Final disposition of farm relief legislation in Senate
The Senate undertook final disposition of farm relief legislation as the conferees agreed to remove the export debenture plan. Senator McNary said the House had approved the conference bill and, if the Senate follows, it will go to President Hoover. He defended the decision to drop the debenture proposal to speed farm aid.
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Washington, D.C
Senate
House
Hoover
McNary
Oregon
Robinson
Arkansas
Harrison
Mississippi
Walter Newton
Nye threatens summer filibuster to repeal national origins clause
Senator Nye of North Dakota warned in Washington that he will stay all summer to force a vote on his repeal of the national origins clause, after pressing Senator Reed of Pennsylvania for a vote once the farm bill report clears.
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Washington
Nye
North Dakota
Senate
Reed
Pennsylvania
Ford's railroad indicted on twenty five counts
The Detroit Toledo and Ironton Railway owned by Henry Ford faces 25 counts from a U S grand jury charging violation of the Elkins act. The indictment alleges the line secured split coal rates by routing shipments from Kentucky to Ohio points via Hardy and Stone Kentucky to South Charleston Ohio and Glen Jean junction, then reusing the same coal for a longer haul to Jackson Ohio.
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Columbus
Ohio
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railway
Henry Ford
Kentucky
United States Federal Grand Jury
B. T. and I
Trenton
Jackson
Hardy and Stone
Charleston
Ford
Norfolk and Western
Glen Jean
D. T. and I
Ford Railroad
Babe Ruth Expects Ten Day Return To Play
Babe Ruth in a June 8 interview said health is improving after a bad cold and shoulder pains. He expects to be back in ten days, pending doctor orders, but must avoid exhibitions and full doubleheaders until fully recovered and will target the June 21 series with the Athletics.
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Bambino
New York
Babe Ruth
Ruth
Yankee
West 88Th Street
Athletics
O. K
Kidnapped Colgate Student Laura Fields Found Safe Note
Centerville Maryland June 8 discovery of an abandoned car yielded a scrawled note from Laura Fields a 19 year old Washington College senior claiming she was kidnapped by two men and two women. Her parents reported she had left for a night class and did not return prompting sheriff search.
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Centerville
Laura Fields
Washington College
Miss Fields
Archie Fields
Chestertown
Frank Whitley
Involuntary Manslaughter Charge Against Men
South Bend Indiana June 8 An affidavit charging involuntary manslaughter against Marvin M Cramer of Mishawaka and Alex Sievers and Hawley O Burke Elkhart attorneys was ordered filed by Prosecutor H B Taylor in the killing of Edward Blankert Mishawaka politician in a roadhouse near Mishawaka Friday morning A bullet from his own revolver is believed to have caused the death Blankert according to coroner s inquest evidence He fired after being urged to fetch his gun and re entered the roadhouse following a quarrel
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South Bend
Ind
Marvin M. Cramer
Mishawaka
Alex Sievers
Hawley O. Burke
Elkhart
H. 8
Taylor
Edward Blankert
Blankert
Cramer
Railroad Indicted in Place of Individuals in Case
The report notes that no individuals were named in the indictment. instead the railroad company itself faced charges. The brief outlines the legal action and the involved corporate entity, with no accompanying personal names.
Market largely specialty: affair in the past week
Stanley W. Prenosil reports a week of mixed stock action with utilities showing strength on merger and dividend rumors while rails and industrials drift. Call money rose to 7 percent, with brokers’ loans down. tax payments and rights expirations loom.
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Stanley W. Prenosil
Associated Press
New York
Wall Street
U. S. Treasury
Federal Reserve
Erie
New Haven
Colorado Springs
Two Georgia Football Players Earn Phi Beta Kappa at UGA
Athens June 8 Two football players and 16 women join 28 University of Georgia students and alumni to be initiated into Phi Beta Kappa on June 17. Edward Mims Vanderbuilt University Nashville Tenn to deliver the address. Harvey Hill football star and Joe Boland captain elect of the Red and Black lead undergraduate honorees with several alumni named for induction.
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Athens
University of Georgia
Alpha of Georgia
Phi Beta Kappa
National Scolastic Fraternity
Edward Mims
Vanderbiit University
Nashville
Tenn
J. H. Marshburn
Norman
Okla
R. B. Troutman
Atlanta
George Haines
Augusta
Rebecca Andrews
Craig Barrow, Jr
Savannah
Joe Boland
Harvey Hill
Lucy G. Henry
A. A. Lawrence, Jr
Rosina Pearl
Boland
German sailor sails 6700 miles in walrus skin boat
Albert Voight of Germany departed Seward Alaska last night in a 16 foot collapsible walrus skin sailboat bound for New York. He aims to cover 6700 miles in six months and will paddle to assist the sails without any navigating instruments.
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Seward
Alaska
Albert Voight
New York
Voight
Florida Refuges Stand Pat on Georgia Fruit Shipments
Jacksonville Florida June four members of the state plant board announced they refused the Georgia department of sericulture request to lift the ban on shipments of peaches apricots cherries and other stone fruit from Georgia and other states. The embargo remains due to San Jose scale and other plant diseases with only minor changes to the Mediterranean fly embargo rules.
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Jacksonville
Fla
State Plant Board
Fteir
Georgia Department of Sericulture
Georgia
Van Sweringen May Build Union Terminal Depot in Cleveland
The United States circuit court of appeals vacated a temporary injunction, allowing Van Sweringen to resume construction of the Cleveland Union Terminals project on Wheeling and Lake Erie property. The Taplin interests challenged the Wheeling price, halting work pending ICC ruling on gate price.
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van Sweringens
Union Terminal
Cleveland
Cincinnati
van Sweringen
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad Company
Paul Jones
Cleveland, O
Federal Court of Appeals
Taplin
Union Terminals
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
Taplins
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Cleveland Union Terminals Company
American golfers return home today from trip abroad
Led by Walter Hagen, the open golf champion of Great Britain, a contingent of American golfers returns from Europe. Johnny Farrell, Joe Turnesa, Horton Smith, and Ed Dudley accompany him, each bringing notable titles or records. They disembarked at quarantine aboard the Leviathan to a standing welcome.
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New York
Walter Hagen
Great Britain
Europe
Britain
Johnny Farrell
United States
Joe Turnesa
Horton Smith
France
Ed Dudley
Leviathan
Guards and Strikers Clash in Gastonia Textile Dispute
In Gastonia North Carolina on June 8 four men were hospitalized two seriously and forty four National Textile Union members jailed for assault with intent to kill after a nighttime clash between guards strikers and city police. The incident began when officers confronted a tent colony housing about 150 strikers and families evicted from Loray Mill village. Guards claimed to shoot only in self defense after being challenged by camp patrols.
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Gastonia
N.C
National Textile Union
Gardner
C. L. Aderholt
Noat
A. J. Roach
Tom Gilbert
Charles Ferguson
Joseph Harrison
Passaic
N. J
National Textile Workers Union
H. C. Jackson
Loray Mill
George W. Cartr
Mizpah
Chief of Police O L Alderholt Dies After Tent Camp Clash
Gastonia- O L Alderholt the police chief who was wounded in a confrontation between guards at the Loray Cotton Mills strike camp and city officers died in a hospital. By noon 59 alleged strikers guards and strike leaders were jailed on assault to kill charges. warrants may be amended.
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Gastonia
N. C
O. L. Alderholt
Loray
Aderholt
Posse hunts unnamed 22 year old suspect near Pembroke
A sheriff posse searched swampy areas near Pembroke Georgia for an unnamed 22 year old man accused of attempting to attack a young white married woman on a plantation owned by Julian Harvey. The woman was uninjured and officials saw no mob danger if captured.
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Pembroke
Julian Harvey
No Money In Florida Treasury For Fruit Fly Appropriation
Governor Doyle E. Carlton signed a 500000 appropriation to combat the Mediterranean fruit fly in Florida but officials could not identify a funding source. The measure, approved at the recent legislative session, may require excess millage to fund as the central revenue fund runs low. Carlton emphasized the action shows Florida aiding eradication efforts alongside a $4 million federal grant.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida
Doyle E. Carlton
Carlton
Poet Carman Dies Suddenly at 66 in New Canan
Bliss Carman, renowned poet and author of Songs From Vagabondia and Trees, died suddenly of heart disease at the home of Dr and Mrs Thomas Tunney in New Canan. He was 66.
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New Canan
Bliss Carman
Thomas Tunney
Carman
Wall of water sweeps Wibaux town. four lives lost
A 15 foot wall of water from Beaver creek surged through Wibaux Montana after a cloudburst. Four people died, including Rev. A. A. Seifert and his wife, with $200000 in property damage. Buildings were torn from foundations as the torrent deluged the town.
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Wibaux
Mont
Beaver Creek
A. A. Seifert
Methodist
Sever Knutson
R. A. Thompson
Lindy’s Yacht Believed Sighted Off Portland
A cabin cluster believed to be on the Lindberghs’ honeymoon yacht was sighted off Seguin Island today by amphibian plane passengers en route from Rockland to Portland. Seguin Island lies between Portland and North Haven, near Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow’s summer home.
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Portland
Maine
Charles A. Sandbergh
Seguin Island
Rockland
North Haven
Dwight W.morrow
Treasury 16 Ready to Pay Huge Farm Bill Appropriation
Treasury officials said the farm bill may authorize 500 million dollars for the Federal Farm Board to purchase and store surplus cotton until disposal. The treasury is prepared to release funds at once if Congress appropriates the money before its recess.
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Treasury
Charles D. Watkins
Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Federal Farm Board
400000 Baptists sever connection with church survey shows
In Denver a survey for the Northern Baptist convention reports about 400000 Baptists have severed ties with the church in 15 years. It also notes ministers remain the nation's lowest paid group despite salary increases. In Washington the Jeffersonian Club dinner honors Jouett Shouse with Democratic leaders expected to attend.
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Denver
Colo
Northern Baptist Convention
Washington
Robinson
Arkansas
Garner
Texas
Senate
House
Washington Jeffersonian Club
Jouett Shouse
John J. Raskob
Democratic National Committee
Weather Outlook for Week Beginning Monday
South Atlantic states expect showers in the south early week, then mostly fair midweek, with more showers at week's end. Temperatures run slightly below normal early in the week in the northern portion.
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South Atlantic States
South Portion
North Portion
Revised quarantine aims at halting Florida fruit shipments
Washington June 8 secretary Hyde revised the Mediterranean fruit fly quarantine to bar re shipment of Florida host fruits and vegetables from northern and northeastern states into the south and west. Under supplemental rules re shipments are forbidden to Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Georgia Idaho Louisiana Mississippi Nevada New Mexico North Carolina Oklahoma Oregon South Carolina Tennessee Texas Utah Washington or Puerto Rico.
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Washington
Hyde
Florida
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Georgia
Idaho
Louisiana
Mississippi
Nevada
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Porto Rico
Berlin Press Divided On Settlement Of Reparations
Berlin editors split along party lines over the Young plan for reparations. Nationalists reject the proposal, vowing to oppose it by any constitutional means, while liberals favor cautious criticism and foresee possible debt relief or reduction through economic sense and eventual annulment.
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Berlin
Deutsche Zeitung
Paris
Vossische Zeitung
United States
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Charlotte
United Confederate Veterans
Swat
Rairoad
Ga. Department of Agriculture
Court of Appeals
Gilbert
Alderholt
Tinket Work
Republican National Committee
Ralph Williams
James Francis Burke
Montana
Lindy
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