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from Spokane Daily Chronicle
STATE IS SUING OIL COMPANIES
OLYMPIA, July 25--Governor Clarence D. Martin's war against "excessive gasoline prices" took definite form today with the filing of court action against 17 oil companies doing business in Washington....
DILL ADVOCATES SALE OF POWER TO OREGON CITY
PORTLAND, Ore., July 25--Senator Dill proposed today to sell Grand coulee electric power in Portland and other cities of the west coast....
Greenough Says Liquor Needs "Special Session"
Washington should have a special session of the legislature to enact liquor laws if the 18th amendment is repealed, in the opinion of Prosecuting Attorney Charles Greenough....
ITALY'S AIR ARMADA BEGINS FLIGHT HOME
NEW YORK, July 25--General Italo Balbo led his 24-plane armada into the air from Jamaica bay at 9:01 a. m., eastern standard time, today on another lap of the return mass flight to Italy
NEW YORK, July 25--Twenty-four years ago today...Louis Bleriot flew the channel.
WASHINGTON, July 25--Charter members of the Roosevelt "roll of honor" in the striving to better the times by boosting buying power enrolled in legions today by telegrams to the White House....
WASHINGTON, July 25--President Roosevelt was represented at the White House today as exceedingly encouraged by the immediate response to his summons for employers to raise wages and shorten working hours....
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 25.--The National recovery administration [NEA] is to operate publicly, as far as that is humanly practicable....
URRUGNE, France, July 25--Mlle. Marisol Mesia Y. Lesseps, grand-daughter of the French builder of the Suez canal, and the Infante Don Jose of Bavaria Bourbon, nephew of the former Spanish king, were married today at the Urrugne church. The civil service occurred yesterday at the city hall.
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen
F.D.R. and his advisers were not displeased with the stock market collapse; What Fate Balbe -- Mussolline has been in the habit of rewarding fellow fascists who crowd him for the limelight witha quiet kick into obscurity; Negro Recognition; Coal and Steel industry battle unions.
WASHINGTON, July 25--Senator Steiwer (Rep., Ore.), a member of the banking committee, today forecast legislation by the next session of congress to minimize the possibilities of a recurrence of "the panic of 1929 and the past week's experience with its abnormal shrinkage of prices."
GERMANY'S POLICE HUNT DOWN REDS
BERLIN, July 25--Police conducted a widespread search today for persons suspected of subversive activities and for illicit weapons and literature. The search was ordered, police said, "to curb the still continuing communist and other subversive activities." A number of arrests were made, the persons detained being placed in protective custody.
TOKYO, July 25--James Langston Hughes, an American negro author, sailed on the Taiyo Maru for San Francisco today after Tokyo police questioned him about what they said they suspected were communications with the Japanese communist movement. Hughes recently visited Russia. Police, who questioned 11 Japanese visitors suspected of being communists at Hughes' hotel, "suggested" that the American leave Japan immediately.
AHMEDABAD, India, July 25--A decision...announced today by the Mahatma Gandhi...believed to be connected with a plan for individual civil disobedience....
MADRID, July 25--Arrests of more than 500 persons...reassured government leaders that a revolutionary plot had been thwarted....
"There is no gross pollution of the Spokane river comparable to the nuisance conditions in heavily polluted rivers below centers of population throughout the Mississippi valley," says Frank Greeley of Chicago....
First copies of the voluntary code, providing for minimum hours of work and minimum wages in all trade and industry, were received in Spokane today. The full text of the code and a brief statement by the president follow:...
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