Today by Arthur Brisbane observations on crime and politics
Brisbane notes that voters should focus on real work after elections. He contrasts street crime with high level corruption, recounting the Passell killing in Newark and a mocked offer to Al Capone to quit racketeering in exchange for control of Chicago’s beer business. He reflects on Colleoni’s Venice loyalty.
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John P. McGoorty
Chicago
al Capone
McGoorty
Yous McGoorty
Colleoni
Ayucago
Venice
Deadlock Seen in Congress After House and Senate Races
AP tallies show Senate: Republicans 48 total, Democrats 47, Farmer-Labor 1 with 49 needed for majority and GOP gains in Iowa. House: Republicans 217, Democrats 216, Farmer-Labor 1 with one still doubtful, 218 needed for majority.
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Senate
Associated Press
United States
Farmer-Labors
Iowa
Colorado
Illinois
Kansas
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Ohio
Oklahoma
South Dakota
West Virginia
Associated’ Press
House of Representatives
Congress
Explosion Claims Amarillo Foreman's Life and Burns
Fire at the Fifth Avenue Lipscomb Street site destroys a distributor tank and leaks No 55 road oil. Foreman Jesse L W Griffith, 46, of 818 Palo Duro Street, burns cover his body and is hospitalized in critical condition with little hope of recovery. Fire officials believe an overload of heat caused by ignited road oil after Griffith started a burner during unloading.
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Fifth Avenue
Lipscomb Street
Jesse LW. Griffith
Palo Duro Street
Amarillo Construction Company
Griffith
Northwest
Texas
Louis K. Patton
Amarillo to Host General Baptist Convention of Texas
About 5,000 delegates are expected for a three day General Baptist Convention of Texas session in Amarillo next week. Dr Yates of First Baptist Church is host, Fuqua chairs the 95 member reception committee, and Cotten is general chair of local arrangements. The event is touted as the South region’s largest annual religious gathering.
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Amarillo
General Baptist Convention of Texas
Yates
First Baptist Church
Fuqua
Cotten
Train Robbery Near Oakland Halts Southern Pacific Car
Five armed men held up Southern Pacific passenger train number 36 from Oakland to Tracy at Nobel and robbed an undetermined amount of cash and valuable mail. The exact sum was not disclosed in reports.
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Associated Press
Oakland
Cal
Southern Pacific
Tracy
California
Nobel
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Update
Fair tonight and Saturday with little temperature change. West Texas sees partly cloudy skies and localized showers southeast tonight and Saturday, warmer in the northern area. New Mexico similar fair conditions with minimal temperature shifts. Extremes today reach 55 and 88 degrees. Griggs ambulance 4311 Boxwell Bros 5211.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
House Majority Battle Looms After Last Vote
AP wires report the final votes on election night show the House contest still undecided with party control in question while the Senate outcome appears clearer. Major races, delegates, and party counts influence post election power dynamics in Washington.
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Associated Press
Washington
House of Representatives
Senate
Senator Brookhart backs Senate leadership if program satisfies
Senator Brookhart of Iowa declares support for the Democratic organization of the new senate conditional on a legislative program he finds satisfactory. He states he will back the Democrats only if they sponsor the needed policy agenda.
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Associated Press
Washington
Brookhart
Republican
Towa
Democratic Organization
New
Senate
Republicans Narrowly Win House Control After Tight Election
The Republicans clinched a slim plurality and likely will control the chamber, appoint officers and committee chairs. In the House, Democrats 217 to Republicans 216 on the latest figures, per the article’s Election Page 2.
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House
Do X Set For Hop To Britain From Amsterdam
The German seaplane Do X will leave for Southampton on the second lap toward New York tomorrow morning, weather permitting. Dr Claude Dornier said the craft will stay in England two days and then proceed to Havre. He dismissed a protest by the French Portuguese air monopoly against stopping at the Azores, noting the Do X as a seagoing ship has the right to enter any open harbor.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
Southampton
New York
Claude Dornier
England
Havre
Dernier
Azores
Three Hotels Held Up by Band of Robbers in Cleveland
In early today four well dressed men wearing spectacles robbed three east side hotels. At the Hotel Belmont they barred 21 guests and took about 1000 dollars in cash and jewelry. Bolton Square Hotel yielded 40 dollars to the gang and Hotel Perkins 25 dollars from the night clerk.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
East Side
Belmont
Bolton Square
Perkins
Ten Freed In Lynching of Negro in Walhalla
A South Carolina superior court jury acquitted ten men charged with murder tied to the lynching of Allen Green, a Black man, on April 24 in Walhalla. State authorities did not indicate further action.
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Associated Press
Walhalla
S. C
Allen Green
Arrest Opens Up Road in Fort Worth Grapevine Area
Carl Yates, 50, a retired merchant and traveling salesman, was arrested after blocking a highway to protest compensation for land taken for a state road. He posted a $500 bond and planned to discuss the dispute at the courthouse, claiming offers were too low compared to nearby land sales. Authority cautioned the road would be opened “the right way” as deputies described the scene.
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Fort Worth
Grapevine
Carl Yates
Yates
Malcolm Davis
R. B. Martin
Earl Yates
W. D. Deacon
J.S. Mathis
Davis
Oscar Hukill
Gun shipment tied to Berkeley train hold up claim
A California officer said the machine gun used in the Berkeley hold up likely came from a shipment of seventeen sent to San Francisco Bay area sheriff departments. Seventeen guns were missing on arrival in San Francisco and a guard has been posted on banks and other Bay Area sites in anticipation of another possible gun attack.
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United Press
Austin
Southern Pacific
Berkeley
Sheriff Departments
San Francisco
Bay Counties
California
Bay District
Robbery on a California mail train linked to Fleagle gang
Bandits raided a daily Oakland to Tracy mail train holding up the engineer and fireman at Nobel. They seized $40,000 to $55,000 in cash and 10 to 15 bags of registered mail amid a pursuit by peace officers. Some suspects were later caught. Fleagle, killed in Missouri recently, led the gang. No injuries reported.
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Southern Pacific
San Francisco
Columbia Steel Works
Jake Fleagle
San Joaquin Valley
Fleagle
Missouri
Oakland
Tracy
California
Nobel
Berkeley
Fire Victim Accuses Husband Of Setting Bed Torch
Jersey City police said Elizabeth Swavely 66 died in hospital from burns after being rescued from a burning bed. She told officers her husband Howard Swavely applied a torch to the bedding as she slept and shouted I ve got you before the flames spread. Firemen arrived asSwavely stood in an adjoining room.
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Associated Prem
Jersey City
Elizabeth Swavely
Swavely
Police
Snd
Death after warned to police in Galveston shooting
William C. Ruenbuhl aged 62 rang police to say he feared for his life. He was shot three times at his Galveston home shortly after the call and died nearly instantly. John Sedgewick, estranged wife of Ruenbuhl’s step daughter, was arrested after a cal bre pistol was found. Sedgewick had threatened Ruenbuhl over his wife not returning.
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John Passell
Newark
New Jersey
Passell
United Press
Galveston
William C. Ruenbuhl
Ruenbuhl
John Sedgewick
Sedgewick
Plot To Assassinate Capone Hinted In Raid Letter
Detectives reading a letter found during a raid on Terry Druggan's hotel suite and north side apartment hint at a plot to kill Al Capone. The letter, from criminals in Los Angeles San Francisco and New York, ties Druggan to wealth in rackets. Judge Lyle forfeit Druggan's $10 000 bond and issued an arrest caplan.
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al Capone
Chicago
Associated Press
Scarface
North Side
Terry Druggan
Druggan
Los Angeles
San Francisco
New York
John H. Lyle
Caplan
Great Soviet Octob er Day Parade in Red Square
Thousands of Soviet marchers, infantry leading with tanks and artillery, celebrate the thirteenth anniversary of October Day. Stalin and Kalinin review from Lenin’s Tomb as banners declare down with capitalism and world revolution.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Red Square
Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Communist Party
Russia
Michael Kalinin
Central Executive Committee
Rykov
Stalin
Missing Burleson College President Found Near Crockett
Dr FE W Provence president of Burleson College was found near Crockett after disappearing in Dallas. He could not speak clearly and was brought to a hotel where he was recognized from published photos. Mrs Provence and Dr BK Goode will return him to Greenville for care. doctors suspect aphasia.
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Associated Press
Greenville
Tex
FE. W. Provence
Burleson College
Dallas
Crockett
BK. P. Goode
Goode
Province
Provence
The
Baptist Church
College Head Dr Provence Resurfaces Near Greenville
Dr F E Provence president of Burleson College Greenville, who had been missing since Monday during a Dallas trip, spent the night in a local hotel and appeared at P E Walden's dairy showing credentials before helping milk cows. He said the strain of teaching threatened a nervous breakdown.
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FE. W. Provence
Burleson College
Greenville
Dallas
Walden
Tulsa Woman Drowns Near Galveston
The Tulsa woman Teemra Gray Levaille, 40, of Tulsa Oklahoma, aboard the Mallory liner Mohawk, drowned about 10 miles from Galveston early today. The body was recovered after about 80 minutes of searching. She was en route from New York to Galveston. an inquest was ordered by Justice of the Peace R.K. Kupasa.
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Associated Prom
Galveston
TeeMra
Gray Levaille
Tulsa
Oklo
Pasenger
Mohawk
Levaille
New York
Justice of the Peace RK. M
Kupasa
Waddy Tate To Be Considerate Of Wee Nips
Dallas voters report Mayor J Waddy Tate will ignore minor liquor violations in the city while directing prohibition officers toward large liquor suppliers. The mayor also noted the continued use of bicycle delivery boys in the local liquor trade.
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Waddy
United Free
Dallas
J. Waddy Tate
Dallas Prohibition Squad
Tate
Girl dies after year of hiccough suffering
Virginia Mae Coppin, 19, dies in Mt. Clemens Mich after more than a year of hiccoughs that resisted home remedies and the aid of hundreds of physicians. Her first attack occurred in Detroit in 1929 during an operation, with later bouts drawing national medical attention and thousands of doctors. She suffered a final two week bout ending in death as medical experts weighed potential surgery but deferred due to frail health and brain inflammation risk.
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Associated Pres
MT. Clemens
Mich
Virginia Mae Coppin
Detroit
American Medical Association
Hoover Thanksgiving Proclamation Urges Aid to Needy Nationwide
President Hoover designates November 27, 1930 as a national day of thanksgiving and urges Americans to help those suffering from causes beyond their control. He notes the country has faced fewer world difficulties, calls for observing the day with neighborly goodwill, and to ensure every person has reason to give thanks for institutions and society.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hoover
United States
J. Herbert Hoover
United States of America
Herbert Hoover
Henry L. Stimson
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W. H. Fuqua
T. W. Cotten
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Boxwell Bros. Ambulance
Britain
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