Elections to be held on May 30 in Britain
Parliament ends after the prorogation following a speech from the throne. Nominations for the new parliament close May 20 with a general election across Great Britain ten days later. King George signs the dissolution proclamation at Bognor after a privy council.
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London
Ramsay MacDonald
Privy Council
Craigwell House
Bognor
George
Commons
House of Lords
House “of Lords
Royal Commission
Roosevelt Nominated for Porto Rico Governor Post
Washington report says Theodore Roosevelt has been recommended to President Hoover for the Porto Rico governorship by prominent figures both in Porto Rico and the United States. No final decision has been made. Roosevelt is currently in the interior of China and other candidates are under consideration.
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Washington, D. C
Theodore Roosevelt
Hoover
Porto Rico
White House
Roosevelt
China
Philippine Islands
Frank R. McCoy
Fire Ruins Three Buildings In Franksville Wisconsin
Residents viewed the ruins after a large fire in Franksville, Racine County. The blaze began in a garage then spread to a barber shop owned by Charles Callen, a combined store and apartment building owned by Fred Rammelt, displacing two families. About $300 in bills owned by Rammelt were destroyed. Racine firefighters assisted Franksville volunteers.
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Racine
Wis
Franksville
Charles Callen
Fred Rammielt
Racine Fire Department
Van Pelt Named Eighteenth District Judge at Niagara
Joseph Taber a 26 year old county traffic officer was killed in a head on motorcycle crash with a car driven by 34 year old Thomas Kennedy near Niagara Wisconsin. Kennedy was en route to a dance Taber had attended and undersheriff Oscar Dahl investigated the crash Kennedy is held without charge at Marinette county jail.
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Niagara
Wis
Joseph Taber
Thomas Kennedy
Here
Oscar Dahl
Kennedy
Taber
Marinette
Republicans Split Over Tariff Revision Broad Western and Eastern Opposition
Washington reports a clear division within the Republican Party over a tariff revision bill. A bloc from ten western states and some eastern industrialists oppose the measure, and leaders called a full conference to decide how to proceed. The dispute centers on farm duties and how to apply protection to agriculture versus manufacturing.
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Washington, D. C
Hawley
Mittee
Miss Helen Wills Holds Unoffical Court in London
Miss Helen Wills of California held an unofficial court on the Mall beside Queen Mary in Buckingham Palace. The tennis star, accompanied by Miss Harriet Walker, drew a long queue as her limousine moved to the palace. Debutantes in ankle length gowns and feather fans mingled with American women and members of the diplomatic corps in a two hour Buckingham Palace ceremony.
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Henry L. Percy
United Press
London
Queen Mary
England
Buckingham Palace
Helen Wills
California
Miss Wills
Palace
Wills
Harriet Walker
Piedmont
Calif
Prince of Wales
Prince George
Princess Mary
Viscount Lascelles
Princess Louise
Helena
Victoria
Princess Marie Louise
George Barnett
Washington
Mollie Cullum
Pittsburgh
Paul Grenig
San Francisco
George Lawrence
New York City
Margaret McKittrick
St. Louis
Catherine Norcross
Atlanta
Margaret Tyner
Highland Park
Adeline Winston
Diplomatic Corps
Raymond Cox
Charles Wesson
William Galbraith
Frederick Lee
Miss Walker
Virginia Willys
Toledo
Elizabeth Behn
Alice Coonley
Chicago
Lillian Anderson
Black Mountain
N. C
Albert Halstead
Cincinnati
Jocelyn Pierson
Baltimore
Gift of land and cash fuels Girl Scout camp plan
Land valued at 38000 dollars and 10000 dollars in cash from Mrs. W H Alford and Mrs C W Nash will establish a Girl Scout camp near Lake Pleasant eight miles north of Elkhorn. The gift covers land and main building construction with work to start soon under Girl Scout commissioner Edith Cavanaugh.
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W. H. Alford
C. W. Nash
Edith Cavanaugh
Lake Pleasant
Elkhorn
Alfford
Nash Motors Company
Nash
C. W. Wash
Order Lifted Barring Newsmen From District Jail
Washington officials lifted the ban on newspapermen from the district jail during the confinement of Harry F. Sinclair. The action was announced today by George S. Wilson, director of the District of Columbia board of welfare.
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Washington, D. C
Harry F. Sinclair
George S. Wilson
District of Columbia Board of Welfare
Congress Debates Tariff Billing and Farm Bill Proposals
In Congress today the House continues general tariff debate while the Senate weighs farm bill amendments. Republican midwest delegations press for delay on tariff bill rules as Senate committees hear on radio commission supervision. Members critique administration policies and group actions touch on prohibition and road control measures.
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Associated Press
House
Senate
Republicans
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Federal Communications Commission
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Fess
Ohio
Wye
Brookhart
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
Radio Commission
McKellar
Tennessee
American Taxpayers League
Mellon
Senate Manufactures Committee
Robinson
Arkansas
Brand
Georgia
Dry
New York
Garner
Texas
Joseph R. Grundy
Mississippi Valley
Hoover
James
Army Air Corps
Old and New South Clash Over Lincoln Memorial Greetings
In New Orleans the Louisiana division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy debated honoring Abraham Lincoln. A proposed resolution lamenting school observances was declined, while a compromise urged discouraging Lincoln birthday programs in southern public schools. Members argued Lincoln’s legacy and the effect on regional sentiment.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Abraham
Lincoln
Jefferson
Weir
Obhor Sbate
Miriam L. Green
P. P. Jones
Leesville
Forest Fires Menace Northern Canada Regions
Forest fires raged for two days near The Pas threatening heavy damage to Flin Flon and Cold Lake areas. Indian families were fed at safety as flames consumed shacks at Mile 83 and Mile 85. A five mile wide blaze moved north with a strong breeze and a high blaze neared Mandy mine. Government planes directed patrols while squads worked to halt the fires.
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Pas
Man
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Flin Flon
Cold Lake
Mile
Mandy Mine
Mostly Cloudy Weather Across Wisconsin and Upper Michigan
The report notes mostly cloudy skies for Wisconsin with probable showers tonight and Saturday. Upper Lakes winds shift southeast with increasing cloudiness and showers possible by Saturday. West to south portions show cooler Saturday, with a 58 degree high and 30 degree low at Buck Lafl Observatory.
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Tay Associated Press
Wisconsin
Upper Lakes
Michigan
Superior
Huron
Upper Michigan
Minnesota
Buck
Lafl Observatory
Aoutheast
State Senate Debates Consolidation And Voting Rules
The Wisconsin Senate considered reducing state divisions from seventy to twenty eight though the measure advanced to the joint finance committee after unanimous preliminary approval. Sen. Walter Hunt argued consolidation, while Sen. Ben Gettelman saw his vocational school attendance bill rejected 15 to 13. The Caldwell political party loyalty bill was postponed 18 to 10, and a debenture plan for farm relief cleared the assembly 57 to 5 amid broader debate on party lines and electoral rules.
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Madison
State Senate
Walter H. Hunt
State and Local Government Committee
Hunt
Kohler
Joint Finance Committee
Pa Caldwell
KIN
Cier
Congress
Wallace Ingalls
Racine
M. BB. Gilt
Ith Papor Perry
Confesses to Embezzlement at Oakland Bank
Roy Baker vice president of an Oakland bank admits stealing 252000 over three years. Police say 2000 from the bank and 35000 from Berkeley Divinity School were taken. Baker, president of the bank for 23 years, claims he borrowed funds to cover losses at a radio firm.
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Calif
Roy Bant
Qa Akland Bank
Jast
Cent Arthwaite
Berkeley Divinity School
Baker
Iecies im @ Chie
Nashville librarian and author John Trotwood Moore found dead
John Trotwood Moore, 70, state librarian, classical author and poet, was found dead in bed this morning in Nashville Tennessee. The cause given as heart trouble. Moore was a renowned historian of the South and an authority on Andrew Jackson.
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Nashville
Tenn
John Trotwood Moore
Moore
Andrew Jackson
Canton Cantonese Gunboats Surrender After Harbor Battle
Canton presses martial law as four rebel gunboats attempt escape from Shameen harbor. An air strike and land batteries from Macao and Honan force ships to flee toward foreign warships, then board and disarm them. Casualties rumored in the concession amid censorship and chaos.
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Canton
China
Kwangtung
Macao
Honan
Shameen
Chan Chat
Hunan
Kwang- Si
W. J. Chang
Honam Island
U.S. S
Tulsa
Guam
Kewangtune
Federal court ruling on liquor sales to Indians
The court held that selling liquor to an Indian is a different offense from selling to a citizen, while the defendant Joe Man Gronte faced charges in Wisconsin. Judge Prom said the offense differed from the ordinary case, as prosecutors argued against the demurrer in the farmes case.
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United State
Prom
Joe Man
Four Yank Flyers Freed of Charges in Neutrality Case
Four American aviators who fought with rebel forces in the Mexican revolution were freed of charges of violating United States neutrality laws. A motion to dismiss was filed by the U.S. attorney in federal court yesterday. Named defendants include R. W. Poli of Nashville as nominal head and general, Pete Stanley, W. L. Mitchell of Big Springs, Texas, and W. L. Fields of Los Angeles.
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Run
Ariz
United States
R. WH. Poli
Nashville
Tenn
Pete Stanley
W. L. Mitchell
Big Springs
Texas
W. L. Fields
Los Angeles
Lindbergh and Morrow Wedding Set for June Fifteenth
The New York Daily News reports Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and Miss Anne Spencer Morrow will wed at 4 p.m. on June 15 at the Morrow home in Englewood New Jersey. A close family friend revealed the date and venue after a May 23 plan was changed to accommodate Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow’s Mexico City duties.
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New York
U.P
The
New York Daily News
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Anne Spencer Morrow
Englewood
N. J
Morrow
Daily News
Dwight W. Morrow
Miss Morrow
Mexico City
Plans for Giant Airship for Mail and Passengers
Goodyear Zeppelin president Paul W. Litchfield outlined to President Hoover plans to build a giant airship in California with helicopter features for mail and passenger service to Hawaii and the Orient. The project would cost about 10 million dollars, rely on guaranteed mail contracts, and feature internal engines, three times the size of earlier dirigibles, with a crew of about fifty and capacity for around 100 passengers. The ship would use helium, avoid hydrogen, and aim for service by 1931 with a second ship possible.
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New York
Congress
California
Hawaii
Orient
Paul W. Litchfield
Goodyear-Zeppelin Company
Akron
Hoover
Washington
England
San Francisco
Navy
Los Angeles
Akron Shops
Los Ang
Graf
Americar
J. CG. Hunsacke
Contres Commercial Wold
Swiss temperance push widens at Geneva campaign
Swiss temperance workers pressed for a local option vote on May 12 to curb distillation and sale of spirits. The national petition drive collected over 150000 signatures to authorize cantons and communes to act on a one tenth voter demand in any district. The anti liquor effort has grown in Switzerland recently.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Van Pelt Named Judge in Eighteenth Circuit by Kohler
Clayton F. Van Pelt of Fond du Lac appointed judge of Wisconsin's eighteenth judicial circuit by Gov. Walter J. Kohler. Van Pelt, a UW graduate and former Fond du Lac public administrator, is a Republican and former county school board member. He succeeds Justice Chester A. Fowler who moves to the state Supreme Court. Dr. W. I. MacFarlane named to dental board. MacFarlane is noted for dental hygiene legislation and professional activity.
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Fond du Lac County
Fowler
Laiter
Supreme Bench of
Wisconsin
Madison
Clayton F. van Pelt
Fond du Lac
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit
Supreme Court
Chester A. Fowler
Walter J. Kohler
High Court
van Pelt
University of Wisconsin
Navy
Massachusetts
Northwestern
Royal College of Dental Surgeons
Poronte
Wis
Forest
Ford du Lac County
Fond du Lac High School
Father of the Republican Party Letter from Ripon
A. E. Bovay, called the father of the Republican party, writes from Brooklyn in February 1897 about his retirement and the many inquiries into the party’s birthplace. Jubilees mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the party’s founding in 1854, with celebrations planned for June 8 in Ripon and July 6 in Jackson, Michigan.
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Ripon
Bovay
Brooklyn
A. E. Bovay
Republican Party
Sat Ripon
Fine Feepuonican
Republican
Jackson
Mich
Campaign targets liquor buyers in Kane county raid
Pi George Carbary announces a drive to hold liquor buyers liable like bootleggers after the Mrs Lilian De King killing. Mrs Helen Ambrose of Elgin is the first arrest under Illinois liquor purchase law, reportedly admitting to buying liquor and planning to plead guilty.
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George Carbary
Reform Press
Kane County
Lilian de King
Helen Ambrose
Elgin
Carbury
Woot
Aurora, TU
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