Three Dirigible Bases Urged for Pacific Coast Defenses
Admiral Reeves told the House Naval Committee that three dirigible bases are needed for proper protection of the Pacific Coast. Sunnydale Camp Kearny in California and Camp Lewis in Washington are named as first choices with calls for more air protection for the Northwest Pacific States and Alaska. Rep Miller argued the Southeast Alaska Archipelago is the sole stretch between Point Barrow and Cape Horn where an enemy fleet could conceal itself and threaten Puget Sound.
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Washington
Reeves
House Naval Committee
Pacific
Sunnydale
Camp Kearney
California
Camp Lewis
Miller
Northwest Pacific States
Alaska
Puget Sound
Point Barrow
Cape Horn
Graf Zeppelin Crosses Equator on South Atlantic Flight
The Graf Zeppelin crossed the equator on its South Atlantic journey bound for Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro. Commander Eckener joined Neptune’s band in the ceremonial crossing as the airship nears its Brazilian milestones with a planned stay and continuation toward Havana on the weekend.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Graf Zeppelin
Pernambuco
Equator
Eckener
Neptune
Graf
Rio Janeiro
Havana
William Strong at Bedside of His Wife
William Strong arrives in Victoria after a dawn flight from Juneau aboard the Taku seaplane piloted by Robert E. Ellis. He reaches Victoria at 3 15 PM to be at his wife’s bedside as she lies seriously ill.
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William Strong
Victoria
B. C
Juneau
Alaska
Taku
Alaska - Washington Airways
Robert E. Ellis
Roosevelt Health May Bar 1932 Presidential Run
The nation weighs Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt’s health as a potential barrier to a 1932 Democratic presidential bid. He has partly recovered from paralysis but medical cautions warn that a strenuous national campaign could jeopardize his cure. Roosevelt remains at Warm Springs, Georgia, seeking renewed health. He is lauded for his past leadership as New York Governor and his combatting public issues, yet his fitness to endure a tough campaign is debated.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Empire State
Wilson
State Senate
Navy
Governor Cox
Ohio
Harding
Cam
Alfred E. Smith
France Draws Portuguese Farm Labour Amid Shortage
France eyes Portugal for agricultural labor as Beira province migrants travel to France with government approval. Emissaries of employers recruit willing workers as spring sowing nears, causing desertion of villages and delaying field tasks. The wheat campaign faces strain as foreign hands are pulled in.
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Catelo Branco
Portugal
France
Ministry of Labor
Paris
Beira
Three Asked to Resign in Peace Action
Bellville May 28 delegates at a miners peace meeting urged John Lewis Alexander Howat and Harry Fishwick to resign from their factional posts in the United Mine Workers of America as the union faces a destructive internal duel.
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Belleville
Ilinois
United Mine Workers of America
John Lewis
Alexander Howat
Harry Fishwick
Lewis
Old Wing
Howat
Fishwick
Tllinois
Stock Quotations and No Sale of Alaska Juneau Mine
New York stock quotes show no sale of Alaska Juneau mine stock today. Closing prices include Alleghany 26, Allis Chalmers 62, American Tobacco B 26344, Anaconda 58, Bethlehem Steel 9574, General Motors 50, U S Steel 169, Radio Corporation 48, United Aircraft 73, and others.
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New York
Alaska
Juneau
Alleghany Corporation
Allis Chalmers
American Tobacco B
Anaconda
Bethlehem Steel
General Motors
Gold Dust
Granby
Kennecott
Missouri Pacific
Montgomery Ward
National Acme
Packard
Phillips Petroleum
Standard Brands
Simmons Beds
Standard Oil of California
United Aircraft
U. S. Steel
Ward Baking B
Curtis Wright
Radio Corporation
President Hoover Plans West Tour This August
President Hoover's western trip is set for August with routes potentially across Yellowstone to Seattle Tacoma and Portland. A Mexico and Cuba visit is also under consideration for late October.
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Washington
Hoover
Yellowstone Park
Seattle
Tacoma
Portland
Mexico
Cuba
Gangster Vincent Lucich sought for double crime
Vincent Lucich, a San Francisco gangster, is sought in more than half a dozen counties for the slaying of Melville Sturtevant and the wounding of Mrs. Grace Berri at Tomales Bay. Berri, with Lucich and Sturtevant, went to the bay where Lucich shot Sturtevant and then wounded Berri before fleeing in the victim’s car.
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San Rafael
Cal
Vincent Lucich
San Francisco
Melville Sturtevant
Grace Berri
Sturtevant
Berri
Man Arrested on Suspicion Collapses and Dies
London Ontario May 22. George Redfern 42, arrested in Montreal for the poisoning death of Rita Gardner, collapsed and died after being taken into custody for failing to pay a $9 taxi bill. A signet ring aroused officers suspicion and Redfern denied involvement before his death.
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London
Ontario
Rita Gardner
Montreal
George Redfern
Redfern
Two Drown Upon Pacific Ocean Skiff Capsizes
Monterey Cal May 22 Alfred Stormalda and Claud Connaughton of Carmel and Glenn Pryor of Hapedo were drowned when a skiff capsized off Point Lebos yesterday afternoon. Four Japanese in a commercial fishing craft rescued two others seen clinging to the skiff.
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Monterey
Cal
Alfred Stormalda
Claud Connaughton
Carmel
Glenn Pryor
Hapedro
Pacific Ocean
Point Lebos
Mount Burkett Named For Alaska Aerial Survey Lieutenant
A final tribute to Eu gene F. Burkett, navigator of the Alaska aerial surveys, will see a peak seven miles north of Devil's Thumb in Alaska renamed Mount Burkett. Burkett, of Abilene Texas, died in a San Diego plane crash January 7 while directing the Alaska survey of 23 000 square miles.
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Washington
Alaska
Devil's Thumb
Burkett
Navy
Eugene F. Burkett
San Diego
Lieut. Burkett
Abilene
Texas
Navy to send 3000 enlisted men and 10 officers to Nicaragua
Washington officials announce three thousand enlisted sailors and ten officers will be sent to Nicaragua in July to supervise the November election. The move underscores U S involvement in the electoral process and regional security during that period.
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Nicaragua
Washington
Supreme Court to Rule On Liquor Buyers Cases This Term
The Supreme Court is poised to decide key Prohibition questions before June 2. Cases address whether buyers of illegal liquor are guilty, if manufacturers can be forced to withdraw liquor, and whether seized autos with liens can be confiscated. Justice officials seek broad interpretation to curb liquor traffic.
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Supreme Court
Washington, D. C
Iegal
Mitchell
Department of Justice
Boston
James E. Farrar
Philadelphia
Orphanage Destroyed by Morning Fire in Milwaukee
Milwaukee May 22 The St Aemilians Orphanage home to 190 boys and 26 nuns evacuated in night attire as a 350000 dollar building burned after 1 AM. No injuries or deaths were reported and the fire origin was not determined.
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Milwaukee
Wis
St. Aemilians Orphanage
House Rivers and Harbors Measure Out of Committee
The Senate Commerce Committee completed action on the House Rivers and Harbors bill and ordered it reported. Chairman Johnson announced he would present the measure to the Senate tomorrow.
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House
Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Johnson
Senate
Tribute to Gold Star Mothers Visited Cemeteries
Paris honors more than 200 Gold Star Mothers visiting their sons’ burial sites at the American Club luncheon. Ambassador Claudel and Gen. Pershing voiced mutual sympathy and urged government support for such visits as proper tribute.
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Paris
Claudel
France
John J. Pershing
United States
Pershing
British troops guard salt depot in Dharsana
Bombay May 22 British forces have been sent to the Government salt depot at Dharsana to prevent further raids by Nationalist volunteers. Nationalist headquarters predict another large mass raid next Sunday as police previously defended the works.
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Bombay
India
Dharsana
Halibut Shipment Sells High At Seattle Wharf
Three vessels sold a total 57 500 pounds of halibut in Seattle yesterday at 11 and 14 1/2 cents per pound.
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Seattle
High Water From Ice Jam Buries Kuskokwim Villages
In AkiaK Alaska on May 22 the lower Kuskokwim region reports widespread flooding as ice breaks up. A large jam between villages and Akiak traps Bethel natives in muskrat camps with unknown fate. Communications rely on boat travel. Bethel faces heavy damage when ice clears and many families lack boats.
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Akiak
Alaska
Lower Kuskokwim
Bethel
Muskrat
Pinchot Leads Gubernatorial Race In Pennsylvania
With 108 districts incomplete, Gif ford Pinchot leads Francis Shunk Brown by about 11 000 for the Republican nomination for governor Pinchot totals 624 613 Brown aligned with Vare forces U S Senator Joseph R Grundy voted for Pinchot Pinchot served as Pennsylvania chief executive 1922 1926 Coalition Liberal Candidate announced by Robert Cassatt head of the Prohibition Amendment association PA division
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Philadelphia
Penn
Gifford Pinchot
Francis Shunk Brown
Pinchot
Brown
U. S
Joseph R. Grundy
Pennsylvania
Robert Cassatt
The
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Tit for Tat On Enforcement of Prohibition
J Scot McBride National Superintendent of the Anti Saloon League told the Senate Lobby Committee that the Hoover Administration was making good on Prohibition Enforcement. He declined to list accomplishments and Chairman Caraway pressed for specifics in a terse exchange.
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Washington
J. Scot McBride
Anti-Saloon League
Senate Lobby Committee
Hoover Administration
Caraway
Russian clown school exports propaganda from Moscow
Soviet Russia runs a national clown training facility in Moscow that supplies male and female performers to theatres and circuses across the Union. The program teaches humor and grotesque style while instilling communist methods, admitting youths ages 14 to 20 at no cost, funded by the government. The school was founded by the first wife of Lunacharsky, ex commissar of education.
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MOCOW
Russia
Moscow
Soviet Union
Anatole Lunacharsky
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Northwest
Representative Miller
South Atlantic
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Empire
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A. P
Laxmibaj Kothari
Teen Mine l Sr
Ereel
Alaska Aerial Survey
Mary Pickford
Municipal Court
Los Angeles
Bantappa Raw
International Newareo
Alfred E. Morris
Sociated Press
Vernon Withurin
Coalition
McBride
James A. Mills
A. BP
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