Review of Congress Busy Weeks Before Fourth of July
Edward W Pickard reports Congress rushed to finish business before July 4. The Senate added amendments to a World War veterans bill, boosting pensions toward Spanish war levels and granting disability for veterans with venereal disease. A border patrol bill passed the House to curb liquor smuggling. The Senate backed a bill enabling presidential coordination of veterans' activities. Mellon announced a 1930 surplus of 1.3 billion with a net general fund of 315 million. the figure included abnormal foreign payments and tariff-related receipts. Senators Johnson Moses and Robison opposed the London naval treaty. London naval leaders Beatty and Jellicoe criticized it. Hoover named Edgar Jadwin to head a new federal power commission to oversee $350 million in power development.
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Congress
House
Senate
Hoover
Wickersham Commission
Border Patrol
Canada
Mexico
Treasury
Coast Guard
Ecretary
Mellon
General Fund
Americana
Johnson
California
Moses
New Hampshire
Robinson
Indiana
Foreign Relations Committee
Washington
National Defense Committee of the
American Legion
Legion
London
England
Earl Beatty
Earl Jellicoe
Federal Power Commission
Edgar Jadwin
Army Engineers
Commission
Power plant applications go to five men at ten thousand a year
The act limits commission members to no other occupation and bans ties to power firms. Seventy applications are pending. Hoover reported public works spending at 1.7 billion dollars for the first half of the year, urging continued recovery efforts while western governors criticized federal land and mineral rights policies. A series of European events, including a German linked salute to the Rhine and Bolivian political upheaval, are noted with several generals fleeing or taking protective positions.
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Commission
Governors’ Conference
Salt Lake City
Hoover
Prohibition Enforcement Shifts to Justice Department
The prohibition effort moved from the Treasury to the Department of Justice on July 1. Attorney General Mitchell leads the federal dry army with Col Amos W W Woodcock as chief of staff. Focus turns to larger bootlegging cases while seeking state cooperation. major staffing changes occur in New York and Chicago. Maj Maurice Campbell resigns to lead alcohol permits in Boston criticizing federal prosecutors and seeking repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Col Joan B J Herbert takes over enforcement across Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin, replacing E G Yellowley who stays on with alcohol permits in the region.
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Treasury Department
Department of Justice
Mitchell
Federal Dry Army
Amos W. W. Woodcock
Washington
New York
Chicago
Maurice Campbell
Boston
United States
Joan B. J. Herbert
Illinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
E. G Yellowley
Demurral Sustains Denison Indictment Flaw
The DC Supreme Court sustains a demurrer in the case against Illinois Congressman B E Denison, ruling the indictment failed to specify charges to permit a defense and plea to a future indictment. Separately, French troops depart the Rhineland ending occupation as German jubilation rises in Speyer and Wiesbaden marks the final phase of evacuation.
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Ongressman
B. E. Denison
Illinois
Justice Gordon
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Denison
Rhineland
Germany
Spéyer
Palatinate
Rhine
Wiesbaden
Riineland Commission
Coblenz
Kaiserstrasse
Commission
Britain Tightens Crackdown as Indian Nationalists Rally
British measures to suppress the passive rebellion in India included the arrest of Pandit Motilal Nehru and Sayed Mahmud, both sentenced to six months. A hartal paralyzed work, a boycott week spread in Bombay, and students in many cities quit schools to join protests against British rule.
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Britain
India
Pandit Motilal Nehru
Hingoo
All-India National Congress
Sayed Mahmud
Congress
Bombay
Poincare warns on tariff tensions during Week of American Nations
Raymond Poincare, ex-president and ex-premier, denounced U S tariff policy at Paris gala for the Week of American Nations. He presided at a banquet for national delegates and warned that antagonizing peoples risks binding them to each other by inescapable ties.
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Paris
Prance-Africa Committee
Raymond Poincare
United States
M. Poincare
Aviation feats mark week with record flights
Roger Q Williams and two companions flew nonstop from New York to Bermuda and back in 17 hours 8 minutes aboard the Columbia Beilanea monoplane. John and Kenneth Buntrer of Sparta Illinois shattered the refueling endurance record over Sky Harbor near Chicago, refusing to land until their engine was torn from the plane.
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James Buchanan
Meridian Hill Park
Washington
Hoover
Cleveland
Union Terminal
Kenneth Hunter
Chicago
John
Sky Harbor
Roger .Q. Williams
New York
Bermuda
Columbia
Kenneth Bunter
Sparta
Jil
Smithereens
Sky Harbor Flirport
Western Naxaiapor Unions
Thuringia Prohibits Jazz Music in Public Places
Washington reports Thuringia the central German republic bans jazz and degre songs in cafes and public places by a prime ministerial proclamation. The National Geographic Society notes Thuringia as the green center and home to composers Bach Handel Wagner Liszt Goethe with Weimar as its capital.
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Washington
Thuringia
National Geosgraphic Society
Germany
Bulletin
Mies
Republic
Gera
Jena
Gothe
Eisenach
Attenberg
Republic of Thuringia
Handel
Wagner
Bach
Liszt
Teusic
Wartburg
Tenshauser
Grand Duke of
Meiningen
Kassel
Louis Spoler
Gattingen
Weimar
Goethe
Schiller
Gerter
Weiland
Erfurt
Gotha
Weimer
Harz
Thuringian Forest
Luther
Maria Gloriosa
White Elster
Thuringians
Saale
Bell Ringer in Stockholm Retires for Electric Ringing
Stockholm Sweden's last woman bell ringer Augusta Anderson retires after 34 years at Katarina church. Since 1895 she tended the bells, guiding nine assistants as head bell ringer. Electric machinery will replace the ropes as the church switches to electricity. Bells toll daily at eight in the morning and five in the afternoon.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Augusta Anderson
Katarina
Fere
Miss Anderson
Lumberjack Still Works Daily Near Hastings Michigan
Alesander May Ville, aged ninety nine, continues his lumberjack trade near Hastings, Michigan. He has lived in Irving for ten years and cuts wood on local farms. He uses eyeglasses only for precise tasks like reading and operating King saws and walks a mile each day to stay active in his craft.
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Hastings
Mich
Alesander May- Ville
Irving
Fishermen saved Pilgrims colony in early settlement tale
Research tied to Massachusetts tercentenary reveals English fishermen from Portsmouth area aided Plymouth during the 1629 83 winter crisis. Miles Standish sought supplies from Pannaway near Odiorne Point and David Thomson led ten men to establish a dishing settlement, later aiding Plymouth with provisions and friendship across the coast.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Plymouth
N. B
Massachusetts
England
Atlantic
Bere
David Thomson
Massachusetts Bay
Thomas
Odiorne’s Point
Piscataqua River
Miles Standish
Pannaway
Thomson
Stendish
Carelessness Held Key Cause of Auto Accidents
A Chicago report cites speeding as rising with car acceleration, but fault lies largely with driver carelessness and neglect of vehicle maintenance. The American Research foundation bulletin warns that brakes, steering and other vital parts wear and fail without regular inspection, contributing to crashes.
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Chicago
America
American Research Foundation
The
Bulletin
Violin Draws Moose Family From Forest in Sweden
In Leksand Dalecarlian fiddler Kers-Lars played his violin in the woods. A bull cow and calves approached and stood still as the music rang. After a cuckoo call imitation the spell faded and the moose trotted back into the forest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leksand
Sweden
Kers-Lars
Dalecarlin
Rers-Lars
War relic disaster near Muench Hansen claims two boys
Two boys near the village of Muench Hansen in Alsace found a war relic. They threw it into a ditch and were killed when the device exploded enveloping them in mustard gas. Authorities identify the incident as a fatal accident linked to a banned armament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlie
Muench Hansen
Alsace
Arctic Ship C S Holmes Carries Doctor and Mobile Hospital
The schooner C S Holmes sails toward Point Barrow with a full hospital and equipment including a motorcycle, eleven houses, radios and phonographs for fur traders. A doctor uses the vehicle to visit Iskimo patients in winter and transport casualties to the hospital as the ship returns with furs and ivory.
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Arctic
Noah’s Ark
Seattle
C. S. Holmes
Point Barrow
Angka
A. W. Greist
Holmes
Farm U S Gave Von Steuben To Be Park Utica
Papers show New York plans a memorial park for Baron Von Steuben on the land grant near Steuben Creek. A $10,000 state appropriation will acquire the grounds to preserve his memory and forest the remaining acres. Steuben, drill master of Washington's Continentals, died in 1794 after shaping Valley Forge era forces into a victory path culminating at Yorktown.
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Utica
N. Y
Tim
Congress
Washington
Baron von Steuben
Steuben
Partle
Valley Forge
Monmouth
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Bee the Beeswax: Oil Land Battle Near Elk Hills
Bakersfield California faces a high stakes dispute as Standard Oil defends Section 36 oil rights in Elk Hills. Government claims the land was mineral in 1903, while the company argues evidence on Section 32 shows beeswax remnants and honey hunts rather than oil seepage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bakersfield
Calif-Standard Oil Company of California
A. C. Veateh
Oil Company
Elk Hills
America
7000 Acre Texas Field Broken for Wheat Crop
A 7000 acre field in Swisher and Castro counties Texas is being broken for wheat sowing this fall by Hickman Price. The land, once home to roaming cattle buffaloes and historic Indian presence, spans 11 sections and is owned by Mrs T P Naday of California. The owner has struggled with tax payments in recent years amid low rent income.
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Texas
Tulsa
Hickman Price
Panhandle
Swisher
Castro
T. P. Naday
California
Hogs Thrive on Bottle Feeding at Saskatchewan Farm
At H Wallis farm in the d Arcy district Regina Sask a litter of hogs fed on a bottle and lived in a chicken brooder since birth. The small porkers enjoyed their unusual diet and peaceful life on the rural premises.
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H. Wallis
d'Arcy
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Galindo
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von Steuben
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