Pennsylvanian Nominees Win Races In Hustling Republican State
Edward W Pickard reports Ames J Davis wins Senate nomination over Grundy in Pennsylvania. Gifford Pinchot captures governor nomination in upstate counties, defeating Francis Shuck Brown by about 15,000 with Ware’s Philadelphia bloc backing Davis and Brown. Democratic slate nominates Sedgwick Kistler for senator and John H Hemphill for governor. National notes include tariff bill progress, London naval treaty talks, and Supreme Court confirmation of Owen J Roberts. Hoover sails aboard Salt Lake City in navy review.
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Grundy
F. H. Bohlen
T. W. Phillips, Jr
Sedgwick Kistler
Lock Haven
John H. Hemphill
West Chester
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Owen J. Roberts
Supreme Court of the United States
Edward T. Sanford
Judiciary Committee
Joseph T. Robinson
Senate committee revises rivers and harbors bill
The measure, revised by the senate commerce committee, would authorize upwards of 125.06 million dollars versus 170 million passed by the house. Senator Vanderberg of Michigan said total project costs could reach 835 million. Provisions include 7.5 million for the Illinois waterway, 7.5 million to deepen the upper Mississippi, 29 million to deepen Great Lakes channels, government takeover of the Erie and Oswego canals, and 5 million for the Tennessee River improvements.
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Mississippi River
Great Lakes
Oswego
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Ross waterway limits flow at 1500 cfs for diversion to Chicago
The report notes a 1500 cubic feet per second cap on diversions to Chicago. It also covers nominations, court relief measures, and international events including a German airship voyage and Indian asset raids amid Gandhi era politics.
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Ross Waterway
Chicago
Plan for reparations and Basel actions mark World news
The Toung plan and Bank for International Settlements at Basel began with the burning of German bonds in Paris. Evacuations in the Rhineland began as French forces withdrew from the third zone, with Mayence and the Palatinate to be freed in weeks. A Literary Digest poll shows 40.43 percent favor repealing the eighteenth amendment, 29.11 percent for modifying the Volstead Act, and 30.46 percent for strict enforcement. Representative Snell pushes a sweeping congressional inquiry into Communistic activities, with hearings likely in major cities and powers to subpoena and spend.
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Riineland
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Literary Digest
Bertrand H. Snell
New York
House of Representatives
United States
Colon
Moon Trips By 2050 And Beyond From Dr Stewart
Dr John Q O Stewart of Princeton outlined a future where New York Earth dwellers may travel to the moon by rocket ships and communicate via light beams. He proposed a 110 foot spherical ship with multiple cannon propulsors weighing 70 600 tons and carrying sixty crew and a dozen passengers for two months.
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John QO. Stewart
Lrinceton Quivets
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci
Astet
Stewart
Moon
Fred
Earth
Kern County Initiates First Aid Plane Rescue Crew
Kern County California will establish a special aeronautical life saving crew with a cabin plane and aviation partner. Fire Chief W Meter says the unit will respond to any emergency in ten minutes to ten days and will not charge a fee. The outfit aims to cover vast distances and frequent field accidents with emergency medical aid.
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Bakersfield
Calif
Rkern Eunty
Kern County
Ooperikinn
W. Fan Meter
Mare Breaks Heart of Famous Kicking Mule
Gatesville North Carolina report says farmer Lawrence sent his gray mare Jil to the farm with a male and a double plow. The mule Jack foaled on the job, Jill pulled the plow, and after dinner the two were housed together. Jack allegedly kicked Jill, the mule died hours later, and some say the mule died from the kick while others believe Jack died of a broken heart after the tragedy.
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Oglethorpe Plans Air Travel for Football Team
Oglethorpe University in Atlanta may hire the nation’s first air transport for its football squad. Dr Thornwell Jacobs, president, said he contacted an air company about flying the Petret squad to New York for games with Manhattan College next fall.
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Atlanta
Oglethorpe University
Thornwell Jacobs
Petret
New York
Manhattan College
U S Doughboy Inherits Chateau In France
Charles M. Ziegler, a St. Louis insurance man, will claim a $27,000 chateau and land in France left by Adolphe Bonnet. Bonnet, who befriended Ziegler during World War I, died at eighty two. The gift includes income over $1,200 yearly and honors their wartime bond.
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United States
St Mihiel
St Louis
Philadelphia American League Baseball Club
St. Louis
New Orleans Boy Finds He Cannot Speak at School
In New Orleans thirteen year old Arthur Gilbert cannot speak to anyone involved with schools. He attends classes and earns high marks but all work must be written. When away from school his chatter returns. officials and Dr Fletcher of Tulane study the case but offer no explanations yet.
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aArthur Gilbert
Arthur
Tie
Orleans Parish
Yobhn
Fletcher
Tulane University Department of Psychology
Gets Bite Buys License Then Reels in Salmon
Harold D. Jennings treasurer of Central Maine Power and Augusta alderman president, fishing near Augusta City Hall in the Kennebec River, claims he caught a large salmon after shouting for a license. He had to have a license to reel it in, and the city clerk supplied one.
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Maine
Harold _D. Jennings
Central Maine Power Company
Augusta
Jennings
Sewall Webster
Plan Plane Study of Mount Katmai in Alaska
National Geographic expedition plans this summer to resume study of Mount Katmai and its smoking volcanoes using airplanes for close scrutiny of the crater. Aviators have been asked to report landing spots on the mountains for observations.
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Mount Katmai
Alaska
Anchorage
National Geographic Expedition
Churches Urge Liberal Sunday Observance
British churchmen meeting under the Council of Christian Churches led by Bishop Gore advocate Sunday play and decry the puritanical Sabbath had clashed with Protestant churches over the Third Commandment, urging a more liberal Sunday observance.
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London
Council of Christian Churches
Gore
Exhumation talk swirls around Rudolf Vetsera lovers
Vienna reports revive the Mayerling romance as a movement seeks to exhume Crown Prince Rudolf and Baroness Mary Vetsera to determine if their deaths were murder or a suicide pact. The 1889 tragedy near Mayerling stirred royal intrigue and political reaction.
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Pir
Pauly
Francesca
Tey
Europe
Austrig
Rudolph
Francis Joseph
Elizabeth
Vetsera
Jerry Knows the Way to Meal and Lodging
In Toronto officers refused Jerry Dorothe a full meal and lodging when he applied at a police station, he threatened to smash windows, returned with two bricks, and the police charged him with vagrancy granting two weeks of board free.
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Horse Thief Agency Closes After Auto Purchase
The Paradise Horse Thief Detective agency, longtime York institution with 222 members, seeks dissolution in court. After settling debts, remaining assets total 882 dollars to be divided, yielding 3.75 dollars per member. Automobile ownership is cited as the reason for disbanding.
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Horse Thief Agency
Automobile
York
Old Paradise Horse Thief Detective Agency
English Licensing: The Silent Woman Named The Sagie Thing
In Wareham England the licensing commission granted a public house license for The Silent Woman, formerly The Angel. The chairman said the new name meant the sage thing, reflecting a changed identity for the establishment.
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Wareham
England
Licensing Commission
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