Post Office Lease Survey Ready for President Review
The survey on post office leases completed by Postmaster General Brown will be delivered to President Hoover this week. It supports a shift toward government ownership of key postal buildings, noting 6,500 leased structures and annual rent around 17.6 million dollars. Brown cites professional bidders and argues ownership could improve efficiency and conditions.
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Washington
Hoover
Brown
United States
Chicago
van Buren Street
Federal Building
Post Office Department
Emergency freight rate relief for 87 counties suspended
Washington dispatch reports the certification of 87 Kansas and Texas counties for emergency drought relief freight rates has been suspended pending livestock feed supply investigations. Dr. C W Warburton says study of 46 Texas and 41 Kansas counties could finish within a week as the American Railway Association seeks extension. The basis remains crop conditions with feed and pasture crops under 50 percent of normal, though surpluses may exist in some large feed-producing counties.
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Washington
Kansas
Texas
C. W. Warburton
Department of Agriculture
American Railway Association
Warburton
Tennessee and Virginia Weather Outlook With Showers
Weather report notes rain and cooler temperatures across Tennessee with showers in the east and cooler air in the west. Virginia forecasts local thunder showers tonight and Wednesday with moderating winds and cooler temperatures. Readings taken at 6 30 p m by C L Bunn US Weather Bureau.
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Tennessee
Virginia
C. L. Bunn
Illinois Methodist conference accuses Mrs McCormick of chicanery
The Danville conference of the Methodist church accuses Mrs McCormick of chicanery over her prohibition stance, asserting deceitful methods in her political or social campaign.
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Danville
New Tariff Body Ready for Duties in Washington
The tariff commission begins work to smooth inequalities from the Hawley Smoot act while the Federal Reserve Board shifts leadership from Roy A. Young to Eugene Meyer after a White House conference. Meyer brings a decade of governance experience to the new post as the board remains with a vacant vice chair.
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Washington
Tariff Commission
Hoover
White House
Federal Reserve Board
Roy A. Young
Eugene Meyer
New York
Meyer
War Finance Corporation
Federal Farm Loan Board
Young
Edmund D. Platt
Federal Reserve District
Platt
Henry P. Fletcher
Nations Unite For Immediate Global Disarmament Plea
In Geneva the League of Nations debate drew Britain’s Arthur Henderson with Signor Scialoja and Julius Curtius advocating rapid general disarmament. They urged reducing armaments to the lowest safe level without waiting for security guarantees, aligning with Versailles treaty goals.
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Geneva
Switz
France
Italy
Germany
Arthur Henderson
Signor Scialoja
Mussolini
Grandi
League of Nations Assembly
Curtius
Julius Curtius
Assembly of the
League of Nations
Nicolas Titulescu
Great Britain
Aristide Briand
Center
Milton Sills Dies at 48 After Tennis Vent
Hollywood mourns Milton Sills a famed film star who quit teaching to pursue acting. He collapsed during tennis with wife Doris Keyon and died of heart disease at 48. Born Chicago 1882 he studied at the University of Chicago and rose to Broadway stardom before film success.
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Milton Sills
Doris Keyon
Lon Chaney
Sills
Frank Nance
Chicago
University of Chicago
Dora Thorne
New Palestine
Last Relics of Andree Party Return From Arctic
The Swedish vessel Isbjoern returned to Skovakk with relics of the Andree polar balloon expedition after eight days at sea. The crew preserved artifacts including a note on a map linking to the 1928 Nobile tragedy, a notebook with Strindberg writings, letters, a tie, photos, and a birthday letter from his brother Tore. Captain Knut Stubendorf expects to proceed to Tromsoe for shore examination.
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Skoavikk
Norway
Isbjoern
White Island
Hviloveen
Knut Frankel
Andree
Tromsoe
Knut Stubendorf
Bratvaag
Frankel
Dree
Foyn Island
Stubendorf
Franz Josefland
Spitzbergen
Huitveen
Nils Strindberg
Greenland
Stridberg
Strindberg
Tore
Noted Broadway figure John the Barber dies at 61
John J. Keisler known as John the Barber, boxer and promoter who helped launch Jack Dempsey, died in Lebanon hospital from an infected finger. He aged 61. He hosted a famed West 44th Street barber shop with 25 manicurists and once testified in the Becker Rosenthal murder case.
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New York
John
Broadway
Lebanon Hospital
John J. Keisler
Jack Dempsey
Dempsey
John the Barber
Abe Attell
Mayfair Theatre
West 44Th Street
Charles A. Becker
Herman Rosenthal
43Rd Street
Nye feared disclosures as McCormick presses wire tapping charges
Senator Nye and the senate campaign funds committee faced a tense inquiry as Ruth Hanna McCormick accuses rivals of wire tapping her primary expenditures. She cites two witnesses, George Cole and Frank Ortlepp, kept in seclusion, and describes a cut-in line near her Bryan Illinois farm used to relay conversations.
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Ruth Hanna McCormick
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Oscar F. Carlstrom
Illinois
Ruth Hanna MceCormick
Chicago
Senate
Bryan
Til
Winnebago County
Suspect Denies Charges in Lingle Murder Case
Louisville, Sept 16. A suspect picked on vagrancy charges admitted being Theo dore Geisking but denied knowing Chicago reporter Jake Lingle. Chicago detectives and Indiana police identified him. a witness said the man seen fleeing resembled the suspect though hair differed. Geisking admitted past whiskey running and hijacking. Bond set at $5,000 on a fugitive and murder charge.
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Louisville
Theodore
Ted) Geisking
Lingle
Chicago
Indiana
Geisking
George Williams
Jake Lingle
Williams
Los Angeles
Milton Sills
Lack of cash may block ocean hop
Lieut Harold Bromley abandoned his attempt to fly the Pacific this year due to funding woes. He said he hoped for backing for a trans Pacific effort in 1938 after repairing damaged parts on his monoplane City of Tacoma, a month required, then storage planned in Yokohama for the winter.
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Glenn Babe
Associated Press
Ominato
Japan
Harold Bromley
Pacific
Tacoma
Bromley
Yokoma
Drift to Pacific Flight Ends Noted Attempt
Harold Bromley of Tacoma and Harold Gatty of Australia expressed fear they cannot repeat the non stop Pacific crossing from Japan to Tacoma due to finances. Gatty said the attempt should be abandoned after the City of Tacoma returned to Japan with a damaged exhaust pipe after 25 hours of flight and 1,200 miles toward the goal.
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Ominato
Oamori Prefecture
Japan
Pacific
Tacoma
Wash
Harold Bromley
Harold Gatty
Bromley
Gatty
Primaries Map Race for Senate and Governor Seats
National and state contests unfold across five states with Massachusetts Delaware Wisconsin and Connecticut choosing senatorial and gubernatorial nominees. Key names include Gillett Foss Draper Collidge and Bayard while La Follette pursues Wisconsin governor’s post amid pro and anti prohibition alignments.
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Washington
New York
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
Connecticut
Delaware
Bay State
House
Senate
Gillett
Republican National Committee
Lcben S. Draper
Andrew J. (Bossy) Gills
Newburyport
Marcus A. Collidge
Fitchburg
Eugene N. Foss
Peter J. Joyce
Thomas C. O’brien
Joseph F. O'Connell
Foss
Draper
Collidge
Gillis Stytes
Daniel O. Hastings
Thomas F. Bayard
Josiah Marvel
Drys
Philip F. LaFollette
Bruening Seeks Aid of Leaders in Germany Crisis
Berlin Sept. 16 Chancellor Bruening cancelled out of town visits and pressed negotiations with party leaders to gain a workable majority for the government. He has pledges of support from President Hindenburg and other politicians, and observers see a strengthened position. The Hindenburg Bruening government will not resign over Sunday’s election. Reichstag President Loebe urged Bruening to convene the new assembly on October 13.
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Berlin
Bruening
Hindenburg
Hindenburg- Bruening
Germany
Reichstag
Loebe
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Jetta Gondal
Jetta
Harry Grieve
Hollywood
School of Stars
Arctic
Broadway Dies
Reisler
Boxer
Nye
Ted Geisking
Joan MacDonald
Ramsay MacDonald
Alistair MacKinnon
Miss MacDonald
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Del
Lafollette
Wis
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