Quakes Across Five States Rock Eastern U S in Morning
A series of earthquakes shook five eastern states and one Canadian province causing windows to rattle and some property damage. Major shocks were centered near Buffalo and Attica New York with reports from Canandaigua Elmira and Binghamton.
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Springfield
Mass
Norfolk
Camissius College
Buffalo
Canandhaigua
N. Y
Elmira
Corning
Addison
Canisteo
Watkins Glen
Sayre
Alfred
Geényva
Binghamton
Dancer Protected By Armed Guard After Threats
Eunice Pringle a 17 year old dancer is guarded by armed guards amid threats following the arrest of Alexander Pantages a theatre operator on assault charges. Guards also protect three material witnesses after Pringle’s father Dr Lewis A Pringle reported threats that she would be taken out of town if he did not remove her.
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Los Angeles
Eunice Pringle
Alexander Pantages
Lewis A. Pringle
Baron Fitts
Alligator Snags Line Off Mt. Pleasant Coast
Charles D. Mills of Charleston reels in an eleven foot alligator off Mt. Pleasant after it swallows bait hook and line while fishing. The tale ends with Mills making a moral about having too much jaw.
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Charleston
S. C
Charles D. Mills
Mt. Pleasant
Miller
Mounting Alcohol Death Rates Stressed In Prohibition Study
The American Association against Prohibition releases charts showing rising alcoholic death rates and increasing alcoholism in the United States through 1920s figures. It cites 1926 peak death rates, sharp 1920 drop, and higher 1929 first quarters, alongside illicit production gains and rising arrests for drunkenness in major cities.
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Washington
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
United States
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Canada
New York
Massachusetts
Great Britain
America
Association
Mountain feud claims two lives and injures girl in Western Carolina
In Marshall North Carolina on August 12 a Landers double murder and a shooting left Arthur Stanton 36 and Albert King 35 dead. Agnes Stanton 12 was wounded and hospitalized in serious condition. Landers brothers fled to the hills but were captured and jailed with Hubert Stanton. Police probe cites long running family feuds.
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Carolina
Marshall
N. C
Landers
Stanton
Arthur Stanton
Agnes
Hubert
Albert King
King
Arnold
Sampson Landers
Arthur
Asheville
R. R. Ramsay
Hubert Stanton
Stantons
Aviator Chiller Missing After Prospecting Flight
Canadian flying ace Charles A. Chiller known as Duke vanished after takeoff on a two week old prospecting flight along Hudson Bay shore. A second plane from Sioux Lookout joins search with Jack Humble and Tom Creighton aboard.
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Toronto
Charles A. “Duke
Chiller
Wilds
Hudson's Bay
Northern Aerial Minerals Exploration Company
Schiller
Sioux Lookout
Jack Humble
Tom Creighton
Windsor
Ont
England
Phil Wood
Detroit
Gar Wood
St. Gregoire
Que
Old Orchard
Harbor Grace
New Foundland
Claims Under Workmen's Compensation Act Total 2024 in Month
Raleigh August 12. Two thousand twenty four claims were filed with the state industrial commission in the act’s first month of operation. Of these, 585 cases closed, 249 non-tabulatable injuries, 330 medical fees allowed, and 21 785 in medical benefits totalled. The commission approved 23 employer agreements and modified 16 others, while action on 1 439 claims was not possible due to incomplete records.
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Raleigh
State
Idustrial Commission
J. Dewey Dorsett
Industrial Commission
Amos Resting Nicely After Boat Explosion Injury
A High Point rumor claimed C. L. Amos worsened in a New Bern hospital. A special nurse said at 8 p.m. Amos was resting nicely and not in danger, following a Saturday speedboat explosion on New River that caused burns.
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High Point
C. L. Amos
New Bern
Brazilian aviator Farias presumed missing after Pensacola dive
F. P. Cardiero Farias, Brazilian embassy official and trainee, disappeared when his plane plunged into Pensacola Bay during Saturday flight. Rescue teams recovered the craft from 38 feet of water but found no sign of the body. An official report on the plunge is awaited as naval fliers hold back explanations until the aircraft is examined. The aviator arrived July 4 for a special Brazilian navy course and left a widow and two children awaiting news.
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Pensacola
Fla
Pensacola Bay
F. P. Cardiero Farias
Washington
Pensacola Naval Air Base
Farias
Blimp Set for 6600 Mile Tokyo Hop From Germany
Graf Zeppelin commanded by Dr. Hugo Eckener ordered cleared for sailing on the Tokyo leg of its world flight. The 6,600 mile route options include northern Siberia or a southern path, with an expected five day duration at 55 mph. Weather gaps and uncharted airspace raise major hazards.
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Friedrichshafen
Hugo Eckener
Graf Zeppelin
Tokyo
Siberia
Eckener
Atlantic
Chita
Sibéria
Peiping
Hwanghai
Yellow Sea
Treacherous Waters Claim Two at Milburnie Race
In Raleigh on August 12 two drowning victims were recovered after the Milburnie race on the Neuse river dam six miles away. Henry Ellington, 56, and his wife were swept to their deaths while Ellington tried to save her. He and four others have perished in three years at this race. Ommie Cross and Elizabeth Phillips, two Raleigh girls, were present but unharmed. Ellington, a tattooed man, could not swim and died after entering the water fully clothed.
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Raleigh
Milburnie
Neuse River
Henry Ellington
Ellington
Ommie Cross
Elizabeth Phillips
Wade
Greenville Mills Resume Operation
Following two weeks of idleness in many mills all textile plants in this section were back on full time schedule today. There will be no more curtailment in August and probably none the rest of the summer. Mills here expect possible curtailment the first week in September only if the market does not improve. Most plants are operating both night and day shifts and this schedule is expected to continue without interruption.
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Greenville
S&s. C
Brooklyn bull fighter Sid Franklin hurt in Lisbon corrida
Sidney Franklin of Brooklyn rested after a strenuous fight with a bull in Lisbon. He sustained a leg flesh wound and had a narrow escape when caught by the horns but avoided being gored during yesterday's corrida.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Sidney Franklin
Brooklyn
N. Y
Young Friends Conference Opens at Guilford College
More than 200 attendees from North Carolina and other states gathered at Guilford College in Greensboro for the annual Young Friends conference. The event runs through Thursday afternoon with programs led by Dr. Raymond Binford and speakers Win Rea gan and Dr. Elwood C. Perisho.
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Greensboro
N. C
North Carolina
Guilford College
Young Friends Conference
Raymond Binford
William J. Reagan
Oakwood School
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Rankin Begins Nonstop Flight From Los Angeles
Municipal airport officials report Tex Rankin left Los Angeles at 4 49 a m heading to Agua Caliente Mexico aboard a nonstop attempt. The aviator flies from Vancouver after hopping off early this morning.
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Los Angeles
Tex Rankin
Vancouver
B. C
Agua Caliente
Mexico
Southern workers paid dying wage says AFL leader
Raleigh August 12 In a radio address E F McGrady national legislative representative of the American Federation of Labor and William Green head of the AFL denounced southern industry for paying a dying wage. He said Hoover angers poverty but the industrial autocrats of the south keep wages and hours low. He warned against communists and said the AFL spent 160000 last year opposing them while pursuing living wages and worker organization.
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Raleigh
South
E. F. McGrady
American Federation of Labor
William Green
McGrady
State Federation of Labor
Hoover
Pilot killed in Pittsburgh plane crash
Harry Smith aged 26 from Akron Ohio was killed instantly when his plane crashed on the Pittsburgh McKeesport boulevard near Bettis Field after a takeoff from Bettis Field. He reportedly became disoriented in heavy fog.
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Pittsburgh
Harry Smith
Akron
Ohio
Pittsburgh-McKeesport
Bettis Field
Robbery Strikes Hutchinson Estate Sparks Beverly Panic
In Beverly Mass wealthy summer residents react to a $250000 jewelry theft from Sydney E Hutchinson a Philadelphia broker and J P Morgan partner s home. Police investigate two theories inside job or porch climber using airplane observation while reports of attempted thefts at other residences surface.
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Beverly
Mass
West Side
Sydney E. Hutchinson
Philadelphia
E. T. Stotesbury
J. P. Morgan and Company
Hutchinson
Godfrey I. Cabit
Crops Damaged By Storm In Ontario
A weekend storm across Ontario caused ruined crops and damaged buildings. Wind rain and hail destroyed orchard and grain crops while lightning struck structures starting several fires with losses reported in the Toronto area over the weekend.
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Toronto
Ontario
Automobile Exports Hit New High in First Half 1929
Commerce department reports U S automotive exports valued at 354,874,924 during the first six months of 1929, topping the 1928 record by 92,200,361 and signaling strong export growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Editor and printer fined for sedition in India
Calcutta reports Ramananda Chatterjee and Sajanikanta Das of the Modern Review were sentenced to three months in prison and fined 1,000 rupees for publishing the book India in Bondage by American D J T Sutherland.
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Calcutta
India
D. J. T. Sutherland
Ramananda Chatterjee
Sajanikanta Das
Modern Review
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