Parachute plans mingle with politics in Beverly Hills notes
The writer recalls a night with aviation maps for a Moscow Park of Culture parachute stunt and mentions wiring Zack Farmer about the idea. He also describes visits from Irvin Cobb and Max Fleishman in Santa Monica, noting political angles and optimistic views about the coming years.
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Maby
Russia
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Park of Culture
Moscow
San Diego
Zack Farmer
Zack Kinder
Zack
Irvin Cobb
Santa. Monica
Max Fleishman
Santa Barbara
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Max
McNaugh
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President Roosevelt Nominees Special Counsel for Elk Hills Case
Associate Justice John W. Preston of the State Supreme Court is nominated by President Roosevelt as special counsel for the Federal government in the Elk Hills Naval Reserve litigation. He will resign within sixty days to help the government claim a 640 acre oil field at Elk Hills Kern County considered one of the nation’s richest sites.
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John W. Preston
State Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Elk Hills Naval Reserve
Elk Hills
Kern County
San Francisco Relief Rolls Shrink as Fakers Vanish
More than 4 000 relief claimants are cut from SERA rolls after a new eligibility exam. About 4 169 single men left active relief projects rather than face the test, saving the city roughly 80 000 dollars monthly. Officials say the policy deters drifters and ends easy access to relief.
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San Francisco
SERA
Plant Hires 200 for Apricot Packing Season Peak
Two hundred workers were employed last week at the United Packing Corporation's canning plant as the apricot season began in the Porterville and Hanford districts. The plant will reach 400 workers at the season's peak.
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United Packing Corporation
Porterville
Hanford
Browne Freed Not Guilty In Ranch Slaying Trial
Redding California crowd erupts as Charles A. Browne a Millville rancher is cleared of murder in the killing of Frank Raymond McArthur a Santa Barbara mining engineer. Browne admitted the act but said it was self defense as McArthur drew a pistol on his wife. The sole witness was Browne’s divorced wife who could not testify due to an unfinished divorce decree.
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Redding
WIN
Charles A. Browne
Millville
Frank Raymond McArthur
Santa Barbara
Browne
New York Stock Exchange
Ford
New York
California youths to train at first Citizens Camp for transients
Homeless youths from across California gather in Clyde Contra Costa County ahead of the nations first Citizens Training Camp for transient juveniles opening July 13. Alfalfa prices stay down in the south while central and northern regions report steady markets with good quality shipments from the Imperial Antelope San Joaquin San Fernando and Yuma Valleys.
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Clyde
Contra Costa County
First Citizens
Imperial
Antelope
San Joaquin
San Fernando
Yuma
Roosevelt tax plan looms as Wall Street leaks feed debate
Washington chatter centers on President Roosevelt's inheritance tax proposal and its likely passage. Brokers on Wall Street and lawmakers dispute timing while views hinge on how big fortunes like Ford and Edsel Ford would cover a potential 80 percent levy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Pat Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
Doughton
House
Ways and Means Committee
White House
Senate
Wall Street
New York Stock Exchange
The Treasure Hunter and the Fake Letter Scheme
A con man Millurn borrows a forged treasure letter to lure a room from a Brooklyn landlady who runs a trap for travelers. The letter suggests hidden gold and pearls in a vault at her home, leading him to a back parlor room reveal that hides only a note.
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Peter Rodgers
Arnold Millurn
Cynthia Rodgers
Long’ Bridge
Brooklyn
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