Heat wave eases as cooling fronts reach East
The Weather Bureau predicted the end of the nearly nation wide heat spell with a break moving east from the Ohio Valley toward the Appalachian Mountains by Tuesday night. July high records were set in New York Philadelphia Baltimore Atlantic City and Richmond as thundershowers were forecast for the Ohio Valley lakes and Atlantic states with moderate temps expected Wednesday.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Appalachiin Mountains
Middle
North Atlantic
New York
Baltimore
Philadelhia
Atlantic City
Richmond
Ohio Valley
Lakes
Atlantic States
Ohio Heat Wave Kills Four. Colder Rain Forecast
The Associated Press reports a fourth day of extreme heat across Ohio with temperatures over 100 in many towns. Columbus and Cleveland saw highs around 97 to 104, while four deaths are attributed to heat and dozens suffer prostration. Rain is forecast to relieve the heat in Columbus and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Ohio
Weather Bureau
Youngstown
Cincinnati
Martins Ferry
Akron
Cleveland
Columbus
Dayton
Lafayette Towns
May Oberg
Bucyrus
Xenia
Springfield
Sandusky
George Dunham
Worried mother kills family then takes own life
A farmer's wife in Geneva Illinois killed her husband and son with an ax, set the home on fire, then slashed her throat. Charles A Anderson, 55, and his son died. the mother was found dead under a bed with a razor nearby. Brother in law Charles Larsen reported smoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Charles A. Anderson
Kane County
Larsen
Anderson
Record-Setting Cincinnati Firefighters Endure 11 Alarms Hour
Cincinnati fire crews answered 39 alarms from 8 AM to 5:15 PM as a busy day included 11 alarms in one hour. A cigarette ignited a Covington bridge walk causing $800 damage, and a 527 John Street tenement fire led to $3,000 loss. A laundry stove blaze at 740 Fairbanks Avenue caused $1,000 damage. Firefighters aided trapped tenants, faced traffic jams, and two firefighters were injured.
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Cincinnati
Covington
Suspension Bridge
John Ferguson
John Street
Dorothy Moran
Charles Evans
Minnie Farrell
Sherman Young
Ladder Company 8
General Hospital
Marshal Treinen
Quebec Road
Leonard Wescott, Jr
Robert Stoffregan
Heat Wave Claims Two Lives As City Seeks Relief
A heat spike killed Joseph Miller 63 and Phillip Donnelley 75 as the city faced severe heat prostration. Four others were hospitalized while showers between 5 and 6 pm cooled temperatures from 98 to 79, ending the day with 0.11 inch rainfall.
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General Hospital
Miller
Joseph
Dawson Avenue
Donnelly
Phillip
Ridgeway Avenue
Pettet
William
Republic Street
Barcourt
McNally
Anna
Gilbert Avenue
Montgomery
Marie
West Fifth Street
Newport
Kentucky
American Can Company
Spring Grove
Harrison Avenues
Donnelley
Avondale
Main Place
Reading Road
Hopkins
Cutter Street
Madisonville
Madison Road
Gomien Avenue
Doctors to Separate Mixed Babies in Chicago Case
Eight specialists will conduct a composite test to identify two mixed babies born June 30 at Englewood Hospital. They will use skin pigment tests under UV light, photometric blood analysis, eye examinations, head and facial studies, and fingerprint comparisons with input from Northwestern experts and local officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
William Watkins
Charles Bamberger
Englewood Hospital
Arnold Kegel
Cleveland White
Northwestern University
Hamilton Fishbach
Northwestern
Emil Deutsch
Loeb- Leopold
Gerhardt von Bonin
Ferdinand Watzek
Vienna
A. J. Mulvaney
Davis 8. Hillis
Passavant Hospital
Harry A. Olson
Municipal Court
Rioters Killed as Troops Fire on Cairo Mob
Cairo July 21 Four rioters were killed and about 100 wounded as troops and police dispersed Cairo rioters who attacked Abdin Palace and public buildings. arrests reached 500 while clashes extended to Port Said Suez and Alexandria with two officers and twenty eight soldiers wounded. shops closed and cordons around the Arab quarter maintained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Egypt
Port Said
Suez
Alexandria
Sidky Pasha
Abdin Palace
Wafd
Nahas Pasha
Five Noted Britons Killed As Plane Explodes Over Kent
A mid air explosion tore apart a Junkers taxi carrying six society figures from Le Touquet to Croydon. Victims included Viscountess Ednam and Mrs Henrik Loeffler. other passengers were the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava Sir Edward Ward Lieut Col George Henderson and Mr Shearing. The crash near Meopham, Gravesend, was among Britain's worst aviation disasters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meopham
Kent
England
Ednam
Prince of Wales
Croydon
le Touquet
France
Henrik Loeffler
Grosvenor Square
Mayfair
Loeffler
Marquis of Dufferin and
Ava
Sir Edward Ward
George L. P. Henderson
Shearing
Gravesend
Junkers
Henderson Flying School
Walcott Air Lines, Limited
Early altar incense probably narcotics
Chicago dated July 21 reports a University of Chicago Journal article by Duke University's Prof. Allen H. Godbey arguing that ancient rites used narcotics rather than incense. The piece says narcotics appeared early in human culture, inspiring visions seen as divine revelations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
University of Chicago
Allen H. Godbey
Duke University
Oil Barge Seizure Nets $200000 Liquor Haul
Coast Guard intercepts an oil barge and tug near Sea Girl New Jersey with a haul valued at $200000 in assorted liquors. Ten men were arrested for conspiring to violate tariff and prohibition laws. bail set for captains at $10000 and $5000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
New York
Coast Guard
Seneca
Sea Girl
N. J
Mercury
Hutson
Gotham Marine Corporation of
United States
Cotter
David Strauss
Charles Forde
Treasury
United States District Attorney
Kerwin
Strauss
Coast
Despondent Metzdallman? Metz shoots self in Mt Lookout home
Leo Metz 44 service manager Crocker Cadillac shot himself in a bedroom of his four day Mt Lookout home on Observatory road and Ault View drive after a three week nervous illness. He was taken to General Hospital in critical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo. Metz
Crocker Cadillac Automobile Company
Gilbert Avenue
Observatory Road
Ault View Drive
Mt. Lookout
General Hospital
Metz
Fred Brown
Phsicians
Ex Klansman backs new Caucasian Crusade in Atlanta
Atlanta reports a letter circulating July 14 proposing a group named the Caucasian Crusade. Signers include ex Klan figure William Joseph Simmons and politicians William Schley Howard, Robert Ramspeck, plus Sam W. Small and others. The letter asks recipients to reveal racial and religious prejudices, with interview scheduling space but no fees listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Ku Klux Klan
Simmons
William Schley Howard
Georgia
Robert Ramspeck
Sam W. Small
Frank Eskridge
James I. Lowry
Ed F. Bond
Senate confirms Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines as VA head
Washington July 21 Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines is confirmed by the Senate as administrator of the newly organized Bureau of Veterans Affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Frank T. Hines
Bureau of Veterans Affairs
Final Toast Marks End of Last Man's Club in Stillwater
An 87 year old Civil War veteran Charley Lockwood led a final ceremony for the Last Man's Club of Company B First Minnesota Infantry. Thirty three chairs stood empty as he toasted comrades and recalled the 1885 vow on July 21 1885. He noted the Burgundy wine tasted fine though a neighbor had claimed it had turned to vinegar. He entrusted the bottle to the Stillwater Library for preservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley Lockwood
Stillwater
Minn
Charley ‘Lockwood
Company B
First
Minnesota Infantry
Bull Run
Lockwood
Chamberlain, S. C
Peter Hall
Stillwater Library
Comparative tonnage under naval treaty clause explained
Under Article 18 the United States may transfer 30 000 tons from eight inch to six inch cruisers at 15166 tons per 10000 tons. If the option is not exercised treaty fleets ratios among the United States Britain and Japan would be.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Esceser
Sudmarines
Bishop James Cannon Jr Weds in London Secret Ceremony
records in Christ Church London reveal Bishop James Cannon Jr of the Methodist Episcopal Church South married Mrs Helen Hawley McCallum a New York widow on July 15 aboard the Arlanza en route to Madeira and Brazil. The ceremony was performed by Rev Dr Farrum with few intimate friends aware.
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London
James Cannon
Ee Episcopal Church
South
H. McCallum
Christ Church, London
Farrum
Madeira
Brazil
Cannon
McCallum
Sir Henry
Lunn
Sie
M-Dre
Helen Hawley McCallum
East Sixty-eighth Street
New York
Sir Henry Lunn
Review of the Church
Archbishop of Canterbury
Washington
James Cannon, Jr
E. L. Crawford
Temperance Board
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Board of Temperance
Senate Lobby Committee
Nashville
Tenn
Methodist Episcopal Church
Christian Advocate Methodist
H. C. McCallum, Jr
Detroit
Christ Church
Unemployed father accused in triple quarry drowning
The remains of Taylor Hott and his three children Gertrude Virginia 7 Calvin W 6 and Floyd 5 were found in a quarry hole in Martinsburg West Virginia. Hott 35 confessed to the killings but officials doubt his account and autopsies indicate the children were murdered before being dumped in the water. He is jailed on murder charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinsburg
W. Va
Taylor Hott
Hott
Gertrude Virginia
Calvin W
Floyd
C. N. Campbell
Berkely County
All American Air Derby Flyers Reach Cincinnati Stop
Sixteen remaining derby flyers and two amphibian transport ships arrive or near arrival in Cincinnati as part of a national race circuit. The amphibians cost 65 000 dollars each and will be shown all day tomorrow at the public landing foot of Broadway. The Derby moves on from Detroit to Buffalo and arrives at Roosevelt Field where Lee Gehlbach is the first to land in a Little Rock entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Broadway
Associated Press
Harvey C. Mummert
Hammondsport
Kingsley
Edgar B. Todd
Pueblo
Col
Norwich
Conn
Detroit
Buffalo
Lee Gehlbach
Little Rock (Ark
Lunken
Embry-Riddle Company
Chamber of Commerce Aviation Committee
Warner ‘ Sayers
Samuel Herndon
Little Rock
Ark
Inland Waterways Aviation Corporation of Louisville
Louisville
William L. Mitchell
Chicago
Andrew Calhoun
American Barge Line Corporation
River Front
Court rules parents liable when child drivers cause accidents
Judge Charles W. Hoffman fined Dells Welty $10 and costs for letting his nine year old daughter drive his car after a traffic officer noted the child ran an amber light. He warned that parents permitting underage driving will face the statute penalties and urged community help to enforce traffic laws. Sixteen is the legal driving age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Hoffman
Juvenile Court
Dells Welty
West
Liberty Street
Hoffman
Senate ratifies London naval treaty amid heat and delay
The Senate approved the London naval treaty by a 58 to 9 vote after more than a dozen reservations were rejected. Senator Norris offered one accepted reservation denying any secret understanding. Britain and Japan must ratify before it becomes operative. parity extends to submarines and lim its on capital ships and aircraft carriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Norris
Britain
Japan
Great Britain
Johnson
United States
Allen
Borah
Brookhart
Capper
Couzens
Dale
Deneen
Fess
Gillett
Glenn
Goldsborough
Gould
Greene
Hastings
Hatfield
Herbert
Howell
Jones
Kean
Keyes
la Follette
McCullough
McMaster
Schall
Shortridge
Smoot
Steiner
Sullivan
Thomas
Idaho
Townsend
Vandenberg
Walcott
Watson
Black
Brock
Caraway
Fletcher
George
Glass
Harris
Harrison
Kendrick
King
Overman
Robinson
Arkansas
Sheppard
Swanson
Oklahoma
Trammell
Wegner
Walsh
Montana
Bingham
Hale
Moses
Oddie
Pine
Indiana
McKellar
Massachusetts
France
Italy
Temperatures and weather notes across states Tuesday
Local thundershowers and cooler conditions are reported for Ohio Kentucky and Virginia with Tuesday night and Wednesday fair and moderate temperatures. Indiana and Tennessee show showers in places with cooler spells and generally fair midweek. A July 21 1930 record table from Eastport Louisville Nashville Cleveland New York Detroit and Pittsburgh lists high and low temperatures and precipitation comparisons. data include highest 101 and 98 in several cities with wind and rain figures.
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Kentucky
Tennessee
West Portion
Virginia
Indiana
South
Centra
Eastport
Louisville
Nashville
Cleveland
N. York
Iolaie
Detroit
N. Ori
Galveston
Pittsl
de Ther
Hum
Wea
S.W
Ciesry
D.manenn
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Mississippi River
Middle West
New England
Leo Metz
W. J. Simmons
Bishop Cannon
Alfred E. Smith
Norris Reservation
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