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...member of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America at Maryknoll, N. Y., Father Keller was borrowed this year by his Church's biggest missionary organization, the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith. He discussed with his superior, Rt. Rev. Monsignor William Quinn, his ideas for making a quarterly pictorial of Catholic Missions, which S. P. F. had been publishing for ten years. Father Keller had in mind increasing its circulation from 80,000 to 500,000. Distribution would cost little because each issue could be sent out by freight, disposed of in the churches...
...Ewing Y. Mitchell, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, who proposed that the Federal Government spend $17,000,000 on two giant dirigibles for a regularly scheduled round-the-world passenger service...
Chief rival to Elmira, N. Y. as a U. S. soaring centre is Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. There last week, in the course of a 10-day meet of the Soaring Society of America, two gliders flying in formation rose to 6,500 ft., broke the U. S. record of 6,233 ft. set last summer at Elmira by Richard Chichester du Pont (TIME, July 9). Pilots of the two gliders were President Warren Edwin Eaton of the Soaring Society and Lewin Bennitt Barringer, Philadelphia socialite. World's altitude record for motorless planes is held by Austria...
Died. Ganson Depew, 68, attorney, Buffalo's "Citizen No. 1," nephew of the late Chauncey Depew; of pneumonia; in Buffalo, N. Y...
...Harvard-Yenching Institute was founded in 1928 by a large grant from the estate of Mr. Charles M. Hall, of Niagara Fall, N. Y. Its purpose is twofold: To give instruction in the language, literature and history of China, Japan and contiguous countries, and to carry on research work in China through grants in financial aid to six of the universities which have been established by Americans in that country: Yenching University, Shantung Christian University, Fukien Christian University, West China Union University, Lingnan University and the University of Nanking...