Review of farm board clash at chamber meeting in Washington
Edward W. Pickard reports a sharp showdown between the federal farm board and business leaders at the Chamber of Commerce annual meeting in Washington. Alexander Legge retired amid satire, Daniel A. Millett urged repeal of the marketing act, and the chamber condemned farm board policies while backing information gathering and advisory roles. Hoover predicted a rebound with unity of effort.
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Federal Farm Board
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Chamber
Washington
Alexander Legge
Julius H. Barnes
Wheel
Herbert Hoover
Legge
Sarcasia
Daniel A. Millett
Denver
Farm Board
Hyde
Funn Hoard
W. C. McCabe
Duluth
Hoover
Guards Fire As Prisoners Rebel At State Prison
A guard volley wounded a prisoner then troops arrived and mounted machine guns. Six hundred convicts were confined in a barbed wire stockade as tents were set up and repairs continued on burned buildings. Some inmates were moved to other state prisons while workshops were to reopen.
World Day demonstrations and League of Woman Voters leaders
The article notes large May Day demonstrations in cities worldwide with Red Square parades in Moscow and orderly events in Paris Berlin and American cities. It reports Belle Sherwin of Cleveland re elected president of the League of Woman Voters in Louisville with a leave of absence plan and lists other officers including Marguerite Wells Katharine Ludington Roscoe Anderson Ruth Morgan and Elizabeth J Hansen.
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Moscow
Red Square
Soviet Union
Paris
Berlin
Iss Belle Sherwin
Cleveland
Ohio
League of Woman Voters
Louisville
Washington
Marguerite M. Wells
Minneapolis
W. W. Ramsey
Chicago
Katharine Ludington
Lyme
Ruth Morgan
New York City
Elizabeth J. Hanser
Girard
Western
Viloz
Ozark Rivers Power Drive Big Dam Projects
Joplin reports on hydroelectric plans transforming the Ozark region. Licenses authorize 800,000 horsepower plants with 600,000 HP achievable, as dams rise on Osage Table Rock Ninnagua rivers. Bagnell Osage and Table Rock lakes will be large, with tens of millions in cost and thousands of acres flooded. Authorities estimate total output and sale to mines and towns, and several dams underway near Bragville Osage, Lebanon Niangua, Table Rock White, and other sites.
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Joplin
Ozark
Quark Rivers
Brgveil
Osage
Table Rock
White
Lebanon
Ninngua
Bagnell-Osage
Missouri
Table Hook
White River
Table Rock Lake
Niangua River
Casconade
Central Missouri Pacific Company
Arlinston
Piney River
Black River
Leaper
Pulmotor Squad Rescues Teen From Deadly Gas
Seventeen year old John Abbenhous, a mobile mechanic, was found unconscious from carbon monoxide in a car. Fire Capt. Joseph R. Cook and Lieut. James Carey led Truck Company No. 10 rescuers for over ninety minutes before he began to breathe again and survived the ordeal.
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Pulmotor
John Abbenhous
Young Abbenhous
Camming
Secret air defenses defend London with new radio device
London is described as now protected by a secret raid defense using four new radio devices. The Royal Air Force reportedly conducted two weeks of air maneuvers, with defense so strong the attacker breached air cover only once. Experts say London holds nearly impenetrable protection and the device linked air and land bases to speed up land preparations and aircraft coordination.
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London
Lonton
Royal Air Force
High Command
X Ray Therapy Shows Mental and Physical Benefits
Viennese X ray specialists observed that exposing malformed children's skulls to X rays during imaging led to improved mental and physical conditions. The rays appeared to penetrate the skull and reach the brain, producing beneficial results in the children studied.
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Vienna
New York City Scenes and Seafaring Talks in 1930
A Bell Syndicate column surveys New York life from a front subway car, noting signals, watermen, and crowded platforms. It recalls a six hour walk around Manhattan, contrasts slums and Park Avenue, and casts hope on seafaring with cabaret crews for summer trade as Broadway players seek work. It also mentions city sights on Forty first Street, a Greenwich Village taxidermy display, the Puck building statue, NYU owls, and a rain soaked sign painter.
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New York
Speedway Park
Avenue
Manhattan
Upper East Side
Park Avenue
United States Lines
Broadway
Big City
Forty-first Street
Bignk’s
Greenwich Village
Sixth Avenue
Puck
Lafayette Street
New York University
Washington Square
White Men Use Indian Lodge as Courthouse
In Tishomingo Ola the granite building once used by Chickasaw chiefs as a law center now serves as a courthouse. The stone quarries on Pennington river supplied the building that peaked as the Chickasaw capital before state government replaced territorial rule and Johnston county acquired it.
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Tishomingo
Ola
Pennington River
United States
Johston County
Tragic discovery at Hadley field prompts probe
Attendants at the government radio station in New Brunswick N F found Ernest R Hood an electrician dead across a 2000 volt wire while searching for the cause of persistent static. The body lay at Hadley flying field. Police and investigators began examining the scene for details surrounding the accident.
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New Brunswick
N. F
Hadley Flying Field
Ernest R. Hood
Executions in Poland Reported by Justice Minister
In the last five years Poland has executed 115 people for capital crimes, according to a report issued by the minister of justice.
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Poland
Army Seeks Bids for Six Superior Fighting Tanks
The War department plans to acquire six advanced tanks and an armored car built on a Christie wheel and track design. Specifications call for rear engines, front driver positions, 40 mph road speed, 20 mph field speed, and 600 mile service range with 80 gallon fuel.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Charles P. Summerall
Army
Sia
Congress
Marriage Commissioner Named for Richmond Virginia
Richmond Va J A Binford Peay is Richmonds new marriage commissioner succeeding the late Parson James D Lyle who died at eighty nine Lyle had succeeded Parson James Madison Macon the first to hold the post Macon was appointed twenty years ago by Judge Sam Witt Hastings court to accommodate couples often refused due to divorces Macon advertised that he specialized in marrying divorced people Lyle was conservative and avoided advertising He was the last survivor of a Richmond militia company that guarded Charles Town W Va during John Browns hanging.
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Richmond
J. A. Binford Peay
James D. Lyle
Lyle
James Madison Macon
Macon
Sam Witt
Hastings Court
Charles Town
W. Va
John Brown
Elopement Sparks Hair Cropping Edict at Kobe Customs
Nagasaki reports a bizarre ruling after a young inspector at Kobe customs eloped with a brewer's wife. Local officials order all young male staff to have cropped hair, claiming shaved heads deter love and loyalty.
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Nagasaki
Japan
Kobe
Lost glass eye used by boys as marble target
Nelson Brockton, well known, was arrested for drunkenness. A glass eye he wore was later found and used by boys as a marble target. The eye brought in 500 marbles to the finders who eventually redeemed it with a piece of silver.
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Brockton
Sass
William T. P
Nelson
Digger Finds 53-Carat Diamond on Claim in Capetown
In Kimberley style drama a digger, whose stake vanished, is given a farewell drink when a native interrupts to announce a 53 carat diamond found on his claim, later sold for $2,000. The moment revived romance of the diamond field as friends react to the unexpected fortune.
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Richeé
Capetown
Kimberley
Electrocute Germs at Albany Medical College Effort
Albany authorities experiment with high frequency electric waves as a bacteria killing medium. Researchers at Albany Medical College test the potential to destroy germs using electric current.
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Albany
N. Y
Albany ‘Medical College
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