Warehouse plan to aid farmer proposed by Hammill
Washington D C Dec 25 Gov Hammill proposes federal funding to build river terminals along the Mississippi to aid agriculture. The plan mirrors Rep Letts earlier suggestion to Hoover for government financed terminals repaid by freight on upper Mississippi barges. Also notes Ames campanile bells bill and Letts named to land grant dispute committee.
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Washington, D. C
Hammill
Mississippi River
Letis
Devonport
Coolidge
Hoover
Lrtts
Weho Jong
Letts
Inland Waterways Corporation
Mississippi
Representative Letts
House
Senate
Northern Pack Railroad
Forest Service
Forestry Service
Three Wireless Stations Planned in Central Asia
Samarkand, Turkestan, Dec. 25. The commissariat of post and telegraphs orders construction of three powerful wireless stations in Central Asia at Pamir, Khorog on the Soviet Indian border, and Hassan Kul.
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Samarkand
Turkestan
Commissariat of Post and Telegraphs
Central Asia
Pamir
Khorog
Hassan Kul
Near East Relief Orphans Thank American Aid
A message from Christmas Lands near East Relief orphans thanks America for saving 1,500,000 lives in the Near East and caring for 150,000 orphans while reminding supporters of the drive to complete the final budget.
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America
Near East
Twenty four Nations Add Three Drugs to Condemnation
Geneva reports that Encodal, Dicodide, and benzoylmorihine are declared dangerous habit forming narcotics. Twenty four governments have notified the league secretariat they will apply Hague and Geneva opium conventions control to encodal and dicodide, while 12 governments ban the free sale of benzoylmorphine.
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Geneva
League Secretariat
Hague
Belgium Welcomes Foreign Doctors to African Mandate
Geneva December 25 Doctors who wish to go to Africa may apply to the League of Nations. Belgium’s mandate representative for Ruanda Urundi said the country warmly welcomes foreign physicians and grants them the same treatment as Belgian citizens. Recruits serve three years and earn about 3600 dollars a year.
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Belgium
Geneva
Africa
League of Nations
Mruanda Urundi
League
Gyro stabilizer to steady yachts winds up at sea
New York Dec 25 Ameri cans are equipping four yachts under construction with gyro stabilizers to stop rolling in rough seas. The stabilizers, from Sperry Gyroscope Co, Brooklyn, are for Fred J. Fisher Alfred E. Sloan Jr R W Judson of Detroit and Harold Vanderbilt. The inventor Elmer A Sperry explained the force is a natural law similar to Newtons motion. The Italian navy previously used a stabilizer on the 1200 ton cruiser Pepe.
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New York
Sperry Gyroscope Company
Brooklyn
Fred J. Fisher
Alfred E. Sloan, Jr
R. W. Judson
Detroit
Harold Vanderbilt
Mussolini
Elmer A. Sperry
Gyroscopic precession explained in ship stability
Helpers of Disabled Veterans oppose the push and a top-like tilt shows the opposing forces. Sperry places a rotor at a ship’s center so forward or aft tilt shifts load differently. A desk-sized rotor exerts immense force while a small gyro detects early roll and can counter it, the effect called precession.
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Sperry
Soviet Air Pioneers Honored for Safe Central Asian Flights
Tashkent, Turkestan, Dec 25. Soviet flying authorities decorated with gold badges five pilots for their successful work on Central Asian air routes. Each flyer has logged 200,000 miles without accidents.
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Tashkent
Turkestan
Undulant fever spread in humans and cattle history
Washington December 25 Undulant fever has emerged as a notable human disease linked to dairy work and cattle handling. Public Health Service researchers led by Dr Edward and Miss Alice C Evans traced Malta fever origins, noting milk pasteurization and cautious slaughterhouse practices as partial preventatives while seeking conditions that trigger infections.
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Washington, D. C
Edward, Francis
Public Health Service
Health Service
Alice C. Evans
Malta
Mediterranean
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Ames Campanile
Iowa
Herman Knapp
Iowa State College
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Ames
Cole
Cedar, Rapids
Dowell
Representative Celler
New York City
Europe
Erussia
Gibraltar
Veterans’ Bureau
American Legion
Paul V. McNutt
Watson B. Miller
National Rehabilitation Committee
I. H. Horton
C. C. Brown
Supreme Apparel
Sweeney’s
Learaway
Ly Price
Sweeney
Iy Price
Jersey
Bridge Street
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