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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1932
Page
2
ARS D Rockefeller Jr. writes urging repeal or state control of liquor traffic and endorses Butler’s anti prohibition plank. He argues prohibition failed, crime rose, speak easies thrived, and whiskey crowds funded by a vast network. He hopes temperance supporters continue practical measures.
Leaders of six national anti prohibition groups met in New York to form a unified repeal council aiming to place planks in both major party platforms calling for repeal. Pierre S. du Pont was elected chairman of the council.
Key administration chiefs and James R. Garfield shaped the proposed Republican prohibition plank as a vote nears. Walter Brown and about a dozen senators backed a resolution favoring prompt re submission of the eighteenth amendment to voters, while wet Republicans plan to fight it in the convention. Borah and Tydings attacked the measure as weak camouflage, and Indiana Republicans in state convention still opted for a repeal plank. Raymond Springer nominated for governor and Senator Jim Watson renominated.
President Hoover endorsed a sweeping revenue measure that drew mixed reactions as Congress debated the conference report. The bill aims to balance the federal budget by year end 1933 under certain conditions, though critics fault the electricity tax for shifting the burden to consumers.
Roosevelt era shifts party balance as Jouett Shouse loses permanent chair promise and Thomas J. Walsh of Montana is targeted for the role. Debate threatens a first day clash between Roosevelt supporters and anti Roosevelts. Walker and Seabury loom in New York mayoral crisis affecting convention dynamics.
General Dawes informed President Hoover he would resign from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to return to banking. He cited no friction with Eugene Meyer Jr., chairman, and said the budget issues had passed a turning point toward eventual prosperity. He plans to leave the post June 16.
Thousands of veterans called the bones movement paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue to the capitol amid tight security. The event sparked tense exchanges with Senator Lewis and amid party shifts in Iowa and North Carolina. Franklin Roosevelt won a Florida primary. Reynolds faces July runoff after Cameron Morrison’s defeat.
Wisconsin conservatives at a Madison convention nominated John B Chapple of Ashland for the United States senate opposing Senator Blake while former Gov Writer J Kohler was named for governor to challenge Gov Phil La Follette who seeks a second term.
Samuel Tinsull of Chicago, a prominent public utilities magnate for years, resigns as head of his great utilities concerns and as director of numerous other companies. Health is poor and he plans to go to Europe, likely residing in England, with a pension to be paid by three of the big corporations he built up.
In a near bloodless coup in Chile a socialist republic is proclaimed. Carian Mw vila, ex ambassador to the United States, becomes provisional president while Col Marmaduke C girove takes defense minister post and quashes a counter revolution. The regime promises to relieve workers burdens and attract American investment despite nitrate concessions.
A 1933 column explains taking out no trumps by yardstick honor-trick counts and distributional counting. It covers when to bid game, how suit distribution affects undertrump and overtrump decisions, and introduces the distributional count as a practical method for valuing hands.
The passage cites Angling Pro and Cos Izaak Walton praising angling as a calm recreation and quotes Doctor Boteler on strawberries, then contrasts Doctor Johnson who defined a fishing rod as a stick with a hook and a fool at the other.
The text argues civilization relies on coal far beyond 1850 levels, using twenty times as much coal per person. It emphasizes coal as the key energy source of modern industry shaping national life and interdependence among societal groups.
A Chicago man, Haymond La Raviere, recounts how he stowed aboard the Olympic in New York, hid in a crew area for seven days, and walked into London without a passport. He faced a £10 fine or one month in Wormwood Scrubs, then later deportation proceedings and eventual release after Home Secretary intervention.
A white bean believed 200 years old sprouted into a living stalk at White Memorial Museum San Antonio. Found in an excavation seven feet below the surface at ruins 109 miles south of Santa Fe. Franciscan missionaries founded Guidasions there in 1629 with Piro Indians at Tabtra. Bean soaked two hours March 12. within two weeks stalk six inches tall emerged.
A car reportedly ran 318.7 miles in 12 hours 5 minutes with no oil in the crankcase using a new lubricating extract. Mayor Myron M. Kehrman and local businessmen witnessed the test, ending with five and six connecting rod bearings burned yet the engine intact. Officials verified the mileage and the test car was padlocked at start and end.
Mrs. 3. F. Goundry of Pergy J New Yorker keeps a goose named Pegey that lays an 11 inch double yolked egg weighing ten ounces each spring. One egg mixed with two quarts of thick custard makes enough to feed the family. In warm weather Pegey settles to one normal egg daily.
A detailed portrait describes a royal bodyguard in the king’s guard on the west coast of Africa. He wears green spectacles a straw hat mud plastered hair a bandanaa handkerchief and bracelets on his arms.
Excavations on Montefaucon in the Argonne uncover an old fortress built by Godefroy de Bouillon. A new American monument for the 152 U S Army troops killed in September 1918 will rise 200 feet high, faced with Burgundy stone, with dedication planned this summer.
Four members of the United States Coast Guard Academy graduating class at New London Connecticut received prizes and diplomas in ceremonies held in Fort Trumbull casemates. Cadet R D Schmidtman won the Proficiency in military tactics prize. Cadet G L Lynch received the Charles Root prize for drawing. Cadet W H Border, an honor student, earned the alumni association prize for top academic standing. Cadet J D Craik of Andover Massachusetts was awarded a sword by the Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution for best conduct during his course.
In Madrid the justice minister announced commutation of a death sentence to life imprisonment for a man who killed a dairy owner’s wife and their 27 month old baby. The Cortes Constituyentes rejected a radical proposal to impose death for robbers, even as a Madrid bank was robbed of 4,000. The move signals a shift in Spain’s legal outlook under the new regime.
The Campbells and the Macleans, famed Scottish clans, end a 200 year feud with a truce. Announcement came via telegram from the Duke of Argyll to Col Sir Fitzroy MacLean on Col MacLean's 97th birthday. He resides at Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull.
Twins Mrs. George Martin and Mrs. Gore Trosmoan, born Bristol Farry and St. L-Mra, celebrated their eightieth birthday here. They were married at a double ceremony sixty years ago and are mothers of two.
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