Plane wreck confirms Eielson Borland disappearance
Seattle reports the crash of Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland during a Alaska to Nanuk flight near North Cape Siberia. The wreckage was found in an icy lagoon with no bodies recovered, boosting hope they may still be alive but likely fatal.
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Seattle
Carl Ben Eielson
Earl Borland
North Cape
Siberia
Joe Crosson
Harold Gillam
Crosson
Gillam
Nanuk
Erielson
Borland
Alaska
Eielson
Eielson-Borland
McEtor
Farm outlook predicts better credit and labor conditions for 1930
The department of agriculture released its annual farm outlook, signaling more favorable marketing credit terms and a larger labor supply at lower wages for 1930. It warns against imminent overproduction in several lines while forecasting a weaker summer fall demand but improved year end markets. Wheat and fertilizer prices held steady barring winter damage, cotton acreage should not rise, and dairymen are urged to reduce herd growth to curb dairy herd expansion.
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Washington, Jan
Department of Agriculture
Department
South
India Aroused on Independence Day in Bombay
Nationalist advocates gathered across India to demand independence. About one hundred thousand marched at Chowpatty Sands, a clash with communist mill workers injured several. Gandhi followers at Ashram held fasting and spinning as independence resolutions passed. Large processions and flag repressions marked events in New Delhi Calcutta Lahore and Ahmadabad with police keeping order.
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Bombay
India
Chowpathy Sands
Ashram
Mahatma Gandhi
Chawpathy Sands
All Indian National Congress Organization
New Delhi
Calcutta
Lahore
Ahmadabad
Miami man dies from Lake Worth plane crash injuries
Ed Butler of Miami died in a Palm Beach hospital from injuries after a plane carrying five occupants crashed into Lake Worth. The incident killed three men and hospitalized two others a week earlier.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Ed Butler
Miami
Lake Worth
Mitchell urges haste in transfer of prohibition unit
Attorney General Mitchell urged the House Expenditures Committee to speed legislation transferring the prohibition enforcement unit from the Treasury to the Justice Department. He backed Secretary Mellon and the Williamson bill, saying unit attorneys would move with the agents to prosecute under the new department while opposing civil service placement.
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Washington
Mitchell
House Expenditures Committee
Prohibition Enforcement
Treasury
Justice Department
Mellon
Treasury Department
Prohibition Unit
Civil Service
Office
Schafer
Wisconsin
United States
Blonde Girl Bandit Steals Jewelry Worth Ten Thousand
The blonde bandit adjacent to Buffalo robberies aided two youths to take gems valued at 10 000 from David Glickstein jewelry store on Broadway. She tied and gagged the owner before fleeing shortly before noon.
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Buffalo
N. Y
David Glickstein
Glickstein
Fist Fight Flare in Brady Murder Trial in Austin
In Austin Texas County Attorney Roy Archer and defense lawyer Dayton Moses traded punches in the Brady murder trial’s courtroom. Archer said Moses struck him first and he replied after provocation. No injuries were reported and the incident occurred before the session began.
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Austin
Texas
Roy Archer
Dayton Moses
Fort Worth
John W. Brady
Archer
Moses
E. A. Berry
Houston
Maoses
Columbus Pastor Resigns for Asheville Call
Dr. William Russell Owen pastor of First Baptist Church in Columbus Georgia resigns to accept a call from First Baptist Church in Asheville North Carolina. His career includes pastorates in Macon Georgia Brooklyn New York and Philadelphia.
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Columbus
William Russell Owen
First Baptist Church
Asheville
N. C
Macon
Brooklyn
N. Y
Philadelphia
Girl becomes Lady Lucy after English baronetcy transfers
In Pepperell Massachusetts 16 year old Lucy Harriett Fagge learned she has inherited the title and estates from her uncle Sir John Charles Fagge of Dover England. The baronetcy passes to her due to his death and she contemplates moving to England with her father though she worries about how a titled life fits her humble background.
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Pepperell
Mass
Lucy Harriett Fagge
Boston
Johnny Harry Lee Fagge
England
Sir John Charles Fagge
Dover
Sir John
Luck
Lucy
Supreme Court Takes Up Tax Controversy Over Bond Gains
The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a tax dispute over whether federal and state governments may tax gains from bond sales in a Minnesota case brought by the federal government against Charles W. Dunn. Also noted is a North Carolina stockholder case sustaining state bank liquidation liability and other pending matters including highway funding appeal and water rights between New Jersey and New York.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Minnesota
Charles W. Dunn
North Carolina
D. S. Murphy
Farmers Banking and Trust Company
Wallace
N. C
Clarence L. Johnson
South Carolina
Highway Commission
Columbia Railway, Gas and Electric Company
Columbia
S. C
Broad River Power Company
Columbia Company
Charles N. Burch
Memphis
White House denies Shouse charge on employment cards
The White House rejected Jouett Shouse’s charge that Hoover gathered government employee data to influence Congress. Walter Newton said cards were sent to departments to update a private index of presidential appointees and non civil service staff, with about three hundred cards processed and no civil service workers included.
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Washington
White House
Jouett Shouse
Democratic National Executive Committee
Hoover
Congress
Democratic Propaganda Bureau
Walter Newton
Roosevelt Acceptable To Democratic Days Says Sweet
William E. Sweet former Colorado governor says Roosevelt would be acceptable to dry democrats as a 1932 presidential candidate. He urges dry and southern democrats to unite to prevent Alfred E. Smith’s likely nomination, praising Roosevelt's administration and noting Smith’s repeated nominations.
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Roosevelt
William E. Sweet
New York
New York Times Today
Colorado
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sweet
South
Alfred E. Smith
Smith
Mr. Sweet
Coroner to Probe Death of C S Steele in Charlotte
In Charlotte, N C a coroner will investigate the death of C S Steele of Saluda who was fatally injured Saturday night after leaping or falling from a second story hotel window. The body is held at an undertaker pending arrival of Mrs Steele and C S Steele Jr of New York. he died in a local hospital without regaining consciousness.
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Charlotte
N. C
Steele
Saluda
C. S. Steele, Jr. Hiss
New York
Students Jump To Safety From Flaming Newport Building
Six students, five girls from Newport Business College, leaped from the third story of the Coggshall Building into a firemen’s net after being trapped by fire causing about 100000 dollars damage. Sixteen other students and three instructors were rescued from upper floors by ladders.
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Newport Newport
R. L
Newport Business College
Coggshall
McLean backs Senator Simmons in Democratic primary
Former Governor Angus W. McLean announces support for Senator F. M. Simmons over Josiah W. Bailey. He says he surrendered his own ambitions to run and urges party unity for the June primary, stressing harmony and solidarity within the Democratic Party.
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Mclean
Simmons
Senate
Fee
Lamberton
Angus W. McLean
F. M. Simmons
Josiah W. Bailey
Raleigh
The
Robesonian
Democratic Party
Indictments Charge New Smyrna Officials in Prohibition Violation
Indictments naming three current New Smyrna city officials a former official two policemen and a drug store operator were announced in Jacksonville Florida. All defendants posted bonds.
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Jacksonville
Fla
New Smyrna
Hecklers at Textile Union Meeting Freed in Charlotte
Three national textile workers union members, Elbert Tothe row, Joseph Carr and Howard Smith, were arrested yesterday for attempting to heckle Francis J. Gorman of the United Textile Workers. They were acquitted of disorderly conduct by Judge E McA Currie and released after overnight jail detention on $100 bond.
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Charlotte
National Textile Workers Union
E. McA. Currie
Elbert Totherow
Joseph Carr
Howard Smith
United Textile Workers
Francis J. Gorman
Paintings Recovered From Lambs Club Heist
Two paintings valued at 74000 recovered in New York after being stolen from the Lambs club three years ago. An innocent purchaser turned them over to police upon learning of the theft. one work is a nude and the other a landscape. They were cut from frames while at the club for repairs.
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New York
Lambs Club
Escaped NC Convict Arrested Over Coal Theft in Baltimore
North Carolina escapee John King Williams returned to state prison after Baltimore coal theft arrest. Williams, sent Jan 1 1925 from Person County for second degree murder, escaped May 1927. Other inmates mentioned include Macon Harrison captured in Wake County, Clyde Lowery and Garland Ryals also returned to prison.
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John King Williams
Baltimore
Williams
Maryland
Person County
Macon
Harrison
Wake County
Turner
Lee County
New Light
Clyde Lowery
Iredell County
Newark
N. J
Garland Ryals
Guilford
Lowery
Ryals
Britain cancels two new cruisers as naval talks advance
Britain announces the cancellation of its two newest cruisers while the Big Five meet at Downing Street over tonnage limits. Italy seeks parity with France and a treaty pledge not to exceed construction. Officials say progress is made but no agreement yet.
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London
Italy
France
Great Britain
Naval Conference
Downing Street
Senators Demand Herbert Removal Over Prohibition Role
Senators Borah and Wheeler call for John F. C. Herbert to be removed as prohibition administrator for Montana and Idaho. They cite Justice Department findings of malfeasance and corruption and demand public evidence if the administration refuses action. Wheeler accuses enforcement of breaking down and seeks accountability from Republican leaders.
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Washington
John F. C. Herbert
Montana
Idaho
Senate
Borah
Wheeler
Department of Justice
Law Engreement Commission
Republican National Committee
Borah H
Herbert
Prohibition
Maryland
Bonah
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Tallahassee
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Herbert Hoover
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NEA
Natalie Guggenheim
Thomas Gorham
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White Plains
Edward A. Guggenheim
Gorham
House Committee
Bandit
Brady
Shouse
Manhattan
Philip Randolph
Herman
Huffer, Jr
Graham Fair Vanderbilt
Hecklers
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