Senate Votes To Transfer Prohibition Enforcement To DOJ
The Senate approved moving enforcement from the Treasury to the Justice Department and sent the bill back to the House for minor changes. The measure, a key Hoover enforcement step, is expected at the White House in days, with debate in the chamber largely quiet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Prohibition
Department of Justice
White House
Washington
Administration
Treasury
Justice Department
Hoover
Congress
House
Tydings
Maryland
Glass
Dem
Hoover Law Enforcement Commission
Virginian
Secretary of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Bureau
Senate Judiciary Committee
Treasury and
Justice Departments
Admiral Pratt Supports London Pact in Senate Hearings
Admiral William V. Pratt told the Foreign Relations Committee that the London naval limitations treaty suits the United States and that any future fighting would require him to act. Secretary Adams and Secretary Stimson defended the pact as advantageous and balanced for U S naval strength amid Senate questioning on ship ratios and eight inch guns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Stimson
Navy
Johnson
Rep
Cal
Hale
Naval Committee
Japan
Great Britain
William V. Pratt
United States
Foreign Relations Committee
Adams
U. S
Tariff Deadlock Looms After 16 Months Of Work
Washington May 14 The prospects of no tariff bill after sixteen months of work unsettled leaders on both sides as conferees clash over procedure. Senate Republicans seek free hand to compromise on a flexible provision while House conferees, backed by Hoover, demand no ties and full conference authority. Democrats and independents discuss strategy but no final course is set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Senate
House
Hoover
Hindu Woman Is Arrested For Salt Protests In India
Bombay reports that Mrs. Lakshmipathi of Madras, a social worker, was sentenced to one year in prison for leading a salt law demonstration at Veraranyam. Mme Sarojini Naidu plans a raid on the salt depot at Dharsaana despite government orders restricting gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bombay
Lakshmipathi
Madras
Veraranyam
India
Mme
Sarajini Naidu
Mahatma Gandhi
Dharsaana
Jalalpur
Frontier Constabulary
Archbishop Curley condemns barnyard moralists at nursing school grads
Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore assailed what he called barnyard philosophers during a speech to graduates of four local hospital nursing schools. He cited Dr. Hornell Hart and others asserting morality must be science driven, not dogma, and warned that removing restraint could wreck the earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Michael J. Curley
Archdiocese of
Hornell Hart
Burn Mawr
Washington
Hart
University of Chicago
Harry Elmer Barnes
Smith College
Archbishop Curley
McBride clarifies home brewing and Volstead act limits
F Scott McBride of the Anti Saloon League states he did not claim the Volstead act authorizes beer or home brew. He says headlines misinterpreted his testimony to the Senate Lobby Committee on May 13 and cites Fort's House speech on Section 29 regarding non intoxicating cider and fruit juices for home use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
F. Scott McBride
Anti-Saloon League
Volstead Nct
Senate Lobby Committee
Fort
House of Representatives
McBride
Caraway
Lobby Committee
Rum Auto Nabbed by Police Then Case Dismissed
An unidentified man tipped off officers about liquor in a parked car. Police opened the trunk and found a keg, but the case against owners Gerald Kissner and Charles De Marchi was dismissed for lack of probable cause. Dominick Sciarra received a $100 fine for possession in a separate case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Psst
Coppers
Seventh District
Gerald Kissner
East McMillan Street
Charles de Marchi
St. James,avenue
Nassau Street
William D. Alexander
Dominick Sciarra
Race Street
Enlivened by Reunion a Paralyzed Man Walks at Last
Charles Elgie of Hamilton rose from his chair and walked across the room to greet his sister Mrs. Alice Burton of Toronto, whom he had not seen for twenty years. The siblings, separated by under forty miles, were reunited after Mr. Elgie’s long paralysis and a decade of vanished contact before authorities helped restore the link.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Ont
Charles Elgie
Alice Burton
Toronto
Elgie
Man Admits Killing Wife With Rolling Pin
Kenneth Williams of Yarmouth confessed to county attorney that he murdered his wife with a rolling pin. Her body was found in the barn of neighbor Ernest R. Smith on April 4 after authorities initially considered accidental fall downstairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Kenneth Williams
Yarmouth
Ernest R. Smith
Evanston Imposes 11 PM Curfew on Hot Dog Stands
City Council in Evanston Illinois has ordered an 11 o clock curfew for hot dog stands on the streets arguing the odor of frankfurters offends sensitive noses after the late hour. The ban affects street vendors seeking to operate after eleven at night in the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evanston
Ill
Hailstorm Fatal to Texas Farmer Jr. Co. Clack
A Texas farmer Jr. Co. Clack, 39, died after being injured in a severe hailstorm while in a field. He reached home but did not survive his injuries. Property nearby suffered extensive damage as the storm passed through Lubbock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock
Tex
Jr. Co. Clack
Wiegand Divorces Suit Heard In Hamilton Court
Mrs Martha Rothwell Wiegand sued Paul A Wiegand for divorce in Common Pleas Court at Hamilton. The suit ties to his $100000 alienation claim against Mrs Joan Sawyer Rentschler, former dancing partner of Rudolph Valentino. No decision was rendered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Rothwell Wiegand
Paul A. Wiegand
Joan Sawyer Rentschler
Rudolph Valentino
E. J. Kautz
Common Pleas Court
Hamilton
Wiegand
Wiegands
Norwood Census Up 8234 in Population Gain
Norwood’s unofficial census figures show a population of 33,200, an increase of 8,234 over the 1920 count of 24,966. Ward totals are 4709 in Ward One, 8869 in Ward Two, 3424 in Ward Three, and 16198 in Ward Four. Officials expect official figures within a week, with counts likely higher after rechecks. The gain is about 33 percent, five times Cincinnati’s 7 percent rise, signaling a larger metropolitan area expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwood
George Heitzler
City of
Cincinnati
Heitzler
Greater
Longworth Arrested as House Quorum Is Forced
The House ordered arrests for a quorum for the first time in eight years, escorting Speaker Longworth into the chamber. Absent members crowded back in after a six hour filibuster over a bill expanding the foreign agriculture information service. Alice Roosevelt Longworth watched from the gallery as the chamber finally established a quorum and moved to action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House of Representatives
Longworth
Ketcham
Rep
Mich
Foreign Agriculture Information Service
House
Wood
Indiana
Stafford
Wisconsin
Quinn
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Cincinnati Girl Makes Bow To British King and Queen
Debutantes including eight Americans, among them Eleanor Edwards of Cincinnati, greet King George and Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace. The first court in two years drew thousands of onlookers as the royal couple presided over a lavish ceremony in ideal weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
London
Eleanor Edwards
Edward William Edwards
Katherine E. Tod
New York
Robert E. Tod
Park Avenue
Eunice Bennett
Charlotte Dorrance
Cinnaminson
N. J
Radnor, Pa
John Dorrance
Elizabeth Kent
Philadel
Phia
Atwater Kent
Isabel B. Henry
Philadelphia
Thomas Charlton Henry
Griselda A. Forbes
Boston
James Grant Forbes
Frances Hutchinson
Sydney E. Hutchinson
Buckingham Palace
Ex Kaiser Germanizes Bible Centurion Theory at Doorn
Former Emperor William reads Biblical texts as a German Centurion and German servant in the Capernaum story. He preaches a Sunday sermon at Doorn commemorating war dead, arguing a German legion served in Palestine and calling Luther’s wording misleading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hohenzollern
Centurion
Capernaum
Doorn
Holland
William
Jesus
Pontius Pilate
Luther
Capernaum Market Place
Holy Land
Germany
Palestine
City Council Passes Gas Rate Move for Court Fight
The council approved a new gas rate ordinance to run June 19 to January 16, 1931, with no debate and unanimous vote. H. C. Blackwell of Union Gas and Electric declined comment as the company vows to appeal to higher courts, aiming to overturn prior rates. The city plans to seek refunds from the company for any overcharges if its position wins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Blackwell
Union Gasang Electric Company
High Court
Ohio Supreme Court
John D. Ellis
Ellis
Thief Admits Theft Of Car In North Side Incident
Chicago May 14 A police patrol questioned a man struggling to unlock a parked curbside automobile. He admitted he was trying to steal it, laughing off the arrest and leaving the car’s owner, Mises Ellen Root, with a missing vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Near North Side
Mises Ellen Root
Hiller Quits Water Works to End 33 Years Service
John A. Hiller, Superintendent of Cincinnati Water Works, resigned to Col. Sherrill City Manager effective May 31 after thirty three years with the department. He will enter private engineering consulting and is said to earn more than his $7500 salary. Possible successors discussed include A F Hibbs and Charles Anderson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Hiller
Cincinnati Water Works
Col. Sherrill
Hiller
C. A. Dykstra
A. F. Hibbs
Akron
Charles Anderson
Gustave Buscaren
Col. C. O. Sherrill
Cincinnati Community Chest drive falls short of goal
The sixteenth annual Cincinnati Community Chest campaign ended with $2,041,629 raised, $35,100 below the $2,076,894 budget. Large late gifts from Union Gas and Electric, Pollak Steel, and others helped, while volunteers and team chairmen praised workers for extraordinary effort amid weak business conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Community Chest
Union Gas and Electric Company
Pollak Steel Company
Schmidkopf Trust Fund
Linton Hotel
R. Clifford Shinkle
Potter Shoe Company
A. Nash Company
Griess Pfleger Company
Music Hall
Cincinnati
Rogan
Roger K. Rogan
C.M. Bookman
Chest
United States
Ralph R. Caldwell
Lewis E. Skinner
P. Lincoln Mitchell
Mr. Mitchell
Mitchell
Sherrill Chooses City Clerk as Kroger Aide
Col. Sherrill will move to a Kroger post next month as vice president personnel and law director. Miss Ruby Metcalfe, 15 year city employee and head clerk in the City Manager’s office, resigns to become his secretary. She will graduate from the YMCA Law School next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Sherrill
Kroger Grocery and Baking Company
Ruby Metcalfe
Edward P. Durr
Miss Metcalfe
Explains Royal Mystery
Paris dispatch recounts the Mayerling tragedy that shocked Vienna decades ago. The Hapsburgs kept silent under censorship while historians debated the Archduke Rudolph murder case. Leopold Wolfing, described as the bad boy of Europe, was the first to enter Mayerling and report to Francis Joseph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
Paris
Hapsburg
Vienna
Archduke Rudolph
Francis Joseph
Vetsera
Leopold Wolfing
Europe
Ferdinand IV
Tuscany
Italy
Mayerling
Temperature weather table from 1930 May 14 data
The report lists regional temperatures mostly cloudy cool conditions for several states including Ohio Kentucky Tennessee Indiana and West Virginia with light rain or showers possible. It also provides a long table of city high low temperatures and wind and rain data for May 14 1930 ending at 8 seventy fifth meridian time across Eastport Louisville Boston Nashville Cleveland New York Detroit Chicago Denver Atlanta St Louis New Orleans Galveston Omaha Pittsburgh and other locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Indiana
West Virginia
Eastport
Louisville
Boston
Nashville
Cleveland
New York
Detroit
le Atlantic C
S.S. Marie
Chicago
Omahe
Pittsburgh
Denver
Ina
Corr
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bill
First
Hoover Law Enforcement
Representative Linthicum
House Judiciary Committee
Pratt
Fleet
California
Navy Committee
Eign Relations Group
Capitol
Atta Tarife
Coalition
D. Harold Oliver
Associated Press
Gandhi
Mme. Naidu
Khyber Pass
Northwest Frontier
College Corner
Emerson
Neb
Martha Dalrymple
Kaiser Germanizes
BIBLE
Council
Blackwell
Water Works
Sherrill
Kroger
Slaii
Baroness Vetsera
ODM Escdiciones
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!