Governor Roosevelt seeks joint talks on prison crisis
Albany Jan 6 Gov Roosevelt asked the Legislature to back a prison program including a guard corps. He urged informal or official conferences to address the prison situation. The plan calls for probationary appointments and weed out unfit guards, a centralized administration with a guards inspector at the top, and emergency measures for pay, food, and camps.
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Albany
Gov. Roosevelt
Guard Corps
Capitol
Senate Confirms Smith Honor and Other Nominations
Albany Jan 6 The Senate unanimously confirmed former Governor Alfred E. Smith as a trustee of the State College of Forestry at Syracuse University. The body also renommed Dr. Mathias Nicoll as state commissioner of health and sent several other nominees to the Finance Committee for review.
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Albany
Senate
Alfred E. Smith
State College of Forestry
Syracuse University
Roosevelt
Mathias Nicoll
Committee On Finance
David C. Adie
Buffalo
State Board of Social Welfare
Katherine Bowes
Bath
State Commission of Correction
Wilson M. Powell
Old Chatham
Taconic State Park Commission
George 8. Weaver
McDonough
Binghamton State Hospital
Arthur W. Benson
Troy
New York State Reconstruction Home
Isla Judson
Kinderhook
New York State Training School For Girls
Henry FE. Norton
Rochester
The
Woman's Relief Corps Home
Samuel L. Meddagh
Elmira
Newtown Battlefields Reservation
Albany senators seek inquiry into prison appropriations
In Albany on January 6, Senator John Knight and Assemblyman Russell G. Dunmore announced a joint resolution to probe prison appropriation bills through the Senate Finance Committee and Assembly Ways and Means Committee. They cite delays and waste in prison construction and urge scrutiny of the Auburn prison project and related funding. The Senate adopted the measure with one opposition. the Assembly did not act.
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Albany
John Knight
Auburn Prison
Department of Correction
Senate
Burchill
New York
Bernard Downing
Sheridan
Shhackno
New York City
Assembly
Downing
Knight
Hewitt
Finance Committee
Cayuga County
Auburn
Washington
Congress
House
War Department
Military Economy Commission
Senate Committee
Grundy
Pennsylvania
Sullivan
Wyoming
Hoover
Leatherwood
Utah
Heflin
Alabama
Phipps
Colorado
Peaches Browning Seeks Dower Right Now Valued
Mrs Frances Peaches Browning concedes a motion allowing her to collect 188999.99 from her husband Edwards Browning s holdings as dower. The request enables sale of four apartment houses and impounding one third of the dower on the property. A report by Special Referee Philip Sinnott fixes the value and her share. She testified her only current assets total 15500 with 1012 50 annual income and debts of 7800. The couple married in 1926 and are legally separated.
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New York
Frances “Peaches
Browning
Supreme Court
Edward W. Browning
Fear Missing Plane Overshot Coast and Landed on Ice
In Alaska a search for missing airmen Carl Ben Eielson Earl Borland and crew continues as a plane vanishes north of Fairbanks. A second craft was wrecked earlier and a third stuck in a storm at Nulato. Pilot Dorbandt reports possible ice landing yet notes clear visibility near Nome.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Carl Ben Hielson
Earl Borland
Pat Reid
William Hughes
Jim Hutchinson
Nulato
Nome
North Cape
Reid
Unalakleet
Frank Dorbandt
Norton Bay
Yukon River
Dorbandt
Solomon
Alfred Lomen
Kyouk River
Bar oness Leaves Million in New York Holdings
Baroness Gertrude Bernard Boecilin von Boecklinsau who died in Cologne last October held New York State assets valued about $1,000,000 per a petition for letters of administration granted to her son Rupbrecht Boecklin. The petition did not list European properties and cites a New York home at 454.
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New York
Gertrude Bernard Boecilin von Boecklinsau
Cologne
Switzerland
New York State
Rupbrecht Boecklin
Europe
HOUSE
Senate
Tarife
Conspiracy Charges Hit Congressman Kunz and Son
True bills charging CongressmanStan ley Kunz of Illinois Eighth District and his son Stanley Jr with conspiracy were voted by the county grand jury. The indictments allege attempts to bribe, confidence game and obtain money under false pretenses. Kunz invoked Congressional immunity and did not appear. Trochowski and the younger Kunz testified.
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Chicago
Stanley H. Kunz
Illinois
Stanley, Jr
George S. Lavin
Lavin
Kunz
Civil
Socialists seizing control of Reading city government
Reading Pennsylvania reports a Socialist sweep as all major offices in city government passed to Socialists. Mayor J Henry Stump and council members Jesse George and William Hoverter led the shift, with James Maurer and George Snyder also Socialists. The school board rests with four Socialists and five others split between Republicans and Democrats. All Socialist office holders are native born.
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Reading
Jesse George
William C. Hoverter
J. Henry Stump
James H. Maurer
George W. Snyder
Assembly NAMES Committees for 1930 Session in Albany
Albany January 6 1930 Assembly standing committees announced for the new session with leaders including Speaker McGinnies chairing Rules and James W Watson chairing Claims and serving on Taxation General Laws and Excise Goodrich on Internal Affairs Labor Pensions and Soldiers Home Porter on Public Education Military Affairs and Aviation from Chautauqua Cattaraugus and Allegany counties
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Albany
Assembly
Chautauqua
Cattaraugus
Allegany
Joseph A. McGinnies
Ripley
House
Hubert E. V. Porter
Jamestown
Cityles
James W. Watson
New Albion
Harry E. Goodrich
Richburg
Pensions
Soldiers Home
Assembly Announces 1930s Committees And Leaders
Speaker Joseph A. McGinnies released the roster of Assembly standing committees for the 1930s session with chairs by party. Key panels include Ways and Means, Judiciary, and Codes, listing Republican and Democrat members from New York, Bronx, Kings, Erie, Nassau, Westchester, and other counties.
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Albany
Jan
Assembly
Joseph A. McGinnies
Eberly Hutchinson
Fulton Hamilton
Fred L. Porter
Essex
Frank H. Lattin
Orleans
Charles P. Miller
Genesee
James R. Robinson
Tompkins
Kenneth H. Fake
Schohari
Herbert B. Shonk
Westchester
Horace M. Stone
Onondaga
Jasper W. Cornaire
Jefferson
Henry M. James
Columbia
Paul L. Boyce
Warren
Louis J. Lefkowitz
New York
William L. Marcy
Eric
Richard L. Saunders
Monroe
Henry O. Kahn
Samuel Mandelbaum
Julius 8. Berg
Bronx
Maurice Z. Bungard
Myer Alterman
Frank A. Car
Ford Water Mill Ruins an Estate in Cambridge MA
Henry Ford his wife and Earl J. Boyer filed a plea to a suit by Joseph L. Sturtevant alleging diversion of a brook near the Wayside Inn. The Fords and Boyer describe a water power plan in Massachusetts to develop non navigable streams and support mills using dammed water.
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Cambridge
Mass
Henry Ford
Earl J. Boyer
Sudbury
Ford
Joseph L. Sturtevant
Newton
Sturtevant
Wayside Inn
Fords
Boyer
Massachusetts
Plaa
America Considers Halving Aircraft Carrier Size at Sea Talk
Washington prepares for London conference on naval limits. US experts urge Congress to curb carrier construction by pushing for smaller ships about half the size of existing giants. The Washington treaty set limits in 1922, guiding current debate on tonnage and ship classes.
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Navy
Congress
Washington, Jan
London
United States
Senator Pushes Halting Obscene Cursing on KWKH Radio
Senator Dill asks the Senate to restrain KWKH Shreveport from broadcasting obscene language amid complaints of profanity. The action follows a chorus of concerns about radio cursing and a related court reversal on Chicago stations WLS and WENR. The station owner cites opposition to chain stores as fueling the claims.
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KWKH
Shreveport
Louisiana
Federal Radio Commission
WLS
WENR
Chicago
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Senate
Dill
J. Watrous
Minneapolis
Radio Commission
Radio Ct
W. K. Henderson
Public Excluded as Bandits Trial Opens in Buffalo
In Buffalo on January 6, $260,000 Carson jewel robbery jurors were chosen from Erie County while most society victims watched from the courtroom. The public was barred, but outside crowds pressed near the steel grill to glimpse the accused Red Duke Teddy Rogacki William Sevier and Eddie Przybyla as they entered in handcuffs.
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Buffalo
Carson
Erie County
Red Duke
Teddy Rogacki
William Sevier
Eddie Przybyl
Germany to pay reparations end of month offsetting savings
At the reparations conference in The Hague the Big Powers pressed for monthly dues from Germany on the fifteenth, while Germany insisted on end-of-month payments to avoid about a million dollars in interest yearly. Delegates grappled with Austrian ties and the Little Entente’s stance as Briand heads to Geneva.
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Germany
Hague
Netherlands
Austria
Briand
Geneva
League of Nations
Tardien
Philip Snowden
Bulgaria
Hungary
Paris
Mexico President-elect Inspects Stock Yards
Paschal Ortiz Rubio president elect of Mexico visited Kansas City to inspect the stock yards and a meat packing plant. He and Senora De Ortiz Rubio attended a banquet and were guest of honor at a Mexican community mass meeting. The party plans to depart for San Diego after a 24 hour stay.
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Kansas City
Paschal Ortiz Rubio
Mexico
Senora de Ortiz Rubio
San Diego
Calif
Minority Leader Hamill Under Knife for Appendicitis
Peter J. Hamill minority leader in the New York State Assembly was hospitalized at Polyclinic Hospital after an emergency appendectomy Sunday night. Doctors reported he was doing as well as can be expected and his illness began with a sudden onset Sunday evening. He represents the First District of Manhattan in the Legislature.
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Hamill
New York
Peter J. Hamill
State Assembly
Polyclinic
Manhattan
Fords Lose Suit Over Hudson River Dam Flood Controls
Henry Ford and Son, Inc. lost in the Supreme Court as it refused to block removal of flashboards from the Hudson River dam near Troy New York. The case centers on flood control measures affecting downstream communities and river management.
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Fords
Washington
Jan
Henry Ford & Son, Inc
Supreme Court
Hudson River
Troy
N. Y
Fire Destroys Warren Ross Lumber Dry Kiln at Falconer
A morning blaze at the Warren Ross Lumber Company on Allen Street Extension destroyed the dry kiln and shed, with about $25,000 in losses. Twenty piles of lumber valued at $15,000 were consumed, and the 30 by 100 foot shed at $10,000 burned. Falconer Fire Department arrived quickly but could not save the structure.
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Warren Ross Lumber
Falconer
Rolman Albert Hall
George Williamson
Warren Ross
Woman Dies at 109 After Years on Quebec Farm
Uoyon Que January 6 Mrs George ot died today aged 109 in the house she occupied for seven decades. She remained mentally sharp and active on the farm until a few weeks ago.
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Uoyon
Que
George Ot
Taft to rest in hospital amid weakened health
Washington, Jan 6 Chief Justice Taft, in weakened condition from a recurrence of bladder trouble, will enter Garfield Hospital for treatment. He will rest in Asheville, North Carolina within a week. Taft had pushed the Supreme Court work under strain since June and attended sessions until December while resisting rest despite family and physicians urging pause. He endured further strain attending his brother’s Cincinnati funeral last week.
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Washington
Taft
Supreme Court
Garfield Hospital
Asheville
North Carolina
Cincinnati
Charles P. Taft
Murray Bay
Canada
John F Archbold Ex-Oil Man Dies in Georgia
John Foster Archbold 53 died at his Thomasville home after a brief pneumonia illness. Son of John D Archbold former Standard Oil of New Jersey president he helped develop Standard Oil and led Prairie Oil & Gas then retired to Thomasville to found a hospital with a $1,000,000 endowment. He is survived by his widow three children and two sisters. Funeral in Sleepy Hollow Chapel, Tarrytown.
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New York
John Foster Archbold
Thomasville
John D. Archbold
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Archbold
Harvard University
Mannington
Standard Oil Company
Prairie Oil & Gas Company
Sleepy Hollow
Tarrytown
Richard
Adrian
Francis Archbold
Michael M. van Beuren
Newport
R. I
Anne Archbold
Washington, D, C
Hoover asks 61 million deficiency bill for 1930 needs
President Hoover asked Congress for a deficiency outlay of 61.8 million dollars to cover contingencies across major departments for the 1930 fiscal year. The requests broaden the earlier 3.8 billion appropriation plus postals, with key items for Agriculture, Coast Guard, War, Justice, and a 850 thousand dollar Coast Guard Academy in New London. A notable 5.86 million is allocated for Gold Star mothers and widows' pilgrimage to European cemeteries and battlefields.
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Washington
Jan
Hoover
Congress
Agriculture Department
Treasury Department
Coast Guard
Treasury
Great Lakes
Coast Guard Academy
New London
Connecticut
State Department
I’m
Gulf of Mexico
Commerce Department
War Department
Europe
Justice Department
Alfred E. Smith Defends Civic Duty At Polls
Former Governor Alfred E. Smith told a radio audience that casting a ballot is only the start of citizenship duties. He warned that apathy allows demagogues and dictators, urging citizens to learn about their representatives, correspond with them, and register before voting.
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New York
Alfred E. Smith
Bride Bombing Suspects Offer No New Leads
SEAT PLEASANT Md Jan 6 Herman and Leroy Brady husband and brother in law of Naomi Hall Brady one of three killed by a New Year s Day bombing were held by police tonight though they said questioning of the two had developed nothing new.
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Seat Pleasant
j—Herman
Leroy’ Brady
Naomi Hall Brady
Republican leaders seek prison spending inquiry and waste probe
In a broad early shell of the day’s stories, the Republican Legislature leaders call for an official inquiry into prison appropriations to clear charges of waste and high costs. The roundup also notes executives discussing limits on aircraft carrier expansion and a governor inviting Republicans to a conference on the prison crisis.
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Hoover
Big Powers
Little Entente
Austria
Hungary
Germany
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