Roosevelt urges Congress to expand silver in U S stocks
President Roosevelt told Congress the United States should raise silver in monetary stocks to one quarter of value and maintain the rest in gold. He proposed mandatory policy, authority to buy silver, restrict payments to 50 cents an ounce, and 50 percent tax on profits. He noted talks with neighboring countries on a bi metallic standard and asked to take over silver surpluses and regulate monetary silver imports and exports.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Congressional
Drought Ends in Portions of Midwest
Drought eased in parts of the Central West as showers and cooler air moved across Northern Illinois Wisconsin and Michigan Indiana and Missouri. Chicago saw nearly a half inch of rain and a 23 degree drop as a 50 mph wind damaged unfinished Century of Progress buildings while forecasts warned crops still need relief to avert further losses.
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Chicago
Central West
Illinois
Wisconsin
Century of Progress
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Sault Ste Marie
Mich
St. Joseph
Toledoo
la Port
Ind
Falling Plaster Causes Fright on Clarendon Avenue
A midnight plaster collapse on Clarendon Avenue alarmed much of the neighborhood. Edward King awoke to a downstairs crash and feared a break in. Neighbors gathered with improvised weapons before discovering the cause was a fallen plaster piece and returning to bed.
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Clarendon Avenue
Edward King
King
Walter Witt Takes His Life At Mt. Savage Home
Despondency from ill health led 65 year old Walter Witt to shoot himself at his Cumberland Maryland Mt. Savage residence early today. Authorities report no inquest will be held.
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Cumberland
Walter Witt
Mt. Savage
Public sale sells 118 Williamsport Berkeley Bridge stock
At the courthouse this morning 118 shares of the Williamsport and Berkeley Bridge company stock sold from 22.35 to 22.75 per share. Auctioneer J. C. Snider conducted the sale in front of the courthouse.
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Williamsport and
Berkeley
Fort Ballivian War Powers Clash In Chaco
Paragary and Bolivia pour full army into battle at Fort Ballivian amid embargo pressures as world powers urge end to Chaco conflict. Four months of fighting, expected casualty estimates delayed, history notes centuries of hostilities since 1526 with Jesuit and indigenous Guaranos stories.
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Paraguay
Bolivia
Fort Ballivian
Asuncion
la Paz
Geneva
Washington
London
Chaco
Sebastian Cabot
Parana River
Bermejo
One Hurt In Truck Crash Near Dahlgren
A head on collision about 6 30 this morning on South Mountain near Dahlgren injured one person and damaged two trucks. Ralph Byers driver of the Boonsboro Bakery truck was taken to Washington County Hospital for observation but not believed seriously hurt. The Horlacher delivery truck from Washington and its driver Jordan were involved. the Washington truck carried talkie films and was en route to Washington. State police began an investigation into the crash after one vehicle reportedly took a sharp curve.
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South Mountain
Dahlgren
Ralph Byers
Boonsboro
Washington County
Horlacher
Washington
Jordan
Byers
Washington Trnuck
Valedictorian Delivers Graduation Speech From Hospital
Jane Anne Slaughter a 14 year old Hollis Junior High valedictorian spoke to her class from a Dallas Texas hospital where she recuperates from injuries after being struck by a car in Chicago last summer. Her average was 95 and her address was broadcast via long distance circuit to the high school auditorium with amplified reception.
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Hollis
Okls
Dallas
Tex
Jane Anne Slaughter
Chicago
Minneapolis Truck Strike Spurs Armed Police Stand
Minneapolis May 22 The city’s market district resembled a war zone as riot police blocked 2500 striking truckmen and spectators. American Legion members served as special police while eight protesters were arrested. The strike enters its second week with 37 injured yesterday and talks to end the dispute scheduled at noon. The union targets written contracts and seeks wage gains, while 35000 building trades workers walked out in sympathy.
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Minneapolis
American Legion
Regional Labor Advisory Board
Building Trades
U. S. Answers Insull Plea of Shanghaied
In Chicago on May 22 the United States rejected Samuel Insull’s claim of being shanghaied from Turkey. The government demurred to his assertion that he was improperly held for trial on indictments charging mail fraud and Bankruptcy Act violations.
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Chicago
Samuel Insull
Turkey
United States
Philip J. Sullivan
Insull
Gospel tent advertised for sale in Los Angeles
In a Los Angeles advertisement from May 22 a seller declares people won’t repent, offering a gospel tent for 95 dollars.
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Los Angeles
Editor Picks Roosevelt Advisers Wife No. 1
Amarillo editor Gene Howe reports a survey finding President Roosevelt has master control of the nation. Eleanor Roosevelt heads the advisers list chosen with help from eastern journalists after a monthlong survey.
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Roosevelt
Gene Howe
Amarillo
Tex
James W. Gerard
United States
Howe
Ed Howe
Kansas
Mary Garden
Eleanor Roosevelt
New York
Chicago
Vassar Allows Students to Marry During College
Poughkeepsie N Y May 22 A.Vassar girls may wed during their college career to avoid long engagements and secret weddings. Warden Eleanor O Dodge says a student may marry and continue courses if she wishes. The policy argues against long engagements and secret marriages due to emotional strain and deception.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Vassar
Eleanor “O’dodge
Vassar Miscellany
Prison farm crops ahead for record production at Roxbury
The State penal farm at Roxbury reports crops well advanced with 1320 acres of wheat 100 acres of corn 45 acres of potatoes and 25 acres in garden crops. 50000 cabbage plants are in the ground and surplus produce will be canned for winter. New farm buildings and staff facilities are nearing completion with the superintendent's home due in the fall.
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Roxbury
Hail and Storm Hit County With Garden Damage
A second thunderstorm drenched the county with heavy rain and hail. Hailstones the size of marbles battered Williamsport Clearspring Halfway and nearby areas, damaging gardens. Temperatures rose to 94 with .52 inch rainfall. Thunder and lightning marked both storms. Thunder showers forecast for this afternoon and tonight with cooler weather tomorrow.
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The
Mercury
Williamsport
Clearspring
Oswald
Chewsville
Temporary Job Lasted 61 Years in Post Office
Alfred Langley, 76, quit after 61 years as a temporary post office employee in London. He believed the job would become permanent and noted that as a temporary worker he received a government gratuity instead of a pension.
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London
Post Office
Alfred Langley
Sunday Movies Get Legal in Montgomery County
The General Assembly's recent special session passed an act making Sunday film exhibition lawful in Montgomery County starting June 1. The move aligns with statewide changes and impacts theaters and related businesses in the region.
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Montgomery County
General Assembly
Senate arms probes begin inquiry into profits from death
Washington May 22 A Senate arms probes panel forms a summer inquiry into war material trade. Senator Vandenberg says ending dividends from death will hasten peace and considers a government monopoly. Nye selects Stephen Rausenbush as prosecutor with economists from Harvard and Brookings assisting. The panel will review sales of American munitions to Paraguay and Bolivia and estimate overall munitions money going to Europe.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Senate
Manley Hudson
Harvard Law School
Harold G. Moulton
Brookings Institution
John P. Flynn
Paraguay
Bolivia
Noe-Vandenberg
Europe
NRA Topic of Director in Labor Talk
Arthur Hungerford NRA Compliance Director for Maryland spoke at the 29th annual Maryland and District of Columbia Federation of Labor session at Hotel Alexander. He detailed NRA workings, cited 1100 complaints since February 1, and said codes benefit workers and employers through cooperation.
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Arthur E. Hungerford
NRA
Maryland
Maryland and District of Columbia Federation of Labor
Alexander
Hungerford
Advice Sent For Sick World Traveler
A message from the fishing boat Santa Cruz relayed to the Los Angeles hospital requests medical aid for William Robinson a round the world traveler author and son in law of late C H Crane facing acute appendicitis aboard a 30 foot boat off Tagus Cove Galapagos Islands. Dr Edgar Speak advised icing him and keeping him quiet and a US Navy plane be sent to Balboa to transport him to a hospital.
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Los Angeles
Pacific
William Robinson
C. H. Crane
Robinson
Tagus Cove
Galapagos Island
Santa Cruz
Edgar Speak
United States Navy
Balboa
Washington, D. C
Socialist leaders freed as unrest continues in Vienna
Vienna reports that eighty Socialist leaders jailed after the February civil war were released today. Despite the government conciliatory move, bombings and disorders persist with scattered explosions. Two auxiliary police were wounded when fired upon at Forfonttrann, Upper Austria, during the night.
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Vienna
Forfentrann
Upper Austria
88, She Cuts New Teeth in Glade Bay
Glade Bay Nova Scotia May 22 Mrs Elizabeth Osborn aged 88 woke to find three new front teeth after nights of gum soreness. The remarkable event was reported by local residents and adds to the small town’s list of curious patient anecdotes.
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Glade Bay
N. S
Mra
Elizabeth Osborns
Liquor Candy Ring Tied to Child Victims in NY Probe
Federal grand jury in Brooklyn heard six months of FDA led inquiry into a liquor filled candy operation that allegedly sold 500 900 dollars worth of bootleg sweets to children. Indictments against two people and two companies are expected this week as agents report large scale distribution reaching Chicago and Baltimore with penny bonbons labeled Paris made. Teachers reported pupils returning from recess in a semi stupor after consuming the treats. Large seizures occurred in New York Baltimore Paterson and Chicago totaling thousands of pounds.
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New York
Federal Grand Jury
Brooklyn
Food and Drug Administration
Chicago
Murray Kreindler
Baltimore
Paris
Paterson
N. J
Ghost Writer for Darrow Is Tired in Swiss Sojourn
Charles Edward Russell, longtime critic and figure in the Darrow-NRA affair, plans a Fourth of July stay in Switzerland and says he is weary of material turmoil. He denies being the ghost writer of the famous report, though Donald Richberg credited him with it. Russell was born in Davenport in 1860 and grew up in a print shop, later exposing trusts and writing about wealth.
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Washington
Charles Edward Russell
Switzerland
Russell
Donald Richhberg
NRA
Davenport
Town
Students Defy Authorities in Belgrade Campus Siege
Yugoslav students seized two university buildings in Belgrade with 600 students involved and 60 women. Police cordoned the area, cut water supply to nearby blocks, while students vowed to eject five professors held as hostages if force is used. Leaders said they had filled receptacles with water and had food for a five day stand.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Universty
Two Dismissed On Larceny Charges
Two larceny cases were dismissed by Justice Richard Duffey in city court this morning. Daniel Thomas, 49, colored, no address, charged with the larceny of a pair of shoes, was dismissed on promise to leave the city. Oscar Shoemaker, 20, of Lanvale street, was dismissed of a charge of stealing brass from the plant of the Hagerstown Bronze and Aluminum company. He told the magistrate he had found the brass.
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Richard Duffey
Daniel Thomas
Oscar Shoemaker
Lanvale Street
Hagerstown
Lightning Fire Destroys Molea House Near Ridgeville
A heavy thunderstorm in Frederick county Monday afternoon caused a lightning strike believed to have hit the attic of S. R. Molea’s large frame and metal house two miles south of Ridgeville on the Washington road. The structure, tenanted by Earl Baker, was completely destroyed, with a loss estimated at $4,000.
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Frederick County
S. R. Moleaworth
Earl Baker
Ridgeville
Washington Road
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