Italy's war machine grows to seven million manpower
Rome reports Italy's wartime mobilization and industrial reforms under Fascism raise manpower to 7.9 million eligible and 5 million potentially usable in Europe. The state tightens control of key industries, expands motorized forces, aviation, and naval power, with Alps and frontier fortifications shaping a defensive strategic posture.
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Italy
Austria-Hungary
East Africa
Askari
Dubais
Federico Baistrocchi
Fascist Party
Europe
Peninsula
Lybia
Mediterranean
Alps
Jugoslavia
Tax Termites Warn Texans Over Unemployment Tax
McKinney Examiner reports Gov Allred warns that unemployment tax will be levied by the federal government and collected whether Texas joins the plan, urging taxpayers to act. He blames Congress for tax measures to curry labor votes, forecasting 30 hour work weeks and looming hardship.
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Gov. Allred
Texas
McKinney Examiner
Sterilization Drive Reports 23166 Cases Across States
California psychiatrists told the American Association on Mental Deficiency that 23,166 persons have been sterilized in 28 states under laws for the feeble minded. Dr. Paul Popenoe and Dr. Norman Fenton of the Human Betterment Foundation in Pasadena noted the study of 966 sterilized women paroled from two California state facilities.
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ST. Louis
California
American Association On
Paul Popenoe
Norman Fenton
Human Betterment Foundation
Pasadena
Calif
The March of Science and Hidden Dangers in Experiments
The chemistry department at the University of Pennsylvania reports a non poisonous medicinal silver powder and simple laboratory kit by which stomach conditions can be tested. Elsewhere G N Collins and Louis R Maxwell disclose X ray experiments on corn showing a death schedule as leaves appear and a dog’s leg muscle dies from chromosome changes.
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University of Pennsylvania
Moses Einhorn
M. D
Bronx Hospital
New York
G. N. Collins
Louis R. Maxwell
United States Department of Agriculture
Unity Vote Signals Methodist Merger Drive
In Columbus 470 delegates approve unification with the Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Methodist Protestant Church. The move creates a possible 8,000,000 member world church, aiming to heal historic rifts from 1821 and 1844, with final ratification possible in 1938 after Southern and Protestant conferences.
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Columbus
Ohio
General Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Methodist Protestant Church
Southern Church
Methodist Protestant General Conference
High Point
N. C
Collie Named As Preferred Dog On Farm
New York reports a Country Home Magazine survey showing collies as the most useful farm dogs. Responses across the nation highlight roles from digging fish worms to carrying eggs, with shepherds and German police dogs also noted. Many accounts cite guarding homes and rescuing children, plus duties like herding, stock control, and warning of danger.
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New York
Country Home Magazine
Arthur C. Bartlett
Corbie Johnson
Bertis
Rover
Bayard E. Eddington
Gate City
Alice Taylor
Marietta
Ill
Dust Storm Likely Swept Colorado to North Carolina
Henry I Baldwin measured discolored sleet in Hillsboro North Carolina and found about 1.4 grams of solid matter per sample. This equals nearly four tons per square mile of precipitation. Researchers believe a Colorado dust storm carried fine silt across the continent at roughly 30 miles per hour.
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Henry I. Baldwin
Hillsboro
N. C
Colorado
Feeble-minded institution study and a cheeky exchange
The report details 966 women observed at the institution, with 46 percent socially adjusted and happy, 28 percent partly adjusted, 23 percent maladjusted needing supervision, and 2 percent seriously maladjusted with criminal behavior. True Mother asks where bad little girls go, and Molly replies they go almost everywhere.
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Molly
Teacher and pupil exchange blunt childhood dream
A teacher asks what he will be when grown, and Bobby quips he will be a grandfather who sits and recalls cold winters and his boyhood exploits. The remark captures a child’s playful perspective on aging and memory.
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Robert
Bobby
Eskimos' diet and health claim tested by Stefansson
Notes for Dentists recount Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Karsten Anderson living on a meat and fat Eskimo diet for a year under hospital control to prove no calcium deficiency or arthritis. They observed no constipation or cancer and that Eskimos eat lukewarm cooked food and decayed fish without ptomaine poisoning. Also mention a Texas physics show detailing electron weight with 29 naughts.
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Stefansson
Karsten Anderson
Russell Sage Institute of Pathology
University of Texas
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Virgil Pinkley
Rome
United Press
Benito Mussolini
Il Duce
Sherwin - Williams
Sherwin-Williams
Whitewright Lumber Co
Methodist Unity
Collie
Grayson County
LaRoe’s
Sewall
Sewall’s
L. LaRoe & Co
UCC
Whitewright
Tudor Sedan
Texas Labor
Ford
Denison Auto Company
Denison, Texas
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