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...Wrangell, Alaska, the temperature climbed to 100°, where it had never been seen before. Near Chicago in Cook County's Oak Forest Infirmary 3,983 aged, penniless inmates still wore their woollen shirts, long winter underwear, ate oatmeal and corned beef hash, and worked in the sun-baked fields. In five days 39 of them dropped dead. Missouri had over 400 deaths. And one day during the hot spell there was a brisk snowfall at Colorado Springs...
...Washington last week was made public an executive order signed ten days earlier by the President while in Panama which, with a $15,000,000 expenditure, started a ten-year, $75,000,000 project to cure droughts on the Great Plains. The project: Planting 100 parallel strips of forest, each 115 ft. wide and spaced a mile apart, which would run 1,000 miles from North Dakota to the Texas Panhandle...
Helen Wills Moody, in retirement since defaulting to Helen Jacobs in the final of the U. S. championship at Forest Hills last autumn, was last week reporting the Wimbledon tournament for Hearst papers. To have her longtime rival describe her first victory at Wimbledon was the pleasant prospect which presented itself to Helen Jacobs when she entered the centre court last week to play the final against England's demure Dorothy Round...
...hope will some day be the biggest, finest, most humane zoo in the world. A 50-acre park opened in 1931. it is arranged for the comfort of animals, not humans. Visitors must hike along fenced or ditched paths while animals roam at will through acres of field and forest. The royal party had tea on a clipped, sloping bit of" turf with lions lolling just below them in a huge, sandy-bottomed chalk pit. "Their Majesties expressed themselves," reported the Illustrated London News, "as specially pleased with the tameness of the animals." Last week a visitor...
...Treasury Woodin a Doctor of Music. Secretary of War Dern got an LL. D. from Pennsylvania Military College. Postmaster General Farley became, by grace of the University of the South, a Doctor of Civil Law. Washington & Jefferson gave Secretary of the Interior Ickes an LL. D., as did Lake Forest. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace received an LL. D. from Drake. National University (Washington, D. C.) bestowed an LL. D. on Secretary of Commerce Roper and Bryant & Stratton (Baltimore, Md.) acclaimed him a Master of Business Administration. Secretary of Labor Perkins ended the list with LL. D.'s from Goucher...