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Down the main street of Yerington, Nev. (90 mi. from Reno) moved a small circus parade. Swaying gracefully on the head of an elephant leading the procession sat Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie. Perched upon a second elephant was Nevada's Governor, Frederick Bennett. Rocking on the hump of the show's lone camel came Lieut. Governor Morley Griswold. These three Republicans had come to town to campaign for reelection. Unable to compete with the circus, they had pocketed their speeches, joined the performance...
...made Father Hubbard know that the two great peaks were alive was the lava formation. It was piled up in huge distorted lumps with jagged, jutting corners showing that it has been thrown up recently. Aniakchak and Veniaminoff are two craters of the volcanic range stretching for 2,000 mi. from Mt. Spurr in Alaska to the Aleutian Islands. Almost every 35 mi. along this rift is a volcanic peak, many of them still active...
Aniakchak and Veniaminoff were discovered seven years ago by R. Harvey Sargent, for 21 years head of the U. S. Geological Survey. Mr. Sargent's party only had time to measure around the great crater holes, found the rim circumference of Aniakchak to be 21 mi., of Veniaminoff, 20 mi.* They found no trace of activity in their hasty circumspection, pronounced the craters big but dead...
...Next largest active volcanoes: Alaska's Katmai, 8.4 mi.; Hawaii's Kilauea, 8 mi. Vesuvius measures about one mile...
...Zogu I, King of the Albanians. Date: Oct. 8. Age: 35. Celebration: listening to the roar of 55 Italian warplanes which zoomed down to Tirana to bring a greeting card from Prime Minister Mussolini while a squadron of British destroyers fired a 21-gun salute in the harbor 20 mi. away...