No subpoena not ordered for Bishop Cannon
JONESBORO Arkansas June 6 Visiting at his home for a few hours before leaving for Dexter Missouri where he is to speak United States Senator Caraway chairman of the Senate Lobby Committee said he had no intention of ordering a subpoena. Bishop Cannon walked out of a hearing after reading a statement and refused to answer questions about his activities in the Anti-Smith Campaign claiming the committee was overstepping its authority.
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Jonesboro
Arkansas
Dexter
Missouri
United States
Caraway
Senate
Bishop Cannon
Dawes Addresses Trinity College Dinner in Cambridge
American Ambassador Charles G. Dawes spoke at Trinity College Cambridge dinner, praised Gold Star Mothers, and criticized American social climbers in Britain. He received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws.
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Cambridge
England
Charles G. Dawes
Trinity College
Great Britain
Musicians to Convene in Boston Over Uncertain Future
Representatives of 140000 professional musicians in the United States and Canada will meet in Boston next Monday to discuss the future after thousands lost work due to sound pictures. Joseph M. Weber, president of the American Federation of Musicians, prepares a message that is not cheerful. Weber notes musician incomes have been cut by 20000000 dollars annually.
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NW Yeak
United States
Canada
Sound Pictures
Boston
Joseph M. Weber
American Federation of Musicians
Weber
Mexico Population Reaches Over Sixteen Million in 1930 Census
Mexico City's June 6 report cites the 1930 census placing Mexico's population at 16,404,000, up about 2,000,000 since 1921. The same dispatch notes Denmark imports tobacco products and consumes British cigarettes, German cigars, and Dutch pipe tobacco.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Denmark
Peshawar Frontier Outpost Fears Amid Civil Disobedience
Peshawar on the northwest frontier is tense as Gandhi’s civil disobedience campaign intensifies. Officials fear reaction at this back door to Central Asia as tribes such as Afridis Mahsuds and Waziri gather for trade and potential conflict. Evacuation of women and children strengthens defenders though tribal tensions persist.
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Peshawar
India
Mahatma Gandhi
M Mystic
Port Said
Central Asia
Lttle
Khyber Pass
Allah
Kohat
Royal Air Force
Turcengzal
Séah
Biographer credits Stresemann faith in America
Berlin June 6 Gustav Stresemann relied on faith in America shaping Germanys foreign policy says a new biographical study by Dr Heinrich Bauer The 270 page work portrays him as an optimistic leader with conciliation toward former enemies and strong ties to America highlighting quotes from public addresses including his Reichstag Kellogg pact defense and remarks at Heidelberg in 1928 when he received a degree with American ambassador Jacob Gould Scherman present.
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Berlin
Gustav Stresemann
America
Heinrich Bauer
Stresehmann
Germany
Stresemann
Reichstag
Heidelberg University
Jacob Gould Schirman
All-India National Congress raid amid Bombay unrest
In Bombay on June 6, three hundred policemen with fifty armed officers surrounded the All-India National Congress headquarters and arrested six Bombay Congress War Council members. In Peshawar a Royal Air Force flying column clashed with Agridi tribesmen advancing on the city, driving the raiders off.
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Bombay
India
All-India National Congress
Bombay Congress War Council
Peshawar
Royal Air Force
Connie Mack Jr Elected Captain of Georgetown Academy Team
Philadelphia June 6 Connie Mack Jr son of the Philadelphia Athletics manager has been elected captain of the 1931 Georgetown Academy baseball team.
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Philadelphia
Penn
Connie Mack, Jr
Philadelphia Athletics
Georgetown Academy
KUHRE AND TR FINISH HAINES SURVEY AT CHINOOK BAR
Lieut L B Kuhre and engineer James Truitt of the Alaska Road Commission returned on the Queen after ten days surveying a new water supply project for Haines army post. Southwestern Kansas residents plan to plant 1,000,000 trees to convert plains to woods.
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Chimooo Barracks
L. B. Kuhre
James Truitt
Alaska Road Commission
Queen
Haines’ Army Post
Kansas
Plains Country
Alaska allotments approved for Rivers and Harbors projects
Secretary of War Hurley approved current Rivers and Harbors allotments totalling 39 500 000 across the United States and insular possessions. Alaska items amounting to 16 500 were allocated for Nome Harbor maintenance and Juneau headquarters examinations surveys and general district expenditures.
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Washington, D
Hurley
Alaska
Nome Harbor
Juneau
Secretary of War
United States
Insilar
Pioneer of North dies in San Francisco treatment
Camille McGowan longtime Alaska pioneer and stockholder in the Anchorage Times died Wednesday in San Francisco while seeking a cancer cure serum. A Souther, he settled near Cook Inlet and lived through Dawson Nome and Barrow camps. His son Camille Jr. was at his side. funeral held yesterday in San Francisco.
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Camille McGowan
San Francisco
Anchorage
Alaska
Montana
Dawson
Nome
Pairbariks
Coffey Sur
McGowan
Cook Inlet
Anchorage Times
Camille, Jr
San Fransisco
Arctic expedition sails from New York to Scoresby Sound
Capt Hubert Bartlett, who piloted Peary's ship, leads schooner Morrissey on a scientific Arctic voyage to Scoresby Sound. The team aims to recover Eskimo relics for the Museum of American Indians and expects live seals, walrus, and a polar bear. Harry Whitney planned the trip. Return hoped after the Arctic summer unless frozen in.
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New York
Hubert Bartlett
Peary
North Pole
Morrissey
Scoresby Sound
Museum of American Indians
Harry Whitney
Hammerstein's Widow Faces Immoral Conduct Charge
New York report states Mrs Oscar Hammerstein widow of the opera impresario was found guilty of immoral conduct and remanded for sentencing Monday. She was arrested May 12 at the Hotel Winthrop after a detective said she accepted $30 and solicited other men. She called it a frame up and said she will appeal.
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New York
Oscar Hammerstein
Opera
Impressario
Winthrop
Noted English Explorer Plans to Sail Under Polar Ice
Captain Hubert Wilkins, famed English explorer, plans a submarine Arctic voyage from Spitbergen to the Bering Straits under the ice aboard the battered U S submarine O 12. He seeks a Navy charter and proposes drilling and observation gear, plus a compression chamber for 28 divers.
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Sir Hubert Wilkins
United States
Behring Straits
Washington, D. C
Hubert ]Wilkins
Jules Verne
Wilkins
Sal
Spitabergen
North ‘Pole
Bering Straits
Navy
Jahncke
Fat Lady of Big Time Cirques Wins Seattle Divorce
Viola Barton filed for divorce in Los Angeles claiming cruel treatment by her husband led to her weight loss of 142 pounds after marriage six years ago. She weighed 12 pounds at marriage and dwindled to her current weight while serving as a carnival radio figure. Ken Stewart, Seattle radio announcer, secured a 325000 voice insurance policy with monthly 300 benefits for temporary loss and full coverage for permanent impairment.
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Pat Lady
Seattle
Mate
Los Angeles
Cal
Viola Barton
Ken Stewart
Parcel Explodes at Paris Post Office Amid Mail Scramble
Paris June 6 A small mail parcel addressed to Baroness Édouard de Rothchild exploded in the central post office as workers sorted mail. A heavy detonation occurred but no one was hurt. It is the third similar outrage in three months.
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Paris
Édouard de Rothchild
John Stevenson Given 3 Month Term In Liquor Case
Convicted by a jury in the United States Commissioner's Court of possessing intoxicating liquor on two counts under the Alaska Bone Dry Law. John Stevenson was sentenced by Judge A W Fox to three months imprisonment in the local Federal Jail on each count, the sentences to run concurrently. A 90 day suspended sentence was also given to Alfred Johnson for giving intoxicating beverages to Indians.
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United States Commissioner's Court
Alaska
John Stevenson
A. W. Fox
Fox
Alfred Johnson
World War Veterans Compensation Time Extended Five Years
Time for World War veterans to apply for compensation has been extended from 1930 to 1936. In a separate note, City Street Inspector A. G. Brooks Sr. was entombed by a cave-in in a 40-foot sewer trench and rescued after 15 hours. he was weakened but not scared.
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Washington
Under & Howe
Hoover
A. G. Brooks
Brooks
Graf Zeppelin Reaches Home After 18,000 Mile Voyage
Basel June 6 The Graf Zeppelin flies over the Swiss frontier at 11 15 crossing into home waters and battling strong head winds over France the airship 800 feet high heads toward home port Friedrichshafen arriving at 1 80 pm Eastern standard time after an 18 000 mile voyage a vast crowd greets the landing with clear weather reported.
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Basel
Switzerland
Graf Zeppelin
Ooering
Graf
France
Priedrichshafen
Taku Arrives in Victoria Seaplane Route Updates
The seaplane Taku with pilot R. and Ellis arrived in Victoria at 2 o clock after leaving here at 2 am yesterday, then departed at 5 pm for Seattle. Alaska manager AB Hayes notes no today departure details for Juneau, with yesterday’s message indicating a stop at Ketchikan before possible late afternoon or evening arrival in Juneau. Seminole braves in West Palm Beach say talkies are haunta-see meaning pretty much alright. Herman J. H. Papke has served Bethany Lutheran church in St Louis for 38 consecutive years.
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Taku
R. & Ellis
Victoria
Seattle
AB. Hayes
Alaska
Alaska Washington Airways
Juneau
Seathie
Ketchikan
West Palm Brach
Fla
Herman J. HH. Papke
Bethany Lutheran
St. Lamis
Sitka Men Brought Here for Grand Jury Action
Sitka residents Peter Allard and August Dahlberg were brought to here yesterday and bound over to the Federal grand jury. Allard’s bail was set at 1500 dollars and Dahlberg’s at 500 dollars. They were unable to furnish bond and were jailed locally. Allegations state Allard broke into a cabin, Dahlberg attacked with a butcher knife, causing three minor wounds. Both appeared before Commissioner R. DeArmond at Sitka and were transported by the steamer Queen with Deputy Marshal W. F. Schnabel.
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Peter Allard
August Dahlberg
Sitka
Federal Grand Jury
Allard
Dahlberg
R. DeArmond
W. F. Schnabel
California Supreme Court Free Pantages on Bond
The State Supreme Court ordered the release of Alexander Pantages after posting a 100000 bond pending appeal. Justice pro tem T W Hoarse broke the deadlock. Pantages argued jail confinement would endanger his health and possibly cause his death.
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Los Angeles
Cal
State Supreme Court
Alexander Pantages
Eunice Pringle
Superior Court
Supreme Court
Pantages
T. W. Hoarse
Los Angeles County
Bandit Queen Under Arrest in Detroit Raid
Detroit police arrested 22 year old Pegy Mahon once a hat checker who claimed to be the Bandit Queen responsible for about 100 small robberies. Five young men were also detained after detectives tailed saloons and gang rendezvous. She said the men loved her and robbed when she accused them of cowardice.
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Detroit
Mich
Pegey Mahon
Closing stock quotations from New York market
Closing quotations list today for Alaska Juneau 64, Anaconda 56, Bethlehem Steel 93, Curtiss Wright 8, General Motors 43, Granby 30, Kennecott 46, Montgomery Ward 44, National Acme 17, Packard 16, Standard Oil of California 69, Simmons Beds 34, Standard Oil of New Jersey 76, U S Steel 167M, United Aircraft 704, Alaska Juneau appears as a misprint or placeholder in the compiled table.
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New York
Alaska
Juneau
al~ Jeghany Corporation
Anaconda
Bethlehem Steel
Curtins -Wright
General Motors
Granby
Kennecott
Montgomery-Ward
National Acme
Packard
Standard Brands
Simmons Beds
Standard Oil of
California
United Aircraft
New Jersey
U. S. Steel
Los Angeles Population Hits 1.23 Million in 1930 Census
Los Angeles records 1,231,730 residents per the 1930 census, up 13.59 percent since the previous count, confirming continued urban growth in the era.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Cox backs repeal of Federal Prohibition Amendment in speech
Former presidential candidate James M. Cox of Dayton told a statewide Democrat audience in Columbus at a Victory Dinner that he favors repealing the Federal Prohibition Amendment. He advocated government manufacture and control of alcohol.
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Columbus
Ohio
James M. Cox
Dayton
Tion
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