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...Rains have stemmed the spread of the drought and greatly improved the situation outside the acutely affected area [640 counties]. In those areas destruction of crops has proceeded to a point that is beyond any great degree of recovery. . . . From a relief point of view the burden of the problem in the acute area will show very much more vividly over the winter than at the present moment." ¶ Because pious Virginians protested that Marines guarding the President's Rapidan camp did not go to church. President Hoover ordered a Navy chaplain out from Washington, Sunday services held...
...inforcements continued to arrive in the Peshawar area from Lahore, including a battalion of Seaforth highlanders? the old "Rosshire Buffs"?most feared of all British units by frontier tribesmen for having often and soundly whipped them in the past. The R. A. F. removed all white women from Peshawar, and then proceeded to demolish the villages of every tribe that had joined in the insurrection, allowing the occupants 24 hr. to take to the fields. To put the government of the frontier in the hands of the military, Viceroy Lord Irwin declared martial...
Only important Nationalist defeat of the week was the disheartening return of General Wu Ti-chen, Nationalist government representative in Mukden, Manchuria, to Nanking. Sitting firmly in Mukden is Manchuria's little warlord Chang Hsueh-liang, who rules an area larger than France and Italy together and who inherited $10,000,000 in negotiable treasure from his bomb-smitten father, the great Chang Tso-lin. Smart Son Chang is an ally whom any Chinese government would give its eye teeth to possess but to the overtures of both Nationalists and Northerners, Smart Son Chang has ever been...
Hero of the week was a General Liu Chien-nien (see cut), a lesser war lord who controls the strategic Chefoo area, 100 miles from Tsingtao. For the weeks past he has maintained a delicate neutrality between Northerners and Nationalists. Fortnight ago the Nationalist Government sent Liu Chien-nien rifles and silver dollars. They were gratefully received. The Nationalist Government ordered him to attack the northern armies. Liu Chien-nien refused...
Findings: 13.6% of the problem group came from "elite" neighborhoods, 33.6% from "desirable" localities, 50.4% from "inferior" homes. But only 7.2% of the ideal group were listed under "elite" and 23.2% under "desirable," while 68% of the category came from the "inferior" area. The families of 20 more problem than ideal students had pianos, 22 more had radios, 13 more owned phonographs, 13 more had telephones. Encyclopedias were available to 62 bad children, to 47 good children. That families of only six more-problem than ideal children possessed motors was explained by the fact that most men in the community...