Pickard reports GOP wins in Pennsylvania nominee races
Edward W. Pickard summarizes the Republican primary results in Pennsylvania with Lee J. Davis securing the U.S. Senate nomination and Gifford Pinchot winning the gubernatorial bid, aided by upstate majorities and Philadelphia backing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James J. Davis
Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Edward W. Pickard
Lee J. Davis
Labor
Joseph R. Grundy
Gifford Pinchot
Upstate
Francis Shunk Brown
Brown
William KE. Ware
Philadelphia
Davis
Alter
Ware
Mr. Davis
Washington
Hoover
Grundy
F. H. Bohlen
T. W. Phillips, Jr
Sedgwick Kistler
Lock Haven
John H. Hemphill
West Chester
President Hoover Sees Big Navy Exercise at Sea
President Hoover toured the Salt Lake City off Virginia Capes as 53 ships including battleships cruisers carriers destroyers and submarines took part in manuever drills. He viewed catapult launches aerial attacks from Lexington and Saratoga and a dive bombing demonstration aboard the Los Angeles dirigible.
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Hoover
Salt Lake City
Virginia Capes
Lexington
Saratoga
Los Angeles
Navy Air Arm
Bishop Cannon Cleared of Stock Speculation Charges
The episcopacy committee in Dallas found no substantiating evidence in charges of stock market speculation against Bishop James Cannon Jr of the Methodist Church South. He told the committee he had been deceived by a group of sharpers, apologized, and said he would not repeat the act.
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Harges
James Cannon, Jr
Methodist Church
South
Josephus Daniels
Dallas
Texas
McBride Clashes with Senator Blaine in Prohibition Hearing
Scott McBride the Anti-Saloon League general superintendent testified before the senate lobby committee. He endured sharp heckling from Wisconsin Senator Blaine a wet but held his own during several sessions. McBride was cheered by the audience at times, provoking Blaine’s anger.
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Scott McBride
Anti-Saloon League
Senate Lobby Committee
Senator Blaine
Wisconsin
McBride
Blaine
Senate Moves Rivers and Harbors Bill for 125 Million Likely Law
The bill revised by the senate commerce committee and reported to the senate carries authorizations totaling upward of 125 million dollars, with projected costs topping 3835 million. It funds Tulane is waterway at 7.5 million, deepening upper Mississippi, Great Lakes channels, Erie and Oswego canals, and 5 million for Tennessee river improvements.
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Senate Commerce Committee
Senate
Congress
House
A. Hi. Vanderberg
Michigan
Tulneis Waterway
Mississippi River
Great Lakes
Erie and
Oswego
New York State
Vanderberg
MacNider Nominated Minister to Canada by Hoover
Sanford MacNider of Iowa a former assistant secretary of war and ex national commander of the American Legion is nominated by President Hoover to be minister to Canada to succeed William Phillips. He is forty, a banker, and won the Distinguished Service Cross in the Second division. The judiciary committee reported favorably a plan to add eleven federal judges to ease court congestion with assignments across New York California Texas Missouri Oklahoma Michigan Louisiana and the District of Columbia.
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Owen As Roberts
Philadelphia
Supreme Court of the United States
Edward T. Sanford
Judiciary Committee
Joseph T. Robinson
Anford Macnider
Iowa
American Legion
Hoover
Canada
William Phillips
MacNider
House
New York
California
Texas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Michigan
Louisiana
District of Columbia
Court of Appeals
District Supreme Court
West Virginia
Kentucky
Minnesota
Simon Lake
Long Island Sound
Hell Gate
Lake
Thomas
Pot Rock
Graf Zeppelin Makes Successful Atlantic Flight
Germany's Graf Zeppelin commanded by Dr. Hugo Eckener completed a passenger voyage from Friedrichshafen to Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro with a stop at Seville. The proposed route would return to Pernambuco Havana Lakehurst then Germany. Winds limited speed to 50 to 60 miles per hour.
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Ermany
Hugo Eckener
Friedrichshafen
Pernambuco
Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Seville
Spain
Havana
Lakehurst
N. J
Germany
Salt works raids ignite violence in Dhararna clashes
Nato Te of India led several raids on government salt works near Dharna amid violent police clashes that injured about 600 natives. Poetess Sarojini Naidu, Gandhi’s successor as campaign leader, was arrested along with many lieutenants. Leadership then passed to V. J. Patel, former speaker of the assembly. A London India Office spokesman warned the worst was over as reconstruction looms, possibly too optimistic.
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NATO Te
India
Dhargana
Sarojini Naidu
Mahatma Gandhi
V. J. Patel
Legislative Assembly
India Office
London
Reparation Plan and Occupation Zone Begin Ends
The Young plan and BIS Basel operation took effect as Paris burned Dawes era German war bonds. Concurrently French began evacuating the Rhineland third zone while promising freeing the final zone including Mayence and the Palatinate within weeks.
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Young Plan
Bank of International Settlements
Basel
Switzerland
Dawes
Paris
Rhineland
Mayence
Palatinate
Digest Poll Confirms Prohibition Attitudes Across Nation
The Literary Digest poll reports 4,806,464 votes with 40.48 percent favoring outright repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, 20.11 percent for modifying the Volstead Act, and 30.46 percent calling for strict enforcement, reflecting 40 percent wet, 29 percent moist, and 81 percent dry sentiments.
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Literary Digest
Congress to Probe Communistic Activities in U S
A House resolution by Representative Bertrand H Snell of New York authorizes a sweeping congressional investigation into Communistic activities. A five member committee will hear testimony in major cities this summer with power to spend, subpoena witnesses and demand documents. Administration leaders back the measure with little opposition.
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Bertrand H. Snell
New York
House of Representatives
United States
Woeatern Newawaver Union
Autograph Cast and Mice in Skyscraper Tales
A writer recalls signing a plaster cast in a hospital with autographs from Clarence Chamberlin and others. He notes a New York Grand Central zone tech problem with mice in new 50 story buildings and a simple cheese trap. The column ends with a playful fantasy of restaurant showmanship and dancing servers.
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John Henry
Clarence Chamberlin
Grand Central Zone
Fifty-year-old prize tied to marriage heir seeks bride
Albany reports Frank Hofelich, a 20-year-old Rensselaer contractor, will receive $20,000 on marriage. He seeks a vivacious brunette for a bride after ending with his previous sweetheart. Hofelich earned the sum as a bequest from John Sommers after saving Sommers from a rattlesnake bite in 1928.
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Albany
N. C
Frank Hofelich
Rensselaer
Hofelich
Tenth Infantry
New York National Guard
Camp Smith
Peekskill
John Sommers
New York
Sommers
Detroit Traffic Towing Profits Rise in City
Detroit tow crews and police earned from towing 90,000 cars in six months. Police removed 26,000 cars while private firms towed the rest at a dollar per vehicle. Motorists paid $3 to redeem each car from a pound.
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Detroit
Ancient gateway unearthed at Montorguell Castle Jersey
Excavations reveal an iron gate set in a masonry wall at Mon torguell castle, an old fortress of Saint Aubin. Researchers believe the gate was buried during additions to the main gate in Queen Elizabeth I's era.
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Saint Aubin
Jersey
Channel Islands
Montorguell Castle
Chick hatches on air freighter at Croydon Airdrome
An air freighter arriving from the Continent to Croydon Airdrome hatched several chicks midflight from a consignment of incubator eggs.
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Air Croydon
England
Croydon
Willy Nilly Bugaboo of English Airmen
A Mediterranean storm called willy-nilly confounds pilots. It is a dense rain area about 400 by 100 yards that rises instead of falling, blending with sea spray and occasional debris. The phenomenon, linked to water spouts, can reach 300 to 400 feet high and hinders navigation over the sea.
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London
Mediterranean
Greek's Pennies Build Dream Church in Kamare Greece
Anthony Thompson, born in Kamare Greece, saved pennies from papers since age sixteen after moving to the United States. Returning to his birthplace, he used $15,000 to construct a small church near Kamare, fulfilling a boyhood dream.
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Quincy
Mass
Anthony Thompson
Kamare
Greece
Thompson
United States
New York
Chicago
Friction Ignites Comic When Schoolboy Falls
Corona California pupil Stuart Clayson slipped in a classroom and felt burning pain as smoke curled from a celluloid comb in his back pocket. Investigators said friction ignited the comb while he slid across the floor, burning him severely before help could stop the blaze.
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Corona
Calif
Stuart Clayson
Youth Hated Dogs Leads to Dog Slayings Arrest
In Canton Ohio Leroy Nichols eighteen confessed he killed twelve dogs claiming he simply didn’t like dogs. State authorities arrested him after owners reported the animal deaths.
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Canton
Ohio
Leroy Nichols
Iate
Leroy
Tax Cats Enacted by Bad Landeck Council
Bad Landeck Silesia imposes a cat tax to raise revenue and protect singing birds. The town notes many families keep up to ten felines as pets.
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Berlin
Bad Landeck
Silesia
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