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...days later, three local bodies with-in Cook County defaulted on bond principal and interest: the West Park Board, the Forest Preserves, the Sanitary District. The first two were second offenders. Total failure-to-pay amounted to $2,500,000. By Feb. 1 the County and the schools were also expected to be in default for $1,278,000 unless something very unforeseen intervened...
Married. Katharine Gamble Rogers, only daughter of Architect James Gamble Rogers; and De Forest Van Slyck. Manhattan socialite, bank employe (Lazard Freres); in Manhattan...
...rain in the last several days. It's the first rain we have had since about the 15th of August, 1931. So much dust and such heavy smoke and dense fogs each morning, staying so gloomy all day, and so unpleasant to breathe natural, especially at night. Forest fires have raged continually in all sections of the country, in dry swamps destroying millions of lovely long leaf pines. The Forest Rangers had water hauled from deep wells in cities, trying to stop some of these fires, but found that their work was too feeble to battle with the flames...
Georgia's current drought and forest fires are without parallel in the State's history. Mean total rainfall in November was .04 in., surpassed only by the .01-in. low of November, 1922 which, however, was not preceded by such weeks of drought as this year. Fires cut a line through the middle of the State to the coast. Many people were killed in automobile accidents in the smoke pall. Airplane operations were resumed only last week. Wild life suffered badly. Reported the United Press last week: "Bird life including every known species from sparrow to mammoth owls...
...Forest A. Spencer, wife of the assistant commercial attache of the U. S. Legation in Vienna, searched the pawnshops for a 1764 Cremona violin which had been stolen from her automobile, found it had been pawned...