Caulfield Hints Rejection Of Insurance Rate Plea
Governor Caulfield indicated he would reject proposals by insurance companies to compromise the ten per cent rate reduction case. After a three hour conference with company representatives, Caulfield stressed protecting the sovereign power of the state over any refunds to individuals. The decision, affecting fire tornado hail and lightning policies, is to be announced early next week.
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Henry €. Caulfield
Fee Insurance
Circes
Caulfield
Ben C. Hyde
Supreme Court
Kansas City
Governor Caulfield
Joseph 3
Thompson
John T. Barker
Lloyd Jacobs
William Hogsett
Robert J. Folonie
Chicago
Weatherby
Depping
Folonie
Hyde
Missouri
Higsett
Girl Held For Shooting Father Near Ponca City
Trilby Rogers fourteen held in Newark county jail for shooting her father at their farm west of Ponca City. E M Rogers wounded. right arm amputated and chest injuries. He says she shot him while asleep and had been unruly since his wife died last December.
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Ponca City
Oklo
Trilby Rogers
E. M. Rogers
Newark
Here
Rogers
Tecover
How Stock Exchange Keeps in Instant Touch With U
The article explains how the New York Stock Exchange disseminates market news. It details ticker transmitters, high speed tickers, Wanglux screens, and moving paper tapes, illustrating how brokers and offices nationwide receive real time trading data. It notes the shift to faster systems as demand overwhelms older tickers and the daily closing procedures and post day cleanup.
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New York Stock Exchange
Wall Street
New York
Wanglux
Exchange
United States Airmail Service
Call money surges to 15 percent shakes stock market
The money squeeze pushed call money from 9 to 15 per cent, dampening early market gains and causing speculative issues to fall. Banks limited lending while time money and commercial paper held steady as Bethlehem Steel and General Motors faced disappointing reports amid merger chatter.
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Stanley W. Prenosil
Associated Press
New York
Thrge
Bethlehem Steel
General Motors
Mexican Seaboard Oil
Warren Brothers
International Telephone
Columbia Carbon
Curtiss Aeronautical
American Railways Express
Crosley Radio
Burroughs Adding Machine
Abraham and St
Printer Who Exposed Plot Paroled After Guilty Plea
Emil H. Walther the printer who uncovered a $600000 counterfeiting plot led by John H. Mayes pleaded guilty to a role in the scheme and received four years in prison plus immediate parole under a $3000 bond to report for four years. Mayes remains jailed on a 12 year sentence. Other defendants in the case were also sentenced. The investigation began two years ago when federal agents raided Walther’s shop and found $50000 in counterfeit notes. Also notes Mount Lassen eruption noted as the century’s only US eruption.
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ST. Louis
Apy
Emil H. Walther
John H. Mayes
Faris
Walther
Mayes
Shap
Disarmament strides as powers move toward naval talks
At Geneva the leading powers shifted toward actual disarmament. The United States signaled willingness to major concessions on land forces and to drop insistence on trained reserves. Britain and Japan prepared for a naval reduction conference in Washington next year. France welcomed frank U S stance and Japan pledged full disclosure of issues. A final shift follows Gibson's call for open concessions at once.
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United Press
Geneva
United States
Washington
Hugh S. Gibson
France
Count Massigi
Frances
Japan
Gibson
Naotake Sato
Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Reach Flood Stage in St Louis
The Mississippi river hit 33.6 feet at St. Louis with rising water flooding the levee and riverfront businesses. Rail lines shifted to an elevated route as the Weather Bureau forecasts 35 feet by Sunday. Steamboats halted and thousands of acres of wheat in Missouri and St Louis County have flooded, with Missouri river at St Charles at 30.2 feet upstream.
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ST. Louis
Mississippi
Terminal Railroad Association
United States Weather Bureau
Missouri
Alton
Fort Heliefontaine
St. Louis County
Spanish Lake District
St. Charles
Mississippi River rises to perilous near record level at Hannibal
The Mississippi River reached 21.6 feet in Hannibal on April 28 and continued rising, threatening to surpass the 21.7 foot previous record. Government observer B L Waldron forecast a crest near 24 feet, with Keokuk reporting slight falls possibly easing the forecast. Levees in the area held despite the surge.
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Hannibal, Mo
Mississippi
B. L. Waldron
Carolina and Georgia Towns Wiped Out Thursday
A storm swept from town centers toward the south striking the Happy Hill area, a negro settlement, where most of the five deaths occurred. the disaster left the area virtually wiped out.
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Carolina
Georgia
Happy Hill
Lonnie Brown Shoots Uncle in Family Quarrel
A long quarrel ended when Lonnie Brown shot his uncle Benny more than an hour before removal. Coroner Dr. Mansur says an inquest will be held tonight. Police seek witnesses as a man described as gassing the pool hall earlier claims Lonnie knocked Benny to the sidewalk and shot him. Benny had worked in a book hall for the younger man. The incident is said to stem from a family feud.
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E. E. Mansur
Lonnie
Benny
Denny
Rebels Near End of Road in Conora Threatened Federal Trap
In Mexico City AP dispatch reports General Plutarco Elias Calles warned of an intended annihilation of the rebel west coast army as federal forces seize key positions. Cavalry under General Espinosa pressed a night march toward the rebels, with artillery and planes poised for heavy casualties after a bridge was burned 18 miles north of Nogales. Rebels, numbering about 5,000, fled Masiaca and Navajoa. federal troops reportedly occupied Navajoa after the escape. A separate cavalry contingent burned a second bridge 25 kilometers north of the city to trap the rebels.
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Mexico City
Plutarco Elias Galles
Portes Gil
Navoloa Sonora
Joventino Espinosa
la Reforma
Qalles
Sonora
Masiaca
Navajoa
Tellechea
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Kolster Radio
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Southern Pac
Southern Railway
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Warner Bros. Pictures
Western Union
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Mount Lassen Valcano
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