Insulls Win Acquittal In U S Case
Federal Judge Knox directed the jury to acquit Samuel Insull Sr. and three co defendants on bankruptcy law charges after rapid trial. Government evidence claimed nearly 2.5 million in assets of Corporation Securities were moved to favored creditors as insolvency loomed, with much going to the Insull family.
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Chicago
Jenn Cr. Kennox
Samuel Insull
Samuel Ingall, Jr
Harold L. Stuart
Knox
Gull Jnsuit
Corporation Securities Company
Insull Walities
Insull
State Uses 32 Million Tounds of Hot Dogs
Tribune report from Washington Bureau notes the American Institute of Meat Packers cites Americans consume vast annual hot dog quantities. Wisconsin figures highlight five inch franks. national total estimates reach 1.5 billion hot dogs yearly. The piece hints at weather forecasts and regional notes tied to Saturday expectations.
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Tribune Washington Bureau
Washington
Wisconsin
Caleta
India
American Institute of Meat Packers
Calcutta
German Blast Toll Officially Set At 52
In Reinsdorf near Berlin a catastrophic munitions plant explosion left official toll at 52 dead, 75 seriously injured, and 300 hurt with unofficial estimates up to 1000. Fire and aftershocks swept the area as Nazi authorities led rescue and censorship efforts amid mass evacuation and scenes of heroism.
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Reinsdorf
Germany
Associated Press
Wittenberg
Marshall A. Goff New Commander Of Wingers Post
Marshall A. Goff was unanimously elected commander of the Roy L. Wingers post of the American Legion at Thursday’s meeting, succeeding William Gillette with no opposition. New officers include Paul G. Druschise as first vice commander Louis Davis as second vice commander W. B. Johnson finance officer L. V. Weisensel historian Walter Ahlstrom chaplain Carl Scheel sergeant at arms and R. Clayton Garde Archie Downey Arthur Renner as executive committee members. For the first time the second vice commander will automatically join the executive committee due to a preadopted resolution. A proposal to sponsor a combined race program and agricultural fair at Interstate fair grounds was also discussed.
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Marshall A. Goff
Reserve Officers Assocciation
Roy L. Wingers
American Legion
Goff
William Gillette
Paul G. Druschise
Louis Davis
W. B. Johnson
L. V. Weisensel
Walter Ahl~strom
Assembly kills betting measure in Wisconsin
Madison reports an 78 to 11 Assembly vote to veto the Beges-Grobschmidt-Harper pari mutuel betting bill at race tracks. The plan would tax pari mutuel machines 3 percent for fair revenues. Opponents derided the funding as blood money while critics warned the cash gap would remain if not legalized. Proponents argued legalization would let the state profit from an ongoing activity.
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Madison
Wis
Assembly
Carl Nelson
Medford
Little Boy Arrested but Father Is Guilty
A boy was briefly taken into custody for firing an air rifle in the city, but the father Wilford Crane of 222 King Street was fined five dollars in municipal court. The father had been shooting at insulators on telephone and light poles before Judge George P. Ruediger. Police noted city law allows air rifle use but warned cases will be prosecuted to the full extent.
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Wilford Crane
King Street
George P. Ruediger
Paljce
Old Law Principle May Save Woman From Life Sentence
Tacoma lawyers cite an old English law that a wife is a husband’s chattel to argue that Mrs. Harmon M. Waley may avoid a life sentence for kidnapping George Weyerhaeuser. While the couple remains jailed in Olympia, federal agents pursue leads on William Mahan, and a mountain cabin near Butte is searched for the scar-faced suspect.
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Tacoma
Wash
T Pi
Harmon M. Waley
George Weyerhaeuser
Butte
Mont
Mahan
Margaret Thulin Waley
George
Idaho
Margaret Waley
Spokane
Harmon
Waley
Waleys
British Nazis In Naval Pact Agreement Declared
British sources say a bilateral Anglo German naval pact limits Germany to 35 percent of Britain's underage fleet and could be part of a multilateral ocean power agreement. Hitler assented via Sir Samuel Hoare at a Ribentrop meeting, with Paris Rome and Washington awaiting replies.
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London
Great Britain
Germany
Washington
France
Italy
United States
Japan
Paris
Rome
England
Russia
France Defaults On World War Debt Again
Paris reports France has again defaulted on its war debt payment to the United States for the sixth time. Premier Laval’s note, approved by the Council of Ministers, thanks Washington for the suggestion of a settlement and expresses readiness to seek a basis of settlement as soon as circumstances permit. The government outlines drastic cuts in expenses and the return of foreign workers as measures while hoping for a situation that may justify negotiations.
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Paris
France
United States
Pierre Laval
Council of Ministers
Washington
State Department
Council of Mirderers
Anc
Indicted for Threat to Bomb White House
Washington DC grand jury indicted Tra Bashein, a West Point graduate two years ago, for threatening to bomb the White House. The former army officer, now in district jail for disorderly conduct, has been pronounced insane by district alienists, and the indictment aims to push commitment to St. Elizabeths hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Tra Bashein
West Point
District of Columbia
White House
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Social Security Bill Presented To Senate
Administration social security bill introduced in Washington to address insecurity. Chairman Harrison of the finance committee outlined the program but faced immediate Republican criticism alleging discrimination against the nation's youth.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Harrison
Finance Committee
Republian
Richberg Concludes Two Stormy Years
Washington report on Donald Richberg leaving government service after two turbulent years overseeing the National Industrial Recovery Act and codes. He cites three achievements including collective bargaining, abolition of child labor, and wage equity gains, plus disappointment over Schechter decision and NRA salvage challenges.
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Ruby A. Black
Tribune Washington
Washington, D. C
Donald Randall Richberg
NRA
Wagner-Connery
Schechter
Richberg
NIRA
House Approves Senate Changes In NRA Measure
The House quickly approved Senate amendments to extend the abbreviated NRA to April 1 and sent the measure to President Roosevelt for signature. The 338 to 30 vote came after about 40 minutes of debate with Republicans arguing against prolonging the NRA while Democrats defended the action and discussed the Borah anti trust amendment.
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Washington
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Michener
R-Mich
Jenkins
Ohio
NRA
Doughton
Ways and Means Committee
Banat Concert Tonight At Riverside Park
The La Crosse concert band under Edward F. Mumm conducts a program at 8 o clock tonight in the Dr Wendell A Anderson Memorial bandstand at Riverside Park.
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la Crosse
Edward F. Mumm
Wendell A. Anderson
Riverside Park
Japanese Make Further Demands in Tientsin and Peiping
Japanese army officers issued a new set of demands to Chinese authorities in Chahar province as replacements for garrisons in Tientsin and Peiping began arriving from the border. They urged immediate cessation of anti-Japanese actions, punishment of those who detained Japanese travelers, and an apology with a guarantee against further incidents.
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Tientsin
China
Chahar Province
Peiping
Changpei
Chahar
Major J W Cotton Transferred To Hawaiian Islands For Service
Major John W. Cotton, former unit instructor of the organized reserves in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is to be transferred from reserve duty to active duty in the Hawaiian Islands next month. He will sail from New York in July and join the activity there in the fall of 1930 after succeeding the late Col G A Weiser in the local office. He has served in the U S Army for more than 21 years and has been active in the Legion and veterans’ activities in the city in addition to reserve duties.
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John W. Cotton
Organized Reserves
Federal Building
Wisconsin Reserve District
Hawaiian Islands
War Department
Washington
Cotton
la Crosse
New York
G. A. Weiser
Legion
United States Army
How Senators Balloted Upon La Follette Bill
Two late Wisconsin senate roll calls on the La Follette works bill ended in defeat. The final vote to kill the enabling act was 19 to 14, with party lines and named members listed for and against. A separate amendment separating tax revisions from works financing failed 17 to 16, with noted lawmakers supporting and opposing.
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Madison
Wis
Senate
Anderson
Cashman
Engebretson
Groves
Hunt
Ingram
Kannenberg
Leverich
McDermid
Panzer
Rowlands
Rush
Severson
Dempsey
Bolens
Brunette
Carroll
Cailan
Clancy
Galasinski
Kelly
Morrissey
Phillips
Schoenecker
Shearers
Wade
Zimny
Coakley
Griswold
Mack
Morris
Nelson
Shearer
R. Maple
Callan
Shenners
Soft Coal Union and Operators Ask Strike Delay
President Roosevelt urged postponement of the threatened bituminous strike until July 1. John L. Lewis announced that both union and operators' chiefs would propose the pause to labor conferences Saturday. Roosevelt linked the request to the Guffey bill and to stabilizing coal industry wage agreements to avoid a suspension of work.
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Washington
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
White House
Roosevast
Lewis
Add Sed
Guffey
Truce Takes Effect in Chaco Warfare Amid Peace Move
A 10 day truce began at noon Friday in the Chaco as Bolivian and Paraguayan staffs ordered cease fire to weary troops. The peace protocol, signed earlier in the week by six neutral American nations, moves to ratification by belligerent congresses and demobilization talks. A neutral military commission, with Capt. Frederick Sharp as U.S. representative, oversaw the suspension of hostilities.
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Buenos Cires Pi
Chaco
Slayer Hanged in Rimousk for Child's Murder
Alexandre Savard also known as Dergeron was hanged in Rimousk Quebec after conviction for murdering his nine day old child by suffocation on January 26 last year. The sentence was carried out Friday.
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Rimousk
Alexandre Savard
Dergeron
Revised Plan Is Presented To Assembly
Madison, Wis. Governor La Follette presented a revised plan for a $209 million work relief program but saw the Wisconsin Finance Authority instrument defeated in the state senate. Two bills were introduced in the assembly to split the measure, one for work relief and the other for budget balancing and unemployment aid. The administration’s tax backed warrants plan failed 19 to 14, with key defections from Democrats and Republicans seeking federal participation on similar terms.
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Madison
Wis
State Senate
Wisconsin
Philip F. la Follette
Wisconsin Finance Authority
Senate
Assembly
Wisconsin Finance Corporation
Chester Dempsey
Hartland
Philip Nelson
Maple
Nelson
League of Wisconsin Municipalities
Conrad Shearer
Kenosha
Shearer
Mike Mack
Shiccon
Dempsey
Mack
W. H. Shenners
Milwaukee
Washington
Federal Works Allotment Board
Thomas M. Douncan
Col
Huey Is Slipping As Huey Talks End Soon
Beverly Hills column laments Huey Long's fading influence as senatorial life curtails his public talk. The piece mocks his reduced speaking hours and notes a dated novelty moment when he read the U.S. Constitution, remarking on misread public perception.
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Huey
Beverly Hills
Calif
U.S.A
Tem
China
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U. S
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Vestist
Gerda
Reserve Officers Association
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Gaboteg
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Wingers
Laval
Robert F. Wagner
Hugh S. Johnson
Lewis Douglas
Rienberg
Donald R. Richberg
J. W. Cotton
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