Bobby Jones to retire from all golf competition
Atlanta lawyer Bobby Jones announces retirement from all serious golf contesting and amateur status to pursue a Warner Brothers contract for twenty one educational golf films. He cites business plans and family finances as reasons and says he will return to his profession after the film project.
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Bobby Jones
New York
Robert T. Jones Jr
Jones
Warner Brothers’ Pictures
King Bobby
Great Britain
United States
Philadelphia
United States Golf Association
Warner Brothers
Kidnapers Hold Tulsa Sportsman
Tulsa sportsman George H. Hurford was kidnapped last night and held for ransom, witnessed by Mrs. Hurford and J. F. Funk. Two men reportedly jumped Hurford from his car and forced him into another vehicle, as the estate near Tulsa is described as a show place surrounded by a high wire fence.
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Tulsa
Okla
Tulsa World
George H. Hurford
Charles Price
Oarland Mares
the World
Hurford
J. F. Funk
Funk
Bobby Jones Announces Retirement From Golf Competition
The golfer Bobby Jones announced yesterday his retirement from active golf. This year he set a world record by winning all four major events: the British Open, the Amateur, the American Open, and the Amateur Championship.
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Bobby Jones
Jones
Republicans to form permanent capital headquarters
Republican leaders at White House talks with President Hoover plan a permanent national office in Washington to support campaigns two years ahead. Lakas will head the HQ with Keim and West. Nutt reports about $7,000 balance. Fess absence fuels retirement speculation.
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Washington
Hoover
Republican National Committee
Senator Fess
Ohio
Robert H. Lakas
Kentucky
George de B. Keim
National Committee
James L. West
Joseph R. Nutt
White House
James Francis Burke
Pittsburgh
Jeremiah Milbank
Lucas
de Bheim
Jowett Shouse
Charles Michaelson
Grounded freighter Harry Bowen stranded off Montauk
In thick fog 35 crew members stay aboard the grounded freighter Harry Bowen on a rocky reef off Montauk point awaiting a nightlong pump operation. Coast guardsmen plan to tow at high water as a northeast wind tests rescue attempts. the coal carrier carries 5438 tons to New Bedford.
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New York
Harry Bowen
Montauk Point
Coast
Coast Guard
Petrel
Cat Rock Cove
Block Island
Atlantic Seaboard
Canadian
Florida
Pittsburgh
Weather Bureau
Bowen
Pocahontas Fuel Company
New Bedford
Mass
Pocahontas Company
Charles A Levine Held for Questioning at Semmering
Vienna reports Charles A Levine, noted American aviation enthusiast, was arrested at Semmering where he had been resting. Criminal police questioned him all day and will continue tomorrow. charges not disclosed. Levine and his lawyer dismissed the accusations as police suspicion.
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Vienna
Navy
Charles A. Levine
Semmering
Levine
Hoover Begins Work on Annual Message as Tariff Debate Rages
President Hoover started drafting his annual message to Congress in the White House office amid calls for a spring extra session to address unemployment and public works. Republicans deny plans to concede control to Democrats. Barkley rebukes Smoot over tariff revisions, urging cooperation if the new Senate favors changes.
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Washington
Hoover
Congress
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
Smoot
Utah
Democratic National Committee
Woman Freed For Revealing Fire Plot At Auburn
Marie Strauss, who warned Auburn prison officials of an incendiary plot during the 1929 riot, has had her second degree murder sentence commuted by Governor Roosevelt. The executive action, urged by the Auburn warden, requires her to return to Indiana immediately to care for her aged mother.
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Albany
N. Y
Auburn
Marie Strauss
Roosevelt
Auburn Prison
Strauss
Indiana
Colombian doctors race to save 33 children in diphtheria crisis
In Medellin a private hospital faces a deadly diphtheria outbreak. Two top pediatricians rush from Bogota to help as 16 of 49 infants are dead and police guard the facility after parents threaten to storm it.
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Bogota
Colombia
Medellin
Smaller powers heard at Geneva
Geneva, Nov. 17. The disarmament commission adopted Washington and London treaty principles as a basis to draft a general fleet limitation accord. Small powers like Spain Romania and Poland urged total tonnage limits or freer transfer if categories are used. Italy's General De Marines reiterated a demand for equality with continental powers, preferring total limits as fairer while awaiting ratio decisions.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Washington
London
Disarmament Commission
Spain
Rumania
Poland
General de Marines
Italy
Iron Man of Poland gains big majority in parliament
Marshal Pilsudski increased from 118 seats to 247 of 444, gaining control of the house but missing the two thirds required for constitutional amendments. Minority seats fell from 83 to 35 as Ukrainians, White Russians, Germans and Jews lost ground. The new majority extended Ivar Krueger’s match monopoly to 1965 and secured a $2.4 million loan at 6.5 percent.
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Warsaw
Poland
Marshal Pilsudski
Ivar Krueger
Krueger
Wage Cuts Loom in British Mining and Railways
Britain faces a pivotal week as railways and mines begin talks over wage cuts. Rail employers seek 1.5 million pounds yearly in shop payroll reductions and 9.5 million more in traffic pay, targeting the war wage for piece workers. miners resist wage cuts amid a seven-and-a-half hour day. Both sides warn of serious consequences if talks fail, with potential strikes threatening hundreds of thousands of workers.
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London
Britain
Farm Board Expands Wheat Purchases Amid Market Strength
Washington reports the federal farm board quietly added 20 million more bushels to its wheat buying, building on a prior 60 million bushels held by the stabilization corp. Chairman Legge and Milner announced the move to steady prices, while St Paul observers call the step wise and potentially price-supportive.
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Washington
Federal Farm Board
American
Grain Stabilization Corporation
Legge
Farm Board
George S. Milner
St. Paul, Minn
C. E. Huff
Farmers National Grain Corporation
Huff
Farmers Union
Man Dies From Road Construction Auto Collision Injuries
Willard Griffith age 47 of Teays died in a Charleston hospital from injuries after being struck by a car while working on a Midland trail road project on Coal Mountain near Charleston.
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Charleston
W. Va
Willard Griffith
Teays
Coal Mountain
Here
Governor Gonle Proclaims Day of Thanksgiving
Governor William G. Conley proclaims November 27, 1930 as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer in West Virginia. He urges people to gather in homes and churches to give thanks to Almighty God, seek guidance, and observe labor cease where possible with charity abundant.
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West Virginia
United States
William G. Conley
Bandits Loot Express Train on Chinese Border
Dispatches from Kalgan report 700 bandits looted an express train between Peiping and the Mongolian border, robbing passengers and seizing the mail. The era of banditry in North China is marked by this incident and the seizure of two Catholic priests, Father Mazzoli and Father Fillia, in Shensi province.
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Peiping
Kalgan
China
Alao
Mazzoli
Father Fillia
Kulupa
Shensi
WCTU Presses for Firm Prohibition Stand
At the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union convention in Houston delegates from both major parties drafted resolutions urging Democrats and Republicans to take firm positions on prohibition. The event featured Mamie White Colvin of New York and a letter from Amos W. Woodcock noting limited federal success against private violations. President Ella A. Boole read telegrams to President Hoover and Judge George Wickersham praising law enforcement efforts.
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Houston
Tex
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Mamie White Colvin
New York
Amos W. W. Woodcock
National Prohibition
Ella A. Boole
Hoover
George Wickersham
Law Enforcement Commission
Red Flag Of Revolt Raised In Barcelona
In Barcelona Spain workers walk out in a general strike and clash with police cheering the republic. Rioting closes stores and universities, with casualties reported as cavalry and troops guard the city and a major political movement appears under way.
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Barcelona
Spain
Republic
Ronda San Antonio
Plaza
Catalina Strikera
Despujols
Conde de Guell
Marques Caballers
Banks suspend payments across southern states as closures mount
Approximately thirty-nine Arkansas banks halted deposits for five days and two small banks were liquidated while seven Kentucky banks closed as a precaution. Tennessee and Illinois also reported closures with Missouri following suit. Arkansas banks, many tied to A. B. Banks and American Exchange Trust, faced public hysteria over Caldwell and company receivership, though officials claimed solvency and planned resumes.
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Nashville
Tenn
Arkansas
Kentucky
Tennessee
Illinois
Missouri
D. D. Robertson
American Exchange Trust Company
Little Rock
A. B. Barks and Company
American Exchange Trast Company
Caldwell and Company
A. B. Banks
State Banking Department
National Bank of Kentucky
Louisville
McBelwain-Megular Bank and Trust Company
Franklin
Liberal Leader Attacks Mandate in Palestine Debate
In London on November 17 the Liberal leader David Lloyd George challenged the British mandate policy in the House of Commons. Labor government officials defended the mandate while Drummond Shiels outlined a scheme to settle about 10,000 families with a $12.5 million program backed by a government loan.
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London
Palestine
House of Commons
David Lloyd George
Drummond Shiels
Macdonald
Lloyd George
Shiels
Mileage added 10 highway systems
Pittsburgh nov 17. four thousand three hundred miles represent the increased paved mileage of state highway systems in the first ten months of this year over 1929. W C Markham executive secretary of the American association of state highway officials gave the figures at the annual convention. Eight thousand bridges were built and the work employed about 50 000 additional men.
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Pittsburgh
Portland
Ore
W. C. Markham
American Association of State Highway Officials
Markham
Indiana
Ohio
James L. Stuart
Pennsylvania
John L. Fisher
J. N. Mackail
Maryland
J. P. Fortney
West Virginia
The
Association
Customs official Warren R. Thomas found dead near Media
The body of Warren R. Thomas 61 chief accounting officer of the United States customs service Philadelphia district was found hanging from a tree in woods near Media. A note read My nerves have completely I am fearful of losing my mind indicating a psychological crisis.
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Philadelphia
Warren R. Thomas
United States Customs Service
Media
Virginia farmer dies after hooded highway robbery
Montgomery county farmer H. D. Alley, 49, was shot and robbed of 70 dollars by a hooded assailant in Texas Hollow. Willie Atkinson, 21, is charged with highway robbery and murder. three others are held as accessories. Alley died at Christiansburg hospital. investigation continues.
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H. D. Alley
Montgomery County
Texas Hollow
Christiansburg
Willie Atkinson
C. W. Crush
Commonwealth
Ewell Underwood
Garland Epperley
Eldridge Atkinson
F. H. King
Crush
Epperley
Gertie Epperley
Epperleys
Alley
King
Atkinson
Alleghany Springs
Salem
Roanoke City
Fred
War Department accelerates building to cut winter unemployment
The War Department plans to move ahead with $20 to $25 million of winter projects on the army housing program rivers and harbors and flood control as Secretary Hurley seeks to dispel claims of slowed construction. A $22 million deficiency request may follow to push work in hard hit communities.
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Washington
War Department
Hurley
Army
Congress
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G.O.P
UP Capital Bureau
Charles A Levine
Iron Man OF
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Conleyes
W.C.T.U
Woodcock
Qouthern Banking Houses
Laborite
Virginia Farmer
Christiansburg Hospital
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