Wickersham Criticized Over Federal Council Roles
Senate Lobby Committee hears charges that George W. Wickersham while Hoover era law enforcment chief chaired the Federal Council of Churches Foreign Policy Committee and represented foreign bankers. Rep Tinkham accuses him of conflicts of interest. Hearing continues with witnesses from the Federal Council, Methodist Board and Anti-Saloon League scheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James W. Douthat
Associated Press
Washington
George W. Wickersham
Hoover ‘Law Enforcement Commission
Federal Council of Churches
Senate Lobby Committee
Carway
Representative Tinkham
Rep
Mass
Caraway
Wickersham
Mony
Tinkham
Federal Council
Methodist Board of Temperance
Prohibition and Public Morals
Anti-Saloon League
Council
Massachusetts
Blaine
Wis
Henry H. Curran
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Methodist Board
The
Methodist
Prohibition
Public Morals
Witness
Justin Stuart
Senate Approves San Francisco Harbor Improvement Programs
The Senate passed supply bills totaling about 1.5 billion dollars and ordered an inquiry into campaign finances. It approved interior development funding, a federal employment bill, and a reorganization plan for the Federal Power Commission while hearings began on transferring prohibition enforcement to the Justice Department and concerns over AG veto power on industrial alcohol permits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Federal Power Commission
Treasury and Post Office Department
House
Appropriations Committee
Interior Department
Commerce Committee
Wagner
N. SY
New Yorker
Interstate Commerce Committee
Ciuzens
Couzens
Mich
Judiciary Committee
Prohibition
Treasury
Justice Department
Representatives of Industry
Senator Overman
Dem
N. C
Attorney General
Herbert
R. I
Escaped inmates alleged to kill bridegroom near San Antonio
The mutilated body of J. W. Bradshaw, a bridegroom of a month, was found in the Guadalupe River forty miles from San Antonio. He had been abducted after an alleged ride by two escaped inmates from the San Antonio State Hospital for the Insane. The body showed a gunshot through the head and was weighted before being thrown into the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
J. W. Bradshaw
San Antonio State
Alarm system for banks near fire stations proposed
Col Sherrill, City Manager, considers allowing banks to install alarms tied to nearby fire stations. A bank has requested permission, but legal feasibility and safety must be studied. Currently police notify fire units to pursue robbers, though no bandits have been captured using this method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col
Sherrill
Cel
Assembly to memorialize Congress for constitutional convention
In Albany on April 10 the New York State Assembly urged memorializing Congress to call a constitutional convention to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment. Led by Louis A. Cuvillier, the wet bloc won 82 to 61 to discharge Rules, with 20 Republicans joining Democrats, though the bill awaits revision committee action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
New York State Assembly
Congress
Assembly
Louis A. Cuvillier
New York
Cuvillier
Rules Committee
House
Russell G. Dunmore
Threats Against Amster Said to Endanger Edwards
Olga Hide Edwards, on trial for attempted extortion in Boston, described dramatic scenes in Nathan Amster’s office with her child present and threats to expose him. Treasurer Charles Jeffers testified he called Edwards a damn blackmailer and recalled her January 1927 visit that caused a public disturbance on the table and yelling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
New York
Olga Hide Edwards
Nathan L. Amster
Boston
Daddy Amter
Miss Edwards
Edwards
Amster
Mr. Amster
Amrad and Magnavox Near Merger in Radio Firms Plan
Amrad Corporation of this city and Magnavox Company of San Francisco near a stock exchange merger valued around 3.5 million dollars. Basis exchange reportedly seven Magnavox shares for one Amrad share, with Amrad stock active on the local market amid large orders from New York. The deal follows Magnavox patent actions over dynamic loud speakers, affecting merger timing and licensing ties with Amrad production of radio sets and phonograph combinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amrad Corporation
Magnavox Company
San Francisco
Cal
Financial District
Magnavox
Amrad
New York
Grigsby-Grunow Company
Chicago
Amrad-Magnavox
Manavox
Mershon Electric
Coolidge says he has no plan to return to public life
Former President Calvin Coolidge states in a May issue magazine article that he has no intention of returning to public life. He addresses prohibition tariffs playing the market and the talk of another term while asserting he left public office when he left Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Fess
Coolidge
McNary
Oregon
Senate
Massachusetts
New York
Calvin Coolidge
Hearst
International and
Cosmopolitan
Mr.Coolidge
California
Ohio
Literary Digest
Out of Court Efforts Fail To Settle Hawke Bethell Controversy
Mrs Bethell seeks custody of Marjorie Schiele 17 from Mrs Hawke guardian. a probate court hearing with Judge William H. Lueders adjourned after mediation failed. Attended by Bethell and Hawke families and their lawyers, the discussion offered a guardianship compromise that would not contest the grandmother’s guardianship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawke- Bethell
Henriette Schiele Keppel Bethell
Alms
Marie Louise Hawke
Loraine Avenue
Clifton
Edwin S. Morrissey
Charles Terry
Hanke
A. K. Nippert
Dolph Hanke
Torrid Midwest Heat Breaks Ten Year April Record
Yesterday proved the hottest day this year with 82 degrees at 4 and 5 pm, surpassing past April 10 highs. The prior record for April 10 was 84 degrees in 1919, while last year’s high reached only 61 degrees. Hourly readings started at 8 am, peaking in the afternoon.
Early Season Heat Records Hit Chicago and Midwest
Chicago and the Midwest sweltered as temperatures soared to 90 deg in Chicago at 3 pm earning an April heat record. Reports from St. Louis Milwaukee Kansas City Omaha Peoria Des Moines and Dubuque all showed 90s or higher as a heat wave moved east, with the Weather Bureau noting widespread high readings across the Missouri and Mississippi valleys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercury
Chicago
Middle West
New Heights
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Kansas City
Omaha
Peoria
Des Moines
Dubuque
Missouri Valley
Mississippi Valley
Kentucky Woman Will Run For Congress Seat
Mrs. John David Allen of Kentucky declares candidacy for the Republican nomination to Congress from Kentucky's Seventh District. She leads the Kentucky Women's Republican League and is active in Lexington civic efforts, with ties to local party groups and past Hoover support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Lexington
John David Allen
Congress
Robert Blackburn
Allen
Kentucky Women’s Republican League
State Republican Committee
Republican Women's Club of
B. H. Beuhler
Hoover
Charles Curtis
Lexington Better Homes Work
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Illinois
McCormick
Nationwide Dry Law Poll Shows 41.7 Percent For Repeal
The Literary Digest reports 41.7 percent or 1 049 257 of 2 516 072 votes favor repeal in the fifth week of its nationwide prohibition poll. Four states Colorado Idaho Montana Utah report initial returns. Kansas remains bone dry. Tennessee shifts away from enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Literary Digest
Colorado
Idaho
Montana
Utah
Kansas
Tennessee
Connecticut
Maryland
New Jersey
New York
Rhode Island
City disguises dry cop as gas meter reader to raid home
The Police Department hides officers in plain sight to surveil residences. Maj. O Neil funds the plan after months of complaints about Mrs. Bess Richen of 4393 Eastern avenue. Policeman Harry Laux is dressed as a gas meter reader to gain entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City
Col. Sherrill
Bess Richen
Eastern Avenue
Richen
Maj
O’neil
Harry Laux
5 Power Skeleton Navy Pact Proposed by United States Delegates
Washington dispatch details Hoover backed plan for a London naval pact limiting battleships and cruisers. It notes U S will abandon five 10 000 ton 8 inch cruiser programs, increase small cruiser tonnage, and considers an optional clause for shifting tonnage between large and small cruisers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Washington
London
Hoover
Congress
Senate
Gandhi says arrest ready as Salt Satyagraha continues
Mahatma Gandhi speaks in Jalalpur claiming preparation for arrest after ongoing salt production protests against government monopoly. He plans to sit in his car with a few books when officers arrive and urges mass civil disobedience while warning volunteers not to surrender contraband salt even under duress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jalalpur
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Abrama
Excise Department
Gandhi
Gujarat
Sale of Race Street brick store to Closson Company
The brick store building at 421 and 423 Race Street, occupied by Klines dealers in ladies wear ing apparel, sold to A B Closson Jr Company for about 700000. The 50 by 140 foot lot will keep current tenants until 1933. Closson plans art goods and furniture business, moving from West Fourth Street. Built on property owned by Adolph Rosenberg, the sale is the city’s largest downtown deal of 1930, brokered by J M Gardell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Race Street
Kline's
A. B. Closson, Jr. Company
Closson Company
West Fourth Street
Race and
Elm Streets
Adolph Rosenberg
Cincinnati
J. M. Gardell
Leopold Becomes Assistant Prison Chaplain at Stateville
Nathan Leopold, convicted with Richard Loeb for the Bobby Franks murder, is named assistant to Stateville Prison chaplain Father Eligues Weir. He will help plan Sunday services, assist in sermon preparation, and oversee the prison library as one of the institution’s “specials” with extra privileges due to his education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
Chicago
Nathan Leopold
Richard Loeb
Bobby Franks
Stateville Prison
Eligues Weir
Leopold
Diplomat Basil Miles Death Ruled Natural
Washington April 10 The Department of Justice announced no evidence the former diplomat Basil Miles died from anything other than natural causes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Justice
Basil Miles
Energy The Soul Uses by Howard Cushman
Ding-Le-Mei also known as Edwin J. Dingle founder of mental physics says breath governs life. He has spent over twenty years in the Orient exploring thought and spirit in China India and Tibet. The reporter visits his Steinway Building office and learns breath is essential to health and vitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Cushman
New York World News Service
New York
Ding-Le-Mei
Edwin J. Dingle
R. A.S
Dingle
Orient
China
India
Tibet
Steinway
Mr. Dingle
Treaty Drafts Split Into Three Parts For Naval Pact
Ambassadors will draft the London Naval Treaty in three parts after adjournment. Part one defines tonnage ship size and aircraft carrier rules and exemptions. Part two covers humanization of submarine warfare. Part three details rival powers naval strengths and agreements among the United States Great Britain and Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Great Britain
Japan
London naval conference ends with three power accord
The United States Great Britain and Japan sealed a three power naval accord forming the backbone of a skeleton five power pact. France and Italy may join once parity issues are settled. The conference will wind up next week with a plenary session at St James Palace and adjournment announced by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
France
Italy
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Stimson
Morrow
Gibson
St. James Palace
St. James
House of Commons
Ramsay MacDonald
Temperature overview for Ohio to Tennessee with regional notes
Partly cloudy conditions across Ohio on Friday with Friday night or Saturday showers and cooler Saturday. Kentucky and West Virginia show fair weather turning cloudier with possible local showers Friday and Saturday. Tennessee fair with eastern warmth and possible local showers. Indiana partly cloudy and warmer in the south with Friday showers and cooler north. Table lists current temperatures and 24 hour precipitation across multiple locations including Eastport Louisville Albany Cleveland Detroit Atlantic City S. S. Marie Washington Chicago Jacksonville Duluth and more with highs, lows, and rainfall amounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Tennessee
Indiana
Also Mentioned on This Page
Department of Interior
Central
Federal Church
Francis M. Stephenson
Eide Edwards
Radio Houses
Midwest
Wheat Belt
District of Columbia
Kline
Plen
America
Britain
Frank H. King
Eastport
Louisville
Cleveland
Detroit
Atl
Jackson'le
Duluth
Atlanta
Orleans
Kan
Galveston
Pittsburgh
Denver
S.W
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!