United States Joins The International Labor Organization
The American Congress moves to apply for full ILO membership at Geneva. The action signals a shift in U S policy toward the League of Nations framework and may influence views on the Covenant, World Court, and international labor standards.
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China targets cricket fighting with heavy penalties
China intensifies efforts to stamp out cricket fighting described as a major offense akin to opium smoking. Despite bans, a thriving culture exists with crickets sold for up to ten dollars and bred for elaborate bamboo rings where two fighters glare through glass as stakes change hands amid planned bouts.
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Rismen
China
Pu Imhabie
Roosevelt weighs 100 mile wide shelter belt plan across nation
President Roosevelt considers a drastic shelter belt project proposed by the American Tree Association. A 100 mile wide strip of trees would run north south across the United States from Canada to the Texas panhandle, spanning about 2,200 miles through North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas and Oklahoma. The program would take 10 to 12 years to complete and aims to halt wind erosion and protect farm soils.
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Canada
Texas Panhandle
North Dakota
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Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Fraser River Gold Dredge Project Aims for Success
A new large scale gold dredge on the Fraser River, designed by placer mining engineer Hume Robertson, poised to start this summer. The vessel, powered by two 500 hp motors, can dredge 12 500 cubic yards daily with potential to double sluicing area. An electric system and hydroelectric plant on Jones Creek are key parts of the plan.
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British girl keeps British nationality after marrying Frenchman
Ina Ginn of Stanmore Middlesex became Mme Lucien Albert of Paris and, uniquely among Englishwomen, retained British nationality after marriage. She wrote to the Home Secretary explaining her engagement and negotiations with authorities. She has just received a new British passport in her married name, under the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1933.
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Stanmore
Middlesex
Mme
Lucien Albert
Paris
Home Secretary
Aand
Year Of Anniversaries Recalled By Montreal Official
Victor Morin, chairman of the Montreal committee on Jacques Cartier observances, recalls 1934 as a year of anniversaries at the Quebec Women's Institutes convention. He notes milestones from 1634 with Cartier’s discovery, 1734 with Three Rivers’ founding, 1834 charter for Toronto, and 1934 marking further colonial extensions.
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Victor Morin
Montreal
Jacques Cartier
Quebec
Long Sleep Records and Notable sleepers Across History
The article surveys famous cases of extended sleep including W Foxley the Mint pot maker slept fourteen days and fifteen nights in 1546, Arnheim the German civil servant who woke after two years four months, Marguerite Bovenval the Sleeping Woman of Thenolles who slept nineteen years six months, and Harm the American who slept twenty six years. It notes their wakefulness and ultimate fates with brief, cautionary details.
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Huddersfield
W. Foxley
Mint
Arnheim
Marguerite Bovenval
Thenolles
Rip van Wikle
Harm
May Join League Russia Plans Entry to League of Nations
The Mounting report says Russia weighs joining the League of Nations to quiet explanations for staying out. It credits Moscow with chivalry aiding peace in Europe while noting Stalin’s focus on the Far East as Japan expands influence. Joining could restore foreign confidence in Russia and align with League aims.
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League of Nations
Europe
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Stalin
Japan
Far East
Machine Reads Minds and Telepathy Claim Reported
A device devised by Dr. Alexander Cans uses flexible tubes attached to a subject to record brain reactions on graph paper. It tracks emotions fatigue attention and honesty while suggesting waltz music calms and relieves asthma and asserts telepathy as a physical fact.
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Alexander Cans
Queen's Voice Set for September Radio Launch
The queen is expected to speak on wireless in September to mark the launching of the Cunarder No. 534 at Clydebank. Her Majesty previously voiced on early BBC broadcasts, adding prestige to the event and the era of expanding radio in Britain.
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Clydebank
British Broadcasting Corporation
Indian Rope Trick Debunked by Occult Committee
An inquest by the Magic Circle Occult committee finds no evidence for the Indian rope trick. No observer has seen it, and the rope and legend are deemed a myth. Rewards offered in India and at royal tours failed to yield a performer.
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Magic Circle
Lord Ampthill
India
George
Mary
Sidney Clarke
Magic
Nizan
Hyderabad
Sir Michael ‘Y Dwyer
Michael
Harry Price
National Physical Laboratory
Sir Francis Griffin
Police
Aga Khan
Scots Names, English Silence In South Africa Study
Dr Pellissier notes in South Africa bilingual education parallels Quebec with pupils bearing Scottish names like Campbell Fraser and MacDonald who speak little English. He cites Dutch majority and English minority pupils, and rural schooling challenges mirrored from settlers who married Toor women. The mothers pass on language to their children.
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Orange Free State
Union of South Africa
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