Senate approves veterans relief bill 66 to 6 in Senate vote
The Senate advanced the World War I veterans relief measure by 66 to 6, extending compensation up to 100 dollars per month for disabled veterans and sending the bill back to the House amid expected presidential veto. Republicans and Democrats united to back the revisions, while a few members opposed or abstained.
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Washington
Hoover
Senate
House
Mellon
Reed
Pennsylvania
White House
Bingham
Connecticut
American Legion For Veterans’ Relief
Watson
Indiana
Capitol
Bingham and Walcott
Gillett
Massachusetts
Hastings
Delaware
Moses
New Hampshire
Grundy
Smoot
Utah
Farmer-Labor
Minnesota
Shipstead
Shortridge
California
George
Georgia
Finance Committee
Senator LaFollette
Wisconsin
Treasury
LaFollette
Andrew W. Mellon
Hamilton
Republians
Allen
Blaine
Borah
Capper
Couzens
Cutting
Dale
Deneen
Glenn
Goldsborough
Hale
Hatfield
Hebert
Howell
Johnson
Jones
McCulloch
McMaster
McNary
Metcalf
Norris
Oddie
Patterson
Phipps
Pine
Robinson
Robison
Kentucky
Steiner
Thomas
Idaho
Townsend
Vandenberg
Ashurst
Barkley
Black
Bratton
Brock
Broussard
Caraway
Connally
Copeland
Dill
Glass
Harris
Harrison
Hayden
Kendrick
McKellar
Overman
Pittman
Ransdell
Arkansas
Sheppard
Simmons
Steck
Swanson
Oklahoma
Trammell
Tydings
Wagner
Walsh
Montana
Wheeler
Lindberghs Welcome Newborn Son After Sunday Birth
Charles A Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh announce the birth of their son born Sunday. The couple married May 27 1929 and are renowned for their aviation feats and joint flights as America’s famous air couple.
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Harles A. Lindbergh
America
Name of Lindbergh Baby Surfaces in Congratulatory Messages
New York June 23 Mrs Charles A Lindbergh and her newborn son received widespread congratulatory messages from across the world. Officials and public figures including President Hoover and President Ortiz Rubio sent well wishes as the Morrow home awaited a name decision Charles Dwight or Charles Augustus Jr. remained unsettled. The lone eagle maintained calm as gifts flowers and letters arrived.
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New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles
Charles Dwight
Charles Augustus Jr
Morrow
White House
Hoover
Mexico
Ortiz Rubio
Morrow Mansion
Melville Davisson Post Dies. Noted Writer in West Virginia
Melville Davisson Post, famed author of Uncle Abner and Walker of the Secret Service, died in a Clarksburg hospital at 59 from varicose veins of the esophagus with complications. He suffered a horse accident June 10, revived with transfusions, later relapsed. Funeral Thursday at his Charlot home with burial in Elkview Masonic cemetery. born April 19 1871 Romine's Mill Harrison county WV. West Virginia University graduate and lawyer by training. Married Ann Bloomfield Gamble of Roanoke in 1903. she died in 1919. their only child died in infancy.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Melville Davisson Post
Charlot
Post
Elkview Masonic
Uncle Abner
Walker
Secret Service
Randolph Mason
Daniel Davisson
Romine’s Mill
Harrison County
West Virginia University
Ann Bloomfield Gamble
Roanoke
Fake painters steal stock certificates in Charleston heist
In Charleston on June 23 two men posing as painters borrowed a ladder to access the West Virginia Brick company offices. They removed about 100 stock certificates and other securities valued by officials at several thousand dollars. Police hunted the suspects.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia Brick Company
Federal Building
Chicago churches join war on gang violence
Chicago Protestant churches led by the Chicago Federation of Churches vow to assist in eradicating organized crime and severing ties to politics. The campaign targets gang figures including James Forsythe and others while criminal trials proceed, as church leaders urge mass community support.
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Chicago
City Hall
Jake Lingle
Tribune
James “Hol” Foreythe
Lingle
Michigan Avenue
Illinois Central Station
Randolph Street
Ecape
Forsythe
Simon Gorman
Frank Noon
Frank Foster
George “Bugs” Moran
Scarface
al Capone
Gorman
Noonan
Phillip Yarrow
Commission
Publisher moves to appeal Cheat River dam grants
Morgantown West Virginia June 23 The Common News plans a public campaign to fund an appeal of the public service commission grant of the Cheat River power permit to West Penn power interests The appeal to the Kanawha circuit court may include new evidence and allow citizen participation funding and public accounting will be provided
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Morgantown
W. Va
Common-News
Public Service Commission
Cheat River
West Penn
Charles B. Hodges
Hodges
Commission
Kanawha Circuit Court
Circuit Court
State Supreme Court
Mr. Hodges
West Virginia
City of Chicago Goes Over 12th Day in Air
John and Kenneth Hunter, piloting The City of Chicago, reported reaching the two thirds mark and 280 hours in the air as they continued their 13th day endurance flight from Skyharbor airport in boiling sun. They hoped to remain aloft beyond the week’s end, aiming for the 420 hour world record.
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Chicago
John
Kenneth Hunter
Locomotive Engineers Vote Against Merging with Firemen
In Cleveland on June 23 the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers voted not to merge with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. They also voted to exclude nonqualified personnel such as airplane pilots and bus drivers from rail operations. The firemen have not officially negotiated to join, though amalgamation has been informally discussed.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen
Mercury Records 100 Degree Heat in Huntington
Huntington West Virginia June 23 The United States engineers office reports a 100 degree high in Huntington equalling a nine year record last reached in 1921 with Charleston at 98 degrees. High temperatures spread through southern West Virginia.
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Huntington
W. Va
United States Engineer’s Office
West Virginia
Charleston
Searchers hunt for scout lost on Mt San Jacinto
Riverside Calif June 23 searchers led by veteran alpinists hunted the rugged snow draped crags of Mt San Jacinto for 12 year old Harold Johnson son of Corona postmaster feared to have fallen off a cliff. He strayed from a scout hiking party Friday and has little food with a foot ailment height and distance complicating rescue efforts.
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Riverside
Cal
Mt. San Jacinto
California
Harold Johnson
R. J. Johnson
Corona
Harold
Cr. L. Emerson
Emerson
Banning
Johnson
Bachmann Bill Creates Western West Virginia District Court
The Bachmann Bill passed by the House would establish an additional federal district court in West Virginia named the Western District. It would include Tyler Pleasants Wood Jackson Mason Roane Wert Ritchie Doddridge Gilmer Calhoun Wayne Lewis Upshur Lincoln Cabell Putnam Mingo Logan counties and move to the Senate for approval.
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Washington
Bachmann
West Virginia
House
Senate
Western District
Tyler, Pleasante, Wood, Jackson Mason
Roane, Wert, Ritchie, Doddridge
Gilmer
Calhoun
Wayne Lewis
Upshur, Lincoln, Cabell, Putnam, Mingo
Logan Counties
World War Vet Found Dead in Legion Rooms
George K. Chambers a 42 year old World War veteran and eastern West Virginia American Legion leader was found shot in the legion headquarters in Martinsburg. A verdict of death by own action was returned and a note indicated where his war records and papers could be found. He left a widow and a son.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
George K. Chambers
American Legion
Legion
Chambers
Car Collision injures Keyser man near Grafton
Robert Rice of Keyser was seriously injured when two autos collided near Grafton after he had returned from a visit to Fairmont. The accident occurred on June 23 in the evening.
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Grafton
W. Va
Robert Rice
Keyser
Here
Rice
Fairmont
Marshall College Co Ed Shorts Parade On Campus
In Huntington on June 23 Marshall college students introduced shorts for coeds as warm weather arrived. About fifty others publicly announced plans to swim by tomorrow while two photographed wear dark blue silk shorts and low necked tops. Janet Miller of Huntington spoke for the group noting shorts suit the hot summer. officials had no statement but students expect no interference.
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Huntington
W. Va
Marshall College
Janet Miller
West Virginia Senate race widens as Albert B White enters
Former Governor Albert B White becomes the fourth candidate in the Republican senatorial race in West Virginia. Reports say RE Morgan may announce soon while Judge Harry Shaw and James Ellwood are also considered. Other filings include E T England Benjamin L Rosenbloom and C Lewis Wilson. White gained prominence advocating against a water power license in the Cheat River case.
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Charleston
W. Va
Albert B.ite
Fairmont
West Virginian
RE. F. Morgan
Harry Shaw
Marion County Circuit Court
Morgan
Shaw
James Ellwood
McDowell County
Guy D. Goff
White
Wheeling Intelligencer
H. C. Ogden
Cheat River
West Virginia Power and Transmission Company
War isk policy verdict awarded to William Tilly in Raleigh
A jury in the United States district court awarded William Bryan Tilly of Raleigh $8 165 for a World War I war risk insurance policy. Tilly, an ex service man wounded in action, contended the disability was permanent. The report notes other judgments and court actions including bond forfeitures, automobile seizures under prohi bition laws, guilty pleas, and bonds for two women released until July 10. The session concluded with civil matters and the criminal docket postponed due to the judge's absence following a relative’s death.
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William Bryan Tilly
Raleigh
United States District Court
Tilly
McClintic
E. H. Turner
Bill Phillips
C. P. Star
A. Goodman
R. FE. Mathena
L. L. Mathena
M. F. Stone
Tom Barnes
C. H. Young
Addie Manley
Charles Dalton
Joe Dallas
Ray Collins
Charlie Dalton
Mattie Martin
Mabel Gray
Federal Institution For Women
Alderson
McClintie
United States
James Damron
Dawes Plans Departure as Chicago World Fair Bonds Stand
Ambassador Charles G Dawes said the Chicago world fair organization was in good shape and would depart for London soon He arrived in Chicago last Wednesday to help with fair work and planned to sail Friday His brother Rufus C Dawes gave the South Park Board a 1 000 000 bond guaranteeing the fair will be held in 1933
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Chicago
Charles G. Dawes
New York
Ambassador Dawes
Rufus C. Dawes
South Park Board
Admiral Byrd Day of Activities in New York
Rear Admiral Richard Byrd spent June 23 in a series of talks and events in New York City after returning from his South Pole flight. He met Col. Charles Lindbergh, attended a New York Chamber of Commerce luncheon, handled demobilization duties, and joined a dinner honoring Bernt Balchen before a radio address in Manhattan.
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New York
Richard B. Byrd
South Pole
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Englewood
N. J
Byrd
Lindbergh
Admiral Byrd
Chamber of Commerce
State of
Brooklyn
Bernt Balchen
Manhattan
Heat Wave Hits Midwest as Chicago Records Hotest Day
Southwest winds push Chicago to 97 degrees setting a June record and causing seven deaths from heat. Ohio and Cincinnati report 90s with prostrations and cooler relief forecast within a day. Lincoln reaches 102 as heat spreads across the region.
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Chicago
Middlewest
Court Way
West Side
Fannie Rosenthal
Hermann Deutsch
Lincoln
Neb
Columbus
Kingsford Smith Launches Final Grand Ocean Hop
The Southern Cross, carrying Capt. Charles Kingsford Smith and three crew, took off from Port Marnock at 4:27 a.m. bound for New York. A crowd of 10,000 cheered as the Irish Free State guards lined the runway with fixed bayonets and the plane rose on its 38 hour flight.
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Port Marnock
Irish Free State
Southern Cross
Pacific
America
Hawaii
Australia
New York
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Kingsford-Smith
J. W
M. E. van Dyk
J. P. Saul
Ireland
Atlantic
Stannage
Saul
Kingsford- Smith
van Dyk
Free State
Kingsford Smith Southern Cross Flight Preparations
On June 24 crowds gathered to watch the Southern Cross takeoff preparations under guard as Kingsford Smith and crew awaited favorable weather. General O Duffy directed traffic, with thousands arriving by rail and road and supplies running low. The aircraft, with a 34 to 35 hour flight time, planned a great circle route toward Newfoundland then Maine and New York, radioing from VMZAB.
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Kingsford-Smith
Newfoundland
Maine
New York
Atlantic
America
Syi Great Circle
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Dwight
Lindy
Anne
Clarksburg Hospital
Dominion News
Water Power Act
Kanawha Court
Mercury
Albert B. White
WAR Isk
Kingsford-Smith and
Pals
U.S
London Post
Colonel Lindbergh
Explorer
Atlantic Ocean
O'Duffy
Irish Civic Guards
Dublin
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