Food and Powder Chief Items In Navy Maneuvers
COPELAND C BURG reports figures from navy officers on the costs of food and powder in the recent Manalt maneuvers. A single broadside from the fleet cost over 163000 dollars, with 500 guns firing for a minute totaling more than 456000 dollars. Powder cost was 31000 dollars per broadside, while feeding the fleet cost 17075 dollars daily, with 334320 pounds of food consumed daily and 45 cents per man per day. The menu lists corned beef, fresh beef, bread, salt pork, beans, sugar, potatoes, vegetables, rice, pickles, jam, canned fruit, butter, pepper and epicas, and coffee or tea.
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Copeland C. Burg
Los Angeles
Manalt
Navy
America
Pacific
Uncle Sam
Far-East- Jera
School Children Have Poor Sight Agency Report
Indianapolis July 27 A joint committee of the National Education Association and the American Medical Association reported that one in eleven urban and one in seven rural schoolchildren have seriously defective vision. The study covered 375 districts nationwide and involved nearly 100 ophthalmologists. The commission urged yearly eye exams by skilled personnel, teacher training for eye care, and a uniform model law with funding for school vision programs.
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Indianapolis
United States
National Education Association
Joint Committed
American Medical Association
National Committee For the Prevention of
R Yeport
Socol Boards
Observers Await Renewed Warfare In Central Arabia
In Jerusalem July 27 observers predict renewed desert warfare in Central Arabia as Wahabi forces under Sultan Ibn Saud and Hedjaz allied Arabs vie for Mecca. Reinforcements, ammunition, and money shortages delay decisive action while negotiations and possible alliances unfold. Contending leaders seek support from Britain and Italian bankers amid a fragile truce and strategic maneuvers on Jeddah and Trans-Jordan fronts.
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Jerusalem
Arabia
Mecca
Ali
Samp
Sultan Ibn Saud
Ibn Saud
Hussein
Akaba
Red Sea
Ail
Medea
Thea
Jeddah
India
John Philby
Palestine Araba
Abdullah
Raddi Pasha Bafad
Damascue
Alfis
Diyang
Yemen
Mussein
Ibn’ Saud
All's
Trace Criminals By Blood Tests
International brief reports a new chemical analysis method to determine race and sex from bloodstains. Dr. Monogrom of the Soviet Therapeutic Congress cites 1 862 experiments with 93 percent race accuracy and 109 percent sex accuracy, noting faster oxidation in Jewish blood and mixed-parentage cases.
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International News Service
Oscow
Monogrom
Therapautic Congress
Soviet Union
Manoulof
Hog
Manouloff
Britain Faces Unemployment, War's Aftermath Persist
Britain struggles with persistent unemployment six years after the war. June figures reach 4,247,800 jobless with 971,000 men and 213,000 women unemployed. Prime Minister Baldwin calls it the nation's crucial problem, while unions plan demonstrations. Economists argue dole policy and reform, with debate over cures and long-term solutions. A second item notes Yvonne Archambault, ten, clinging to a roof edge fifty feet high, rescued by bystanders as rescuers arrived.
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David. M. Church
Ternational Mews Service
Ptatt
London
Great Britain
Stanley Baldwin
MacDonald Labor
Britain
Doles
Gan
Lome
Mammoth Bones Found Near Culican Mexico In 1891
Report of paleontological finds near Culican Sinaloa Mexico describe a vast fossil field with tusk remains and mammoth bones. Officials expect significance rivaling La Brea and plan national museum studies while appealing for funding for further exploration.
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George Powell
National Nown
Nogales
Sonora
Mexico
Culican
Sinaloa
la Brea
California
Los Angeles
Senor Laziola
Straloa
National Congress of Mexico
Sinaloas
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New York Company
Central Arabia
Des Moings
Travelers’ Aid
Rock Island
Ao Teil
Nestle
No. 7
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Nestie
O’malley
Jie
Duby
Dorothy Mackail
Sills
Omanley
Charley Chase
National Museum
Mexico City
Alaca
Mave Reyee
Uwe Gu Giuak
John Whitman
Jon
New York City
Long
David H. Long
Business College
New Castle Business College
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