Stock Market Turmoil and Farm Board Action
A turbulent week saw a stock collapse with billions in paper profits wiped out and heavy selling on the New York Exchange. Recovery followed as big buyers entered, while the Farm Board announced $100 million to stabilize prices and a new Farmers' National Grain Corporation began operations in Chicago and Wilmington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Jene T Pee
New York Exchange
Hoover
Julius B. Klein
Legge
Federal Farm Board
The
Farm Board
Controversy Over Liquor in Washington And Ontario Election
Political figures in the United States blame President Hoover for capital city liquor and vice issues as Washington Times reporters are jailed for contempt after refusing to name liquor buyers. In Ontario, Conservatives win a large majority embracing government liquor sales with Premier Ferguson expanding his margin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enator Blease
South Carolina
Washington
Hoover
National Capital
Washington Times
Peyton Gordon
Ontario
Can
Howard Ferguson
Ferguson
W. B. N. Sinclair
Diry
John G. Lethbridge
Middlesex West
Hinese
Honan
Chiang Kai-shek
Republic
Yangtse Valley
United States
Manila
Daladier Fails to Form New French Government
Radical Socialist leader Daladier could not win Socialists to participate in a new French government and was thus forced to abandon the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pooouaro Daladier
France
Mussolini celebrates seventh Fascist anniversary in Rome
Premier Mussolini led a 60,000 strong Black Shirt rally in Rome praising Italy's progress and pledging the country armed in heart and hand for peace. He warned other nations to keep hands off and urged unity under his rule. The event marked seven years of Fascist governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mussolini
Rome
Duce
Italy
Flaming Worker Leaps in Barrel to Escape Blaze
William H. Queen a twenty year old colored worker in Tuxedo Md leapt into a water barrel to save himself after a bucket of gasoline exploded while he cleaned a car motor in a lumber yard at Nineteenth street and Benning road northeast He was seriously burned and taken to Casualty hospital for burns to the arms back and body The fire was confined to lumber
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuxedo
William H. Queen
Queen
Nineteenth Street
Benning Road
Casualty Hospital
J. Rogers Young
Wisconsin liner foundered off Racine in storm tragedy
Rioting storms on Lake Michigan claim lives as the liner Wisconsin from Chicago sinks near Racine with fifteen dead including Captain Douglas Morrison and sixty saved. Later, the steamship Senator and ore boat Marquette collide north of Milwaukee with a dozen lost and the Marquette reaching port.
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Lake Michigan
Wisconsin
Chicago
Racine
Douglas H. Morrison
Senator
Marquette
Milwaukee
Senator Burton Dies After Long Congressional Career
Oremost lists Ohio Senator Theodore HB Burton among the week’s deaths. Burton died in Washington after a month long illness at seventy seven. He served forty four years in Congress, switching between the House and Senate and was a Republican leader. Funeral services were held in the Senate chamber with President Hoover present. Also noted were Rev EK 8 Shumaker, Sir Graham Balfour, Prince Bernhard von Buelow, Rev John Roach Straton, and Edwin B Parker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore HB. Burton
United States
Ohio
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Republican Party
Burton
Hoover
Cleveland
EK. 8
Shumaker
Indiana AntiSaloon League
Graham Balfour
Stevenson
Prince Bernhard von Buelow
Germany
John Roach Straton
New York
Edwin B. Parker
Fall Found Guilty in bribe case and Pantages Convicted
Washington juries convicted Albert B. Fall former secretary of the interior of taking a bribe from Edward Doheny for an oil lease to the naval reserve. The same period in Los Angeles Alexander Pantages theater owner was found guilty of assaulting Hunice Pringle and the jury urged leniency in sentencing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
Edward Doheny
Fall
Los Angeles
Alexander Pantages
Hunice Pringle
Western Newspaper Union
Finding of bones solves mystery in Paradise Hill case
A farmer's wife found a skeleton at Paradise Hill near Turtleford Sask, leading to the identification of Charles Taylor as the man behind the 1922 murder of his cousin Charles Currie. The inquest concluded Taylor died by his own hand after Currie was shot dead outside his shack.
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Winnipeg
Paradise Hil
Turtleford
Sask
Northwest Mounted Police
Charles Taylor
Taylor
Charles Currie
Paradise Hill
Currie
Canada
Frank Klein
Royal Canadian Northwest Mounted Police
Constable Streeton
John Dahl
Murder fails as means to obtain divorce in German case
Berlin reports a Brandenburg couple from Premnitz aged 23 and 33 plotted a pretend murder to secure a divorce. The wife admitted to sprinkling benzine and setting the blaze. both were jailed but later released and condemned to live together, with the plan uncovered during investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Herr Landwehr
Premnitz
Brandenburg
New Englander Arrested Forty-Third Time in Worcester
George Brannigan, 43, of New England, was booked for attempted larceny after trying to take money from a Front Street department store register. Detective Lieutenant Otis H. Pineo observed and arrested Brannigan in the store.
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New
Man Carries Stone in Forehead for 25 Years
In Aggarp Sweden Hans Nilsson carried a polished pebble in his head after a teenage forehead wound. An old scar bled revealing the stone which he believes lodged in the wound decades ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aggarp
Sweden
Hans Nilsson
Nilsson
Red Cross Expends Eight Millions for Disaster Relief
The American Red Cross reports relief and rehabilitation expenditures of 8.02 million dollars after 120 disasters in the United States and insular possessions. It sent 76,300 dollars abroad and aided more than 700,000 people after the West Indies hurricane of 1928.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
American Red Cross
Red Cross
West Indies
Florida
Porto Rico
Virgin Islands
Red Cross Volunteers Transcribe Braille Books
American Red Cross volunteers convert popular and scientific works into Braille. Starting at Evergreen hospital for World War I veterans, 1155 transcribers produced 442 titles in 1849 volumes totaling 175000 pages last year. Most go to the Library of Congress and public libraries nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross
Evergreen Hospital
Red Cross
Library of Congress
Red Cross pledges aid to World War veterans
The American Red Cross reports expenditures of 738000 for veteran and dependent-family service in the year just ended plus 1963000 in veteran relief and support for men in service. Red Cross workers serve in 48 Veterans Bureau Hospitals and in Army Navy facilities providing recreation social service and small comforts. The Roll Call runs Armistice Day through the 28th urging citizen enrollment to fund this work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Veterans Bureau
James L. Fieser
The
Congress
Veterans of Wars
Mr. Fieser
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Society
Red Cross Honor Flag Goes To New Hampshire
The annual Red Cross honor flag for highest population percentage enrolled goes to New Hampshire after a close finish with Vermont. California ranks third and Connecticut fourth, in the 1928 Roll Call which shows a nationwide membership of 4,127,946. The flag will hang in the State House until the 1929 Roll Call, held between Armistice Day and Thanksgiving Day, is completed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross
New Hampshire
Vermont
California
Lst
Connecticut
State House
Red Cross
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Eunice Pringle
Edouard Daladier
Daniel Carter Beard
New Jersey
Theodore Roosevelt
Reed
Cee R. Grundy
Pennsylvania
Grundy
W. B. Borah
Idaho
T. H. Caraway
Arkansas
Arizona
South Dakota
Mississippi
Montana
Georgia
North Dakota
Borah
Walsh
Bingham
C. L. Hyanson
Etienne Clementel
Senate Finance Committee
Andre Tardieu
Ighty
Archangel
Michigan
Schmidt
Havre
Detroit
Sim Fe
Case
Police
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