All China was wet this week by the most dreaded occurrence in Asia, the overflow of the Yellow River. More than 60,000 Chinese lost their homes in the Honan and Hopel provinces, 100,000 met a similar fate in the Shantung district, making the total number of homeless more than 160,000.

In New York City one day this week, a sub committee headed by United States Senator Royal S. Copeland, heard a variety of opinions concerning crime control. Every method of checking crime was suggested ranging from martial law to the use of the Lash and an "American Devil's Island". Such famous law-enforcers as Edward P. Mulrooney, former police official of New York City, Warden Lowes of Sing Sing and Professor Moley, Asst. Sec. of State (who was recently appointed by the President to make a special study of organized crime) were present, but it turned out to be "just another meeting"; no definite plans were made.

Attorney-General Thomas E. Knight, Jr. of Alabama was summoned to Tuscaloosa to personally "look for" the murderers of Daniel Pippin and Albert Harden, two negro youths who wer lynched Monday, while awaiting trial. Professional ethics is expected to give Mr. Knight the same interest and vigor in this case that he displayed so untiringly in the quite recent Scottsboro affair.

Gugliemo Marconi, noted Italian Wireless inventor made front page news last week by disproving the generally accepted theory that ultra-short waves are limited to the range of vision. Engineers had believed that these waves would travel only as far as the eye could see from the top of a high building, at the most, sixty miles. They also believed that solid objects had the same effect on ultra-short waves as would be in the case of a searchlight or other forms of light beams.

However, in a series of tests conducted between the inventor's yacht and Inland Italy, Signor Marconi said, messages had been exchanged despite two intervening mountain promontories, indicating that short waves were not hindered by such opaque objects. This discovery is hailed as a forerunner of more important advancements in radio communication.

The Scottsboro Defense League sponsored a meeting Wednesday night, which brought Mr. William L. Patterson, Vice-President of "The National Scottsboro Action", Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two boys and Mr. Ben Davis of Atlantic City, to this City. The future of the case was outlined from the social as well as financial aspect.

Local democrats decided that Ernest L. Pugh was the man best fitted for handling the City funds, so they named him successor to the late Mr. Irvine for City treasurer, last Monday night.