Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1931, Page 39

ISTEEL PRICE-FIXING OFFICE OF EDUCATION REPORT IS PREPARED| MOW FRENCH UM 10 BE DEVLOPED €ountry in South America THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. - C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1931. Block and Tackle Required to Move Body of Fat Man By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, December 4—A crew of six piano movers, with block and tackle, was employed by an undertaker to lift the body Justice Department to Reveal Re- | sults of Investigation Asked ESEARCH BUREAU Last Administrative Function End- | ed With Transfer of Alaska Schools. By the Associated Press, | to the maian Bureau last year, Dr. wu.] | liam John Cooper, the commissioner, was able to devote all energles to gath- | ering and distributing educational facts. | His annual report today listed surveys | being conducted, which are bringing in education data never before collected | 1t will be made available to all school | administrators as soon as the studies are | completed. The office of education, where Fed- | i Added Special for Friday & Saturday Fine Granulated by Couzens. of Charles Bush, who weighed 632 pounds, from a second-story window of his home. After the casket, weighing 408 pounds and constructed especially for Bush, has been lowered, 10 pallbearers will assist the piano eral activity on school subjects is cen-| Cucumber seeds treated with X-rays tered, has given up its last administra- | are said to have ylelded twice as large | tive function and become entirely a re- | a crop in England as the untreated search organization seeds, and the fruit ripened five days With the transfer of Alaska schools | earlier. By the Associated Press. A Teport on an investigation to de- termine whether steel rail producers combined to fix prices is expected | shortly by the Justice Department | overs in lifting the total of 1,040 ttorney Genes litchell said yester- Dounds of welght into the hearse. | |daY & Justice Department investigator Al e “.\urild‘{:gxf: in a few days from Denver also set up at the cemetery “The . nvestigation " ss - undartaken 'h;-—?{»'r'"r;q;(;snhe‘??xfimme:&:mm | some time ago, after Senator Couzens Preceding t ! . 1 | | of Michigan asserted in the Senate that b ot g neme o G, <z AKRON INVESTIGATION [faf il B Com e being org: | despite downward fluctuations of ::m\-rham?nlom Which has been dealg- | INV'TED BY MOFFETT rials. Previously the Interstate “Most of the 24,000 square miles of 3a,~r?$;i;fgafi‘;?\1 n i Ead Seneueetsd fnland French Guiana, now called — | " The Attorney General sald the report | ight be merely a progress report. or Inini, is unknown to the white man” 1 gh ;’\‘;V\& the investigation had been Now Called Inini Prom- ises Big Future. SUGAR 10 47 Prance has announced plans for the | TROUBLE? LIONEL SERVICE STATION @evelpoment of Prench Guiana, midget of the three European Guianas, on Cloth Bag Now Is the Time to Have That Engine Repaired Lionel Trains From $5 Up to $70.00 says a bulletin of the National Geo- Nation’s Attention Would Be| graphic Society. “Protected by French soldiers, imported laborers from Annem | Drawn to Wonders of Great- will penetrate the tropical forests, now | | the baliwick of Indians and Bushmen est Aircraft, He Says. The French have governed this | | nce early in the seventeenth | Pirst Prench srrivals en- ed Indians. 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