Deaf reach by touch how sound is felt in tests
Northwestern University professor Robert H Y Gault reports progress toward a hand device for the totally deaf to feel speech through touch. Experiments with two Crane brothers show letters and sentences detected by a hand receiving disk and a sending acoustic amplifier. Readings reach up to 100 percent for certain short sentences, suggesting a path to a practical acoustic-to-tactual language aid.
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John Crane
Fort Wayne
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S$. N. Stevens
Jack
Henry
Berlin Warning On Threatening Officials Under Law
A Berlin case clarifies that residents may report public officials to higher authorities if service is unsatisfactory, but threatening to report to the head of a department or Reichstag is illegal. The patron was convicted for threatening to escalate. the supreme court upheld the ruling.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Jower
Supreme Court of Armany
Reichstag
League of Nations seeks Italy aid for future cooperation
Geneva December 20 League of Nations officials expressed a desire for Italy to join in future cooperative efforts. The officials outlined plans to extend collaboration within the framework of the League, signaling a commitment to strengthen collective security and diplomacy.
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League of Nations
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Italy
Italy Eyes Active Role After Drummond Visit to Mussolini
Officials expect greater cooperation from Italy following Secretary General Drummond's visit to Premier Mussolini. Italy notified Geneva of support for the league proposal to teach children the purposes of the league and agreed to grant facilities to traveling youth groups including Boys Scouts and Girl Guides. The effort to ease youth travel was launched at the last assembly.
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Cials
Italy
Drummond
Mussolini
Geneva
Flop Houses Lose Patronage After Prohibition
In Chicago homeless men shift to higher quality lodging. Fr. Dennis J Dunne cites fewer men lingering in old flop houses since prohibition. Men save money, seek baths and clean clothes, and prefer missions like Mission of the Holy Cross with reading rooms. Our mission is overcrowded.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Dennis J. Dunne
Catholic Archdiocese of
Father Dunne
Father’ Dunne
Mission of the Holy Cross
Bishop of Exeter Criticizes Prohibition in America
The Rev Lord William Gascoyne Cecil says America betrays moderate opinion and warns that its total prohibition may fail compared with Britain’s taxed spirits policy among workers. He laments Englishmen aiding American lawbreaking and argues each country must govern itself without others encouraging violations.
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U. S
Risfaver
Plymouth
Associated Press
William Gascoyne Cecil
Exeter
America
Swiss Olympic Winter Venues Ready for Jan Opening
From Chamonix France on December 20 the Associated Press reports Swiss winter venues for the Olympic Games near completion. The skating rink measures 227 metres by 90, with drainage, water squirting systems and electric lights. A 400 metre track with turns widened to 25 metres hosts speed skating and hockey. Figure skating and curling rinks sit near the edge of the hockey area. An 16 000 spectator capacity facility and a ski jumps course with a 79 metre takeoff and 178 metre launching track allow high momentum jumps. The bobsleigh track is 1760 metres long with varying grades and 18 bends. Many nations have submitted entries for the event.
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France
Associated Press
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DeSoto Chapter Elects Officers and School Events
DeSoto Chapter No. 8 eastern Star elected Alberta Taylor as Worthy Matron E B Heckert as Worthy Patron Edith Sigman as associate Matron Lida Weard as secretary J A Giebener as treasurer Dot Longstreet as conductress Katharine Morse as associate conductress. Local events include basketball wins for DeSoto teams and a Christmas program at the high school auditorium with plans for a community Christmas tree without gifts.
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Order of the Eastern Star
Alberta Taylor
E. B. Heckert
Edith Sigman
Lida Weard
J. A. Giebener
Dot Longstreet
Katherine Morse
Leland McFarland
Terri Markinson
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Kansas
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Georgia Hymer
Kansas City
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Howard Phillips
Norman Wood
Foster Reid
Harold Sheldon
the Star
Masons
Esther Roat
Ollie Osborne
Pansy Dent
Marie Fanning
Fredonia Simens
Wm. E. Moore
Lenape
Moore
DeSoto Rural High School
Hitkey Lyceum Bureau
Olin Jewett
Louise
Shirley Atkinson
Bell’ Memorial Hospital
Harold Ellis
Lawrence Hospital
Johnson County
Teachers
Olathe
J_j Al Eastwood
Esther Root
Janet Dyer
Dieudonne Robers
Card of Thanks from the Gibler family
The Gibler family thanks relatives neighbors and friends for kindness support during the illness and death of husband and father Ivan W Gibler and for floral offerings The Midland Grange hosts a program and Christmas tree Friday evening inviting all members and their families to join Christmas cigars and holiday candies available at Rankin's Drug Store 1101 Mass pend Candy represented in scattered ad text
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Ivan W. Gibler
Ghia Ee
Midland Grange
Therhall
Linwood Community Notes Include School Games and Debates
A December Linwood meeting drew over five hundred in the high school auditorium. The grade school team beat the high school second team 28 to 8, with players Frederick Curtis Siscoe Anderson Vanney coached by Miss Agnes Laptad and refereed by Supt. Schroedermeier. Other items include Ladies Aid dinner raising about thirty dollars, debate materials gathered in Lawrence, Christmas activities at the high school, and local travel and shopping. Also reported are area livestock and grain market summaries and Kansas City commodity prices.
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F. M. Gordon
Olathe
J. G. Freeman
Zella Burnett
Louis Dearmire
Foster Reid
Harold Wize
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Warren Search
David Jewett
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Aletha Jewett
Monticello
Gwendolyn -Brassfield
J. W. Scott
Mabel Robinson
Mildred Deweese
McConnell Hospital
Lawrence
Martin Beecroft
Howard le Sever
Kansas City
Willard Soule
Bell Telephone Go
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Oral Frederick
Bob’ Curtis
Roy Siscoe
Lénnie Anderson
Bob Vanney
Agnes Laptad
Supt. Schroedermeier
Ladies Aid of the
Methodist Church
H.L. Collins
Miner R. Pyles
Dan Brown
Linwood
Edwardsville
Chas. Bowers
Will Bowers
Joe Bowers
C.curtis
Albert Attebery
Baker University
Baldwin
Santa Claus
A. A. Quinlan
Board of Education
Setback at Opening in Wheat and Mixed Grain Markets
Chicago reports a moderate price setback for wheat at the open with scattered demand and divergent views on the government crop report. Argentine harvest favorable weather eyed as contributing factor. May and July futures showed some support while December fell on bulk selling. Corn and oats declined with easing hogs pulling down provisions. Wall Street edged higher on dividend expectations and tax program actions, while Chicago livestock markets showed slower hog trading and varied cattle and sheep activity.
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Chicago
Wall Street
New York
Kansas City Produce And Hay Markets Report Dec 20
Kansas City reports on butter creamery and poultry prices with small changes. Butter unchanged and eyes and meat prices mixed. hay markets show various alfalfa and Timothy grades with declines up to 100 dollars. Liberty bonds and government securities close values listed for New York trading session.
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Hay Market
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Liberty Bands
New York
Liberty
Egg market slips two more cents in KC region
In Kansas City today eggs fell two cents with the weekly trend, totaling a seven cent drop since last Saturday. Current price is 83 cents per dozen, after a month ago price of 50 cents, marking a seventeen cent decline from that level.
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Kansas City
Romania pushes agrarian reform amid land devolution efforts
The Romanian government led by Minister Constantinescu advances land distribution to landless peasants, with confiscated estates being divided and partly compensated by state and peasant contributors. Despite economic strains, reform continues rapidly to resolve agrarian problems, aiming for full completion despite difficulties.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Associated Press
M. Constantinescu
Romania
M. Constanta
Journal-World
City to rise beside Columbia River with GE dam plan
Plans referred by Federal Water Power Commission envision a 6000 acre sagebrush city near Priest Rapids Washington for 40000 workers in electro chemical industries. A General Electric subsidiary seeks a license to build a two mile long dam two thirds as high as Keokuk to generate 50000 horsepower and irrigate 100000 acres. Project cost $41.0 million for power and $12.0 million for city. notes a Christmas gift scholarship for business college students.
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Asabejated Press
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Federal Water Power Commission
Washington, D. C
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Priest Rapids
Caseatie Mountains
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Keokuk
Iowa
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