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Washington was not the only spot on the U. S. health map that broke out last week in a sudden rash of measles which looked like a national epidemic. Latest weekly figures received by the U. S. Public Health Service showed Philadelphia with 1,418 cases against 92 in the same week last year, Baltimore with 411 to 3, St. Louis with 468 to 17, Salt Lake City with 506 to 1. San Francisco with 105 to 4. Boston, Cincinnati, Omaha, Memphis, Atlanta, Little Rock also held many a pimply, feverish face. The schools of Waterville, N. Y. were closed...
...bald, moon-faced U. S. executive, who uses his office floor for a filing cabinet, brought debate on Britain's North Atlantic shipping bill in the House of Commons to a sudden halt one day last week. Patriotic members of Parliament wanted to know and know at once whether President Philip Albright Small Franklin of International Mercantile Marine was really going to block the Cunard-White Star merger (TIME...
...Though most men, including the men of her own family, fell in love with her, Anitra did not return the emotion until young Pianist Strakosh burst on her view. But alas, the new fashion of "unhappy endings"' dictated that Anitra should be carried off by a sudden hemorrhage, with Strakosh absent on a triumphant concert tour, and just at the moment when Papa Bruno at last conquered the impasse of his unfinished theme. Physical to a pungent degree, Author Hurst handles her characters with caressing fingers that are impatient of clothes, is sometimes betrayed into descriptions so accurate that...
...means of checking the sudden crime wave which has overrun the state, Governor Ely has recommended that all the police forces be coordinated into a single body. This coordination, it is hoped, will result in a more effective police power, and one that will be able to perform its duties towards public security with more success than have the municipal forces working independently. This plan is an excellent one, and with a competent person in charge, the united force should be able to accomplish much in the way of apprehending criminals. There are, however, other factors than incompetent police forces...
...suspicion of graft, had sent the army planes of a sudden into the air, they would have found themselves out-maneuvered and shot down. The private planes might, in due time, be fitted for military service, but modern aerial warfare is too quick and deadly to await their reconstruction. Obviously, what the situation demands is not a larger air force, but an air force whose existing equipment is effective, up-to-date, and at least on a par with that of the private lines...