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James Watson Gerard, 75, U.S. Ambassador to Germany in World War I, was knocked down in Manhattan by a bakery truck, sent to bed with a scalp wound and shock...
...kill War Minister General José Varela, twice winner of Spain's Grand Laureled Cross of St. Ferdinand, who relieved the siege of the Alcazar in Spain's preview of World War II. The grenade killed four people, but not General Varela. He demanded Serrano's scalp and the execution of the Falangistas involved. (A Madrid dispatch broadcast from Germany last week reported that one Juan José Dominguez was executed "for throwing hand grenades...
...MARKER STORY JUST A HOAX) caught the War Department flatfooted. It admitted that the story was indeed a fraud, launched an inquiry by Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum, commander of the First Army, to fix responsibility. While the press howled for ex-Hollywood Press Agent Lynn Farnol's scalp, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced a reorganization of Army press-agentry, which had been in the works before the air-marker story. The new system, intended to prevent just such blunders and to end rivalry among Army units for headlines, centers responsibility for all Army publicity...
Filariasis, another parasite disease, affecting as much as 98% of the population in the highland slopes of Guatemala. The filariae, which are carried by coffee flies, sometimes produce bright green nodules as large as walnuts on the scalp; these fibrous nodes must be dug out by surgery. Another type of filaria, mosquito-borne, is widely prevalent in the West Indies, causes elephantiasis, grotesque swelling of the arms, legs, buttocks, sexual organs. No effective ways have yet been found of treating this ailment...
...Because Congress' pork-barrel price for domestic silver (71.11? an oz. v. 35⅛? for foreign metal) keeps it out of the industrial market, Manhattan Silver Dealers Handy & Harman had to prorate their customers. Yet Silver Senators last week were after Henry Morgenthau's scalp for trying to repeal the Silver Purchase...