Washington faces farm relief clash in Hoover plan
Congress sits amid fights over farm relief as President Hoover presses a broad package. Longworth is sworn in with others, De Priest’s indictment dropped, and Michaelson linked to liquor smuggling. The plan includes a federal farm board, revolving fund, tariff tweaks, and suspension of immigration origins rules, drawing mixed support.
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United States claims 9000 islands under its flag
Washington bulletin from the National Geographic Society notes the United States now owns about 9,000 islands beyond the 48 states. The holdings span the Pacific to the Arctic, with the Philippines described as the Milky Way of the island constellations and Wake Island as an isolated Atlantic-like atoll.
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Swains Island
Samoa
Narcotics valued at 35000 seized from ship raid
Police raided a vessel from China and recovered narcotics valued at 35000 along with firearms found aboard. The seizure highlights a cargo of narcotics mixed with weaponry discovered during the ship raid conducted locally.
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China
Golf Baill Explodes Chicago
Ten year old Jarold Carver threw a golf ball into a fireplace to see what would never explode and his face was badly burned in Chicago.
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Chicago
Jarold Carver
British to Try for Air Records
Britain readies a mystery long range monoplane built at Cranwell for two world records. The craft may attempt a three day endurance flight around England, then staged flight to South Africa and back nonstop about 6000 miles. Innovations include automatic heater, wing fuel, 1000 gallons, wind driven and hand pumps, dual oil filters, jettison system, pneumatic seat and bed, hot and cold drinks, and a Napier Lyon engine.
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Cranwell Airdrome
Lincolnshire
England
South Arica
Napier Lyon
Crude Oil Engine Tested In Berlin Airplane
Tests claim to show a crude oil powered Junkers engine delivering 600 horsepower in flight, marking Germany’s first crude oil aircraft. The safety advantage from难 oil ignition and lower fuel cost are cited as boosting popularity of flying. Details and specifications are withheld, though makers say it produced 800 horsepower in tests.
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Junker
Germany
Uncle Sam's Fox Farm Yields 586 Pelts in Alaska
Dutch Harbor reports Uncle Sam runs a fox ranch. A season 1928 29 yielded 552 blue fox skins and 34 white ones from Pribilof islands, compared with the prior period. Foxes feed on carcases of fur seals and sea foam gathered by roxes after frost and meat pelts are stored for June.
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Sam
Pribilof Islands
Florence Is Man but Navy Thinks Him
Florence Wright, a seventeen year old from Maine with a female birth record, was rejected by a Navy recruiting station after officials learned that a Maine town clerk recorded him as a girl named Florence Wright born March 6 1912. He may be eligible to enlist if the birth record is corrected.
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Mountain Sheep Eyes in Dining Car Mystery Tale
A long tale from Montreal to Vancouver follows George Washington Jeffries, an epicurean traveler, who discovers a metal case of mountain mutton with eyes that stare from the ice chest. The incident erupts into chaos as the dining car wakes and rumors spread about telephoto eyes from hunted mountain sheep.
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Rocky Mountains
Rockies
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Montreat
Dasper
George Washington Jeffries
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Jasper
Wisconsin Yields Gum Like Irish Peat Wax
A Wisconsin peat study at the Pittsburgh Bureau of Mines experiments shows peat yielding a white wax about 0.85 percent, melting 163F crude and 175F purified. The Wisconsin wax closely resembles Irish peat wax but differs chemically from low temperature tar wax, which is mainly hydrocarbons.
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Washington
Bereag of Mines
Pittsburgh
Bureau of Mines
Seattle Considers Building Its Own Trolley Cars
Seattle city leaders in the street car sector may build 200 trolley cars for the municipal system under a "build your own" plan submitted to Utilities heads. Plans estimate each car could save about 2000 dollars versus a cash bid from a St Louis builder, with potential 35500 savings per car if rolling stock is purchased on time.
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Wash
St Louis Car Building
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