Debates Over Morro Castle Fire Sabotage Theories Rise
Coverage notes early accusations of crew negligence after the Morro Castle disaster off New Jersey killing 1385. It cites testimony on delayed SOS, incendiary fire origin hints, and claims by Havana police about sabotage linked to a secret international maritime group.
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Havana
Robert Wilmott
William F. Warms
Asbury Park
Federal Steamboat Inspection Board
George
Alagna
Rogers
Grand
Wilmott
Gus Harmon
Warms
No. 5
Morro Castle
International Maritime Association
Moscow
Michigan News Roundup From Ontonagon To Petoskey
A Michigan wire led notes a fatal pedestrian truck incident in Ontonagon and a boy with a skull fracture in Mt. Clemens. It covers a flowering pear tree case in Kalamazoo, a trust termination in Marshall, Otter Lake TB home operation, and various local notices on Minnesota?ے. It reports on Red Cross honors in Pontiac, fishing feats in Kalamazoo, mining curtailments near Ishpeming, and state relief beef distribution. It closes with road and race updates across Detroit, Jackson, Ann Arbor and northern counties.
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Lansing
Martin A. Holland
Clinton
State Emergency Relief Commission
West Branch
Marshall
Blaine W. Hatch
Jackson
Louis M. Nims
SERA
Muskegon
Kalamazoo
Delbert Clark Breen
Kalamazoo College
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Ann Arbor
University of Michigan
University
RFC backs $100 million corn loan plan to farmers
The RFC announced a $100 million corn loan program through the Commodity Credit Corporation offering loans of 55 cents per bushel for a crop year. The program funds are routed via the CCC, a branch of the RFC, and cover Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Colorado.
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Commodity Credit Corporation
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Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Ohio
Minnesota
Nebraska
South Dakota
Colorado
Sandmother of the Russian Revolution Dies near Prague
Ce Breshkovsarkaya known as the sandmother of the Russian Revolution died at her home near Prague. She spent 23 years in exile in Siberia and devoted nine decades to freeing Russia, contributing to the downfall of the Romanoffs.
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Ce Breshkovsarkaya
Prague
Russia
Siberia
Romanoffs
AFL proposes central agency to direct national production
The American Federation of Labor suggests creating a central agency representing business, labor, consumers, and government to outline a production program and implement it.
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American Federation of Labor
Red scare politics and Santa Claus in Brisbanes notes
A column riffs on Reds theories about the Morro Castle fire and Cuban arrests of alleged plotters against ambassador Caffery. It mocks the notion of wicked Reds while noting political spins on elections and debt, including Maine’s dry vote and a NY court ruling on literacy to vote.
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Morro Castle
Havana
Caffery
United States
Cuba
Government Debt and Fiat Money Questioned in 3% Bonds Plan
The text criticizes refinancing $5.37 billion of debt and issuing fiat bonds at 3 percent interest, arguing it will burden taxpayers with about $2.09 billion over 12 years. It questions why fiat bonds are issued instead of fiat money.
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United States
Prison mother’s body to visit son in San Quentin request
The mother of Thomas J. Mooney, serving life in Sam Quentin, may be embalmed and brought to San Quentin for a final glimpse by her son if Governor Upton Sinclair is elected, a warden balks at permitting the trip. On Long Island a mother of three died after poison, shouting she was sorry as she stood on her porch. Matthew Woll, AFL vice president, urges capital and labor to join against the reds, likening the struggle to a mouse caught in a trap, loosed in a grim, somber image.
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Woonsocket
National
Woonsocket Rayon Company
Green
Thomas F McMahon
United Textile Workers of America
Washington
Cotton Textile Code Authority
NRA
du Pont
Pierre
Irenee
Felix
Lammet
Senate
du Pont Corporation
Irenee du Pont
United States
America
The
Chemical Foundation
du Ponts
King George
England
London
Nye
Maine
Louis J. Brann
Alfred K. Ames
Frederick Hale
F. Harold Dubord
Hale
William A. Comstock
Michigan
Arthur J. Lacey
Frank B. Fitzgerald
South Carolina
Olin D. Johnston
Cole Blease
Arizona
Ashurst
Isabella Greenway
Colorado
Josephine Roach
Edward C. Johnson
J. C. Stephenson
Lewis Schwellenbach
Chebnygan
Theodore Amlott
Clara Amlott
Theodore
Cheboygan River
Amlott
Monrose
Monroe
PWA
Consolidated Paper Co
Coldwater
Sherwood
Mt. Morris
Genevieve Schilmer
Nicholas
Mayer
Flint
Roosevelt
Thomas J. Mooney
Sam Quentin
Upton Sinclair
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Long Island
Matthew Woll
American Federation of Labor
Reds
Lenin
Go West to Toronto Stocks Draw Wall Street Men
Greeley notes Wall Street youths and elders head north to Toronto seeking profit in new gold and silver stocks at the Toronto Stock Exchange. Reports claim Germany secretly building submarines abroad unsettles France and Britain as market nerves rise.
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Wall Street
Toronto
Toronto Stock Exchange
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