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...acquittal of 20-year-old Mlle. Germaine Berthon of shooting Marius Plateau, an editor of L' Action Française (TIME, Dec. 31), received the following comment from the Paris press...
Mlle. Germaine Berthon, who shot M. Marius Plateau, an editor of L'Action Française, Royalist journal, last January, was put on trial for her life...
...circumstances of the assassination were that she tried to see M. Leon Daudet, the Chief Editor of the paper. He would or could not see her and deputed M. Plateau, one of the leading Royalists, who was possessed of the business and organizing brains of both the paper and the Party, to interview her, which he did. After a brief conversation with her, M. Plateau rose and opened the door to let her out. As she passed him Mlle. Berthon shot him dead...
...Yerkes Observatory expedition (TIME, Sept. 3), in charge of Director Edwin B. Frost, is financed by William Wrigley, Jr. (chewing-gum man) with a gift of $5,000, and occupies sites on Santa Catalina Island (directly in the path of totality), which is owned by Mr. Wrigley. Oh a plateau 1,300 feet above sea-level an observatory equipped with elaborate telescopic and photographic apparatus has been erected."; The unique feature of the Yerkes enterprise is its use of moving picture machines for the first time to record an ellipse. The Yerkes Observatory, at Williams Bay, on Lake Geneva...
Advices to the Pioneer of Allahabad, India, stated that more than 1,000 persons were killed by seismic shocks in the little Persian town of Turbat-i-Haidari in the province of Khorasan which forms part of the great Iranian Desert plateau. The sheets lasted several hours and it is feared that many villages adjacent to Turbat-i-Haidari were devastated with a consequent further loss of life...