Hoover Campaign Opens as GOP Leaders Predict Victory
Washington June 11 Republican leaders urged reelection of President Hoover at a conference of young Republicans. Senator Fess of Ohio predicted unanimous renomination, Representative Free of California echoed with Hoover life history praise. Focus also on protective tariff as vital to living standards amid party disputes and calls for broader renomination support.
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Representative Free
California
Washington
Hoover
Fese
Ohio
Republican National Committee
Robert H. Lucas
Senator Fess
Edgar Snyder
Fess
Senate
Powers Convicted of First Degree Murder in Insurance Plot
In Macon Georgia on June 11 1930 Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Powers aged 74 a boardinghouse keeper was convicted of first degree murder for killing a youthful orphan in a plot to collect 14000 life insurance. The jury recommended mercy saving her from the electric chair after a prior conviction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Sarah Elizabeth Powers
Alger Hero Will Head Republic
Paris reports Horatio Alger style rise of M. Paul Doumer elected president of France, from railway boss family to senate leader and wartime minister. Doumer’s career spans teacher, journalist, parliament, finance minister, and four war lost sons. Lebrun elected senate president to succeed Doumer.
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Associated Press
Paris
Horatio Alger
France
M. Paul Doumer
Aristide Briand
French Republic
Indo-China
Chamber of Deputies
Armand Falliernes
Briand
Doumer
Senate
Albert Francois Lebrun
Paul Doumer
Jules Jeanneay
Clemenceau
Nautilus Encounters Turbulent Seas On North Pole Quest
Sir Hubert Wilkins reports the transatlantic submarine Nautilus battling heavy seas 1,500 miles from Boston heading toward England. A storm tore deck equipment and damaged a hatch while the crew kept a ventilator open to avoid dangerous pressure changes as they seek regions beneath ice near the North Pole.
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New York
Sir Hubert Wilkins
England
Boston
Sir Hubert
New York American
North Pole
Denehower
Lindbergh Maps Possible Routes for Orient Flight
Charles Lindbergh outlined four potential routes for a forthcoming trip to the Orient. The options include paths over Atlantic Greenland Spitzbergen Siberia across Alaska and Siberian lands or via the Aleutians to Japan with final choice based on fuel base feasibility. He spoke after luncheon at the Japanese embassy and confirmed Japan welcomed overflight and landing rights.
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Lindbergh
Atlantic
Greenland
Spitzbergen
Siberian
Japan
Hudson Bay
Canadian
Alaska
Arctic Ocean
Siberia
Aleutain Islands
Berring Strait
New York
Lieutenant Grow Receives High School Diploma
Harold Grow, once director general of aviation in Peru after a 1950s revolution, was awarded Greenville High School’s 1981 diploma. He left Greenville High School in 1908 two months before graduation to enter the U S Naval Academy, a promise later forgotten until his return to visit his mother.
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Greenville
Mich
Harold Grow
Peru
Greenville High School
United States Naval Academy
Kentucky Woman to Go On Trial
Daisy Dycus, accused of poisoning her husband Edwin Dycus a county policeman, is to face trial in Christian county circuit court. Police tied the case to the death of photographer Jim McClure who died after threatening to kill Dycus. a bizarre studio trove suggested his love for her and a plan to force a death by her action. The Commonwealth seeks the death penalty.
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Hopkinsville
Daisy Dycus
Edwin Dycus
Christian County
Dycus
Jim McClure
McClure
The
Commonwealth
Pantages case moves to strike prosecution testimony
In San Diego judge Turrentine ruling on motions from Alexander Pantages and co defendants to strike testimony and drop charges in the so called girl market case. First witness a Los Angeles policeman testified about Lydia Nitto and age questions. grand jury subpoenas issued for six more witnesses in an alleged perjury plot investigation led by District Attorney Tom Whelan.
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San Diego
Cal
Ll. N. Turrentine
Alexander Pantages
Turrentine
Pantages
Los Angeles
J. W. Burris
Lydia Nitto
Jesse H. Shreve
Olive Clark Day
William Jobelmann
Hollywood
Miss Nitto
Tom Whelan
Whelan
Archie Shreve
Jesse
William Melaer
Shreve
C. J. Bassler
May Siens
Mary Corneil
Chicago
Tornado Wrecks Texas Farm Home Sighting Deaths Across Regions
Tornadic winds and lightning swept the southwest and Rocky Mountain regions causing at least four deaths and injuries to five. Two tornadoes struck Fort Gibson Oklahoma and Rochelle Texas damaging homes and injuring residents while separate lightning fatalities and electrical storms affected Colorado Wyoming and central Oklahoma. Severe weather damaged crops across scattered areas.
Tornado Hits Jake Whitehead Farm Near Rochelle Texas
A small tornado demolished the seven room home of Jake Whitehead at Rochelle near Brady causing four injuries. Whitehead’s wife Mrs. Whitehead suffered a broken leg and other injuries while their three children ages 11, 7, and 2 were cut and bruised. They were taken to a local hospital. The tornado struck during light rain and spared nearby areas. In Muskogee Oklahoma a 16 year old girl Mamie Landrum was killed and her mother slightly injured in a separate incident.
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Brady
Texas
Jake Whitehead
Rochelle
Whitehead
Virginia
W. M
J. B
Muskogee
Okla
Mamie Landrum
Donie McGowan
Mexican youths die in Ardmore shooting sparks tense ties
International friction follows the fatal Ardmore shooting of two Mexican youths by Deputy Sheriff William Guess. Mexico demands a full U S report while President Hoover regrets the deaths of Emilio Cortes Rubio and Manuel Garcia Morelia, urging explanations as the youths allegedly displayed firearms.
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William Guess
Ardmore
Oklo
U. S
Hoover
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Mexico
Emilio Cortes Rubio
Manuel Garcia Morelia
Mine Union Chief Seeks Parley With Hoover
The United Mine Workers of America, led by John L. Lewis, asks President Hoover to convene a joint meeting of mine operators and coal miners to discuss industry problems and seek a common understanding. The telegram cites inhuman conditions, degraded wages, and calls for outside leadership to correct abuses in the bituminous coal fields.
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Mutua
Indianapolis
United Mine Workers of America Today
John L. Lewis
International
Hoover
United Mine Workers of America
United States
Jacksonville
Federal Coal Commission
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Senate
Kentucky
West Virginia
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Bodies of slain Mexican youths reach Mexico City by funeral train
The remains of Emilio Cortez Rubio and Manuel Garcia Gomez, cousins of Mexico’s President, were sent home from Ardmore, Oklahoma after U S officials and citizens paid final respects. Deputy sheriffs Guess and Crosby await trial on murder charges with bonds of 25000 each as a Mexican crowd gathers in Nuevo Laredo Fort Worth and San Antonio honor the victims.
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Laredo
Tex
Salvador Cortes Rubio
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Mexico
Ardmore
Oklahoma
Emilio Cortez Rubio
Manuel Garcia Gomez
United States
Mexico City
Nuevo Laredo
Texas
Fort Worth
San Antonio
M. C. Gonzales
Cansul
Okla
W. E. Guess
Cecil Crosby
Liberty
Asa Walton
Refusal to fund probe into Ohio blast
Napoleon Ohio June 11 county commissioners refused to appropriate funds to finance an inquiry into a powerful concussion near Malinta that shook northwestern Ohio and northeastern Indiana. Prosecutor Frederick V. Cuff will still conduct an investigation to assess possible criminal origin. Unofficial investigators suggested a large nitroglycerin blast, possibly thirty quarts, detonated by fuse and dynamite cap, with the perpetrator fleeing by car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon
Ohio
Henry County
Malinta
Indiana
Frederick V. Cuff
War veteran hanged in Maryland prison
Lorenzo Price, a one legged World War veteran, was hanged at the Maryland state penitentiary for the January 1930 murder of Reuben Heyman. He entered the death chamber shortly after midnight and died eight minutes later after the trap was sprung. He fainted on the scaffold but was revived. He made no statement.
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Baltimore
Lorenzo Price
Reuben Heyman
Price
Huntington Mayor Dismisses Police and Fire Officials
Huntington West Virginia June 11 Mayor Floyd B. Chapman announced the removal of twelve police and fire department members including former Mayor J B Taylor and ex City Commissioner E V Perry. They were informed of rights to appeal to the civil service board.
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Huntington
W. Va
Floyd
Chapman
J. B. Taylor
E. V. Perry
Civil Service Board
Taylor
Perry
H. L. Ducker
Taylor and Perry
Police Department
Railroads to Seek 15 Percent Freight Rate Increase
Eastern western and southern railroad presidents meet in New York and vote to petition the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 15 percent rise in all freight rates. A committee will file a joint application within a week detailing the reasons and measures to keep the public informed.
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New York
Eastern, Southern and Western Railroads
Interstate Commerce Commission
J. J. Pelley
New Haven
Hartford
Henry A. Scandrett
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul
State
Commission
Insull Warns of False Security in Utilities Debate
Atlantic City June 11 Martin J. Insull president of Midwest Utilities Chicago warned the National Electric Light association against a sense of false security. He urged private initiative ownership and operation as best for the nation and a defense of founders' principles. Grose of Edison Electric highlighted local ads to counter political attacks. He praised the Fremont Nebraska Pulitzer winning editorial The Gentleman From Nebraska.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Martin J. Insull
Midwest Utilities Company
Chicago
National Electric Light Association
Republic
America
Joseph B. Grose
Edison Electric Luminating Company of
Boston
National Association
Iowa
Colorado
Pennsylvania
Gentleman From
Nebraska
Fremont
Nebr
West Point Cadets Receive Commissions in Class Graduation
West Point New York June 11 two hundred ninety six cadets received commissions as second lieutenants in the regular army in the graduation class of the United States Military Academy Colonel Frederick H Payne assistant secretary of war presented the commissions at the base of the battle monument.
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West Point
N. Y
United States Military Academy
Frederick H. Payne
Battle Monument
Automobile Bus Crash Injures Twenty-Five in Hammonton
A collision near Hammonton New Jersey between an automobile driven by Carl Krest of Philadelphia and an Atlantic City Philadelphia bus injured twenty five people. Several victims may be fatally hurt and all were taken to area hospitals. Notable injured include Mr and Mrs C W Ledig and Miss Clarinda Armstrong all of Philadelphia and bus driver Otto Meyers of Philadelphia.
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Hammonton
N. J
Atlantic City-Philadelphia
Carl Krest
Philadelphia
Mra
C. W. Ledig
Mies Clarinda Armstrong
Goodman Re ga ins Liberty on Bond
Clint Goodman twenty seven Burkes Garden grazier waived preliminary hearing on murder charge in neighbor Ben Moss death. Released on five thousand dollar bail with uncle as security pending next Tazewell grand jury in August. Moss died from crushed skull May 31 in Bluefield hospital after quarrel over hogs. High profile families expect bitter court battle. prosecutors aided by John Draper. defense by R O Crockett and J W Harman.
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Clint Goodman
Burkes Garden
Ben Moss
C. T. Patton
Tazewell
R. M. Goodman
Moss
Bluefield
Goodman
Tazewell County
Moas
Slamm
John Draper
Pulaski
Commonwealth
N. Clarence Smith
R. O Crockett
J. W. Harman
Health department requires worker physicals in Beckley
Raleigh county health department announces that all butchers bakers dairymen and restaurant employees must undergo a health examination under a state law granting public health officials authority to issue health certificates. Certificates valid for one year with a new exam required thereafter.
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Beckley
W. Va
Jude
Raleigh County Health Department
French Aviator Plans New Endurance Flight Record Attempt
Marseilles France June 11 The aviator Le Brix who recently set a world endurance record announced tonight his plan to attempt a straight flight world record from Maritinane air field near Marseilles to Shanghai China. He said the exact date is not yet decided.
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Marseiles
France
le Brix
Maritinane Air Field
Here
Shanghia
China
Hope Abandoned for Trapped Men in Poseidon Rescue
Weihaiwei China June 11 The American salvage ship Pigeon rushes to join British and Japanese vessels attempting to raise the British submarine Poseidon in the Yellow Sea but hope is virtually abandoned for the eighteen men trapped inside. Rescue efforts continue despite bad weather as divers fail to establish contact and lines are lost. Thirty five survivors have been taken aboard the Medley, with two who escaped dying after extraction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weihaiwei
China
Medley
Reputed Communist Leader Detained as Mine Strike Turmoil Unfolds
In St. Clairsville Ohio on June 11 a crowd of about 2000 stormed Belmont county jail seeking the release of eleven striking miners from the New Lafferty mine of the M A Hanna Coal Co. Sheriff Duff and deputies backed by tear gas bombs and a gun bomb restrained the demonstrators. Leo Thompson of Pittsburgh, a reputed communist leader of the National Miners Union, was arrested after a melee during which Duff was struck. Five men and seven women were overcome by gas. more than 4000 spectators gathered as clashes continued. County authorities added 25000 to hire more deputies.
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St. Clairsville
Ohio
Belmont County
New Lafferty
M. A. Hanna Coal Company
Howard Buff
American Legion
Leo Thompson
Pittsburgh
National Miners’ Union
Thompson
Duff
Lafferty
Jefferson and
Beasont
Hoover Finishes Work on Speeches for Indiana Ohio Illinois
President Hoover has completed three speeches for next week in Indiana Ohio and Illinois. He will speak to the Indiana Republican Editorial Association in Indianapolis on Monday night dedicate Warren G Harding’s tomb at Marion Ohio on Tuesday then review a Grand Army parade in Columbus and rededicate Abraham Lincoln’s tomb in Springfield Illinois. The president will depart Washington Sunday night and rest two days at Rapidan Camp before the trip.
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Washington
Hoover
Indiana
Ohio
Illinois
Indiana Republican Editorial Association
Indianapolis
Warren G. Harding
Marion
Columbus
Grand Army of the Republic
State House
Springfield
Abraham Lincoln
United States
Rapidan
Hoover to Broadcast Hard ing Memorial Address
The address of President Hoover and others at the dedication of the Harding memorial in Marion Ohio will be broadcast next Tuesday over the combined networks of Columbia and NBC. The program runs from 1 45 to 3 30 p m.
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Marion
Ohio
Hoover
Harding
Columbia
National Broadcasting Companies
Minister Wu resigns as China's envoy to the United States
Chao-Chu Wu resigns as Beijing's envoy to Washington citing disfavor with the Nanking regime. He quit after being ordered to obtain an export permit for munitions he feared could be used against Canton authorities sparking concern over China U.S. relations and internal Cantonese tensions.
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Washington
Canton
Nanking
Chao-Chu Wu
China
United States
Chiang Kai-Shek
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