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...Spontaneous combustion was advanced tonight as a possible cause of the Morro Castle tragedy in a report by Dickerson N. Hoover, Assistant Director of the Steamboat Inspection Service, to Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper...
Harvard's Jayvee football team succumbed to the attack of a strong Dartmouth Junior Varsity eleven yesterday on Soldiers Field by a score of 18-6, in a game featured by a thrilling 103-yard run by Roper of Dartmouth...
...Green came back strong in the second and third periods to register three tallies on runs by Roper, Axelrod and Lesedrze which clinched the hard-fought contest...
Chester Byers has been the No. 1 U. S. trick roper for eighteen years. Since he beat Bee Ho Gray, outstanding pre-War roper, in 1916, he has been defeated only twice. Born in Illinois, he learned his profession in Oklahoma, perfected it by copying Will Rogers whom he admired at the St. Louis Fair in 1904. In return for advice about trick roping, he taught Will Rogers how to rope calves, became his close friend. Now 41, Roper Byers makes $15,000 in a good year, hopes to organize a school in Manhattan to teach policemen how to rope...
Last January, at the request of Chester H. McCall, 28-year old assistant to Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper, Wingo gave up his job in a Washington bank to put into affect a plan for a "laboratory of leadership in public affairs," by which college men and women from all over the country would be picked each year to study Washington affairs at first hand...