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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1929
Page
6
Warren Ohio reports General Jacob S Coxey resumes political effort aiming for Washington. He promotes money at cost and noninterest bearing bonds to fight unemployment and related ills.
Washington reports 26 countries produce 2.208 billion bushels of wheat, down from 2.348 billion last year. European output totals 947 million, with Prussia and Russia showing declines in major crops. France reports good wheat, while Czechoslovakia and Lithuania face below average yields. Russia's bread grain outlook remains weak, procurement persists despite excess competition and transport hurdles.
St Paul hosts the thirtieth annual encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The group backs new facilities for disabled veterans nationwide, higher pay for all service members, looser hospitalization rules, and immediate payment of adjusted compensation. It opposes filing time limits and urges civil service retirement after 25 years with credit for military service. It backs Knutson’s bill for Spanish American War pension increases and supports pensions for widows and maimed veterans from World War I and earlier conflicts.
Chicago The federal Farm Board outlined a credit relief plan for grain growers after the Farmers' National Grain Corporation meeting. It provides 10 cents a bushel additional advances on unhedged grain and up to 90 percent of the sale price for hedged grain, with liens subordinate to the federal intermediate credit bank.
Col and Mrs Lindbergh plan a single hop flight across the unmapped jungle valley of the Amazon on their South American aerial tour. The trip inaugurates the Miami Paramaribo air mail line and will test a route unseen by white men, guiding the choice of Brazil mail corridors.
The Hague conference closed with an accord on the costs of occupation troops from September 1 when the Young Plan begins, and a timetable for the withdrawal from the Rhine. Germany will pay 11,662,000 dollars toward French British and Belgian garrisons as the allies plan evacuation by Christmas and full withdrawal by year end.
The first leg of the Philadelphia Cleveland air derby ends in tragedy as a Cessna monoplane piloted by E. J. Red Devereaux crashes into a mud flat near Boston airport. Devereaux, his bride of three months, and their mechanic are killed.
The passage defines heroism as the soul's triumph over fear and hardship. It asserts no real piety without heroism and calls courage a dazzling and glorious conception.
Railroads received different lands in their charters with odd numbered sections granted near the line. Distances varied from 6 to 40 miles, most often 20 to 40 miles, with some cases shorter than others.
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