Mob Burns Suspect on Garrett Rural School Roof
In Maryville Missouri 1909 era guardsmen failed to stop a mob that seized Raymond Gunn a black man accused of assault and murder. He was chained to the roof of Garrett Rural School and burned to death as thousands gathered near the scene. The mob stripped his clothes and dragged him toward the burning building as patrols tried to contain unrest.
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Maryville
Garrett
Velma Colter
Raymond Gunn
Gaunt
Missouri National Guardsmen
Gunn
Tradewind two feared lost after Azores takeoff
Little hope rests for the safety of Mrs Beryl Hart and Lt William MacLaren, both from Bermuda, who departed Hamilton for Horta in the monoplane Tradewind. Storms, poor visibility, and a northeast gale thwarted their flight, with no word or sighting since takeoff.
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Horta
Island of
Fayal
Azores
Atlantic
Beryl Hart
William 8. MacLaren
Hamilton
Bermuda
Paris
Gardner to Present Budget Message and Appropriations Bill
Raleigh January budget actions await legislature convening tonight after weekend recess. Gardner seeks a ten percent salary cut and the 600 page budget detailing state financials and agency requests for two years. Senate and house committee assignments expected, with Campbell bill funding inland waterway right of way from Southport to the South Carolina line.
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Raleigh
Gardner
Senate
House
Southport
Sout Carolina Line
Chicago Bomb King In Critical Shape
Chicago Jan. 12 The career of James Belcastro known as the bomb king of Chicago and one of the original 28 public enemies ends temporarily as he is shot by two men outside his brother in law’s home in Little Italy. Five bullets pierce his head and body and he is in critical condition at a hospital.
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Chicago
James Belcastro
Little
Italy
Four Tariff Commission Nominees Are Confirmed
Four of President Hoover's six tariff commission nominees were quickly confirmed by the senate. The confirmed were Fletcher Page Coulter and Dennis with Benson challenging the fifth Brossard. Harrison opposed Dennis, Glass lauded Page, and Reed noted Page's disinterested expertise. The fight over three Hoover picks to the power commission persisted.
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Washington
Hoover
Commission
Senate
Edgar B. Brossard
Utah
Henry P. Fletcher
Pennsylvania
Thomas W. Page
Virginia
John Lee Coulter
North Dakota
Alfred P. Dennis
Maryland
Borah
Fletcher
Page
Coulter
Dennis
Harrison
Mississippi
Glass
Reed
Power Commission
Dill
Interstate Commerce Committee
Smith
Garland
Draper
Wheeler
Montana
Tariff Commission
Lincoln Dixon
Indiana
Brossard
Dixon
Oldest Henderson Resident Dies At 87
Henderson obituary notes Sallie Eugenia Kerner 87 and longtime First Methodist member. She died Sunday. Survived by son L. C. Kerner, a leading local druggist, and three daughters. Burial scheduled for this afternoon.
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Henderson
Sallie Eugenia Kerner
First Methodist Church
L. C. Kerner
Nashua Manufacturing to move 350 workers to full time
Nashua Manufacturing announced that 350 employees will go on full time immediately. The plant employs 1,700, currently on a three day week. officials hope to extend full time to other workers soon.
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Nashua
N. H
Nashua Manufacturing Company
Pendleton to Lie in Virginia Soil
Nathaniel Spottswood Dandridge Pendleton, 79, editor of the Berkeley Springs News, dies in Martinsburg West Virginia. He requested burial in old Virginia soil and an automobile truck was sent to obtain earth for his casket. Pendleton belonged to prominent Virginia families.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Old Virginia
Nathaniel Spottswood Dandridge Pendleton
Old Dominion
Pendleton
Virginia
Berkeley Springs
Ohio Senate hears six repeal bills on prohibition
Columbus Ohio January 12 six bills proposing repeal of statutory prohibition were introduced in the state senate today.
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Columbus, CO
Ohio
State Senate
Drought relief bill's status advanced for conference vote
The House Rules Committee voted to grant special legislative status to the drought relief appropriation bill, aiming to send it to conference with the Senate tomorrow. The panel disagreed with the Senate's $15 million food loans amendment, with a vote to occur after tomorrow's session to show House support strength. Representative LaGuardia fought for urban as well as rural food provisions but did not get a hearing. Chairman Wood urged the special rule despite Democratic attempts to block floor action.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
Senate
House
Murray Sworn In As Oklahoma Head
William Henry Murray was sworn in as Oklahoma's ninth governor in Oklahoma City. The ceremony featured a prayer by his 91-year-old father Uriah Dow Thomas Murray and a tribute from Comanche Kiowa leader White Horse, reflecting Murray's ties to Native American communities and the Chickasaw-related first lady.
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Oklahoma City
William Henry
Murray
Oklahoma
Uriah Dow Thomas Murray
Big Chief
White Horse
Texas
Bolivia
China to Philippines solo flight planned from Shanghai
The L. E. Gale company of Shanghai announces a planned solo flight between China and the Philippine islands to establish a permanent air link. A 110 horsepower biplane will be used, with the takeoff set for January 17, and pilot G. W. Brophy of Los Angeles heads the aviation division.
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Shanghai
L. E. Gale Company
China
Philippine Islands
G. W. Brophy
Los Angeles
Millionaire Benefactor Nathan Straus Dies at 83
Nathan Straus the longtime philanthropist and founder of infant care programs died in his sleep at 83. He funded pasteurized milk for babies, tuberculosis preventorium, relief work for Jews in Palestine, and reconstruction efforts after wars, aiming to die a poor man. Funeral set for Temple Emanu-El.
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New York
Nathan
Jean Jewry
Terday
Maina Gut Straus
Europe
Nathan Straus
United States
Germany
Palestine
Cuba
Poland
Philippines
Rhenish
Bavaria
America
Lazarus
Talbotton
Straus
L. Straus and Porters
Isidor Straus
Mercy
Santiago
Farmingdale
N. J
New
Temple Emanu-El
Albert Selders Named United States Commissioner Here
Albert Selders is appointed United States commissioner in High Point for four years. The appointment, filed in federal district court January 12 by Judge Johnson J. Hayes, sets the term from January 10. No bond is required and he may be removed by order of the district court.
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Greensboro
Albert Selders
United States
High Point
Federal District Court
Johnson J. Hayes
District Court
Woman Killed In Car Crash At Pier
CHAMPAIGN Ill Jan 12. Mrs Mabel Emma Messinger 28 was killed when her car crashed into a cement pier at a gasoline filling station after sliding 200 feet under its own power.
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Champaign
Ill
Mabel Emma Messinger
Rescued Miners Take Day of Rest
Rescued after being entombed 800 feet underground for nearly 30 hours, 20 men rested today before returning to work in the Camp Mitchell tunnel of the San Francisco Hetch Hetchy project. Oscar Nelson wormed out after 24 hours through a tiny opening, with 19 others following six hours later, muddy but unhurt.
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Oakland
Cali
Camp Mitchell
San Francisco
Blizzard Claims 30 Japanese Lives in Far East Storm
A weekend blizzard swept a large Far East area, killing at least 30 Japanese and flooding boats. In Moji six were frozen to death, and houses in Echigo were blown over. Reports from Tientsin say three Japanese steamers were ice-bound in the Paino river.
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Tokyo
Far East
Moji
Echigo
Tientsin
China
Paino River
Hoover Seeks National Help for Rural Relief Drive
President Hoover urges a Red Cross appeal raising 10 million dollars for relief of needy in rural areas. He backs Payne’s plan as Congress debates a 15 million loan for drought relief and moves to push the drought bill to conference. Hoover notes local funding limits and stresses careful, comprehensive aid.
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Washington
Hoover
Red Cross
Payne
Congress
House
Senate
Young Indian Held In Lumberton Jail
In Lumberton on January 12 Wade Lowry a youthful Indian was held after firing futilely at two policemen who cornered him inside the Bank of Pembroke. Officers O D Wells and Boyd Carter pursued him when bank doors were breached. Lowry fired three times at Wells, who returned fire. no shots took effect.
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Lumberton
Pi— Wade Lowry
Pembroke
Lowry
O. D. Wells
Boyd Carter
Wells
Cleveland Plans Dem National Convention Bid
Cleveland city council will be asked to issue an official invitation to the Democratic National Committee to hold the party's 1932 convention in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Democratic National Committee
Thousands Die In North China Cold
Shanghai dispatches describe a severe cold wave across North China and Manchuria with zero and below temperatures, widespread disruption of rail and communications, and thousands feared dead. Southern and western regions faced isolation, while a 60 mile per hour gale derailed a train in northern Japan with no casualties reported.
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Shanghai
China
Manchuria
Siberia
Korea
Japan
Yangtse
Mongolia
Harbin
Goshorgara Line
Mexican Colony Quakes Raise Island Prisoner Fears
Tepic Mexico Jan 12 felon prisoners on Las Tres Marias islands fear a volcanic cataclysm as powerful quakes crack buildings open crevasses and send huge sea waves. Twenty seven quakes in three hours spark talk of volcanic vengeance tied to Madre Concepcion and potential lava floods.alarm spreads along Nayarit coast with Cerebraco
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Tepic
Nayarit
Mexico
Las Tres Marias Islands
Madre Concepcion
General Obregon
Cerebraco
Jala
J. B. Bristow
San Angelo
Brooklyn Dodgers Sign Glenn Wright to Lead Pennant Chase
New York January 12 Brooklyn Dodgers captain Glenn Wright signed to return as shortstop to lead Brooklyn in the National League pennant chase. The move leaves Babe Herman and Dazzy Vance as the only core players not yet signed for the season.
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New York
Glenn Wright
Brooklyn Dodgers
Brooklyn
Wright
Babe Herman
Dazzy Vance
Trust Holy Man To Stay Lava Stream Near Merapi
Batavia Java January 12 residents of a village at Merapi foot refused to evacuate trusting a holy man to hold back an onrushing lava flow as authorities weigh forceful evacuation amid a renewed eruption. The lava stream moves in the same direction as the previous eruption causing widespread anxiety nearby.
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Batavia
Java
Merapi
Weather delays and missing plane amid ocean steamer run
Three steamers between Bermuda and the Azores report bad weather with fresh easterly winds and rough seas. The Italian Conte Tadioed near Fayal notes overcast skies and no news of the missing monoplane Tradewind. A U S Examiner radioed of high winds and extra lookouts, saying the plane had not been sighted.
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Bermuda
Azores
Conte
New York
Governor Favors Passing Neal Bill
Governor O Max Gardner urged immediate passage by the North Carolina General Assembly of Representative W W Neal’s bill to postpone real property revaluation to February 15 1931. He argued postponement allows time for mature consideration and aligns reassessment with 1931 conditions rather than 1929, with a broader aim to avoid haste and develop best policy. Attorney General Dennis G Brummitt supported the postponement.
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Raleigh
O. Max Gardner
General Assembly
W. W. Neal
McDowell County
Dennis G. Brummitt
Latuna Texas Named Tentative Site for Federal Detention House
Washington reports the Department of Justice tentatively selects Latuna Texas as the site for a new federal house of detention. The action marks a step toward establishing a federal detention facility to handle inmates and related security needs.
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Latuna
Washington
Department of Justice
Latuna, Texas
Bomb Explodes At Danville Mill Superintendent Home
Danville Virginia January 12 a bomb exploded in the yard of Frank Broome superintendent at Riverside and Dan River mills where workers are on strike The blast shattered windows at his home and three nearby houses but caused no injuries Eviction notices went out to 27 strikers families living in mill owned homes and most had already left by today
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Danville
Frank Broome
Riverside
Dan River Mills
Broome
Woodring Named Kansas Governor
Harry H. Woodring a 41 year old bachelor and World War veteran Democrat became the 25th governor of Kansas today. William A. Johnson veteran chief justice in his 47th year on the supreme court bench administered the oath.
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Topeka
Harry H. Woodring
Kansas
William A. Johnson
Supreme Court
Campbell Case Will Be Ready Wednesday
Special to the Enterprise reports that solicitor George Young said the murder case against L. J. Campbell of High Point will be ready by 2:30 Wednesday and the charge will be second degree murder.
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Enterprise
Greensboro
Dan
George Young
L. J. Campbell
High Point
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