decorations and festivities with chaplain R N Brooks. Local products and foods were displayed and distributed to prisoners amid gifts of socks, nuts, candy and tobacco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Nelson
Mattie Hunter
National Independent Welfare Worker
Nashville
R. N. Brooks
Georgia fights to condemn Western and Atlantic rail line in Chattanooga
Atlanta AP reports Georgia moves to appeal a Chattanooga jury award of 185000 for Broad Street widening through Western and Atlantic trackage. Commission values Chattanooga property at about 1200000, arguing public utility status and lease implications through 1969. decision to sue in federal court or appeal in Tennessee not yet reached, with filing likely within twenty days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Georgia
Western and Atlantic Railway
Chattanooga
W. and A. Commission
W. L. Frierson
Wilson
Broad Street
W. and A
Special Commission
Tennessee
Interstate Commerce Commission
State of Georgia
Chattanooga City
Nashville, Chattanooga and
Lessee Railway Company
State of
Georgia Governor Prepares for Major Solon Meeting
Georgia Governor Walker plans a six week nationwide speaking tour starting January to build support for three key issues before the February 24 general assembly. He focuses on a state bond for highways, educational reform, and Confederate pensions payment, aiming to boost public support for better roads, school facilities, and veteran compensation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Walker
General Assembly
Georgia
Pople
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