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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1930
Page
2
Edward W Pickard presents a digest of ongoing international and domestic affairs. This column surveys political developments, diplomatic shifts, economic trends, and notable incidents shaping current events.
Senator Fess praised Hoover for stabilizing economic forces and contrasted with Senator Harrison who labeled the year a failure. The debate covered farm relief tariff naval armament and prohibition amid hearings with witnesses including Samuel Crowther Edward Kealing and Henry M Johnson.
Secretary of Labor James J. Davis says unemployment has been kept under half the level of earlier crashes following a cabinet meeting on industrial conditions. Administration leaders expect relief soon through federal action. Senator Wagner proposes a $150 million public works plan to stabilize industry and curb unemployment, but Davis opposes as unnecessary and unwieldy.
Opponents wrapped up their case before the House judiciary committee with repeated testimony from figures including Breckenridge Long and Dr. Stewart Eaton. Three women also testified Mrs Lovett Mrs Cortlandt Nicoll and Mrs Carroll Miller underscoring a shared aim to protect children reduce crime and end commercialized liquor amid urgent questions about today’s drinking problem.
Secretary of State Stimson proposed a U S tonnage reduction exceeding 200 000 tons if other powers cut theirs. He said the idea, acceptable to America and Britain, contrasts with France Italy demands for 700 000 tons while Britain seeks parity with two continental powers and 1 400 000 tons. The French hold up the talks as Premier Tardieu wins a majority yet the subcommittee stalls on Stimson's civic questions.
In Port au Prince about 1200 native women urged an end to American occupation and marched past the Hoover Commission's headquarters. Nationalist leaders denounced Gen John H Russell as a dictator and called for free presidential elections. Some demanded U.S. aid on sanitation while opposing other activities. The Dominican crisis eased after Vasquez's resignation and Gen Rafael Urena's provisional leadership.
Moscow Communists mark International Unemployment Day with parades in many cities across Europe and America. Reports describe clashes with police in some areas and orderly demonstrations elsewhere. The text notes a separate incident involving a 14,000 pupil high school rebellion in Manila incited by Reds over alleged insults by a female teacher.
LFRED VON TIRPITZ die in Ebenhausen at eighty one. Dr Arthur T Hadley president emeritus of Yale dies in Kobe at seventy three from pneumonia. Hadley educated at Yale and Berlin, led Yale from 1900s to 1921. Also noted deaths include novelist D E H Lawrence and Viscount Herbert Gladstone, son of William E Gladstone.
Illinois lumber and sugar interests combined to push a 47 to 30 Senate vote in favor of raising the Cuban sugar duty from 1.75 to 2 cents per pound. Several lumber and sugar backers swung votes, breaking the Democratic Radical Republican coalition as a campaign issue looms. The House had already raised the rate to 2.4 cents per pound, making Senate action likely in final conference.
John North Willys of Toledo Ohio named as the new American ambassador to Poland. His nomination was sent to Warsaw for approval, approved, and announced by President Hoover with no Senate objections.
A Pennsylvania public health official outlines strategies for extending healthy lifespan. The guide emphasizes preventive care, nutrition, exercise, and routine medical screenings to reduce chronic disease risk and improve longevity.
Proper dairy bottle handling starts after leaving the plant. Wash and dry milk bottles, tops, and other raw foods before refrigeration. Avoid contaminated produce and discard slightly spoiled meats or produce to prevent foodborne illness.
A 1923 Western Newspaper Union note urges regular dental hygiene for children and adults. It stresses two daily brushings and semiannual dentist exams as a shield against disease, warning against false teeth claims and highlighting links between dental health and overall well being.
A Berlin report unravels a fraternal North German carpenters order custom where mourners bear lemons on hatchets at funerals. Investigations tie the practice to plague-era beliefs about lemon juice guarding against contagion, noting a lingering line in the Ancient Order of the Slmmertente practice as a sign of peace after death.
In Pago Pago the Samoan method avoids harpoons and hooks. A large outrigged canoe begins with prayers and a salmon oil lure. A 73 foot line with baited wood and decayed meat attracts sharks. A noose, pole, and coordinated maneuvers finish with a split head and bloodletting. Judge Foxall recalls it as the most exciting sport.
Berkeley CA. Dr. Herbert M. Evans of UC Berkeley says sex in humans is determined at fertilization by chromosome pair X and Y. He argues the 48 chromosommes in germ cells govern sex with XY male and XX female, and notes dominance variation may exist among individuals.
Efficient Postmaster Troy and Matthew Fleming senior, and his daughter Mrs. Alice Tisdale of Richmond Virginia, are reunited after 25 years thanks to a letter addressed to Matthew Fleming Troy Postmaster Please Find. The postmaster did not finish the report in the snippet.
In Manhattan headlines a busy West Street restaurant markets fresh fare at odd hours for truckers and merchants. A London style impresario of séances draws elite clients, while a Times Square check room stores a drum snake bass. A pilot’s lake tow idea ends with a clever blast to lift a stranded plane.
Butte Mont. Arthur Reymont sues dentist G C N Bucher for $3475 claiming teeth not made of gold and the dentist failed to fill teeth with the promised material in a civil suit filed.
Britain remains the world leader in tea consumption per year. India supplied about 70 percent of world tea output valued at £5,000,000 pounds. Britons drank roughly 24 pounds per person totaling about 80 billion cups, while Americans consumed about 13 billion cups.
Washington reports that Japanese stock trading uses terms Jiki Teiki and Nobe for spot deferred and long term deals. Jikiya are unlicensed outside exchange hours. Tokobu, the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is widely traded. The system mirrors early rice exchange practices and lacks official status.
Leon Roun a fifty year old junkman testified at arraignment before Mayor Harry James that hunger and thoughts of steak led him to kill a Jersey cow in a pasture with a kitchen knife and take the meat home in a child's express wagon. He then dumped the meat into the Maurice river after his housekeeper reacted angrily. He was ordered to pay the cow's owner seven hundred dollars in damages.
In Fortemouth the town council by a single vote refused multiple licenses for motion picture houses, prohibiting Sunday evening screenings. The measure targets Sunday cinema access in Portsmouth England.
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