Reparations Agreement Signed To Liquidate Long Controversy
Paris reports that the experts signed a reparations plan at the George V Hotel to fix payments Germany must make to allied creditors for 59 years. Owen D. Young led the agreement replacing the Dawes plan, with reductions and a commercialized approach to bond financing and annuities over 37 years.
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Lame Duck Sessions of Congress May Be Abolished Soon
Senator Norris propels abolition of lame duck sessions by Senate vote 64 to 9 sending measure to House. The plan would end post election sessions and shift presidential inauguration from March 4 to January 15.
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Norris
Washington, D. C
House
Nebraska
Paint fumes force Atlanta amateur to seek help
Amateur painter E. G. Hammond, mixing a shiny new coat for his house, collapsed from fumes. Doctors at Grady Hospital treated him and sent him home with instructions to wear gas masks or keep away from the can while mixing paint.
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Atlanta
Hammond
Grady Hospital
Lateran Treaties Ratified in Rome as Doors Open
Rome applauds as Premier Mussolini and Cardinal Gasparri exchange ratifications of the Lateran treaty. The ceremonial opening of St Peter's Basilica doors marks the end of papal confinement, with Mussolini entering the Vatican for the first time. Gasparri reads the pope’s blessing telegram to King Victor Emmanuel III and the royal family.
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Cardinal Gasparri
Nini
Italy
St. Peter’s Square
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St. Peter's Square
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Victor
Emmanuel
Retirement approved for Colonel Berkeley Enochs
Secretary Good approved Col. Berkeley Enochs retirement, ending court martial charges brought by Maj. Gen. Hanson Ely, commandant of the second corps area at Governors Island. The case alleged Enochs questioned Brig. Gen. Archibald Campbell’s loyalty and harassed him through his language.
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Washington
Good Today
Berkeley Enochs
Enochs
Campbell
New Fruit Fly Infestations Reported in Florida
Four new Mediterranean fruit fly infestations are announced by the State Plant Board in Lakeland Eagle Rock Plant City and Knight s Station. National guard lines will be revised to include the new quarantine area and guard posts rearranged by tomorrow morning.
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State Plant Board
Lakeland
Eagle Rock
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Plant City
Knight’s Station
Hillsborough County
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National Guard
Sure Signs of Summer
Mil ton Hicks 11 climbed a sign board in Atlanta on June 7 and fell to a concrete sidewalk breaking an arm. Naomi Bryant 5 fell from a fence into lumber and a nail pierced her right hand and knee. Injuries not serious.
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Atlanta
Milton Hicks
Naomi Bryant
Strozier Opposes Large Road Bond Debt in Georgia
Cordele Georgia June 7 Judge EF Strozier former Cordele city judge issued a statement opposing a large road bond issue. He argued the road program should start strong but not plunge the state into debt, favoring low taxes and cautioning that bond issues would lead to future tax demands. He waved concern about taxes rising and Georgia remaining bond free.
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EF. F. Strozier
Cordele City
Georgia
Democratic deficit reduced to half a million dollars
A report shows the Democratic National Committee’s deficit from the Alfred E. Smith campaign dropped from 1,500,000 to 557,775 in outstanding obligations. Contributions since March 1 totaled 1,055,298, including 150,000 from John J. Raskob, William F. Kenny, and Herbert H. Lehman of New York City. News from Atlanta reports a rat bite accident where George Potts was injured during stock moving behind a grocery store.
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Democratic National Committee
Alfred E. Smith
William Tyler Page
House
James W. Gerard
Democratic
John J. Raskob
William F. Kenny
Herbert H. Lehman
New York City
Atlanta
George Potts
Potts
Babe Ruth Illness Confirmed By Wife In AP Interview
Babe Ruth is very ill according to his wife who told the Associated Press that reports of a long absence from the Yankees may reflect a weakened heart. Mrs Ruth said no details would be released and that Dr King would provide any comment on his condition.
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New York
Babe Ruth
Associated Press Today
Prohibition Policy Examined at Capital for Committee Plan
At Washington on June 7 Congress and the administration debated Hoover's request to form a joint congressional committee to work with the new national commission on law observance and enforcement. Senator Jones introduced a three senator four representative panel to craft a broad prohibition reform program for the December session. The judiciary committee will review the measure with likely broad support.
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Capitol
Hoover
Department of Justice
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National Commission For Law Observance
Mellon
Mitchell
Jones
Judiciary Committee
State Education Commission Meets in Georgia
The Georgia State Commission on Education met in Atlanta in June but adjourned shortly after being called to order due to a lack of quorum.
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Atlanta
Special State Commission On Education
Association meeting in Brunswick backs bond issue for roads
The County Officers' Association of Georgia voted to support a state bond issue not to exceed 100 million dollars for hard surfaced roads and chose Thomasville as meeting city for 1930. The convention endorsed Governor Hardman’s commission to survey road problems and adopted the majority report supporting the bond plan.
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Brunswick
Thomasville
Hardman
County Officers' Association of Georgia
T. H. Jeffries
Fulton County
Jority
W. T. Anderson
Georgia
Printing Company Answers Attack From Fulton County Man
Stein Printing Company defends its open shop policy after Fulton County representative Luther H. Still accuses 5 000 errors in three volumes of state Journal copies. The firm calls Still a union ally seeking to pressure a state printer and urges a full investigation by the state printing commission.
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Stein Printing Company
Luther H. Still
Fulton County
House
Senate
Still
Stein Company
Printer's Union
State Printing Commission
Printing Commission
Zoologist Russell W. Hendee Dies Amid Delirium Crisis
Russell W. Hendee, zoologist with the William V. Kelly Roosevelt expedition, affiliated with Brooklyn New York, committed death by his own hand on June 6 in Chicago while in a delirious condition during an eastern Asia expedition assignment.
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Chicago
Russell W. Hendee
Brooklyn
N. Y
William V. Kelly-Roosevelt
Asia
Congress Faces Major Tasks in Capitol Session
Washington June 7 Congress wrestles with two key bills the census reapportionment measure and a farm relief plan amid bitter clashes. The House sent the reapportionment bill to the Senate with minor changes after removing alien exclusion and force bill amendments. 17 states would lose 23 seats and 11 would gain under the 1930 population estimates.
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Death reported from tropical fever at Nien Tiane hospital
Word of Hendee's death was received by the Field Museum today from American Congal Waterman of Sagon in French Indo China. The notice confirms the illness as tropical fever and places the event within the region of Indo China during the era of French administration.
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Field Museum Today
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