Arms talks stall as Briand clash risks collapse
The news review outlines French resistance and American diplomacy over a five power naval armament treaty, detailing Briand’s demand for a security pact, Hoover’s counter proposal, and Britain and Japan’s positions, with later notes on Briand’s revised stance and potential unilateral U.S. action if others balk.
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Italy
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New York County lawyers to challenge Prohibition in Supreme Court
The New York County bar association committee, after a two year study, voted six to one to challenge the Eighteenth Amendment as defying the Tenth Amendment. They will submit the contentions to the Supreme Court for a test ruling, citing that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states.
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New York
Secrets of the 75 mile Big Bertha cannons revealed
Prof H W Miller of the University of Michigan presented to 3 000 reserve artillery officers details on the Big Bertha siege guns used against Paris in 1918. He described their 120 foot barrels 264 pound shells muzzle velocity 5400 feet per second and the arc to 48 miles high. Four guns fired from Crepy Beaumont and Bruyeres causing extensive Paris damage totaling about 10 million dollars.
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Price of Diamonds Kept Up by Limiting Supply
A Yale chemistry professor argues diamonds are not valuable and that prices stay high only because mining firms limit output. He notes diamonds are abundant and obtainable with effort, while the public believes them rare. The text claims a syndicate controls supply to meet demand and keep prices elevated.
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Waits Half Century to Wed Boyhood Love in Sicily
Giuseppe Perconte a Sommatino peasant marries Maria Valeriano at seventy five after decades of devotion dating to their twenties. Maria widow, they wed with hundreds attending in a tale of unwavering lifelong love in Siracusa Sicily.
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Nations Vie For Speed Supremacy On Atlantic Ocean
Paris reports Hamburg indicates the Europa ready for trial with potential 30 knot speed. France Britain Italy compete with Germany as White Star and Cunard plan electrically propelled giants to reclaim speed records. Mussolini backs a large merchant fleet as keel dates loom for two 47600 ton ships and France eyes a super Le France rival.
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College of Forestry Teaches Air Photography at Syracuse
Syracuse University begins a new air mapping course for applied science students and the New York State College of Forestry. Funded by an $80,000 Guggenheim endowment, it marks a pioneer in university forestry education using airplane photographs to estimate timber, topography, and suitable surveying routes across large areas.
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London Traffic Deaths Reach Record High in 1929
London records show 1,362 deaths from street accidents in 1929, up 125 from 1928. Four hundred and seventy-seven were killed in Oct Dec, with 29,483 accidents causing injuries or property damage. Private motor cars caused about 12,000 crashes and 145 fatalities.
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London
Sever Wersong
Jaywalgers
Relics Unearthed From Ur Pre Flood Era By Expedition
Philadelphia reports discovery by University of Pennsylvania Museum and British Museum at Ur of the Chaldees. Excavations reach 56 feet, revealing a prehistoric factory with kilns, cement bricks, and potters tools, plus graves and painted wares from Ubaid and Jemdet Nasr periods. Painted clay figurines suggesting religious practices are found, with soils indicating imminent deeper exploration.
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Terel
Aly
Helgoland Island Eroded by Repeated Storms
Repeated storms gradually erode Helgoland island off Hamburg. A severe recent surge slid a sizable portion into the North Sea, sweeping away three houses a water reservoir and two storage sheds and raising fears the island may vanish.
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Hamburg
Germany
North Sea
Ranchers Employ Plane to Shoot Coyotes in Montana
Great Falls Montana ranchers Leslie Barrett and D B Garmichael flew with pilot Vanice Air Service's Vance in a monoplane to hunt coyotes. Each man claimed two kills as they described circling above the target and firing from a moving plane.
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Vance
Vanice Air-service
Leslie Barrett
D. B. Garmichael
Million Dollar Legacy Aims Welfare Work For Ex-Convicts
Joseph Horwich announces that the estate of Conrad Buber, a flashlight magnate, be devoted to welfare efforts for ex convicts. Horwich will return from vacation to reveal specific disbursement plans and how the $1,000,000 inheritance will be distributed.
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Conrad Buber
Joseph Horwich
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