Athletics Beat Cardinals 6 1 in World Series Opener
Connie Mack's Athletics toppled the St Louis Cardinals 6 to 1 at Shibe Park to seize an early series advantage. George Earnshaw pitched superbly allowing six hits and eight strikeouts as Mickey Cochrane and other A's bats homered to back the right hander. Watkins hit a second inning homer for the lone Cards run as Philadelphia fans packed the park for a $152,735 gate.
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Alan Gould
Shibe Park
Philadelphia
Connie Mack
St. Louis Cardinals
Bob Grove
Charles Flint Rhem
Athletics
Earnshaw
Cardinals
Watkins
Homer
George Watkins
St. Louis Floék
Mackmen
Red Birds
Mickey Cochrane
al Simmons
Jimmy Foxx
Jimmy Dykes
Bing Miller
Rhem
Vesuvius Enters Active Phase But Not yet Dangerous
Napoli Oct 2 The volcano’s activity increased tonight with the crater enlarging by 100 feet and a lava stream about twenty feet wide flowing at fifteen feet per minute through the Infernal Valley toward the south of Terzigno. Observers say the eruption is serious but no immediate danger is seen despite flood past catastrophes.
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Naples
Vesuvius
Tersizglio
Parachute Ace Demonstrates Steering Over Cincinnati Air Field
Ralph La Pere, famed parachute expert, wowed Cincinnati airmen at Watson Airport with a controlled dive from a mile and a half, opening the chute at 1,000 feet and steering across the field as if rowing a boat. The test, done in light five mile wind, ended with a landing near the airport office. Next Sunday La Pere plans another jump from 10,060 feet with ins Ballman assisting.
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Ralph la Pere
Cincinnati
Watson
la Pere
Ins Ballman
Two Killed as Greenwich Village Wall Collapses
Greenwich Village tenement on Greenwich Avenue collapses after long weakened foundations and nearby demolitions. Five killed, two critically injured. victims include Mrs. Victorine Courtade and her daughter Marguerite. Lodgers from France and Belgium affected. wrecking crew faces arrest.
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New York
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Avenue
Jefferson Market Court
Luke O'Connor
John Sefield
England
Crain
Victorine Courtade
Marguerite
Carlo Tornaghi
Frank Bourdon
Tornaghi
France
Baptiste Sebastide
Courtade
Belgium
Torch Dropped by Plane Destroys Miner Barn in Kentucky
Madisonville Kentucky October 2 A barn owned by James Smith an employee at Mine No 1 Ross Coal Company was burned amid rumors that a plane dropped a blazing torch. The event followed recent labor turmoil with reported aviation raids and a federal probe. Authorities could not confirm the plane fired the barn and investigated possible misdirection by pilots along the Evansville Atlanta air route.
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Madisonville
James Smith
Ross Coal Company
Smith
Sheriff Co
Barnett
John Ross
Kentucky
Webster County
Providence
Federal Grand Jury
Louisville
Ross Mine
Evansville-Atlanta
Here
Tornado Kills Three Near Fowler Colorado
A tornado near Fowler thirty miles east of Pueblo killed three people, left one missing and five injured. The funnel traced a quarter mile wide path and details of its start and end were not known as it swept the area late today.
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Pueblo, Col
Fowler
Here
Genoa Defends Columbus Claim with Archival Evidence
Genoa authorities led by Marquis Giuseppe Pessagno challenge claims that Columbus was a Catalonian corsair. They cite a hundred Genoese documents in state archives asserting Columbus's Genoese birth and family. Prof Ulloa is invited to examine the archives to resolve the dispute.
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Mary Howell
Genoa
Italy
Columbus
Luis Ulloa
America
Iceland
Greenland
Labrador
Ulloa
Giuseppe Pessagno
Archives of
Associated Press
Henry Harrisse
Bank of St. George
Assereto
Cuban Senate Considers Martial Law Declaration
President Gerardo Machado asked Congress to suspend constitutional guarantees in Havana and surrounding areas until after the November elections. The measure could extend across Cuba, postponing elections and curtailing rights including freedom of speech and press. The bill was to be debated in a special session, with observers predicting swift action.
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Havana
Gerardo Machado
Congress
House
Senate
Cuba
Rafael Guas Inclan
Clemente Vasquez Bello
Northcott hanged for murders of three boys at Wineville California
Gordon Stewart Northcott, 23, chicken rancher of Wineville, Cal, was hanged at San Quentin after leaving a confession and faking a death attempt. He was led to the gallows at 10 09 a m and died by strangulation twelve minutes later as 140 witnesses watched in silence. One man fainted.
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San Quentin
Cal
Gordon Stewart Northcott
Wineville
Northcott
Larry Newgent
Los Angeles
St. John
Drinking Own Liquor Bootlegger's Mistake
Domestic Relations Court heard the divorce petition of Myrtle Barnes from Cyrus L. Barnes of Cheviot after a 1923 marriage. She says he prospered in liquor trafficking but abused her and their children, leading to separation on June 5. Judge Hoffman deferred property settlement.
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Cyrus L. Barnes
Bruestle Avenue
Cheviot
Myrtle Barnes
Rosemont.avenue
Charles W. Hoffman
Barnes
Hoffman
Outlaw War Efforts Fail in League Committee Vote
Geneva October 2 Efforts to amend the League of Nations covenant to outlaw all war failed in the Judicial Sub-committee by 10 to 2. Only Lord Cecil and Dr Chao Chu-Wu supported the proposed changes. The issue is likely to be held over for a year with amendments referred to member governments for discussion in 1931. Debate was heated as Norwegian delegates questioned whether existing treaties like Locarno would be affected by such an amendment.
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Geneva
League of Nations
End to Short Selling Seen as Panic End
Chicago attorney Salmon O. Levinson urged a temporary suspension of organized short selling on the New York Stock Exchange to curb market pessimism. He also proposed appointing five NYSE associate governors to probe rumors and forecasts and determine their public impact. He cited the United States strong fundamentals and global gold holdings as evidence of enduring prosperity.
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Chicago
New York Stock Exchange
Salmon O. Levinson
Levinson
United States
Devil Toothache Idol Revealed As Sw Arizona Artifact
Dr G W Miller of Cincinnati keeps a one foot high clay devil used by Southwest medicine men to soothe toothache. The figure, hollow and damaged in a hurricane, sits in his office as a curious example of “modern art.” Histories show Indian teeth were poor and brushes absent.
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Isaac H. Schwartz
G. W. Miller
Cincinnati Physican
Dr. Miller
Southwest
Florida
Ralph Dury
Museum of Natural History
Reds Halted as Hoover Speaks at Hall Parade
An unauthorized Communist parade estimated at 600 was halted in Cleveland as police used tear gas and clubs to block the march toward Public Hall where President Hoover addressed the American Bankers Association. A reporter was slugged. several others injured.
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Cleveland
Hoover
American Bankers’ Association
Public Square
St. Clair Avenue
Ninth
Twelfth
E. Sixth Street
Rockwell Avenue
Rival gangs clash in dawn St. Louis area gun attack
In a dawn assault near Walmeyer Illinois a machine gun attack killed Peter McTigue and William Boody both identified as Cuckoo gangsters while wounding Sam Therina and Joe Mocer from St. Louis. The act is seen as retaliation by East St. Louis Shelton gang amid liquor rackets war.
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St. Louis Cuckoo Gang
ST. Louis
Cuckoo
Walmeyer
Ill
Illinois
Mississippi River
East St. Louis
Shelton
Charlie Birger
Peter McTigue
William E. Boody
Juror Tampering Probe in Dorger Case Continues
The Cincinnati Bar Association Grievance Committee pressed its inquiry into an alleged juror tampering scheme tied to the Cosmopolitan Bank collapse. Witnesses including Robert Cole Sr. and the Elleringtons testified as investigators pursued leads connected to jurors linked to real estate ties and the Dorger defendants as trial dates shift to October 13.
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Cincinnati Bar Association
Frank J
Clarence A. Dorger
Cosmopolitan
Charles 8S
Bell
Nelson Schwab
Commercial Tribune
Robert Cole, Sr
Montgomery Road
Earl Ellerington
Norwood
Fourteen Miners Dead in Deep Grove Colliery Blast
In WallalSall England near Grove Colliery fourteen miners died when a blast collapsed galleries a mile from the shaft. Rescue crews brought seven bodies to the surface after fighting poison gas. most victims were married men with large families.
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Wallsall
Staffordshire
England
the Grove
Here
U.S. warship ordered to assist Montcalm in heavy seas
The U S S Concord dispatched from Newport to 500 miles southeast of Charleston to aid the Montcalm, a light-tonnage vessel, which radioed for help while en route from Guantanamo to Norfolk. Navy officials said the Montcalm was not in immediate danger.
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Washington
Navy Department
U. S. S. Concord
Charleston
S. C
U. S. S.montcalm
Guantanamo
Cuba
Montcalm
Norfolk
Miami
Fla
Department
Concord
Newport
R. L
Judge Hoffman policy on child welfare in divorce cases upset
Court of Appeals sharply limits Judge Hoffman in Domestic Relations Court ruling. In Cassada versus Cassada the judge denied a divorce citing child welfare, prompting an appeals decision ordering grant. In Luh versus Luh the unopposed suit saw six children, two in an Otterbein home, with the judge noting institutionalization concerns and seeking a normal home life arrangement.
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Charles W. Hoffman
Court of Appeals
Bradford Cassada
Elmwood Place
Adeline Cassada
Cassada
Emma Luh
Wellington Place
Philip Co
Luh
Columbus
Luhs
Otterbein
Lebanon
Hoffman
Hoover urges forward despite world mood at bankers meet
President Hoover told the American Bankers Association in Cleveland that America must move toward recovery and maintain living standards despite global low mood. He rejected the idea of lowering living standards and urged continued innovation to raise prosperity. The crowd greeted him with loud applause as he and Mrs. Hoover left for Washington aboard a special train, with about two thousand people on the platform.
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Associated Press
Public Auditorium
Cleveland
Hoover
American Bankers’ Association
America
Calvin Coolidge
Association
John G. Lonsdale
St. Louis
Bankers Association
United States
Washington
Mra. Hoover
Hoover speech on third page full text
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Hoover
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
West Virginia
Tennessee
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