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Thick grey curtains of rain descended upon the northwestern corner of Wisconsin. All week they brushed the forests, slowly, monotonously. Everything dripped and the rust-colored road from Lake Superior to small Brule, the inland riverbank settlement, developed treacherous potholes despite the thousands of dollars Wisconsin had just spent to make it a safe road for a President to travel. An Army truck transporting mail-of-state foundered and tipped over. A light passenger car transporting a heavy, round-shouldered figure out of the dismal wilderness, slithered into a rut, stuck, had to be dragged out by horses...
King Amanullah and Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan emerged, last week, from Soviet Russia. From Moscow via the Crimea and the Black Sea they came to Constantinople, then plunged inland to Angora, the new capital of the Turkish Republic. There King Amanullah, called "The Peace of God" had his hand warmly shaken and both cheeks soundly kissed by the Ghazi, "The Victorious One," President Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
...said that President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, called the Ghazi-"The Victorious"-but now somewhat debilitated by incessant, nightly champagne tippling, would confer with Dr. Voronoff in the inconspicuous city of Adana, some 30 miles inland from the southern coast of Turkey. The chief question of vital interest was whether there would also be present one of the lively young chimpanzees which are bred especially for Dr. Voronoff's convenience in French West Africa by the Pasteur Institute. With thin sharp knives Surgeon Voronoff can slice from a chimpanzee glands which he then swiftly inserts in a human...
...Seattle, Boeing airplanes are made; from Seattle, as from Pacific Coast ports as far south as Los Angeles, go McCormick P. A. B. ships to the Argentine & Brazil. Last week, Boeing planes were traveling on McCormick ships. The planes, it is planned, will fly from ships to distant inland towns of South America-carrying salesmen & goods...
Upon arrival in Monrovia the capital of the republic, medical investigations were immediately entered upon. Eighty six per cent of the children were found to be suffering from the effects of malaria, and, although the percentage decreased as they went inland, it was still found to be over 25 per cent. An incipient epidemic of smallpox in a small village was stopped by medical members of the expedition by isolation of the cases...