Moscow diplomats find life in Moscow tedious
Moscow officials arrange free monthly theatrical entertainments for ambassadors consuls and Soviet officials to break diplomatic tedium. Despite rare social events and high living costs, diplomats such as the French ambassador Jean Herbette live quietly, with social life largely restricted to formal at home contacts and official functions.
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Moscow
State Opera House
Russia
Ambassadoria
Timea Square
New York
Jean Herbette
Nansen
Sweden extends its air routes to major cities
Malmoe Sweden Aug 1 AP reports a daily aerial passenger service now operates between Malmoe and Copenhagen Berlin Amsterdam Paris and London. The Stockholm Helsingfors route has been resumed for mail passenger and light freight and a hydroplane flies Stockholm to Danzig every other day.
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Malmoe
Sweden
Copenhagen
Berlin
Amsterdam
Paris
London
Stockholm
Helsingfors
Finland
Danzig
Malamute dogs haul lumber to rail link in Alaska
A five-dog Malamute team operated at Grant Lake near Cordova to move 15,000 feet of lumber to the Alaska railroad two miles away for shipment to Seward and Anchorage markets. Each load averaged about three quarters of a ton.
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Cordova
Alaska
Grant Lake
Here
Seward
Anchorage
Helsingfors Opera Ends Season in $20,000 Deficit
The Helsingfors opera season closes abruptly with a deficit of 20,000 dollars despite a yearly government subsidy of 600 000 Finnish francs and strong public support. The shortfall has persisted across several seasons.
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OPERA
Helsingfors
Wireless control of fleet raids imagined by Palmer
Dr L L S Palmer, head of the applied physics dept at Manchester College of Technology, told a local society that future warfare could use wireless control to direct boats from a dugout. He described plotting raid routes, bombs released by radio, and returning vessels without plane observation, with torpedo guidance adjusts by cog taps.
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Manchester
Eng
L. L. S&s Palmer
College of Technology
Manchester Missionary and Philosophical Society
Zeebrugge
England
Palmer
Thief Mutilates 15th Century Gobelin Tapestries
Two valuable Wartburg Gobelin tapestries from the 15th century were cut by thieves who removed strips to sell separately. The pieces were part of a national art list not to be sold abroad. A Cologne sale was canceled, and the case has stirred Thuringian politics as the Grand Ducal chamberlain defends the sale and threatens legal action.
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Weimar
Grand Decal House
Saxony
Wartburg Foundation
Grand Ducal House
Cologne
Kaiser Friedrich Museum
Berlin
Demmler
Love’s Castle
Social Democrats
Lord Chamberlain
Rumania Sees Wheat Sown Land Drop. Crop Likely Exports
Bucharest reports an 8,000,000 acre reduction in grain sowing for the year. Despite smaller planted area, conditions are excellent due to favorable weather. Experts foresee a large exportable wheat surplus in 1925.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Mussolini Publishes Essays on Fascist History and Labor
Rome reports Benito Mussolini adds to his duties by writing two articles for the monthly Gerarchi on the 1922 revolution and the Fascist labor union. He argues the unions serve the Fatherland, differentiate from internationalism, and urge continued militant defense of the Fascist revolution.
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Rome
Benito Mussolini
Gerarchig
Labor Union
Italy
Mussolini
Saussolini
Bulgarians to Study German in Primary Schools
A Bulgarian government decree announced by the premier says German language study will be compulsory in all primary and grammar schools in the coming school year.
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Sofis
Monte Carlo of the North Danzig casino draws European gamblers
In Zoppot on the Baltic, the Free City of Danzig hosts a prominent casino attracting visitors from Poland, Germany and beyond to roulette and baccarat. The city earns about 60 percent of gambling revenue, funds social welfare, and a new oceanfront hotel is financed by casino profits amid claims that women suffer heavier losses.
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Zoppot
Free City
Danzig
Baltic
Free
Danzip
Danazig
Vagrants and Children Seen as Russia's Test
Moscow August 1 AP report outlines Soviet Russia's struggle with vagrants destitute children beggars and unemployed seen as the era's gravest social problem. Lunacharsky warns hundreds of thousands of youths drift toward semi savagery while adults beg in streets farmers seek relief and foreign capital and reform are urged to restore industry. He appeals for private help arguing state alone cannot eradicate the evil and urges subscriptions to aid the suffering.
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Moscow
Russia
Lunacharsky
Soviet Union
Lamacharsky
Leipsic Fair Plans outline record-breaking event
Laipele August 1 AP The Leipsic fair will run August 30 to September 9 and is expected to surpass prior exhibitions with nearly double spring attendance. More than 180000 business visitors from around the world attended, plus 14000 exhibitors from 18 countries. The fair features a vast underground exhibition hall and Germanys largest machinery hall spanning 21000 square meters. The city expands space by 150000 square meters for new buildings and a special freight station. Foreign firms may show in a Street of Nations, with two sections The General Sample Exhibit and The Technical and Constructive Exhibit.
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Laipele
Germany
Leipsic
Trade Guild Proposed to Manage Russo Japanese Trade
Viscount Shimpet Goto proposes a trade guild to handle Russo Japanese import and export. He says the guild would be capitalized at 150,000,000 yen and would operate under Japanese fund and trade bureau supervision. It would also oversee concessions Russia grants to Japan.
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Shimpet
Goto
Jt de
Russia
Viet Bureau of Trade
German Veterans Demand More Aid at Convention
The Legion of German War Veterans at its third national convention backed a resolution criticizing regimental and veterans clubs for building numerous monuments to the dead instead of supporting widows and orphans. It urged funding for recreation homes for younger widows and families of soldiers killed in the war.
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Munich
Legion of German War Veterans
Rae
Farmers Take Big Part in Politics in Australia
Melbourne Aug 1 AP The farmers emerge as a decisive political force in Australia. Once unorganized they now dictate terms, aiding pact governments in Victoria and the commonwealth. Agrarian voters grow beyond rural bases, signaling a clash with Labor as farmers prepare to field candidates, opposed to the Nationalists and labor ministers potentially forming the next federal government.
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Melbourne
Victoria
Commonwealth
Labor Party
Ngrer
Harbor needs at Pearl Harbor highlighted by maneuvers
Honolulu reports Capt Griswold of Admiral Coontz staff said the fleet's Hawaii visit showed Pearl Harbor yard facilities are inadequate. Deepening the channel and dredging Pearl Lochs are needed for moorings and repairs, with improvements urged as a national defense measure.
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Honolulu
R. M. Griswold
Robert E. Coontz
United States Battle Fleet
Pearl Harbor Navy Yard
Pacific
Hawaii
Australia
Navy Yard
U.S
West Virginia
Pearl Harbor
West Viginia
Wine Bay
Honolfilu
Griewold
U. S
Pennsylvania
Griswold
Oahu
Pearl Lochs
Frederick Hale
Maine
Naval Affairs Committer
Congress
Naval Base
Nature’s Vanity Case promotes health boosting beauty
In Manchester an AP report describes a British Milk Publicity Council pamphlet urging wholesome eating as beauty. Lecturers showcase “nature’s vanity box” with creams and powders made from vegetables and cereals to improve skin and complexion.
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Manchester
Eng
British National Milk Publicity Council
Nature
Espinach
New Method Turns Cane Juice Into Sugar
Havana August 1 AP The direct manufacture of standard granulated sugar from cane juice has been proven commercially possible at Hershey near Havana. Milton S Hershey American chocolate maker and owner of four sugar mills in Cuba has pursued a system bypassing the raw sugar refining stage. A chemist’s tests reportedly show large scale white sugar production can compete with current grain costs and further improvements may follow.
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Havana
Wees Hershey
Hershey
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