Washington, Mar. 20, An upward turn for employment in the United States was forecast by the Department of Labour to-day for the spring months, affording lief from the present widespread unemployment. A The Department statement said hut business and industry had been consolidating. Considerable progress had been made in that direction since January, according to the statement.
Automobile production was now climbing, after a period of slackness.
Tu response to President Have call for construction work as an aid to relief of unemployment, there was widespread beginning' of county fund municipal construction work.—United Press.
'The death has occurred,' at the age of 73, of Professor Augustine Henry, who was an official i the Chinese Maritime Customs from 1882 to 1900.
Professor Henry, who was noted as an explorer of the flora of the interior of China, Formosa and Hainan, wrote several books -on forestry, besides contributing to seientife Journals on the same subject.
studying forestry in Nancy, France, he travelled in the forests of North America, Algeria, Corsica, Italy, the Balkan States, Spain, France and other countries.
He was Reader in Forestry, University of Cambridge, 1907-13; Professor of Forestry, College of ence, Dublin, 1913-26; and, from 1926 to the time of his death, Professor of Forestry, University College, Dublin—Reuter.
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