Rum smuggling raid targets New York area and Jersey base
Simultaneous raids on several New York area buildings clean up a $1,000,000 TV smuggling syndicate. A fortified arsenal near Highlands New Jersey. a hidden wireless station dispatched coded messages to the fleet. A contact man was taken into custody at an Atlantic City hotel as authorities planned raids for six months. Liquor estimates ran about 10,000 cases weekly.
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New York
Highlands
N. J
Atlantic City
Mike & Gigantic Business Corporation
U. S
Robert B. Watts
Saday
Jersey
Atlantic
Ny. d
Trenton
Altho Kessler
Sweetwood
Malcolm McMasters
Montauk Point
Coast Guard
Oscar Hamrstein, Jr
Gaiders
Guar
Syndicate
West Forty-third Street
Patrick Connor
Ambassador Hotel
William J. Calhoun
New Jersey
St. Pierre
Bermuda
Windsor
Ont
United States Customs
Nine Mile Road
Detroit
LaSalle
Essex County
Colums
Seven bidders vie for Boulder Dam power deals
Seven bidders contest the allocation of 550000 horsepower from Boulder dam as Nevada and a California Southern California power consortium press for favorable terms. Secretary Wilbur presides over hearings while Nevada officials led by George W. Malone press for about 185000 horsepower. The project aims for $121.8 million government investment repaid over 50 years. Pricing around $15 per horsepower per year could lure electrochemical and metallurgical plants to the region, boosting industry and irrigation.
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Frederic William Wise
Washington
Boulder Dam
Capitol Hill
Nevada
California
Los Angeles
Department of the Interior
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Secretary of the Interior
Supreme Court
Bousterdam
Wilsor
George W. Malone
Reno
American Legion
Congress
Key Pittman
Tasker L. Oddie
Samuel G. Arentz
Johnson
Interior Department
Hiram W. Johnson
Republican
Johnso
Baulderdam
United States
Southwest
Wilbur
Colin Garfield Pink
Electro-chemistry
Columbia University
The
Electro-Chemical Engineers of America
Prof. Fink
Black Canyon
Electro-Chemical Industries
Niagera Falls
Electro-Chemical
Columbia Engineer
Ted. Colvinn
Senator Bingham takes blame over adviser hire in tariff bid
Senator Bingham, Republican of Connecticut, assumed full responsibility before the senate lobby committee for employing Charles L. Evanson, an officer of the Connecticut Manufacturers Association, as a chief adviser as the tariff bid appeared before the senate finance committee.
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Washington, D. GC
Senator Bingham
Connecticut
Senate Lobby Committee
Charles L. Evanson
Connecticut Manufacturers Association
Senate Finance Committee
Big Men at Rural Life Conference
Ames La Oct 17. An Army of agricultural notables gathered for the twelfth annual conference of the American Country Life association. Former Govs Franks Lowden Tinos and Arthur M Hyde Missouri secretary of agriculture head the speaker list. Eastern authorities Dr H J Taylor Vermont commission on country life Dean A R Mann Cornell and Dean Cari Taylor NC State arrived for sessions. Discussions will focus on cooperation across educational economic religious and social aspects of agriculture.
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Ames
American Country Life Association
Franks
Lowden
Tinos
Arthur M. Hyde
Missouri
H. ©. Taylor
Vermont Commission On Country Life
A. R. Mann
Cornell University
Cari
Buenos Aires airliner starts regular New York to South America
The Buenos Aires, a 20 passenger airliner, inaugurated a regular South American service from the naval air station. The maiden flight stopped at Charleston and aimed for Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, with a hoped Miami arrival tonight. The return trip resumes tomorrow from Miami and the three week maiden run leads to a weekly New York to Buenos Aires service on a seven day cycle.
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Washington, D. C
Buenos Aires
Naval Air Station
Rio de Janeiro
Charleston
Miami
New York
Hunt Motorist Who Killed Millionaire Benedict
Chicago on October 17 reports a hit and run driver killed Julius Thompson Benedict, a millionaire clubman and society leader. Benedict was dragged by a vampire machine after being struck, while Mrs. Wava Rex Hyde suffered serious injuries. Police launched a citywide hunt for the motorist responsible.
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Chicago
Julius
Thompson Benedict
Benedict
Wava Rex Hyde
Courier Delivery Hours and Redelivery Instructions
The notice states newspapers should be delivered before 5 30. If the paper is late due to carrier error or old age a copy will be sent. Call 5100 and request a reprint. Calls must reach the office before 6 30 p m.
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Oldey caMl
Sant
Fortified arsenal uncovered in Jersey coast rum ring
Federal agents raided a coast wide rum smuggling operation extending from New York to Atlantic City. A fortified arsenal, radio station, and fleet of six ships plus ten speed boats were seized. 32 men arrested, including two known smugglers, with ties to Jersey banking institutions and a $1,000,000 operation.
GOLINVAUX TAKES AWARDS AT STOCK OMOW IN ST LOUIS
Norman J. Rada of Chippewa Falls Wisconsin and Miss Cain Montgomery County Ohio were chosen as the 4 H club boy and girl of the National Dairy Show from 600 members. Rada has earned a net profit of 2200 on his projects over six years in 4 H work while Miss Cain with ten years experience has cleared 800 and realized 200 000.
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St. Louis
Norman J. Rada
Chippewa Falls
Wis
Miss .Berths, Cain
Montgomery County
Ohio
Rada
Miss Cain
Service Elevens Likely to Play Service Elevens
Pittsburgh Oct 17 The Pittsburgh Sun Telegram quotes Secretary of War Good stating that football relations between the Naval and Military academies at Annapolis and West Point will be resumed this year He indicated he and Secretary Adams discussed the matter and plan to call the superintendents together with an impartial authority to adopt eligibility rules for players The secretary spoke during the Ohio River canalization celebration.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegram
Good
Annapolis
West Point
Adamu
Tariff Bill 70-60 Thaw Voted By Hoover Ally Borah
Washington October 17 Senator Borah of Idaho said after a White House call that a tariff bill 70 60 thaw would pass in a form acceptable to President Hoover He is part of the Republican independents opposing the bill in its present form and declined to say if passage was likely during the special session The conference with the president lasted only a short while.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Barah
Idaho
White House
Congress
Hoover
High Court Only Place to Fix Rum Buyer's Liability
Washington Oct 17 Attorney General Mitchell said the liability of the rum buyer can be determined only after arrest and conviction for actual purchase and then the case goes to the Supreme Court for ruling.
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High Court
Washington, D. C
Mitchell
Supreme Court
National air tour reaches St Joseph airport in foggy start
The 1929 national air tour began in St Joseph Missouri with 24 planes led by Wiley Post in a Lockheed Vega arriving at 1740 hours. Delegations from Waterloo and Des Moines followed with plans to greet John Livingston’s group in Cedar Rapids and St Paul. A Wichita to St Joseph leg faced a wreckless incident as Morgan Hackman crashed near Fredonia but survived.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Wichita
Kan
St. Joseph
Rio
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Twin Cities
John Livingston
Foints
Whioy Post
Lockheed
Wort
Post
G. We. Elaldemnan
St. Paul
Chapmanfield
National Air Tour
Miers
A. B. Chambers
Waterloo Airport, Inc
Repass Automobile Company
W. P. Marshall
Waterloo Airport
Livingston
Three Musketeers
Iowa Air Tour
Aden B. Livingston
Pliot
Mid- West Airways, Inc
Ralph Miller
Pioneer National Bank
G. A. Mortis
Hazel Elyingston
John
Lambert Olgon
A. B. Livingston
Peder Rapids
Grinnell
Independence
Lambert Field
St. Louis
Morgan Hackman
Fairchild
Fredonia
Hackman
Wiley Post
Steve Lacey
Stanley Stanton
J. Livingston
Waco
A. J. Davis
M. E. Seller
Ford
J. W. Crosswell
J. Walter
Condor
G. W. Haldeman
Bellanca
G. R. A. Nagie
J. G. Cone
Command-Atre
Senator Brandegee Murdered Letter to Cole Blease Charges
The Washington Evening Star reports Senator Blease of North Carolina received a letter alleging the late Senator Frank Brandegee of Connecticut was murdered. The letter creator claimed to have evidence and sought to present it before a Senate committee, according to the Star.
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Brandegee
Cole Blease
Washington, D. C
Washington Evening Star
Blease
North Carolina
Frank B. Brandegee
Connecticut
Field
The
Star
Bleate
Senate
Washington
Denby Blamed in Defense of Full Denby Testimony Read
Washington October 17 testimony by the late Edwin Denby former secretary of the navy covered his responsibility for awarding the Elk Hills Pearl Harbor contract to Pan-American Petroleum Transport Co The Denby statement said he asked President Harding to transfer jurisdiction over naval lands and he accepted the leases whether he wanted to or not He said I took the responsibility and made the leases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Edwin Denby
Secretary of the Navy
Pan-American Peetroleum & “Transport Co
Albert B. Fall
Fall
Doheny
Pan-American
Denby
Harding
Department of the Interior
Dl “T
Seven Die In Flames At Portland Hotel
Seattle October 17. Seven people died and 12 injured as a fire swept through the Portland hotel in Seattle. Firemen recovered all bodies. several injured are in critical condition and may not survive. Fire cause undetermined. Detained by flames many likely suffocated in their sleep. John Fitzhenry reported seeing the fire from outside and noted it appeared to burn on a stairway.
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Seattle
Wash
Portland
John Fitzhenry
Hoover to Make Armistice Address in Washington
Hoover will deliver an Armistice Day speech in Continental Memorial in Washington under American Legion auspices. In Rock Rapids, Oct 17, an examiner criticized the school board for overspending on a new school building, finding $45,300.09 spent from only $38,431.80 available.
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Washington, D. C
Hoover
Continental Memorial
Washington
American Legion
Rock Rapids
Lobby Investigators Probe Double Pay Arrangements
Washington Oct 11 The senate lobby inquiry heard Senator Bingham explain Evanson a Connecticut Manufacturers Association tariff adviser loaned for expert input. Evanson served as Bingham's secretary while also receiving pay from government and the association, raising questions of possible dual compensation and the propriety of executive sessions with Evanson present.
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Washington, D. C
Charles L. Evenson
Conticetleuh Manufacturers’ Association
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Hiram Bingham
Connecticut
Bingham
Evanson
Association
Eyanson
Connecticut Manufacturers’ Association
Washington
Binghan
Kent Hubbard
Thosa
Caraway
Evinson
Finance Committee
Walsh
Montana
Jpstance
Manufacturers’ Association
Robinson
Indiana
Evanson Dyehe
Jim
Smoot
Ae Ee
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