British Debt Default Near Reports Say
London reports indicate a near default on Britain's WWI debt to the United States, with a cabinet session adjourned and Neville Chamberlain to report on debt status. Prime Minister MacDonald urged immediate settlement at the world economic conference, while the US reportedly rejected a token 10 percent payment offer. American sources warned outright default could erode momentum of the conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
Great Britain
United States
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
MacDonald
Dioner
Washington
Lausanne
Chamterlain
Iowa Straw Vote Pushes Repeal Of Prohibition In Nineteen Century
The Des Moines Register and Tribune report a straw vote favoring repeal with a majority on June 20 election plans. The survey shows strong support for wines and beer while the state remains traditionally dry, with past reform attempts shaping current legislative action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iows
Register and Tribune
Reperl
Iowa
Bond Issue Planned to Cover State Deficit
State officials study enabling act for a $5,000,000 bond issue to cover an estimated $8,000,000 deficit. Legislature authorized bonds over 20 years to avoid taxing taxpayers for four years, with board of public works expected to act soon and a special gubernatorial meeting likely to set details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Public Works
Detroit
Jitwos
Board of Public Works
Americans Criticize Premier MacDonald at Economic Conference
In London delegates from the United States harshly criticized Premier MacDonald over debt issues at the world economic conference. Sam D. McReynolds and others urged focusing on debt modification, while Cordell Hull avoided comments on debts. Secretaries and figures like Cox were discussed as potential leaders in monetary matters. The U.S. delegation, unsettled by the opening remarks, eyed Roosevelt’s agenda and questioned the conference chair’s timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
MacDonald
Sam D. McReynolds
Ralph Ww. Morrison
Washington
Qait
Deta
Cordell Hult
Sox
Wne Panwid
Beliel
Congress
Roosevelt
Cox
Ohio
Hu Ie
Armerican
Fenves
Hut
County school unit bill opinions spark test suit plan
The attorney general issued opinions on the new county school unit bill while taxpayers led by H. Lee and A Blessing prepare a circuit court challenge. One ruling declares contracts made by a district board since May 22 void, another allows at least one assistant superintendent regardless of county teacher totals, and a third limits a second assistant to counties with 400 or more teachers. A further opinion on pre May 22 contracts is forthcoming, with the page note promising continuation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee
A. Blessing
Kauswhs
Homer A. Holt
District Board of Education
Girl Kidnapping Case Nears Trial in Mass Court
District Attorney William Crossley detailed the Peggy McMath kidnapping tying Kenneth and Cyril Buck to the crime. Jurors viewed scenes from Cyril Buck’s West Hescwich garage to a cranberry bog hideout and onward to Harwich Center with calls to the McMath home. The Buck brothers face abduction for a $50,000 ransom amid a crowded jury selection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnstable
Mass
Wiliam Co. Crossley
Peggy McMath
Kenneth Buck
Buck Brothers
Kenneth
Cyril
Shady Jar Yard
Cyrills
West Heswich
South Chatham
Harwich Center
McMsta
Harwich
Pus
Ahack
Cranberry Bog
Buck
Willard F. Garterton
Henneth
Feagy
Careton
Old Tree Tappers to Teach Tasks to Timber Troopers
Captain John J. Quenden of the United States army will lead 68 experienced axe workers arriving from Morgantown to train foresters in four counties Boone Raleigh Logan and Kanawha. They will be paid thirty dollars a month with potential rises to 80 or 105 dollars and will proceed to Port Knox Ky for equipment before deployment to Blaze n Bix reforestation camps to demonstrate woodsman skills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uce
Texperte
Xaen
John 3. Quenden
United States Army
Morgantown
Boone
Raleigh
Logan
Port Knox
Leaders Face Impasse Over Veteran Cuts in Senate Jam
Washington dispatch reports an impasse between senate and house conferees on veterans compensation, delaying final action. With industry and supply bills advancing, conferees plumbed the veteran issue back into the senate jam and await instructions for further votes tomorrow amid expected debate and political maneuvering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Senate Veterans Aid Sparks Wet Floor Debate
Washington June 12. Democratic leaders yielded two major concessions on the veterans relief issue. Senators Steiner and Cutting withdrew their substitute for the house administration bill and sought another chance to write a veterans plan before the compromise. The move expanded conferees from three to five to include Steiner and allow broader terms under President Roosevelt’s veterans provisions. House leaders threatened to return to the floor as conferees prepare to reconcile senate and house language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wabhington
Yielved
Steiner
EK. Ore
Cutting
N. Mj
Senate
House Administration
Barnes
Roceivelli
House
Byrnes
Mattern Takes Off for Nome World flight attempt advances and mixed progress
Junie Mattern departed from Khabarovsk aiming for Nome to set a solo globe circumnavigation record. A New Forte to Halid nonstop flight fell short, while two other long journeys were completed and two more neared finish. Spanish flyers Barberan and Collar reached Havana after a Seville to Camaguey leg, and Bermuth and Ernesto prepared for a loop from St Louis, Maine to Bogota. Orbetello hosted 24 planes with 96 crew prepping for a staged takeoff under General Balbo as Derlus and Girvena planned a non stop trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Junie Mattern
Khabarovsk
Nome
Mattern
Siberian
Errol Boyd
St. Marc
Port Au Prince
Snitt. O
Mariano Barberan
Joaquin Collar
Seville
Spain
Havana
Cuban Espital
Camaguey
Exnesto
Charges Loom In Chicago Plane Crash
Chicago police inquests reveal potential criminal negligence in the Lake Michigan seaplane crash that killed seven men and two women. Investigators say the craft may have been unfit for flight and that pilot Carl Vickery tried to reach a safer field despite known repairs needed, signaling possible charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Fune
Don M
Glenview
Whet
Lake Michigan
Exposition Grounds
Carl Vickery
Long
Falwaukes
Prineengers
Prohibition Enforcement Nears Full Stride in 1921 22
The first push to enforce federal prohibition in southern West Virginia is set in 1921 22. Judge George W. McClintic began his district court tenure as the new enforcement phase showed 556 cases instituted 385 convictions 3 acquittals 43 dismissals 83 jury trials 167 pending 96 years sentenced and fines totaling 70 605.85.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
George W. McClintic
United States District Court
Department of Justice
West Virginia tightens securities laws and licenses
State securities department issues stricter rules to dealers, agents, and issuers. More than fifty license applications are under probe as of yesterday, with July 1 as the start of the new fiscal year. Harold K. Bradnhams warns all public offerings must disclose essential data and merits before approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Securities Department of the Auditor's Office
Harold K. Bradhams
securities commis_sioner
Bradford
Anyona
Stich
Mp Security
Repeal Battle Swings to East
The Massachusetts vote to select delegates for a constitutional convention on repealing the 28th amendment begins tomorrow with all ten other states already for repeal. Forty five delegates will be chosen from 15 districts, with candidates pledged for or against repeal. Notable repeal hopefuls include James Roosevelt and Charles Sty, while anti repeal figures feature Mount Holyoke president Mary Woolley and Rev J Whitcomb Broucher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Massachusetts
Atute
Prohibition
Wyoming
Iilingia
Indiana
New York
New Jersey
Michigan
Rhode Island
Delaware
Wisconain
Nevada
Moony
James Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Charles 3. Sty
Goomer
Joseph B. Ely
Draper
Julson Hannigan
Republican Club of
Mery E. Woolley
Mount Holyoke College
Whitfield L
Jamey Whitcomb Broucher
Elizabeth ‘Tilton
New York Cotton Exchange Sees Higher Domestic Mill Activity
New York reports show domestic cotton mill activity at multi year highs, outpacing the winter 1826 27 peak and expected to persist through summer. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co announces a 10 percent wage rise for over 4000 workers in four mills effective to Wednesday. Chicago notes April and May urban area job and building gains with April up 133 6do over March and May up 26 percent from April. Chicago base title market sees a sale at 6400 with an 8500 increase over prior sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
AERON
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Attorney Tells Of Tax Advice In Guilty Plea Case
In New York June before tying for the defense today in the case of Ghazies B. Mitche, attorney Garrard B. Winston testified that he advised Nations City company officers that payments from a management fund could not be treated as personal income. He said the fund's distribution was not deductible and that the bank chairman need not declare his share as income. Winston, a former treasury official, described officers signing notes to repay the fund and said the government contends the payments were improper and should have been taxed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Ghazies B. Mitche
Vnk
Gye National Oi
Pink
Winston
Federal Court
Nationsrar Otey Company
Harry ‘W. Forbes
Lewser
Butcheli
Fund
The
Treasury
Mitchell
Wham
W. D. Thornton
Babe Drowns In Spring Near Home
TUNNELTON June 12. Edward Gerald Higgins three is drowning after falling into a spring near his home at 8 36 p m. Although pulled from water after about 15 minutes efforts to resuscitate him failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tunnelton
Edward Gerald Higgins
Wad
Percy D. Higgins
Stamford Woman Identifies Suspect in Yacht Murder Case
Mrs. Benjamin P. Collings of Stamford identifies burglar suspect Frank Dreger as resembling the man who killed her husband aboard the yacht Collings in Long Island. Dreger, 61, is jailed in Bridgeport on burglary charges while Joseph Guarino is held in Darien. Police say Mrs Collings’ statement links the suspect to the Long Island slaying and missing silverware from the Nickerson home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atamford
Conn
Benjamin PF. Colngs
Stamford
Collings
Long Island
Barbara
Jasled
Joesph Guaerino
New York
Darién
Barlton Hum
Buffolk ‘County
Connecticut
Cotngs
Dreger
Guarino
Long Hydro Tunnel To Furnish Cheap Power
The Union Carbide and Carbon iron plant at Boncar West Virginia will start operations early January. Electro Metallurgical company will supervise as part of Union Carbide. A nearby hydroelectric plant will enable more economical operation. The future scale of plant activity depends on business conditions and shipments to Boncar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Union Carbide and Care, Iron Corporation
Boncar
W. Va
Electro Metallurgical Company
Union, Carbide and Cerkon Corporation
F. H
Wee
Glen Marta
Holcomb
Rock
Mi Falls
Welland
Cam
Soncar
Davis Answers New Indictment in Lottery Case
New indictment in the Moose lottery matter is returned in federal court. United States Senator James A. Davis of Pennsylvania pleads not guilty and a July 10 trial date is set. The 14 count superseding indictment covers conspiracy to send lottery tickets across state lines and use of mail, with Davis and Miller each admitted to half of $2,500 bond. Theodore Pier, Bernard C. McGinn, and others named. related Eagle case ties noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
James Ad. Davis
Pennsylvania
Crowlt
Conrad HW. Mann
Order of Hagles
Davie
Vince
Toit
Theodore Flpier
Bena
Moos Propagation
Bernard C. McGinn
Miller
Eagle
Ines
Davis
Will Finds Real Task For Economic Meet
Beverly Hills and a speaker named Jane discuss global timing and currency as a solution to world coordination. The speaker muses on standardizing time and gun limits, trade, and value, suggesting a universal noon or clock. The passage frames problems as nations differ and coins a speculative idea about synchronized time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Hills
Calif
Jane
Cine
Cam Agré
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tribune
Willie Willis
Rodest
Quillen
Legal Department
Charleston
Rougevelt
Jseus
Pice
Axeliwood
Ruth Googins
Fort Worth
Haiti
Ciry
Ghicago
Apul
Annd
Straits Securities Corporation
Babe
Will
Are Roger
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!