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Injured were: Josephus Daniels, 69, Wilsonian Secretary of the Navy, publisher of the Raleigh (N.. C.) News & Ob server, when the automobile in which he was riding was forced over an embankment near Atlanta and struck a tree; se vere lacerations of the scalp and a broken wrist. Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett & Wife, when their automobile skidded and overturned near Camden, S. C. Mrs. Gannett was taken to a Camden hospital, suffering a broken collar bone. Publisher Gannett proceeded to his Miami Beach home before he discovered he had three broken ribs. British States man Winston Churchill, struck...
...Hanover hills came the Indians yesterday to scalp a Crimson quintet to the tune of 30 to 13. The invading Dartmouth basketball team fairly took the Harvard hoopsters by surprise to run up the score early in the game, getting 16 points before the Crimson was able to recover itself sufficiently to score...
...showed themselves to be great sportsmen, hard players of great endurance. Why not show the cast a few wrangler's tricks? For Harvard the game will not be a major one, but its importance in the Texas schedule cannot be inconsiderable. A victory over Harvard will be a distinct scalp for the belt of the bovine aggregation, and after coming the breadth of the country to take on the Crimson football men, the ranchers will not fail to offer enough material for the starved digestions of some home loving Cambridge dwellers...
Gorillas are often less hairy than men, Professor Adolph Hans Schultz of Johns Hopkins reported last week. By personal count he found that men averaged 312 hairs on each square centimeter of scalp, 9 per sq. cm. of chest; gorillas 4.5 of chest, 307 of scalp. This indicated that clothes have not marred the human pelt...
Chairman Jouett Shouse of the Democratic National Executive Committee deplored ''the cynical frankness of the President's Postmaster General in issuing his orders to the Hoover postmasters to get busy in order to save the Hoover political scalp...