Washington probes widen into Hoover era war gear deals
Justice department and congressional investigators target Army motorization contracts, accusing irregularities in tractors trucks and cars in a ten million plan. Figures named include Joseph Silverman and former officials MacCracken Brown Adams Ingalls Warner. Subcommittees threaten subpoenas to advance the inquiry.
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Washington
Justice Department
Congressional
War Department
Cummings
War Dern
Joseph Silverman
Hoover Administration
William P. MacCracken, Jr
Hoover
Senate
Mac‘rackep
Brown
Black
Air-Mail Committee
Navy
Adams
New England
Edward P. Warner
Coolidge
Delaney
House
Naval Affairs Subcommittee
McSwain
Military Affairs Committee
Air Corps
Composer Phones Editor and Then Kills Himself
A Los Angeles city editor tried to halt poet Jack McGuire during a telephone suicide threat. McGuire, living at 1624 West Fifty sixth Street, said his wife left him and took the baby. Police found him dead after he fired a bullet into his head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Jack McGuire
West Fifty-sixth Street
McGuire
Stowaways Jump From Kurama Maru Off Mexican Coast
Two men who snuck aboard the Japanese freighter Kurama Maru in Galveston leaped overboard 13 miles off the West Mexican coast as officers prepared to arrest them. They swam through shark infested waters after being spotted in the Panama Canal region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
West
Mexico
Galveston
Texas
L’anama Canal
Mother and Daughter Slain in Quiet Jacksonville Cottage
Jacksonville police report two elderly women slain in a cottage in a quiet residential area. Victims are Laura Mae Green, 84, and her daughter Mary Anderson, 60. Anderson beaten with a hammer and Green stabbed through the heart.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Laura Mae Green
Mary Anderson
Rabbi Hyman Enelow Dies Aboard Empress Ship
Rabbi Hyman Enelow, a noted Jewish leader aged 67, died of angina pectoris aboard the Hiner Empress of Australia near the Canary Islands, announced by Canadian Pacific Steamship Company officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyman Enelow
New York
Australia
Canary Islands
Canadian Pacific Steamship Company
Farmhand admits killing employer after dispute over wages
Ernest Wright, a farmhand, confessed to killing his employer Alice Martin on a Perry County farm near Derby Indiana after a dispute over $2.75 for withheld wages. Authorities said fingerprints on the club matched Wright.
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Evansville
Ind
Alice Martin
Ernest Wright
Bert Morris
Clyde Hesmer
Wright
Perry County
Derby
Cannelton
Miss. Martin
Miss Martin
Henry Ford Raises Pay of 20 000 Employees in Detroit
Henry Ford boosted wages by 10 percent for 20 000 production workers in Detroit and announced plans to extend raises to all production lines. He cited economy through higher wages and linked recovery to new jobs and higher pay standards.
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Henry Ford
Detroit
Supreme court frees 13,000 prohibition defendants
Washington reports the Supreme Court, in a Hughes authored decision, orders release for about 13,000 individuals with unadjudicated prohibition cases as of December 5, the date the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed. About 9,576 cases involve 13,000 defendants. state convictions remain unaffected.
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
Charles Evans Hughes
Department of Justice
Supreme Court
Homer S Cummings
United States
Tennessee Farmers Plan to Migrate to Brazil
A group of 200 Norris Dam area farmers plan to relocate to Brazil after their lands will be flooded by the Norris Dam reservoir. Manny Miller has written to the Brazilian legation in Washington seeking land for a colony. Miller notes ties to Civil War era families and says the community will move if they can establish in Brazil and improve climate.
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Norris Dam
Tenn
Manny Miller
Washington
Brazil
Miller
Sixie” Miller
Sauces and Creations From a Cookbook Lesson
A household adviser shares a tested method for white sauce: melt butter, whisk in flour, add cold milk gradually, then cook until smooth and thick to avoid lumps. Variations include brown sauce with stock, fish sauce with water, tomato sauce using tomato pulp and aromatics, and a rich yolk enriched hollandaise imitation. Also included are tripe a la Creole and a tomato sauce recipe with onions, bay leaf, and thyme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Emus in Russia Targeted for Steppe Population
Soviet authorities launched a plan to populate Russian steppes with Australian emus. Preliminary tests under the first five year plan show the birds endure Moscow winters and produce eggs containing 600 to 700 grammes of nourishment. Eggs are to be hatched using special incubators while eggs are not yet consumed.
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Russia
Moscow
Milwaukee Banks Cut Savings Interest Rate
The Milwaukee Clearing House association will cut savings deposits interest to 2 percent from 3 percent effective March 15. President Charles J. Kuhnmuench said the move is necessary due to weak loan demand and low yields on government and other securities.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee Clearing House Association
Charles J. Kuhnmuench
House Approves 35 Million Farm Loans Measure
The House passed the crop production bill authorizing 35 million dollars for farmer loans after Senate approval. The House trimmed the Senate draft from 45 million to 35 million, allowing farmers to borrow up to 250 dollars at interest not exceeding 6 percent to fund planting this year.
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Washington
House
Senate
Food Carried Over Ice to 250 Islanders
Coast guardsmen transported fresh food supplies five miles across treacherous ice floes to Fire Island residents numbering about 250 marooned when the Great South Bay froze over.
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Bayshore
N. Y
Fire Island
Great South Bay
Jugoslav Bombers to Die Belgrade
Three terrorists convicted of bombing the officers casino in Belgrade on September 30 1932 were sentenced to death. One convict remains at large as a fugitive.
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Belgrade
Slayer of Baby Son Held Sane by Experts
Donald K. Smith, a Littleton farmer, is deemed sane by Colorado psychopathic hospital physicians in a report to the District Court at Littleton. Smith has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to a murder charge after confessing to the December killing of his three year old son Donald Arlen Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
Donald K. Smith
Littleton
Donald Arlen Smith
Colorado
Smith
Pilsudski Urged for Nobel Peace Prize
The law department of Jacellonian University has nominated Marshal Josef Pilsudski, minister of war, for the Nobel Peace Prize and sent the nomination to the Nobel Foundation in Warsaw Poland.
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Warsaw
Poland
Josef Pilsudski
Nobel Foundation
Law Department
Jacellonian University
Last of Sioux Medicine Men Dies in South Dakota
Kurt Yates, known as No Heart, was regarded as the last Sioux medicine man and successor to Sitting Bull. He died at ninety two in South Dakota, ending a lineage of Sioux spiritual and ceremonial leaders.
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South Dakota
Kurt Yates
S. D
Sitting Bull
Rockefeller son quits Yale confirmed by university
Winthrop Rockefeller son of John D. Rockefeller Jr. reportedly left Yale University and a Yale spokesman confirmed the resignation, ending the noted family alumnus run at the university.
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Young Rockefeller
Yale New Haven
Conn
Winthrop Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Yale University
Yale
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Lady Ashley
Sylvia Hawkes
Lord Ashley
Earl of
Shaftesbury
Douglas Fairbanks
Indiana
Tennessee
Emus
Jugoslav
Pilsudski
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