Congress Selections Shape House Leadership in 1930s
The piece reviews recent election results with Democrats gaining speaker prospects through John W. Garner of Texas and notes several state contests. It covers governor races in New Jersey and Mississippi, Kentucky and New York district shifts, and contenders amid Prohibition debates while outlining party splits and vacancies. It also reports Japan warning Russia over Manchurian troop moves as League concerns rise.
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House
Tresiday
John W. Garner
Texas
Choeice
Nick Longworth
John N Garneree Rogas
Biles
Michigan
Michael J. Hart
F. C. Eldred
Joseph W. Fordney
Congress
Ohio
J. B. Hollister
Martin Sweeney
Josephy Delaney
New York
Edward L. Stokes
G. & Graham
Pennsylvania
Democrate
Palmer- Labor
New Jersey
New Hampshire
A. Harry Moore
William Baird, Jr
Martin Sennett Conner
Mississippi
Ruby Laffoon
Kentucky
William B. Harrison
Louisville
New York Election Divides Roosevelt Smith After Amending Reforestation Vote
New York voters narrowly approved a constitutional amendment for reforestation of deserted farmland with Roosevelt and supporting Democrats backing it while Smith opposed. The assembly was elected, Tammany favored the measure, and Republicans kept control of the legislature by ten votes.
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York State
Smith
Tammany
New York City
Adams enters Navy budget dispute with pacifist groups
Secretary Adams weighed in on the Hoover Navy controversy, rebutting pacifist claims that the U S spends too much on the navy. He issued a brief denunciation of personal attacks on the navy commander in chief, denied resigning, and supported a limited White House inquiry into Gardiner's assertions. A committee was named to sift factual sections.
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Adams
Hoover
Navy League
Indes
Mr. Adams
United States
Great Britain
Janet Fiers
Vauea
Gardiner
Abal
Washington
White House
Navy
William Howard Gardiner
Hugh Rodtan
John Hays Hammond
Ernest Lee Jahncke
Stete
William KR. Castle
Eilot Wadsworth
The
Treasury
Messie
Hammond
Wadsworth
Jahncke
Casile
Chicago traders press Hoover on bear raids
Delegates from the Chicago Board of Trade met President Hoover with a business committee plan to curb bear raids on grain markets. Silas Strawn of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States said Hoover approved the approach and noted no quarrel over short selling, only bear raiding. Wheat prices have risen, and traders express optimism as farmers benefit. Arthur W. trader to grein reportedly made large profits in the ongoing rally.
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Elegates
Chicago Board of Trade
Hoover
Meaus
Silas Strawn
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Strawn
Negotiations with France over reparations and debt payments
The article notes Germany’s stance in talks with France for reducing reparations while pledging foreign debt payments from export earnings. It cites a Reichsbank and lenders committee report, Germany’s $600 million foreign currency surplus this year, and the impact of interest on Dawes and Young plan loans on exports.
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France
Reichsbank
Bankers' Committee
Germany
St Lenat
Dawes Plan
Young Plan
Inside New York Vaults Billion-Dollar Gold Reserve
The United States holds about 5 trillion dollars in gold with the bulk in New York and Washington. Eighty feet underground in the New York Federal Reserve, vast piles of bars and ingots are protected by thick walls and triple locks. Guards and marksmen patrol the fortress entrance as the treasure awaits its use in the national reserve.
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New York
United States
France
Washington
Federal Reserve
Denver Mint
Nption
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Head of Crusaders portrait of Fred G. Clark
Portrait study of Fred G. Clark, Cleveland millionaire and commander in chief of the Crusaders, a militant air prohibition organization.
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Fred G. Clark
Cleveland
Ohio
The
Crusaders
Militant
Air Prohibition Organization
Rattlesnake hunter slays 980 snakes at Clark ranch
Twenty nine years ago a rattlesnake struck Holland Mayes, foreman at L. C Clark ranch on the taxi. He has since killed and kept a record of 080 rattlers delved.
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San Angelo
Holland Mayes
L. C Clark Ranch
Corporations Turning to Air Transportation
Chicago reports growing use of air travel by executives and representatives. Among 784 corporations across regions, 477 now travel by air while 101 do not, with an average of four travelers per firm. Airlines use among firms with capital of 100000 or more shows rising executive travel demand.
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Chicago
TS4
United Air Lines
Washington Farmers Report Monstrosities
In South Bend Washington farmers report a crop oddity with aerial potatoes growing up on vines like tomatoes and a five-sectioned ear of corn shaped as a pyramid. The potatoes appeared in RR LT Robertson’s garden and a patch by Ms. Van Turl produced the five part ear.
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South Bend
Waeh
RR LT
Robertson
C. W. van Turl
Police Find Litter of Kittens in Mail Box
Indianapolis officers Duane Cooney and Welsh opened a mail box after a discord call. Inside they found a litter of kittens hidden by a cat to travel. The pair commented on the cat and joked about stamps.
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Indianapolis
Cooney
Nebraska Man Claims First Plane Invention
Havelock Nebraska resident G A Hughes claims to have designed the first flying machine. He says he built 62 model planes and demonstrated a boxlike contraption with a nine foot wing spread in 1808, decades before others flew. He applied for a patent but says finances blocked progress.
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Havelock
Neb
G. A. Hughes
Hughes
Feir
Wray
Colo
Returns After 32 Years Death in Oberhilbersheim Home
Berlin report: Konrad Link aged 55 returns to Oberhilbersheim after 32 years vanished, dies of heart failure from emotional strain before revealing his whereabouts to his sister Maria Link. She heard a faint noise at her window the night before and found him dead below.
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Berlin
Konrad Link
Oberhilbersheim
Maria Link
Women take control of Memphis film censor board
In Memphis the city film censor board is dominated by women two to one for the first time in many years marking a historic shift in local governance of cinema.
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Memphis
U. S. Jewelry Bill Half Billion in ’29
New York leads in per capita jewelry spending with 9.00 dollars, while Washington and California follow. The United States spent 590 million dollars on jewelry in 1999, with 20,005 jewelry stores nationwide and 2,650 of them in New York. Pennsylvania has 1,?7 stores and California 1,408.
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New York
United States
Bureau of Census
Washington
California
Pennsylvania
Mail Order Quack Is Still Busy
The article notes that despite fraud orders by the Post Office against many miracle cures and mail order doctors, some vendors continue to operate. Inspectors report persistent ads for cures from electrical devices, tuberculosis remedies, and water or moon-era tonics.
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Post Office Department
Ofice
Lincoln Family Frow Presented to Museum
Peru Indiana reports a frow a clapboard making device once owned by Thomas Lincoln father of President Lincoln has been given to the Miami County Historical Society museum by F W Troutman. Thomas Lincoln used the frow to build four log cabins in Coles County Illinois where he died in 1851. John Klog borrowed it failed to return it and his son passed it to Troutman.
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Peru
Ind
Thomas Lincoln
President Lincoln
Miami County Historical Society Museum
F. W. Troutman
Coles County
Illinois
John Klog
Troutman
Forgotten HEROES Remembering Decatur and Joel Barlow
A paean to Stephen Decatur and Reuben James recounts their daring actions against Tripoli during the Barbary War and the reception of the hero Joel Barlow. It notes a 19th century attempt in Congress to honor Barlow, and how neglect left his sacrifice unrecognized in Polish soil.
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Decatur
Stephen Decatur
Congress
Poland
Joel Barlow
France
Napoleon
Paris
Barlow
Wilna
Russia
Thomas Barlow
Parla
Bar
Felland
Zarnewiec
Cracow
America
Jodi Barlow
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Edward W. Pickard
Cermak
Lewis
Japan
Ching
League of Nations
Manchuria
League of Na- Hons
Moscow
Izvestia
Soviet Union
Europe
Ator Cermak
Illinois Democracy
Ritchie
Mitch
James A. Reed
Missouri
James Hamilton Lewis
Iss
American Railway Association
Daniel Willard
Bal- Amore and Ohio Railroad
Senate
National Economic Council
Willard
Robert M. la Follette
Options Economic Council
Nexebruary
League
Geneva
Arthur Henderson
Torelgen
League Council
Edward Algernon Fitzroy
King George
MacDonald
Mahatma Gandhi
India
George
Gandhi
Buckingham Palace
Hate Selassle
Ethopia
Ilon
Judah
Abyssinia
Addis Ababa
Kaiser Wilhelm
American Chemical Society
Akron
Hongkutun
U.S
Belin
Nebraska
U. S
Father Fm
Lincoln
Stepher Decatur
Reuben James
James
Amercan
Deion
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