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...tung oil, applied raw. China consumes 40% of its tung oil production. Hankow is the biggest tung oil port and the Hankow quotations are read by paint men throughout the world. Its industry boomed in the 1920's parallel with the U. S. building boom. The producing area for the Hankow supply is up the Yangtze River beyond the famed gorges in Szechwan Province next to Tibet. The big city in the area is Wanhsien. Opium and rice are the district's two other products. The nuts are gathered by coolie labor and the oil extracted in crude...
...Class of 1935 will celebrate the Freshman Jubilee this evening in the new setting provided by the Freshman Union. The strains of Jack Marshard's twenty-piece orchestra will supplement the carnival background of what promises to be a more colorful jubilee than any held in the small area provided by Smith Halls...
...work by his brother-in-law, Canadian Minister at Washington William Duncan Herridge. In the past few weeks Major Herridge has negotiated with the State Department an agreement opening several new radio channels to Canada. During the dickering Major Herridge waxed emphatic about Canada's radio rights based on area. Contrariwise, Acting Secretary of State William R. Castle pointed out that U. S. population is 13 times that of Canada, that after all it is people, not acres, that listen. Under the agreement amicably arrived at Canada will have, out of a total of 96 North American radio channels...
...Chinese Government is to assign a special constabulary to police the evacuated area...
...were told last week they would have to pay more than holders of old contracts. The new hourly rate (for 6 to .12 p. m.) is $900 against $730, half-hourly $562.50 against $468.75. N. B. C. explained that radio listeners have increased 120% in the metropolitan area since Feb. 1, 1929 without a corresponding change in rates. The means by which the rate of increase was ascertained were not divulged, nor was any statement made on whether there has been a similar increase throughout the U. S. so that other rate-raises may follow. Columbia Broadcasting System, last week...