House Hopes To End Farm Bill Debate By Tonight
In Washington on April 20 the House pressed farm relief debate aiming to close general discussion before adjournment. Amendments would be voted early next week while the Senate farm bill remains under Agriculture Committee review. A separate measure to fund the special session passed, providing $321,000 and salaries totaling $106,000 for relatives of late or former lawmakers. The Senate committee also decided to consolidate 1930 census and reapportionment bills.
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Washington
Senate
House
Agriculture Committee
Weller
New York
Roark
Kentucky
Robert C. Martin
Martin
Louisiana
U S Women Heroines In Sasabe Fight In Sonora
Tucson April 20 Three American women hailed as heroines of the Sasabe Sonora battle where about 20 Mexican rebels were killed or wounded in an attack on 195 federal soldiers. Women crossed the border to tend wounded fighters, rebels claimed 380 to 40 were captured and fled. Federal losses listed as two dead and five wounded, rebels eight dead ten wounded. Sasabe Mesquite same town. reports mixed on casualties and captures. Mexico City bulletin says a battle near Masiaca very soon with 2000 federal cavalry involved.
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Tucson
Ariz
Sasabe
Mesquite
Sonora
Arthur Hardgrave
Kansas City
Mexico City
Masiaca
Destruction of Union HQ Prompts Parade Ban in Gastonia
Officials investigate the destruction of the National Textile Workers' Union headquarters in Gastonia and city leaders issue an ordinance requiring permits for parades. A Loray mill strike continues, with a small, hesitant march past the mill village.
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Gastonia
National Textile Workers’ Union
Loray
Harry Rutter
Loray Mill
Manville-Jenckes Company
Pawtucket
R. I
National Union
Loray Village
Pinkney
Workers International Relief Store
House dominates formal acts in the special session
Washington April 29 House leaders moved to push formal proceedings while the Senate lingered in adjournment. No Senate committee meetings were scheduled as the special session continued with House area activities gaining primacy.
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Washington
House
Capitol
Congress
Senate
Democratic Heads Talk Over Deficit in New York
At a meeting led by John J. Raskob Alfred E. Smith and Senator Joe T. Robinson discussed wiping out the Democratic party debt of 1.3 million dollars. A committee will study plans within ten days. talks also covered fundraising and moving national headquarters to Washington.
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New York
Democratic Party
John J. Raskob
Alfred E. Smith
Joe T. Robinson
Raskob
Smith
Washington
Four Men Die As Girders Collapse At New York Building
Four workmen killed and twelve injured when three and a half ton steel girders fall from the eleventh floor of the Western Union building on Thomas Street and West Broadway. Arrests follow on criminal negligence charges as debris from the eighth floor causes panic in the crowded lower West Side block.
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New York
New Western Union
Thomas Street
West Broadway
Commission House
Lower West Side
President Hoover Appeals to Farm Groups Over Relief Plan
Administration officials tracked the reaction to President Hoover's appeal to farm organizations to present a united front in Congress on farm relief measures. They hope his warning against divisions among farmers will hasten action, amid debate over the debenture plan of the National Grange. Hoover indicated no public stance on the plan, though administration leaders appear wary of it. A Senate Agriculture Committee subcommittee sought Hoover's views after the Grange proposal was referred to them.
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Washington
Hoover
National Grange
Kansas City
Capitol
Senate Agriculure
Moover
Two Chinese Civilians Slay Jay Lieutenant in Tientsin
Two Chinese civilians shot a Japanese lieutenant in the foreign commercial district near the Japanese military HQ in Tientsin as Japanese forces prepared for the arrival of Chinese troops. Police searched pedestrians in the ensuing confusion.
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Jay
Shantung-Japs
Tientsin
China
Germans Propose Minor Reparations Increase At Dark Conference
Paris April 20 AP Efforts to revive the reparations conference continued but outlook remained bleak as Germany signals a small rise in offers yet rejects any real chance of reaching an accord. Dr Hjalmar Schacht met with Owen Young and others at informal talks amid talks of a ten year agreement. He appeared grave and tired at the Hotel George V.
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Paris
Hjalmar Schacht
Owen D. Young
George V
Young
Thomas W. Lamont
Leviathan Sails With Liquor Aboard For Passengers
The Leviathan left Southampton for New York with liquor for passenger sale aboard. Officials refused to reveal quantities and secrecy surrounded loading. About 80 percent of supplies were estimated to be used by the ship’s 247 first class passengers, with leftovers to be thrown overboard after crossing the 12 mile limit.
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New York
Cherboug
Paris
United States Lines, Inc
United States Shipping Board
SPECIAGULAR AIR CRASH KILLS FOUR
A U S Navy board investigates a collision near San Diego between two Lexington planes returning from gunnery practice. Lieutenant William K. Patterson H H Brown and Herbert Basset Jr along with Harold R. Sheehan died in the crash. Brown died en route to the naval hospital.
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Cal
Naval
U. S. Lexington
William K. Patterson
Pennsylvania
H. H. Brown
Billings
Mont
Herbert Basset, Jr
McComb
Jlr
Harold R. Sheehan
Annapolis
Massachusetts
Brown
Naval Hospital
Five Die as Bus Falls into Tagus River in Lisbon
An AP report from Lisbon says five people died and about 20 were severely injured when a motor bus crossed the Great St. Louis bridge over the Tagus at Santarem and plunged into the river.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Death by own action cited in inquest over fugitive lawyer
Philadelphia April 20 A statement attributed to David Steinhardt fugitive New York lawyer said friends advised suicide amid an inquest into his death He faced embezzlement charges of 500000 in bankruptcy cases and drank poison in a hotel room as his wife and attorney Herman L Maris waited nearby Assistant US Attorney George Mintzer planned to arrest him after surrender Steinhardt had fled January 8 after defrauding a client Police searched for him through the US and Canada He came to Philadelphia last Sunday to meet Maris then agreed to return to New York to face the charges if his wife remained supportive
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Philadelphia
David Steinhardt
New York
Herman L. Maris
United States
George Mintzer
Steinhardt
Maris
Canada
Litvinoff Stumbles at Geneva Disarmament Talks
Geneva April 20 Maxim Litvinoff soviet vice commissar for foreign affairs endured a setback in the preparatory disarmament conference. He grew angry as the meeting tabled the question of publicity for armaments in relation to the German project, deferring it to a subcommittee for later discussion on limitation of effectives.
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Geneva
Maxim Litvinoff
Mystery plane sighted off Scottish coast
A British trawler about 250 miles west of the outer Hebrides reported an airplane passed overhead early today flying westward. The identity of the mysterious plane was not determined.
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London
Outer
Hebrides
Record flight from Washington to Havana sets time mark
Captain Walter F Kraus and Lieut John F E Upston of the air corps staff completed a Washington to Havana flight in what is described as a record time. Departed 4 15 am, stopped in Charleston and Miami, arriving Havana 5 45 pm. Elapsed time 13 12 hours, actual flying under 12 hours.
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Washington
Cuba
Walter F. Kraus
John FE. Upston
Air Corps
Havana
Charleston
South Carolina
Miami
C A R Conference to Hear Final Reports
Washington April 20 The daughters of the American Revolution focus on the final report of the resolutions committee before installing new officers holding their banquet and adjourning They will confirm new state regents and vice regents and push the $2,000,000 fund for Constitution Hall adjoining Memorial Continental Hall Previous contributions totalled $1,025,000.
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Washington
Resolutions Committee
Daughters of the American Revolution
Constitution Hall
Continental Hall
Memorial honor for George Rogers Clark at Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg Virginia hosts a memorial dedication by the Muncie Indiana chapter of the D A R for explorer George Rogers Clark. A Marine band from Washington opened events with a march, and speakers included Indiana editor George Lockwood and congressmen Albert Vestal and S Otis Bland. The memorial tablet stands on Washington avenue opposite Kenmore.
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Fredericksburg
District of Columbia
George Rogers Clark
Great Northwest Territory
Muncie
Indiana
Daughters of the American Revolution
Washington
Virginia
Kenmore
Betty Fielding Lewis
George Washington
George Lockwood
The
National Republic
Albert H. Vestal
Otis Bland
Postmaster General and Wife Promote Frugal Office Practices
Washington reports the Postmaster General and Mrs. Brown agree on economy in the post office. Brown pockets pencils he acquires while Mrs. Brown bundles them and returns them to the department through his secretary. He remains unaware of the pencils’ return.
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Washington
Brown
Post Office Department
Man Lived On Earth For Centuries, Says Breasted
Dr James H Breasted told the American Philosophical Society that man appeared in Africa in a geological instant, with Egyptian finds in the Fayum showing tools from the Chellean and Acheulean ages. He argued for Egypt as the earlier civilization, noting Sahara conditions once supported a well watered plateau.
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Dr. Breasted
Philosophical Society
Sahara
Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Earth
American Philosophical Society
James H. Breasted
Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Egypt
Europe
Eral
Breasted
Chicago
Babylonia
Spring storms hit three Texas towns killing infant in Dallas
Tornadoes struck three North Texas towns late yesterday and last night. A baby girl died and her father was injured after shielding her in Dallas. Minimal injuries elsewhere, minor property damage except in Paris where a Texas and Pacific warehouse was split in two.
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Dallas
North
Texas
Paris
Texas and Pacific Railway
Mexico Promotes Anti Alcohol Campaign Nationwide
Mexico City April 20 The anti alcohol policy under President Portes Gil gains momentum as Ezequiel Padilla secretary of public instruction orders teachers nationwide to form anti alcohol leagues and promote sports to divert minds from drinking.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Portes Gil
Ezequiel Padill
Major film studios indicted for Sherman Act conspiracy
A federal grand jury indicted ten leading producers and distributors including West Coast Theaters Paramount Famous Lasky MGM First National United Artists Fox Vitagraph Pathe Warner Brothers for conspiring to restrain trade and discriminate against independent theaters. The case cites exclusive booking plans and delays that kept independents from two feature programs, prizes, or ten cent admissions.
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Los Angeles
West Coast Theaters, Inc
Paramount- Famous-Lasky Corporation
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
First National Pictures
Universal Film Exchange
United Artists, Inc
Fox Film Corporation
Vitagraph, Inc
Pathe Exchange, Inc
Warner Brothers
Wood Labor Conciliator Pushes Settlement Amid Tennessee Strike
Charles G. Wood federal labor conciliator pressed a plan to settle a walkout by 5000 workers at the American Bemberg and Glanzstoff rayon plants in Elizabethton. He met with United Textile Workers president Thomas F. McMahon and Tennessee Labor Federation head Paul Aymon as talks continued.
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Eliabethton
Tenn
Charles G. Wood
Thomas F. McMahon
United Textile Workers of America
Paul Aymon
Tennessee Federation of Labor
Brevard Real Estate Man Bonds After Tragic Bus Death
Brevard April 20 Joe Kinsley a local real estate man was placed under a 2500 bond following the death of A F Mitchell Jr son of Mr and Mrs Mitchell of near Brevard instantaneously struck by Kinsleys car The child had just left a school bus witnesses say he swerved right to avoid the child The boy died when the car rolled over Freeman Crompton driver of the school bus was held on 1000 bond.
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Brevard
Joe Kinsley
A. F. Mitchell, Jr
A. F. Mitchell
Kinsley
Freeman Crompton
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