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Last week the Australian Government prepared to move the capital of mandated New Guinea out of the beautiful and terrible town of Rabaul on New Britain Island...
...legendary South Seas beauty of a very blue harbor, of casuarina and golden-fruited paupau trees, of silk-swathed Chinese and darkly graceful natives who dye their woolly hair in vivid colors and call a shower bath "washwash on top." During World War I, when part of New Guinea was taken over from Ger many, the Australians told them about the change of sovereignty as follows: "Me been talk with you now, now you give three cheers belongina new feller master. No more um Kaiser. God save um King...
...native village into the bay. In 1937 several volcanic cones, including three called The Mother and Daughters, showered ashes and red hot stones on Rabaul, killed 424 people. Last June Matupi began breathing unhealthy fumes on Rabaul., has been doing so ever since. Despairing of Rabaul, Australia ordered New Guinea's capital moved to the town of Lae on New Guinea proper...
Smaller cities were Reith's guinea pigs. First to be singled out for experiment was Coventry, whose City Architect Donald Edward Evelyn Gibson has produced a set of plans. Last week some of his sketches (see cuts) arrived in the U.S. To disciples of Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius, Architect Gibson's classic-revival façades and pseudo-Roman columns looked disappointingly conservative. But he had laid out his future Coventry on spacious, parklike lines, put huge squares and fountains where crowded slums and shopping districts once knotted Coventry's busy traffic...
...recipe for making childbearing easy had finally been given a scientific once-over by two experimenters: Dr. J. H. Burn and Pharmacologist E. R. Withell. In a series of delicate experiments, they tried raspberry-leaf tea on a number of cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits. Results: in almost every case the brew relaxed the uterus, stopped muscular contractions. The scientists agreed that the tea would probably be valuable in relieving painful menstruation. The dosage recommended by herbalists, they said, is 10 to 20 oz. of hot tea made from 1 oz. of dried leaves* steeped in 20 oz. of boiling...