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Major General R. L. Howze, commanding the Fifth Corps Area (Columbus...
Colonel Mitchell's attorneys will be Colonel Herbert A. White, Judge Advocate of the Eighth Corps Area (Texas), where Colonel Mitchell is stationed, and Representative Frank R. Reid of Illinois. The prosecuting attorneys are three: Colonel Blanton Winship, Colonel Sherman Moreland, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph McMullen...
...streets. ... In the air the airship is practically independent of weather, as storms with attendant high winds merely delay progress to windward. . . . Severe thunderstorms and disturbances with strong vertical air currents may be avoided by changes of course, as these disturbances usually extend over a comparatively small area and move at a rate of speed well below that of an airship. Thus the airship can avoid the tornado, and may prove to be more secure in Kansas than a stone house...
...Italy?anxious to satisfy the desire for security and protection which animates the peoples upon whom fell the scourge of the War of 1914-1918; taking note of the abrogation of the treaties for the neutralization of Belgium, and conscious of the necessity of insuring peace in the area which has so frequently been the scene of European conflicts; animated also with the sincere desire of giving to all the signatory powers concerned supplementary guarantees within the framework of the Covenant of the League of Nations and the treaties in force between them?have determined to conclude a treaty with...
...mostly cancer of various parts of the head have been treated with results described as "very satisfactory." The method of treatment revolves around the use of a system of insulation which prevents the beta rays of radium and X-rays that are caustic to all tissue from reaching the area to be treated. It is believed that the gamma rays are the efficient agents in the treating of cancer by radium. By cutting off the beta rays by insulation, a greater concentration of gamma rays than hitherto could be safely used, may be applied without harmful or painful effect...