House Military Committee Delays Muscle Shoals Bill
Washington April 28 AP The house military committee gave the subcommittee one more day to finish a new bill on Muscle Shoals disposal The five member drafting panel led by Rep Reece Republican Tennessee was asked two weeks ago to prepare a leasing plan for private firms with a government operation alternative due to no acceptable bids Disagreement over technical language caused further delay as the panel works to draft a measure despite the Norris resolution to operate the project being discharged by the committee and Senate action on the resolution recent.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Reece
Tennessee
Senate
Huston Refuses to Quit GOP Post Under Probe
Claudius Huston the Republican National Committee chairman told party leaders over the weekend he will not resign amid senate lobby committee scrutiny. Testimony revealed he solicited 36100 from Union Carbide as president of the Tennessee River Improvement association during a private lease interest in Muscle Shoals power. Hoover reportedly deeply concerned but unlikely to push Huston out.
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Washington
Claudius Huston
Republican National Committee
Senate Lobby Committee
Huston
Capitol
Union Carbide Company
Tennessee River Improvement Association
Muscle Shoals Power
Tennessee Hiver Improvement Association
Hoover
Scientists Seek Eclipse Photos From Camptonville Field Trials
Scientists and Boy Scouts map the moon’s shadow over Camptonville as Professor Ueta proposes tracing the eclipse rim with smoked glasses. Army planes from Mather Field and Dayton will photograph the shadow from high altitude, aiming to capture the moon’s movement and its path across the earth.
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Camptonville
Joe Ueta
Kyoto University
Japan
Ueta
Matherfield
Sacramento
Thomas Fowler
al Button
A. W. Stevens
Dayton, O
Honey Lake
Wallace Walthall
Man Takes Own Life Near Dothan River After Class Entry
A man killed himself Friday night near a Dothan river, in a manner similar to a prior case involving Mrs. Rice. He had attended an auto class earlier, with authorities noting the act as a death by self action. The report also notes the United Kingdom as a leading foreign market for motor boats and leisure vessels.
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River
Convention of Women's Clubs Opens in Dothan Week
The queen city of the Wiregrass hosts the Convention of Women’s Clubs starting Tuesday with a 1929-30 officers roster and a packed schedule. Delegates begin arriving Monday night and through Wednesday morning as city officials urge Clean Up Week and widespread decorations to welcome Alabama Federation guests.
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Queen City
Wiregrass
the Eagle
Dothan
Alabama
Clem Ezell
Plane schedules and music recital in Alabama posts
Planes near schedule Washington AP reports air mail mileage 92 percent in 1929. The Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs Music Department presents M Ziolkowski pianist of Alabama College and Orville J Borchers baritone of Women’s College in a joint recital featuring works by Chopin Liszt and Goethe era pieces. An informal reception at the Houston Hotel is hosted by the management.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Chas. McDowell
Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs
M. Ziolkowski
Alabama College
Orville J. Borchers
Woman's College
Chopin
Ziollkowski
Renewed probe into Adele Ritchie deaths in Laguna Beach
A fresh investigation opens after discovery of a coded telegram and a letter suggesting a possible death by own action pact between Adele Ritchie and Doris Murray Palmer. Investigators will question telephone-number subscribers in Los Angeles and San Diego as friends dispute the pact theory.
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Laguna Beach
Cal
Adele Ritchie
Doris Murray Palmer
Sam Jernigan
Los Angeles
San Diego
Post
Mrs. Palmer
Mrs. Post
Lindbergh Completes Third Lap of New Airmail Route
Colonel Lindbergh ends the third leg of the Pan American airmail route, carrying 215 pounds of mail from New York toward Buenos Aires as the inaugural week plans a network of city to city flights. L. R. Moore will pilot mail to Talara Peru, with connections to South American plants. northbound mail departs Montevideo Saturday for arrival by midweek.
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Buenos Aires
Lindbergh
L. R. Moore
Talara
Peru
Montevideo
Pan-American Airways, Inc
France Field
Buenosires
Pan-American Grace Airways
Havana
Washington
Miami
Basil Rowe
Bert Denicky
Spanish America
Man Shot By Son 13 Dies Here Sunday
A 13 year old son shot his father in what officials say was not intended to be fatal. The elder son was jailed on drunkenness charges after wrecking a car while en route for medical aid. Funeral services were planned for Mt. Enon church in Henry county. Surviving relatives include his wife Nellie Woodham and several children and siblings.
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Mt. Enon Church
Henry County
Mt. Enon
Masked men seize man in Tampa lodging raid
A group of masked men took a man from a Tampa Hodaz residence last night, uncovering government bonds valued at $0,000 from Poland and $3,000 from Servia. The owner said the man was known as Algas Daz and had been absent the previous night.
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Tampa
Hodaz
Poland
Servia
Algas Daz
Plant City
Vanderbilt Yacht Winchester Blows Up Off New York
An explosion in the engine room of Cornelius Vanderbilt’s 250 foot yacht Winchester at the East River Yacht Club damaged the vessel, blew deck sections high, and sparked a fire. The 20 crew aboard were unconfirmed. pieces of wreckage flew as far as 100 feet, and fire crews fought the blaze while Bellevue Hospital and nearby buildings shook. The yacht, once owned by Vincent Astor, is valued over $500,000.
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New York
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Winchester
New York Yacht Club
East River
26Th Street
Yacht Club
Vincent Astor
Bath
Bellevue Hospital
New York Acquires Cement Making Patent Rights
The state of New York purchased the first patent for cement making from Canvas White, whose experiments began in 1818 and spurred the American cement industry.
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United States
State of
New York
Canvas White
America
Publicly consumed fluid at meeting identified as cough syrup
At a Gary Indiana political event Anthony A. Filipiak sought a Republican Senate nomination with a “dripping wet” protest. He drank cough syrup from a flask after setting a chemical in a saucer on fire, a move his spokesman labeled a prop and clarified as syrup, not alcohol.
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Gary
Ind
Anthony A. Filipiak
James Bell
Bell
Filipink
Mexico to Arm with All Domestic Made Armament
The Mexican army soon will be equipped with all Mexican made armament. American European and Japanese arms now in use will be used as reserve supplies.
Plane crashes in multiple states kill several people
Overnight AP roundup reports plane crashes across the United States with fatalities and investigations. Included are deadly crashes in Texas New Mexico Michigan and Wisconsin with pilots sentenced or arrested and authorities probing motives and causes.
Refined WA 4.90 Fine Coin Charge Noted
A brief notice records refined water authority charge at four dollars ninety cents. The entry lists a fine amount and references the refined wa process without additional context or names.
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Herman Cannon
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C.B. Quick
Henry Flowers, Jr
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George Cotton
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Council of Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs
Ray M. Warr
Artillery Band
J. F. McLeod
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New Century Club
Chas. Henderson
C. C. Adams
Municipal Auditorium
C. P. Bowden
A. Y Malone
H. C. Bass
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Goethe
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