McKellar presses for veteran loan relief at Legion meet
Senator McKellar urged canceling interest on veterans adjusted compensation certificates while opposing cancellation of foreign debts owed to the United States. He called the sinking fund a trust belonging to soldiers and criticized Europe’s repayment demands. He also backed readjustment of ex service pay, noting past opposition to 0 cent daily pay but eventual notes payable in 1940 as relief. The Tennessee American Legion convention closed with reports, officer elections, and next-city selection awaited.
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Reviee Trn
Europe
America
Rsks
McKellar
State Department
Legion
Auxilary
Chilean rebels face fate as government probes mutiny
Chilean authorities pursue a broad inquiry into the Coquimbo mutiny that toppled its navy bases. Thousands of sailors and troops were involved across Coquimbo Talcahuano Valparaiso with officers jailed but later restored to command. Air power proved pivotal in quelling the revolt trending toward budget shifts favoring the air corps. Lieut Fernando De La Paz lauded as hero after defending a powder magazine. Oslo note reports Nautilus missing, raising Arctic expedition safety concerns.
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Santiago
Chile
Torre
O'Higgins
Coquimbo
Talcahuano
Valparaiso
Agria
Port Bongoy
Vergara
Silvinus
Air Corps
Sur Corps
Aviasion
Senate
Fernando de la Paz
Ferdinand
King George Considers Income Cut to Aid National Crisis
London reports King George and the royal family weigh deep cuts to civil expenditures amid a postwar financial crunch. The Prince of Wales pledges $50,000, Queen and others may contribute, while PM MacDonald mulls reducing the civil list by 0,000 pounds. The crown relies on a civic list of about 2,350,000 dollars annually plus Duchy of Lancaster revenue.
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London
George
Jonni Bull
Prince of Wales
MacDonald
Duchy of Lancaster
Hoover Promises Federal Backing for Relief Drive
With Hoover administration support the national unemployment relief committee resumes work to coordinate aid to state and municipal governments for the coming winter. Walter S. Gifford plans meetings with the advisory panel as Hoover reviews progress and awaits guidance from financiers and industrialists on funding and action.
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Hoover
National Relief Committee
Washington
National Unemployment Relief Committee
Walter S. Gifford
National Relief
Rapidan
James R. Garfield
Cleveland
White House
Nautilus Returns From Polar Trip
Sir Hubert Wilkins brings polar submarine Nautilus back to Longyear City Spitzbergen after a voyage under the polar ice begun August 18. The crew reported safety despite a minor mechanical defect and days of silence, with rescue efforts readied but not used.
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Sir Hubert Wilkins
Spitzbergen
Pole
Oslo
Norway
Lonryear City
the Pele
Longyear City
Sir Hubert
Fewer Young People and More Old People in 1930 Census
The census bureau reports a shifted age structure with fewer youths and more seniors than in 1920. Total population rose to 122,775,046, infants under one numbered 2,190,791, and children under five formed 9.3 percent. The 25 to 44 age group remains highly productive, while under-five rural areas show the steepest declines.
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Washington
Sept
Census Bureau
United States
Weather Fair and Warmer Across States
Tennessee and Virginia report fair weather tonight and Wednesday with warmer conditions in northern areas. Winds from the northeast shift to gentle variable and higher highs yesterday. Readings show rainfall comparison to last year and daily measurements taken at 0:00 for the preceding 24 hours.
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Tennessee
Virginia
T. C. Herris
U.S.W
Texas Action In South Texas Cotton Debate
The Texas Legislature in a special Austin session weighs cotton policy as the cotton market crisis draws attention from the south. Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long promotes a statewide no cotton plan with five states ready to join if three fourths of crop states approve. Texas officials report mixed support for a 50 percent acreage reduction and a large farm meeting in Austin is set to gauge sentiment with Governor Sterling possibly attending to hear Governor Long.
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Associated Press
Texas
Austin Wdey
South
Huey P. Lonn
Louisiana
Arkansas
Alabema
South Carolina
Georgia
Mississippi
J. E. McDonald
House
McDonley
Austin
McDonald
Ross Sterling
Long
Mexico Invited to Join League of Nations at Geneva
At Geneva on September 8 the League of Nations assembly unanimously invited Mexico to join. Lords Cecil and Curtius praised the move as correcting a 12 year omission. Briand France, Grandi Italy, Curtius Germany, Yoshizawa Japan supported Mexico’s adhesion. observer Martinez De Alba greeted delegates warmly.
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Geneva
Mexico
Assembly
League of Nations
Lord Cecil
Great Britain
Curtius
League
Germany
M. Briand
France
Signor Grandi
Italy
Curtins
Yoshizawa
Japan
Martinez de Alba
Bayles Sets New Speed Record to Win Trophy Race
Bayles drives the Gee Bee super-sportster to win the $15,000 Charles E. Thompson trophy at the national air races in Cleveland. He clocked 286 mph on a 100 mile course, with seven contestants finishing behind him. Wedell of New Orleans took second as plans linger for a potential land-plane world record attempt.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Air Gamez
Lowell Bayles
Spring Mass
Charles E. Thompson
IRL
James H. Doolittle
Ilinois
Bayles
J. Ro Wedell
New Orleans
Cotton Crop Estimate Increases to 15.685 Million Bales
The 1924 cotton crop is estimated at 15,685,000 bales by the Agriculture Department, up from 15,584,000 a month earlier. The forecast hinges on September 1 conditions at 68.0 percent of normal and an estimated harvest area of 40,889,000 acres, with July acreage at 41,491,000 and actual abandonment at 1.3 percent.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Department
Alcock Reported Ousted as Chicago Police Chief
The Herald and Examiner reported Acting Commissioner John H. Alcock will retire and be replaced by Mayor Cer rinks favored successor Morgan A. Cerling. Alcock to attend the International Chiefs of Police meeting in Paris on extended leave as efforts to reconfigure the department proceed.
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Chicago
Herald and Examiner
John H. Alcock
Anton J. Cerinak
Flerald and
Examiner
Alcock
Paris
International of Chiefs of Police
Bsence
United States
John Norton
Collins
Mot
Secretary Doak Begins Return to Washington
Secretary of Labor William B. Doak wraps up a stop at Johnson City after his labor day address at the Appalachian Tri-State Fair. He and Mrs. Doak stay with his sister in Bristol and mingle at a Railway Brotherhoods banquet in Erwin, meeting local friends including JB. Spencer, who gave him his first railroad job.
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Bristol
Tenn
William XII. Doak
Washington
Johnson City
Doak
D. F. McCarty
Railway Brotherhoods
Erwin
Virginia
Tennessee
JB. H. Spencer
Treasury Receipts and Expenditures Reported. September Totals
Treasury receipts on September 4 were 4,873,082.13 dollars with expenditures at 18,099,314.69 dollars and a balance of 108,467,286.29 dollars. Customs receipts for the first four days of September totaled 469,009.79 dollars. In other news, Captain Von Gronau flew from Cleveland to New York. In Memphis Lieutenant W. W. Conway of the U.S. M. C. was killed in a plane incident.
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Treasury
Washington
Sept
New York
von Gronau
Cleveland
Memphis
Tenn
W. W. Conway
Insurance plot details to be revealed by Smith
County Attorney George Sackett said John M. Smith promised to tell a grand jury the facts of an alleged life insurance plot after his disappearance and body disposal. Smith, an Iowa gubernatorial candidate, was jailed at Adel while his wife faced state custody over the claim.
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Perry
George Sackett
John M. Smith
Farmer-labor Party
Iowa
Adel
Des ‘Moines
John
Smith
State Hospital For
Clarada
Sackett
Moyle and Allen Begin Hazardous Pacific Hop From Japan
Moyle and Allen started a non stop attempt from Kasumigaura near Tokyo to Seattle in a heavily fueled single motor plane. They carried no radio and aimed to pass near the Kurile Islands and Attu with a flight time of about 39 hours depending on weather. If successful they would win a 25000 prize offered by a Tokyo newspaper for the first nonstop flight from Japan to North America south of a certain latitude. A deferred 300 day jail sentence awaits Moyle upon return for a prior drunk driving conviction.
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Tokyo
Pacific
Japan
Seattle
Denone Allen
Iig
Samushira
Here
Point Erimo
Moxkaido Island
Sam Beech
Kurile
Glintrey A. Lindbergh
Moyle and
Adlen
Attu
Ishand
Aleutian
Point Eximo
Moyle
United States
Ashi
North Americ
Kasumigaura Airdrome
Los Angeles
Don Moyle
C. A. Allen
Intoxi
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State Legion Convention
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Government Air Corps
Wilkins
Sonny’ Whitney
His
Corneliua Vanderbilt Whitney
Harry Payne Whitney
Micux
Gladys Crosby Hopkins
Saratoga
WN. Y
Miss Hopkins
Stevens Heckscher
Strafford, Pa
Mark Hopkins, Jr
King George
England
Springfield
Chicago Police
Allen
Point
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