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Thieves entered the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery at Sacramento, Cal., lifted from its gold frame Guido Reni's Entombment of Christ, and escaped. A craving for a forbidden smoke had lured the curator to an upper gallery; no trace of the thieves remained when a janitor discovered the theft...
...Crocker gallery is the property of the City of Sacramento, having been given in 1885 by the widow of Judge E. B. Crocker, retired railway attorney and former California Supreme Court Justice. Mr. Crocker gathered the collection after the Franco-Prussian war and the stolen canvas was one among several world famous pictures for which Sacramento is noted. So great is the value of the Entombment that it will be difficult to market. The world will probably not see it again for many years...
...Butts is engaged in cancer research in the hygienic laboratories of the University of Pennsylvania. His theories have attracted favorable attention from Dr. William H. Woglom, assistant director of the Crocker Laboratory, New York, and other cancer experts...
...Hayes Jr. '26, F. W. Hennessey 2E.S., J. D. Hills '24, R. H. Jackson '26, T. E. Jansen Jr. '26, F. W. Johnston '26, F. P. Kane '26, J. S. Keech '26, W. C. Macdonald '26, R. E. Morrison '26, C. F. Pero '26, Philip Ruskin '26, Crocker Snow '26, J. N. Watters '26, A. T. Wells...
...Imperial Cancer Research Fund, to which Lord Athol-stan has given an additional $100,000. It has the backing of the Lancet, and all the most influential press of England, both medical and lay. The American Society for the Control of Cancer is doing admirable propaganda work. The Crocker Cancer Re-search Fund of Columbia University, under Dr. Francis Carter Wood, the cancer research conducted by Harvard, Cornell and New York University Medical Schools, all show promising results. A new cancer institute, comprising a 200-bed hospital on Blackwell's Island, and a large clinic, has just been established...