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Bernd Ros
REDUCTION OF IS COLTON US ACREAGE
Union car on the
stadt highway,
ed three re
onal
all
in the three to five litre-class with a dying start
reduction of 2,000,000
acres
the ares which farmers
Officials of the Agricultural
He reached 346.117 kilometres an who wish to qualify for the Govern- hour over five kilometres, 343.562 mentis benefit may plant cotton in kph over five miles and 334555 1938, is announced by the Secretary kph over ten kilometres.
of Agriculture, Mr. Henry A. Rosemeyer then used another Wallace. Auto-Union car in the five to eight litre class over distances of one Adjustment Administration state kilometre and one mile, both with a
that the change was decided on because of this year's unusually flying start
He improved on his own interna-
large cotton crop tional records in this class, from 389.2 and 387.6 to 406.320 and 406.285 kilometres san hour.
During one run he reached a maximum speed of 409.9 kilometres an hour-Trans-Ocean.
POLICE SEE
400,000 DRUNKS
TERRORISE A CITY
Original acreage estimate for cotton was 29,000,000 000,000 acres which has now been revised to 27,000,000 to 29, 000,000 acres.
In order that farmers operating in next year's cotton pro- gramme should not suffer by the reduction in acreage, the rate of benefit payments is simultaneously increased from two cents to 2.4 cents per Ib.
Officials estimate that smaller acreage will mean
Hundreds of women, appalled by reduction of about 680,000 bales in
wild, dangerous pranks, fled in ter the 1938 crop.-Renter
ror before the advance of a horde
of roistering American Legionaires in the Broadway district of New York.
Nearly 400,000 ex-soldiers, in New York for the Legion's annual Convention, crazed with drink and excitement, literally took posses sion of the city.
They lay on their backs in the busiest thoroughfares, held up the traffic, fought their way into pri- vate cars, and played practical jokes on women and girls.
Some carried electrical ap- paratus disguised as cameras. These they placed against the backs of women, giving them electrical shocks which made
them scream with fright.
SINGAPORE RAW RUBBER
Messrs. H B. Joseph and
Co received the following quotations from Singapore in Straits Currency for Raw Rubber:
Nov/December 25- b. down - Jan/March 25-1 b. deren %% April/June 25-34 b. down %. Market: Dull
150,000 Year-Old Teeth!
Teeth believed to be at least
old have been
Police did nothing to protect $150,000 years public, as the Legion is really found in Cologne during excava powerful political organisation tions for a new street on what that no officials dare offend. Dressed in imposing blue and The teeth are believed to have
was formerly the Rhine bed. - uniforms, the majority of the so- belonged to a mammal of a spe called legionaries never served in cies not yet determined the firing line. British and Cana- dians in New York call it the "Legion of Chocolate Soldiers.”
Lloyd
Triestina
One tooth is about 29 inches long and the other relic is a 26- inch piece of a similar tooth.
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