Farm Conference Works Toward Cost of Production Plan
Des Moines May 12 The Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America hosts a farm conference to craft a plan for relief based on cost of production plus a fair profit for bioproducts. A 25 member council from Midwest farm groups will guide a five member sub committee to finalize proposals, with delegates to ratify. Delegates exceed 300 as talks span differing approaches though both sides support the cost plus profit principle.
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Associated Press
Middle West
Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Union of America
State board acts on university bonds and new college courses
In Missoula on May 12 the state board of education approved selling bonds totaling 215,000 for a woman's building and a library at the State College. It authorized improvements at Miles City industrial school, Helena girls’ vocational school, Boulder blind school, and Twin Bridges orphanage. A committee including Judge Lanner, Frank Filet, and Judge Rhoades was named to study a one-year collegiate course at the State School of Mines and report at the July meeting.
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Associated Press
Missoula
State School of Mines
Butte
State Board of Education
State College
Helena
Miles City
School For the
Boulder
Twin Bridges
Sidney Lanner
Frank File
W.B. Rhoades
Exhumations Ordered in Baby Farm Deaths in New York
Supreme Court Justice Cotillo ordered the exhumation of Agnes Toohey and William Winters to seek homicide evidence in a case involving Mrs. Geisen Volk, a former Red Cross nurse. Aiding the probe, Assistant District Attorney Ryan will pursue undertaker records and testimony from witnesses about the burial practices at the private grave plot in St. Michael's cemetery.
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Raymond
Helene Geisen-Volk
New York City
William Angerer
New York
Associated Press
Helen Auguste Geisgn-Volk
Supreme Court Jusstice Cotillo
Ryan
Agnes Toohey
William Winters
Geisen- Volk
Red Cross
Toohey
Margaret Toohey
Geisen-Volk
Women to Enter Battle on Opium
The International Council of Women closes regular sessions in Washington with a special meeting planned to decide on Brussels hosting of the 1930 quinquennial convention and a constitutional change to allow international organizations. Resolutions touched varied topics including a study of opium production limitation urged by the League of Nations conferences.
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Washington
Associated Press
International Council of Women
Brussels
League of Nations
Dawes Plan Guides Caillaux to Restore French Finance
Paris May 12 The Dawes plan forms the backbone of Caillaux finance policy for France's reconstruction and debt amortization. He told the chamber finance committee that German payments under Dawes would back a new loan to liquidate war damage claims. He urged higher taxes and stricter collection, with tobacco taxes rising 35 percent starting Thursday, while offering no radical measures.
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Paris
Associated Press
Caillaux
France
Finance Committee
Chamber of Deputies
M. Caillaux
Germany
Treasury
United States
Four of Mob Guilty of Mutilation in Needleman Case
Williamson North Carolina May 12 Four men were found guilty by a jury on charges connected with the mutilation of Joseph A Needleman a salesman seized by a mob after his arrest on a charge of attacking a girl Henry Dennis Griffin Julian Bullock and F W Sparrow Sr were found guilty of performing an operation on Needleman with malice and Clare Heath was found guilty without malice The penalties range up to 60 years for the first three and 10 years for Heath
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Heath
Amy Lowell, Poet, Dies in Brookline
Brookline Mass May 12 Miss Amy Lowell the poet and sister of Harvard president A Lawrence Lowell died suddenly at her home here today of a paralytic stroke Miss Lowell fell ill April 11 forcing cancellation of a planned trip to Europe
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Brookline
Mass
Amy Lowell
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Negro Patrolman Killed In Harlem Shooting
A negro patrolman and an unidentified negro were shot and killed on 188th Street while a reservist and his wife were seriously wounded during a gunfight that followed a reprimand after a bump on Lennox Avenue. The encounter involved four assailants and drew in other officers, including a white patrolman, Henry Hahr. In another item, delegates opened the International Police Conference in New York with emphasis on cross border crime and police modernization.
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New York
Sy Associated Press
Harlem
188Th Street
Lennox Avenue
George Godfrey
Gellen Fuller
3Ath St
Fuller
138Th Street
Godfrey
Henry Hahr
West 125Th Street
Florida Bills Target Matrimonial Rules in State Assembly
Tallahassee May 12 Two bills introduced in the Florida general assembly affect marriage finance and age of bachelor status. One bill requires joint signature or wife endorsement to validate bank checks. The other levies a $5 annual tax on old maids defined as unmarried women over 25, while men remain single until 30.
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Associated Press
Tallahassee
Fla
Florida General Assembly
Milwaukee orders 1000 freight cars largest for Bettendorf
Davenport May 12 The Bettendorf company announced by Associated Press that the C M St Paul railroad will supply 1000 freight cars and several other pieces of rolling stock. The order is the largest the Bettendorf company has received in some time.
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Associated Press
Davenport
C. M. & St. Paul Railroad
Bettendorf Company
Daw partial on abolishing short term for Senate rules reform
Vice President Charles G. Daw agrees in part with Senator Walter J. George of Georgia but says the suggestion does not go far enough. In a telegraph to the Atlanta Constitution Daw backs revising Senate rules yet stops short of abolishing the short term of Congress.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Atlanta Constitution
Charles G. Daw
Walter J. George
Georgia
George
Congress
Bank Robbery Spurs Bold Local Heist at Wadesville
Two men failed to crack the Farmers National Bank safe in Wadeville Indiana last night then forced the cashier to open the bank and work the combination at his home The robbery yielded only seventy five dollars and cents according to Indianapolis dispatches
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Indiana
Farmers’ National Bank
Wadesville
Dry Navy Chief Says New York Rum Row is Breaking Up
New York on May 12 press reports say rum smuggling row is crumbling under the dry navy blockade opened a week ago. A large French steamer with a wet cargo arrived and was ringed by four dry navy pilot boats while captains of the rum fleet drift to new waters. The blockade shows a small leak as a dory gets Continued on Page Two.
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Navy
New York
Associated Press
Coast Guard
W. WV. E. Jacobs
New Yorks
Gas Tax Governed Under Old Law In Withheld New Law
Gas tax money collected under the old law was withheld after the state supreme court ruled the old act unconstitutional. The 1919 assembly had enacted a new two cent gas tax effective April 1, while the court decision came April 4, delaying remittance. Attorney General Foot says withholdings are improper and actions will be brought to recover funds from each company.
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Supreme Court
Attorney General
State Supreme Court
Montara
Nineteenth Legislative Assembly
Hans DeYoung
State Treasurer's Office
DeYoung
Foot
Sunburst Refining Company
State Board of Equalization
War Erupts Over Film Trust at Milwaukee Meeting
Milwaukee May 12 exhibitors from across the country pledged to pause new picture contracts for the visiting season while negotiating with independent producers. Speakers attacked the film trust and called for censorship reform, Sunday show revivals, and revised music licensing. A $72,000 fund was announced to finance the anti trust campaign, with Charles Evans Hughes named as a potential leader for independent producers and exhibitors.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Alood
Film’ Trust
Motion Picture Theater
America Today
Gil Trust
Hughes
Charles
Evans Hughes
A Was
Film Trust
Trust
Fire destroys 2040 houses in Kumnagaya near Tokyo
More than 2,040 houses and buildings were destroyed by fire this morning at Kumnagaya, a center of the sick industry about 40 miles northwest of Tokio. Several casualties have been reported.
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Tokio
Associated Press
Kumnagaya
Hindenburg Takes Oath as German President in Reichstag
Berlin May 12 Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was sworn in as president of Germany at high noon in the Reichstag chamber. The oath was administered by Paul Loebe with most deputies present except 46 communists who walked out shouting against monarchists and Soviet republic.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Paul iVon Hindenburg
Herr Loebe
von Hindenburg
Mail Order House to Win Over Local Retail Trade
A Houston advertising convention speaker argues mail order houses will gain at the expense of many dealers and jobbers. He says small-volume retail overhead hurts profits and that national chains have begun shifting toward supply depots serving the public, offering merchandise trusted by consumers with less sales effort.
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Houston
Tex. Magda
John Benson
Mr. Benson
Mbritér Us
Armored Trains Dropped From World Arms Meet List
Geneva May 12 Armed trains were excluded from official lists after a bitter committee vote. The control of traffic in arms and munitions group decided not to object to sale of armored trains but dropped other items like flame throwers and tanks from the draft convention. The United States proposed publishing statistics to compel producing states to disclose arms data.
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World Arms Meet
Geneva
Associated
Nations Palace
International
Mungary
Louisa Job
Chicago
Anton
Job
John Parker
U.S
Theodore E. Burton
United States
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