Heat Wave Deaths Across Eastern States Relieve Shortly
Heat wave across the eastern states caused nine deaths with storms in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut Valley. Storms damaged homes, toppled trees, cut power in Holyoke and Springfield area, while a captain from the Army was killed near Sharon, Massachusetts. Pittsburgh area reports at least eleven deaths from heat and drownings as the region faced unseasonable humidity and high temperatures.
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Massachusetts
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Reading
Albany
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Holyoke
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Sale Army
Sharon
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Long Island
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Pittsburgh
Weather Outlook Local Thunder Showers Tonight and Tuesday
Local forecast calls for scattered thunder showers tonight and Tuesday with little temperature change. A moist, unsettled pattern remains in place across the region, bringing brief downpours and possible lightning. Highs and lows should stay around seasonal norms.
Budget Chief Seeks 1930 Fiscal Plan For Nation
Brig. Gen. H. M. Lord director of the budget arrived at Superior to present President Coolidge with preliminary estimates for 1930 totaling under 2.7 billion dollars. He noted increases for several departments while keeping total within the speech-set limit. The 1929 budget was about 3.3 billion, with the rise due to larger agency appropriations and full inclusion of anticipated expenditures including tax refunds. The proposed 1930 total also reflects nearly 40 million more for national defense.
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Great Mexico City quake wipes parts of town
Mexico City reports the most violent earthquake on record with patches from Pinotepa in Oaxaca province. After the noon quake fifty aftershocks struck Saturday and ten Sunday morning. Residents fled into the open amid panics as buildings toppled and several mountains reportedly vanished. Nearby towns including Jamiltepec Cacaluatepec TiaMnemonic Minizo suffered damage but no confirmed casualties.
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Pinotepa
Oaxaca
Huixtetle
JamiMtepec
Cacaluatepec
Tiainaca
Minizo
Nooa
Huronic Steamer Reported Aground On Lake Superior
The Canadian passenger steamer Huronic was aground on Lucile Island on the north shore of Lake Superior. Wireless messages said passengers and crew were not in danger but the ship was hard on the rocks. She had left Duluth bound for Detroit via Port Arthur.
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Huronic
Lucile Island
Lake Superior
Radio Corporation of America
Duluth
Detroit
Port Arthur
Manin Woods Slain and Burned in New Jersey
A man about 30, six feet tall, found shot through head and back, then burned along a Palisades road near Inglewood. Police suspect a gang feud and a ride from New York, with clothing saturated in gasoline. Remains show blue pinstripe suit. hands scorched to hinder identification by fingerprints. Continued on page six.
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New York
Six Hurt In Aurora Area Motorcycle Mishap
Floyd Hamilton proprietor of a local Harley agency is in Oakland hospital with a broken left leg and arm and head contusion after a Sunday crash on the Northwestern Pike two miles west of Aurora. His wife Mrs Hamilton and two small children escaped with minor injuries. Hazlett Hendershott Nina Zinn and a Clarksburg pair were injured in a second crash near Aurora when motorcycles tangled near two parked cars. Hendershot suffered a cut foot and acid burn from a leaking battery. Zinn and the others received minor injuries. The Hamiltons were later moved to Jetty hospital where Lloyd Hamilton remained semiconscious. doctors doubted a skull fracture. Continued on page Alt.
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Aurora
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Hamilton
Companione
Flyer pupil die in crash in New Jersey field
In Plainsfield New Jersey Gustave Staiger a 20 year old veteran of the German air force and Colongwood Harris of Cranford New Jersey were killed when their training plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Hadley field as motorists observed the craft losing altitude and nose diving into a field The instructor and his pupil perished with the wreckage.
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New Jersey
Gustave Staiger
New York
Colongwood Harris
Cranford
Hadley
Plainfield
Metuchen
German Ship Rescues Poles After Ocean Flight Breakage
Major Kasimir Kubala and Major Louis Idzikowski abandoned a Paris to New York attempt when a broken pipe halted their fuel. After 38 hours aloft over the Atlantic they were rescued by the German steamer Samos near Lexicoes, near Oporto. They plan to return to Paris.
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Kazimin Kubala
le Bourget
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New York
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Azores
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Idzikowski
Airamen
America
Cape Finisterre
Spain
Samos
Paris
Atlantic
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Minnewaska
Courtney
Marszalek Pilsudski
Amakura
Europe
Martinsburg native Daniel D Auto dies after appendix operation
Daniel T. D Auto, former Martinsburg resident and WVU track star, died in a Richmond hospital after an appendix operation. He captained WVU in 1926 and helped hold state records in 100 and 200 yard dashes. He had been traveling secretary for Sigma Phi Epsilon. Body to be brought to Martinsburg for burial.
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Daniel D'Apto
Timne
West Virginia University
Richmond
D'Auto
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Morgantown
Daniel ‘T. D'Anto
D'Aulo
Martinsburg High
Penn
D'Aupto
Sigma Phi Epaton National Fraternity
Havie Re Grace
Delegates to Be Selected for Judicial and State Conventions
Delegates will be chosen tomorrow afternoon in five Republican district meetings and a single Democratic session at the Y M C A. Judge Warren B. Kittle of Philippi seeks support from Taylor county delegates to secure renomination on the first ballot. The judicial convention meets in Grafton next Tuesday, with the state convention set for Fairmont on August 15.
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Warren B. Kittle
Philippi
Nineteenth Judicial Circuit
Insurance Company Facing Investigation
From St Louis eight insurance commissioners investigate International Life Insurance Company. They demand 3.5 million in securities within a week or face criminal action. Roy Toombs of Chicago denies any shortage and says the company is in splendid condition.
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Roy
Toombs
International Life. Insurance Company
Chicago
Charles R. Detrick
California
Slaying Shocks Western City Noted Socialite Found Dead
In Los Angeles state authorities report the slaying of Myrtle L. Mellus 41 a wealthy social figure. Suspect Leo Pat Kelly 29 was captured after a struggle at the Mellus residence and denies murder claiming a beating occurred during a quarrel. Jewelry worth ten thousand dollars remained untouched.
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Myrtle L. Mellus
Mellus
Leo Pat Kelly
Frank Mellus
Kelly
Case Cinched by Officials
Los Angeles police tie Russell St. Clair Beitzel of Philadelphia to the June murder of Barbara Mauger. They expect clothing from Phoenix to clinch the case, as the nude body was found in Hollywood hills with a head wound. A taxi driver’s identification linked Beitzel to the July 1 pickup and hill trip, with creosote traces suspected to mask decay.
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Russell St. Clair
Beitzel
Philadelphia
Barbara Mauger
Phoenix
Arizona
Beftzel
Hollywood
R. T. Redell
Redell
Two Hundred Injured In Illinois Rail Crash
A Chicago to New Orleans train collided with a pipe on the tracks near Mounds Illinois causing a double derailment. Nine killed and about two hundred injured, with both white and Black passengers among the wounded. Efforts deployed to transport the injured to Cairo and St Louis as officials investigate the cause.
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Se No. 3
New Oil Limited
Condy Reeder
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