Hoover Borah Discuss Naval Pact With Stimson
President Hoover met with Senator Borah to urge action on the London naval treaty before the Senate’s summer adjournment. Borah said he would support the pact but favors full information, with Secretary Stimson promising to send Johnson’s demanded papers. Senator Johnson argued for wide access to all treaty documents as a constitutional requirement.
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Washington
Hoover
Borah
Senate Foreign Relation Committee
Senate
Stimson
White House
Johnson
Republican
California
Foreign Relations Committee
Watson
Indiana
Vandenberg
Michigan
Allen
Kansas
Executive
Salem College Holds Commencement for 105 Graduates
Salem West Virginia honors Rev C G Stater from Huntington as speaker and doctor of laws at the ceremony. Forty eight graduates receive standard diplomas.
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Salem
W. Va
Salem College
C. G. Stater
Huntington
Goal production on higher level in Pocahontas Tug River district
Coal output in the Pocahontas Tug River district for the week ending May 31 rose to 519,528 net tons, up 16,431 from the prior week. The May end production exceeded the yearly weekly average by about 13,000 tons, aided by increased lake shipments.
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Pocahontas
Tug River
Pocahontas-Tug River
Pocahontas Operators Association
Pocahontas Tug River
Bishop Cannon Walks Out in Senate Lobby Hearing
The Day in Washington reports Bishop Cannon walked out of a senate lobby committee hearing amid questions. The tariff bill was sent back to conference as senate objections were sustained and the War Department allotted nearly 40 million dollars for river and harbor improvements. Senator Sheppard urged making the buyer of a saver equally guilty with the seller.
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Bishop Cannon
Senate
War Department
Sheppard
Tariff bill faces Senate blocks and House vote
Washington June 5 The tariff bill met four Senate points of order over cheese watches razors and cattle pasturage while the House defeated a bid to accept the Senate free listing of hides leathers and shoes. Conference reappointed with Senator Smoot to push corrections and report by tomorrow or Monday.
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Washington
Senate
House
Curtis
Mexico
Canada
Smoot
Utah
Senate Conference Committee
Garner
Texas
Barkley
Kentucky
Hayden
Arizona
Tribesmen March on Peshawar City in Frontier Tensions
Tribesmen led by Afridis and Zakka Khels advance toward Peshawar causing alarm among authorities. A Jirga split the Lashkar into two groups after May 3 and June 1 movements 18 miles from the border. In Bombay Gandhi’s imprisonment marked by a large procession without anti British banners.
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Bombay
Lashkar
Afridis
Pehsawar
Nari Khwar
Mardan
Bara
Peheawar
Peshawar
Mahatma Ghandi
Ghandi
Graf Zeppelin Halts at Seville Then Heads to Home Port
The Graf Zeppelin left Seville and turned toward its Mooring at Friedrichshafen. Flying along the Mediterranean coast of France, the air liner reported passing Cabo de Gata as a six hour 200 mile leg. The voyage aims to complete a trip from South America to North America and back.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
Seville
Zeppelin
Mediterranean
France
Cabo de Gata
Graf
South America
North America
Graf Zeppelin completes tri continent voyage
A battered Graf Zeppelin and a weary group of passengers reached Seville Spain then departed for Friedrichshafen ending a historic 138000 mile tri‑continent voyage. Dr Hugo Eckener piloted the craft after hours of aerial tours over southern Spain.
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Seville
Spain
Graf Zeppelin
Friedrichshafen
Hugo Eckener
Graf
Rainfall slows progress of West Virginia forest fire
Promises of more rain bring hope for containment of a large fire near Wildell in Monongahela National Forest. About 3,000 acres have burned as federal foresters direct a 200 man effort, with a supply camp set up from Elkins and Parsons.
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Elkins
W. Va
Wildell
Monogahela National Forest
C. & I. Branch
Western Maryland Railroad
National Forest
Parsons
May Prison Camp Escapes Reach Twenty As Population Grows
Twenty prisoners escaped from road camps in May with fifteen recaptured, according to a June report by Warden A C Scrogging. The state prison population rose by 64 that month to 2,349 at Moundsville West Virginia.
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Moundsville
W. Va
A. C. Scrogging
Disgusted Town Officials to Replace Old Police Car and Siren
In Tarentum Pennsylvania a pursuing officer found the boroughs five year old police car unable to keep up with two fleeing suspects. A second officer detected a garage fire believed set by the fugitives and used the boroughs fire siren card which only squeaked. He ran seven blocks for help and noted in his report the need for a new police car and new siren.
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Pittsburgh
Tarentum
New Eiren
Bodies found on abandoned farm in Michigan tragedy
Rochester Michigan June 5 two bodies shot to death were found on an abandoned farm near here Marjorie Clemons 13 and Henry Clouse 46 a boarder at the Clemons home had vanished after an auto ride. Clouse apparently killed Clemons then killed himself. Authorities issued a kidnapping warrant for Clouse as the search ended with the discovery of the wrecked car and bodies.
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Rochester
Mich
Marjorie Clemons
Henry Clouse
Clemons
Clouse
Oakland County
A. E. Clemons
Marjorie
Robert J Bulkley Declares Bid for Senate Seat
Former Cleveland congressman Robert J Bulkley announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination to the United States Senate. He faces four other aspirants in the primary.
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Columbus
Robert J. Bulkley
Congress
Cleveland
United States
Benwood Officer Fined and Jailed for Assault Charge
Patrolman Samuel Clelland of the Benwood police was fined twenty dollars and costs or ten days in jail on an assault and battery count. He appealed to the circuit court. Dan J. Hanly, former commander of the West Virginia American Legion district, filed the complaint. Hanly had recently been arrested by Clelland on a loitering charge and fined in city court, with Hanly also appealing.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Samuel Clelland
Benwood Police Today
Dan J. Hanly
First West Virginia District of the American Legion
Clelland
Hanley
Hanly
Hnly
cautious airman dies under loaded elevator
Lincoln, Nebraska June 5 James Haviland an aviator and bricklayer's helper died after failing to notice a descending material elevator. He was known as a cautious flyer with no prior accidents while training for a piloting career.
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Lincoln
Neb
James Haviland
Haviland
Middies Get Diplomas and Hastens to Altar
Annapolis graduates receive diplomas. 334 commissioned ensigns and 28 second lieutenants in the marine corps. Many marry after graduation as naval regulations had barred wedlock during midshipman status. Tomorrow second and third year classes sail for a European tour aboard the Florida Arkansas and Utah. Secretary Adams and Rear Admiral Robison address the ceremony.
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Secretary of the Navy
Charles Francis Adams
Naval Academy
Marine Corps
Academy
Florida
Arkansas
Utah
Cuban
Adams
Robison
Post Office Robbed of Stamps and Money Orders
Lake Lynn Pennsylvania post office was robbed early today. Thieves forced a window and chiseling the safe to take stamps and money order blanks. This was the second such theft in the area within a week following a $1,200 looting at Tunnelton West Virginia.
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Lake Lynn
N. E. Lyons
Tunnelton
W. Va
Two Killed When Plane Crashes at Augusta Airport
At Augusta Maine a small plane spinning during approach killed two occupants Francis A Cote 19 of Franklin Massachusetts and Clyde G Maxfield 23 of West Barnstable Massachusetts Investigators believe fuel lack caused the plane to spin and crash as they prepared to land.
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Augusta
Maine
Francis A. Cote
Franklin
Mass
Clyde G. Maxfield
West Barnstable
Cote
Maxfield
Ambassador Dawes Praises Gold Star Mothers in Cambridge
In Cambridge England June 5 Ambassador Dawes praised the Gold Star mothers and criticized American social seekers during a Trinity College dinner. He accepted an honorary Doctor of Laws from seventeen named individuals, noting the mothers as representatives of the American people. He contrasted travelers with social ambitions to the grave wreaths laid in France.
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Cambridge
England
Ambassador Dawes
Trinity College
Great Britain
London
France
Four year old drowns in cistern near Bellaire
Rudolph K Rupnik aged four fell into a seventeen inch cistern in the yard at Wegee near Bellaire Ohio and drowned. Local authorities reported the accident occurred today as the child played in the yard. The incident happened in Bellaire county.
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Bellaire
Rudolph K. Rupnik
Wegee
Here
Cannon Refuses to Continue as Voluntary Witness
The Senate lobby committee faces Bishop James Cannon after he leaves the room saying he will not answer further questions without a subpoena. Senator Walsh calls the move contempt of the Senate and the panel adjourns until Caraway returns.
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Washington
James Cannop
Senate Lobby Committee
Caraway
Cannon
Blaine
Wisconsin
Alfred E. Smith
Walsh
Montana
Senate
Lobby Committee
Bishop Cannon
Borah
Idaho
State closes Brady testimony in sensational Maryland trial
In Rockville Maryland on June 5 the state rested in the Leroy Brady case after introducing bomb fragments and gun parts to link Leroy and his brother Herman to the New Year’s Day explosion that killed Herman’s 18 year old bride and two others. Johns Hopkins professor Dr Robert W Woods identified the fragments as gas welding tubing from a car steering column. Herman Brady faces a separate trial.
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Rockville
Leroy Brady
Maryland
Herman
Leroy
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Herman Brady
Naomi Hall
Seat Pleasant
Washington
Robert W. Woods
Johns Hopkins
All of Ohio fire victims identified
Columbus Ohio June 5 All of the 820 victims of the Ohio penitentiary fire of April 21 had been identified today by the state Bureau of identification. Only five had been listed as unknown. Those identified today were Archie Jenkins Clark County John Norzinsky Montgomery County Donald Hart Hamilton County Anton J Cramer Cuyahoga County and John Spires Adams County.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Penitentiary
State Bureau of Identification
Archie Jenkins
Clark County
John Norzinsky
Montgomery County
Donald Hart
Hamilton County
Anton J. Cramer
Cuyahoga County
John Spires
Adams County
Heat in Gotham Kills Two as Temperatures Reach Ninety
New York reports two deaths and four prostrations from a heat wave that sent the temperature to 90 degrees. The metropolitan area endured a second day of intense heat with four additional fatalities blamed on the heat.
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Gotham
New York
Goat eats pedigree tags at Wi nona rabbitry
In Tualatin Oregon on June 56 a goat roaming the farmyard consumed all pedigree tags along a long line of rabbit hutches leaving one hundred thoroughbred rabbits without pedigrees.
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Tualatin
Ore
Winona
Cox urges repeal of Day Amendment at victory dinner
Former Governor James M. Cox of Dayton and Democratic presidential nominee in 1920 called for repeal of the federal prohibition amendment at a statewide victory dinner in Columbus. He urged government manufacture and control of alcohol and warned private interests, noting the need to prohibit production of liquor nationwide. Cox said he would not run for office and avoided discussing other national issues as the repeal issue dominated.
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Columbus
James M. Cox
Dayton
Cox
America
Dwight W. Morrow
New Jersey
Morrow
United States Senate
Jouett Shouse
National Democratic Executive Committee
Shouse
Congress
Rebels Press Nationalists on Multiple Fronts in Civil War
Shanghai reports say nationalist armies retreated in Hunan and Shandong as rebels advance on several fronts. 80,000 Kwansi rebels join bands near Changsha while 10,000 nationalists resist. Foreigners in Hankow urged to leave Hupeh Hunan and Kwangsi as gunboats protect U.S. and British citizens on the Liang River. Northern alliance rebels push across the Yellow River toward Tsinan.
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Shanghai
Humnan
Shamtung
Central Honan
Hankow
Haichow-Tungkwan
Forthern Honan
Hupeh
Hunan
Kwangsi
Changsha
Liang River
Thomas T. Craven
MacLean
Northern Alliance
Yellow River
Tsinan
Dekalb District in Gilmer County Reports Full Employment
Census returns released today by L. A. Carr fifth district supervisor show Dekalb district Gilmer county with every resident employed contradicting the saying that everybody works but rather.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Dekalb
Gilmer County
L. A. Carr
Coroner's Jury Flags Drowning in Bas tian Boy Found Near Wolfe Creek
After a county wide search for missing 12 year old Charles Eagle of Bas tian Virginia the coroner's jury ruled the cause of death as drowning. The body was found near Wolfe Creek about 7 30 pm by Bill Herron during the all day hunt that drew fifty or more volunteers. The youth last seen between 2 30 and 3 pm Wednesday while fishing alone. Funeral in Bastian led by Rev Edward W Hughes later today.
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Charles Eagle
C. H. Eagle
Bastian
Wolf Creek
Bill Herron
Thie
J. N. Walker
Jeff Muncey
Bland County
President Machado Cuts Own Salary In Cuba Budget Move
In Havana on June 5 President Gerardo Machado reduced his own salary from 25000 to 12000 dollars per year. He also cut salaries of other government officials to help trim the national budget to 76000000 dollars as announced to the cabinet and treasury secretary.
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Havana
Cuba
Gerardo Machado
Secretary of the Treasury
Funds Allotted for 10 Harbor Projects
Washington reports the War Department has assigned 39,580,090 for river and harbor work across the nation, with a total of 67,000,000 available. About 10,000,000 targets the Mississippi and its tributaries, while Mississippi flood control awaits separate funding of 35,000,000.
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Washington
War Department
Mississippi River
Ohio River
Inland Waterways Corporation
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