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...simultaneous assaults of Japanese artillery (19 pieces), Japanese whippet tanks, Japanese machine gun crews, Japanese bombing planes (seven) and Japanese destroyers (two) which fired in high, wide, erratic fashion from their anchorage six miles away in the Gulf of Liaotung opposite famed Port Arthur. Considered purely as butchery, the three-day battle was a little classic...
...Girl swimmers in a three-day meet sponsored by Henry L. Doherty's new Florida Year-Round Clubs, at the Miami-Biltmore pool: nine new national records. Record-breakers: minnowy Katherine Rawls of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (300 yd. medley, 300, 400 and 440 yd. breaststroke) ; pretty Lenore Kight of Homestead, Pa. (400 yd. and 500 metre free style) ; muscular Margaret Hoffman of Scranton, Pa. (200 yd., 220 yd. and 200 metre breast stroke, the last two simul-taneously...
...pudding President-elect Roosevelt must prove. Last week Chairman Marvin Jones called his House Committee on Agriculture together to start hearings on his Domestic Allotment bill. Thirty-seven representatives of the National Grange, the Farm Bureau Federation, the National Farmers' Union and 33 other farm organizations, after a three-day Washington meeting, united solidly for Domestic Allotment. President-elect Roosevelt sent Henry Morgenthau Jr., son of the onetime Ambassador to Turkey, to the Capital as his personal agent. If the Jones bill, amended, passes the present Congress, a Hoover veto is viewed as a certainty. Thereupon Domestic Allotment will...
...course of the three-day conference nearly one hundred papers will be presented to the scientists, most of them dealing with geological conditions in the United States. R. A. Daly, retiring president of the society, will give the presidential address on "The Depths of the Earth." He is also about to present a new book entitled "Igneous Rocks." Another important paper on "The Development of the Intervertebrate Paleontology in America," to be presented by R. S. Bassler, retiring president of the Paleontological Society...
...American Field Hockey team named last week after a three-day round-robin tournament of the best players in the U. S. at Greenwich. Conn...