Four Die and Twenty Hurt as Race Car Attacks Crowd
At Winchester Indiana a dirt speedway crash killed four people and injured about twenty others. Driver Leonard Bruhn of Fort Wayne lost control when a tire blew on the second lap. A spectator saved a baby by tossing it to safety amid scattered injuries.
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Winchester
Ind
Hale
T. F
Middletown
Bird
Ray
Abut
Richmond
Indiana
Jennings
Malcomb
Farmer
Gaughan
John Edward
Muncie
Fern Kizer
Winchester Hospital
Leonard Bruhn
Ft. Wayne
John Mohler
Prohibition Backed by Presbyterian Leader at Assembly
The Rev. Mark A Matthews of Seattle pledged the Presbyterian Church to the Eighteenth Amendment amid the 142d General Assembly session at Taft Auditorium. He denounced conspiracies against constitutional government and warned youth face dangerous forces promoting prohibition’s foes. (Continued on Second Page.)
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Mark A. Matthews
Seattle
Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
The
Taft Auditorium
Pentecost
Princeton Theological Seminary
Prohibition
Samuel G. Craig
Princeton
N J
St. Paul
Craig
William L. McEwan
Matthews
Convict Shot Dead as Prison Farm Mutiny Fails
Guards at London Prison Farm killed Sam Mazello of Trumbull County during a mass attempt by 47 inmates to breach the cell block. The uprising followed unrest linked to the Ohio Penitentiary fire that killed 320, with officials saying Mazello had a history of disturbance and burglary charges.
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London, CO
London Prison Farm
Ohio Penitentiary
Sam Mazello
Trumbull County
W.J. Amrine
Mazello
Company K
Amrine
Ohio
Two Riders Killed in Cincinnati Dayton Sideswipe Crash
Two automobiles collided on the Cincinnati Dayon pike near West Chester Ohio. Claire Turner 30 and his mother Stella Turner 69 of Dayton were killed. Three Turner relatives were injured. The other car driven by Herman Hucker 39 Dayton left arm broken. Three Hucker children hurt. A missing infant later found. Richard Smith 2 of Mason Ohio died. Local toll 77 for year.
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Cincinnati-Dayton Pike
Maud
West Chester
Hamilton County
Claire Turner
Montgomery Avenue
Dayton
Stella Turner
Turner
Josephine Feidler
Loretta Feidler
August Nicoli
Eagle Street
General Hospital
Herman Hucker
California Avenue
Bond Still
Stella
Sarah Louise
Rose
Alma Hucker
Hucker
Dicky Somarenohee
Bethany
Graf Zeppelin Near New Jersey Coast On Way To Lakehurst
Radio bearings placed the Graf Zeppelin about 100 miles east of Oregon Inlet on the North Carolina coast heading for New York and Lakehurst. Wind behind the airship could push its speed to reach Lakehurst before midnight with landing expected around 8:30 to 8:30 tomorrow morning in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
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Norfolk
Naval
Fifth Naval District
Oregon Inlet
North Carolina
New York
Lakehurst
Weather Bureau
Jersey Shore
New Jersey
Hugo Eckener
Chatham
Radio Marine Corporation
N. J
Dr. Eckener
GATT GAPOIED WITH 02 ABOARD IN HEAVY SEAL
Two crewmen perished in the Pacific after a vessel encountered heavy seas during a wartime operation. The incident involved a small craft and a rescue effort by surviving sailors. The loss is being investigated by naval authorities.
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Gatt
Mechanic killed as car crashes into guard rail at speedway
Indianapolis May 30 Billy Arnold won the 500 mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 4 58 39 72 at 100.448 mph before 170000 fans securing 52150. Rival Louis Schneider and William Cantlon followed as a fatal crash claimed Paul Marshall a Detroit mechanic. Several cars crashed in the treacherous north turn injuring others but all but Marshall’s crew escaped serious harm.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Ind
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Billy Arnold
William “Shorty” Cantlon
Detroit
Chicago
Louis Schneider
Louis Meyers
Southgate
Cal
Wild Bill Cummings
Paul Marshall
Cy Marshall
Marshall
Deacon Litz
Dubois
Aaron T. Vance
Chester T. Gardner
Pittsburgh
Fred Roberts
Danville
Peter DePaolo
Vance
Arnold
Spider Matlock
Los Angeles
Cadet Kiss Censored at Naval Academy Tradition
At Annapolis the customary flag presenting kiss between the girl sponsor and the midshipman commander is unofficially suppressed this year. Miss Alverta Ely of Kansas City presents the flag to T. B. Hughes, commander of Company No. 1, who will offer a salute but no public ceremony occurs. Officials reportedly oppose the tradition.
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Annapolis
Naval Academy
Alverta Ely
Kansas City
T. B. Hughes
Hughes
Memorial Day Observance Parade in Cincinnati Honors Veterans
Cincinnati and surrounding areas held Memorial Day ceremonies honoring World War I, Spanish American War, and Civil War dead. A 9 o'clock parade featured veterans, American Legion and DAV units, Boy and Girl Scouts, and marching bands. Services at Spring Grove Cemetery included rituals at key memorials with Robert Bentley Post No. 50 leading a Legion event. Dr. Arthur C. Hill of North Dakota delivered the oration, urging peace and national unity, while highlighting naval roles in Civil War history.
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Cincinnati
Spring Grove
Peace Heroes Memorial Society
American Legion
Robert Bentley
Spring Grove Cemetery
Greater
Grand Army of the
Republic Mound
Robert H. Bentley
Arthur C. Hil
Legion of North Dakota
Hill
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
Universal Brotherhood
Mr. Hughes
Lincoln
Bull Run
Gettysburg
Lookout Mountain
Apromatox
Atlantic
Gulf
Mississippi River
Blonde Lady of Refinement Lures Tiffany Clerk to Disaster
New York police report a clever con by a refined-looking blonde woman who recruited a Tiffany & Co clerk to view high value rings at an upper West Side apartment. She claimed a fiancé sent her and asked the clerk to bring the rings to 601 West 115th Street, exposing the jewelry to a trap in Apartment 33 of The Regnor building.
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Tiffany Jewelry
New York World News Service
New York
Tiffany & Co
Fifth Avenue
Thirty-seventh Street
Christopher Fisher
West 115Th Street
Fisher
Mob battering jail as crowd seeks lynching of Negro in Chickasha
About 100 men battered the Grady County Jail door to reach Henry Argo held for alleged attack on a white woman. National Guard officers forced the crowd back, with a larger mob of roughly 1,000 near the jail. A plea by the county attorney and guardsmen’s volley of blanks dispersed the crowd.
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Chickasha
Okla
Grady County
Henry Argo
E. B. Smith
Oklahoma National Guard
Unruly Columbus Convicts Sent to Solitary Cells
In Ohio State Penitentiary six inmates who sparked disturbances in the White City block Wednesday are kept in solitary confinement over the holiday. Warden Thomas said two attackers struck guard Albert Rose during the incident, with William Whiteley and Leo Black named among participants.
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Columbus
Ohio State Penitentiary
White City
Thomas
Peuneal
Albert Rose
Rose
William Whiteley
Clinton County
Whiteley
Leo Black
Franklin County
Greene railroad executive dies at 73 in Cincinnati
William M. Greene former vice president of the Baltimore and Ohio System died at his son Orland S. Greene's home in East Walnut Hills Cincinnati. He retired about ten years ago leaving behind two sons William M. Greene Jr. of California and Orland S. Greene and a daughter Mrs. Arthur Musgrave of Boston. Funeral plans pending with burial in Columbus, Ohio.
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William M. Greene
Baltimore & Ohio System
Orland S. Greene
Madison Road
East
Walnut Hills
Greene
Cincinnati
Orland Greene
Otis Company
William M. Greene, Jr
California
Arthur Musgrave
Boston
Columbus, O
Woman Drowns After Falling From Boat Club Dock
Mrs Alicia Davis 35 of Belmont and Hamilton avenues daughter of former City Councilman Charles Eisen drowned during East End river regatta festivities at Queen City Boat Club foot of McAdams Street. Witness DeWitt Smith dived after her but darkness hid her body until Fire Department Life Saving Squad arrived. Relatives had not been notified early today but the Eisen family knew of her attendance.
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Alicia Davis
Belmont
Hamilton Avenues
Charles Eisen
Queen City Boat Club
McAdams Street
East End
DeWitt Smith
Albert Schutt
Moorman
Jane
Fire Department
Eisen
Mrs. Davis
Last Snow Tragedy Survivor Donner App Dies at 95
Modesto California reports the death of Leana Charity Donner App, 95, the final survivor of the Donner party who endured deep snows in the Werra Mountains during 1946-47. She witnessed her father Captain George Donner die and her mother go insane in the emergency camp near Donner Lake. She died in Jamestown after a life marked by survival and public recognition.
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Modesto
Cal
Werra Mountains
Leana Charity Donner App
Donner
Jamestown
Here
C. C. Young
App
Donner Lake
Illinois
George Donner
Parachute Saves Cincinnati Boy's Life In Crash
May 30 report from Oklahoma City says J. H. Fahring a Kelly Field flying cadet was killed during an emergency parachute jump near Tiptom Oklahoma. L. E. Hunt of Cincinnati made a successful leap after the plane's controls jammed.
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Oklahoma City
J. H. Fahring
Kelly Field
Tex
Tiptom
Okla
L. E. Hunt
Ft. Sill
Fahring
Hunt
Hartwell Street
Cincinnati
Modern Pools Ban Old Swimmin Hole
Amy Porter reports in the Magazine Section Tomorrow on how twenty five years have changed local swimming spaces and attitudes from the old snake and skeeter spot to a modern, organized pool scene. The piece contrasts past charm with current water sports in a refreshed public mood.
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Amy Porter
Memorial Day mischief and robberies shuffle through town
Amsey Hodge of West Hamlin West Virginia recalls a festive Memorial Day ride that turned sour when a card game escalated and he lost 150 dollars to strangers. Nearby a beer raid ended with Ernest Price and three men absconding with 12.50. A Cutter Street burglary saw three goosenecks a brass faucet and twelve feet of lead pipe stolen. Police chase leads to a missing watch after a Pearl and Walnut Streets meeting. suspects described.
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Ernest
Amsey
Mason and Dixon
Stonewall Jackson
Amsey Hodge
West Hamlin
W. Va
Cincinnati Union Depot
Barbara Fritchie
Main Street
Holors
Ernest Price
Marion
Fifth
Plum Streets
Rose Goldberg
Hopkins Street
Goldberg
Cutter
Cutter Street
Harry Coleman
East Fourth Street
Covington
Pearl
Walnut Streets
Harry
M4&ine
Doomed Ameco Ferry Sinks Off Santa Monica Beach
Forty-nine of sixty-two aboard the Ameco were accounted for. three dead and thirteen missing, with forty-six hospitalized after the sinking off Santa Monica during a squall. Rescue boats faced heavy seas and a northwesterly wind as witnesses recalled cries heard ashore. Survivors were rushed to hospitals by ambulance, while relatives gathered on the pier.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Clarence E. Webb
Ameco
Keller
Margaret
Los Angeles
Lockhard
John H
Pasadena
California
Barnett
D. C
Shans. Mobr
Freedom
William Lightfoot
Beathes
Roy Milton
W. H. Brett
C. E. Keller
D. Gibson
Lightfoot
Henry Vandenburg
Jimmy Hobson
Beach
Margaret Keller
Cufford Morris
The
Palisades
Temperatures Vary Across States As Weekend Warmth Grows
The report notes Ohio Kentucky Indiana and Tennessee fair to warm conditions over the weekend with rising temperatures. A detailed table lists current highs lows and last twenty four hour precipitation across cities including Eastport Louisville Nashville Cleveland New York Detroit Atlantic City Washington Jacksonville Atlanta New Orleans Galveston Denver and Pittsburgh. Record highs and normals for May 30 1930 are provided along with temperature wind and rainfall descriptions.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
Tennessee
Eastport
Louisville
Nashville
Atheny
Cleveland
New York
Detroit
Atl. City
Wash'ton
Jacksville
Atlanta
Orleans
City
Galveston
Pittsburgh
Denver
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Richard Smith
Mason
Dr. Eckener Radios
Havana
Ers
Pacific
Lea
Charles W. Dunkley
U. S
WM. M. Greene
Boat Club Dock
Goodwin B. Watson
Mdéa
Russia
Paris
Releo
Tom Mix
Call Canal 6300
Santa Monica Beach
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