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With distinguished educators from Universities all over the continent in attendance, a three-day conference to discuss the topic of "The Obligation of Universities to the Social Order" begins tomorrow in New York...
...flanked by armored trains and tanks, a Japanese force under General Suzuki swept over the Jehol border from Chinchow and captured Nanling. General Tung Fu-ting, defending general, telegraphed wildly from Nanling to Nanking for reinforcements. Chiang Kai-shek did not answer. Japanese troops resting in Nanling sent a three-day ultimatum to the city of Chaoyang, 30 miles away, their objective as a base for the conquest of the whole province. As in the original invasion of Manchuria, capture of a Japanese officer, a Capt. Gonshiro Ishimoto, was the pretext for aggression...
...Heavyweight catch-as-catch-can wrestling champion, after a three-day tournament, was Johan Richthoff, huge Swedish clergyman...
Editor &; Publisher, chief trade organ for the Fourth Estate, prepared the way last week for the two most important Press gatherings of the year: the Associated Press convention in the tropical roof-garden of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and the following three-day sessions of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association 15 floors below in the grey & red Waldorf ballroom. Keynote was a message from Harry Chandler, A. N. P. A. president, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, unable to attend the conventions because of illness. Wrote Publisher Chandler...
...insistent courage. He competed in C. C. Pyle's second transcontinental footrace, lost a six-day race against a horse in Philadelphia. He tried prizefighting, long-distance roller-skating, driving a taxi (his first profession). Last winter he strapped snowshoes on his serviceable feet and finished seventh in the three-day snowshoe race from Quebec to Montreal. Last week reporters were not much surprised when they found Joie Ray in a Newark, N. J. dancehall, where a marathon dance had been going on for nine weeks. Ray, with his partner, a 19-year-old Alice Krug...