Conservation successes spur hope for forest and wildlife
The piece reviews wild life recovery under conservation efforts from the passenger pigeon to the beaver and buffalo. It notes historic slaughter by settlers and sport, then highlights protected species making remarkable comebacks, with beaver ponds and water conservation, urging public help for ongoing forest and soil aims.
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Republic
Wiliam Cody
Buffalo bin
United States
Canada
O. D. Hill
Vandalia
Blue Creek
Kanawha
Kill Carson
James Mackensie
Jim Bridger
Hudsons Bay Company of Canada
Astor
Ike
West Virginia
Coonskin
News of June 5 1926 25 years ago Gazette item rundown
The Gazette reports plans for a new Diamond Building on the old Capitol site by Wehrle B Geary and a $20,000 lawsuit by Camp against Retail Credit Assoc for allegedly listing him as a snyster lawyer. Governor Ed Jackson and wife visit Union Mission. T England seeks Republican nomination for Congress. Other items note WV births and deaths in 1925, opposition in Senate Panama deal, Brookhart and Cummins race, Nesbitt and Thaw reconciliation, Concordia Seminary at St Louis, Prince of Wales fashion in America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wehrle
B. Geary
Old Capitol
PH. Camp
Retail Credit Assoc
Snyster
Ed Jackson
Indiana
Union Mission
T. England
Congress
Tate
West Virginia
J. G. Bradley
Dundon
West Virginia Coal Operators Associ
Alfred E. Smith
Emily Josephine
Jotn Adams Warner
Pattick Cardinal Hayes
Senate
Panama
Brookhart and
Cummins
U.S
Evelyn Nesbitt
Harry EK
Thaw
Atlantic City
Concordia Seminary
Louis
Death claims La Prensa blamed on Evita and Peron
In New York on June 4 INS reports James Brice former American ambassador cites anger of Evita and Juan Peron toward Argentina’s aristocracy as the likely cause of La Prensa’s demise. He notes Peron’s elite circle and Los Descamisados politics fueled the conflict and hints Evita would have preferred social acceptance. Brice recounts his Maryland talk and defends his earlier remarks.
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James Brice
la Prensa
Tuan Peron
Perons
Ma Bruce
Peron
Evita
Buenos Aires
Mr. Bruce
Thez
Juan Peron
Bruce
Argentina
Maryland Historical Society
Baltimore
Half Dozen Know A Bomb Totals
Column notes uncertainty over exact U.S. nuclear arsenal counts after World War II. It highlights limited public knowledge, ongoing uranium supply concerns in Canada and the Belgian Congo, and alleged covert exchanges with Chinese labor in Polish mines, plus past Eighth Air Force actions against a uranium works.
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Poland
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
Atomic Energy Commission
EL Dorado
Arctic
Canada
Royal Family of
Belgium
Belgian Congo
AEC
U. S
Soviet Russia
Antarctica
Germany
Japan
Russia
Arthur Alexanter Adams
Eighth Air Force
Red Army
Secret Banking Panel Seethes Over Pearson Inquiry
A stormy secret session of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee wrestled with Pearson’s publication and a suppressed Baltimore and Ohio Railroad report linked to the RFC. Indiana’s Sen. Capehart demanded Pearson be subpoenaed and jailed, while Tobey denied leaking the minutes and said the probe shifted to the B and O scandal.
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Washington
Pearson
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Indiana
Homey Capehart
Senate Committee
Baltimore and Ohio
RFC
Capehart
Maybank
South Carolina
Banking and Currency Committee
Defense Marshall
Capéhart
Sen. Capehart
B and C
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Centrol
Jesse Jones
Sen. Tobey
New Hampshire
Tobey
Sen
Benton
Connecticut
New York
Benton and Bowles
Drm
Blair Moody
Michigan
Detroit News
Arawley Fulbright
Arkansas
Walter Trohan
Chicago Tribune
Tribune
B and O
Homer
Douglas
Tlinois
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Schoeppel
Kansas
RFCB
Ocoan
Gazetter
Public Obligation Set for Coonskin Park Project
Intercepted message dated June 5 1951 to Paul outlines a commission’s duty to pursue a public objective for Coonskin Park, naming George P R Anderson and Chin Fark as involved officials in a city commission context.
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Paul
Coonskin Park
George P. R. Anderson
Chin
Fark Commissior
City
Three Telegrams by AFL Chief Stop New Unloading Racket
A 1931 Gazette report details three telegrams from AFL President William Green aimed at halting a new multi million dollar unloading racket at New York waterfronts. The piece alleges ties between mob loaders, the Longshoremen union, and trucking companies, warning of potential port violence if enforcement fails.
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AFL
Kefauver
Chicago
New York
Longshoremen's Union
Crime Combine
National Executive Board
William Green
Air Force
Europe
Bill Green
Tesnisters
Combines
Rudy Halley
Green
U. S. Senate
Teamsters
National affairs worry lawmakers? Dead rhinos and gold keys
The piece lampoons congressional focus on local costs as lawmakers debate DC budget. A dead rhinoceros prompts a $5,000 request for a replacement at the zoo, a broken potato peeler at Gallinger Hospital spurs talks of funds, and officials joke about gold city keys bought cheaply for visiting dignitaries.
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Fashingtomn
District of Columbia
Board of Aldermen
Doc William Mann
House Appropriations Committee
Branson Gilbert McIhree
Rep
Foster Furcolo
Mass
France
U.S.A
Lorton Reformatory
Washington
Congress
W. G. Wilding
Old Soldiers With Red Taint Chased Away
A 1949 recall of MacArthur Hoover and Eleanor Roosevelt echoes in a Drew Pearson critique. Gen Pat Hurley defends the army action against veteran protests, denying orders to fire, and details mob violence, criminal records, and Communist influence during the bonus march era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacArthur
Eleanor Roosevelt
Drew Pearson
Secretary of War
Hoover
Mace Arthur
McCall's Magazine
Pat Hurley
McCall's
la Boca Grande
Hurley
Denis
McCalls
Democratic National Committee
Comintern
Charlie Michelson
Alger Hiss
Michelson
White House
Roosevelt
Crosley Radio Co
Cincinnati
Crosley
Federal Communications Commission
Department of Justice
Nugent Dodds
Dodds
FBI
Merx
Cazette
Baok Baering Down On the News
A garbled column by Arthur Baer critiques map making and boundary drawing. The author mocks fixed lines on a fever chart while noting oceans lakes rivers and mountains as natural borders. He speculates on a Korean peninsula or Cape Cod becoming tourist fodder.
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Prince of Wales
America
Robb
Inez Robb
NX York
Hells Ars
Bob Considine
Ashington
Auth
Otto
Austria
Aue
Wismuth
Nicholas Esseidla
Silesia
Drew
Victor Rieseland
Ter
the Gazette
Gallinger Municipal Hospital
Phillip A. E. Stebbing
Ederick C
Stebbing
Pegler
Baok
Arthur
Bugs" Baer
Cape Cod
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