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Died. Dr. Annie Jump Cannon, 77, world's leading woman astronomer, called the "Census Taker of the Sky" because during her lifelong researches at Harvard observatory she methodically counted up, according to their spectra, almost 400,000 stellar bodies; in Cambridge, Mass...
...Miss Cannon catalogued more than half a million stars while she was at Harvard and discovered more than 300 variable stars. She was the first woman to receive an honorary doctor's degree from Oxford University and also the first woman elected an officer of the American Astronomical Society...
...Miss Cannon graduated from Wellesley and became an assistant to the astronomical staff in 1897 and was made curator of the Observatory...
Last week some 200 officers, manufacturers, newsmen saw the Army's newest tank in action. It was an M3: a 25-ton armored hulk, abristle with four machine guns and two cannon, seven tons heavier than the few medium tanks already in service. The Army last week had only this one model, but within two or three months medium tanks should begin to roll from three new tank factories (Chrysler, American Locomotive, Baldwin Locomotive...
...There was dead quiet for perhaps ten seconds. Then M3 turned loose a horizontal stream of red death, directed towards a silhouette target 900 yards away. From the muzzles of four .30-caliber machine guns spurted bright tracer bullets; from the turret, the shells from a 37 mm. cannon cracked into the faraway pines. Ordnance men from far & wide saw what they had come mainly to see: the steady (22 to the minute) fire of the 75-mm. gun mounted on the starboard side of M3's hull...