Congress Moves on Hoover Loan and Farm Relief Bills
Washington reports rapid action on supply and relief bills amid Senate and House efforts to adjourn. Key items include Hoover home loan discount legislation headed for House action, a $300 million unemployment relief loan proposal, farm board wheat and cotton transfers to aid the hungry, and completion of the $389 million war department appropriation as part of a larger package.
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House
Farm Board
Washington
Senate
Senate Democrats
Reconstruction Corporatl
Hoover
Prieser
Senate Banking Committee
House Home Loan
Indiana
Red Cross
Senate Agriculture Committee
McNary
Jones
Senate Appropriations Committee
War Department
Coal Production Increases in Pocahontas District
Coal output in the Pocahontas Tug River district for the week ending June 4 rose to 251 214 net tons, up 12873 from the prior week, while year to date production reached 6460287 tons. National estimates put US bituminous production at about 3650000 net tons for the week ended June 4, with 1931 and 1930 weeks shown as lower. The Bureau of Mines reports 4298 net tons for the week ended May 21 and notes figures for May 28.
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Pocahontas
Tug River District
Pocahontas- Tug River
National Coal Association
United States
Bureau of Mines
New York Speak Owner Gets 3 Year Sentence
New York June 9 A speak easy proprietor was sentenced to three years in the Atlanta penitentiary as the longest possible term for conspiracy and maintaining a nuisance. Louis Greenstein was convicted after testimony by eight businessmen who said they were victimized in a conspiracy with taxi cab drivers. Two hostesses were acquitted. Joseph Kochis was given three months in the federal detention house. The raid followed a curb broker's complaint that he was imprisoned for two days and freed only after turning over a 2000 dollar check.
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New York
Atlanta
Frank Coleman
Louis Greenstein
Greenstein
Joseph Kochis
Federal House of Detention
Curb Exchange
Ethnographer-detective helps trap extortion duo in Kansas City
Vera Brown 29 joins the police, delivering decoy pay-off packages to trap Walter Ogborn who confessed to kidnapping threats against a rug merchant’s son. In a second sting with detectives in her car she helps nab Samuel Yagan, alleged instigator of threatening extortion against two Kansas City women.
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Kansas City
Vera Brown
Walter Ogborn
Samuel Yagan
Farley Predicts Roosevelt Victory and Convention Strategy
James A. Farley, Roosevelt campaign manager, predicts a first ballot nomination for Franklin D. Roosevelt and at least 345 electoral votes to defeat Hoover. He says the stop Roosevelt movement has collapsed and a rival is unlikely, with Missouri and Illinois favoring Roosevelt as second choice. Farley also asserts convention machinery will favor Roosevelt with a large bloc of pledged supporters. Berlin reports Chancellor Von Papen plans to revise the Weimar constitution, not to restore monarchy, aiming to ease national distress and possibly expand Reich parliament powers.
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New York
James A. Farley
Roosevelt
Hoover
Farley
Missouri
Illinois
James Hamilton Lewis
James A. Reed
Berlin
Franz von Papen
Reischsrat
Wilhelm von Gayle
Reich
Prussia
Europe
Socially Prominent Chicagoan Takes Own Life in Suburban Home
Chicago January reports the death of Royal C. Vilas 52 a prominent former manufacturer who shot himself. A letter to his ninth day wife indicates financial troubles. Vilas had resigned as chairman of Pyle National Co railroad equipment makers. His family history includes multiple suicides and overdoses among spouses amid legal cases.
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Chicago
Royal C. Vilas
Vilas
Pyle National Company
Ward A. Vilas
Edna Vance
Houston
Texas
Pinella County
Florida
Myrtle P. Hoglund
Hunger marchers return home from Charleston
Hunger marchers who have appealed for food and work in Charleston for about a week began leaving tonight. Officials expected most to be away by tomorrow. A miners committee was formed to liaise with Governor Conley and relief agencies and plans to call on the governor. Kanawha county court supplied two trucks to transport the miners home.
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Charleston
W. Va
Conley
Kanawha County Court
Youth held in fatal shooting near Weston West Virginia
Archie McCauley 15 of Brownsville was killed by David Henline 15 in a road duel over a boat and a shotgun near their homes. The sheriff said Henline fired at close range, McCauley died, a coroner's jury will reconvene to determine responsibility, Henline is in custody.
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Weston
W. Va
Archie McCauley
Brownsville
David Henline
David Brown
Lewis County
Henline
Young McCauley
McCauley
L. H. McCauley
Jessie Henline
Seane
Irish Free State Forms National Guard as Athletic Unit
Dublin dispatch reports President Eamon de Valera forming a national guard for the Irish Free State. It will be an athletic organization with military pay and annual training at various centers. Several barracks are being converted into gymnasiums for the guard.
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London
Dublin
Daily Herald
Eamon de Valera
Irish Free State
Strange disease kills four year old in hospital
In Moundsville West Virginia doctors diagnosed a tropical bone infection as the cause of death for four year old Jimmy Lynn. The child received half a dozen blood transfusions and constant care from a team of doctors and nurses but died today.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Jimmy Lynn
Bonus Band Pleads for Capitol Action to Cap Off Delay
Veterans at Anacostia encampment in Washington press Congress for immediate bonus payments. DC health officer calls living conditions frightful as officials urge governors to retain veterans at home. Rally features Rev. James R. Cox urging perseverance while food and shelter bills move through Congress.
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Washington
White House
Capitol
William C. Fowler
District of Columbia
Curtis
Garner
House
T Senate
Congressional Record
Senator Thomas
Oklahoma
Rep. Connery
Massachusetts
Lone
Mrs Hoover Watches Parade Of 109000 Brooklyn Children
New York June 9 Mrs Herbert Hoover attended the Brooklyn Sunday School Union parade where over 109000 children in white with flags marched. She received a bouquet at a luncheon and thanked the children for emphasizing biblical lessons in daily life before departing for Washington.
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Mrs. Hoover
New York
Herbert Hoover
Brooklyn Sunday School Union
Brooklyn
Fleisher Surrenders in Lindbergh Case Inquiry
Detroit news reports Harry Fleisher, sought in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping inquiry, walked into police headquarters and gave himself up. He refuses to talk, citing his attorney Edward H. Kennedy Jr. who states Fleisher had nothing to do with the Lindbergh case. Fleisher is jailed to await arraignment on a gang killing charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Harry Preisher
Fleisher
Edward H. Kennedy Jr
Newark Detective Heads to Detroit in Lindbergh Case Probe
Detective Frank Carr of Newark and State Trooper Louis Bormman left for Detroit to question Harry Fleisher about possible ties to the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
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Trenton
N. J
Frank Carr
Newark
Louis Bormman
Detroit
Queens
Harry Fleisher
Lindbergh
Agreement Reopens Pittsburgh Terminoal Mines After Meet
A tentative deal to restart the Pittsburgh Terminoal mines was reached after a conference of union leaders and a company representative. Miners had stopped work weeks ago to protest a 10 percent pay cut. James Brooks proposed resuming under the February 1 contract, with daily pay for day men at $4 and machine and pick miners paid 40 and 54 cents per ton, respectively. The contract had expired June 1.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Terminoal Corporation
P. T. Fagan
United Mine Workers of America
James Brooks
Brooks
Mrs. McLean Signature Key in Means Trial
Washington trial details show a note signed by Evalyn McLean identifying funds to Gaston B. Means. Prosecutors present witnesses claiming Means received 100000 to recover the Lindbergh child, including a quote about possibly kidnapping the baby.
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Washington
Edward B. McLean
South Carolina
Gaston B. Means
Lindbergh
McLean
Washington Post
District of Columbia
Neil Williams
Evalyn McLean
Means
Department of Justice
Former Ruler Flees Exile Plans March On Kingdom
Addisababa Abyssinia June 9. Former emperor Lidji Jeassu escaped captivity and gathers support to march on Haile Selassie. He fled in female garb and awaits the rainy season in Gojjam before action. Haile Selassie orders an army into Gojjam, but reports say soldiers desert him for the former ruler. Jeassu, grandson of Menelik, was deposed after attempting to introduce Mohammedism into the Christian kingdom.
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Lidji Jeassu
Abyssinia
Haile Selassie
Addisababa
Ethiopa
Napoleon
Halle Selassie
Jeassu
Gojjam
Selassie
Gan
Ras Hailou
Sidji Jassu
Ras Kassa
Menelik
Virginians Back Byrd as Presidential Candidate at State Meeting
At Richmond Virginia Democrats urged Harry Flood Byrd as their presidential candidate and backed submitting the Prohibition amendment to a state vote. Gov. John Pollard led the keynote urging a direct vote on Prohibition and Byrd’s plan for a constitutional amendment enabling a direct popular vote on retention or repeal. The delegation will vote as a unit, and the plank for state submission faced a sharp debate before adoption of the Byrd-favored approach.
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Byrd
Richmond
Virginia
Harry Flood Byrd
John Pollard
Harry Ford
Resolutions Committee
O'Connor Godrick
James S. Barron
Norfolk
America
Congress
Bryd
John G. Pollard
Indiana
Raymond 8. Springer
National guard gunners guard Empire Mine area
Hopkinsville Kentucky June 9 National guard machine gunners kept watch over Empire Mine No 6 and the Williams Copper plant near Mannington while Christian County authorities investigated an outbreak that killed Deputy Sheriff Wallace Myers. Twenty guardsmen were called out by Governor Ruby Laffoon.
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Hopkinsville
National Guard
Empire Mine No. 6
Williams Coacompa
Mannington
Christian County
Deuty
Wallace Myers
Myers
Emire
Ruby Lafffoon
Parade of ghost payrollers described at Allegheny audit
Pittsburgh June 9 witnesses testified at an Allegheny county audit inquiry about ghost payrollers and padded payrolls. A road crew member claimed $56 was raised to $90 via doctored sheets, with the excess routed to a supervisor. Twenty two individuals listed on payday were never seen otherwise. Another witness cited a $5 per head collection from working gangs on pay days. Witness names were kept secret due to threats.
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Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
Superior
Coal man dies in Blairsville. Thomas Maher dead at 75
Thomas Maher 75 president of Maher and Graff Coal company Blairsville Pa died at home today. He served as secretary treasurer of Maher Coal and Coke company Wheeling and was a longtime operator and producer for more than fifty years.
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Pittsburgh
Thomas Maher
Maher and Graff Coal Company
Blairsville
Maher Coal and Coke Company
Wreechburg
Bear kills kangaroo at Barnett circus in Fairmont
In Fairmont West Virginia on June 9 a black bear broke its chain during a street parade at Barnett's circus and killed a kangaroo. Dogs barked as attendants arrived. the kangaroo died within minutes, and the incident became the parade’s focal point.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Barnett
Asheville Adopts Anti Smok e Code
Asheville council passes an anti smoke fuel ordinance by five to two on final reading. The measure requires fuels with no more than 20 percent volatile matter burned within city limits for large users, opening a market for smokeless coal while facing opposition from local coal merchants.
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Pocahontas
Makeless
Asheville
N. C
Ehippers
Southern Railway System
Stierrill
Cincinnati
Vanderhoof
Pocahontas Coal
W. E. E. Koepler
Pocahontas Operators Association
Asheville Chamber of Commerce and
Koepler
Chamber of Commerce
Republicans Meet To Decide Prohibition Split At National Convention
In Chicago on June 9 Republican leaders gathered to discuss a wet or dry platform as the national convention nears. James R. Garfield was favored as the new national committee chair. Debates over resubmission and state action continued, with Byrd and Pollard backing differing paths toward prohibition reform.
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Garfield
National Committee
Chicago
James R. Garfield
Ohio
Convention Resolutions Committee
Roosevelt Begins Study of Charges in Walker Case
Governor Roosevelt starts a two to three week review of 600000 words of Seabury testimony on Mayor James J. Walker. Two lawyers will read the material as reform groups urge action while Roosevelt weighs removal grounds cited by Seabury.
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Seabury
Associated Press
Albany
N. Y
Glovernor Roosevelt
Jeane
Hofstadter
Samuel Seabury
James J. Walker
Tammany
New York City
Roosevelt
Walker
Capitol
New York
Clar
Anaysis
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