Prohibition Chiefs Seek More Dry Agents for Enforcement
War against illicit liquor expands as Amos W. Woodcock and James M. Doran push Congress for 25 percent and 120 new staff. Administrators urge stronger enforcement focusing on large scale violators, with 200 special agents organized in twelve groups to target conspiracies. Tours planned for September to inspect Ohio district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard L. Turner
Sianpeepee
Congress
Amos W. W. Woodcock
Prohibition
James M. Doran
Bureau of Industrial Alcohol
Treasury Department
Woodcock
Doran
Woodbock
Bureau
Enforcement Bureau
de Youngquist
Ohio
Gangster Fatally Shot In Detroit Amid Raids
Detroit police raid a gangster hideout at 1746 Helen avenue and arrest four men for murder in the Buckley slaying. Tony Abata Nick Ditta Sam Lucido and Phillip Manzello held as possible conspirators. Earlier Angelo Livecchi, tied to Buckley’s killing, arraigned on a murder warrant as investigations widen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Flangout
Jerry Buckley
WMBC
Shillipeee Son
Michigan State Reformatory
Ionia
Heleh Avenue
Lueger
Buckley
Tony Abata
Nick Ditta
Sam Lucido
Phillip Manzello
Angelo Livecchi
la Salle
Drought Drives Typhoid Risk as Heat Envelops Regions
Heat waves and drought stretch across the nation from the Northwest to the Carolinas. Kentucky and other states report dwindling water supplies and burning pastures as farmers sell livestock at low prices. Typhoid cases surge with infant diarrhea rising. some towns haul water while officials warn of possible fires and continued arid conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Board of Health
Kentucky
Ivania
Hanover
Red Terrorists Threaten Central China Cities
Communist forces spread through South Central China driving fear from Changsha to Hankow Wuchang and Hanyang. Foreigners guarded in Shanghai asPalos gunboat clashed near Changsha leaving five sailors wounded and dozens of Communists killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
China
Changsha
United States
Yangtse River
Hankow
Wuchang
Hanyang
Palos
R. D. Tis
Peiping- Hankow
Hu Han-Min
R-100 Delayed By Storms Near St. Lawrence Voyage
The airship R-100, en route from England, battled storms over the Ottawa Valley and Three Rivers area, delaying its arrival to St. Hubert Quebec with repairs suspected for a torn fabric patch observed by Capt. Hervey St. Martin. The ship hovered above Orleans Island for two hours and faced a damaged fin, aiming for a landing tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Hubert
Quebec
Three Rivers
Niinety
Ottawa
Montreal
Ivers
St. Jean Des Charlois
England
Hervey St. Martin
Orleans
Jene
America
Graf
Bermuda
Knut Eckener
Lakehurst
King Signs London Naval Treaty Ratification
London reports King George has signed the instrument of ratification for the London naval treaty which already stands ratified in the United States. Chancellor Snowden announced in the House of Commons that ratifications will be deposited with His Majesty’s in respect of the Dominions and India and with the United States and Japan when all three signatories to Part 3 can bring the treaty into force. The move follows the treaty’s technical bill awaiting royal assent in the Lords.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
George
United States
Philip Snowden
House of Commons
Snowden
Dominions
India
Japan
Great Britain
House of Lords
Calles to wed 24 year old Senorita Llorente in Mexico
Gen Plutarco Elias Calles former Mexican president will marry Senorita Leonor Llorente aged 24 at his Santa Barbara Ranch fifteen miles from Mexico City at noon tomorrow. Witnesses will be T A Robinson and his wife, Calles’s daughter. They plan a Tehuacan honeymoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Senorita Leonor Llorente
Capital
Mexico City
Plutarco Elias Calles
Senorita Leonor Lliorente
Calles
T. A. Robinson
Dwight W. Morrow
Mr. Morrow Fir
Gen. Calles
Senorita Natalia Chacon
Los Angeles
Senorita Llorefite
Senorita Llorente
Cincinnati Sixth in U S Building Volume for 1930
Cincinnati ranks sixth among American cities in building activity for the first half of 1930, trailing only New York Los Angeles Chicago Philadelphia and Detroit. July 1930 permits total 1,726 for $3,318,615, vs 2,116 permits for $2,301,156 in July 1929. First seven months show a 50 percent rise with 13,019 permits valued at $27,598,157 compared with 13,862 permits at $18,738,150 in 1929.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
C. M. Stegner
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Philadelphia
Detroit
Epiar
Stegner
St Louis cops nab third man in bank theft case
Hyman Levine, third of five bandits blamed for the April 4 Reading Bank robbery in which about 8400 was stolen, was captured in St Louis. Sheriff Anderson confirms Levine's arrest as authorities pursue extradition papers from Ohio. Former captures include James Douthitt and Lloyd Hebenstreit. two attackers remain at large. A Cincinnati banker awarded a watch to a shopkeeper who fired on the robbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Efor Anderson
Levine
Cincinnati
August Beckman
Albert Bocksteiger
Columbus
Myers Y. Cooper
St. Louis
Frank Gais
Stocer
Cincinnati Bankers’ Association
Negro defendants roll own sentences in Rockville court
In Rockville Maryland on July 31 three men Stewart Brent Frank Butler and Frank Peters were found guilty of playing African golf and were sentenced by Judge Charles W Woodward to ten seven and six days respectively as they rolled dice to determine their punishments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockville
Charles W. Woodward
Little Joe
Darkies
Stewart Brent
Frank Butler
Washington, D.C
Frank Peters
Glen Echo
Tribal Trial for Theft May Cut Off Boys Ears
Miami reporters describe two Seminole youths held for theft at a filling station near Musa Isle. The case will be judged by an Indian court in Big Cypress swamp with punishment including maiming, potentially cutting off one or both ears, as practiced by the tribe. Willie Willie is cited as a former ear-maiming case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Everglades
Big Cypress Swamp
Musa Isle
R. L. Jester
Cory Oceola
Cory Osceola
Dades County
Willie Willie
Valley Queen Ends Memphis Packet Era on Mississippi
The Valley Queen, last Memphis packet, docked ending the Valley Line Steamers Inc, packet service between Cape Girardeau and Memphis. The river era closes as boats to New Orleans and beyond remain sparse, leaving banks quiet and memories of stern wheel rhythms and pack boats. Captain G Peters Lee, grandson of James Lee who started the line, presided over the final voyage and the end of an era in river life and labor.
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Lee Line
Mississippi River
Memphis
Tenn
Valley Queen
Queen
Valley Line Steamers, Inc
Big River
Cape Girardeau
New Orleans
Vicksburg
Miss
G. Peters Lee
Harry Lee
Lee
James Lee
Edison contest tests 49 boys with 50 pages of questions
Forty-nine prep school graduates from 48 states and the District of Columbia began a Thomas A Edison questionnaire test to win a four year college course with all expenses paid. One contestant will be chosen tomorrow. ethics and survival choices dominate the famous test as debate over the desert expedition prompts varied answers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison
Lorena Hickok
West Orange
N.J
District of Columbia
Thomas. A. Edis
Youngs
Mr. Edison
Robert C. Ladd
Vermont
Charles W. Larrick
Maryland
Luther’ P. Spalding
Ir. Phoenix
Ariz
Rothschilds Propose Purchase of Wailing Wall Site
Paris July 31 The French branch of the Rothschild family offers to buy the territory of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem to settle Jewish Arab dispute over the sacred site. It notes a prior bid under Turkish rule and explains Moslem claims and religious significance surrounding the wall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PIERRE/VAN PAASSEN
New York World News Service
Paris
Jerusalem
Palestine
Edmund de Rothschild
Israel
Holy City
Baron de Rothschild
Mohammed
Barak
Kalif al Islam
City May Audit Columbia Gas Company Books
City and Columbia Gas officials debated access to parent company books amid ongoing rate franchise talks. The meeting sought data on wholesale rates and valuations of the Columbia Corporation to set terms for a new gas rate franchise replacing the expiring one. Conference aimed to determine if city investigators may probe beyond the local gas company to the parent entity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Gas
Cincinnati
Union Gas and Electric Company
Jane
C. A. Dykstra
John D. Ellis
B.D. An
Julian Blak
City Coffncil Public Utilities Committee
L. E. Worthing
A. S. B. Little
New York
Padlo Laffoon
Lawrence Langdon
C. G. Eichelberger
E. B. Whitman
Columbia Corporation
Lis
H. C. Blackwell
Canada
Yes
Fire destroys houses and snarls traffic in Pleasant Ridge
A fire at 6169 Tulane Avenue destroyed a new house and damaged a neighbor while spreading to a second dwelling. The blaze halted Norwood Pleasant Ridge traffic for hours with a ten alarm response. Damage is estimated at $15,000. The Wehnhoff family at 6171 Tulane and Packard Realty at 508 Neave Building suffered major losses. A second fire at 2261 Rice Street caused about $1,500 damage to a double apartment building.
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Pleasant Ridge
Norwood
Tulane Avenue
D. A. Minton
Marshal Schraffenberger
Barney Houston
Woorwood
Montgomery Road
Chester Fark
Frank J. Wehnhoff
Packard Realty Company
Neave
Salvage Corps
Wehnhoffs
Rice Street
Clay Harrison
Daniel Cooper
Flames Sweep Timber Tract in Portsmouth
A timber fire in Portsmouth Ohio burned about 1500 acres of timberland, threatened hundreds of homes, and endangered the Norfolk and Western terminal and a Y M C A building on Gallia avenue before being brought under control for the third time. Fire lines and water streams saved the two structures and neighboring property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
Tesday Noon
Gallia Avene
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Blood-Thirsty Rum Crew Seized Scow, Leonardo Says
Leonardo Sammertine, once a minor Tammany worker and garbage scow skipper, tells of a nighttime hijacking as 40 armed men boarded the scow E amid a harbor tow by the M Moran. Inspectors Reilley and Osborne witnessed the attack during a voyage from the dump grounds five miles out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonardo
Courtnay Terrett
New York World News Service
New York
Leonardo Sammertine
M. Moran
Robert Reilley
Louis Osborne
United States Harbor Supervisor
Vincenzo Sammertino
Toronto Civic Reception Inked In July Dispatch
Partial text indicates a civic reception in Toronto with notes of ceremony and page continuation. The fragment mentions Toronto July and a planned civic event, suggesting upcoming coverage of municipal reception activities.
Temperatures and fair weekend forecast across states
The report lists fair to warm conditions for Ohio Kentucky Tennessee West Virginia and Indiana through Friday and Saturday with warmer Saturday. It shows high temperatures ranging from the mid 70s to mid 80s across cities including Louisville Nashville Cleveland Albany Chicago St Louis New Orleans and more with varied precipitation notes and normal July readings for 1930.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
West Virginia
Indiana
Eastport
Louisville
Boston
Nashville
Albany
Cleveland
City
Marie
Chicago
Atlanta
St. Louis
N.orleans
Kansas
Pittab
Rzh
Denver
New York
Detroit
Ka’nville
Duluth
Galveston
Omaha
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Cael Op
Livecchi
Charles Bowles
Thomas Wilcox
John Mahar
Recorder’s Court
Charles L. Bartlett
Evelyn O'Hara
Gerald E
Jerry) Buckley
South
Carolinas
Montana
Idaho
Red
Han Yang
Peiping
Reagh
Flias
Calle
Hyman Levine
Reading Institution
Steamboat
Days End
I Desert
Rothschilds
Columbia Gas Company
Parent Corporation
Leonardo Sammer
Toronto
Ontario
Toronto Iwill Tender
Civic
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