WRECK FATA TD PAR LAD TO VANDALS
State's Attorney Walford H Absher blamed vandals for a wreck that cost two lives and injured two others on a Wabash passenger train near Jacksonville Illinois. The engine and one car overturned into burning oil after the train swerved and struck an oil tank car. Engineers and several crew escaped with non life threatening injuries.
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Jacksonville
Walford H. Absher
John Rapp
Springfield
H. L. Meyer
Decatur
Harry Rosk
Begstgeman
Jackson- Ulle
London Simmons
Absher
Invest
Teachers Name Ten Ugliest Words in English
The National Association of Teachers of Speech in Los Angeles announced the ten ugliest English words: jazz plump ripe treachery sap cacophony plutocrat fraudulent phlegm mati¢ and math. Delegates at the convention selected the list and agreed on the choices.
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Los Angeles
National Association of Teachers ‘of Speech
Wilfred J. Fuhr
Association
Frederick Orr
University’ of Washington
Bates Booth
University of Southern California
Marguerite Jones
Hunter College
New York
Veda Walker
Alhambra High School
Relatives in Greece benefit from estate of shoe shiner
Abilene Kans December 29 Relatives in Greece will benefit from the thrift of Tom Garis who built an estate of 16000 dollars. Garis came here twenty years ago to shine shoes and after his death his assets show 8000 in Greek bonds and 8000 in cash, much of it hidden in his shop.
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Abilene
Kan
Greece
Tom Caris
Silmes
Garis
Athanaioa
Strategy Board of Drys Closed
Washington December 29. The National Prohibition Board of Strategy a central election campaign group for many dry organizations has officially ceased to exist. Its assets were turned over to the National Conference of Organizations Supporting the Eighteenth Amendment, a continuing unit not set up solely for campaign use.
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Washington
No. U
National Prohibition Board of Strategy
Central Election Campaign Organization
National Conference of Organizations
Molecule Vibration Measured as Heat Engine Unit
At Atlantic City on December 29 scientists described measuring a single molecular vibration as a gauge of energy. The method aims to quantify the horsepower of a vibration, explaining how fuel burns and liquids vaporize as atoms rearrange.
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Atlantic City
N. J
American Association For the Advancement of Science
8. Goldheim
V. Dellz
D. H
Andrews of Johns Hopkins studies molecular vibration
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University outline a method to study how a molecule may vibrate violently enough to break apart. They describe tetradecyl bromide arranged like a train of cars with bromide at the end and 14 carbon atoms behind. They cooled the molecule to near zero heat, then measured the heat required to restore it to normal, akin to restarting a coal boiler once the train is slowed.
Alien criminals face deportation plan impacts
Los Angeles reports federal plans to deport alien criminals and other foreign-born law offenders. Local authorities were asked to supply names, with an estimated more than 300 persons potentially affected in the district.
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Los Angeles
TNS
Immigration Service
Gas Atoms as Human Beings and the Ignorance Curve
General Motors expert Charles Kettering argues that methane molecules behave like large human systems. He notes 80 percent of carbon atom actions are known, yet the countless billions of possible outcomes in methane groups defy exact prediction, similar to forecasting a nation from a few observed individuals.
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Atlantic City
N. J
GC. F. Kettering
General Motors
Kettering
Pinwheel of fire doubles in space beyond Cassiopeia
Atlantic City reports a gigantic space pinwheel of two fire balls as big as 24 suns whirling at about a million miles an hour. Professor Raymond B. Dugan of Princeton cites the pair in Cassiopeia. the stars Ewing and another whirl around each other in 18 hours. Births note twins in Muncie, with the sixth twin set in three generations, grandmother Mary Murry alive at 88.
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Atlantic City
N. J
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Raymond 8. Dugan
Princeton University
Cassiopine
Ewing
Muncie
Ind
John
Phur Springs
Gliie
Mary Murry
Miners Killed in Hungarian Coal Damp Explosion
Thirteen miners died and one was injured in a coal damp explosion at Nagmanyok near Bonyhad Hungary on December 28. The disaster halted operations as authorities investigated the blast and safety failures.
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Bonyhad
Hungary
Nagmanyok
City official mulls tougher stance amid coat theft incident
Otto A. Case, councilman and state treasurer-elect in Beattle, reports a red and green overcoat was torn from his office. Brimeone allegedly ripped the coat, claiming the color scheme attracted attention as police investigate the bizarre incident.
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Beattle
Otto A. Case
Brimeone
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