Rescue Efforts Continue At Utah Coal Mine Toll Rises
Salt Lake City dispatch reports four more bodies recovered and five entombed miners rescued as Standard Coal Mine at Standardville Utah is cleared of fumes. Four escaped earlier, and a growing death toll now lists sixteen identified victims while ventilation is restored and debris cleared.
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Salt Lake City
Standard Coal Mining
Standardville
Utah
Iwo
Salt Lake Tribune
Nother
Duke
Standard Coal
Standardvills
Min Company
Agus Barney
R. T. Springer
L. Jensen
Carlyle Smith
Bogggs
T. L
F. P. Pritchett
Thers
William McGuire
Tobe Ber
Frank L. James
Cydy
Udell Fowces
J. D. Duke
Ney Johnson
William Watson Clawson Elliott
Knife Victim John Coats Died From Uncle Stabbing Near Mars Hill
John Coats 33 of California Creek Madison County died in Asheville hospital after being stabbed by Cornelus Higgins 55, his uncle, in a Thursday quarrel near their Mars Hill neighborhood. Coats was treated at Mars Hill College nurse Miss Kelly before transport, dying at 2:15 a.m. Friday.
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John Coats
Asheville Hospital
Higgins
Asheville
California Creek
Madison County
Meanwnile
Cornelus Miggins
Tir
Miggins
Mars Hill
Coats
Kelly
Mars Hill College
Villa Miramar Mayors Shot On Inauguration Night
In Villa Miramar near Tampico the outgoing mayor Martin Martinez and incoming mayor Rodriguez were shot at a party honoring the inauguration. An unidentified gunman fired, killing Martinez and mortally wounding Rodriguez before escaping. Military patrols remained posted as tensions rose after the incident.
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Hampico
Mexico
Villamira
Schpal
Tamin
Martin Martinez
Rodriguez
Ublic
Prest- Ortiz Rubio
Buncombe County Treasurer Seat Open After Jenkins Declines
L Jenkins, president of a local bank, announced he will not seek re election as Buncombe County treasurer. Jenkins had been elected on the Republican ticket and his term expires December 1930 in Sheville February 7.
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Jenkins
Sheville
L. Jenkins
Didate
Buncombe County
J. Jenkins
Chicago Employes Paid in Script in a Back-Pay Plan
Chicago officials initiated back-pay through tax anticipation warrants signed by Mayor Thompson and Deputy Controller Victor Petterson. Polices, firemen, and others who opted for script could receive partial pay, while teachers missed a Christmas payroll with $4.455 million still owed.
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Chicago
Thompson
Victor Petterson
Comptroller’s
H. Wallace Caldwell
New York City
New Car Sales In State Cut In Half
North Carolina January 1930 new car sales totaled 3 441, down sharply from 6 820 a year earlier. Sprague Silver, director of the motor vehicle bureau, cited bad January weather as the main cause. In 1929 total new car sales reached 73 860 with an estimated 60 million dollars in purchases.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Sprague Silver
Motor Vehicle Bureau
State Revenue Department
Lavarre Loses $600 By Forfeiture In Restraining Row
William Lavarre, publisher of Spartanburg papers, forfeits $600 after failing to post a $2,000 bond to appeal contempt conviction. A restraining order halted him from entering the Spartanburg Journal plant as he and associates fought for control of the Spartanburg Herald and Journal amid multi-paper litigation.
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T. J. Mauldin
Spartanburg Journal
Lavarre
Bond
Journal
Spartanburg Herald
J. T. Webb
Bascom v. Deaver
Macon
Spartanburg
Columbia
S. C
Record
Augusta
Robbery at Franklinville Store Breaks Open Safe
Yeggmen blasted open the Franklinville Store Company safe last night and escaped with about 1000 dollars in cash. Early today the scene showed scattered new clothes and disordered stock while an iron crow bar indicated entry through a rear window. Fingerprint experts were summoned to investigate.
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Franklinville
N. C
Randolph County
Song bootleggers linked to Capone court case in New York
In federal court two men Morris Shapiro and Samuel A. Cohen faced copyright law charges amid claims by Nathan Burkan that Capone-backed operatives pirate songs. Burkan said Chicago origins and Capone ties fueled the racket, cutting Irving Berlin sales from 15000 to 6000 copies daily. U.S. Attorney Tuttle and officials also reported threats after a Brooklyn stabbing over interrupting bootleggers.
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New York
al Capone
Chicago
Morris Sha-piro
Samuel A. Cohen
Nathan Burkan
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Irving Berlin
United States
Charles H. Tuttle
Grover A. Whalen
John G. Payne
Music Publishers
Brooklyn
Auto Death Toll in North Carolina Rises in 1929
State reports 690 deaths from 641 fatal auto accidents in 1929, up 13 percent from 1928. Nationally 31,500 killed and 6 plus daily fatalities. Sunday saw the heaviest toll with 161 fatalities. Drivers urged to use common sense and stay on their side of the road.
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Raleigh
Web
North Carolina
Motor Vehicle Bureau
State Revenue Department
United States
Spruill
National Safety Council of Chicago
Spruitt
Prohibition Indictments Hit Alabama District
A federal grand jury in Birmingham returned indictments against 232 people for violations of national prohibition laws. The probe labeled the effort the most sweeping liquor cleanup in the district’s history.
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Ontgomery
Ala
W. L. Grubb
Birmingham
Alabama
Oston
Federal
Massachusetts
Elihu D. Stone
U. S
Hoover to address Boy Scouts birthday celebration
The Boy Scouts of America announced that President Hoover as honorary president will speak at the organization’s twentieth birthday party in Washington on March 10. The address will be broadcast nationwide by the National and Columbia networks.
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Ashington
Boy Scouts of America
Hoover
Boy Scouts
Washington
National
Columbia
Mistrial In $50 000 Suit At Greensboro
In Greensboro a $50,000 damage suit against the Atlantic and Yadkin railroad ended in a mistrial after a juror asked the plaintiff if he was the man who had married a woman the juror knew. Judge Pender A. MacElroy ordered the mistrial after learning of the juror's conversation.
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Greensboro
L. E. Smith
Boyd Smith
Atlantic and Yadkin Railroad
G. P. Apple
Smith
Pender A. MacElroy
Apple
Mr. Smith
Brookhart LaGuardia Prohibition Debate Tonight in Cleveland
Congressman Fiorello LaGuardia of New York and Senator Smith W Brookhart of Iowa will debate here tonight on Can Prohibition Be Enforced The dry Brookhart supports enforcement while LaGuardia leads the wet side in the house in this Cleveland event
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Cleveland
Fiorello LaGuardia
New York
Smith ‘W. Brookhart
Iowa
Officials Stage Fifth Encounter in Cape Town Senate
CAPE TOWN Feb 7 Senator T Boydell former minister of labor knocked T S Warwick a member of the opposition unconscious with a blow on the chin in the senate today after Boydell asked Warwick to apologize for a blow Warwick delivered at an election meeting in Durban Warwick refused.
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Cape Town
Union of South Africa
T. Boydell
Labor
S. Warwick
Senate
Boydell
Warwick
Durban
Munyan Will Filed for Probate in High Point Estate
The $60,000 estate of W. G. Munyan is admitted to probate by the Superior Court clerk. Grandchildren Ida Catherine, William Downey, and John Irvin Munyan each receive $2,000 cash. The remainder goes to widow Ida Thankful Munyan and daughter Mary M. Munyan, who are named joint executors.
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Greensboro
W. G. Munyan
High Point
Superior Court
Ida Catherine
William Downey
John Irvin Munyan
Ida Thankful Munyan
Mary M. Munyan
Heflin Refuses To Withdraw Letter From Record
Senator Copeland demands expunging Heflin letter on intermarriage from Congressional Record. The Alabama Senator refused to withdraw the note about Phil Edwards, NYU track captain, marrying a white girl. Copeland calls the letter offensive to New York and presses for removal.
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Washington
Copeland
New York
Senate
Heflin
Alabama
Phil Edwards
N. Y
Beck warns GOP doomed if it backs prohibition in House
Rep. Beck of Pennsylvania told the House prohibition would destroy the Republican Party if it remains the party of dry laws. He said the party cannot be half wet and half dry and that enforcement hypocrisy would harm moral standards, urging state control over enforcement with living generations deciding future action.
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Washington
Republican Party
Beck
Pennsylvania
United States
Party of Prohibition
Congress
U S Exports Outpace Imports by Billion in 1929
United States foreign trade data for 1929 show Europe bought about 1 billion dollars more in American goods than it sold to the U S. Canada stood as the top customer and also the top source of imports for the year. Exports to the U S from Canada reached 948 501 227 dollars while imports from Canada totaled 914 713 215 dollars the prior year.
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Washington
United States
Commerce’ Department
Canada
Sir Esme Invited To Kings Mountain
Washington February 7 Ambassador Sir Esme Howard of Great Britain was urged by Clarence C. Keuster of the Charlotte chamber to attend the Kings Mountain celebration. The ambassador charcoal smiled and replied that he must catch a train but would write.
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Washington
Hoover
Kings Mountain
Clarence C. Keuster
Charlotte Chamber of Commerce
Esme Howard
Great Britain
Charlotte
Cotton Weakens Again in New York Market
New York cotton prices slipped further on February 7 as futures traded about one dollar per bale below the previous day. A chart shows a sharp decline since mid January with nearly a ten dollar drop per bale from the mid month peak.
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New York
Prominent High Point Woman Ida Alexander Dies at Home
Miss Ida Alexander a longtime High Point resident and member of the Alexander family died at 11 o clock last night at her English street home. She was daughter of Harrison and Sarah Jarrell Alexander and survived by three sisters two brothers and two sisters in law. A charter LL D member and officer of Wesley Memorial church and High Point chapter LL D funeral services set for tomorrow at the residence with Rev John W Moore leading. The body to be interred in Armfield mausoleum temporarily.
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Ida Alexander
High Point
Englishtreet
Harrison
Sarah Jarrell Alexander
Piedmont
North Carolina
Alexander
Guilford County
Minnie
Mary Alexander
Charles F. Long
A. E. Alexander
Paul Casey
Josephus Pell
Wesley Memorial Church
LL. D
John W. Moore
Armfield Mausoleum
Georgia Coeds Seek Smoking Privilege on Campus
At the University of Georgia Athens Feb 7 coeds have asked the administration to rescind a ban on smoking in dormitories and other campus buildings. The women student council adopted resolutions requesting permission to smoke regardless of professors and authorities. No official action has been taken yet by administrators.
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Athens
University of Georgia
Women Student Council
Aviation Color Rules Show At New York Aviation Expo
The New York aviation show opens with 42 planes at Grand Central Palace. Color dominates wings and fuselages from sport to transport craft, with four gliders including Lindbergh related replica. The Flying Dutchman weighs 835 pounds and is mostly black with white borders. A giant 24 passenger Uppercu Burnelli monoplane leads the display at Keyport New Jersey.
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Grand Central Palace
New York
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
California
Szekely Aircraft Company
Holland
Mich
MacDonald Offers Concessions At Naval Conference
Prime Minister MacDonald issued a British policy statement that American delegates called acceptance of Col. Henry L. Stimson's plan for parity. Britain favors immediate submarine abolition with defences only, allows some cruiser tonnage, and considers aircraft carrier limits and reduced aircraft tonnage in talks with the American team.
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London
MacDonald
Henry L. Stimson
Stimson
Dominions
Gil Pushes Probe of Rubio Shooting
Emilio Portes Gil orders a broad investigation into the attempted assassination of Pascual Ortiz Rubio. Detentions include the suspect Flores and about 20 others in Mexico City, with seven more arrests at San Luis Potosi. President Ortiz Rubio recovers from surgery as messages of support pour in from around the world.
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Mexico City
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Emilio Portes Gil
Daniel Fiores
Flores
Arnulfo
Pilar
San Luis Potosi
Ortiz Rubio
Hoover
Canton Seeks Public Library Amid Civic Drive
Canton announces a move to establish a public library with sponsorship from local civic organizations. The initiative aims to provide community access to books and resources through a new library building and services.
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