Stone Maintains Wheat Policy Amid Hoover Pressure
United Press reports Washington, June 30, as Government wheat stays on the market. Farm Board Chairman James C. Stone, urged by President Hoover, promises a statement on plans tomorrow. He rejects calls to keep stabilization wheat off the market and notes White House pressure amid two vacancies. Stone defends the board’s policy to move surplus stocks with minimal price disruption.
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H. C. Thompson
United Press
Washington
U.P
Federal Farm Board
James C. Stone
Hoover
Stone
White House
Farm Board
Alexander Legge
Legge
Stabilization Corporation
Btone
Debt Plan Deadlocked in Franco American Talks
Paris reports a deadlock in Franco American talks over President Hoover's war debts and reparations holiday plan. Andrew Mellon says discussions adjourned until tomorrow as crisis signals prompt calls for Washington action. Both sides show no willingness to yield on their reservations.
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Paris
U.P
Hoover
Andrew W. Mellon
the Treasury
Washington
Lifer Is Pardoned by Governor White
Mart Brown, 55, of Van Wert, freed 23 years after a life sentence for poisoning his wife in 1908. The governor commuted the term after Brown’s prison record showed no offenses and his children petitioned for release. The pardon reunites him with his family in Columbus.
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Columbus
U.P
George White
Mart Brown
van Wert
Brown
Interstate Commerce Commission Sets Hearing Dates for Rate Increase
The Interstate Commerce Commission announced hearings on the nations proposed 15 percent rate increase. The initial hearing will cover the petition and supporting parties on July 15 in FASHINGTON. A second hearing on August 31 will allow cross examination and submission of evidence from agricultural interests and others protesting the increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fashington
U.R. Interstate Commerce Commis
Pettie
World Fliers Near Record as Winnie Mae Heads Home
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty of the Winnie Mae race toward a world speed record in a flight from Nome to New York. They paused in Fairbanks for a few hours and planned to resume early, refueling stops limited to Cleveland on the way to Roosevelt Field. Gatty suffered an injury at Nome when near a propeller, but the crew pressed on toward the home stretch.
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Nome
New York
Fairbanks
Alaska
North America
Cleveland
Ohio
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
Roosevelt Field
Gatty
International Air
Khabavorsk
Siberian
Here
Arctic
Post and
Hugh Herndon
Clyde Pangborn
Pangborn
Athens
Pomeroy
Mussolini's New Job Flight From Prohibition and Bombing Turmoil
A Genoa palace blast injures a royal estate as 100 arrests are reported while Communist links are speculated. In aviation news the Winnie Mae, piloted by Khabarovsk flyers, endures fog and cold on a 12,000 mile leg toward Floyd Bennett Field as the crew notes a minor propeller issue but presses toward New York.
Post-World Flight Aims For Ten Day Global Trip
Reports say the Post-Chatty aircraft began a global circumnavigation in ten days, with potential eight day timing if not delayed. Ocean crossings attract little notice while three such flights may launch this week.
Flying machine to end prohibition and widen travel horizons
The text envisions the Prosperous class using flying machines to solve bootleg supply issues, with Canada or Bermuda minutes away and weekend trips to Europe becoming common. It suggests government concern over Americans spending money abroad, likening it to Ireland’s envy of landlords’ rents in England.
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Canada
Bermuda
Europe
Ireland
England
White House denies beer restriction rumors ahead of 1932 campaign
The White House rejects any definite quotation on relaxing beer rules while avoiding commitments. The note suggests only beer from Canada could be considered by bootleggers, and reflects disbelief that the administration would address prohibition before the 1932 campaign.
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White House
Canada
Wickersham Commission Dissolves After Expensive Unproductive Run
The Wickersham commission ends its existence having spent much public money for little result. Its farewell recalls disappointing firecrackers that sizzle briefly. The piece notes a commission often relieves leaders of responsibility but seldom yields concrete outcomes.
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Wickersham Commission
Church Prohibits Four Leroy Works for Doubt on God
The Holy Office lists four books by French philosopher Leroy of the College of France on the index of prohibited writings. Leroy argues that God’s existence cannot be demonstrated and denies creation of the soul and any difference between the Creator and created things.
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Catholic Church
Congregation of the Holy Office
Leroy
College of France
God
In the Light of Modern Knowledge on Electricity
A brief note argues that a single man’s claims are unimportant since electricity unseen by the eye proves nothing, mentioning sparks and lightning as observable phenomena and signaling continuation on Page 4.
New Philadelphia to Provide Temp Jobs for 300 Men
The city will offer employment two days weekly for an indefinite period to 300 men with families, funded by 24,000 dollars from auto license money and gasoline taxes, per official announcement.
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New
Philadelphia, CO
U.P
Will Says Size of World Is Reduced To a Watermelon
Beverly Hills Calif No news today as big as this Post and Gatty that are making this world seem the size of a watermelon. This pilot Post is an old one eyed Oklahoma boy with a steady eye on the horizon. Gatty, a reformed Australian brumby and wombat, can tell where you are with four compasses and one glance at the giant dipper. This is a ship I would have loved to stow away on, Yours.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Post
Gatty
Oxford
President May Battle Over Soviet Embargo Plan
Washington June 30 U P states President Hoover is expected to push for modifying the Customs Bureau embargo on Soviet Russia imports. The plan targets goods grown under forced or indentured labor, with White House pressure possible to adjust policy after Mellon returns from Europe. Senator Smoot notes Russian lumber and pulp wood as likely to be barred.
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Washington
U.P
Hoover
Customs Bureau
Soviet Russia
White House
Removal of three state commission members demanded
Mrs Zetta Russell of Urbana filed a complaint with Governor George White alleging neglect of duty malfeasance and misfeasance by state industrial commission members Wellington Leonard Thomas Gergory and L E Nysewander. The suit seeks $4377 from the workmen's compensation fund for her husband's death on September 26 1924.
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Columbus
U.P
State Industrial Commission
George White
Zetta Russell
Urbana
Benjamin E. Seibert
Wellington T. Leonard
Thomas M. Gergory
L. E. Nysewander
Russell
Window-stopping holdup men steal 11000 at Murray Hill branch
In New York on June 30 two armed robbers used machine guns to force money from the cashier at the Murray Hill branch of the Manhattan Trust Company without entering the building. They compelled John Gatto to surrender a canvas sack of cash and then disappeared into the crowd.
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New York
U.P
Murray Hill
Manhattan Trust Company
John Gatto
Irate Pedestrian Stabs Stars Truck Driver in Cincinnati
A motor truck driver was stabbed in the right leg after being brushed by a pedestrian in Cincinnati the morning of June 30. Police report the assailant produced a knife and attacked the driver during the incident.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Vacation dream ends as Western Ranch trip fails in Times Square
About 30 teachers and students faced stranded crowds in Times Square after a bus trip to a Western ranch collapsed. Police searched for organizer George Graham, who allegedly touting a Buffalo Bill Cody themed tour, with losses estimated at 350000. Refunds promised. district attorney to pursue indictments.
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Times Square
New York
George Graham
West
Buffalo
Bill Cody
Yellowstone Park
Buffalo Bill
Boston
District Attorney's Office
Graham
Philadelphia
Gulf Ports To Be Protected By Fast Boats
Treasury officials dismissed reports of renewed Great Lakes rumrunning and said 10 Coast Guard fast picket boats will be sent to Texas waters to bolster Gulf port security. Rear Admiral Billiard and Seymour Lowman questioned the rumor origins and noted a need for more boats in the Gulf of Mexico to curb liquor smuggling into Texas ports.
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Washington
U.P
Treasury
Great Lakes
Canada
Coast Guard
Texas
Frederick C. Billiard
Galveston
Gulf
Belize
British Honduras
Billiard
Seymour Lowman
United States
Lowman
St. Thomas
Martin W. Rasmussen
Buffalo
Gulf of Mexico
Coal Output Higher Across Nation and Lake Trade Volumes
The U S Bureau of Mines reports soft coal production for the week ended June 20 at 4.644 million tons, a slight 0.4 percent drop from the prior week. Ohio produced 435 thousand tons in the week ended June 13, and 414 thousand in the following week. Lake Erie port cargo coal dumped for the week ended June 21 reached 958,727 tons, with season totals to June 21 at 7,309,608 tons versus 11,951,273 tons in the same period last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Ohio
Lake Erie
German Students Riot at University of Munich
Rioting Hitlerite students confront Professor Nowhatsky over Versailles treaty defense. Police with swords and truncheons clear the campus. university closes. A wounded demonstrator leads a student parade, sparking a second clash.
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Munich
Germany
University of Munich
Nowhatsky
Clergy Conference Addresses Racial Relations Unemployment
About 350 pastors and laymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church gathered at Ohio Wesleyan University to discuss interracial and international relations unemployment and recreation during the conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delaware
Methodist Episcopal Church
Ohio Wesleyan University
Whipping Returns at Colorado Penitentiary
Resort to whipping disclosed at the Colorado State Penitentiary after more than three years. Convicts were strapped to the whipping block and lashed for attempting to murder two guards during an escape. Guards overpowered them and returned them to confinement.
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Canon City
Colo
U.P
Colorado State Penitentiary
Pennsylvania industrial police system ends at midnight
Harrisburg reports Governor Pinchot revokes the commissions of coal and iron officers under the Mansfield Act. The action ends the industrial police system at midnight with the governor calling the change a relief from the old guarding regime.
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Harrisburg
U.P
Pennsylvania
Pinchot
Coal and Iron” Officers
Akron Dirigible to Tour Nation Before Pacific Fleet
The Akron the world’s largest airship nears completion in Akron Ohio and will undertake a lengthy air tour of the United States before joining the Pacific fleet. The ship will be christened in early August with itinerary not yet set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Akron
Riots in Salonica Fire Jewish Quarter
Communal violence erupted again in Salonica with Greek and Jewish factions clashing and the Jewish quarter reported on fire as of June 30.
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Salonica
Grasshopper plague devastates Nebraska fields and renews aid calls
North Central Nebraska endures widespread grasshopper damage stretching wheat oats and alfalfa pastures. Gov. Charles Bryan seeks state funds for insecticide and relief. Congressman Edgar Howard urges federal help as trains face delays and tracks prone to slime from crushed insects.
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Lincoln
Edgar Howard
Columbus
Nebraska
Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
North Central
Stocks Rise as Hoover Plan Signals Fiscal Dawn
Washington reports a cheerful tone as President Hoover's reparations proposal adds billions to stock values and boosts confidence. Tax collections for the year are projected to grow, with next year's figures tied to calendar earnings as the fiscal year closes amid market optimism.
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Washington
U.pb
Hoover
Treasury
Estart
Congress
Jones Loses Decision in Meigs County Highways Case
The Ohio State Civil Service Commission ruled against C. W. Jones, suspended superintendent of state highways for Meigs County, after a hearing held weeks earlier by two commission members. A. F. Eiselstein remains in the post on a provisional basis.
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Pomeroy
Ohio State Civil Service Commission
C. W. Jones
Meigs County
Jones
State Commission
A. F. Eiselstein
Elderly Florida transplants return to Ohio countryside
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sheets aged 73 and 71 drove from Florida to Pomeroy after a brutal heat spell, returning to spend their final years among friends with Sam and Fanny Fugate on Sugar Run. They began the trip June 19, sleeping in their car each night as they traveled 68 miles north of Jacksonville.
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Pomeroy
Thomas Sheets
Pomeroy Bend
Ohio River
Sheets
Florida
Sam
Fanny Fugate
Sugar Run
Mrs. Sheets
Jacksonville
Identity sought for man killed by C O train near Nelsonville
Unidentified mulatto man, seen talking to Kimberly residents before dying on the C&O near Kimberly Crossing, possibly slept on the track to rest. He headed toward Athena after leaving a mine area, rode freight from Columbus, and was found dismembered by the 101 Ranch Show train. Officials hold the body at Stout's Mortuary awaiting identification.
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Nelsonville
Kimberly
Floodwood
Eimer Rizer
Kimberly Crossing
Riser
Powhatan
Athens
Columbus
W. H. Pickett
Athena
Stout
Drowning of Nathan Cox in the Hocking River
Nathan Cox age 15 of Logan drowned at 8 15 PM Monday in the Hocking River near Mulberry Street Bridge. James R. King recovered the body after it was located by Joseph Crawford and James Karshner. resuscitation at Cherrington Hospital failed. He left four brothers and two sisters besides his parents Mr and Mrs N J Cox. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Cherrington Hospital
Cox
Logan Boy Sets World Record In Wright Field Monoplane Contest
16 minutes 8 seconds sustained flight by 15 year old Richard Herrick of Champaign Jr. schoolboy at Wright Field in the Airplane Model League of America event breaks Joseph Earhardt’s 14 minute 10 second mark. Walter Gray aged 19 from Logan Ohio places second with 14 minutes 0.5 seconds.
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Dayton
U.P
Richard Herrick
Champaign, Jr
Airplane Model League of America
Wright Field
Young Herrick
Joseph Earhardt
Walter Gray
Logan, O
Marriage Annulled for Dameron and Goodfellow Dameron
In Columbus Franklin County Common Pleas Court an annulment was granted for Mrs. Janet Goodfellow Dameron and Charles W. Dameron. The couple wed January 8 in Cincinnati while both worked for WLW.
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Columbus
Janet Goodfellow Dameron
S. E. Goodfellow
Charles W. Dameron
WLW
Cincinnati
Franklin County Common Pleas Court
Heat Wave Toll as Ohio Sees 10 More Drownings
Ohio weather bureau predicts lingering heat with temperatures in the 90s for two more days. The extended heat wave is blamed for ten drownings and heat deaths across the state, including a mother drowning while trying to save her child at Bellaire and several others in Cincinnati Logan and Willoughby.
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Columbus
Jane Couragement
Ohio
United States
Helen Behler
Ohio River
Bellaire
Emory
Thomas Renner
Allen Alderson
Enochentine
Cincinnati
Methan Cox
Hocking
Logan
Michael J. Cahill
Selote River
Columbia
Franklin Walter
Willian Tagelor
William L. Kennedy
North Bloomfield
Willoughby
Heat wave grinds on as toll tops four hundred
Chicago reports on June 30 say the seventh day of extreme heat raises the death toll to over 404 with temperatures near 100 degrees across many regions. Forecasters warn relief is days away as trains slow, highways crack, and thermometers explode. Hundreds of people suffer, farm crops suffer, and livestock die in the blistering heat across the nation.
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Chicago
Releati
C. A. Demnell
United States
Atlantic Coast
Rockies
Midwest
Beer seizure at Logan tied to Firms property search
Logan deputies found 300 bottles of beer at John Firms property in Jobs during a Saturday search. Firms was arrested and pleaded guilty before Judge Harley M. Whitcraft, fined $100 and costs.
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Firma
Logan
John Firms
Joe Farbearn
Stanley
Thomas Bush
Harley M. Whitcraft
Coata
Life Saver Lion Cub Mascot Survives Tumbling Flight
In New York on June 30, Col George R Hutchinson and crew on a Floyd Bennett flight faced a scare when mascot Life Saver the lion cub escaped its cage and nearly caused a fatal fall. A passenger secured the cub, preserving the animal and the mission as Hutchinson recovered from the tense moment.
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New York
U.P
George R. Hutchinson
Army Flier
Floyd Bennett
Hutchinson
Ben
Prize Model Contest Shown by Dayton Group
A Dayton event today featured a prize of 200 in the Airplane Model League of America contest at Wright Field. A kit plane remained stable for the aft five minutes and 40 seconds during testing.
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Dayton
Kiazura
Chicago
League of Americ
Wright
Weather Summary Tallies Highs Lows Across Cities
Yesterday saw Huron 104 and Minneapolis 102 as top highs while Kalispell and Boise dipped to 38 and 42. Forecast calls for generally fair to mild conditions in the local area over the next 36 hours.
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Huron
Neapolis
Stuis
Kalis
Boise
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Arthur Brisbane
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Floyd Bennett Field
New York City
Will
Russia
Seek
Dude Ranch
Colorado
Coal and Iron Officer
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Fleet
Insecta
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Logan Boy
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