Indicted man waives extradition in San Francisco hearing
Clifford T. McKinney waived extradition and faces Seattle charges after a San Francisco hearing. Roy Olmsted testified from McNeil Island Prison about payments of cash and gin to aid McKinney’s gubernatorial aims, and about tapped telephones. United States Commissioner Fisk set a $5,000 bond and ordered McKinney to appear in Seattle Federal Court on June 30.
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Free Board and Jail Highlight in Pittsburgh Bread Line Case
Pittsburgh police discover Nick Marshall, once thought well-to-do, receives free meals from the homeless in the bread line while having $2,500 deposited in two banks. He is jailed where board remains free but the conditions are harsh.
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Stock Exchange Firm of N.Y. Is Suspended
NEW YORK June 19 The Stock Exchange firm of Woody and Company was suspended today because of solvency. This is the first failure since last fall's crash. The company is a local firm and has no out of town offices. The Seminole tribe of Indians now numbers 468 according to the 1930 census. that is an increase of 14 since 1920.
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Edison Addresses Three Cities by Simulcast
Edison used sand wires submarine cables and broadcasting stations to deliver simultaneous speeches from West Orange New Jersey to the National Electric Light Association Convention in San Francisco and the World Power Conference plenary in Berlin Germany last night.
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Quiet Bandit Activity Report From Nicaragua
National Guard headquarters report an unusually quiet week for bandit activity in Nicaragua. They note contacts with guards and 10 United States Marines tied to Gen. Sandino, who has not been located since reports of his departure from Mexico and a clash in which two were said to be killed.
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Latin American Airways Triple 44,000 Miles by 1929
Washington reports Latin American countries now have 44,000 miles of airways in regular use, triple the total they possessed at the start of 1929. The expansion reflects growing regional aviation activity and infrastructure development.
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Robert McKinnon Reaches Fairbanks After 11 Months
FAIRBANKS Alaska June 19 After nearly 11 months in the isolated Upper Tanana River District Robert McKinnon has arrived here en route east. McKinnon has been engaged in a scientific study of an Indian group on a traveling Fellowship from Harvard. He selected the Upper Tanana because the Indians there have had little contact with whites. He lived among them most of the winter gathering information.
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Ace O’Brien seeks divorce from second wife in Phoenix union
James O'Brien, noted World War ace and heir to a Canadian fortune, files suit for divorce from his second wife Helen Taylor of Bakersfield California whom he wed March 8 in Phoenix Arizona. He says the marriage is failing after a whirlwind courtship and cites alimony of one thousand dollars a month to Paris actress Cecille Marmon as prior support.
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Wilkins and Ellsworth T Cross Arctic Submarine Expedition
Paris June 19 Captain Georg Wilkins and Lincoln Ellsworth announce a trans polar submarine expedition planned for next year. The Wilkins Dannehower team will command a submarine built by Simon Lake to travel under the ice from New York to Spitsbergen and across the pole toward Alaska with a scientific staff led by Dr H Geverup. Travel speed likely four knots an hour to avoid ice.
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Parks Leaves For Hazelton On Coast Ship
Gov George A Parks plans a swift move to Hazelton via Prince Rupert with a large Canadian and American delegation. He chartered a Gorst plane from Ketchikan after a local plane failed to return from Yakutat. The party includes Lieut Gov Randolph Bruce Premier Tolmie and representatives from Washington Oregon California chambers of commerce and motor clubs. European countries top the list for American industrial machinery exports.
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Hoover Jr Four Jobs Daily At L A Airport
Herbert Hoover Jr is named chief engineer of Western Air Express in Los Angeles overseeing four departments including communications operations and maintenance of airways and airports and weather dissemination. J G Franklin leads communications and Fred Whiting airports and airways with other heads to be announced. Hoover joined service February 1 1928 after Columbia engineering study and prior work as radio technician and construction chief. A Valparaiso Indiana woman was convicted 49 times in 25 years on liquor charges.
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Protest over new US tariff urged by French chamber
Paris June 19 The Committee on Customs of the French Chamber of Deputies unanimously urges Premier Tardieu to press Washington against enforcing the new tariff. if unsatisfied, suspension of the most favored nation clause between the United States and France may be pursued. New York stock quotes list mixed gains and losses across many firms including General Motors and U.S. Steel with various percentage shifts. Bohemian resort visitors numbered 135300 in 1929 with 5000 Americans among them. Saar territory reports favorable industrial and financial conditions last year.
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Will Invite Hoover To Visit Here While On Vacation
The Juneau Alaska Chamber of Commerce aims to invite President Hoover on his summer vacation. The legislative committee will draft the invitation for immediate sending. Reports say Hoover may tour Batder National Park Seattle and perhaps visit Bremerton aboard a Naval vessel to cruise Southeast Alaska.
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Ford Plans Over 30 Million Expansion Elsewhere
Detroit midsession report notes Ford Motor Company announces more than 30 million dollars in investments this year. About 18 million funds go to branch plants in Edgewater New Jersey Richmond California and Seattle Washington. Three additional plants to be built with locations to be announced soon.
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Engineer Leaves for Survey Near Seward
Swartz engineer of the United States Bureau of Public Roads left Tuesday on the steamer Yukon for Seward to survey the relocation Project on Russian River Quartz Creek highway. He had a crew of four men: Fred Tete R V Killewith A B Martin and Quentin Btone.
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Byrd Returns Home to Boisterous New York Welcome
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd returns to Manhattan at 10 40 am after a sixteen month voyage to the Antarctic. Planes and harbor boats greet him as thousands cheer and the tug Macon ferries him ashore for a grand city welcome in lower Manhattan.
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Doctors Urge Repeal of Dry Laws in Chicago Speech
Dr. James Hutton and retiring president Dr. Charles Reed urged repeal of the dry laws to ease crime. They spoke in Chicago during addresses last night, arguing repeal would shorten paths to reducing crime among Americans.
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Chicago Medical Society
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Chicago Mayor vows cleanup as police probe opens
Chicago Mayor W. H. Thompson pledges full cooperation to evict gangsters, issued as the City Council Police Committee begins an inquiry into the Police Department under Commissioner William F. Russell.
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Wholesale Prices Fall to 13 Year Low, Fed Reports
The Federal Reserve Board notes a downward trend in wholesale commodity prices from last August, reaching the lowest level in 13 years. The April price level is about one percent below July, with the decline described as a key factor in recent business activity and affecting commercial nations worldwide.
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