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...published, both Insull Utility Investments and Corporation Securities Co. were thrown into bankruptcy. The assets of the latter company, once valued at $153,000.000, were reported so low that the expenses of an inventory could not be met. Other developments followed quickly. At his home in Redfield, S. Dak., Senator Peter Norbeck announced that when Congress reassembles his Wall Street-lashing committee on banking & currency will investigate the Insull affair. In Chicago, U. S. District Attorney Dwight F. Green, whose office gathered the Capone-jailing evidence, started an inquiry. State's Attorney John A. Swanson demanded...
...delegates did not attend was the dedication, week before the conference opened, of a 3,000-acre International Peace Garden in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota and Manitoba. The Peace Garden is at the centre of the U. S.-Canada border, 32 mi. northeast of Bottineau, N. Dak. Half of it is in the U. S., half in Canada. President Hoover and Governor General Lord Bessborough sent greetings. Some 50,000 people raised their hands, solemnly swore: "To God in His Glory, we two nations dedicate this garden, and pledge ourselves that as long as men shall live...
...Remember November!" shrilled a girl's voice in the gallery. She was Elizabeth Heiser, daughter of an Aberdeen, S. Dak. farmer whose home was about to be foreclosed on a $1,000 mortgage. Guards put Miss Heiser out of the gallery while Democrats cheered her challenge...
Died. Edwin Follett Carter, 22, Dartmouth graduate, son of Edwin Farnham Carter, vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; in Brookings, S. Dak. He was on his way to Alaska with Walter Sherman Gifford Jr., 14, son of A. T. & T.'s president. Young Gifford, just learning to drive, failed to note a turn in the road, drove the car into a ditch. Carter was thrown out, his neck broken. Young Gifford, his left arm crushed, was whisked to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn...
...Detroit dragged her basket along the field, barely cleared it, came down with a gas-leak 10 mi. away in the Missouri River, luckily upon a tiny island. All the others fought electrical storms through the night. Second to land next morning was the Chevrolet entry (at Jamestown, N. Dak., 410 mi.) after her crew had thrown overboard all ballast including spare clothing to let the basket clear a high tension wire. An hour later, few miles away, the rain-sogged City of Omaha fouled a farmer's fence, spilled her crew to the ground. Army...