World Happenings Briefly Told
A Royal Institute of British Architects delegate predicted future 15 liner ships like the Queen Mary in dock at Southampton. T H Cunliffe of the Montreal Gazette died in Montreal. A Sheffield confectionery firm was fined eight dollars for employing an 18 year old girl 71 percent of hours weekly with improper meal breaks. Fred R Goodwin arrived in Croydon after a journey touching India. Three women magistrates heard motoring cases at Eastbourne before a male colleague joined. A 7000 mile three minute telephone call between South Africa and Sweden was charged as the first commercial link. Alberta wildlife sustains losses as drought dries lakes and sloughs say J Selby Walker. Jack pine forests in Manitoba face spruce bud worm invasion endangering thousands of acres. Col H I Stevenson notes forestry damage. The largest private nursing home in the world is planned for Johannesburg, South Africa, housing 250 patients, 30 more than New York’s next biggest.
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Royal Institute of British Architects
Southampton
T H. Cunliffe
Montreal Gazette
Montreal
Sheffield
England
Fred R. Goodwin
Croydon
India
Eastbourne
South Africa
Sweden
Crouth
Alberta
J. Selby Walker
Calgary
Manitoba
Col. H."i. Stevenson
Johannesburg
New York
Maharajah of Mysore Starts Britain Visit in London
The Maharajah of Mysore, valued at about £80 million, visits London with an 80‑member retinue. He abstains from smoke drink or meat, a temple room for Chamundeswari is prepared, and priests will perform daily rites during his first trip to Great Britain since 1895. He may meet the King. they previously faced each other in 1922. The journey continues to the continent before returning to India in September.
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Mysore
London
Prince of Wales
Equash
India Office
India
A Quip Between Englishman and Scot Over Great Minds
An Englishman belittles Scotland while drinking. He claims he could write as good as Walter Scott. The Scot replies that Scotland lacks only the right mind to match great writers.
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Scotland
Walter Scott
Scot
Perpetually Honored Victoria Cross Lakes in Saskatchewan
Four Saskatchewan Victoria Cross recipients are to be honored by naming northern lakes after them. Hon. W. F. Kerr proposes lake names 102-Zengle Lake 108-Cairns Lake 109-Mullins Lake 114-Combe Lake, each remembering the heroism of R. L. Zengle Hugh Cairns Henry Mullins and R. G. Combe with Saskatchewan battalions.
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Saskatchewan
W. F. Kerr
Kerr
Geographic Board of Canada
Zengle
R. L
Sth
Cairns Lake
Hugh Cairns
Saskatoon
Mullins
New Porcelain Surface Uses Nut Frost Metallic Crystal Art
MIT researchers led by Professor F H Norton unveil a ceramic surface technique called nut frost. The process freezes metals around 2000 degrees Fahrenheit to form metallic frost crystals beneath the glaze. Resulting colors come from crystal shape and light absorption, producing vivid rainbow hues and lustrous surfaces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
F. H. Norton
Norton
South Africa Census Uses Notched Sticks in Zululand
In the recent South Africa census, chiefs and families gathered at dipping tanks to be counted. Enumerators recorded males and females by carved notches on sticks, a long used method among raw natives. Over 8,000 enumerators handled the operation, with transport by car in some areas and horses or carts in roadless regions.
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South Africa
Zululand
Nudists Return to Clothes at Heliopolis Island Colony
Nudists ending their back-to-nature retreat on Heliopolis Island in the Seine near Paris have resumed wearing clothes. Only infants under three may go unclad. The island hosts numerous tents and asbestos cabins used by the colony.
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Heliopolis
Seine
Paris
Copper cylinder found on Queen Charlottes linked to Captain James
A small cylinder of sheet copper believed left by Captain James Strange on taking possession of the Queen Charlotte Islands for Britain about 150 years ago was uncovered. Researchers W. M. Halliday and B. A. McKelvie reported the discovery on their return to Victoria with the find.
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James Strange
Queen Charlotte Islands
Great Britain
W. M. Halliday
Queen Charlottes
B. A. McKelvie
Victoria
Long Arctic Flight Earns Hero Title for Soviet Trio
Soviet pilots Chekaloff Baidukoff and navigator Beljakoff completed a 56 hour 20 minute nonstop Arctic flight covering 5858 miles to Nicolaievsk Siberia. The heavy industry commissariat sponsored the trial and officials recommend the trio receive the hero title and government cash grants for the achievement.
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Arctic
Moscow
Chekaloff
Baidukoff
Beliakoff
Nicolaievsk
Siberia
Commissariat For Heavy Industry
German glider tour of Japan sparks aviation interest
A German glider piloted by a famed Osaka flyer tours Japan to boost glider aviation. Tow plane drives a 2500 mile route touching major and many smaller cities. The craft mirrors Wolf Hirth’s design, rivaling the army air forces machine as the best in the country.
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Osaka
Japan
Wolf Hirth
Army Air Forces
The Persecutor Becomes a Convert in Damascus
Sunday school lesson on Acts 9 1 19 22 12 21 1 Timothy 1 12 17 Isaiah 61 8 notes Paul’s conversion after the vision on the road to Damascus. Ananias, a devout Damascus believer, courageously helps Paul by restoring sight, baptizing him, and supporting his new life in Christ.
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Philip
Paul
Jerusalem
Albert Barnes
Damascus
Saul
Jesus
Ananias
Underground Phone Cable Ends Birds Roosting Wires
Dr Oliver E Buckley of Bell Labs announces a Denver talk that science will replace overhead lines with underground pipes for multiplexed communication. He describes coaxial cables as the latest advance enabling hundreds of messages simultaneously.
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Oliver E. Buckley
New York
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Denver
Col
Buckley
Kittens Crochet Carriage Set Pattern 5672
Baby airings require a dainty white and blue or pink crochet carriage set. The pattern 5672 provides complete instructions and charts with materials from Germantown wool. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for access. no Alice Brooks pattern book exists.
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Household Arts Dept
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Strange global dishes show regional quirks in old plates
The article surveys unusual foods from Britain and beyond, listing snail dishes from Swindon to Radnorshire rabbit and fish eye fare, Devon squab pie, treacle and cream desserts, jellied eels, seaweed soups in Wales and Ireland, and exotic meats like lion chops once eaten by royalty, all before noting appetite for antelope, bear, and ostrich dishes in grand banquets.
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Swindon
Wiltshire
Lands End
John O' Groats
Radnorshire
Epicures
England
Devonshire
Wales
Ireland
Scotland
Duke of Gloucester
Odd Uses For Electricity In Farming And Food Prep
The piece surveys electricity’s varied roles in agriculture from lighting duck farms to cooking soy beans for hog feed and powering electric pumps for warm creek irrigation. It notes egg storage temperature control with electric coolers and thermostats maintaining about 50 degrees.
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Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Aborigines decline in Australia in latest census
Canberra census returns reveal only 60 000 full blooded Aborigines left in Australia. Of these 24 000 are employed or in supervised camps while 26 000 remain nomadic. The description likens their scarcity to Indians in the United States.
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Australia
United States
Canberra
Swiss Expert Warns Of 35 Plus Poison Gas Types
A Swiss expert states that more than 35 kinds of poisonous gases are ready for use in the next war, signaling a dangerous escalation in chemical warfare preparedness and international security concerns.
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Siva Dure Elu Man Erne
Britain
Maharajah of Mysore
Glider Touring
Ger
Alice Brooks
Alice
Brooks
Crochet
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