George Otis Smith Named Chairman of Federal Power Board
Washington reports George Otis Smith of Maine has been named chairman of the federal power commission by President Hoover. Smith, director of the geological survey, assumes leadership of the agency overseeing power development and regulation.
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George Otis Smith
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Chaiman
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Smith
Geological Survey
Fog Kills Scores in Belgium Mystery Remains
In Ingis Belgium a mysterious fog sickness killed over 60 and sickened 200 to 400 in two days. Autopsies were authorized but later reversed. funerals held with collective then individual burials. Investigations by Red Cross doctors and Mines professors yielded no definite cause, leaving the fog as the sole explanation.
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Belgium
Meuse
Red Cross
Mines School
Lacombe
Liege
Five Russian Plotters to Die Three Get Life
Eight former engineers were on trial for conspiring with foreign interests to overthrow the Soviet regime. The court sentenced five to death and three to ten years in prison with confiscation of property. They may appeal for clemency, and executions were to be carried out later. Names include Leonid Ramin Anton Tarichey and others. others listed for ten years include Vladimir Dehlin Sergei Kuprianes Xenophon Sitnin.
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Moscow
Stolm
Leonid Ramin
Victor Tarichey
Nikolai Chanovsky
Ivan Kalimirov
Vexander Fedotov
Fresno growers seek uprooting 50000 acres of vines plan
An organization of San Joaquin Valley grape growers proposes uprooting about 50000 acres of Krape vines to cut surplus. They would request reimbursement from the federal farm board for the destroyed vines.
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Famous Elm Grandson to Be Planted in Cambridge
A descendant sprig of the Washington elm will be transplanted on Cambridge campus near the site of the original tree. The elm, cut down in Washington years ago, was propagated by Arthur J Collins a Harvard student in 1896, and a later sprig grew to 16 feet before the Cambridge park board approved its relocation to historic soil.
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Mass
Washington
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Continental Army
Washnoton
Arthur J. Collins
Starvard
University of Washington
Cambridge Park Board
Far Western University
Pittsburgh Undertaker Plans Aerial Funeral
Pittsburgh's Ralph Schugar, 38, a flying undertaker, announced plans for an aerial hearse service after passing Commerce pilot tests. He says the airplane service will save time and ease families anxious over distant burials, noting he carried a body by air from Pittsburgh to Indianapolis as a student flyer.
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America
Department of Commerce
Ralph Schugar
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Indianapolis
Montgomery Mass First Moving Pictures Shown
Montgomery Massachusetts residents watched silent films donated by a Springfield newspaper. The charity event marked the town's first moving picture showing.
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Montgomery
Mass
Springfield
Ex-Wife Hidden in Crate Reunites With Sculptor
A Montparnasse sculptor, once wed to an English artist, divorced after a brief marriage. The estranged wife, determined to reconcile, arranged for the moving contractor to crate her, arriving at the new apartment hidden inside a crate. The husband discovered her while unpacking and they resumed their marriage.
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Paris
Montparnasse
Pet bites caution tied to medical columnist note
The MississippI river description notes 747 islands between source and Red River mouth. Beyond this point, 309 miles from the Gulf, only three islands remain.
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Fort Wayne News Sentinel
Mississippi River
Red River
Gulf
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