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...Whereas in 1925 a citizen with a 50 ft. frontage was assessed $5.75 for street improvement, in 1927 he paid 97?, in later years nothing. Applying merely the old maintenance cost, the city hall was transformed from a dilapidated rookery into a first-class public building. More than 80 mi. of street railway were laid, miles of sewers, with little additional burden to the taxpayers. And Cincinnati began retiring its debt at the rate of $850,000 a year. More slowly, the social service and police departments were peeled of their incompetence and corruption. In the surrounding county, where Author...
Tipped off by the local U. S. Consul, who had been tipped off by China's Nanking Government, 144 U. S. residents of Foochow, capital of rebel Fukien Province, last week scuttled out to a cheerless island in Foochow's River Min. At Amoy 125 mi. to the south the U. S. colony scuttled to another island...
Presently out of the northern sky scudded fleets of Nanking battle planes, nearly all of U. S. make. They bombed and thoroughly machine-gunned Foochow and Changchow 32 mi. east of Amoy. Thrice they returned to deal more death. In vain the Fukien rebel leader, Eugene Chen, stormed: "Those planes were bought by public subscription for defense against Japan. Chiang Kai-shek [Nanking's Generalissimo] didn't have nerve enough to use them against the Japanese. Oh no! But he does not hesitate to use them to massacre his own countrymen...
...oldest in the U. S.; of pneumonia, her first illness; in Manhattan. Her sister. Mrs. Henriette Klein Dannenbaum of Philadelphia long an invalid, awaits her centennial Jan. 16. Born. To Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Guernsey cow. Klondike: a bull- calf; on the Jacob Ruppert, 247 mi. north of the Antarctic Circle...
Before Jan. i Museum visitors will see hanging in the new Hall of Ocean Life the sturdy red Lockheed monoplane in which the Lindberghs made a transcontinental record of 14 hr. 45 min. 32 sec. in 1930, flew to Japan and China in 1931, jaunted 30,000 mi. over 21 countries since last summer...