Derby Day at Churchill Downs Looms With Gallant Fox Favorite
The Kentucky Derby field of sixteen three year-olds includes Gallant Fox as favorite with Earl Sande. Tannery drawn No. 13, Breezing Thru No. 14, Buckeye Poet No. 16 raise concerns about track conditions amid predicted showers. Churchill Downs hosts the fifty-sixth Derby with Earl of Derby visiting England also in town.
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Alan Gould
Louisville
Gallant Fox
Earl Sande
William Woodward
New York
Tannery
Edward F. Prichard
Kentucky
Ballot
Edward R. Bradley
Buckeye Poet
Bradley
Blue Larkspur
Tanemy
Churchill Downs
The
Downs
Mecca
England
Earl of Derby
Lexington
Senate 10 Clan Brokers Books on Gannon Deal
Senate Lonply Committee moves to examine Bishop James Cannon Jr. records with two New York brokerage firms. Chairman Caraway seeks access with DOJ consent. John Holland to probe Goldhurst and Kable & Company. Cannon faces possible Methodist Episcopal Church South trial over stock dealings. tied to E C Jameson funding in 1928 Virginia anti Smith campaign.
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Washington
Senate Lonply Committee
James Cannon, Jr
New York
Caraway
Tuttle
Department of Justice
John Holland
Charles Goldhurst and Kable & Company
Bisho Cannon
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Dallas
Dawes Returns From London Seen Ending Post as Envoy
Washington reports at the White House say Ambassador Dawes will not resume his post after returning from London. Henry P Fletcher may be named successor, aiming for a first foreign assignment. Dawes aided Chicago centennial aims, with Rufus directing the enterprise and the former VP funding.
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Elliott Thurston
New York World News Service
Washington
White House
Ambassador Dawes
London
Henry P. Fletcher
Dawes
Mr. Hoover
Windy City
Rufus
Enterprise
MacDonald
Navy pact bars parity for U S admirals say
Two admirals Bristol and Jones told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the London naval treaty shortens eight inch cruiser numbers and shifts to six inch guns against Navy desires. Senators Reed and Robinson grilled the witnesses, citing Navy memoranda and prior positions as the debate over the pact's provisions continued. The hearing touched on the treaty’s impact on U S naval strength and strategic plan amid Hoover era diplomacy.
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Washington
Navy General Board
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Mark L. Bristol
Hilary P. Jones
London
Bristol
Admiral Bristol
Senate
General Board
Jones
Robinson
Arkansas
Reed
Pennsylvania
Navy
Hoover
Pratt
United States
Texas Mob Burns Another After He Is Slain by Posse
In Honey Grove Texas a mob seized George Johnson as he lay slain after a shootout with a sheriff s posse. They dragged the body to a Negro church and burned it after tying it to a motor truck and girdling the business district. No other Negroes were molested and no property was damaged. Local authorities took no outside help. The episode follows mob violence in Sherman last week that left a courthouse burned and several Negroes dead.
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Honey Grove
Tex
E. F. Fortenberry
George Johnson
Sherman
Grayson County
George Hu
Dan Moody
Hughes
Sheriff's Posse
Lucky Break Sentenced in Forgery Case at Criminal Court
Ray Morgan formerly of 405 East Fifth street received a one year penitentiary term from Judge Thomas H. Morrow after a March 6 forgery conviction. Morgan credited fate, noting his cell mate James Adcock of Jeffersonville, Ind., perished in a prison fire after Adcock’s separate kidnapping conviction. Assistant Prosecutor Carson Hoy said Morgan forged a $25 check. sentencing was delayed due to a sanity question, later ruled sane by alienists.
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Ray Morgan
East Fifth Street
Thomas H. Morrow
Morgan
James Adcock
Jeffersonville
Ind
Adcock
Carson Hoy
Fort defends Eighteenth Amendment in New Jersey senate bid
Newark May 16 Fort the Republican hopeful for United States Senate responds to opponents in favor of repeal. He supports preserving the Eighteenth Amendment and opposes any move to repeal or weaken liquor control. Other candidates include Joseph S Frelinghuysen and John A Kelly.
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Newark
N.J
United States
Franklin W. Fort
Dwight W. Morrow
Fort
Joseph S. Frelinghuysen
John A. Kelly
Frelinghuysen
Kelly
Fort Said
Bandit Armies and Reds Active in China
Shanghai May 16. Raids by bandit armies in central provinces and Red propaganda in southern provinces continued to plague China. Reports say 500 villages in Honan were laid waste and 15,000 people were massacred in Yungyang Henan. Tons of Russian propaganda were seized in Amoy in raids by foreign police. Fukien authorities hope disclosure will help suppress the depredations.
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Shanghai
China
Amoy
Honan
Hupeh
Yungyang
Henan
Fukien
Cannon Steps Aside as Presiding Bishop Under Probe
Dallas May 16. The presiding bishop resigns amid an investigation by the Senate Lobby Committee and a church committee. Details indicate formal steps pending, with the church office and its leadership awaiting findings and possible action.
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Cannon
Dallas
Tex
Senate Lobby Committee
Church
Gore Will Run as Wet for Seat in U S Senate
Thomas P. Gore the blind former senator from Oklahoma plans to seek the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate running as a wet. Gore supported the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act veto override and will base his campaign on challenging enforcement of the dry law. He faces opposition from Charles J. Wrightsman Henry S. Johnston and Lee Cruce who back continued enforcement.
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New York World News Service
Oklahoma” City
Okla
Thomas P. Gore
Oklahoma
United States
Gore
Wilson
Senate
Charles J. Wrightsman
Tulsa
Henry S. Johnston
Lee Cruce
Senate to Decide Tariff Bill Fate Monday
The Senate plans a Monday vote on a Smoot resolution to release the conference committee from pledges and return the tariff bill to the Senate. Democratic leaders accuse House managers of blocking a full conference, while Smoot and Simmons push for free negotiations to avoid separate votes on disputed provisions. If defeated, the tariff bill faces death in its current form.
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D. Harold Oliver
Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Smoot
Rep
Utah
Senate Conference Committee
House
Simmons
Dem
Hacre
Hoover
Fess to Be Hoover's Guest at Fishing Camp
President Hoover plans a weekend fishing trip to his Virginia camp with a large party. Attending are Secretary Stimson Attorney General Mitchell Ogden Mills Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Senators Capper of Kansas Fess of Ohio Theodore Roosevelt Porto Rico Governor Representatives Ramseyer Free Blackburn J. Henry Roraback Richard Culahan Lawrence Richey and Capt. Joel T. Boone among others.
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Washington
Hoover
Virginia
Stimson
Mitchell
Ogden L. Mills
Treasury
Cappers
Kansas
Fess
Ohio
Theodore Roosevelt
Porto Rico
Ramseyer
California
Blackburn
Kentucky
J. Henry Roraback
Hartford
Conn
Richard V. Culahan
The
New York Times
Lawrence Richey
Capt
Joel T. Boone
White House
Modification Votes Favor Wets in Defective Ballots
The Literary Digest ninth prohibition poll shows Nevada and Connecticut joining Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Louisiana with over 50 percent favoring repeal. Enactment remains favored by 21 states, while 25 support repeal, with Kansas leading the dry column at nearly 58 percent. The magazine notes 4,562,761 votes with 40.24 percent for repeal and discusses defective ballots mismarked between enforcement, modification, and repeal.
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Literary Digest
Tomorrow
The
Louisiana
Nevada
Connecticut
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Arkansas
Kansas
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Alabama
Arizona
Idaho
Indiana
Michigan
Minnesota
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Mexico
New York
Vermont
Washington
Virginia
Wisconsin
Black youth robs employer over unpaid wages incident
Perry Briggs, 18, of 415 Central avenue, knocked his employer Frank Moccia, 53, with a wire cutter during a back room robbery over pay. Moccia, injured with a probable skull fracture, was taken to General Hospital. Briggs was captured by officers as he fled and faces assault and robbery charges.
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Perry Briggs
Central Avenue
Frank Moccia
McFarland Streets
General Hospital
Moccia
Third Street
Union Central Railroad
Briggs
Welbrook
Indian salt raid leader Sarojini Naidu freed by police
In May at BoyBay India police released Mrs Sarojini Naidu after hours of vigil near Dharsaana salt depots. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya arrested and jailed for nine months. Riots reported in Mymensingh with many injured as civil resistance tightens under Allahabad convention.
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Boybay
India
Sarojini Naidu
Mahatma Gandhi
Abbas Tyabji
Dharsaana
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya
Naidu
Bombay
Mymensingh
Bengal
All-India Congress
Allahabad
War Council
Bombay Workers’ Congress
Wadala
Howrah
Wasere
Dharasaana
Mme. Naidu
Mme. Na
Verdict in Kentucky court finds McPerkin guilty of criminal assault
A jury of seven women and five men in Kenton Circuit Court returns a guilty verdict against Anderson McPerkin, 19, for criminal assault on a white woman. The panel, after one hour ten minutes of deliberation, fixes the punishment at death by hanging. Foreman Walter Cason leads the vote, with eleven jurors initially favoring death and one for prison. Attorney Martin J. Brown plans a new-trial motion, then appeal. The courtroom scene shows tears of joy from the victim’s husband and a restrained audience as the verdict is read.
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Anderson McPerkin
Walter Cason
Wweco
Leslie T. Applegate
Criminal Division
Kenton Circuit
Martin J. Brown
Joseph Kolar
Margaret Kolar
Vera Kolar
Kentucky
Brown
Applegate
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Frankfort
Cincinnati
Alie J. Howard
Commonwealth Attorney
West Fifth Street
William H. Claycamp
Church Street
Clayton Craner
Highway Avenue
Ludlow
Anthony Klausing
Montague Street
R. M. Herrick
Tracey Avenue
Edward Clacking
Garrard’ Street
Joseph Hellman
Crittenden Avenue
South Hills
Frances Smoot
Butler Street
G. M. Faris
Huntington Avenue
N. S. Ring
West Thirty-third Street
Mollie Maxey
Park Avenue
Lud
Last County Hanging in Covington in 1882
The last hanging in Covington occurred on February 24, 1882, at 10 am in the old City Workhouse. Major Hicks, a 25 year old Black man, was executed after robbing and fatally shooting John Williams near Ludlow two months earlier. Witness Lieut. William J. Sandford, who helped prepare Hicks for the gallows, recalls Hicks’s remark about being ticklish about the neck as the tie was adjusted.
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Covington
Major Hicks
Old City
Court Avenue
Hicks
John Williams
Ludlow
William J. Sandford
Ex U S Marine Elected Dominican Republic President
Gen Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and Gen Rafael Estrella Arena were elected President and Vice President of the Dominican Republic. Opponents Velazquez and Morales were withdrawn, with Aliancistag planning to challenge the result in court. Trujillo began as a Marine recruit in 1918 and rose to general, with a path from occupied forces to national leadership.
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U.S. Marine
Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Rafael Estrella Arena
Federico Velazquez
Angel Morales
Alianza
Aliancistag
Junta Central Electoral
Gen
Trujillo
United States Marine Corps
Marine Corps
First Sentence of Its Kind in This Vicinity Since Hanging
A historical note recounts the first such judgment locally since the waiting and Jackson case, tied to the Pearl Bryan murder. The article emphasizes the rarity and significance of this event in the area.
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Waiting
Jackson
Weather Summary for Ohio to West Virginia and Midday Temps
The report notes temperatures across Ohio to West Virginia with varying cloudiness and showers. Ohio mostly cloudy cooler with occasional showers, Kentucky and Indiana similar patterns, Tennessee and West Virginia brief showers and cooler Sunday, and a dominant cloud cover region. A table lists current temperatures in Eastport to Nashville and others, with highs around 62 to 72 and scattered rainfall recorded in Nashville and Albany. A May 16 1930 record compares highs, lows, wind, and precipitation, noting Pt. Cloudy to Clear conditions through the day.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
Tennessee
West Virginia
Eastport
Louisville
Boston
Nashville
Albany
Cleveland
Ezies
P.m
S.W
Clidy
Spohn
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Wall Street
Texas
Fletcher
Illinois
Bristol and Jones
Uss
Sheriff’s
Franklin M. Fort
Unfuris Dry
Morrow
Frelinghuyseff
U. S. Senate
Heidi
Pearl Bryan
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