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Last week out of the black cloud of dust which still hung over drought-stricken Kansas, Governor Alfred Mossman ("Alf") Landon sped to Washington to see about $500,000 worth of free gasoline from FERA to power 200,000 tractors to plough furrows to stop the ravages of Kansas' winds. While he was getting his gasoline he stopped long enough to mention that in May the Republicans of ten Midwestern States were planning to convene and write a platform for a bigger, better, sounder and more liberal G. O. P. Head of the resolutions committee at this meeting would...
...watch Frederick deliver the "betrothal kiss," of which every Scandinavian paper last week published pictures. Frederick's 55-year-old mother Queen Alexandrine of Denmark last week accompanied him to Stockholm. At this intense moment Queen Alexandrine was stricken with appendicitis and intestinal strangulation. Scandinavian Press "halted popular rejoicing," held its breath until the Queen came safely out of an operation...
...emergency ward was created yesterday in the Hygiene Building, anticipating the time when Stillman facilities will no longer be able to accommodate the swelling ranks of those stricken with the German measles, that well-known Teutonic plague...
...been demanding a show-down on the death of onetime Chancellor General Kurt von Schleicher, shot with his wife by Nazis during the Blood Purge (TIME, July 9). The General's regiment has demanded that either something be proved against von Schleicher, so that his name can be stricken in dishonor from the regimental rolls, or that the General's innocence be acknowledged, his assassins punished. In the State Opera these demands of military honor were satisfied, so the rumor ran, by Nazi admissions that General and Frau von Schleicher were innocent, Nazi assurances that the guilty...
...come from Ceylon that malaria was decimating the 5,000,000 inhabitants of that tea-growing island off the southern tip of India. Last week's dispatches mentioned 250,000 cases, 3,000 deaths in a single district. In some villages nine out of ten people have been stricken. What the British administrators who govern Ceylon as a Crown Colony mostly fear is that the Ceylon epidemic may spread to the Indian mainland and rouse a plague like that of 1908 when in the Punjab alone 3,000,000 people died of fever...