Senate group to probe American munitions trade
A seven member Senate committee led by Senator Nye will open hearings in Washington on September 4 to investigate the American munitions industry. The panel will consider international impact and may propose government monopoly or wartime tax plans. Included are lawmakers from both parties and a focus on export competition and industry data.
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Washington
Mars
Senate
Congress
Gerald P. Nye
Young Independent Republican
North Dakota
George
Georgia
Clark
Missouri
Bone
Pope
Idaho
Vandenberg
Michigan
Barbour
New Jersey
Nye
BUILD OWN HOMES IN TENNESSEE investigation
The article outlines a broad inquiry into munition makers and national defense economics. It probes government contracts, ownership of plants, banking ties, propaganda, and connections to Europe, plus Nye’s call for reform based on 1913 to 1930 cost figures and a U S spending rise from 343 million in 1915 to 1 73 billion in 1920 then fluctuating to 840 million in 1930. It also notes over 88 million young trees distributed by state forestry departments last year.
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Europe
Nye
League of Nations
U.S
Great Britain
Russia
United States
Dairymen to Discuss Prices at Amarillo Meet
Dairymen who market their products in Amarillo will meet in the courthouse tonight to discuss price demands from retailers and creameries. The meeting is for Amarillo milkshed producers with welcomed store and retail group representatives.
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Amarillo
Lee McSpadden
Standard Oil Defends Acts In Gran Chaco War
Geneva August 24 The Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey protested to the League of Nations that it aids neither Bolivia nor Paraguay in the Gran Chaco war. President Walter Co Teagle signed a letter asserting neutrality and impartial oil supplies to both belligerents amid accusations from Buenos Aires reports and Senator Huey Long.
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Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
League of Nations Today
Bolivia
Paraguay
Gran Chaco
Walter Co. Tergie
Buenos Aires
League
Stendard
Teagle
Standard Oil Company
Standard Companies
Huey Long
Louisiana
Milk price rise secured by retailers on base and manufac turing milk
Retailers granted a 40 cent per hundredweight increase for base milk sold in quart bottles and for manufacturing milk. Producers had sought a similar rise to start last Monday. Current milk price stands at 11 cents per quart.
Miami Woman Seeks Missing Husband
Floyd Sloan of the American Legion Post received an appeal from Mrs. M. F. Martin of Miami Texas to help locate her husband who disappeared two weeks ago. His name appears as M. Ff Blackie Mar-
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Floyd Sloan
American Legion
M. F. Martin
Miami
Texas
M. Ff
Blackie Mar
Missing Man Tin Leaves Home for Banford Texas Job
Tin was last seen leaving home August 10 driving a Chevrolet truck to Banford Texas for work. Mrs. Martin describes him as about five feet tall with dark complexion hair and eyes. He allegedly drove a Chevrolet truck with license 167 243 Salem Mass August 24. Mr and Mrs Alton F Marshall have five children born within three years and two sets of twins since December 193.
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Tin
Banford
Texas
Salem
Mass
Alton F. Marshall
A Word for John Crudgington Seeks County Clerk Seat
John Crudgington, raised locally and Potter County School graduate, campaigns for County Clerk. He served in France during World War I and partners with his late father Judge J W Crudgington in a law practice. His opponent is Ted Blackburn, seeking a fourth term after years in the clerk’s office.
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Potter County
Canyon College
John
France
J. W. Crudgington
W. EB
Ted) Blackburn
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Standard Oil
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Hollywood
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