1932 Sees Changes in World Governments
A National Geographic bulletin outlines shifts in sovereignty and borders in 1932. Iraq's mandate ends and independence rises. Manchukuo forms under Pu Yi. Catalonia gains autonomy within Spain. Siam adopts a constitution. Saudi Arabia is proclaimed. Ararat relations shift. Gran Chaco disputes persist. Chile sees non electoral regime changes. Putumayo dispute heightens. Syria Iraq border talks progress. Franco Swiss customs zone settled. Guatemala Honduras arbitration advances. Greenland coast dispute lingers.
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Washington
Iraq
National Geographic Society
Catalonia
Siam
Group of Independent Nations
Bulletin
Great Britain
League of Nations
Manchuria
Jehol
Manchukuo
Pu Yi
Spain
Prajadghipok
Arabia
Peninsula
Central
Red Sea
Tersilan Gulf
Hejaz
Nejd
Saudi Arabia
Ararat
Turkey
Persia
Gran Chaco
South America
Lalivia
Paraguay
Chaco
Amazon
Leticia
Colombia
Perugiang
Near East
Syria
Euphrates
Tisris
Syro-Iraq Frontier Commission
France
Switzerland
Court of International Justice
Bacue
S Gravenhage
Geneva
Guatemala
Honduras
Central America
Hughes
United States War Department
Army Air Corps
Norway
Denmark
Greenland
The
Hague
Patient for 47 Years In State Hospital Dies
Tonia Michigan Andrew Stutte seventy six years old died in the Tonia State hospital where he had been a patient for 47 years and was the oldest resident with no known relatives. He came to the hospital on opening day September 7 1880 and was transferred from Michigan State Prison at Jackson after a 1879 armed robbery conviction. He had limited ground access as a trusted helper with the carpenter crew.
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Tonia, Mich
Andrew Stutte
Tonia State Hospital
Ita
Stutte
Tie
Michican
Jackson
Petroit
Declared Dead by Court He Returns to Kenton Ohio
George F. Stomy of Des Moines Iowa arrived in Kenton after 16 years away to visit his mother Mrs Five Runyon. He had been legally declared dead by a Rich Hill Missouri court on petition by his father seeking a $1000 life insurance. Stomy had left Rich Hill to attend the United States Naval Academy and later worked on a Pacific coast merchant ship.
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Kenton
Ohio
George F. Stomy
Des Moines
Iowa
Rich HM
English Doctor Helps End Tribal Conflicts in Liberia
Dr MeleIa D Mackenzie of the League of Nations secretariat aided Liberian authorities in pacifying Kru tribes after widespread violence. He oversaw boundary marking, housing construction, land survey, and the disarmament of combatants amid famine after towns were burned and tens of thousands faced starvation.
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Lenden
MeleIa D. Mackenzie
Liberia
League of Nations Council
Mackenzie
League Secretariat
Ile
Wedding Ring Found After 38 Years In Indiana Field
Coopersville Michigan residents celebrate 40th wedding anniversary when a ring buried in a field near Medaryville Indiana is unearthed by a nephew last summer and returned to Mrs. G Schiele.
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Coopersville
Mich
Graf Zeppelin Considered for U S Air Service
Officials of the Transcontinental and Western Air are weighing using the Graf Zeppelin as part of an air water air trip from a U S city to Europe. The Graf, veteran of camera expeditions, has been operating over the South Atlantic with regularity.
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United States
Europe
Graf
South Atlantic
Too Nice Gone Wrong in Odd Ohio Annulment Case
Marion Conelly of Warren, daughter of Dr. L. Conelly, sued to annul her marriage to William Abell after claiming he was “too nice.” Judge Alva Corlett granted the annulment and ordered both spouses spanked, a rare domestic relations ruling reflecting the unusual grounds.
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Cleveland
Alva Corlett
Marion Conelly
William Graham Abell
Warren
Ohio
Hante
Marion
Drig
Abel
Marion Preferred To Leave It. She Got Her Parents To Go To Judge Corlet
Abell
Corlett
Tie
Rail Czar Named Western Railroad Commissioner
Rail czar of the west Carry Gd Taylor has been named commissioner of western railroads to secure cooperative action on rates and train schedules. He also serves as chairman of the western division of the Malinway Executives’ association.
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Carry Gd
Taylor
Western Railroads
Maliway Executives' Association
Oriental Plants Grow in Wyoming Garden
In Cheyenne, Mr. and Mrs. George Koga cultivated a garden with oriental plants. A large bed of true oriental popping plants stood out, scarlet in color, while herbs like gubo were valued for medicines. They also grew oshuka, a stronger form of Japanese onion, in a separate plot.
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Wyoming
Cheyenne
Wyo
George Koga
Japan
Tlauken Woman Has 26 Children and Notable Generations
Mrs Katie Haener of Tlauken Germany is highlighted for large family size. Her eldest daughter, 29, has 10 children and her second daughter has seven, illustrating high birthrates mentioned in the report.
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Tlauken
Germany
Katie Haener
How I Broke into 8 the Movies
Hal C. Herman recalls arriving in Los Angeles in 1924 to pursue cartooning and gradually breaking into films. He starts as an extra, hires an agent, lands a quickie on poverty row, plays Abe Lee in The Winning of Barbara Worth, attends a studio executives meeting, signs a contract, and moves to Wings as Cadet White in San Antonio.
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Los Angeles
Grinnell
Town
West Coast
Abe Lee
Darbara Vorth
Counfer
P’aramount
San Antonio
Cadet White
Aptly Named Scandia Apts Sign Draws Laughs
A friend points out a building with the sign Scandia Apts and ponders why apartments are labeled apt. The reply notes the rooms are so abbreviated the sign seems proper though it mocks the shorthand in the Los Angeles Times quote.
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Los Angeles Times
Desert Animals Depend on Water in Food Too
The bureau of biological survey notes all animals need water and some desert species obtain moisture from their food. Examples include jackrabbit desert sparrow chetua wren desert rattlesnake horned toad and cil a monster.
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Bureau of Biological Survey
Star families and distant rotating wheels of suns
The text asserts multiple vast star families beyond our universe, each a gigantic rotating wheel containing hundreds of millions of suns. It notes the immense distances, with light from the nearest being incomprehensibly long to reach, described here as stocker vents reaching 13.
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