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Products), Pet Milk and Borden's have scattered plants throughout Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee. Since 1927, dairy stock in the South has upped from 5,370,000 head to 5,761,000. In St. Louis, livestock centre and a Southern gateway, a permanent dairy exhibit was recently established in the four-year-old Arena, a giant red-&-yellow mushroom located just over the southern boundary of Forest Park. But few Southern-bred cattle won any of the big prizes offered at the 25th annual National Dairy Show held at the Arena last week...
...atmosphere of the show was gala, if varied. There were circus acts, pet stock judging, live stock judging, vaudeville, dramatic presentations by local Thespians. One booth was occupied by ladies of the W. C. T. U., another by the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Little country boys of the 4-H Club were housed with the rabbits and poultry in the nearby "Highlands," a onetime funpark. Their eyes popped open a little wider at the exhibit of Milwaukee's ever-hopeful Pabst Corp.: an oldtime saloon, complete with brass rail, sawdust, shiny glassware...
...fraud. The laundrymen claimed the bankers had represented the bridge company as owning a franchise which protected it from competition for 20 years. Actually when the bonds were being sold the Louisiana State Legislature had already passed bills providing for two free bridges a few miles away. These were pet projects of mercurial Huey Pierce Long, Governor of Louisiana and Senator-elect, who also fostered the public ferries which have added to the bridge company's troubles...
...Penrod (Leon Janney) steals a letter which his sister is writing to an admirer, reads it aloud in lieu of an English composition. He and his friends belong to the In-or-In Club of which Penrod is president. When obliged to initiate a sniveling little teacher's pet, they paddle him till he needs a doctor, slick down his hair so thoroughly with tar that he makes his next appearance with a shaved skull. Penrod and his friend Sam have a fight at a birthday party. Penrod's dog dies and is buried near the clubhouse...
...fast Lockheed-Altair with which he has been publicizing The Crusaders, anti-Prohibition organization (TIME, July 27) Pilot James Goodwin Hall took off last week, with Banker Peter J. Brady as passenger, for the American Legion convention in Detroit, from New York's Floyd Bennett Airport, pet project of Banker Brady as chairman of Mayor James John Walker's Committee on Aviation. In a fog over Staten Island, the plane lost flying speed, crashed through a rooftop. Banker Brady was killed. A woman, owner of the house, was burned to death by a shower of blazing gasoline...