Prince of Wales Turns 38 With Many Hobbies and Honors
The 38th birthday of the Prince of Wales is noted with a list of activities and achievements. He enjoyed motor boating and cycling, took up golf and gymnastics, opened the Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford, led beret fashion, and acted as a guide for tourists. He also attended events abroad, sent aid to a child, received honors, and shared social moments with staff and friends.
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Santa Claus
Shakespeare Memorial Theater
Stratford-on-Avon
Great Britain
Paul Doumer
France
London
Amelie
Earhart
Dad
King
Strike Threat Ties Up Mexican Coast Shipping
Reports say labor demonstrations in Guadalajara Hermosillo Mazatlan and Empalme will seek the expulsion of H R Titcomb Los Angeles president of Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico. A wage and personnel strike is planned for June 27 threatening paralysis of rail service along Sonora Sinaloa and Nayarit and coast towns. The SP of Mexico runs Nogales to Guadalajara and handles transport on the western coast.
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Sonora
Sinaloa
Nayarit
Mexico City
Guaymas
H. R. Titcomb
Los Angeles
Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico
Guadalajara
Hermosillo
Mazatlan
Emzpalme
Southern Pacific
Nogales
Ariz
Mexico
Franco German Pact Proposed For Consultative Economic Accord
Baron von Neurath presented a five year memorandum on economic collaboration to Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald proposing a pact to avoid actions harming trade without multilateral consultation. The plan aligns with Premier Briot's ideas on continental business reconstruction.
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Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
Baron von Neurath
Germany
Premier Herriot
Europe Weighs Hoover Arms Cut Proposal in Commons
Sir John Simon reported to the House of Commons that Britain will give President Hoover's disarmament plan immediate consideration. He had just returned from Geneva to brief cabinet colleagues. London, June 23.
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London
John Simon
Geneva
House of Commons
Hoover
McAdoo And Smith Bury The Hatchet
Smith dismissed reports of a Roosevelt nomination map as propaganda. He said the convention platform should stress economic issues while noting Owen D. Young was discussed as a potential nominee in a deadlock. Mayor Hague, assisting Smith, mocked the map’s claimed 691 votes and called it an exhibit from the Anti-Saloon League era.
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Frank Hague
Jersey City
N. J
Smith
Roosevelt
Owen D. Young
New York
Anti-Saloon League
Wayne B. Wheeler
Toll Of Tidal Wave Claims Over Hundred In Mexico
The Colima region reports 62 or more injured with a rising death toll after a powerful tidal wave struck Cuyutlan and surrounding areas. Governor Salvador Saucedo headed to Cuyutlan to oversee relief as federal troops search for victims and prevent disease amid widespread destruction along an 18 mile front.
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Colima
Salvador Saucedo
Cuyutlan
Mexico City
Mexico
U S Senate Passes Jobless Relief Bill
The Senate approved a jobless relief measure with the House in dispute over a separate provision. The Senate added an amendment to advance one third of the funds to state governors for immediate use, as the bill moved toward conference.
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U.S. Senate
House
Senate
Three Automobile Pioneers Pass on
The Detroit death report notes the losses of Alexander Winton in Cleveland on Tuesday signaling the third major auto industry leader to die within three months. Winton built the first car for a retail customer in 1898 and is seen as a pioneer of commercial production. Hugh Chalmers died June 2 in Beacon New York and helped establish mass selling methods and founded the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Henry M. Leland died in Detroit at 89, introducing battery ignition electric starting electric lighting and thermostatic control.
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Detroit
Cleveland
Alexander Winton
Winton
Hugh Chalmers
Beacon
N. Y
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Henry M. Leland
Leland
Massie Assigned To Duty On New Mexico
Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie reported for duty at the Philadelphia naval yard and was assigned to the battleship New Mexico after his Honolulu court case. Massie was among four previously tried in the island incident and arrived with accompanying personnel.
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Massie
New Mexico
Thomas H. Massie
Honolulu
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Lieut
Adele Astaire to be presented at court in London
London reports Adele Astaire, sister of Fred, will be presented tonight or tomorrow by wife Thalia Massie as she enters as Lady Cavendish. The feature notes her Broadway fame and future home in Philadelphia.
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Adele Astaire
Broadway
Thalia Massie
Philadelphia
New Mexico
Lady Cavendish
Fred
Lord Charles
Cavendish
England
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