Congress Faces Deep House and Senate Disputes
Washington June 6 The House wrestles with reapportionment amid a bid to exclude aliens from census counts and a force bill proposal while the Senate handles three disputes including immigration quota origins repeal and a Cotton under secretary nomination. The farm bill debate revives the expert debenture issue as talks stall ahead of a possible summer adjournment.
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House
Congress
Wheeler
Montana
Joseph P. Cotton
New York
Hoch
Kansas
Timkham
Rvepublican
Massachusetts
East
Enlarge Quarters Of Law Enforcement Commission
The national commission on law observance and enforcement moves to a nine room office suite near the justice department in Washington as it begins a second series of meetings. Chairman George W. Wickersham and members study crime causes using federal records and public letters while considering public hearings in major cities.
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Department of Justice
George W. Wickersham
Taft
William S. Kenyon
Iowa
Paul J. McCormick
California
Mitchell
Commission
Confederate Veterans Honor Dead at Annual Reunion
Survivors of the Confederate Veterans observed a noon memorial service at the armory with Dr. Albert Sidney Johnston as speaker. Officers were to be elected and the 1930 reunion city chosen, Biloxi seen as likely. Dozens stayed in bed due to fatigue while a death from heart trouble was reported for J. W. Hancock.
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Charlotte
Confederacy
United Confederate Veterans
Armory
Albert Sidney Johnston
First Presbyterian Church
Sons of Confederate Veterans
J. W. Hancock
Eldorado
Ark
Biloxi
Miss
Jefferson Davis
Edmund Wiles
R. A. Sneed
Oklahoma
Confederated Memo
Los Angeles
Imperial Council
Walter S. Sugden
Wheeling
W. Va
Hoover to attend Ohio river lock celebration this fall
President Hoover plans to attend the three day ceremony marking the completion of the Ohio river lock system from Pittsburgh to Cairo. He will deliver an address in Cincinnati and ride a river barge to Louisville before visiting Memphis, with other southern trips possible if schedules allow.
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Hoover
Ohio River
Pittsburgh
Cairo
Inland Waterway System
Texas
Mississipi River
Cincinnati
Louisville
Memphis
Longworth
Ohio
Panama Canal
Gulf
South
Congress
Rapidan River
Blue Ridge Mountains
Virginia
White House
United States
Arizona
New Mexico
Hoover proposes joint congress panel on transferring prohibition
President Hoover sent a special message as Congress weighs creating a joint committee to study moving prohibition from the Treasury to the Justice Department. Senator Jones and others voiced support while Wet and Dry factions debated, amid British liquor diplomacy and Detroit river smuggling crackdown.
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Washington
Law Enforcement Commission
Hoover
Congress
Congressional
Prohibition
The
Treasury
Department of Justice
Jones
Harrison
Mississippi
Hawes
Missouri
Sugar tariff seen as harmful to U S in Latin world
Havana June 6 Dr Luis Machado Cuba president cousin and sugar association attorney warned that U S tariff hikes will impact more than dollars. He said sentiment and Latin resistance will grow and anti American movements will spread beyond Cuba within two years. Machado is Cuba's leading tariff expert.
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Havana
United States
Luis Machado
Cuba
Machado
Latin America
Confederate veteran dies during 39th reunion in Charlotte
J. W. Hancock aged 89, Confederate veteran from El Dorado Arkansas, died early today at the emergency hospital in Charlotte where veterans attend the 39th annual United Confederate Veterans reunion.
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Charlotte
J. W. Hancock
el Dorado
Ark
United Confederate Veterans
European Minority Nations Discussed by League of Nations
Problems of Europe s minority peoples were taken up by a League of Nations special committee today before the regular session on June 10. The questions centered on difficulties faced by peoples under governments controlled by foreign tastes and standards.
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Madrid
Europe
Council of the League of Nations
Argument Completed in Kendrick Trial
Abingdon Virginia June 6. The trial of James W Crowe for the murder of J W Kendrick ends its argument at 1 05 pm Judge A C Buchanan adjourns court to 2 pm for jury deliberations The common wealth's attorney Fred Parks seeks a verdict of second degree murder or voluntary manslaughter Second degree murder carries 5 to 20 years and voluntary manslaughter 1 to 5 years.
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Abingdon
James W. Crowe
J. W. Kendrick
A. C. Buchanan
Commonwealth
Fred Parks
Virginia
Increased Grain Rates Ruled Out by ICC
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled proposed increases on through rates for grain and grain products from Oklahoma and Kansas to Texas and the southeast unjustified. The proposals by the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific and the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroads were pushed mainly by millers in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Kansas
Texas
Southeast
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago Rock Island and Pacific
Atchison Topeka and
Santa Fe
Merger Talk Ties Tobacco and Drug Store Chains
Wall Street reports nearing completion of a large merger among tobacco and drug store groups led by Union Tobacco Tobacco Products and United Cigar Stores. An exchange of stock will form a new holding company with plans to dominate tobacco and drug sectors.
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New York
Wall Street
Union Tobacco, Tobacco Products
United Cigar Stores Companies
King George Sees Good Night and Awake Morning Visit
London report says King George passed a good night and was awake when his physician Henry Martyn visited him for about an hour this morning.
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London
George
Henry Martyn
P A Smith Dies After Georgia Auto Crash
P A Smith, formerly Loray mill superintendent in Gastonia, died in a Georgia hospital after an auto accident near Lawrenceville. His wife was instantly killed. The couple will be buried in Columbia, D C. Four children, CC Smith of Lancaster, Miss Daisy Smith of Gastonia, and A B and Alice Smith, plus an uncle E E Smith of Gastonia survive.
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P. A. Smith
Lawrenceville
Smith
Loray
Georgia
A. B
Alice Smith
E. E. Smith
ONeill Reported Seriously Ill With Tuberculosis
London reports Eugene ONeill the American playwright is seriously ill with tuberculosis in Switzerland and cannot attend the London premiere of Welded. Earlier rumors of a Shanghai lung ailment were denied by his lawyer. Four of his plays were running in New York theaters.
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London
London Daily Express Today
Eugene O'Neill
Switzerland
Shanghai
Bank Robbers Shot and Captured by Townspeople
In Central City, Pennsylvania, two bank robbers were shot and captured by town constables and citizens after a hold up at the Central City National Bank. An estimated 1,400 dollars were involved with two men escaping, while one captured bandit carried about 1,100 dollars.
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Central City
Central City National Bank
Sir Esme Howard Plans to Skip Licor Imports
The British ambassador in Washington, Sir Esme Howard, informed Secretary Stimson he would forego importing liquors under diplomatic privileges. Stimson said the move is personal and not coerced by the United States, with no confirmation from embassy attaches.
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House
Tilson
Hoover
Prohibitio Bureau
Detroit River
Washington
Esme Howard
Stimson
United States
Esme
Mountains tragedy ends in murder suicide
Otho Case an 18 year old killed Dora Bradley 20 as she walked home from her sister's house near Cove mountain in Saluda North Carolina then returned home and fatally shot himself with a shotgun. Dr Earl Grady Polk county coroner prepared to investigate the double killing. Relatives deny a love affair between the two.
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S. C
Otho Case
Dora Bradley
Cove Mountain
Saluda
N. C
Clinton Case
Case
Earl Grady
Polkounty
Lott Named Captain of Chicago Tennis Team
George Lott, third ranking U S net star and Big Ten Singles champion, has been elected captain of the University of Chicago 1930 tennis team.
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Lott
Chicago
George Lott
United States
University of Chicago
Venizelos Cabinet Resigns in Greece
Athens reports the cabinet of Premier Venizelos has resigned after a prior day signature. The move follows political turmoil and reshuffles within the government.
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Venizelos
Athens
Most Favorable Weather Seen for Transatlantic Hop
Old Orchard Maine June 6 A weather forecast described as most favorable for a transatlantic hop. Ground crews awaited dawn takeoffs of two planes toward Europe following the arrival of the Green Flash and the Yellow Bird two weeks earlier.
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Transatlantic
Old Orchard
Europe
Carolinas Golf Second Round Set At Sedgefield
Johnny Bachman medalist and Alan Smith defending champion meet in the Carolinas tournament second round at Sedgefield. Ed Reid won 6 4 over G A Arthur to reach round two. Erwin Laxton edged F M Laxton one up after 18th hole drama.
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Alan Smith
Erwin Laxton
Sedgefield Country Club
Greensboro
Erwin
W.H. Jennings
Raleigh
N. E. Edgerton
T. R. Brem
Charlotte
W. J. Palmer
Palmer
Baltimore
Brem
MacDonald Takes Steps On Unemployment Problem
Ramsay MacDonald Britain's new labor premier announced work on unemployment has begun. He visited Downing Street for talks with J. H. Thomas and Philip Snowden before returning to Hampstead stating the move to organize real handling of the unemployed issue has started.
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London
Ramsay MacDonald
Britain
MacDonald
No. 10
Downing Street
J. H. Thomas
Philip Snowden
Hampstead
Workmen Battle Fire After Gas Well Blast
In Buffalo New York on June 6, workmen fought a 75 foot flame from a gas well that exploded on a farm near East Aurora. Two men were killed and eight injured. Drillers reached 2600 feet yesterday and an inside casing was being set when a spark or friction ignited seepage gas.
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Buffalo
N. Y
East Aurora
Good Will Accept N C Gettysburg Memorial for Government
Mrs. Marshall Williams of Faison chairs the Gettysburg committee as Secretary James W. Good of the War Department will accept on behalf of the federal government the North Carolina memorials to be unveiled at Gettysburg Battlefield in July. Governor Gardner and former Governor McLean join U D C officials in the program.
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Raleigh
Marshall Williams
Faison
Gettysburg
United Daughters of the Confederacy
James W. Good
War Department
North Carolina
Gettysburg Battlefield
Gardner
McLean
King Zogu Agrees to Dedicate U.S. Legation
Tirana Albania June 6 AP King Zogu has agreed to dedicate the new American legation in Tirana. It is nearly complete and represents the first U S building worldwide erected explicitly for a legation or embassy by the United States government.
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Tirana
Albania
King Zogu
United States
SHOW GIRL JUMPS TO DEATH FROM 12 STORIES
Chicago reports Miss Barbara Cole 22, a show girl, leaped to death from a 12 story apartment. She left a diary note naming Ed Page at 1209 Astor Street as she prepared to jump. Page, a broker, said she had threatened to jump earlier and he had spoken with her moments before the plunge.
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Chicago
Barbara Cole
Ed Page
Astor Street
North Street
Miss Cole
Edwin Page
Page
Exchange of ratifications of Lateran Treaty set for tomorrow
Rome June 6 The exchange of ratifications of the Lateran Treaties between Italy and the Holy See will occur tomorrow in Cardinal Gasparri’s Vatican apartments. The ceremony will be brief with only the exchange and the signing of the formal process-verbal. afterward the Vatican gates and Vatican City frontiers will be closed by the Swiss guards. The bronze doors, partially opened since 1879, will be opened wide.
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Rome
Holy See
Gasparri
Vatican City
Vatican
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