Hawley tariff bill passes as Senate backs reform plan
Edward W. Pickard notes the Hawley tariff bill clears the House 264 to 147 with Republican dissent over dairy and building-material duties. Senate finance committee will rewrite. President Hoover urges Kellogg pact and naval disarmament. Lindbergh wedding details and labor unrest updates follow.
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Edward W. Pickard
House of Representatives
Repubiicans
A. H. Andresen
Victor Christgau
Frank Clague
G. G. Goodwin
G. Selvig
Minn
la Guardia
Tariff Commission
Senate Finance Committee
Hawley
Congress
Willebrandt resigns as assistant attorney general in charge of prosecutions
RS MABEL WILLEBRANDT resigns as head of city law prosecutions and will become Washington counsel for the Aviation corporation. President Hoover expresses regret and notes plans to appoint a successor around June 15 as the special law enforcement commission begins organizing for a two year, large scale task.
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Washington
Aviation Corporation
Willebrandt
Hoover
Treasury Department
Department of Justice
Mrs. Willebrandt
Special Law Enforcement Commission
Supreme Court Denies Naturalization to Schwimmer
The Supreme Court upholds a Chicago federal court ruling finding Rosika Schwimmer unfit for U S citizenship. The majority, led by Justice Butler, cites lack of national loyalty and uncompromising pacifism as disqualifying. Justices Holmes Brandeis and Sanford dissent.
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Rosika Scitwimmer
United States
Supreme Court
Chicago Federal District Court
High Tribunal
Justice Butler
Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago District Court
Mademoiselle Schwimmer
Holmes, Brandeis and
Sanford
Supreme Court Upholds Pocket Veto Power Across Presidency
The Supreme Court upholds the use of pocket vetoes, ruling bills not signed within ten days or returned before adjournment do not become law. The ruling challenges advocates of government ownership and affects the Muscle Shoals dispute. Senator Norris introduces a duplicate bill. unlikely to advance before summer recess. In the Philippines, Insular Auditor Ben F Wright faces a habeas corpus case over a million-dollar wharf project, with a July full-court review anticipated.
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Nother
Supreme Court
Muscle Shoals
Coolidge
Norris
Committee On Agriculture
Senate
Pthere
Philippines
Insular
Ben F. Wright
City of
Ololo
KEECH Wins 500 Mile Indianapolis Race At 95.585 MPH
AY Keech won the Indianapolis 500 with an average speed of 95.585 mph. Louie Meyer finished second. Billy Spence died when his car overturned. From 33 starters, 13 finished as the field split $100,000 in prize money.
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AY Keech
Indianapolis
Louie Meyer
Billy Spence
Fort Worth pilots set record for sustained flight
TAMES KELLY and R. L. Robbins flew a re conditioned plane over Fort Worth Texas and stayed aloft for 172 hours 31 minutes before a hull cracked propeller forced them down. Lieut. W. G. Tomlinson won the Curtiss seaplane trophy with a new speed record of 175 miles per hour.
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Tames Kelly
R. L. Robbins
Fort Worth
Texas
Lieut. W. G. Tomlinson
Navy
Paris talks near full accord on German reparation plan
Experts in Paris say consensus is close on the Young plan with eight and a half billion dollars to be paid over fifty eight years. Annual payment near 487 million dollars and start date set for September 1. Evacuation of the Rhineland left unsettled as a purely political issue. Dr Gustav Stresemann to visit Paris Monday to seek Belgian German settlements. Manullah abandons bid for Afghan throne and heads toward Italy, with Gen Nadir Khan seen as possible successor to Bacha Sakao.
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Germany
Rhineland
Gustav Stresemann
Manullah
Afghanistan
India
Italy
Bacha Sakao
Nadir Khan
Arctic Tern Band Sheds Light On Epic Migration
A dead Arctic tern found on a South African beach carried a metal band numbered 548,188 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Banded at Turnevik Bay Labrador on July 28, 1928, it was then found in South Africa four months later, expanding estimates of its 11,000 mile migration and suggesting routes via Portugal and Africa to the Antarctic.
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South Africa
Bureau of Biological Survey
United States Department of Agriculture
L. Austin
Turnevik Bay
Labrador
Arctic
Antarctic
North Pole
H. J. S. Heather
Durban
Natal
National Geographic Society
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Johannesburg
Port Shepstone
Biological Survey
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Africa
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Ungava
Ocean
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Lesser Antilles
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Mexico
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Pacific
Alaska
Aleutians
Hawaii
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Pacific Ocean
Australia
Asia
BE. W. Nelson
National Geographic Magazine
Bureau
Farmer Catches Muskrat Then State Fines Kell
Farmer F G Kell was fined 25 dollars for possessing a fur bearing animal without a permit after catching a muskrat by the tail and impounding it in a box for a potential farm. The muskrat was running in Kell’s barn when seized.
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Billings
Mont
F. G. Kell
Kell
Giants of the Sea Off Eureka Reported by Captain Cousins
Captain Willard Cousins reported one of the largest whale schools seen off Eureka California. He estimated about fifty whales in the group and noted spouts rising like a field of geysers.
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Eureka
Calif
Willard Cousins
Cousins
Innocent Man Serves Seven Years in Prison
Detroit reports Bob Flaugher jailed seven years for bank robbery after a wrongful conviction. He held three World War II era bravery citations and was paroled to clear his name. Flaugher claims a disputed love triangle involving Fred Thompson led to the arrest.
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Detroit
Bob Flaugher
Jackson State
Flaugher
Fred Thompson
Thompson
Eerie Ghost in Pine Hill Cemetery Is Radio Broadcast
Reporters and crowds believed a ghost sang nightly from a mausoleum in Buffalo’s Pine Hill cemetery. Investigators found the “voice” came from an outdoor speaker connected to WGR radio, with no supernatural haunting.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Pine Hill
Harlem Road
WGR
Niagara victim drowns in bathtub after river rescue
John H. Olst, 22, of Buffalo, escaped Niagara river currents after his rowboat overturned by an ice floe, but drowned in his bathroom a week later. A defective gas heater burned asphyxiation followed by water immersion. coroners note parallels to Bobby Leach’s Niagara fate.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Niagara River
John H. Olst
Olst
Bobby Leach
Horseshoe Falls
Australia
Niagara Falls
Modern Fagin Trains Dog to Commit Theft
Henry Andrews of Watsonville California was arrested after he used a dog to steal a motor meter from an automobile accessories shop. The dog entered the shop and delivered the package to Andrews who planned to claim the theft. A policeman spotted the dog entering the store and intervened as the dog returned with the package.
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Watsonville
Calif
Henry Andrews
Andrews
Cow Gives Birth to Five Calves in Canwood
A dairy cow owned by Alfred Rasmussen in Canwood Saskatchewan calved five calves all of which were dead at birth though fully developed.
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Canwood, Sask
Alfred Rasmussen
Man Drowns Attempt Aborted by Cold Water
Alexander Middell leaped into a pond in Fall River Massachusetts to end his life but swam back to shore when the water proved too cold. Police report no further details or motive available.
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Fall River
Mass
Alexander Middell
Little Richard Helping His Mother in Rent Portrayal
A Boston Herald item notes Little Richard and his mother showing rooms to a prospective tenant. During summer, the mother highlights a cool basement kitchen and dining area. Richard opens a hot water faucet and quips that the hot water is cold to aid the impression.
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Little Richard
Richard
Boston Herald
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