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Description: Leader of Wet Bloc; Proceeding Against A. Mitchell Palmer; Newspapers To Disclose Ownership; Leonidas Urges Beer As Key; Navy Reports Byrd Expedition Safe; Jadwin Flood Control Plan; Veterans Compensation; Byrd Party In Antarctic; Curtis Honored
Date: January 26 1930Newspaper published in: Huntsville, AL
Source: Library
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Leader Of Wet Bloc
Associated Press Photo with the following caption: Rep. J. Charles Linthicum, Maryland, democrat, is leader of the wet bloc in the fight against the eighteenth amendment in the house of representatives.
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BULLETINS
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (AP) – A proceeding brought by the government against A. Mitchell Palmer, war time alien property custodian and later attorney general and several of his associates alleging they had committed wrongful acts in the seizure and subsequent sale of Bosch Magneto Company, was ordered discontinued today by Attorney General Mitchell.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (AP) – A bill to require newspapers to disclose their real ownership supplementing existing laws was favorably reported to the senate today by Chairman Phipps of the post office committee.
LEONIDAS URGES BEER AS KEY
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (INS) – Hoover and the Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission were urged by Representative Leonidas, Mo., to recommend to Congress the legalization of the three-percent beer as a long stride in solving the prohibition problem.
NAVY REPORTS BYRD EXPEDITION SAFE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (UP) – Rear Admiral Byrd and his party, reported marooned in the Antarctic are “all right down there” according to advices received by Acting-secretary of Navy Jahncke and the United States Navy will go to the rescue only if the situation becomes “serious,” Jachnke said that he had received definite assurances that their position does not call for immediate assistance.
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JADWIN FLOOD CONTROL PLAN
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Revision of the Original Plan Is Proposed to President Hoover
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (AP) – Revision of the Jadwin flood control plan for the Mississippi Valley was proposed to President Hoover today by Chairman Reed of the house flood control committee.
The Illinois representative notified the chief executive at a conference that his committee would attempt to formulate legislation to bring about engineering changes in the flood control which would meet with the approval of the people in the sections who are dissatisfied with the Jadwin plan.
“The people of the various sections of the valley are dissatisfied and claim they will be in a worse condition from a flood standpoint, after the Jadwin plan is in effect than they are at the present time,” Reid said in a statement. “They claim that the plan is not only wrong from an engineering standpoint but needlessly destroys many thousand acres of valuable land.”
Reid said that the ruling of the federal courts that land or flowage rights had to be acquired by the federal government before proceeding with the flood control project makes either a change in engineering plans necessary or will require the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars for the purchase of lands.
PLEA FOR LIBERAL VETERANS COMPENSATION
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (AP) – A plea for a more liberal veteran’s compensation act was made in the house today by Representative Rutherford, Democrat, Georgia, who urged payment of compensation to veterans whose disabilities from war service were not immediately apparent.
He said many veterans had hesitated to ask for relief, “fearing that as long as their health was not too greatly impaired they would undertake to support themselves.”
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BYRD PARTY IN ANTARCTIC IS IN NO DANGER
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Washington Officials Have Relaxed Anxiety
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NEAREST NAVAL VESSEL IS 8,000 MILES
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Scarcity of Whales in Ross Sea Gave First Inkling Of Ice Barrier
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (AP) – Assured that all possible means of rescue would be mobilized if the Byrd Antarctic expedition should find itself unable to leave Little America before the winter season sets in with March. Washington officials tonight relaxed their anxiety.
They temporarily left matters to nature and the ability of rear Admiral Bird [sic] and his comrades to care for themselves under the vagaries of nature in the vicinity of the South Pole.
At the same time the navy department gave thought to the possibility of having to rescue the party, reiterating its intention to pitch into the task if the situation should become acute. The nearest American naval vessel is 8,000 miles away.
Yesterday the state department received through Ambassador Dawes assurance that the sole British whaling vessel in the vicinity of the party would help if it were needed.
The Norwegian whalers attributed expressions of fear over the possibility that the Byrd party might be isolated for another winter with insufficient food to the fact that two of their ships had left the Ross sea a short time ago.
It was not the ice that drove them out they explained, but the scarcity of whales which had made remaining in the Polar sea poor business.
It was recalled here, however, that the absence of whales in the Ross sea gave the Byrd party its first inkling of possible danger s it was taken to indicate that he ice barrier was too thick and wide for them to swim through. The few whales appearing near the base were reported to be showing signs to have experienced a hard fight to win their way through the ice.
“INDIAN” CURTIS HIGHLY HONORED
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (AP) – Eulogies, flowers and remembrances honored Vice President Curtis today on his seventieth birthday.
Members of the senate, in which he served for more than 20 years before assuming the vice presidency last March took note of Mr. Curtis’ session. Republicans and Democrats joined in praising him.