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...Damndest Rule' To cut costs the House was presented last week with an omnibus bill into which a special committee had dumped a quarter-billion dollars worth of proposed chips and shavings from the government's lumber yard. Many of its items were approved by President Hoover as part of his "national economy program." As a non-partisan measure it was offered as a "rider" to the legislative appropriation bill...
...matter how the lodes were discovered, southwest Arkansas was booming in minor key last week. A lumber company at Graysonia, which had finished clearing all the available timber in the district and was about to move, turned hands loose at mining cinnabar and transformed its sawmill to a mercury refining plant. Amity also has a mine and refinery. Murfreesboro is another centre. All around farmers are melting red rocks. About 1,000 strangers are in the neighborhood. They want mining rights and whiskey, raising a pretty problem for the hearth-tenders up the creeks-whether to distill moonshine or quicksilver...
...Service") ; of heart disease; in Sarasota, Fla. Son of a Columbus, Ohio, police commissioner, he gained fame as an amateur detective on local cases, joined the Secret Service as a counterfeiting investigator. But it was Detective Burns's exposures of the Department of Interior's Oregon land & lumber frauds during the Rooseveltian muckraking era, and of Boss Abe Ruef's corruption of San Francisco, that brought him to fame. With a handful of sawdust as his only clew he trapped the Brothers McNamara, later convicted for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times' Building. Convicted of complicity...
...Lindbergh's emotionally aroused irrational behavior should not be condoned by these United States. When these two legitimately hysterical parents unfortunately reverted to their primitive, elemental desires and relegated civilization's sociological structure to the trash heap as unusable lumber and connived, catered, kowtowed, begged, pleaded, and promised anything & everything within and beyond their means to the so-called underworld, if the cowardly machine-gun order returned their child, they trampled respect for law & order into the dust; exposed other citizens' children to the possibility of kidnapping and ridiculed American police protection in the eyes of the world...
Hardest hit State was Alabama, with 299 killed. Hardest hit town was Northport, Ala., across the Warrior River from Tuscaloosa, where 28 died, six in the collapse of a livery stable whither they had fled for safety. The wind dropped into a lumber yard, picked up a cloud of timber and impaled people with gigantic arrows shot from an invisible...