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Other observers on the spot declared that conditions varied in the different contract camps but that all were livable, with ample and substantial food. Commissaries were maintained only at isolated camps. Levee contractors often carried their workers over long periods of unemployment...
...petition, had been more than a wife to the perfumer. He borrowed money from her brother to set up his first laboratory. She had worked day & night in the laboratory in the early days so that the secret of his smells should not escape. Because there was no marriage contract stating the exact financial rights of the wife, Mme Coty claimed half of M. Coty's fortune at the time of her divorce. Last week Perfumer Coty bitterly protested that his business would not be able to stand the strain of obeying the court's order...
Died. Clarence Henry Howard, 68, longtime (1904-29) president of Commonwealth Steel Co. before it was merged with General Steel Castings Corp.; of heart disease; in Boston. Philanthropist, altruistic employer. Boy Scout council member, he once refused a $2,000,000 contract to make shells, believing war barbarous...
...Willard S. Karn, natty Manhattan oil-heater salesman and fat Philip Hal Sims of Deal, N. J.: the contract pair championship of the National Bridge tournament; at Philadelphia. Salesman Karn, who also holds (with Mr. Sims, Oswald Jacoby, and David Burnstine of Manhattan's Knickerbocker Whist Club) the Vanderbilt Cup for teams of four and the National "Masters" championship, is the only man in the history of bridge tournaments to have all three major titles at the same time...
...October Castaways Elmer Palliser, Paul Stachwick and Gordon Brawner were rescued from a six-month stay on Cocos Island, would not say if they had been looking for pirate gold, were under contract for their story to American Magazine...