Germans jail gangster ousted from Belgium
Jack “Legs” Diamond, American gangster, arrived at the German frontier from Antwerp and was expelled by Belgian authorities as an undesirable alien. He faced possible extradition to the United States for murder, and was escorted to Germany after his passport had been used to enter Germany. Diamond traveled under the name Jack Nolan and planned visits to France or Germany before his detention.
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Aix-La Chapelle
Germany
Secret Service
Jack
Legs
Diamond
Antwerp
United States
Jack Nolan
Belgium
Jack Lees
New York
Gany
Europe
Hner
Brussels
Vichy
France
Madgeburg
Ger‘Tuany
Southampton
Cherbourg
Two Held in New York After Man Is Shot Down
A man described as a poultry dealer, found with about twenty five business cards from several protective associations, was shot down in New York. Police held two suspects as possible accomplices and questioned witnesses as the investigation continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York World News Service
New Greyhound in the U S Navy Louisville keel laid
The cruiser Louisville is christened in Louisville Kentucky and will serve as a light cruiser of 600 feet with 39 officers and 623 men. A vital keel laying for the Astoria sister ship also occurred with Governor Norblad of Oregon leading the ceremony.
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Louisville
Bremerton
Wash
Uncle Sam
Greyhound
Astoria
Kentucky
Kentucky City
Kennedy
Ruth Cole
Henri Henderson
Opeed Holman Wins Thompson Plane Trophy
Charles Speed Holman of Minneapolis won the Thompson Trophy at Curtiss-Reynold airport Chicago in the 1930 national air races before a crash that killed Capt. Arthur Page of the Marine Corps. Page, who had led early, died from a brain hemorrhage after ejecting from his aircraft. Capt. Hawks dropped out with motor trouble. James Haizlip of St. Louis finished as Holman’s sole challenger. The race speed reached 201.91 mph, the fastest yet at the meet.
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Morris Watson
Curtiss-Reynolds
Chicago
Charles
Holman
Minneapolis
Arthur Page
United States Marine Corps
Page
Marine Corps
Washington
Omaha
Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Hawks
James Haizlip
St. Louis
Two Are Killed and Six Hurt in Ohio Auto Accidents
Ohio crash roundup reports two fatalities and multiple injuries on September 1. In Middletown area, Edna Hayborn 24 and Flossie Hayborn 18 were killed when an interurban struck their car. Oscar Hayborn and Oscar Jr. were injured. Separate incidents in Toledo and East Liverpool left two motorists hurt and a Detroit couple bruised after a bus collision. Frederick Henzl 25 and wife 38 from Sheboygan were treated for injuries after a house-collision truck crash.
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Ohio
Dayton
Springboro Pike
Middletown
Edna Hayborn
Miamisburg
Flossie
Hayborn
Jacksonville
Oscar
Toledo
Detroit
J. We Litop
Mich
East Liverpool
Frederick Henzl
Sheboygan
Wis
Henzl
Hoover Tirades and Republican Accusations Raise Meddling Claims
New York September 1 John J Raskob Democratic National Committee chair is charged by Representative John Q Tilson with running a Washington propaganda bureau aimed at defaming the President and smearing the administration Twenty eight instances of misinformation are cited by the Republican campaign director in detailing alleged abuses by the D N C Publicity Bureau led by Charles M Michelson
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New York World News Service
New York
John J. Raskob
Democratic National Committee
John Q. Tilson
House
National Republican Pressional Committee
Cette Ab
Washington
Bureau of
Tilson
Raskob
Charles M. Michelson
Hoover
United States
Ballon race pilots race into hazy night over Lake Erie
Six balloons in the eighteenth Gordon Bennett race drifted west of the Ohio Pennsylvania line near Lake Erie as hazy night fell. Coast Guard units searched the lake while weather forecasts warned of strong upper air currents. Large crowds watched the start at Cleveland Airport and reports placed three balloons near Geneva and East Cleveland earlier, with officials noting no sightings of a crash.
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Cleveland
Ohio-Pennsylvania Line
Lake Erie
Coast Guard
Ashtabula Harbor
Geneva
Detroit
Belgica
Pierre Fishbach
East
Racer
Lake
Sheffield Village
Committee
Weather Bureau
Mrs McCormick Admits Hiring Nye Trailers
Byron Sept 1 Mrs Ruth Hanna McCormick issued a statement admitting she employed private investigators to inspect the methods and affiliations of Senator Gerald P Nye of North Dakota chairman of the Senate Campaign Fund Committee The development follows reports that Nye who leads the Special Senate Investigating Committee is angered by the probes Nye questions who conducted the investigations and McCormicks plan continues with results already justifying the move
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byron, Til
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
Senate Campaign Fund Committee
United States
Special Senate
Nye
Cantor Jewels Lifted In Atlantic City Heist
A string of jewel thefts across multiple cities prompts police to target a professional ring. Mrs Eddie Cantor reported $20,000 in gems missing from the Ambassador Hotel between 8 p m and 1 30 a m while she and her husband were in a vaudeville show. Police suspect a master key was used as no force was evident. The Johnstons were robbed the prior night of $75,000 in jewels, with $17,000 of value left untouched.
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New York World News Service
Atlantic City
New York
Philadelphia
Eddie Cantor
Ambassador Hotel
Insurance Company
John Edward Johnston
Baltimore
Cantor
Johnstons
Ambassador
Ruth Barry
Cleveland
Two Walrus Harpooners Find Andree Polar Expedition Remains
Norwegian explorer Dr. Gunnar Horn reported that two harpooners recovering water on White Island found the Andree Polar Expedition remains from 1896. They discovered a canvas boat, a boat hook, a headless skeleton, and a monogram identifying Andree, with other remains possibly those of Nils Strindberg or Knut Frangel as scientists study teeth for identification. The Bratvaag crew marked the site, later noting a great white bear near the cairn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North
South America
Associated Press
Associated Press Aftenposten
Skjaer Island
Norway
Wireless
Gunnar Horn
Associated Press Today
White Island
Andree
Horn
Arctic Ocean
Noted Plane Liner Progress East of Cape Race
The Bremen reported Dieudonne Coste's Question Mark at 50 10 N 30 40 W about 882 miles east of Cape Race as of Newfoundland daylight time. Liner Bremen cited clear conditions and tropical moonlight while tracking the Paris depart from Le Bourget Field to the Great Circle route with other ships mirroring the progress.
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Fogo Island
Bremen
Dieudonne Coste
Newfoundland
Les Bourget Field
Paris
Cape Race
Fastnet Light
Ireland
New York
Europa
Rochambeau
Ile de France
Ne de France
Coste
Coste Dnierent
American woman freed in Cuba after alleged spy charges
Peggy Lane Morlote, 20, widow of Cuban Army Air Corps lieutenant, held since Saturday in Mariano barracks on suspicions of plotting to leak Cuban military secrets. Her brother Louis Lane obtained release, and she heads to Longmeadow Massachusetts with plans to stay with her parents. He says there was insufficient proof of negotiations with Colombian and U.S. agents to sell the key to the Cuban Air Force. Morlote reportedly in nervous collapse, refused meals in prison and probably will not return to Cuba.
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Havana
Cuba
Mariano Barracks
Peggy Lane “Morlote
Rogelio Morlote
Cuban Army Air Corps
Louis R. Lane
Vedado
Morlote
Newark
Miami
Longmeadow
Mass
Ray Lane
Lane
Colombia
S. A
United States
A‘r Corps
Sre
Blunder Holds Innocent Man Overnight In Jail
A Sunday error led to taxi driver Harry Brockman being jailed overnight with a tin can pillow. Police claimed to chase a car with plate 919 514 but the target was 919 714, causing embarrassment for officers and confusion among officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Brockman
Beekman Street
Rival Kuomintang Faction Forms Separate National Government in Peiping
In Peiping on Sept 1 a disaffected Kuomintang faction announced a rival national government with a seven member state council led by Gen Yen Shi Shan. Other leaders include Tang Shaoyi Wang Ching Wei Feng Yu-Hsiang Chang Hsueh Liang Lit Sung Jen and Hsieh Chih.
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Peiping
China
Kuomintang
Chiang Kai Shek
Yen Shi-Shan
Chiang
Tangsaoyi
Wang-Ching-Wei
Koomintang
Feng Yu-Hsiang
Chang Hsueh Liang
Manchuria
Lit-Sung-Jen
Kwangsi
Hsieh Chih
Child critically hurt by porch fall in Kentucky
In Vanceburg Kentucky Mary Boyd three daughter of Walter Boyd was critically injured today when she fell from the front porch. A pair of scissors she was playing with pierced her neck as the accident occurred at her home.
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Vanceburg
Mary Boyd
Walter Boyd
Hoover Back Home After Rapidan Weekend Trip
President Hoover and his party return to Washington after a weekend at Mountain Lodge on the Rapidan. The trip marked a brief rest from national duties with no immediate statements issued.
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Hoover
Washington
Mountain Lodge
Rapidan
Leguia Sent to San Lorenzo Island Prison
Peru's former president Augusto B. Leguia, who resigned under military pressure, was moved to the island prison San Lorenzo in Callao Harbor after illness delayed his transfer. He led a dictatorship for eleven years and hundreds of political foes were jailed. Detachments carried him from the Almirante Grau to transport him to the prison.
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Lima
Peru
Ugusto B. Leguia
San Lorenzo
Callaot Harbor
Almirante Grau
Leguia
Horn's First Authorized Statement On Andree Expedition Rescue
Dr. Gunnar Horn, chief of the Norwegian expedition that found bodies from the 1897 Andree polar venture, issues his first authorized account. The motor sealer Bratvaag sails from Aalesund July 29 1930 heading toward Franz Josef Land, stopping at Tromsoe Hopen Spitzbergen and Sable Island amid favorable ice conditions.
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Salomon
Andree
Associated Press
Oslo Softenposten
Dr. Horn
White Island
Fridtjof- Nansen Land
North
South America
Japan
Bratvaag
Skirer Island
Norway
Franz jJosefisdaand
Fridtjof Nansen
Tromsoe
Soroya Island
Hopen
King Karl's’ Land
Spitzbargen
Rum ship Vedas seized by Canadian officials at Windsor
The steamer Vedas, monitored by U S Coast Guard, was seized by Canadian customs at Windsor Ontario after suspected rum trafficking. Officials say the vessel loaded beer in Montreal for Winnipeg and had earlier been seized in Lake Erie with part of its cargo sent to the United States. The Vedas was released on $400 bond pending further charges and is under investigation. United States patrol boats had been watching the vessel when it was brought to port.
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Windsor
Ont
United States Coast Guard
Rondeau
Lake Erie
Charles E. Gross
Walkerville
L. C. Turner
Toronto
Montreal
Winnipeg
United States
Detroit River
Port Arthur
Heflin Named by Dry Wing in Alabama
Alabama independents or Jeffersonian Democrats nominate Senator J Thomas Heflin for re election and Hugh A Locke for governor and Dempsey Powell for lieutenant governor. They oppose Democratic regular nominees in November while pledging to stay united as a dry wing.
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Montgomery
Ala
J. Thomas Heflin
Hugh A. Locke
Birmingham
Dempsey Powell
Greenville
Heflin
Locke
Powell
Tammany Hall
John J. Raskob
Democratic National Committee
Wadsworth
al Smith
Escape from Lancaster Industrial School Sparks Police Search
Columbus police pursued 14 year old George Ilyasan who fled the Boys Industrial School at Lancaster in a auto stolen from a guard. He is sought by authorities after the escape today.
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Columbus, 'O
George
Ilyesan
Clevelan
Idustrial
Lancaster
Columbus
Akron Man Heads Veterans in Ohio Spanish War Group
Howard J. Miller of Akron was named president of the Eighth Ohio Regiment Association Spanish War Veterans at the close of the association's 31st annual convention in Bucyrus. Akron will host the 1931 meeting.
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Akron
Bucyrus, CO
Howard J. Miller
Eighth Ohio Regiment Association
Educated Bacteria Set to Do Heavy Work for Industries
The American Chemical Society holds a five day Cincinnati convention September 8 to 12 with headquarters at the Gibson Hotel. Bruce K Brown will lead a symposium on industrial use of bacteria for fermentation as workmen. About 2 000 scientists and industrialists are expected, with delegations from New York New Jersey Chicago and Washington.
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American Chemical Society
Cincinnati
Gibson Hotel
Bruce K. Brown
Chicago
C. R. Bragdon
S. Richardson
Procter
New York
New Jersey
Washington
Plane Ques tion Mark reports position west of Loop Head
At 5 30 p m G M T the airplane Question Mark reported by wireless a position latitude 51 20 N longitude 16 00 W about 260 miles west of Loop Head on the west coast of Ireland.
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Ss. S. Rochambeau
Wireless
Associated Press
Coste
Loop ‘Head
Ireland
French Ace Begins Flight Across Atlantic
Paris reports Capt. Dieu donne Coste and Maurice Bellonte aboard the aircraft Question Mark racing toward America to match Lindbergh’s record. The plane departed Le Bourget at 4 54 a m E S T and, after crossing Ireland, entered the Atlantic while wireless operators monitored its progress from ships Ile de France and St Therese.
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Atlantic Ocean
Smith Reavis
Associated Press
Paris
America
Dieudonne Coste
Maurice Bellonte
Charles A. Lindbergh
Colin
Nungesser
le Bourget
Ireland
Valentia
Atlantic
Shannon
Limerick
Ile de France
St. Therese
Temperature forecast for several states with showers
The report lists weather Outlooks for Ohio Kentucky Tennessee Indiana and West Virginia with clouds showers and cooler periods through midweek followed by a temperature table and precipitation records for various cities including Eastport Boston New York Atlantic City Washington Jacksonville Atlanta New Orleans and more. It notes record highs and lows for September 1 1980 and compares with prior years and normals.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Indiana
West Virginia
Eastport
Boston
N. York
Atlanticg
Wash
S.W
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U. S
NEW Greyhound
U. S. Navy
Opeed” Holman
Thompson Plane Trophy
Victor
Michelson A ‘Bureau of Defamation
All Things Republican
Will Wood
Senator Nye
Cantor Jewels
Andree Polar
Spitzbergen
Great Circle
le Bourget Field
Dnio Gil
Peggy Lane Morlote
Chang Mhsueh- Liang
Nanking
Wang-Ching-Weo
Sun-Yat- Sen
Chinese Republic
Chiang - Kai - Shek
Andree Declares
Alabama
Tammany
Flees Industrial School
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