Senate closes public hearing on works bill in Washington
Senate finance committee ends its hearings on the industrial recovery public works bill and plans revisions to the three point three billion dollar construction program. John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers endorses the measure for labor while opposing restrictions on workers joining unions and faces criticism from Robert P. Lamont who advocates the open shop.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Industrial Recovery Public Works
Harrison
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Robert P. Lamont
The
Iron and Steel Institute
Secretary of Commerce
Hill approves beer session to tax and regulate in Idaho
Lieutenant Governor George E. Hill joined four state officials urging an immediate special session of the Idaho legislature to legalize beer and impose a tax. He cited bootlegging in eastern Idaho and revenue needs, saying most Idahoans want action and noting regulatory measures are needed regardless of the state Supreme Court.
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Boise
George E. Hill
Rigby
Franklin Girard
Idaho
Girard
Bert Miller
Harry C. Parsons
Myrtle Eaking
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Japanese Agree to Armistice in North China Truce
Japanese military leaders end five months of fighting in north China with a brief armistice signed at Tangku. An orderly withdrawal will see about 50 000 invading forces leave Manchuria Jehol and north China while plans for a Kalgan push in Chahar province linger. Chinese and Japanese diplomats will discuss political terms as Chinese police assume control south of the wall.
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Tientsin
China
Manchuria
Kalgan
Chahar Province
Inner Mongolia
Great Wall
Tangku
Connecticut
Hwang Fu
Akira Ariyoshi
Jehol
Wall
Yenking
Pieping
Pair planning long flight from London to New York
Mr and Mrs James A Mollison plan a Croydon to New York non stop flight as the first leg toward three potential world records. If successful they will fly 12,000 miles round trip to Bagdad and back, aiming to set London to New York and north Atlantic crossing records. Route to New York via south Ireland and Newfoundland. return via Azores Spain and the north African coast.
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London
James A. Mollison
Croydon
New York
Bagdad
North Atlantic
South Ireland
Newfoundland
Azores
Spain
North African
Governor Ross Stable After Tonsillitis Attack
Boise reports Governor C Ben Ross in good condition after a night of rest in the hospital due to an acute tonsillitis attack. Decision on tonsil removal had not been made.
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Boise
C. Ben Ross
Desperadoes Headed for Ozark Mountain Country
Band of six men robbed Bank of Chelsea Oklahoma, fleeing in a dark blue sedan. Escaped Kansas convicts spread across four states with hostages and gunfights as they traverse Oklahoma Arkansas Missouri toward the Ozarks. Authorities hunt across the Cookson Hills near the frontier old refuge for lawlessness.
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Chelsea
Okla
Bank of Chelsea
Oklahoma
Kansas
Mecalester
Kansas State Penitentiary
Lansing
Cookson Hills
Sam Brown
Miss Pocatello pageant votes surge on Memorial Day
Thousands of votes were cast boosting Louise Woffington to the lead with about 700 000 votes in the Miss Pocatello race. Jean Halliwell, Lucille Myers, and Grace Bryning trail in second through fourth with 646 000, 432 000, and 412 000 votes respectively.
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Louise Woffington
tNe
Louise Eee
Jean Halliwell
Lucille Myers
Grace Bryning
Margaret Stanley
Evelyn Bachelor
Thella Hess
Dorothy Manning
Priscilla Henney
Jessie Wilson
Marie Cornforth
Marjorie Moore
Alma Willicke
Ida Cranor
Edith Crane
Alma Stedtfeld
Gyma
Dorothy Hard
Melba Meyers
Miss Pocatello
Idaho State Journal
Gandhi Appears Much Recovered in Poona
In Poona India June 1 AP reports Mahatma Gandhi shows signs of recovery after a three week fast his weight down to 84 pounds. He is now allowed boiled vegetables fruit rice honey and water as part of his diet.
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Poona
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi
Delegates to World Confab Reveal Plans
American delegates bound for London economic conference aboard the President Roosevelt outline goals for early achievements. They seek gentlemen’s agreements on gold conservation and coordinated internal policies to revive industry and credit, with steps to expand the gold supply and ease trade barriers.
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Claude A. Jagger
Associated Press
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Senate Confirms Revenue Head In Roosevelt Era Fight
Guy T. Helvering of Kansas was confirmed by the Senate as commissioner of internal revenue, 56 to 21, after a heated party vote. Republicans Hastings and Couzens led the attack, accusing Helvering of income tax work in Washington and alleging he sold postmasterships while in the House.
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Washington
Guy T. Helvering
Kansas
Senate
Internal Revenue
Helvering
Roosevelt
Hastings
Del
Couzens
R. Mich
House
Baseball Scores From Today’s Standings In The League
Scores show Chicago and Detroit game totals with 15 runs by Chicago 10 000 000 15 Detroit 3 000 0 0 0. Washington and Cleveland matches listed with various pitchers. St Louis and Chicago result 4 to 0, with names Ferrell Spencer McDonald Shea noted. Phillies beat Giants 7 to 3 in a double header day, Brooklyn at Boston postponed due to cold with double header scheduled tomorrow.
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Cleveland
St. Louis O
Ferrell and Spencer
McDonald and Shea
New York
Phillies
Fitzsimmons
Mancuso
Elliott
Liska
Todd
Brooklyn
Boston
Circus Touch Delights Senate Hearing Scene
In a Washington hearing on the Morgan investigation a tiny midget, Miss Lyn Graf, sat on F. Morgan’s lap as reporters arranged a circus moment. The Senate Banking Committee warned photographers against using such images, threatening bans from future hearings.
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Washington
Morgan
Lyrn Graf
Senate Morgan
Carter Glass
Miss Lyn
Morgan Group
Accr
Senate Banking Committee
Fourth list of select buyers scrutinized in Morgan case
Senate investigators reviewed a fourth list of Morgan affiliate clients from January 1929. It includes Owen J. Roberts and W. W. Atterbury and shows 82 000 units sold at 75 dollars with public market price near 99. Other figures note paper profits and Morgan tax payments from 1917 to 1929.
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Washington
J. P. Morgan & Company
Senate
Owen J. Roberts
Supreme Court
W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania Railroad
Roberts
United Corporation
Morgan Utilities Stock Holding Company
Drexel & Company
Morgan
Pennsylvania State Supreme Court
John W. Kephart
William O. Shaffer
Gifford Pinchot
Pepper
R-Pa
Atterbury
J. P. Morgan
Ferdinand Pecora
Leonard Keyes
John W. Davis
Senator Glass
D-Va
Keyes
House of Morgan
Idaho Roads Show General Improvement in Warm Spell
Idaho highway conditions improved with three days of warm weather. The Old Oregon Trail was excellent except near Lava Hot Springs. Yellowstone highway was good Preston to Ashton and fair onward to West Yellowstone. South of Preston toward Utah was spongy. Sawtooth Park highway from Nevada line via Twin Falls to Hailey was good and Galena summit improved. Central Idaho highway open but partly poor. Malad Valley highway Downey to Utah line was fair to good.
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Boise
Idaho
Department of Public Works
Oregon
Roosevelt Tries to Find Republican for London Delegation
Will Rogers reports from Beverly Hills that President Roosevelt spent six weeks seeking a Republican for the economic delegation to London. Senator Jim Couzens of Detroit finally identified himself, but only to secure the trip, Rogers quips about bribery. The note ends with Idaho weather: generally cloudy tonight and Friday with mountain thunderstorms.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Roosevelt
London
Jim Couzens
Detroit
Idaho
South Portion
Three Children Slain by Mother in New Hampshire Home
In Springfield New Hampshire Mrs Walter C Gardner a lumber dealer's wife killed her three sleeping children Edith 11 Nathaniel 6 and Walter 10 months then died by suicide. Husband found the bodies and the mother dying at their home. Gardner was 42.
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Springfield
N. H
Walter C. Gardner
Conservation Corps Resumes Idaho Worker Shipments
About 2500 army officers and reforestation workers in seven trains will depart the east around June 8, routing via Pocatello to Idaho camps including Boise district routes to West Yellowstone Divide and McCall. Additional trains out of Jersey City and Camp Dix serve Cascade Smiths Ferry Banks Hailey and other camps with 75 pounds of baggage per man.
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Pocatello
Boise District
Jersey City
Steirman
Idaho
Ninth Corps
Cascade
Smith's Ferry
West Yellowstone
Divide
Montana
Camp Dix
New Jersey
New Meadows
McCall
Boise
Hailey
Eight Airmen Dead in Cajon Pass Plane Crash
AP dispatch from San Bernardino reports an army transport plane crashed in dense fog in Cajon pass killing three enlisted men and injuring an officer and others. Unofficial notes say eight died in a mid air collision of two Air Corps planes above the same area, with seven aboard one craft and two planes involved.
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Cal
Cajon Pass
Here
Spencer
Leadbetter
L. D. Romana
Ed. D. Kennedy
Decker
March Field
Riverside
Army Air Corps
Any
Auto Crash Takes Life of Air Pilot
L. F. Knapp, who survived a crash after the plane he and J. Thomas flew from Santa Rosa to Kansas City crashed on approach to Sierra Blanca, Texas, died hours later in a rear end auto collision while riding in a wrecking car. Knapp had loaded the car’s motor when the second crash occurred. The other vehicle was driven by a New York man.
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Lewis
Secret Service
Reed
United States Steel Corporation
Illinois
Indiana
Sierra Blanca
Texas
L. F. Knapp
J. Thomas
Santa Rosa
Calif
Kansas City
Kas
Knapp
New York
Electric power output rises in week ended May 27
The Edison Electric Institute reports 1,493,923,000 kilowatt hours produced, up 4.8 percent from the same week last year and marking the largest year over year gain since February 1, 1930. This follows the fourth consecutive weekly increase in the 1932 period.
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New York
Edison Electric Institute
Grand jury probes extortion plot against polo star Pedley
Los Angeles reports the county grand jury opened an investigation into an extortion scheme targeting famed polo player Eric Pedley. Sheriff deputies involved in the inquiry assisted, leading to the arrest of E. T. Von Buelow.
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Los Angeles
Eric Pedley
E. T. von Buelow
Senator Bratton Confirmed Judge of Tenth Circuit
Washington June 1 Senator Sam G Bratton of New Mexico was confirmed by the senate as a judge of the tenth circuit court of appeals a few minutes after his nomination was submitted by President Roosevelt.
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Washington
Sam G. Bratton
New Mexico
Senate
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
Presince Roosevelt
Hawks to Test Robot Pilot in Transcontinental Flight
Captain Frank Hawks will pilot a 14 cylinder low wing monoplane at 260 mph using a robot navigator designed by George Debesson. The non stop test aims to Brooklyn Floyd Bennett airport from Los Angeles with Hawks as navigator and the machine flying within two degrees of course. The flight routewill pass near the Grand Canyon Pueblo Kansas City Indianapolis Pittsburgh and reach Brooklyn by nightfall.
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Frank Hawks
Hawks
Floyd Bennett
Brooklyn
George Debesson
Grand Canyon
Pueblo
Colo
Kansas City
Indianapolis
Pittsburgh
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