Enforcement and relief plans dominate ABA meeting coverage
At the fifty third annual American Bar Association session in Chicago George W Wickersham urged acceptance of law and order amid immigration and modernization. Hoover’s drought relief efforts expand via credit banks seed loans and farm employment while Red Cross and USDA move to aid farmers in Indiana Ohio Virginia Missouri and Montana. The Tahiti schooner incident ends with all aboard rescued as it sank after a shaft failure.
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American Bar Association
Chicago
George W. Wickersham
Wickersham
Commission
Hoover
Agriculture Hyde
Alexander Legge
Federal Farm Board
Paul Bestor
Federal Farm Loan Board
Roy Young
Federal Reserve Board
John Garten Payne
American Red Cross
Treasury
Ogden Mills
Henry M. Robinson
First National Bank of Los Angeles
It. H. Alshton
Evanston, IL
American Railway
Washington
Federal Committee
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank System
Hyde
Department of Agriculture
Indiana
Ohio
Virginia
Missouri
Montana
John Barton Payne
Inter-Mountain Live Stock Growers' Association
Pacific Ocean
Matson
Ventura
Penybryn
Tahiti
Pagopago
American Samoa
San Francisco
Pacific
Association clash over referendum vote on Eighteenth amendment
Secretary MacCracken reported the executive committee rejected a petition to recall referendum postcards. Judge Alishie urged the action violated the association's constitution. President Sims ruled the committee could act per the charter, an appeal failed. The group also backed the executive on rejecting the citizenship committee report critical of the Farm Board. The criminal law section kept its study alive for another year. President Sims spoke of constitutional liberty and dismissed social unrest as delusion with thousands attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. P. MacCracken, Jr
James F. Alishie
Idaho
Henry VII. Sims
Executive Committee
American Citizenship Committee
Federal Farm Board
Sims
Crop losses despite late precious ratios in corn and wheat belts
Partial ruin spread across the corn and wheat belts as PRESELIOUS ratios arrived too late to save crops and upend government plans.
National air races open in Chicago attract aviators nationwide
In Chicago crowds watch a rich program of speed contests and stunts as national air races begin. Prominent American and European flyers compete while a Northwestern conference on aeronautics proposes federal airport laws and uniform air transit guidelines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Europe
Union
Northwestern University
The
Household Science Institute
National Committee On Bays and Girls
Endurance flyers break new mark after 47 hours
ALB Jackson and Forest O Brine of St. Louis did not stay aloft for a thousand hours as planned. They descended after setting a new endurance record of 47 hours 28 minutes 80 seconds, but motor trouble forced them to abort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alb Jackson
Forest O'Brine
St. Louis
Gallant navy crew hailed for swift rescue during B47 incident
Reports say officers and crew performed bravely while nearby vessels aided by rapid radio calls. The B47 incident prompted coordinated response at sea with multiple ships assisting to stabilize the situation.
Spanish War Veterans Hold 32nd Campment in Philadelphia
The Spanish War Veterans held their thirty second annual encampment in Philadelphia with a parade on preparedness day. Edward S. Matthias, former judge of the Ohio Supreme Court, was elected national commander and New Orleans was awarded the next encampment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Battes
Cobo
Edward S. Matthias
Ohio Supreme Court
New Orleans
President Hoover to Speak in Boston and Kings Mountain
President Hoover plans a Boston address on October 6 before the American Legion then travels by special train to the South for a Kings Mountain anniversary celebration next day. His October trip may include Mexico or the Caribbean, with tariff commission picks and 1932 budget completion among his tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Boston
American Legion
South
Battle of
Kings Mountain
Mexico
Caribbean
Tariff Commission
Death at Sea Ends Wealthy Publisher AN LEAR BLACK
AN LEAR BLACK the Baltimore Sun publisher drowned after falling from his yacht Sabalo near New York while en route to a Chesapeake summer home. A two day search by vessels aircraft and the navy dirigible Los Angeles failed to find him. Black 55 led around the world flights starting 1927 and was an avid aviator. Also reported death of oilman Thomas B. Sicks of Oklahoma City and architect Louis Bourgeois of Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lear Black
Baltimore Sun
Evening Sun
Sabalo
New York Harbor
Chesapeake
Glirm
Los Angeles
Black
Europe
Dutch East Indies
South America
Thomas B. Siick
Oklahoma City
Louis Bourgeois
Chicago
Communists Suffer Heavy Losses in Kiange Province Skirmish
Press dispatches report provincial troops slaughter 4000 Communists in western Kiange province and seize 2000 rifles. Communists capture Wusueh in Hupeh province, a Yangtze port two miles above Kiukiang, causing residents to flee in panic.
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Claes Press
Kiange
Wusueh
Hupeh
Yangtze River
Kiukiang
Germany Pushes Versailles Revision At League Talks
ITF GERMANY asks the League of Nations next month for revision of the Versailles treaty. France opposes any revision of the Polish corridor and urges Poland to drop border tariffs. Kellogg proposed by American group as candidate for World Court justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ITF
Germany
League of Nations
France
Herr Trevirants
Paris
Ozerlin
Stresemann
Poland
Prussia
Frank B. Kellogg
Four men arrested in Kansas coyote scalp bounty fraud
Four men based in Kansas City, Mo, are jailed on charges of defrauding Kansas counties of at least fifty thousand dollars by selling coyote scalp bounties. They bought scalps from fur dealers, swore they were Kansas kills, and shipped dozens of scalps to counties for bounty payments.
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Topeka
Kan
Hill City
Middle West
Kansas
New York
Kansas City
Colby
Hays
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Colorado
Kansagd
Jersey to Build Traps for Japanese Beetle
Hackensack New Jersey experts Dr. Edgar G Rex and Dr. G J Headlee complete a study on the Japanese beetle pest in Bergen county. They propose mechanical traps attached to tree trunks to capture beetles before they reach truck gardens and drop them into chemical tanks.
Number 11 Follows Lad in All His Activities
Prosper, Teras. Eleven is a lucky number for WN C Settle Jr of this place. Born on the eleventh minute eleventh hour and eleventh day of the eleventh month T1011 he has attained the eleventh grade in Prosper high school in a class containing 11 pupils. He wears No 11 on his basketball sweater and plays 11 musical instruments. His mail is received at Bar 11 Prosper. He wears a No 10 shoe but says a No 11 fits him better.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prosper
Teras
WN C Settle, Jr
Prosper High School
Charity Giving Millionaire in Poverty Shocks London
Edwin Ondley a fifty two year old gas works employee lived frugally in his brother's house in London. He bought tea and sugar yearly and bread lasted a week. At death of heart disease police found he had given all his savings to charity and 500 to 600 postal money order stubs in his rooms supported various charities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
Edwin Ondley
Gas Works
Son Pays Burial Debt at Vincennes Funeral Home
A forty six year old son settled an eight dollar debt incurred at the funeral of Jane Gibson a Deer woman in Vincennes Indiana. The undertaker had forgotten the bill when the son called at the local establishment to pay the account.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincennes
Ind
Jane Gibson
New York Lights and Echoes of an Era
A reflective piece on urban mood and culture in New York and abroad. It notes haunted apartments, shifting artistic eras from flapper to jazz to collegiate, evolving radio formats, and famed emcees. References include Rudy Vallee and Texas Guinan, with a glance at Delia J Akeley’s Congo travels and Ring Lardner in a silk hat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irvin Cobb
Ring Lardner
Mr. Cobb
National Canning Contest Seeks Best Home Canner
Shenandoah Iowa hosts a national event to pick Americas best home canned foods with five judges including Dr Louise Stanley and Miss Elaine Massey. Open to women and girls, prizes total 4250 dollars and feature divisions for fruits vegetables and meats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenandoah
Iowa
America
United States
Louise Stanley
Bureau of Home Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
Frances Swann
National Home Economics Association
Chicago
George E. Farrell
North Central States
Department of Agriculture
Josephine Arnquist Bakke
Iowa State College
Elaine Massey
Henry Field
RFNI
Mary Hvass
Kenhan
Wis
Becnt
Census in Shanghai Names City Among World’s Largest
Shanghai's population reached 2,927,858 in a spring census, placing the city among the ten largest globally and fourth behind New York London Paris and Berlin. Foreign residents total 42,569 in the Formational Settlement with additional foreign groups in the French concession and about 10,000 in Chinese territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Bureau of Puble Enfity
Paris
Chicago
New York
London
Berlin
Fox Swim Ends in Cardiff Hounds Fatal Clash
A fox attempting to escape the Ynysfor hounds swam across Snowdian Lake Gwanent in Merionethshire and was killed by the pack several hundred yards from shore. The incident occurred as the hounds together with the quarry pursued through the water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardiff
Wales
Ynysfor
Merionethshire
Bell Toll Marks General Grant's Return Home
The locomotive bell that tolled as General Grant's body was returned from Mount McGregor in Saratoga County to New York City is now owned by Frank Meyers and his brothers, farmers. Grant sought rest at the mountain to recover from throat cancer, and he died there.
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M. Ca
Pagi Ash
New York
San Francisco
Chicago
Frank Fay
Lou Holts
Benny Ruben
Gean Mallin
Harry Hichmond
Eddie Caoutor
Ed. Wynn
Texas” Guinan
Wilton
NL Y
General Grant
Mt. McGregor
Saratoga County
New York City
Frank Meyers
Press Agent Uses Schemes to Move Ruth to Broadway
Ruth, a pretty Elbert theater usher, is targeted by press agent Ted Kingston who engineers her dismissal from Frank Harris’s show to push her into Ned Green’s Broadway production. Harris reluctantly fires her, then Kingston arranges a backstage reunion with Ruth’s true love, Frank, revealing years of secret affection.
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Uth Benton
Elbert
Ruth
Tnto
New York
Ned Green
Ted Kingston
Ziegburn
Sweet Child
the Elbert
Ted
Blondy
Bur
Roth
Frack Harris
Kingston
Harris
Mr. Harris
Yarrig
Shell
Frank
Browiway
Frank Harris
Broadway
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Mise Edith Edna Tell
Pittsburgh
Wildwood
N. J
Louisiana
Nova Scotia
S—Richard Bedford Bennett
Canada
Edward W. Pickard
Petty
Jersey
Lad
Madlo
Rudy Vallee
Guy Lombardo
Lombardo
Delia J. Akeley
Bell Syndicate
U. S
Lown
Grace Viall Gray
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