The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-11-14
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Minneapolis-Stolen securities
valued In excess of S3,000,0 900 have
been traced to a ring Of fence"
brokers in the Twin Cities by
postal inspectors. special investi-
gators and private detectives oper-
ating for surety companies and
the American Bankers Assocf-
alton. The securities were stolen
in bandit raids in II midwest
banking institutions and broker
age offices within the past two
years, according to w. S. Gordon.
Burns agent here.
Observation-Disclosures Daily, jr., son
of the late mining magnate, died
Monday in Virginia. He had spent
the summer near Hamilton. and
had only recently gone east. He
Is survived by his wife and son,
Marcus LII. his mother and two
sisters, Mrs. James w. Gerard and
Countess Anton Sigray of Buda-
pest
Washington-Gen. Tasker n.
Bliss, chief of staff of the United
States army during the World war
and a member OF the Wilson peace
commission, died Sunday morning
in a Washington hospital. He was
rs years of age and had been In
the military service for more than
so years.
Washington-Federai funds to
feed the unemployed was propos-
ed by a republican leader in Con-
gress while the presidents emer-
gency committee fixed the number
involuntariIy dropped from the
payrolls of two Industries at al
most a million dollars. Chairman
Woods said that the automobile
and construction industries were
each two and a half billion dol
lars behind their previous years
of gross business. Senator Nc
Nary of Oregon proposed the dole
system to relieve the winter dis
tress.
London-The Indian round-table
conference may result in a United
States of India. Such a union
would have complications I'M
dreamed of in the United States
OF America. India is divided into
about 500 states or provinces. 220
languages are spoken and some.
thing like 1900 castles and sub
castles exist.
Washington - Testimony that
the soviet five year industrial pro-
gram was instituted to produce
economic depression in capitals
tic nations preparatory to world
wide revolution, was presented
this week to the house communist
investigating committee by four
witnesses. Rev. Father Edmund
Walsh OF Georgetown University,
Bernard S. Barron of New York,
general cousel Of the American
manganese Producers associa-
ton, E. S. Clark of Phoenix, Orfz.,
and E. S. Long, general manager
ofthe associated industries of
Cleveland, testified.
Neutrality-suspicious. are mobiliz-
ing on Capitol Hill for the pros
pective prohibition battle in con-
gress, and the first step in their
contemplated program is a nation
al education campaign-Had the
educational campaign which had
been conducted for seventy-five
years previous to the adoption If
the 18th amendment not been
abandoned upon the passage OF
the amendment, enforcement dur
ing the last ten years would not
have been the problem that 1t has
been.
France Field, G.. z.-Capt. Roy
w. Ammel in his monoplane Blue
Flash reached here at 2:44 Tues
lay afternoon, completing a 2270
nonstop flight from New
York in "a hours and "a minutes.
was the first nonstop flight
New York to Panama Cap
hint Ammel plans to fly across the
Atlantic next spring.
Oakland, Calif-Train robbers
secured about $4,000 In the hold
Up of a Southern Pacific train
lear Nobel, Calf, in a manner
hat recalled the days of Jesse
One Of the robbers, be-
ieved to have boarded the train
IT Berkeley as a passenger, climb
ID over the coaches to the engine
Ind ordered the engineer to stop
he train. The other followed In
IN armed automobile and Joined
n looting the baggage car OF its
7aluable mail and then escaped in
he car.
London-Rivers in Europe are /
sndangering several cities with
foods, the Thames, swollen by re-
cent rains, threatening low-lying
of London: the Seine |