Farm relief delay fuels Senate House clash and recess talk
Washington debate on farm debenture plans triggers constitutional dispute as House leaders refuse to move the Senate measure forward. Hoovers drive to unify party faces opposition from Borah Fess and Watson while tariff work continues. Talks of an all summer recess fade as Hoover pushes for early farm relief decisions.
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House
Senate
Agriculture Committee
Hoover
Congress
Senator Borah
Idaho
Senator Fess
Ohio
White House
Watson
Senator Watson
Indiana
Finance Committee
Borah
Three Measures To Curb Political Corruption Advanced
Senator Cutting of New Mexico introduced three bills to curb corruption in campaigns. A constitutional amendment would grant Congress control over federal nominations, another would bar candidates who break campaign laws from running, and a federal elections commission would audit nominations and elections. He plans broader reform, proposing public funding for essential campaign costs.
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Republican
New Mexico
Congress
Federal Commission of Elections
House
Senate
Closed University Reopened By an Injunction
Mrs Sophia Lund at 77 proves air minded and profitable. In Racine Wisconsin the woman joined her son at an airport and accepted a dare to fly after his wager of ten dollars. The incident highlights risk taking among elderly locals and features air travel excitement.
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University
Racine
Wis
Sophia Lund
Combined Efforts to Stop Smuggling Across the Border
Washington D C four combined treasury branches will push to curb liquor smuggling from Canada this summer. Assistant Secretary Lowman announced enhanced border agent activity plus airplane patrols, river and lake coast guard patrols, and northern state customs efforts. South to north force shifts and higher tourist travel are cited, funded by recent appropriations for prohibition enforcement.
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Washington, D. C
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Treasury
Lowman
Prohibition Service
Pene Border
Coast Guard
Lowmann
Four alleged ASA Pendleton gang members sought after in Ark
Eldorado Arkansas search continues for Claude Burnett Joel Streiter Owen Edwards and Ted Bray four men linked to the Asa Ace Pendelton gang. They allegedly staged a jail break from Union county jail April 3 using a broken domino to trap the jailer and guard. Burnett Streiter and Edwards faced circuit court arraignment on bank robbery charges tied to a Junction City bank robbery. Bray held on a minor charge. The quartet fled in automobiles toward the Ouachita River bottoms east of Eldorado.
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Eldorado
Ark
Asa “Ace” Pendelton
Stager
Union County
Claude Burnett
Joel Streiter
Owen Edwards
Ted Bray
Ouachita River
Burnett
Streiter
Edwards
Junction City
Streither
Bray
L. J. Harman
Sam Eads
Blind man's buff ends in street collision in Racine
Ten year old William Ponstowski lay on a hospital cot after playmates hid his head in a gunny sack during blind man's buff. He ran across a Racine street and was struck by a car driven by William Oquist of Kenosha, injuring his skull with a fracture.
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Racine
Wis
William Ponstowski
St. Mary's Hospital
William Oquist
Kenosha
Pipe falls from Tacoma building injures workers
Two Black workmen, Robert Raleigh and Steve Coppage, were fatally struck by a falling lead pipe from the eleventh floor of the Tacoma building, the world’s first steel skeleton skyscraper, as it undergoes wrecking.
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Chicago
Tacoma
Robert Raleigh
Steve Coppage
Breach of Promise Suit Settled Out of Court
Rice Lake Wisconsin reports a $11,000 breach of promise case against Albert Boehmer was settled out of court. Miss Arvella Korbitz received cash and household goods Boehmer left with her before their engagement ended. Trial set for Barron circuit court next week was canceled.
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Rice Lake
Wis
Albert Boehmer
Arvella Korbitz
Lloyd George Attacks Conservatives Over Unemployment Plan
London says former premier Lloyd George in a National Liberal Club speech blasted the Conservatives for issuing a political pamphlet as a government document. He denounced it as discreditable and said the Conservatives are the main issue in the upcoming election. The piece notes a flood of election oratory ahead of the May 30 general elections, with thousands of candidates across parties and debates on unemployment, nationalization, safeguarding duties, and social reform. Ramsay MacDonald’s address signals Labor priorities, while Conservatives push free trade and limited duties, with Liberals wary of protectionist moves.
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London
Lloyd George
National Liberal Club
Great Britain
Seaham
Ramsay MacDonald
Stanley Baldwin
David Lloyd George
MacDonald
Baldwin
Labor Party
Sven Menioned
Wisconsin amateurs glide 260 feet on motorless craft
Milwaukee reports two flights by Jerome Lucas and Ben Meyer in homemade gliders, likely Wisconsin's first motorless attempts. The gliders, launched from a hill, reached 25 feet altitude and traversed 260 feet under guidance of pilots, with support from the Glider Club of Wisconsin.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Jerome Lucas
Ben Meyer
Glider Club of Wisconsin
New Type of Speakeasy Emerges Near Milwaukee Farm
Milwaukee authorities describe a novel speakeasy setup at a farm house near Mequon. Federal agents raided the venue finding 2400 quarts of beer eleven gallons of whisky and gin and wine. Seven arrested including a woman owner and the farm operator with four waiters. twenty four revelers released.
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Milwaukee
U.P
Wisconsin
Federal Inforcement Division
Mequon Twenty Milles
Here
Cornelius Zaun
Henry Zaun
Clarence Schubert
George Plehn Jr
Adolph Zahn
Ervin Krause
Sugar crisis debated by beet growers and league group
In Geneva a meeting of beet growers representatives and a League of Nations economic committee aimed to finish the sugar crisis inquiry. Beet farmers from Poland and Czechoslovakia struggled to find markets as overproduction was blamed. German, Belgian, and other experts cited cane sugar surplus as worsening beet growers’ woes.
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League of Nations
League
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Great Britain
Belgium
France
Netherlands
Italy
Roumania
Yugoslavia
Cuba
Harvard Student Huntington Shot in Connecticut Mystery
Stains on a handkerchief found in the hip pocket of Walter Treadway Huntington, a Harvard student, were tested and confirmed as blood, not brain tissue. Dr. Hastings reported the blood result, supporting Detective Hickey’s theory that Huntington wiped blood from his face, not implicating a woman in the incident.
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Windsor
Conn
Walter Treadway Huntington
Harvard
Louis P. Hastings
St. Francis Hospital
H. N. Costello
Huntington
Hickey
Strange malady kills four cows at High Cliff farm
A state veterinarian reports a strange illness among Mrs. Emma Stecker’s guernsey cows at High Cliff Wisconsin. Blood thinning and large clots under the skin were caused by feeding sweet clover ensilage without adequate hay and roughage, leading to four deaths.
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Wis
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Iicinity
Guernsey
Emma Stecker
Negroes Not Among West Point Entrants
Annapolis reports show neither of the Negro youths nominated by Congressman Oscar de Priest of Chicago would be among the entrants for the United States Naval Academy class of 1923. One candidate did not appear for the examination. the other, Claude Hansen Burns, failed to pass amid 1,000 contenders.
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Annapolis
United States Naval Academy
Oscar de Priest
Chicago
Lawrence Alexander Whitefield
Claude Hansen Burns
Navy
Slightly Warmer Weather Outlook Across Regions
May 13 forecast notes warmer trend with sun sets lengthening. Wisconsin shows mostly cloudy conditions with possible showers by Tuesday. upper lakes winds shift to easterly and temperatures hold. Minnesota and Michigan expect more clouds and a few showers in western or northern portions by Tuesday.
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Associated Press
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South Portion
Upper Lakes
Huron
Michigan
Superior
Upper
Aichigan
West Portion
Minnesota
Northwestern
Buckstaff Observatory
Rumors Fly Over Bulgarias King Boris Betrothal
Reports from Preslav and Sofia suggest Bulgaria may announce a betrothal of King Boris to Princess Giovanna of Italy on the anniversary of Bulgaria’s freedom. London’s Daily Mail cited Geneva dispatches naming a Saxe-Coburg and Gotha marriage as likely.
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Bulgaria
Boris
Simeon the Great
Andrei Liaptcheff
Bucharest
Sofia
Giovanna
Italy
London Daily Mail Today
Geneva
saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Sibylie
Caroline Mathilde
Europe
Glovanna
Photographs of Eclipse Exceed Expectations in Malaya
British observation party reports developed eclipse plates superior to forecasts. Transparency matched 1927 Giggleswick in Yorkshire, with several prominences including one 150000 miles long and 100000 miles high with a corona arch. Velocity measuring apparatus for the corona worked satisfactorily.
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Alorstar
Kedah
Malay States
Giggleswick
Yorkshire
Queensland Labor Government Must Retire Election
The Queensland labor government, in office fourteen years, was defeated with Nationalists winning forty four seats, Labor twenty six, and independents two, while the current legislature shows forty three Labor and twenty nine Nationalists. The Nationalists campaigned on unemployment relief. A woman was elected for the first time in Queensland.
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Brisbane
Australia
Queensland
Legislative Assembly
Labor
Sharp Watch On Forest Fires In Upstate Areas
Ashland Wisconsin dispatch reports small forest fire outbreaks in southern Ashland County. District fire warden Ray Hassett directs a Park Falls crew that stamped out the most serious blaze near Morse. Lookout towers and ready apparatus remain on standby day and night to prevent further damage.
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Ashland
Wis
Ashland County
Ray Hassett
Park Falls
Morse
Lookout Towers
Two Mexicans Held In Counterfeit Case
Milwaukee police detained two Mexican men Sunday after detectives found what police believe is a complete counterfeiting outfit in their room. The arrests followed an investigation into an alleged confidence game.
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Milwaukee
Child Attacked by Sow in Pig Pen near Darlington Wis
In Darlington area, a 3 year old boy, son of farmer Leland Chambers, climbed into a pig pen to lift a pig. A sow and other sows mauled him severely before his father could rescue him. The incident occurred about ten miles northeast of the town.
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Darlington
Wis
Leland Chambers
Here
Tariffs Not Approved by Pres Hoover in 1930s Push
President Hoover faces opposition as the House Ways and Means Committee drafts tariff schedules for building materials sugar and shingles. White House aides study substitutes for the sugar duties seeking a sliding scale tied to foreign competition. Opposition centers on cement brick and shingles duties and the overall limited tariff revision. Congressional leaders visit daily and farm-state senators warn against higher agricultural duties amid export debenture discussions.
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House
Ways and Means
White House
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Eastern Seaboard
Gulf Coast
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Congress returns to tariff debate as Senate weighs farm relief
In Congress today the House resumes tariff debate while the Senate considers farm relief under a post 3 p.m. debate limit. The Senate judiciary committee also takes up a resolution on the president’s right to withhold public lands from oil operations. On Sunday both chambers were adjourned, with party leaders conferring on legislative and political problems.
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Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
Chinaman Completes First Oriental Long Flight from England
Amoy China Capt. Chen Wen Lin a Chinese aviator accompanied by Danish pilot Lieut Johannsen arrived in Amoy late yesterday completing the first oriental long distance flight from England to China. They left Croydon in March and reached China in easy stages and will shortly fly to Nanking where the government will confer decorations in recognition of the achievement.
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China
Chen Wen Lin
Lieut
Johannsen
England
Croydon
Nanking
Supreme Court refuses to review border quota case
Washington DC The Supreme Court today refused to review its prior ruling regulating crossing the border by quota aliens living in Canada who seek entry without passport visas in search of work.
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Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Canada
Hospital Wing Opening At St Saviours In Portage Wis
Portage Wisconsin marks National Hospital Day with the opening of a new 100000 dollar wing at St Saviour's Catholic hospital. Nuns conduct the dedication service.
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Portage
Wis
St. Saviour’s Catholic Hospital
Des Moines University Row Over Policies Ends Indefinite Closure
The Assocation of Ministerial Students voted to frame a resolution opposing the Baptist Bible Union’s policy influence. Dr. H C Wayman and the faculty faced a university shutdown, later reopened after a district court injunction. Riots prompted trustees to suspend classes as talks continued.
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Des Moines
Association of Ministerial Students of the University
Bapiist Bible Union
Shields
Bible -Union Concvention
Buffalo
Des Moines, In
Des Moines University
News Today
T.T. Shields
Toronto
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Baptist Bible
Uniton
North America
Vn. A
H. Co. Wayman
University
Harry C. Waymar
Wayman
Western cattle states push tariff change on hides and livestock
Representative Simmons of Nebraska announced a meeting of house members from western cattle producing states to urge the Ways and Means Committee to change tariff status on hides meats and live animals. The pending bill left hides on the free list with modest meat duties and no change to livestock duties. Many western lawmakers favor imposing a tariff on hides and higher duties on livestock. Simmons expected broad participation from cattle states though exact attendance was uncertain.
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Washington
Representative Simmons
Republican
Nebraska
House
Ways and Means Committee
More Than Hundred Men Drag Fox for Two Fishers
In Little Chute Wisconsin more than 1100 men in boats dragged the Fox river to recover two missing fishers George Van Berkel and August Mollen believed drowned after a night fishing. They were last seen at 7 15 pm yesterday and a boat seat was recovered as the search continued. In Green Bay sheriff’s forces also dragged the Fox river for George Goeven a 70 year old man who wandered from home Saturday and is believed drowned.
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Wis
Fox River
George van Berkel
August Mollen
Vna
Bay Green Bay
George Goeven
Bank Cashier Seized by Bandits in Gilmore City Heist
A bank cashier at Gilmore City was forced to surrender about 5,008 dollars during a robbery. Police report a quick escape by the suspects as the search begins.
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Syforte
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