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...Dawn Through the Woods is Creeping...
...Turkish Republic was holding its first census. From the first streak of dawn to the last shadow of dusk all citizens were ordered to remain within their doors; none might venture out unless with an official permit. All day long 50,000 census takers, accompanied by police and soldiers, counted heads, took names, ages, religions, professions, native languages spoken, examined for health and applied simple educational tests, while the suspicious populace, quietly submitting to the inquisition, wondered if all the counting of heads was to assist the taxgatherer in his unwelcome rounds...
Recalled by his government at the request of France, Christian Rakovsky, onetime Soviet Ambassador to France, sneaked away from Paris at the crack of dawn for Moscow. In his pocket was his letter of recall, which he was supposed to present, amid polite, if cool, verbosity, to President Gaston Doumergue. But M. Rakovsky did not bother to go near the Elysée Palace, where the President lives, and in order to avoid all farewells, friendly and hostile, he left in an apparent "huff" in an automobile, disappointing many people who went to see him off at the Gare...
...Author. Martha Ostenso was born in Norway, brought to Winnipeg at the age of 3, to Brooklyn at 20, when she began writing. A little known book of verse, the prize-winning Wild Geese and The Dark Dawn are her last five years' productions. She lives and writes now, secluded in an old house on the New Jersey Palisades, makes yearly pilgrimages to Minnesota for family reunions and for material...
They started at dawn, electing a direct course instead of the great circle over New Foundland and Ireland. Storms battered them southward from the start. 500 miles out they were sighted by a passenger ship. They were seen no more that day, that night. Crowds waiting at Le Bourget field, Paris, turned away, glum, morose...