Rising Waters Threaten Levees Across Mississippi Valley
Emergency crews rushed to scenes of rising streams threatening levees across the Mississippi Valley. A break near Kennett Missouri allowed the St Francis to overflow about 59,000 acres. Sloughs had been checked and districts prepared as engineers guarded multiple points to avert further breaches. Near Natchez Mississippi a private levee showed signs of weakening prompting residents to evacuate. Arkansas reports continued trouble as authorities monitor the situation.
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Associated Press
Mississippi Valley
Kennett
St Francis
Mounds Landing
Miss
Mippi
Nateliez
Artonish
Arkansas
Congress Plans Lengthy Recess After Census Vote
Washington May 21 AP Congress plans a vacation from late May through early July after a Senate vote on the census reapportionment bill. Debates on Norris power trust attacks continue as House tackles tariff and farm relief measures. Administration aims to repeal national origins immigration quotas later pending extra session outcomes. A Wheeler proposal seeks a Senate investigation of textile strikes.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
Republican
California
Norris
Nebraska
Power Trust
House
Hoover
Supreme Court
O'Fallon
LaFollette
Senate Manufactures Committee
Wheeler
Montana
Weather fair and warmer across states
Tennessee forecast calls for fair skies tonight and Wednesday with not quite so cool in the west portion tonight and warmer conditions on Wednesday. Virginia expected to stay fair and cool with probable light frost in the western area tonight and a gradually warming trend by Wednesday.
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Tennessee
West Portion
Virginia
Wxtrema West
Extortion plot against Dwight Morrow failed
The Boston Post reports Dwight W. Morrow ambassador to Mexico and Anne Morrow's father faced a $50,000 extortion plot. No money was demanded. threats targeted his daughter Constance Morrow a Milton Academy student. The plot spurred a secret family flight to Maine and a guard on their Englewood and North Haven properties.
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Toston
Boston Post
Dwight W. Morrow
Mexico
Anne Morrow
Charles 4A
Lindbergh
Haseen
Constance Morrow
Milton Academy
Mororw
Morrow
Englewood
N. J
North Haven
Giieve
Morrows
Maine
Constance
Miss Morrow
Mr. Morrow
Law Commission Ready for Start of Investigation
Eleven prominent Americans including ten lawyers and a woman educator were named by President Hoover to form a national law enforcement commission. George W. Wickersham will chair the group, with Newton D. Baker among its members, as they plan to investigate lawlessness and seek remedies in the United States. The commission will meet in Washington with a luncheon at the White House May 28 before an organizational session in the cabinet room.
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James L. West
Washington
Hoover
Law Enforcement Commission
White House
Pacific Coast
Far West
Commission
George W. Wickersham
New York
Americsins
National Law Enforcement Commission
United States
New York City
Taft
American Law Institute
Newton D. Baker
Cleveland
Wilson
Interstate Commission to Update Rail Property Valuation
Washington May 21 The Interstate Commerce Commission faces the task of revising billions of dollars in railroad property valuations. Congress and experts await possible litigation and new legislation after the Supreme Court upheld St Louis and O Fallon in challenging valuation methods. Officials say recapture of earnings influences rates but expect no large rate increases, only legal clarifications.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Supreme Court
St. Louis and O'Fallon
Commission
Tunney in heart balm suit sets $500000 price on affections
New Haven May 21 AP Katherine King Fogarty of New York City sues retired heavyweight champion Gene Tunney for breach of promise of marriage seeking 690000 damages. Papers sent to Bridgeport for entry in Fairfield county superior civil court. Attachments reported on Tunney estate flagged in Stamford Greenwich banks. Fogarty, once Fort Worth native Kate Gaddis, has a daughter about ten.
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New Haven, Conn
Katherine King Fogarty
New York City
James J
Gene) Tunney
Bridgeport
Fairfield County
Field, Turant
Lewis L. Field
Superior Court
Stamford
Greenwich
Tunney
Fogarty
Fort Worth
Texas
Cal. Field
Hot Springs
John Fogarty
City
New York
San Carlos Hotel
Gene Tunney
Kate Gaddis
E. K. King
King
John S. Fogarty
Plumb
Weather Delays Transatlantic Flight to Rome
Old Orchard Me May 21 Reports of bad weather over part of the 4700 mile course delayed the takeoff of Rover Q Williams and Lewis A Yancey in the Green Flash from Old Orchard. They aimed to fly 400 miles southeast to the 40th parallel then east to the Mediterranean and Rome.
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Old Orchard
Rome
Rover Q. Williams
Lewis A. Yancey
Martin Jensen
James H. Kirball
New York Weather Bureau
Williams
Spain
Mediterranean
Earl of Roseberry Dies After Brief Illness at 82
Earl of Roseberry former liberal prime minister and noted Victorian statesman died at his home the Durdans near EPSON England after a brief illness. Family gathered at his bedside as the 82 year old author and turfman was mourned.
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Epson
England
Earl of Roseberry
Durdans
Here
Canton Tense At Approach Of Kwangsis
In Canton China May 21 British gunboats and two Japanese destroyers anchored in the harbor as defences rose in Shameen city gates closed. The U S Tulsa moved from Hong Kong and fear of sacking by Kwansi forces spread. Forty Americans were safe with Guam protection and bullion worth about 2 060 000 Mexican silver moved to Hong Kong.
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Canton
China
Shameen
Cantanchoon
U. S
Hong Kong
Wuchen
Guam
Hongkong
France Provides Gas to Graf Zeppelin for Return Trip
In France at Cuers on May 21, French naval authorities supplied the German airship Graf Zeppelin with 3 000 cubic meters of hydrogen lifting gas to enable its return voyage to Friedrichshafen later this week. The craft will carry 21 passengers plus a crew of 40 on the trip, after 18 were aboard outbound. Four of the original 18 left the voyage, but seven French naval officers joining at Dr Eckener's invitation offset the decline.
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Cuers
France
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Valley tense as guards seek gunmen in Elizabethton strike
In Elizabethton Tennessee May 21 guardsmen patrolled the strike area to identify occupants of a car from which two pistol shots raked the home of Ernest Hammer chief mechanic at the American Rayon plant. Explosions on Happy Valley kept the territory on edge as Hammer and family fled to the plant. About 50 strikers and sympathizers await Chancellor Miller's ruling on peaceful picketing. Twelve witnesses were examined in the Mack Elliott explosion probe by state fire marshals.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
National
Ernest Hammer
Bemberg Ray‘on
Happy Valley
Boyd
Hammer
Hawimer
C. E. Miller
Mack Elliott
George Barger
EF. L. Mitchell
Presbyterians settle two issues at general assembly
The fifth general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States at Montreat North Carolina resolved the divorce stance and the ministers annuity fund. It will adjourn soon with potential union talks and selected Charlottesville Virginia as the 1930 meeting site. An overture questioned Dr Hay Watson Smith of Little Rock about evolution claims, but the matter was referred to Arkansas Presbytery. Dr Smith declined to comment.
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Montreat
N. C
General Assembly
Presbyterian Church
United States
Charlottesville
Augusta Presbytery
Hay Watson Smith
Second Presbyterian Church
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas Presbytery
Smith
Augusta
Greensboro
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Eaker
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Wets
Ex-Champ
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Marceau
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Earl of
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Miller
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