Canada to impose countervailing tariffs on trade
Ottawa reports a new budget adopting countervailing duties to match U S rates on wheat flour rye oats butter meat potatoes and more. Finance minister Dunning says the move is not retaliation but to extend lower tariffs to food customers and level duties with reciprocal actions. Washington observers note mixed views as Congress weighs the Ottawa plan.
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United States
Canada
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Gother
Teachers and lawyers split on Prohibition and the Eighteenth Amendment
The Literary Digest polls show teachers and lawyers divided by party lines in the Prohibition question. Clergy favor enforcement while bankers and physicians show mixed results. educators lean toward enforcement, with repeal support rising among lawyers. A nationwide supplementary poll notes declines in the modification option. no main poll results released this week.
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America
Literary Digest
Tomorrow
Kansas
Aw Awyer
New York
New Jersey
Nebraska
Hoover plans study of market crash and 1921 mood
President Hoover told the United States Chamber of Commerce he plans an exhaustive study of the stock market crash of last year the preceding boom and the ensuing low mood. If approved he would appoint a commission from business economics labor and agriculture to undertake the inquiry to seek greater future stability.
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Washington
Hoover
Chamber of Commerce
United States
Businss
Weather Outlook Tennessee and Virginia Cooler with Rain
Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday in Tennessee with possible local thundershowers and cooler temperatures. In Virginia, thundershowers linger this afternoon or tonight with cooler air in the far north, then generally fair and cooler Saturday, as southwest winds shift to northwest. yesterday's high reached 88 with no rain reported. Readings taken at 6:30 p.m. daily by CL Bunn U S Weather Office.
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Virginia
Bunn
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Youthful Pilot Delayed on Hop
El Paso May 2 AP Diz appointed in his hope of making a trans continental flight from New York to Los Angeles in three days. Frank Goldsborough 19 planned to take off early today for Tucson Arizona on another lap of his flight to California. The pilot sought to establish a new junior trans continental flight record. He was delayed yesterday while repairs were made to his plane damaged when he took off from the desert yesterday for El Paso. Goldsborough left West Field NG at 540 a. m. EST Monday. The youth's father Bryce Goldsborough was lost in the attempt of Mrs. Francis Grayson's stip Dawn to span the Atlantic.
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Diz
New York
Los Angeles
Frank Goldsborough
Tucson
Aviz
California
Desert
Goldsborough
West Field
Bryce Goldsborough
Francis Grayson
Atlantic
Lindy Heads Home From Porto Cabezas For Miami Stop
Charles A. Lindbergh departed Porto Cabezas at 5:55 a m to fly the first seven day air mail from Buenos Aires to New York. He planned to stop in Havana and deliver the mail to the New York plane at Miami later today.
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Porto Cabezas
Nic
Buenos Aires
New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Miami
Hanava
Hoover Not Dry At Heart Revealed In Senate Record
A letter by William H. Stayton, chair of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, to Herbert L. Clark, dated March 1929, claims President Hoover "is not at heart a dry." The letter, read to the Senate lobby committee, asserts Hoover would be swayed by protective profits in votes rather than right and wrong, and notes Stayton's belief in Hoover's stance.
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Washington
William H. Stayton
Association Against the Prohibition
Senate Lobby Committee
Hoover
Blaine
Herbert L. Clark
Philadelphia
Slayton
Mr. Hoover
Married in midair over Tenn on honeymoon flight
SKY HARBOR Tenn May 2 Married in an airplane at 15000 feet during a southern honeymoon Carroll Baker 21 and Miss Margaret Adams 18 both Hopkinsville Ky were married in the sky yesterday afternoon with bridesmaid Miss Margaret Miles and best man R A Lane present The Rev John F Baggett Murfreesboro Methodist Church officiated and the plane piloted by Gene Fricks was decorated in white ribbons
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Tenn
Carroll Baker
Margaret Adams
Hopkinsville
Margaret Miles
R. A. Lane
John F. Baggett
Murfreesboro Methodist Church
Gene Fricks
1930 Census Figures Across Several Cities in Tennessee and Beyond
The 1930 Census shows varied changes across multiple towns and cities including Etowah and Cleveland in Tennessee with increases of 1,693 and 2,598 respectively. Athene and Joliet report substantial growth while Corning notes a slight decline. other towns such as McKeesport Hattiesburg Middlesboro and North Little Rock display notable population gains.
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Tenn
Nieta
Dayton
Cleveland
Spring City
Athena
Englewood
Graysville
Joliet
McKeesport
Hattiesburg
Miss
Corbin
Middlesboro
Elmira
N. Y
Corning
Deverease
North Little Rock
Ark
Bogalusa
Census taker finds no residents in Lassen county ration
In northern Lassen county, census enumerator Asa McKenzie began a 204 square mile sweep hoping to count residents. He logged 298 square miles with no people found until a lone man claimed not to live there. McKenzies report shows population eight with no gain.
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Redding
Calif
Asa McKenzie
Lassen County
Asa
Russian Documents Seized Tie To Communist Strikes in U S
New York May 2 AP Police Commissioner Whalen released photostats of Russian documents seized by the secret police claiming the Communist International in Moscow organized strikes and riots in the United States. The papers mention Amtorg Trading Corporation and list 30 travelers to the U S including a noted undercover agent.
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New York City
Communist International
United States
New York
Whalen
Communist International of Moscow
Amtorg Trading Corporation
Delgass
Secret’ Police
Moscow
Dzerginsky
Boris Skvirsky
Infor
United
Seattle
Sversky
Russia
Tornado Outbreak Leaves Deaths and Wide Destruction
Severe storms swept the central Midwest killing at least two and injuring many, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in property losses. Tornadoes hit Tekamah Nebraska Norborne Missouri Westby Wisconsin and more while winds and electrical storms caused widespread damage. Hospitals and emergency crews worked by lamp light as debris clogged streets and families faced heavy losses. fatalities included seven women and a child in several counties. Continued reports promise further details on the fatalities and damages across nine states.
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Neb
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Westby
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Iowa
Ange
Nebraska
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Tekamah
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Mint
Duluth
Adnan
Rockford
Aman
Antioch
al Farmer
Kickapoo
Leavenworth County
Kas
Tekamsh Hospital
American Legion Hall
Tekumah
Hans C
W. W. Lawler
Betty Jane
Walter Dodge
Rochester
Minn
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