Explosion wrecks torpedo-loading area at Brazilian naval lab
In Nichteroy across from Rio de Janeiro, a massive blast at the naval laboratory’s torpedo loading room wrecked the building and a three story adjoiner. About 200 dead or seriously injured, with 400 workers affected, and many transported to Nichteroy hospital illuminated the scene as rescuers retrieved victims.
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Naval Laboratory
RO DE Janeiro
Graz
Nichtheroy
Rio de Janeiro
Ministry of Marine
Forces Attack Madeira in Fierce Bombardment
Federal forces aboard Portuguese warships began a renewed assault on Madeira with an intensive bombardment targeting rebel forces that set up a junta in Funchal. Three infantry detachments landed at Machico, supported by naval guns and sea planes, as shells hit surrounding districts and the city remained largely deserted.
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Lisbon
Funchal
Machito
House sustains Speaker in amendment ruling on revenue bill
In Raleigh on April 30 the North Carolina House upheld Speaker Smith when it sustained his ruling that Amendment 10 could not be offered. A roll call vote showed 64 to 31 in favor of the speaker as Ervin of Burke had appealed the ruling after two hours of wrangling.
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Raleigh
Smith
Ervin
Burke
House
Hood
Wayne
Connor
Wilson
McRae
Mecklenburg
Brookor
Durham
Moss
Nash
Waynick
Guilford
Brooks
Halstead
Camden
Parker
Johnson
Halifax
Woodard
MacLean
Beaufort
Lumpkin
Franklin
Churches Robbed in Paywtteville Area
Police hunt a thief who targets churches. Two antique communion chairs were stolen from First Presbyterian in Paywtteville, and a pulpit Bible was taken from South River Presbyterian Church in Bladen County.
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Paywtteville
N. C
First Presbyterian Church
South River Presbyterian Church
Bladen County
Woman 19 Shoots Self After Love Disappointment
Ruby Smith of a rural home near Goldsboro North Carolina shot herself early today after friends said she faced a disappointed romance.
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Goldsboro
N. C
Ruby Smith
Davidson ROTC Instructor Ordered to Report for Duty
Capt. John A. Otto of the Davidson College ROTC faculty is ordered by the War Department to report for duty at Fort Meade Maryland in September. The announcement came from the campus today.
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Davidson, N
John A. Otto
Davidson College
War Department
Fort Meade
Negro farmer jailed in Charlotte on assault charge
Ed Robinson a Negro farmer was jailed in Charlotte on April 30 on a charge of assaulting the wife of a Mecklenburg county farmer last night. The woman identified Robinson as her assailant, and he is held without bond.
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Charlotte
N. C
Ed Robinson
Mecklenburg County
Sam P. Deweese
Rural Police
Robinson
Goers on Trial in Banking Case at Statesville
GOERS ON TRIAL STATESVILLE N C April 30 AP E Grier Waugh former clerk in the Commercial National Bank here which closed three years ago today went on trial on a charge of violating the banking laws He was indicted on six counts two of false entries amounting to $1900 and four of abstractions totalling $900.
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Goers
Statesville
N. C
E. Grier Waugh
Commercial National Bank
Monument to the Legion Leader Unveiled in Algeria
In Sidi Bel Abbes Algeria an imposing monument to the head of the French Foreign Legion was unveiled. The trunk shaped pyramid with a globe stands nearly feet high and is surrounded by figures of legionnaires meeting soldiers of 1831, the corps foundation year. It bears the inscription The Lion To Its Dead.
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Sidi Bel Abbes
Algeria
Ihe
Tegionaies
State To Cooperate In Senate Election Probe
The senate passed a substitute resolution authorizing cooperation with the U S Senate elections subcommittee in the Bailey Pritchard senatorial contest probe. Ballots and boxes not destroyed will be gathered and given to federal investigators when requested, at no expense to the state. Cooperation will proceed as far as possible despite the late stage of the contest.
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Raleigh
Senate
House
United States
Bailey-Pritchard
Superior Court
J. W. Bailey
George M. Pritchard
Police Raid at State Capitol Finds Whiskey and Arrests
Federal agents raided the Arkansas state capitol and arrested R. F. Williams, 23, as a gallon of whiskey was seized for delivery. Officers also found 12 quarts and five pints of whiskey in Williams? car on the capitol grounds. Special Agent Arthur Satterfield said the gallon was ordered for delivery to an unnamed recipient before yesterday afternoon's baseball game.
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Little Rock
Ark
Prohibition
State Capital
R. F. Williams
Williams
Capital Grounds
Arthur Satterfield
Quakes In Soviet Republic Claim 392 Lives
MOSCOW Apr 30 Three hundred ninety two persons are known to have perished in the earthquakes that devastated three districts of the Soviet republic of Nakichevan in Transcaucasia. Two hundred killed and 205 injured in the Gerassy region. 192 dead and 600 injured in the Sisiana region. Eighty percent of villages in the Bangezur district destroyed. great numbers of cattle perished. Tiflis and Erivan shaken. Queriussain district Armenia believed to have suffered many casualties.
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Moscow
Nakichevan
Transcaucasia
Gerassy
Sisiana
Bangezur
Tiflis
Erivan
Queriussain
Armenia
Author and Actor Tell Fish Tales
Rex Beach the author and Fred Stone the musical comedy star returned from a ten day gulf tarpon fishing trip reporting 52 big tarpon caught with weights near 125 pounds each. They sighted many more and even refused an unaided 80 pound tarpon after consulting on sportsmanlike ethics.
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Fort Myers
Fla
Rex Beach
Fred Stone
Gulf
May Day Police Ordered Mobilization In New York
Police Commissioner Mulrooney ordered special police details to protect churches public buildings and homes of prominent citizens for May Day celebrations. Precinct commanders near Union Square were told to keep reserve squads ready amid anticipated gatherings by communists socialists and veterans of foreign wars.
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New York
Mulrooney
Union Square
King George IX Takes First Public Walk Since Illness
King George and Queen Mary stepped from Windsor Castle for a grounds walk marking the monarchs first public appearance since the illness announcement a month ago. The royal party toured the castle grounds under light spring skies.
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King of England
Windsor
Eng
George
Windsor Castle
Mary
Searchers Start Out To Seek For Lost Explorer
Icelandic patrol vessel Odin heads north with a plane on deck and a flier aboard bound for Greenland to search for Augustine Courtauld the young British explorer. English relief efforts are coordinated by Captain Ralph Rayner as Courtauld’s sister and Molly Montgomery await news.
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Augustine Courtauld
Greenland
Reykjavik
Iceland
Courtauld
Molly Montgomery
America
Atlantic
Ralph Rayner
Ellerts
Ion
Hero Bryan Begs Hero Days In Washington Visit
Byron Untiedt, a Colorado snowbound bus hero, begins a second day with President Hoover. The boy tours the White House, watches a Siamese royal reception, and dines in the children's room with food served to King Prajadhipok and Queen Barni. He stayed in the Blue Room overnight and continues a packed agenda.
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Washington
Byron Untiedt
Hoover
Colorado
Bryan
Siam
King Prajadhipok
Queen Barni
White House
Three men on trial for robbery of filling station
In Greensboro on April 30 the trial of Romulus Thompson Jr Merlin Boone and Ed Alexander for the east Greensboro filling station robbery consumed the morning. Thompson and Boone pleaded guilty and testified for the state. Alexander's case rested before noon. The court continued Garland Withers of High Point on a resisting officer charge for the term.
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Greensboro
Superior Court
Romulus Thompson, Jr
Merlin Boone
Ed Alexander
Thompson
Boone
Alexander
Garland Withers
High Point
Husband watches wife and lover drink poison in Chicago
Ralph Garrison of Kalamazoo saw Mrs Garrison and J H Hartung drink poison in a downtown Chicago hotel room. Hartung and the woman died. police say Hartung lured her into the poison and killed himself amid a reconciliation attempt. Garrison and Mrs Jones were present and later traveled to reclaim belongings.
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Chicago
Ralph Garrison
Kalamazoo
Mabe
Mra
J. H. Hartung
Aan. O
Hartung
Garrison
Mrs. Garrison
Tyrus Cobb's Wife Withdraws Divorce Suit
Augusta Georgia April 30 The divorce suit filed by Mrs. Charles Mari Lombard Cobb on April 15 has been withdrawn. The former baseball star and winter sports commissioner announced that the decision was made by Mrs. Cobb on her own initiative and that no further comment would be provided.
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Augusta
Tyrus Raymond Cobbs
Charles Mari Lombard Cobb
Death of Dr. Edwin A Alderman Virginia University President
Dr. Edwin A Alderman former president of the University of Virginia for 27 years died at 69 after a stroke while en route to Urbana Illinois for the induction of Dr Harry W Chase as president of the University of Illinois. He is survived by his wife Bessie Green Hearn and a son Edwin A Alderman Jr.
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Hoover
Cafe Henry
John Pollard
Virginia
America
University of Virginia
Harry W. Chase
University of Illinois
Charlottesville
Edwin A. Alderman
Alderman
Urbana
Til
Washington
Connellsville
State Hospital
N. C
University of North Carolina
Wilmington
North Carolina
State Normal College
University
Tulane University
Bessie Green Hearn
New Orleans
Edwin A. Alderman, Jr
New York
Masked Bandits Steal From Canal Bank Branch
Four bandits, three masked, robbed the Ewing Market branch of Canal Bank and Trust in New Orleans before noon. They held a dozen employees and three customers at gunpoint and escaped with several thousand dollars in an auto driven by a man wearing a black hood. Bank officials estimated loot between 3000 and 4000 dollars.
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New Orleans
Ewing Market
Canal Bank and Trust Company
Offenders in Catskill See Action Against Diamond Gang
In Catskill New York April 30 federal and state authorities press charges against the Diamond gang. Attorney General John J Bennett says Legs Diamond faces new kidnapping and gun violation indictments while a federal warrant targets a Diamond ally running a still. Diamond remains hospitalized in Albany with gun wounds and pleurisy.
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Catskill
N. Y
John J. Bennett
Legs Diamond
Diamond
Albany
Uniform Textbooks Measure Is Passed
The senate passed the Pitts bill to require uniform textbooks in all high schools of the state. The act mandates the same texts across schools, replacing the prior multiple texts and county selections. Adoptions will be made for five year periods.
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Raleigh
Senate
Armenia Quake Kills Nearly 400 and Harms 2,000
An Armenian earthquake near Nakichivan and Sisina kills almost 400 and injures about 2,000 with $1,000,000 in damage. Villages like Gerusin Megrin and Sisian suffer extensive ruin as 20,000 peasants become homeless amid rainfall and scarce food. Wires and electric systems are crippled.
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Erivan
Armenia
Nakhichevan
Sisina
Gerusin
Megrin
Kalance
Gerasin
Sisian
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N. J
Booz
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Soviet Republic
Tell Fish Tales
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Albin Ahrenberg
London
England
Buy Hero
Bryan Untiedt
Tyrus Cobb
General Education Board
Woodrow Wilson
Education Board
South
Congress
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