Lions in Addis Ababa and other oddities in Bris bane this week
A column surveys eccentric items including Ethiopian emperor’s lions used as watch dogs in Addis Ababa, stockyard troubles in Chicago, and a cautionary note on a hoax about freezing animals. It also covers war talk, Germany’s debt, Uncle Sam’s profits from money printing, and fashion trends from Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
R. S. Willard
American Medical Association
Willard
Fishbein
American Medical Association Journal
Addis Baba
Anthony Eden
England
Pierre Laval
France
Baron Pompei Aloisi
Italy
Paris
Eden
Laval
Baron Aloisi
Mussolini
al Duce
Ethiopia
League of Nations
Great Britain
Two notable deaths and political contention fill air
ILL ROGERS and Wiley Post die in a Fairbanks to Point Barrow Alaska plane crash. News of the crash comes from Point Barrow via Sergt. Stanley R. Morgan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ill Rogers
Wiley Post
Fairbanks
Point Barrow
Alaska
Post
Asia
Seattle
Sergt
Stanley R. Morgan
Signal Corps
Michigan and Local News Byte Roundup
Michigan towns report awards in a national remodeling contest, museum openings, road funding transfers, and new public works. Highlights include Herbert G. Cooper winning a bronze, a Grand Traverse CWA project museum, and several county projects across Lansing Big Rapids Charlotte and Flint.
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Mason
Herbert G. Cooper
Lansing
Michigan Relief Rell ‘Tlients
Traverse City
Don Foster
Grand Traverse
Clinch Park
Tansing
Wayne County
Big Rapids
Charlotte
Michigan
Olivet
State Highway Department
Department of Conservation Game Division
Lower Peninsula
Ithaca
Schoolcraft
Williamston
Saginaw
Public Works Administration
Jamestown
West Michigan
FERA
Ann Arbor
Astronomy
University of Michigan
University
MacMath-Hulbert-McMath Observatory
Lake Angelus
Pontiac
Adair
William T. Purcel
Detroit Tigers
Purcel
Charley Gehringer
Billy Rogels
Flea Clifton
Berrien County
Soil Conservation Service
Benton Harbor
Grand Rapids
Kent Scientific Museum
Kenneth Rolfe
Aman Park
Three Rivers
St. Joseph County
P. F. English
Department of Conservation
Marshall
Calhoun County
Flint
Vernon
Shiawassee
Ira H. Butterfield
Roosevelt
Secretary of Agriculture
Brown City
Lloyd McKay
Clothier
McKay
Federal Housing Administration
Buchanan
Joseph Hill
J. L. Richards
Joe
Southwestern Michigan
Young Hill
L. H. Bartlett
Game Division
Bartlett
Houghton Lake State Forest
Martin R. Webb
Will Rogers and Wiley Post Die In Arctic Plane Crash
The famed Oklahoma cowboy Will Rogers and pilot Wiley Post are dead after their plane crashed about 15 miles south of Point Barrow Alaska. Rogers rose from a ranch hand to a national humorist and columnist whose daily writings reached millions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Rogers
Oklahoma
Wiley Post
Point Barrow
Alaska
America
Post
Rogers
Glogah
Indian Territory
Willie Hassell
Neosho
Kemper Military Academy
Boonville
Hammerstein Roof Garden
New York
Ziegfeld
Western
Union
Rogerisms
Russia
West
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Brisbane
General Johnson
WAP
Works Progress Administration
Mr. Meany
Robert Moses
Park Department
Chicago
Hitler
Germany
Sam
Treasury
London
Wall Street
London Daily Mail
Stock Exchange
Universal Service Dispatches
King Features Syndicate, Inc
WNU Service
Hopson
Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
H. C. Hopson
House Committee
Associated Gas System
Wheeler-Rayburn
Cos
Georgia
O’connor
House
Senate
Senator Black
New Yorker
Rankin
Texas
Black
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Charles W. Truax
Rhode Island
Davey
Washington
House of Representatives
Robert F. Wagner
John Lewis
Maryland
Frances Perkins
Pat Harrison
William King
Edward P. Costigan
United States
Senator Borah
Oqbody
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
la Follette
Borah
Idaho
Norris
Nebraska
Ees
Rery
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Methodist Protestant Church
Evanston
United Methodist Church
Farmers’ Independent Council of America
Dan D. Casement
Manhattan
Kan
Stanley E. Morse
South Caroline
Chris J. Abbott
Clyde O. Patterson
Illinois Jersey
Charles W. Burkett
Agricultural Authority of
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station
L. G. Tolles
Connecticut State Grange
E. V. Wilcox
District of Columbia
Fred L. Crawford
E. E B. Dorsett
Pennsylvania State Grange
Kurt Greenwald
Charles H. Collins
Colorado
American National Live Stock Association
Wallace
AAA
Associated Press
Bill Jones
Bill
BA Jones
Federal Treasury
el Jones
Jones
Hurley
Battle Creek
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