World War Veterans Bill Dominates Washington Deadline
Congressional action dominates the week as the Senate amends a World War veterans bill with pension and disability provisions while the House approves the Wickersham border patrol bill. Mellon reports a $184 million surplus for 1930 with a $746 million debt reduction. Prohibition enforcement shifts to the Justice Department as governors demand state rights respect. Revolutionary Bolivian events end with a military junta promising elections and a new constitutional path.
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Edward W. Pickardee
Congress
House
Senate
Hoover
Wickersham Commission
Canada
Mexico
Treasury
Coast Guard
Opposing Views on London Naval Treaty Rise in Senate
Johnson of California Moses of New Hampshire and Robinson of Indiana filed a minority report from the foreign relations committee opposing ratification of the London naval treaty. Dispatches cited the American Legion defense committee urging rejection and rumors of London pressure.
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Een Johnson
California
Moses
New Hampshire
Robinson
Indiana
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Washington
National Defense Committee
The
American Legion
Legion
London
England
Earl Beatty
Earl Jellicoe
Illinois Congressman Denison narrowly avoids trial in liquor case
Congresssman E. B. Denison of Illinois, a dry Republican, was indicted for illegally possessing liquor due to a leaking suitcase. Justice Gordon of the DC Supreme Court sustained a demurrer, ruling the indictment did not sufficiently specify the charge to allow a defense or plead an acquittal as a bar to a subsequent indictment.
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Ongressman
E. B. Denison
Illinois
Gordon
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Denison
Liberation of Rhineland as German towns celebrate end of French occupation
At midnight on June 80 French troops pulled out from the Rhineland ending nearly twelve years of occupation. Speyer held a grand jubilee with torches, fireworks, and a police guard of 660 as crowds sang and bands played. The last evacuees marked the closing of the Allied Rhineland commission in Wiesbaden with a flag display and a final regimental tune.
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Rhineland
Germany
Speyer
Palatinate
Rhine
Wiesbaden
Iinter-allied
Rhineland Commission
Coblenz
Kaiserstrasse
Commission
British Crackdown on Indian Nationalists Sparks Protests
Britain imposes six month detentions on Pandit Motilal Nehru and Sayed Mahmud for leading the national congress. A hartal and boycott week spread across India with calls for boycotting British goods as students join demonstrations and shop picketing rises.
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Reat
Britain
India
Pandit Motilal Nehru
All-India National Congress
Sayed Mahmud
Congress
Bombay
Poincare Critics U.S. Tariff Policy At Franco American Week
In Paris, Raymond Poincare, ex president and premier, urged the Franco American committee gathering of delegates from 22 nations and French officials to mend a growing tariff dispute with the United States. He warned that antagonizing other peoples could bind nations by unbreakable ties.
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Governors’ Conference
Salt Lake City
Hoover
Paul Tirard
Rhine Bridge
von Hindenburg
Rhineland
Paris
Franco-America Committee
Raymond Poincare
United States
M. Poincare
Aviation feats crown the week with record flights
Roger Q Williams and two companions flew nonstop from New York to Bermuda and back in the Columbia Bellanca monoplane in 17 hours 8 minutes. John and Kenneth Hunter of Sparta Illinois shattered the refueling endurance record over Sky Harbor near Chicago and refused to land until their engine wore out.
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James Buchanan
Meridian Hill Park
Washington
Hoover
Cleveland
Union Terminal
Kenneth Hunter
Chicago
John
Sky Harbor
Roger Q. Williams
New York
Bermuda
Columbia
Sparta
Smithereens
Unies
Boy Slayer Gets Life in Prison in Elizabeth Case
Elizabeth New Jersey George Daniecki fifteen years old was sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder with mercy recommended along with two other underage accomplices William Gallagher twenty and William Garry eighteen. Jury deliberated three hours and twenty minutes deciding on life with hard labor rather than execution for killing mechanic John Hayden during a robbery attempt. Anna Ossowick testified aiding convicting the trio.
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Elizabeth
N. J
George Daniecki
Daniecki
Alfred A. Stein
William Gallagher
William Garry
John Hayden
Garry
Gallagher
George Danlecki
Nic
Virginia
Georges
Anna Ossowick
Frosted glass windows hide wife in Garden City dispute
Anna Van Houten seeks $100 a week alimony in a Brooklyn Supreme Court separation case claiming her husband Everett Van Houten blocked all light by installing frosted ground floor windows and nailing them shut to curb her alleged flirting. He admits the action but says it was to prevent flirting and not to restrain the family. She calls him a boss and a bully who insults her father and rejects church attendance for the family.
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New York
Everett van Houten
Garden City
L. I
Anna
van Houten
Mitchell May
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Woman Sentenced to Two Years for Beverly Hills Shooting
Helen Lois Andrade, sixty six, was sentenced by Superior Judge Emmet Wilson to two years in county jail after firing five shots at her husband in his Beverly Hills home last September. The gunfire missed. Andrade claimed marital difficulties and alleged denial of support.
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Los Angeles
Helen Lois Andrade
Emmet Wilson
Youth sentenced to church service then jailed in Iowa
Harley Diller, accused with others of trimming Mayor Jerry Van Dyke’s van dyke beard in Fredonia Iowa, was ordered to attend church services every Sunday for a year but failed to comply. The judge then gave him thirty days in jail.
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Columbus Junction
Iowa
Harley Diller
van Dyke
Jerry van Dyke
Fredonia
Diller
Bruges Carillon Bells Echo Through Medieval Streets
National Geographic notes Bruges remains a medieval city where summer carillon concerts showcase hand played bells. The Belfry Tower houses 47 bells, linking history with modern tourism as canals and gabled houses frame a timeless urban landscape.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Ruges
Belgium
Bruges
Butt
Three Rivers
Smith
Venice
Italy
Flanders
Zwyn
Europe
Ghent
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