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Georgia: malaria control in Dublin; clearing woodland in Cairo; converting a depot into a common house in Wrens; opening, clearing and straightening the channel of Tanyard Stream in Barnesville; a fertilizer plant in Catoosa County; repairs on court house in Donalsonville; paving sidewalk in Tallapoosa; sanitation pit project of 400 units in Cairo; renovation of school in Blakely; bridge in Thomson; road improvement in Trenton...
...from the U. S., a tall, hard-eyed Montana Baptist named William Wallace McDowell who, after two weeks on the job, dropped dead of a heart attack (TIME, April 16, 1934). Last week the new U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State, Alvin Mansfield Owsley, set out for Dublin Castle to present his credentials, not to King George's representative, Governor General Donal Buckley, but to President Eamon de Valera...
Last week he rode through Dublin's hot streets behind an escort of Free State cavalry, brilliant in blue and saffron full-dress uniforms with orange plumes in their helmets. At the castle yard a battalion of infantry, in green, saluted him. Officers with drawn swords led him upstairs to St. Patrick's Hall where waited President de Valera. Minister Owsley made a little prepared speech. The Free State President launched into a speech entirely in Gaelic, not a word of which did Minister Owsley understand. "Cead mille failte," cried de Valera, meaning "a hundred thousand welcomes." When the strange...
Afterward he told newshawks: "It was all magnificent. I did not see any incident or anything to mar the beautiful warmth of the reception." What Minister Owsley was so careful to explain he had not seen was a small riot of Irish Communists along his route to Dublin Castle. The burden of the Communist hullabaloo was, with magnificent irrelevancy, "RELEASE TOM MOONEY." Ostensibly because the California Supreme Court has turned down Tom Mooney's appeals four times, the Irish Reds threw around leaflets saying, "Owsley does not represent the American people and therefore can not expect cead mille failte...
...bout was the 50th in a row which 220-lb., 22-year-old Danno Aloysius O'Mahoney has won since he arrived in the U. S. last December. A soldier in the Irish Free State Army, he was discovered in Dublin by a Boston entrepreneur, came here on furlough. Before Danno O'Mahoney has an undisputed claim to the title, he must defeat Ed Don George, still recognized as Champion in Canada and several states...