MEXICO CLAIMS HJ
POSITION IS Him
MEXICO CITY, Jan., n, ,7P)- The
Department, of Aeronautics an
nounces that in proportion to pop
ulation and territory, Mexico is ex
celled only by Germany in the mil
eage of its air mail and passenger
routes.
The statistics reveal that on a
comparative basis Mexico leads the
United States in air development
The United States has in operation
22,593 miles of air lines serving a
population of 120,000.000 and an
area four times as large as Mexico
while Mexico has 6,480 miles of air
routes serving a population of 15,
000,000.
PEIPING, Jan., 6. (TP)—One hun
dred thousand school teachers will
be needed in Hopei province (form
erly Chihli) for the enforcement of
the compulsory education laws,
says a report of the education de
partment. The report estimates
there are 3,000,000 illiterate child
ren in this area.
The total population of the pro
vince is calculated to range from
28,000,000 to 32,000,000, Hopei being
the third largest province in China.
MENNGNITES IN RUSSIA
TO GET AMERICAN AID
NEWTON, Kas., Jan., 6, W—
North American Mennonites, with
headquarters here, have begun a
concerted movement to aid thous
ands of their faith to leave Soviet
Russia.
Leaders of the church who have
reports that more than 2,000 Men
nonite refugees are starving on the
outskirts of Moscow, have started a
campaign for funds to bring these
immigrants to Canadian farms.
LEADS NOBEL LIST
I BERLIN, Jan, 6, (A*)—Award of
the 1929 Nobel prize for literature
to Thomas Mann was the 40th
I Nobel award to be given to a Ger
man. France is second in the list
of winners with 23. Of the two
| score German prizes, 31 were for
iscientific achievement.
UNION
WHS NAPOLEON'S IDEA
BERLIN, Jan, 6, (/P)—That Ne
poleon and not Aristide Briand was
the originator of the “United States
of Europe” idea is brought out in
the film “Nepoleon on St. Helena”,
which has been shown in a Berlin
; theatre.
It is a historical fact that the
Corsican, when after his defeat at
Waterloo he was banished to St.
Helena, confessed that his policy
had been wrong.
j The Jensen road house on Do
minion has been closed. This
house has been uced as a conven
ience for travelers for many years
and will be missed.
AID GERMANS
i GOETTINGEN, Germany, Jan., 6, .<
| (/P)—The Rockefeller Foundation
has helped Goettingen University
! reinforce its position as “center of
jits mathematical world” by donat
I ing funds for a new home for the
'institute of Mathematics.
Dr. D. Walter Green, of Mulls, S.
C., killed two deer with one shot.
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Alameda Jan. 4.
NorLhw’n Jan. 15.
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Nertb’n Feb. 5
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comfortable.
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