Dixie Davis Killed At Muncie In Mystery Plane Crash
John Dixon Davis known as Dixie, 33, a Cincinnati pilot and former Royal Air Force member, died at Muncie Municipal Airport when his red winged plane crashed from 1960 feet during an upside down flight. Thousands witnessed the accident, the field’s first fatality, while Davis had flown thirteenth trip of the day for a Cincinnati patent medicine firm.
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Indiana Airport
John Dixon
Dixie’) Davis
Royal Air Force
Cincinnati
Muncie
Ind
Davis
Indianapolis
Dixie
Chicago
United States
Toronto
London
Twenty-second
France
Army of Occupation
Glasgow
Scotland
California
Watson Airport
Chillicothe
Wendell Paveylin
Union Levee Field
Pavey
Wendell Pavey
Coney Island
Akron
J. L. Bovis
Bovis
Trainman killed in gas car blast aftermath near Emerald Neb
A freight train derailment near Emerald Nebraska killed one unknown man and triggered 39 gasoline and oil car explosions. Wrecking crews worked through the night as Burlington officials considered friction of steel against gates the cause while Lincoln fire crews battled a sweeping blaze six miles west of Lincoln.
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Emerald
Neb
Burlington & Quincy
Soe
Burlington
Casper
Wyo
Leity of
Lincoln
Aew
WETS Leader Issues Call for Prohibition Meeting
Washington reports a survey of Great Britain’s liquor trade and a push for a national convention to tackle prohibition. Henry H. Curran, head of the anti prohibition group, cites U S costs and British revenue from liquor as arguments. Dr F W Buck says the convention would begin December 8.
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Washington
Great Britain
Henry H. Curran
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
United States
F. W. Buck
Federal Dispensary Tax Reduction League, Inc
Curran
American Aviators Abort Trans-Pacific Flight Near Japan
Harold Bromley and Harold Gatty turned back over the Pacific and landed safely near Shiritsuka in Aomori Prefecture after a 24 hour 52 minute flight in the City of Tacoma. Fog, headwinds, and rain over the Kurile Islands hindered progress toward Tacoma, Washington.
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Tokyo
Harold Bromley
Harold Gatty
Shiritsuka
Ca Shiriya
Aomori Prefecture
Samishiro Beach
Sambongi
City of
Tacoma
Washington
Wireless
Mear
Kurile Island
Japan
Taft
President Taft
Yokohama
Cape Lopatka
Kamchatka Peninsula
Moran gang hit ends with costars lure
Chicago authorities tie the murder of Jack Costa to underworld hit by Moran gang. A woman, Margaret Reardon, 23, allegedly lured Costa and a companion to a Sheridan Road courtyard party as shooters fired from above. Evidence included lipstick marks and cigarette studs near the assassins' rendezvous with links to a prior Costa case.
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Chicago
Moran
Sheridan Road
Jack Costa
Sheridan
Irving Park
Margaret Reardon
Hugh McCarty
Costa
Fred
Miss Reardon
Frank Prescia
Pete” Sierra
Recount Threatens Groesbeck Nomination Victory
Backers claim many errors in tabulations after a Detroit primary. If Groesbeck presses for a recount, final official results may be delayed, jeopardizing Groesbeck’s chance to appear on the November ballot as Wilmer D. Brucker leads by 6,555 votes in revised tallies. The State Board of Canvassers awaits final certification.
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Detroit
Alex Groesbeck
Wilmer D .Brucker
Groesbeck
Brucker
Alen
Setaranenen
Bredeyeris
Eee
State Board of Canvassers
Chicago detectives seize suspect tied to Lingle slaying in Kentucky
Chicago officers planned to detain a Detroit man suspected in the Jake Lingle murder after a Rising Sun jail break led police to the suspect and two accomplices. Indiana and Ohio counties joined the investigation as a hijacking of a Bauer beer truck spurred arrests in Corbin and London.
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London
Chicago
Robert Vickers
Detroit
Ted Geisking
Jake Lingle
Chicago Tribune
Harbly Steele
Vickers
Geisking
Indiana
Steele
Ohio County
Ind
Rising Sun
Laurel County
John G. Graham
Indianapolis
Jesse L. Hodge
Jeffersonville
Corbin
Pistol Point
Joe Myers
Clarence McKee
Myers
Motorcycle cop suspended after arrest at Court and Vine
August Barber of the traffic department was suspended by Maj. Rudolph Wehking after arresting a socialist and a Vine Street merchant at Court and Vine streets Saturday night. Both detainees were released after an alcoholic examination showed no proof of intoxication but noted drinking. Barber faces a morning hearing before Chief Copelaw and inspectors Kane and Weatherly.
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August Barber
Rudolph Wehking
Second District
Barber
Vine Street
Court and
Vine Streets
Maj
Wehking
Court
Copelaw
Michael Kane
Eugene T.weatherly
Fifteen Industries Move Into Cincinnati in First Half
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce reports fifteen new industries added to the city in the first half of the year, boosting the annual payroll by over six million dollars. Government work worth 300,000 and 100,000 in new business for retailers were also noted, signaling ongoing commercial growth amid a low business mood.
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Cincinnati
Chamber of Commerce
William C. Culkins
Chamber
William C. Licht
Culkins
Ohio River
Girl 17 Slain in Bed in South Bend Home
Alice Waltman 17, a St Marys Parochial School student, was killed by a razor-wielding intruder who climbed from a second story window after nearly decapitating her. Her brothers slept nearby as police hunted a presumed former suitor seen in the area.
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South Bend
Ind
Alice Waltman
St. Mary's Parochial
Richard
Henrietta
Evelyn
Kate Waltman
Alice
Florida
Harry
Henry
Waltman
Jury Starts Probe Into Daugherty Bank Failures
Fayette County Prosecutor will ask a grand jury in Washington C. H. O. to investigate the closing of the Ohio State Bank and the Peoples and Drovers Bank last summer. The inquiry follows involuntary bankruptcy filings against Mal S. Daugherty, brother of Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty.
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Harding
Ohio State Bank
People’s and Drovers’ Bank
Gilbert Ettman
Daugherty
Paxon
Grand Jury
State Banking Department
Peoples and Drovers’ Bank
The
Ohio Are Bank
Treasury to Move Over Billion in Quarterly Financing
The Treasury will handle over a billion dollars in financing actions tomorrow as the third quarter income taxes are due. New certificates totaling 334 million dollars at 23 percent will be issued while 351 million in 3 1 4 percent certificates mature and are retired, plus 50.9 million in bills redeemed and 35 million paid on the public debt.
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Washington
Treasury
Mellon
Morrow Urges Understanding Between Nations in Radio Address
Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow spoke from Mexico City urging sympathetic understanding between nations. He praised Mexico on his last Sunday there and warned that machines cannot replace human understanding. He urged studying likenesses of people to foster peace and cooperation.
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New York
Dwight W. Morrow
Mexico City
National Broadcasting System
Mexico
Police kill man and seize loot in city raid
Kansas City dispatch reports police killed a man and recovered Liberty Bonds and money orders valued over 100000 in a raid on a safe blowers rendezvous. Frank Reliser leader, 37, and companion Meda Graham, 37, were arrested. the raid linked the gang to Stilwell Kansas and Frederick Colorado robberies.
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Kansas City
Frank Reliser
Iowa
Colorado
Meda Graham
D. P. Thurman
Reliser
Stilwell
K.s
Frederick
Central City
Colo
Stilwell State
Thurman
Belgian Royal Baby Receives Comte de Hainaut Title
Little Prince Baudouin, son of Crown Prince Leopold and Crown Princess Astrid, has been granted the title Comte de Hainaut by royal decree. The ancient title preserves royal lineage and Baudouin may one day become King of the Belgians.
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Brussels
Baudouin
Leopold
Astrid
Belgium
Comte de
Hainaut
Militia Repulses Raid Near Thanh Cong
In Thanh Cong region the native militia repulsed a raiding party on Thursday with about ten enemy casualties. A detachment of the Foreign Legion was dispatched to reinforce the native troops.
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Saigon
Indo-China
Thanh Cong
Foreign Legion
Victim of Apoplexy Former Cincinnati Clerk Dies at 67
August Kirbert 67 of 2713 Euclid avenue long time clerk of the Cincinnati Municipal Court and former Chairman of the Seventeenth Ward Republican Finance Committee died suddenly of an apoplectic stroke yesterday after being stricken on Vine street. He had served as deputy in the Police Court Clerk's office and later as Chief Municipal Court Clerk. He was a lifelong West End resident active in local politics and a treasurer of the Central Committee during several campaigns.
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August Kirbert
Euclid Avenue
Cincinnati
Republican Finance Committee
Vine Street
Nineteens Fire Company
Vine and
Chariton Streets
Dullee
Glendora Avenue
Kirbert
Harriet and
Gest Streets
West End
Seventeenth Ward
George B. Cox
Rud K. Hynicka
Reichstag Election Totals Reported for Germany
Official final results from Germanys Reichstag election show Socialists leading with 8,572,016 votes, Fascists second at 6,401,210, Communists 4,587,708, Centrists 4,428,929, Nationalists 2,458,497, Economy Party 1,360,585, and smaller groups including Bavarians and others totaling over 30 million votes.
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Berlin
Germany
Reichstag election shocks Germany with Fascist gains
Britain dispatch reports Berlin notes a landslide for Fascists and Communists in the Reichstag election, threatening Chancellor Bruening's government. The Federal Election Commissioner lists seat splits among Socialists, Fascists, Communists, Centrists and others as turnout rises and notable figures like Alfred Hugenberg and Gen. Hans von Seeckt enter the Reichstag.
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Berlin
Germany
Heinrich Bruening
Reichstag
People's Party
Economic Party
States Party
Farmers’ League
Christian Socialists
Peasants’ Party
Landbund
East Prussia
Potsdam
Pomerania
Silesia
Madgeburg
Saxony
Westphalia
Rhineland
Alfred Hugenberg
Hans von Seeckt
Reichswehr
Peoples Party
Temperature and storm notes across states with 1930 table
The report lists Monday and Tuesday showers and thunder storms across Ohio Kentucky Tennessee Indiana and West Virginia with little temperature change. A detailed table for September 14, 1930 shows city temperatures highs and lows for Eastport Louisville Nashville Albany Cleveland New York Chicago Detroit and other cities with rainfall readings and wind data.
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Ohlio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Indiana
West Virginia
Eastport
Louisville
Boston
Nashville
Albany
Cleveland
New York
Detroit
Atl
City
S. Marie
Wash
Chicago
Jackson’le
Duluth
Atlante
St. Louis
N. Orleans
Kan
Galveston
Ssi
Omaha
Pittsburgh
Denver
NeoMcene
Mercecree
Erswan
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Dixie Davis
Pacific
WETS
UN Prohibition
Association
Michigan
Daugherty Bank
Morrow Goodsby
Hynicka
BRUEM
Social-Democrats
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