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Berlin. A squad of police met up with a band of "demonstrators" armed with knives and brass knuckles, laid about them with their gummi knüppel (rubber clubs), grievously injured one. In the west-Prussian town of Halle, Communists opened fire on the police, who retaliated in kind, killing...
Handball. Foundation of all ball games. No net. Small inflated rubber ball, leather gloves. Alfred Banuet, a young Latin who has been beating all the hand-ball-playing San Francisco policemen at the four-walled game, went to St. Louis last week to defend his national title, played circles around his opponents, put out George Nelson of Baltimore in the finals...
...State College, Pa., Pennsylvania State College scientists last week decided to operate on a cow. Into the stomach of this cow a hole would be cut for the insertion of a rubber tube to facilitate investigations interrupted last fortnight by the death of Cow Jessie...
...Vitamin B was found in Jessie's milk after Vitamin B had been deleted from her diet. Puzzled, experimenters cut a hole in Jessie's side, inserted a rubber tube, periodically examined the contents of her stomach. Ninety per cent of the bacteria in rumen were discovered to be of a new kind, flavobacterium vitarumen. Bacteriologist Ralph Porter Tittsler began investigating the bacteria in Jessie's stomach to discover what influence salt and other chemicals had upon the digestive processes of cows...
...Irvin Bechdel, Hannah Elizabeth Honeywell and Veterinarian James Fremont Shigley; Professors Raymond Adams Dutcher, Martin Halvor Knutsen also wished to perform further investigation on the stomach of a cow. Meeting last week, they decided that the second Pennsylvania State College cow would be selected within two weeks; agreed that rubber tubing would be as effective in Jessie II as it had been in Jessie...