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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1929
Page
6
Victor L Berger sixty nine an international Socialist leader and former Fifth Wisconsin congressman died in Milwaukee hospital from injuries suffered when struck by a street car July 16. He edited and published the Milwaukee Leader daily.
The August crop report from the Department of Agriculture shows United States wheat production down 60,000,000 bushels in July. Total output is about 871,000,000 bushels, vs last year’s 1,000,000,000, with corn, oats, barley, and rye also below year-ago levels. Five leading crops nationwide drop by 525,000,000 bushels from last year.
In Calvary cemetery Queens grave diggers went on strike causing 600 bodies to be stored in temporary receiving vaults with capacity for 1000. Law requires burial within four days. workers reopened trenches over 1 foot long for the burials.
A diver recovered plates used to forge Northwestern University and University of Chicago seals from a lake near Navy Pier. The plates were hidden in a drainage canal and linked to a diploma mill investigation announced by the state attorney.
Washington reports the senate will reconvene on September 3 after an August 19 opening, with three day recesses to push the tariff bill through. Finance Committee delays, anticipated conference, and sugar duty debates dominate the plan, as Smoot sugar sliding scale draws opposition from farm groups.
The Ashland Bayfield Price and Iron counties bankers association posts rewards of 1000 dollars for dead robbers and 500 dollars for live ones. Signs warn of the rewards and police are patrolled by stormsome machine guns.
The Assumption coal mine burdened by debts totaling 72000 was sold at a receiver sale for 8000. As one of the oldest deepest mines in the state it is expected to be abandoned and its twelve acres subdivided.
Three men die and several are injured when a high pressure ammonia tank condenser explodes at a dairy in Uension. Rescue efforts are hampered by dense fumes as firefighters work to control the leak and evacuate workers.
New York announces the formation of a 50 million dollar United Growers of America as a national co operative marketing association to unite fruit and vegetable growers. Julius H. Barnes chairs the board with Mc Jardine and a 15 member slate including Robert W. Bineham Arthur R. Rule Henry W. Jeffers John Burgess and others. The group aims sixty subsidiary co operatives in twenty five states and aligns with farm board plans while seeking broader member groups and wind support for international sales services.
Thirteen people died when the Sunshine Special struck a picnic party truck at a grade crossing near Dallas. Eleven died instantly and two succumbed in hospital. A fourteen year old Mary Lee Henry of Dallas survived with both legs broken. The nearby Badgett family home witnessed eight deaths as the truck halted at the crossing. The Henry family lost five members.
Scouts from many nations concluded the world jamboree at Arrowe Park and paraded in national uniforms through Liverpool. Estimates put the crowd at about 100000 along the route from the pier to the cathedral for the service and procession.
General Primo de Rivera declared that Spain will have a new constitution by 1931 to replace the current dictatorship and establish fundamental law.
Peiping reports advices say floods sweep Mupeh and Henan provinces in China, leaving hundreds dead. The disaster figures prompt relief appeals and warnings of further weather danger across the region.
The Davison scholarships, founded in 1983 by Mrs. Henry P. Davison of New York, enable three undergraduates from Oxford and three from Cambridge to study at Harvard Yale and Princeton in the United States.
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