Drought relief plans outlined at White House conference
President Hoover and Secretary Hyde unveil a federal state and county relief framework to aid farmers hit by the drought. Freight-rate reductions for livestock and feed are implemented, with a Department of Agriculture liaison to coordinate with railroads. Governors and farm groups back the plan as the nation eyes action and funding.
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White House
Hoover
Hyde
Department of Agriculture
Washington
National Grange
Farmers’ Union
American Farm Bureau Federation
Legge
Federal Farm Board
Warnings Against Food Price Gouging and Market Shifts
Prose wives urged vigilance against profiteering in vegetables fruit and foodstuffs with no shortage seen. La Guardia urged the president and Hyde to report New York price hikes 20 to 35 percent. Hyde pledged action to stop middlemen gouging and assured no farmer profiteering. Barley wheat and rye substitutions noted as feed and industrial uses with barley crop at 830 million bushels. dairy feeds in Wisconsin and Minnesota cited. Industrial alcohol uses and weather and coal trends mentioned amid political insurgent leadership notes.
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la Guardia
Hyde
New York City
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Changsha Front Battles and Nanking Censorship
As Chinese forces clash around Changsha, Chiang Kai shek predicts driving northern troops from Taiwan amid mixed battle reports. In Chicago, forty commissioners discuss over fifty state laws, aiming to unify disparate statutes through the American Bar Association and state legislatures.
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Changsha
Nanking
Tsiwan
Shantung Province
Chiang Kaishek
Taiwan
Chicago
American Bar Association
Vast U S Orders For Soviet Farm Machinery
MTORG Trading corporation reports that in the last two months orders totaling 40.5 million dollars for agricultural machinery and tractors were placed in the United States. About 85 percent were for tractors, 12 percent for combines, with the rest for other farm equipment and parts. The orders are described as the largest for farm machinery exported in a similar period. Also noted were deaths this week of notable World War II figures Maj. Gen. Charles T. Menoher and Gen. Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien.
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President Hoover
Boy Scouts of America
Douglas MacArthur
Charles P. Summerall
United States Army
Frank Haucke
Clyde M. Reed
Kansas
Mtorg Trading Corporation
United States
Charles T. Menoher
Rainbow Division
France
Army Air Corps
Horace Smith- Dorrien
Mons
Sir John French
Western Newspaper Union
Insane Women Use Lipstick in Home
Sacramento officials discuss how beauty aids such as lipstick powder puff and comb help rehabilitate patients at state hospitals. Earl Jensen notes cafeterias encourage choice of food and stimulate thought among the mentally ill.
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Sacramento
Cal
Earl Jensen
Japanese police untangle twin murders in Tokyo case
In a linked crime saga, Shojiro Taniguchi, an 18 year old in Sapporo, is missing since January 1928. His brother Shinsuburo, 19, in Tokyo insane asylum, confesses that Fujiro Taniguchi, 23, killed Shojiro and hid the body, while a separate trunk murder remains unsolved.
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Tokyo
Hokkaido
Shojiro Taniguchi
Sapporo
Shinsuburo Taniguchi
Shojiro
Fujiro Taniguchi
Fujiro
America
Civil War Bomb Wounds Boy In Maryland Home
Cumberland Maryland eighteen year old Russell Lybarger lost his left hand after a Civil War era bomb inside a family home exploded while he pried dirt from it. He is hospitalized in Timmins in good condition. The shell, 1 inch thick iron, 8 inches long and 4 inches diameter, was used as a door stop for 18 years and may have come from Gettysburg in the 1860s.
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Cumberland, Md
Russell Lybarger
Timmins
Lybarger
Bedford
Gettysburg
Joseph W. Tomlinson
Gettysburg Theological Seminary
Dog Sacrifices Life Saving Pups in Farm Fire
In Villa Grove Illinois the Shafer family’s farm home and two outbuildings burned. An alredale dog protected a litter, guiding the pups to safety as flames spread. The mother dog was fatally burned while rescuing the adopted pups, with one of the mothers having died earlier. Two aliredales belonging to the family had just produced litters two weeks prior.
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Villa Grove
George Shafer
Shafer
Alredale
Home Bank Looted Spinsters Lose Cash in Safe Theft
Cleveland Virginia news item notes Nancy and Sally Rasnick sisters suffered loss after a bank failure last year and a later home safe theft. They kept funds at home and thieves stole between two and three thousand dollars.
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Cleveland
Nancy
Sally Rasnick
Here
The Rivers of the World and the Mississippi Menace
The article surveys the world’s longest rivers led by the Nile and Yangtze, notes northern hemisphere dominance, and highlights North America’s Mississippi Mississippi-Missouri system as a growing flood menace due to levees and development. It explains flood dynamics, Atchafalaya outflow, and the continental scale of the Mississippi basin with dates and figures.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Ature
Ap N
Asia
Africa
New World
Europe
Australia
Nile
Niger
Congo
Equator
South America
Amazon
Siberia
Lena
Arctic Ocean
Amur
Pacific
Yangtze
Hwang
China
Mississippi
Mackenzie
Yenisei
Egypt
Siberian
Cairo
Nero
Timbuktu
North America
Mississippi- Missouri
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi River
Great River
de Soto
New Orleans
Atchafalaya
Red River
Gulf of Mexico
Memphis
Vicksburg
Milllion
United States
Ohio
Greenville, Miss
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Charles W. Bryan
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Beatrice Fenton Craig
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