Budget Slash to Close Navy Yards and Trim Forces
Washington reports President Hoover’s reduced budget plan would close the Boston and Charleston navy yards and the New Orleans base, with the Charleston naval hospital also shut. It proposes major cuts in personnel, civilian staff, and fleets, including laying up the Constitution, placing ships and stations inoperative, and closing about half of recruiting offices. Congress expected to debate Navy program changes and further alterations.
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Boston
Charleston
S. C
Navy Yards
New Orleans
Hoover
Naval Hospital
Budget Bureau
Congress
Capitol Hill
Navy
Marine Corps
Naval Reserve
Naval Ammunition Depot
Lake Denmark
N. J
Naval Training Station
Newport
R. I
Marine Corps Training
Rigel
San Diego
Cali
Jason
Special Service Squadron
Fort Lafayette
N. Y
Fibre firm to expand Canton plant with $1 million plan
Champion Fibre president Neuben B. Robertson announced a $1,000,000 expansion for the Canton North Carolina paper plant. The project adds three large buildings and $500,000 of new machinery, with six months for construction and about eight months to install the new book paper equipment. Robertson called it faith in North Carolina and southern industrial opportunities. More than 1700 merchant vessels carry the American flag.
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Asheville
Neuben B. Robertson
Champion Fibre Company
Canton
N.C
North Carolina
South
Open Season for Governors in La Finds Oath Takers
In Baton Rouge and surrounding cities a gubernatorial dispute unfolds as multiple claimants take oaths. Huey P. Long remains besieged while Paul Cyr Walter Aldrich Alvin King and L D Smith contend for the office, pledging to abide by court decisions amid a shifting, legally driven power struggle.
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Horde
Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
Paul N. Cyr
Cyr
Shreveport
Long
United States Senate
Alexandria
Walter L. Aldrich
Alvin C. King
Lake Charles
State Senate
L. D. Smith
Benton
E. H. Reed
Cannon Urges More Carrie Nations Against Prohibition
Atlanta report quotes Bishop James Cannon Jr urging thousands of Carrie Nations to rise and smash speakeasies in New York and other cities where officers avoid enforcing prohibition. He accuses the Roman Catholic Church of broad opposition to prohibition and claims a conspiracy to defeat his Smith campaign. He opposes AFL stance for beer 2.75 percent and warns of indictment amid political battles.
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Atlanta
James Cannon, Jr
New York
Heirarchy
Virginia
Alfred E. Smith
John J. Raskob
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Divorce Decree After Parade In Underwear At Shop
Wilhelmina Doerier received a divorce decree after her husband, intoxicated, paraded through her Los Angeles dressmaking shop in his underwear. She said the stunt was humiliating as the shop was crowded with female customers at the time.
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Los Angeles
Wilhelmina Doerier
Thomas Rhodes Declared World Champion of Hard Luck
In Memphis, Thomas Rhodes, 17, wins the hard luck championship after his car stalled on a railroad track and was hit by a train, though he escaped injury. He was later tried and convicted of careless driving in connection with the incident.
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Memphis
Tenn
Thomas Rhodes
Rhodes
Pollens Found At High Altitudes By Chicago Botanist
Chicago botanist C. C. Durham exposed slides during flight and found pollen deposits on them from 100 to 10,000 feet, showing pollen travels far aloft. The observation came after he carried specimens aboard the airplane to study pollen dispersion.
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Chicago
C. C. Durham
Durham
Steady Work for Mother as Daughter Lands Hollywood Bridesmaid Role
A mother celebrates as her daughter secures regular work by serving as a bridesmaid to a film actress in Hollywood. The note highlights the breakthrough job and family pride in this step toward stable employment.
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Hollywood
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