President Hoover vetoes Oregon suit bill
Acting on Attorney General Mitchell's advice the President vetoed a house bill authorizing the United States to join Oregon in a federal suit over land beds at Malheur and Harney lakes. The veto cites the lack of constitutional federal jurisdiction and warns against shifting litigation power from the government to the state.
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Washington
Mitchell
Hoover
House
United States
Oregon
Malheur
Harney Lakes
Senate
Supreme Court
District Court
Two Face Charge of Destroying Property
Martinsburg West Virginia June 6 Warrants charging destruction of city property and drunkenness were sworn out today by police against Stanley Mathias railroad worker and former policemen Jack Minor and Harry Files. The warrants followed an inspection of the interior of police headquarters wrecked allegedly by the former officers after they were not re appointed to the force.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Stanley Mathias
Jack Minor
Harry Files
Thomas Grove
Chris Dailey
Severa
Former Senator Gore Seeks Democratic Nomination
Oklahoma City June 6 T P Gore after fourteen years in the U S Senate announces his candidacy for the Democratic senatorial nomination. He vows less taxes more trade no trusts and says the saloon is dead as human slavery while noting his concern as a father.
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Oklahoma City
T. P. Gore
Oklahoma
United States Senate
Druggist Introduces B C Pain Relief Cure
A North Carolina druggist creates a multi ingredient combination for headaches neuralgic sciat ic or rheumatic pain. The B C pain reliever promises immediate relief, quiets nerves and leaves users buoyant with no after effects. Available at drug stores and soda founts in 10¢ and 25¢ sizes. claims to be harmless and effective in three minutes.
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North Carolina
Bluefield Commandery Elects Officers for 19th Knights Templar
Bluefield commandery No 19 with over 800 members, the largest in West Virginia, elected officers led by Eminent Commander T Frank Mastin and Generalissimo M B Lockhart. Installation followed by Eminent Sir A E Knee.
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T. Frank Mastin
Knights Templar
Bluefield Commandery
West Virginia
M. B. Lockhart
J. 11. Evans
J. W. Perkins
E. L. Peters
T. J. Phelps
Templar Quartet
C. V. Foland
T. O'J. Wilson
J. F. Saulsbury
W. O. Bivons
John M. Ayers
A. E. Knee
Grand Commandery
Fifteen Guests to Accompany Hoover to Rapidan Camp
President Hoover will take fifteen guests to his Rapidan Virginia mountain camp where Mrs Hoover is recovering from injuries. The group includes government officials such as Hanford MacNider Walter Hope Thad Brown Ira Bennett and Robert Taft plus John Richardson Ashmun Brown and Captain Joel Boone among others.
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Washington
Hoover
Virginia Mountain
The
Treasury
Walter Hope
Charles P. Sisson
Seth W. Richardson
Theodore Roosevelt
Porto Rico
Robert Lucas
Internal Revenue
Thad Brown
Radio Commission
Ira T. Bennett
Washington Post
Mr. Macnider
John Richardson
Boston
Ashmun Brown
Ashington
Providence Journal and Bulletin
Robert A. Taft
Lawrence Richey
Joel T. Boone
White House
Hail Storm Hits Morgantown Crops and Heat Dip
A hail storm in Morgantown West Virginia caused significant crop damage and dropped high temperature readings. The event disrupted local farming and weather observers tracked the unusual storm, noting rapid onset and localized intensity.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Loans on Bluefield Real Estate Promote Local Growth
Promises first mortgage loans at five and a half percent on Bluefield homes and business buildings with five year terms or longer. Offers fixed or monthly payments from a large financial institution, American Finance Company, Room 60 Law and Commerce Building, Bluefield, W Va. Also advertises West Virginian Business College starting Monday in Honaker Building Bluefield with phone 1071. Hankla Grocery promotes fresh produce and meats.
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Bluefield
American Finance Company
Law and Commerce Building
W. Va
West Virginian Business College
Honaker
Police To Confer With Tong Chiefs Over Ties Rise
A third tong related killing occurs as Lui Sing a Brooklyn laundryman is shot in his bed. Police note possible gambling propensities and racketeering motives with betrayal of secrets and desertion between tongs. A new gun was left by the body as a typical tong gesture.
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Lui Sing
Brooklyn
Chinatown violence shocks Everett and Boston
Everett Massachusetts resident Sing Wong, 40, was shot dead in his laundry shop as three bullets pierced a partition. A neighbor heard the gunfire and saw a man flee into an alley. Police suspect a rival Chinese tong involved amid warnings against tong warfare from Boston officials, following earlier gunfire at Hip Sing tong headquarters.
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Everett
Mass
Sing Wong
Pauline Trowbridge
Wong
Eugene Hultmann
Boston
Hip Sing Tong
Senate rejects poison in alcohol ban by wide margin
Washington reports the Senate defeated Sen Tydings 45 to 16 on an effort to prohibit poisons in industrial alcohol. He failed to attach the amendment to a canned goods labeling bill and teased reintroducing the measure during other unanimous consensus debates.
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Washington
Senate
Tydings
Maryland
Howell
District of Columbia
Baltimore
POKER AXE VICTIM MAY SURVIVE INJURIES
Russell county authorities say no action yet against David Walls Honaker Virginia held under observation in Russell county jail at Lebanon after a brutal attack on his aged wife Maggie Walls She was beaten with an axe and an iron poker and remains alive but faces possible complications and uncertain recovery due to age and injuries.
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Russell County
David Walls
Honaker
Lebanon
Maggie Walls
Hoover Refuses to Deliver State Papers to Borah in Treaty Debate
Advocates predict an overwhelming committee majority for the treaty. Secretary Stimson rejects calls to reveal confidential papers, arguing disclosure would harm public interests and future negotiations. He cites Washington on secrecy as essential to foreign talks and notes committee members familiar with London negotiations stand ready to testify.
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Stimson
Borah
London
Washington
House of Representatives
Secretary of the Navy
United States
Senate
Slick thief swindles man in Ypsilanti geese caper
In Ypsilanti, Jacob Blum bought two geese for $1.25 and found them stolen upon returning home. The woman goose immediately returned to a nest in Blum's pen, revealing he had unknowingly purchased his own stock from the thief.
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Ypsilanti, Mich
Jacob Blum
Student Killed as Car Collides With Truck Near Blacksburg
Charles Key of Buena Vista, a Washington and Lee student, died when his car hit a truck at a sharp Newport Road curve near Blacksburg about 4 pm Thursday. Four VPI students were injured, two severely, and were taken to Roanoke for treatment. The accident marred the campus as preparations for the fifty-eighth commencement continued amid mourning.
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Charles Key
Beuna Vista
Washington and Lee University
Sharon
Blacksburg
Newport Road
V. P. IL
J. 8
Hawkins
Marion
H. M. Tully Jr
Oak Hill
W. Va
Waa
Jefferson Hospital
Roanoke
C. R. Woolwine
Robert R. Musgrove
Douglas Hughes
Buena Vista
J. T. L. Dickinson
Keys
V. P. L. Boys
Brush Mountain
William Kennen
A. M. Showalter
Christiansburg
Keyes
Woolwine
Hawking
Tully
Hughes
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
W. H. Brubeck
Laurel Hill
Dartmouth undergrads bathe nude amid heat wave
In Hanover New Hampshire Dartmouth College administration warns students to stop nude swimming as Paleopitus posts placards urging the end of the practice. The hot weather drives hundreds to water during exams and students express a desire for freedom without broad adoption beyond Hanover.
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Hanover
N. H
Dartmouth
Paleopitus
Hanover Hills
Court declares sweet chocolate not candy in tax ruling
A U S circuit court of appeals ruled sweet chocolate is not candy. The decision requires the government to refund about 7 million dollars to Hershey Wilbur Suchard Klein and York Chocolate companies for taxes paid on their 1919 to 1921 output, plus interest on nearly 2 million dollars.
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Philadelphia
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Kirkpatrick
Hershey Chocolate Company
Wilbur-Suchard Chocolate Company
Klein Chocolate Company
York Chocolate Company
Transportation chief A L Mohler dies in Chicago
A L Mohler 80 of New York former president of Union Pacific and other railways died at St. Anthony hospital Chicago after a heart attack and paralytic stroke. He began with the Chicago and Northwestern in 1868 at Galt Illinois and rose through railroad ranks during western expansion.
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Chicago
A. L. Mohler
New York
Union Pacific Railroad
St. Anthony Hospital
Wisconsin
Mohler
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Galt, Ill
U S Will Not Bar Reparations Loan
The U S state department said it raised no objection to issuing part of the Young plan reparations loan in the United States. A New York float led by J P Morgan was estimated at 84.5 million, with one third for Germany and the rest for reparation bonds. final terms were not yet fixed and delays persist in finalizing the agreement.
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Washington
State Department
United States
New York
J. P. Morgan and Company
Paris
Germany
Stimson
Cotton
Department
McFadden Attacks State Department Flotation Approval
Representative Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania denounces the state department's declaration that it has no objection to flotation of German and reparation bonds in the United States. He argues the move favors J. P. Morgan and company and commits the U.S. to European feuds, reversing Coolidge policy on war debts and reparations.
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New York
Louis T. McFadden
Pennsylvania
State Department
Washington
United States
J. P. Morgan and Company
Coolidge
Mercer County Democratic Primary Commissioner Candidacy
A candidate announces runs for Mercer County commissioner long term in the Democratic primary seeking voter support.
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Mercer County
Radox Footbath Promises Easy Corn Removal
An advertisement promotes Radox footbath as a 15 minute nightly remedy for corns. It claims softening and lifting corns with no cutting, asserting oxygen action penetrates to the roots and promises hard healthy skin with continued use and store availability at Goodykoonts Drug Stores.
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Goodykoonts
Einstein Proposes New Relativity Idea In Lectures
Nottingham June 6 Professor Albert Einstein outlined a new idea on space he says arises from illness in bed. He claimed space is primary and matter derives from it, and that space has turned around and is consuming matter as he debated points with fellow scientists.
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Nottingham
England
Albert Einstein
University College
Mnly
Einstein
President-Elect of Colombia Tours the Midwest
Dr. Enrique Olaya Herrerra, Colombia’s president-elect, told Chicagoans that businessmen helped secure his victory and promised a high level business administration. He announced an American financial commission led by Prof Kemmerer to visit Colombia, with loans contingent on its findings. A 1923 Kemmerer visit aided establishing a national bank and fiscal system.
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Chicago
Enrique Olaya Herrerra
Colombia
Danville Food Striker to Be Committed for Observation
Danville farmer Frank W. Davis who fasted for twenty six days and planned a premeditated death by starvation was to be observed at Western State Hospital. State officials sought psychiatric services and Dr J S Dejarnette urged commitment for observation amid questions of his sanity.
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Danville
Foothill
City to widen Raleigh and adjacent streets this year
City Manager Elmer C. Barton clarified a report claiming only widening this season. The corrections state three projects proceed as planned with widening and repaving. Improvements include widening and paving Raleigh Street from Monroe to Scott and paving the Ramsey and Monroe segments slated for widening.
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Elmer C. Barton
Barton
Raleigh Street
Monroe
Scott
Ramsey and
Rum Vessel Suspect Cleared and Permitted to Depart
Boston June 6 Firelight a British screw vessel was allowed to leave after a Nantucket seizure last night on rum running suspicions. Officials found no liquor aboard and determined no unloading occurred in U S waters while Captain James Bellman claimed the cargo was transferred at sea as coast guard escorted the ship to Halifax.
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Boston
Firelight
Nantucket
Coast Guard
United States District Court
Halifax
N. S
United States
St. Pierre
Miquelon
Nassau
James Bellman
High Seas
Bellman
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Hankla Grocery Company
Gar Grach
Charles Kee
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