California primary spending for Hiram Johnson
Washington May 29 The senate investigating committee heard from Alexander McCabe California state insurance commissioner that Johnson campaign funds in California ranged from 100000 to 125000 dollars based on his last look at the books. He later raised the figure to 200000 and said Hoover supporters spent eight or nine times as much as Johnson, with a low estimate of 300000.
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Johnson Organization
California
Hiram Johnson
Hoover Partisans
Washington
Senate
Alexander McCabe
Johnson
McCabe
Hoover
Boxing Bill Sent by Governor Today in Texas
The governor submitted a boxing bill advocating ten round bouts and a three member state athletic commission. It requires licensed referees and state license authority. the measure cites camps in Texas as justification. The senate already passed a bill removing salary limits for teachers, while the boxing bill moves through the chamber.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Senate
American Legion
Austin May 29 Sessions Hold No Major Action
Both legislative chambers met in Austin but no important business was scheduled. A joint appropriations panel considers emergency educational bills totaling five million dollars, not expected to be reported before next week. A concurrent resolution proposes surveying a central Texas location for a Branch Penitentiary.
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Austin
Texas
House
Senate
French column relieves Ainah Syria after heavy fighting
London May 29 reports a French column fought into Ainah Syria and relieved the town after intense combat. Turkish forces reportedly suffered heavy casualties in the engagement.
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Associated Press
London
Aintah
Syria
Boll worm probe to be concluded today in Austin
Investigation of the pink boll worm will end today as counsel reports. The joint committee favors the regulated zones bill over the Tillotson proposal for non cotton zones, aligning with the federal agriculture department.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Joint Committee
Federal
Department of Agriculture
Zionists Press British To Honor Palestine Promise
In Leeds May 29 British Zionists urge Britain to fulfill its wartime pledge to establish a national home for Jews in Palestine. They warn Arabs may block full realization and pledge funding and emigration to Palestine from England and Poland. If promises fail they threaten mass migration and a demand to cry “To your tents, O Israel.”
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Associated Press
Leeds
Eng
Great Britain
Palestine
J. E. Geller
England
Poland
Arabia
Mesopotamia
Israel
Union Chief Arrives to Lead International Oil Field Workers
Grant Jacobs of Los Angeles arrived in Fort Worth to assume the duties of president of the International Oil Field Workers. Headquarters will stay in Fort Worth. He was elected by a nationwide vote last week.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
Texas
Grant Jacobs
Los Angeles
Calif
International Oil Field Workers
Fryerson Nominated for Solicitor General Post
President Wilson nominated William C. Fryerson, then assistant attorney general, to be solicitor general of the United States. The announcement came on May 29 in Washington.
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Associated Press
Washington
William C. Fryerson
Wilson
United States
Dallas Man Arrested After Assault on White Woman
James Brown, a Black man, was arrested near Hale Station west of Dallas after an assault on a white woman. He confessed today per the district attorney. A large crowd gathered at the jail but the sheriff did not expect trouble.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Texas
James Brown
Hale Station
German decree to abolish corporal punishment in schools
Berlin reports the Ministry for public instruction issued a decree abolishing corporal punishment in German schools. Caning and similar castigation are deemed outdated and to be replaced by moral suasion. The decree prohibits punishment of girls and calls for a follow up report by teachers in a year on moral suasion effects.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Ministry For Public Instruction
Stevedore Strike Probed by Officials in New York
The coastwise longshoremen strike crippling port freight moves drew separate investigations by Governor Smith and AFL president Samuel Gompers. Gompers said the strikers were willing to arbitrate.
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US Associated Press
New York
Smith
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Contests to settle Republican convention delegates
Chicago officials indicated that decisions in four delegate contests at the Republican convention likely settle all disputes involving 122 seats. National committee members said the disputes will be considered starting Monday.
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Associated Press
Chicago
National Committee
World altitude record at Kelly Field broken
San Antonio Texas May 29 An other world altitude record was broken at Kelly Field when Lieut Harry Weddington flew a plane with four passengers to about 19 800 feet. He climbed for an hour and twenty minutes and landed in twenty minutes.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Texas
Kelly Field
Harry Weddington
A Costly Crop in Louisiana Strawberries
New Orleans scene reports Louisiana strawberry crop valued at 7,507,500 dollars per Department of Agriculture estimates. Record prices achieved as about 7,700 acres were planted this season.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Louisiana
Department of Agriculture
Not for rent at Fort Omaha humorous posting misread
In Omaha on May 29 a notice claimed a dozen modern homes at Fort Omaha were rent free and tenantless. The post received many inquiries from anxious house hunters before readers realized the item was a humorously intended article about officers quarters, not available housing.
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Associated Press
Omaha
Neb
Fort Omaha
Post
DePauw Daily suspended by university faculty
Greencastle Ind May 29 The DePauw Daily student publication is suppressed for the rest of the school year after faculty objections to recent articles. The faculty announced that next year the paper would appear as a weekly or semi weekly under supervision of the journalism department.
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Associated Press
Greencastle
Ind
DePauw Daily
DePauw University
Department of Journalism
Mrs Lincoln Works In Hotel Near London
London May 29 Mrs Lincoln wife of Ignatius Tribitsch Lincoln former German spy deported from England and press censor during the Kapp revolt is now employed in domestic service in a quiet hotel near London The Daily Sketch says she once ran a large establishment Lincoln has written asking her to go to Germany but she will stay in Britain with her children as British subjects
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Associated Press
London
Lincoln
Ignatius Tribitsch Lincoln
England
Daily Sketch
Germany
Laredo National Bank May 4 1929 Statement Summary
Laredo National Bank of Laredo Texas reports at close May 4 1929 condensed to loans and discounts 2061689 91 other bonds and securities 2401 47 stock in Federal Reserve Bank 12000 00 redemption fund with banking house furniture and fixtures 5837 40 cash and exchange 1460437 80 United States bonds 237050 00 U S Treasurer 50000 00 interest gained not collected 93829416 67 liabilities capital stock surplus fund undivided profits net unearned interest approximate 27864 04 reserved for taxes 9007 33 rediscounts 28000 00 Other liabilities 6387 68 total 3829416 67 signatures of assistant cashiers M W Brennan A Vidaurri J R Fasnacht
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Federal Reserve Bank
United States
U. S
OUR. Ioven Eens
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