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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1929
Page
3
A parsec equals about 3.25 light years or roughly 20 trillion miles. The piece cites Miyajima as the sacred Water Tortil island in Japan’s Inland Sea.
Washington announces a fiscal year surplus of 185 million dollars with a 673 million dollar reduction in the public debt. Officials foresee potential 100 million dollar tax cut next winter, contingent on income in 1930. Elections and tariff policy may influence momentum for further relief and surcharges. The 1929 calendar year surplus could exceed 300 million if farm relief loans are kept to 150 million, and debt now sits below 17 billion.
Capt Frank Hawks landed at Roosevelt Field L I breaking transcontinental records for the second time in as many days. He completed the round trip from coast to coast in 37 hours 88 minutes, beating his prior 38 hours 21 minutes 89 seconds set February 4. He also flew New York to Los Angeles in 19 hours 10 minutes 82 seconds, lowering the previous 24 hours 51 minutes.
Five members of the Trosper family were killed when their car crashed near Angola Indiana and burst into flames. The victims are Mrs Otha Trosper 27 of Detroit Michigan and her children Iona 7 Eleanor 5 Robert 3 and Henry Grosper 53 of Plainfield Indiana.
Fascists win 13 of 20 aldermen seats in Coburg Germany the first such victory for fascists in the country.
President Hoover confirms three of the eight member farm board selections. James C. Stone of Lexington Kentucky C B Denman of Farmington Missouri and Carl Williams of Oklahoma City are named with endorsements from major farm groups and notable backers. Moscrip and Teague receive tentative appointments. Legge potential candidate. chairmanship expected for a wheat grower representative. Stone Denman Williams bring tobacco livestock and cotton leadership experience to the new board.
The British carrier Eagle landed Maj. Raymond Franco and his aviators at Gibraltar to a throng of reporters and international crowds. A massive demonstration by Spaniards organized by the Spanish Aero club thanked Britain France Portugal and Italy for aiding in the rescue after the flyers drifted at sea for a week following their failed bid to reach the United States.
A Jewish league for peace has been formed in Berlin with Oscar Wasserman of Deutsche Bank as president and Prof. Albert Einstein named as one of the vice presidents.
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald refused Leon Trotzky's request to enter Great Britain. Trotzky, former Soviet war commissar, sought entry amid postwar tensions and political upheaval in Europe.
Pawhuska Oklahoma reports Herd a near ghost town in Osage district auctioned off at the county courthouse. Ranch owner Easely once mortgaged land to build the town after plans for a Santa Fe railroad station fell through. After years of debt and minimal bids the sheriff’s sale cleared 415 acres and 32 scattered lots at prices from 1.50 to 7 dollars, with a Pawhuska buyer paying five dollars an acre.
National University of Mexico announces a summer school with scholars from the Americas. United States Chile Costa Rica and Ecuador will send professors. Waldo Frank will discuss The United States Spain and Spanish America. Gonzalo Zaldumbide will lecture America and the League of Nations. Pedro Prado will speak on Chilean literature and The Political Action of America.
The note argues that sound is a vibration not a physical substance and carries no weight. It explains that sound travels through air as energy waves and ceases when the medium is removed or vibration stops.
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