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Newspaper
Portsmouth Herald
Location
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1933
Page
1
An excerpt reflects on Calvin Coolidge's timeless guidance urging national cooperation to spur business activity and charitable effort in 1933. The piece emphasizes using available resources to meet needs, promote relief, and stabilize economic conditions.
In dense fog 19 miles east of Pollock Rip lightship the steamship Santa Cecilia reported to Coast Guard headquarters that it collided with the Gloucester fisherman Lucille. Neither vessel was badly damaged and neither requested assistance. The Cecilia is a 86,000 ton freighter of Plant Steamship Corp of New York. Pollock Rip lightship sits south of Cape Cod between Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
A clash at the Peerless Mine near Sprwich involved rival miners and National Guardsmen. Eight were injured, three by clubs or stones and the rest by gunfire, as deputies and guards faced an overflow of tensions between the Progressive Miners' Union and United Miners en route to work.
Early returns from Indiana counties show strong support for ratifying the 21st Amendment to repeal prohibition. In 730 of 3891 precincts the repeal vote stood 170,239 to 54,417, with populous counties Marion Lake Allen St Joseph Tippecanoe Vanderburgh contributing heavy delegate strength to the June convention. Indiana previously regulated alcohol through laws dating to 1895 and 1919 ratified the 18th Amendment.
In Athens late last night an assassination attempt wounded former prime minister LHleutherios Venizelos and killed several bystanders' hopes. The attack during a drive from Kinissia to Athens wounded Venizelos’ wife and his chauffeur with four bullet wounds.
Union Rebekah Lodge No 3 held its regular meeting Tuesday evening and transacted routine business. The committee on the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs Memorial Sunday reported on its plans and the charter was draped in memory of Mrs Jennie Prentiss. An unprecedented drop in Illinois birth rate for the first three months of 1933 produced an excess of only 99 births over deaths.
Jimmy Mattern flew over Novo Sibirsk Siberia accelerating toward Chita in the fifth leg of his round the world journey. He remained about one hour and 44 minutes behind the Post Gatty timetable after passing Novo Sibirsk, with the time delta arising from the two stops and different leg times.
Cyrus H. K. Curtis noted publisher and philanthropist died at his home in Wyneotte after a yearlong illness. He would have been 83 on June 18. Death occurred at 1100 hours with daughter Mrs. Mary Louise Bok present and other relatives. Curtis suffered a heart attack last May on his yacht near New York and was rushed to Philadelphia where his wife died five days later.
An alleged surge of civilian gang attacks on army and navy personnel in Honolulu has alarmed military leaders. Reports say General Wells and Admiral Yates Stirling alerted Washington. Lieutenants Leroy Hudson and Walter Lee, army aviators, were hospitalized after being beaten.
In Rockingham county Superior Court at Exeter yesterday the case of Charles H Couilhard of Methuen Mass against John H Smith of Boston went to trial before Chief Justice William H Sawyer of Concord. The action seeks damages for personal injuries from a collision between the Smith truck and the Couilhard car at Salem on November 20 1932. Jury foreman Henry G Durgin of Exeter. Plaintiffs counsel John B Perkins and William H Sleeper of Exeter. defendants counsel Stephen M Wheeler and Frank A Batchelder of Exeter. Jury drawn Monday viewed the scene in Salem. Evidence began yesterday with several witnesses. Also noted: Minnesota studies on peat soils show corn as highest value crop per acre.
Geneva June 7 United States Norman H Davis urged steering committee to supervise manufacture of armaments whether by state or private factories. He said such oversight would reduce production and that curbing arms traffic plus licensing could lower armaments levels and deter private manufacture.
Paul Marshall, a popular Portsmouth man, has been transferred to the Montgomery Ward Store in Rutland Vermont. He has worked at the local Montgomery Ward for several years and will assume duties at the Rutland store immediately. His local friends extend best wishes.
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