Diplomatic Tactics Edge Toward Munich Amid European Turmoil
Rome-Berlin move to widen the axis increases fear of a Polish crisis spillover. Beck and Moscicki face pressure as Britain and France falter, while Russia sits out. In Asia Chiang Kai-shek contends with 1.5 million refugees and a bombing raid on Chungking as Tokyo asserts its air power.
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Rome
Berlin
Munich
France
Britain
Poland
Germany
Danzig
East Prussia
Jozef Beck
Ignace Moscicki
Europe
Moscicki
Mediterranean
Russia
Maxim Litvinov
Moscow
Milan
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Galeazzo Ciano
Axis
London
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Mussolini
Czech
Chiang
Chungking
China
Chengtu
Tokyo
Nippon
Forecast by NBC President on Transmitter Network
NBC president Major Lennox R Lohr outlines ultra high frequency transmitters to relay television programs through booster stations every 15 miles from New York to Chicago, addressing distance limits. Bishop Frederick D Leeta of Deland Florida proposes an early world wide union of the three Methodist church branches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NBC
Lennox R. Lohr
New York
Chicago
Frederick D. Leeta
Deland, Fla
Methodist Church
Atomic power and the dream of practical use
Dr. A H Compton told the American Association for Advancement of Science section that a pinhead amount of atomic power may someday propel an ocean liner across the Atlantic. He warned atomic power could revolutionize heat and transportation, for better or worse, as scientists pursue practical earthbound applications.
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Ing
Southwest
American Association For Advancement of Science
Compton
U. S
Europe
Earth
Discovery of a sixteenth century ship on Roanoke Island
The Roanoke Island hulk, found after storms, is excavated by CCC youths and examined as a possible link to Sir Walter Raleigh’s lost colony of 1584. The report notes related political and legal news including Attorney General Frank Murphy and figures like Thomas Pendergast and Moses Annenberg.
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Walter Raleigh
Henry Culver-Gordon Grant
A. W. Drinkwater
North Carolina
Roanoke Island
Roanoke Island Historical Association
Sir Walter
Raleigh Cramster
Justice Department
Homer T. Cummings
Frank Murphy
Michigan
New York
Martin T. Manton
Kansas City
Thomas Pendergast
Philadelphia Inquirer
Moses Annenberg
Chicago
Billy Skidmore
Mr. Murphy
Chicago Daily News
Paul Leach
Two Wanted Men and a Brave Chicago Policeman
In a 1927 pursuit, Chicago officer Albert Rickert chased two automobile thieves after spotting them near Emmett Hartnett’s car. The chase ended when the crooks swerved and knocked Rickert from his car, dragging him across a prairie before he freed his leg and, with one last shot, wounded a suspect as Emmett Hartnett helped subdue the other thief. The first thief later received 14 years. the second was killed by another officer days later.
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U. S
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
A. F. of L. Union
John R. Steelman
Steelman
John Lewis
Huch
Dog House
Ello
Chicago
Albert Rickert
Emmett Hartnett
Emmett
Bremett
Station House
People's Hospital
Besh
Crook
Englewood
Edward Starling
Albert Canning
Scotland Yard
White House
Clemenceau
Paris
Woodrow Wilson
Hopkinsville
California
Theodore Roosevelt
Secret Service
Congress
McKinley
Bronze Shekels and Ancient Coinage Overview
Bronze shekels first appeared at Jerusalem around 132 B C with later issues in gold silver copper and potion. The text discusses the die cutter's art and notes many biblical allusions to shekels and half shekels while acknowledging much remains to be learned.
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem silver shekel notes by Detroit coin club authority
A Detroit Coin Club authority notes that the famous silver shekels of Israel feature a jeweled chalice and a flowering lily with Hebrew characters meaning Jerusalem the Holy. Portraits of men or animals are never found on these coins.
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Detroit Coin Club
Israel
Jerusalem
Du Mont and the New Television Age
A long profile of Allen B. Du Mont, inventor and TV pioneer, detailing his path from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to building a Montclair laboratory and leading a Paramount-linked venture. The piece touches on his 1931 basement invention, the cathode ray tube, and compares early television development in the United States to Britain, noting his low-profile approach and the international context. It also mentions Edward Starling, guarding royalty, and Jon R. Steelman, a government mediator with a history of federal service and labor dispute conciliation.
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EW York
World
Isi Lago World
Carret Invenor
John Logie Baird
Allen B. du Mont
Rensselace Polytechnic Institute
Westinghouse Company
Bloomfield
N. J
de Forest Radio Company
Baird
Paramount Pictures
Mr. du Mont
England
du Mont
Jon R. Steelman
Gurtee
Arkansas
Henderson College
Vanderbilt
University of North Carolina
Coneyeae News
Slipcovers and Curtains From Simple Bindings and Snaps
Ruth Wyeth Spears shows how to slip cover chairs with removable edges using bindings or facings and snap fasteners for multiple openings. The article promotes Book 1 Hore Decorator and Book 2 for home sewing and fancy work, priced at 25 cents each, with a free patchwork quilt leaflet when ordering both, from Mrs Spears in Chicago.
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Ruth Wyeth
Spears
Desplaines St
Chicago, Ill
Equally Guilty Phrase From Coke Quotation Noted
A fragment quotes Coca Cola on moral equivalence of consent and act, stating those who consent and those who perform the act are punished equally. The line reflects a legal or ethical argument rather than a reported event.
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Coke
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Joseph W. Labine
Yugoslavia
Czecho-Slovakia
Albania
Djibouti
French Somaliland
Djibouti-Addis Ababa
Suez Canal
Tunisia
Asia
Nanking
Yangtze
Hankow
Szechwan Province
Chiang Kai-shek
Japan
America
Donald Richberg
Mexico
Lazaro Cardenas
Chamberlain
Albert Einstsin
Ian
Wnld
University of Chicago
A. H. Compton
Compton Science
Discovery O
Harold &. Ickes
Secretary of the Interior
Argentina
Norman Armour
Chile
Canada
Vienna
Ernst Hohenberg
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Sarajevo
Floyd Gibbons Adventurers’ Club
LFI
Smukar
Deeing
Who's
By Lemuel F, Parton
al Part
Wral SU
Peea Farm Seeds
Dickinso
Tiinois
William Penn
Lydia
Pinkham
Daisy
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