Hoover faces vetoes and veto override tensions in Congress
Edward W. Pickard reviews a fractious Congress as Republicans and Democrats clash over pension reform for Spanish War veterans. Hoover vetoes the bill, but the Senate overrides 61 to 18 with votes from Republicans, Democrats, and a Farmer-Labor member, signaling tense political alignments ahead of elections. The piece also covers debates over the London naval treaty, Navy contracts, and the Cannon investigation into prohibition lobbying.
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Congress
Hoover
Senate
Penate
House
Grand Army of the Republic
Watson
Moses
Henry J. Allen
Kansas
Harbors Hill
Allen
Bishop James Cannon Jr Defies Senate Lobby Committee
Citizens weary of probing committees witnessed Bishop James Cannon Jr. challenge the Senate lobby committee investigating his 1928 campaign activities. The militant Methodist official and Anti-Baloon League leader refused to answer questions and defied the inquiry.
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Cannon
Virginia
E. C. Jameson
New York
Caraway
Arkansas
Walsh
Montana
Blaine
Wisconsin
Senate
Ertain
James Cannon, Jr
Board of Temperance and Social Service
Methodist Church
South
Senate Lobby Committee
House Passes Wickersham Bill Reducing Jury Trials in Prohibition Cases
The House approved the Wickersham bill by 218 to 117 to curb federal court congestion by ending jury trials in petty prohibition offenses. defendants would get a commissioner hearing and only a jury if they demand it. The bill defines petty offenses as under six months in jail or fines under 50 dollars. The Jones act amendment targets manufacture, transport or sale of less than one gallon of liquor as petty offense. The Pennsylvania Democratic Party also endorsed repealing the state enforcement act and the Volstead act.
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House
Wickersham
United States
Democratic Party of
Pennsylvania
State Committee
Harrisburg
French Chamber Opens Summer Session Amid Interpellations
The opposition in the French Chamber of Deputies began the summer session with a slate of interpellations demanding explanations from the government. They target naval treaty actions, the insurgent revolt in Indo China, national security, and an oil scandal involving prominent officials. Paris pundits warned the Tardieu cabinet may not survive the summer.
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Chamber of Deputies
Indo-China
Paris
Tardieo E
Italy Blames France For Naval Race And War Fears
Italian Foreign Secretary Dino Grandi told the Senate that France is to blame for the naval build up as he recalled proposing in Geneva to Aristide Briand a suspension of 1990 constructions. Briand refused and Italian plans to expand the navy were approved. Several senators warned the Mediterranean could host the next European conflict as Premier Tardieu said Paris would spend heavily.
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France
Italy
Dino Grandi
Senate
Grandi
Geneva
Aristide Briand
Mediterranean
Tardieu
Britain urged to defend regime in Palestine at League meeting
The mandates commission of the League of Nations convened in Geneva amid complaints about British control measures in Palestine. Under secretary T Drummond Shiels said immigration limits were temporary awaiting a further report from Sir John Hope Simpson who is conducting a new Palestine survey.
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Ger
Britain
Palestine
Mandates Commission
League of Nations
Geneva
Holy Land
T. Drummond Shiels
Colonies
John Hope Simpson
British Indian campaigns face salt raid halt and tax resistance rise
The rainy season halts salt works raids while Nationalist activity in India continues. Gandhi followers shift to tax resistance seen as more serious. On the northwest frontier British troops capture villages and shell rebel positions amid unrest.
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India
Gandhi
Fighting along the Yellow River alters Chinese Civil War balance
Dispatches report fierce fighting between Chinese Nationalist forces and northern rebels along the Yellow River with claims of victories by both sides. Nationals lose Changsha to Ikied army allied rebels while northern troops push toward Tsinanfu and rail lines. Russians pivot to frontier action in Manchuria amid Moscow talks.
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Yellow River
Nanking
Shanghai
Tsinanfu
Tsinan-Tsinetoo
Chowtsun
Changsha
Hunan
Ikied
Moscow
China
Russia
Manchuria
Taheiho
Blagovyeshchensk
Graf Zeppelin Heads Home After Transatlantic Crossing
The Graf Zeppelin with 5428YEe twenty two passengers and a large cargo of freight and mail departed Lakehurst New Jersey Monday night for Friedrichshafen. A pleasant voyage across the Atlantic ended near Portugal where a storm and heavy winds were met. It is hoped the airship will reach Chicago late in August for the national air races.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Friedrichshafen
Atlantic
Portugal
Chicago
Cameron Forbes Named Ambassad or to Japan by Hoover Ties
Cameron Forbes a Boston banker and former governor general of the Philippines has been tentatively selected as ambassador to Japan Information Learned In administration circles reports. Forbes a close Hoover friend chaired the special commission that completed a survey and report on American administration of affairs in Haiti.
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Cameron Forbes
Boston
Philippines
Japan
Forbes
Hoover
Special Commission
Haiti
Hoover Receives Louis Livingstone Seaman Medal
The Louis Livingstone Seaman gold medal was presented to President Hoover by the American Museum of Safety for outstanding contributions in human service. The award was decided before his presidential nomination but presentation was delayed.
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Louis Livingstone Seaman
President Hoover
American Museum of Safety
Hoover
Western Newspopgy Union
The White Ivory Ring Engagement at a Lake House Party
Betty and Chan invite Lola and Wilfred for a lazy lake house stay where poetry, a white ivory ring, and a looming engagement shape two weeks of sailing, swimming, and social clash. Wilfred resists, Cuthbert Carruthers visits, and a horse race nights out lead to a fiancé moment.
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Betty
Chan Barclay
Brenda
Lola
Wil
Wilfred
Chan
Baldwins
Slim
Leila Chan
Bkerrer
Cuthbert Carruthers
Cuthbert
Miss Baldwin
O. K
Lolal
Central
World of Leisure Seen by Year 2030
Lord Birkenhead predicts a future with abundant leisure and cheap synthetic foods that displace agriculture by 2080. He envisions mass travel advances, vast hydroelectric power from the Himalayas, and a century where dirt and pollution vanish. people live in huge flat blocks with communal refectories.
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London
Lord Birkenhead
England
Europe
Labrador
Greenland
Himalayas
Buried Fortunes Reported in Montana Canyon Tale
The Sun River canyon in Helens Montana is linked to a long running legend of two buried treasures. A Minnesota man claims possession of a map showing a lost stash from a 1852 stagecoach robbery near the canyon mouth. No official records confirm the holdup or the treasure.
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Sun River Canyon
Boys Free Dog Catchers Roundup of 19 Canines
In Butte Montana two dog catchers pursued a stray dog, abandoning a pound wagon with 10 dogs inside. They later caught a twentieth dog, only to return to an empty wagon as 10 canines fled, released by brave local boys.
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Butte
Mont
Calf With Two Faces Lacks Balance at Montana Ranch
A two faced calf born without a sense of balance at William Crabtree ranch in White Sulphur Springs Montana topples on its legs. The calf has two mouths and can eat from either, and is reportedly healthy in most respects.
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White Sulphur Springs
Mont
William Crabtree
Jilted at Altar Miss Nicholson Takes Poison in Greensboro
Miss Virgie Nicholson traveled to Greensboro to wed a prominent local businessman. After he refused to marry her on the eve of the wedding she left a note to her mother and ingested bichloride tablets then carbolic acid. She died before hotel staff could intervene. Her body was sent to Norfolk, Virginia. Investigators withheld the husband-to-be’s identity.
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Greensboro
N. C
Virgie Nicholson
Miss Nicholson
Pat
Coldwater
Miss
No. 5
Michael Silverman
U. S. Geological Survey Resumes Field Work After Winter
Washington reports spring renewal of USGS field operations with about 250 parties to be dispatched from the capital within a month. Twenty cars with engineers and instruments have already left for Kentucky Virginia New York and nearby states as the division of field equipment readies tools worth thousands of dollars.
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Washington
United States Geological Survey
Geological Survey
Kentucky
Virginia
New York
Feild
Lost Montana ghost town Linnberton baffles officials
Rail officials seek Linnberton a long vanished Montana hamlet once along the Milwaukee line last seen in 1910. W N Ross of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railroad asks for news. photos show a group of Indians before a general merchandise store. No map records its location or fate.
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Montana
Miles City
Mont
Linnberton
W. N. Ross
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railroad
Montous
Army Orders Adapt Pressure Cooking for March Feasts
The Army orders adaptation of pressure cooking for rolling kitchens to speed meal prep for marching troops. Maj. Gen. Stephen Fuqua, chief of the Infantry, ordered the experiment amid ongoing difficulties feeding troops on the march.
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Washington
Stephen ©. Fuqua
Infantry
Tennessee Court Reverses Peeping Conviction
Tennessee Supreme Court reverses the conviction of J. L. Deboard of Newport holding no law exists to prevent curious persons from peeping in windows in the state.
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Nashville
Teen
Tennessee
State Supreme Court
J. L. Deboard
Newport
Film Cameraman Seeks Divorce Over Pork Chop Debate
Robert Beard Kurrle, a film cameraman, cites a quarrel lasting four teen years and eight months over how pork chops should be cooked. He says Darling insisted they be done to a crisp, then left him after the dispute. He now cooks his own pork cups.
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Hollywood
Robert Beard Kurrle
Fle
Darling
Eure
Kurrle
Girl 21 Marries Sixth Husband In Memphis Romance
Pat Barnett, 21, described as attractive and romantic, has wed her sixth husband DeWolt Hopper after a brief return from a near suicide. Her history includes five prior marriages, one death in an auto crash, and multiple separations via divorce. Her mother, widow, hopes for lasting happiness.
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Memphis
Pat
Theresa Bannett
South Side
DeWolt Hopper
Peggy Joyce
Pat" Barnett
George L. Barnett
Gaston Place
Paper gowns dazzle Corvallis chorus at library benefit
In Corvallis Montana the women of the chorus wore black crepe paper gowns to a library benefit after the choral leader mandated evening attire. The farm women appeared elegant and stylish, their outfits rustling as they moved to the stage, proving ingenuity can beat rain wind fears.
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Montana
Corvallis
Mont
Slander Suit Yields Tiny Awards in Harrisburg
In Harrisburg a civil court jury awarded damages totaling £7 to Herman A. Carl George M. Carl and Charles M. Carl brothers in slander suits against William A. Lontz of West Hanover township. They alleged Lontz called them chicken thieves harming their reputations. Each received minimal sums despite claiming $10,000 each.
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Harrisburg
Herman A. Carl
George M. Carl
Charles M. Carl
William A. Lontz
West Hanover Township
Lontz
Charles
Herman
George M. Cari
Town Being Torn Down So Coal Can Be Mined
Breslau. The village Buchwalde near Hoyersda with about 600 inhabitants must disappear to permit coal veins beneath it. Thirty-one of forty five houses have been torn down and the rest are being wrecked. The coal deposits were found over twenty years ago but are just now being opened. Most residents have moved to Werninghoff where they work in coal brick factories.
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Breslau
Buchwalde
Hoyersda
Werninghoff
Capitol Ground Named Rome by English Owner
Residents shocked to learn the U S Capitol area was once called Rome and the nearby Anacostia River styled as the Tiber, a naming attributed to English landowner Francis Pope per Italian Ambassador Nobile Giacomo de Martino.
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Washington
United States Capitol
Rome
Anacostia
Tiber
Nobile Giacomo de Martino
Francis Pope
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