Liberal Leaders Refuge To Pledge Loyalty In Romania
King Carol II faces party strife as Liberal leaders split over recognition and a coalition government. Princess Helen reportedly considers reconciliation and potential coronation as Queen at Carol IIs coronation. Dowager Queen Marie backs the king amid political maneuvering in Bucharest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol
Helen
Romania
Bucharest
Carol II
Balkan
Liberal Party
Peasanta’ Party
Julius Maniu
George Bratiapu
Michael
Vintila Bratianu
Maniu
Carol I
Marie
Wickersham Calls Education Key to Law Observance
Boston June 9 George W Wickersham head of the national commission on law observance and enforcement urged education and persuasion over force to raise compliance with laws at the fifty seventh national conference of social work He contrasted England and Wales progress through education and recreation with enforcement by penalties urging preventive measures and public understanding of law obligations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
George W. Wickersham
National Commission On Law Observance
National Conference of Social Work
Wickersham
England and
Wales
United States
England
Mr. Wickersham
Captain Yancey In Peru On Goodwill Air Journey
Captain Lewis A. Yancey and co pilot Emil Burgin arrived in Lima from Talara on a goodwill South America tour. They left radio operator Zeb Bouck behind due to fuel and field constraints. Bouck will join on the next Grace flight and the trio plan to depart for Antofagasta, Chile in a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima
Peru
Lewis A. Yancey
Emil Burgin
Talara
South America
Zeb Bouck
Yancey
France Field
Balboa
C. Z
Bouck
Antofagasta
Chile
Communist Activities Hearings Open In House Probe
Justice Department director Edgar Hoover to be heard behind closed doors after Father Edmund Walsh of Georgetown University testifies that Soviet Russia, the Communist party, and the third International seek to overthrow governments. Walsh cites Amtorg Trading Co and propaganda in foreign countries as methods. He notes campaigns to train Americans and incite labor unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Edmund Walsh
Georgetown University
Feather Walsh
Special House
Foreign Service School
Hoover
Russia
Edgar Hoover
Justice Department
Father Walsh
Communist Party
Third Internationale
Amtorg Trading Company
New York
Daily Worker
United States
Moscow
Soucek Breaks World Airplane Altitude Record
Washington reports Lieutenant Apollo Soucek set a new world airplane altitude record of 48,166 feet on the anniversary of his seaplane flight. He plans further attempts to surpass both records, aims to sail with the Lexington, and notes propeller pitch adjustments may lift the height higher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Apollo Soucek
National Aeronautic Association
Bureau of Standards
Willi Neuenhofen
Hawthorne Gray
Lexington
Soucek
Mystery distress signal triggers federal probe into radio silence
Washington reports officials opened an inquiry into the origin of a OS distress call that silenced former Senator Reed's attack on the Radio Trust. Senator Dill and Senator Norris urged scrutiny of Judge Morris resignation tied to radio unification cases. RCA and the Navy also investigating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dill
Norris
Nebraska
Judge Morris
Washington
James A. Reed
Missouri
Radio Trust
Senate
W. D. Terrell
Radio
Commerce Department
Radio Corporation of America
Navy Department
Naval Radio Station
New York
Tuckerton
N. J
Republican
Hugh M. Morris
District Courts
Delaware
Reed
Morris
Nationalists Wage Defensive Fight Across Central China
Report from Hankow dated June 9 describes Nationalist forces defending against southern rebel advances toward Hankow and Wuchang while northern coalition troops under Feng Yu Hsiang and Yen Hsishan suffer a defeat at Sincheng. Rebel pressure shifts along the Yangtse river and across Henan and Shantung front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hankow
Yellow River
Honan
Shantumg
Téfay
Yochow
Hunan
Kwangsi Province
Lake Tungting
Yangtse
Wuchang
Hanyang
China
Yangtse River
Henan Province
Feng Yu Hsiang
Yen Hsishan
Sincheng
Henan
Haichow-Tumgkwan
Shantung
Tsinam
Tsinan
Fugitive from Ohio Institution Caught
Dan La Rose, 20, of Columbus, Ohio, arrested in Benwood on trespassing and pistol charges, admits he is a fugitive from Mansfield Ohio reformatory and claims involvement in stealing more than 250 automobiles nationwide over the past three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moundsville
W. Va
Dan la Rose
Columbus
Baltimore and Ohio
Benwood
Ohio Reformatory
Mansfield
Man Sentenced to Church Attendance and Pledge
Walter Trubuske, 27, of Lansing, was ordered to attend church with his wife each Sunday for a year and sign a mayor abstinence pledge along with paying for damage to a constable's uniform. He was charged with threatening his wife with a hatchet during a drunken dispute. Constable Ludwig Hoge subdued him and his uniform was slashed. Trubuske spent a night in jail after being knocked out by Hoge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellaire
Walter Trubuske
Lansing
Trubuske
Ludwig Hoge
Hoge
Tariff Measure Nears Final Senate Vote in June Action
Washington report on the tariff bill as conferees finish corrections and set a hoped for final Senate vote by Thursday. Senators Smoot Harrison Oddie Thomas Brock Grundy Reed comment on impacts while debates address watch paragraph duties and watch related imports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Smoot
Utai
Harrison
Mississippi
America
Oddie
Nevada
Thomas
Oklahoma
Brock
Tennessee
Vandenberg
Republican
Michigan
State Department
House
Pennsylvania
Reed
Grundy
Hoover Signs Bill to Boost Vet Pension
President Hoover today signed a bill increasing Civil War veterans pensions to 75 dollars monthly for those previously at 65. Veterans at 72 to 90 will now receive 100 dollars, and widows eligible at 70 will get 40 dollars monthly, with the measure framed as old age pension support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hoover
White House
Senators fail to agree on plan to censure Bishop Cannon
Informal conferences by the senate lobby committee failed to reach a decision on how to handle Bishop James Cannon Jr who refused to answer questions about his 1928 anti Smith activities and walked out. Chairman Caraway said he will study the record before acting and noted possible limits on investigating political activities. The dispute centers on authority to probe political lobbying links and the potential contempt for leaving the room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Lobby Committee
James Cannon Jr
Caraway
Arkansas
Walsh
Montana
Blaine
Wisconsin
Canmon
Methodist Church
Cannon
Senate
Robinson
Indiana
Borah
Idaho
Chicago Newsman Slain By Gunman With Major Reward Offered
Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle was shot in an underground tunnel near the Randolph Street Illinois Central terminal. Police ordered a round up of hoodlums as a $30,000 reward was posted by the Tribune and Post for information leading to arrest. Three witnesses viewed photos from the detective bureau as the city mourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Amassassin
Jake” Lingle
Chicago Tribune Today
Randolph Street
Illinois Central Terminal
Michigan Boulevard
Public Library
Lingle
the Tribune
Long Beach
Mich
Russell
John Stege
Washington Park
Illinois Central
Aloysius Kearney
National Garage Owners Association
Orea
The
Tribune
Chicago Evening Post
Detective Bureau
Rogue’s Gallery
Injunction Bill Fails In Committee Vote In Senate
The Shipstead plan to curb injunctions in labor disputes loses in the judiciary committee with ten opposed and seven in favor. Norris aims to push the measure as unfinished business, seeking unanimous consent to place it first on the next session calendar. The bill also includes a Vandenberg proposal on judge retirement following contempt proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Shipstead
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate Toam
Norris
Senate
Vandenberg
Republican
Michigan
Texas Democrats Clash Over July Primary Regulations
At Austin June 9 the Democratic executive committee approved party rules for the July primary. Governor Moody and former Governor Ferguson clashed publicly over nominations while Moody called Ferguson unfit and Mayfield weak. The panel adopted a pledge requiring voters to support nominees, and barred Negroes from the primary while allowing any white male or female to vote after the pledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Dan Moody
James K. Ferguson
Miriam A. Ferguson
Moody
Ferguson
United States
Earle B. Mayfield
State Supreme Court
Senator Mayfield
Ruth Mix Marries Douglas Gilmore in Yuma Justice Court
Ruth Jane Mix 17 daughter of film cowboy Tom Mix wed motion picture actor Douglas Gilmore by a justice of the peace in Yuma Arizona today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth MIX
Yuma, Ariz
Ruth Jane Mix
Tom Mix
Douglas Gilmore
Isolation Of Common Cold Germ Claimed By Medico
Baltimore June 9 A claim by Dr J A F Pfeiffer of the University of Maryland medical school that he has isolated the germ causing the common cold is to be tested by other scientists. Dr James A Doull will request the cultures and Pfeiffer said he would grant them. Pfeiffer described a preventive vaccine and envisioned anti cold serum sold at drug stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
J. A. F. Pfeiffer
University of Maryland Medical School
James A. Doull
John J. Abel Fund
The
Chemical Foundation
Pfieffer
Ers
Maryland Biological Society
Rum seller suspect shoots day officer
Albert Brown a federal prohibition officer was shot and killed and Robert Davis a fellow officer wounded at Indian Springs Alturus California while attempting to arrest an unidentified man on a liquor selling charge at a gasoline station. The slayer escaped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alturus
Cal
Albert Brown
Robert Davis
Indian Springs
Senate debating tariff bill conference reports begins
The Senate opened debate on the tariff bill conference reports preliminary to final passage. A special House committee began hearings on Communist activities in the United States. The House forwarded the independent power commission bill to conference with the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
United States
House
Independent Power Commission
Senate petitions roil over London naval treaty delay
Washington June 9 members of the senate circulate round robins to back or oppose delaying action on the London naval treaty as the foreign relations committee meets to consider the pact. The Republican young guard presses a postponement while Johnson accuses the administration of withholding papers and calls for access to notes exchanged among powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Sestion
Young Guard
Robinson
Indiana
Johnson
California
Hoover
Stimson
London
Committee
Borah
Links Gil With Rabio Shot Plot
Mexico City June 9 Luis Morones former secretary of industry commerce and labor in a speech before the nationalist revolutionary alliance accused former President Portes Gil of plotting the assassination of President Ortiz Rubio in the United States last January. Morones said Portes Gil emissaries agitated Communists in Los Angeles to plot the death and that LA police uncovered the plot prompting the US state department to advise Ortiz Rubio not to visit. Portes Gil dismissed the charge as absurd and said Morones was trying to cause trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Luis Morones
Industry, Commerce and Labor
Portes Gil
Ortiz Rubio
United States
Nationalist Revolutionary Alliance
Morones
Communista
Los Angeles
United States Department of State
Moropes
Clashes Between Communists and Fascists Injure Many in Weimar
On Whitsuntide outings near Weimar on June 9 clashes between Communists and Fascists left sixteen injured. Police arrested ninety five Communists but released all except three leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weimar
Germany
Here
Two Explosions in Water Tunnels Kill 13 Workmen
Detroit news reports a dynamite blast 225 feet under the Detroit River in a water intake tunnel near Belle Isle. Six workers died at the scene or in hospital and six were injured as crews searched for others, uncovering a forgotten charge believed to have caused the explosion. Police and prosecutors opened an investigation into the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Belle Isle
Charles Zaleski
Pleas Tollinson
Arthur Massey
James Harper
Ellis Howe
Sam Sebold
Frank Baily
Claude Winkler
William White
T. Craig
John Borun
Claude Alley
Ofice
Seven Die as Gas Explosion Hits Calaveras Tunnel
An explosion in the Calaveras tunnel of the Hetch Hetchy project in Alameda County killed seven workers and injured one. Bodies were taken to the Livermore morgue for identification. A natural gas pocket ignited by a dynamite blast is blamed, with the blast sounding like an earthquake to surface workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alameda County Hills
Oakland
Cal
Calaveras
Alameda County
Livermore Morgue
Million Dollar Shortage Blamed on Doherty Operations
Cincinnati reports a suspected shortage of up to 1.5 million dollars in the Henry L. Doherty & Co. Cincinnati branch amid embezzlement charges against district sales manager A. W. Shafer. Ohio bank examiners probe Cosmopolitan Bank and Trust for possible kit ing by Shafer. Shafer was arrested, released on bond, and superseded by F. Rains as Cincinnati branch manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Henry L. Doherty & Co
New York
Ohio State Bank
Cosmopolitan Bank and Trust Company
A. W. Shafer
Doherty Company
Shafer
Dudley Outcast
State Banking Department
Cosmopolitan Bank
Edward W. Korsmeyer
Doherty Camp
F. Rains
Korsmeyer
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King
Liew OF Forge
Trust
Nationals
Ohio Institution
Arkansas Solon
Chicago Tribune
James A. Ferguson
Gil
Rabio
Detroit River
Henry L. Doherty and Company
Ohio
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