Bishop Cannon Explains Subpoena Contempt Claim
Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal church explains he left the Senate lobby committee room without disruption and reappeared later without a quorum. He defends his actions as voluntary and reiterates that 48360 he received from E C Jameson financed anti Smith campaigns in Virginia.
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Washington
James Cannon Jr
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Senate
Blaine
Wis
Walsh
Dem. Mont
Cannon
Virginia
Arkansas
Caraway
Senate Lobby Committee
James Cannon, Jr
Aertion
Tattooing and tropical disease protection questioned
In the British Medical Journal Dr. Rose Jordan notes the old army belief that tattooed men resist tropical infections. She questions whether skin tattooing genuinely offers protection or is merely superstition.
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London
U.P
Rose Jordan
Oldest Decatur Fireman Dies After 45 Years Service
Oliver Jackson, Decatur's oldest volunteer firefighter, died recently after 45 years with the bucket brigade. The longtime fireman served in Decatur, Indiana, and was remembered for his decades of service to the city.
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Decatur
Ind
U.P
Oliver Jackson
Bucket Brigade
Brazil Soldiers Fall in Guerilla Ambush Near Parahyba
Rio de Janeiro June 7 Thirty two soldiers were killed and at least fifty drowned after an ambush by a guerrilla band at Agua Branca in Parahyba state. Eighty guerrillas led by Captain Luiz Traingulo attacked the militiamen as they rode in twelve trucks. Reinforcements headed to assist Captain Joao Costa in an expected government attack on Princesa, a guerrilla stronghold, as the fighting spread in Paraiba.
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Rio DE Janiero
Agua Branca
Parahyba
Pernambuco
Norte Here
Luiz
Espirito Santo
State of
Joao Costa
Princeza
Hoover Refuses to Turn Over Treaty Papers
The Hoover administration braces for Senate foreign relations criticism as President Hoover declines to produce secret naval negotiation papers. Secretary Stimson says Geneva conference documents will be released, while other papers requested through Borah are said to be incompatible with the public interest.
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Washington
UW P
Toever
Naval
Borah
Senate
Johnson
Repni
Calif
State Stimson
Hoover
Stimson
Long skirts doomed says French expert
Paris reports fashion forecast as Jean Patou predicts skirts will vanish within a year and a half. He says women will show their calves again while designers shift daytime dresses to several inches below knee length. Evening gowns remain long by waistline shifts.
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Ralph Heinzen
United Press
Paris
U.P
Rue de la Paix
Jean Patou
iCentral Students Visit Lapeer Feebleminded Home
At six this morning Dr EE Rowe's mental and sex hygiene class from Central State Teachers College began an all day trip to Lapeer. The group toured the Michigan Home and Training School for feeble minded, heard a program by the children, and a clinic by Dr Schneider to study types of feeblemindedness and possible causes. The class returns to Mt Pleasant later today.
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GC. Rowe
Central State Teachers College
Lapeer
Michigan Home and Training School
College
Michigan
Schniider
Mt. Pleasant
Thug killed after attack on Detroit woman
A 40 year old man identified as Phillin D Williams assaulted Mrs Louise Poppler at a traffic light in Detroit. Fred C Wenskay a court attaché heard cries and shot Williams through the neck as he fled. Poppler was hospitalized with severe scalp wounds and possible skull fracture. Wenskay was held on a technical charge of murder.
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Detroit
Phillin D. Williams
Louise Poppler
Williams
Peppler
Fred C. Wenskay
Probation Department of
Researcher’s Court
Teppler
Wenskay
Veriskay
Pepaler
Bavarian village protests beer tax with milk diet
In Munich on June 7, villagers staged a one day strike against the tax hike on beer. An indig nation meeting followed at a local restaurant where they drank only milk all afternoon. It is unclear if the diet will be permanent.
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Munich
Eckener Sees Commercial Zeppelin Routes Soon From Tour
Friedrichshafen Germany June 7 The Graf Zeppelin may open commercial routes immediately officials said after the airship’s three continent tour covering 18000 miles in 19 days 2 hours and 7 minutes The voyage included a south Atlantic crossing and a Pernambuco Lakehurst leg with uncharted Caribbean routes while Eckener dodged a southern France storm and praised solved technical questions.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
U.R
Graf’ Zeppelin
Three Continents
Hugo Eekener
Zeppelin
Eekener
Graf Zeppelin
North Atlantic
Dr. Eckener
France
Dx. Eckener
Tariff bill fate doubtful after informal Senate poll
Washington June 7 U P An informal United Press poll shows the tariff bill at a 46 46 tie with four doubtful senators and many possibly absent. Coalitionists claim 49 43 against. administration forces hope a tie aided by Vice President Curtis. If rejected leaders may revise to remove the 1 per thousand feet soft lumber duty and return to conference. Conference reports expected Monday.
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Paul R. Mallon
United Press
Washington
U.P
Senate
Curtis
Cancer
Kay
Cutting
Grundy
King
Dem
Utah
Capper
Pennsyvania
Rare 800-Year-Old Match-Lock Gun Joins Hastings Museum
A gun dating back at least 800 years and one of the earliest match-locks has been added to Hastings museum. The five foot barrel exceeds an inch bore and the piece once belonged to the Duke of Austria. The museum now houses over 600 projectile arms and about 200 swords bayonets and other side arms.
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Hastings, Neb
Hastings Museum
Austria
Wet Democratic Coalition Threatens Pennsylvania G O P
Pennsylvania politics heat up as the wet issue looms in the November race. Secretary of Labor James J. Davis wins the Republican Senate nomination and Gifford Pinchot takes the governorship bid, both aligned with dry positions amid a tight primary.
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Pennsylvania
Joseph Ek. Grundy
Bris
Graf Zeppelin's Epochal Flight Recalls History Of Dirigibles
CHICAGO June 7 WP The Graf Zeppelin's third trans Atlantic flight adds to the record of lighter than air travel and traces the evolution from Bacon to Santos Dumont to Count Zeppelin. It notes early experiments, 18th century ballooning, Wrights and Green departures, and the 1919 B 34 crossing before recounting the Graf Zeppelin voyages and postwar interest in airships.
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Graf Zeppelin
Chicago
Ill
Fasling
Roger Bacon
Cavendish
Montgolfier
France
de Roziey
Blanchard
English Channel
Charles Green
London
Weilburg
Glaisher
Coxwell
Greenwich Observatory
Henri Giffard
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Zeppelin
Count Zeppelin
England
Great Britain
Atlantic Ocean
America
United States
Zeppelin Corporation
Fire Hazards in Oil Fields to Be Studied
Oklahoma City engineers from the National Fire Protective Association will study methods to curb fire hazards in wild oil gushers this September. Fire Marshal G R O Neal invited them amid fears from outlaw wells in the Oklahoma City oil field, highlighted by the Mary Sudik and Sigmon gushers.
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Oklahoma City
U.P
National / Fire Protective association
Oklahoma
G. R. O’neal
Mary Sudik
Sigmon
O’neal
Jedding
Mary Sudle
O'Neal
Oklahoma Giy
Logal family badly injured in auto crash
Five members of Floyd Burgess family from Hafer Oil were injured in a head on crash 6% miles west of Saginaw. Mrs Burgess suffered a fractured skull and serious head injuries. Floyd Burgess had a crushed hand. Kenneth Burgess was also badly cut. Two younger children had minor injuries.
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Logal
Floyd Burgess
Hafer Oil Company
Saginaw
Oil worker killed after blast at Coates lease
Wilbur Bodertscher, 20, Pure Oil employee, was killed at 5 30 p m when blown from the top of a large storage tank by a sudden flow of oil on the Coates lease in Section 2 Chippewa His skull was crushed when his head struck a flow line He had worked for Pure Oil in the field since last September His home was Lima Ohio The body will be taken to Lima for burial The dead man's father witnessed the accident The Bodertscher family recently moved from Ohio
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Wilbur Bodertscher
Mt. Pleasant
Lima
Ohio
Bodertscher
Miss McClinchey to be replaced at Central State
Emily Burton, Nebraska and Columbia graduate, will take over the Central State Teachers College English chair this summer, after Florence McClinchey goes on leave to pursue a doctoral thesis. Burton now teaches at Michigan State Normal College. McClinchey plans to spend summer with family on Sugar Island.
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Emily Burton
University of Nebraska
Columbia University
Florence McClinchey
Central State Teachers College
Miss Burton
Michigan State Normal College
Dog leads police to newborn baby in France street
In Clermont Ferrand June 7 a fox terrier dragged a brown paper parcel to a policeman and stood by as if urging him to look inside. The officer opened the package and found a newborn baby. The dog had apparently heard the crying infant and pulled it along the wall.
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Clermont
Verrand
France
Out and In Again
Reuben Russel, an inmate serving a jail term for larceny, mowed a sheriff Hall’s lawn in Clark County Indiana and left with two mowers. He pled guilty to theft, paid a $30 fine, and was sent to the state penal farm for six months.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Reuben Russel
Hall
Hughes
Clark County
High Share Of April Violations Attributed To Fishermen
Lansing reports that 86 percent of Michigan conservation law violations in April involved fish laws. Of 334 total violations, 288 were fish law convictions, with 99 for fish spearing. Fines and costs totaled 9086.96 with an average 27.20, and violators served 459 days in jail.
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Lansing
Michigan
Departament of Conservation
Lapeer
Flint
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