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...Dawes & friends wandered last fortnight into the Dordogne section of southwestern France, to clamber about the rocks of the Vezere valley, penetrated dark caves and troglodytic dwellings. Traveling from there into northern Spain, the party went to Santander, to visit Altamira Cavern and study the famed Paleolithic frescoes painted with mineral oxides, the bison engravings cut into rock. Then Mr. Dawes visited the National Archeological Museum and the Museum of Natural History in Madrid. Headquarters of the expedition in Spain was in the southern province of Huelva...
Like every other Balkan state, Bulgaria is riddled with racial minorities. Some 50 years ago the Macedonians of southwestern Bulgaria organized, to press their claims for independence, a society known as the Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organization-Imro. Potent as Calabria's oldtime Mafia is the Imro. For years its members have murdered and bombed their opponents; seldom has a Bulgar dared appear against them...
...Baltimore where he had been since June 27. Born in Clarion, Pa., he went in 1906 to the Indian Territory, after serving apprentice- ship as driller, muleskinner, roustabout in the oilfields of Illinois. In 1913 he sold out his holdings in Illinois for $2,500,000; last year his Southwestern holdings brought him $45,000,000 from Prairie Oil & Gas. During his funeral in faraway Clarion, all drilling and pumping operations in the Oklahoma City oilfield were stilled...
...FAMILY-Frangois Mauriac- translated by Lewis Galantiere-Covici-Friede ($2). Not all French novelists write of the lighter side of love. Author Mauriac, serious though not quite gloomy, here chronicles with particularizing finger the ill fortunes of love in a French family of the Gironde (southwestern department of France). The book is really two novels whose characters are related. First part: Jean Pelouéyre, repulsive but sensitive only son of a rich hypochondriac, has a marriage arranged for him by his father and the priest. The bride is a lovely, sturdy peasant who does not dream of disobeying...
...SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION...