Submarine H-47 Sunk off Pembroke Coast. 21 Feared Dead
In the Bristol Channel area the British submarine H-47 was rammed by L-12 and sank to 270 feet with 21 crew members unaccounted for. Only two survivors, Lt. R J. Gardner and Sidney Cleburne, were saved from the conning tower.
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London
St. Georges Channel
Pembroke
Fishguard
R J. Gardner
Sidney Cleburne
Devonport
Charles Edward Bull
Arthur Sampson
Resolver
Grappler
Portsmouth
Portland
Admiralty
Small’s
Welfare of King George Raises British Anxiety
London July 9 General concern prevailed in Britain for King George whose planned summer visit to Sandringham was postponed after doctors reported unsatisfactory progress in his left lung. X rays were deemed necessary for further treatment and the public questioned whether the Thanksgiving service for his recovery may have affected his condition. The postponement followed a crowd at Buckingham Palace gates as his majesty’s train was canceled.
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London
Britain
George
Summer Palace
Sandringham
Queen Mary
King’s Cross
Buckingham Palace
Greeks Bar Pretty Women From Law Making
Athens Greece July Premier Venizelos backed excluding attractive women and those under 35 from the Grecian chamber in opposing universal suffrage. He supported a municipal woman suffrage measure but withheld approval of national political franchise citing literacy concerns. He called the movement progress.
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Athens
Greece
Venizelos
Speeding Up Of Tariff Bill is Demanded
Washington AP reports Senate Finance Committee is urged to speed the tariff bill before the August recess end. Senator Watson leads the push to finish by August 19 as President Hoover seeks to resolve the tariff debate ahead of the 1930s biennial campaigns.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Watson
Indiana
Smoot
Hoover
Dems
Finance Committee
House
Republican Administration
Los Angeles Quake Triggers Unease Across Suburbs
In Los Angeles and nearby areas a quake damaged East Whittier school and other buildings, injuring four people. A seismologist said aftershocks unlikely, while two children were hurt by a toppled washing machine and oil field workers near Santa Fe Springs were struck by falling objects. Two wells were shut in at the Derricks site.
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Los Angeles
Ralph Arnold
East Whittier
Whittier
Santa Fe Springs
Aged Boone descendants wed in Milford state home
In Milford Nebraska on July 9 William H. Campbell an 81 year old Civil War veteran married Ida B. Carter a 70 year old descendant of Daniel Boone at the state soldiers home. The bride was given in marriage by her 98 year old father Hiram Boone who is an inmate at the home.
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Milford, Neb
William H. Campbell
Ida B. Carter
Daniel Boone
State Soldiers’ Home
Hiram Boone
Opium Haul Revealed From Mrs Kao Baggage
San Francisco customs opened eleven pieces of baggage from Mrs Susie Ying Kao finding opium valued at 1 000 000 dollars. Officials said she was not entitled to diplomatic privileges and insisted the opium was not her property. Three trunks remained unopened pending further orders.
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San Francisco
China
Susie Ying Kao
Cuba
United States Treasury Department
Washington
National Cottonseed Products Association Formed in New Orleans
The National Cottonseed Products association was formally organized in New Orleans on July 9 via merger of the Interstate Cottonseed Crushers association and the Texas Cottonseed Crushers association. About 100 delegates from the south and southwest attended as state division lines were removed to unify basic economies of the industry. The merger proposal was nearly unanimously accepted.
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New Oleans
National Cottonseed Products Association
Interstate Cottonseed Crushers Association
Texas Cottonseed Crushers Association
Interstate Association
Physician Convicted in Shelby Fraud Death Claims Case
Monroe July 8 AP: Dr. George C. Pruitt a Monroe physician charged with complicity in fraudulent death claims filed by R A Stokes former Imperial Life Insurance agent was found guilty in recorder s court here of signing three death certificates without examining the patient One verdict not guilty and two other cases awaiting rulings Evidence closed at noon today verdict to be rendered tomorrow at 10.
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Chester
Rafe King
Faye Wilson King
Arthur L. Gaston
Henry
Hoey
Mr. Hoey
Ra‘e King
King
Monroe
N. C
George C. Pruitt
R. A. Stokes
Imperial Life Insurance Company of
Asheville
Recorder’s Court
Culver City Fliers Near Endurance Record
Culver City Calif July 9 AP Angeleno biplane passed 171st hour in the air at 10 29 am nearing endurance record of 174 hours 59 seconds Mendell and Reinhart show signs of weakening but continue to push toward the mark if they stay aloft until 2 30 29 pm pacific time they will eclipse the current record Roy L Mitchell and Byron K Newcomb set three days earlier Ground officials note the fliers asked for rubbing alcohol as signs of exhaustion
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Culver City
Calif
Angelino
Angeleno
Cal
L. W. Mendell
R. B. Reinhart
Lake Junaluska
N. C
Bob’’ Jones
Evangelistic Association of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
America
Seven Deaths Reported In Latest Gotham Heat Wave
New heat wave deaths total seven across the east and midwest with prostrations in major cities. Phoenix registered 102 degrees while Washington 97 and New York 89 as beaches in the New York area drew crowds seeking relief from the sweltering humidity and rising fatalities.
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Gotham
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
Wilmington
Del
Lynn
Mass
Phoenix
Ariz
Weather Bureau
Pacific Coast
Northwest
Baltimore
Chicago
Kansas City
Detroit
N. Y
New England
Untin Bowler Reaches Port Burwell After Days Lost
The Untin Bowler, famed amphibian explorer, arrives at Port Burwell on Cape Chidley after disappearing near Remi Lake Ontario. The craft set course from Chicago toward Berlin and had been missing for several days, prompting concern over its whereabouts.
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Port Burwell
Chicago
Berlin
Cape Chidley
Remi Lake
Ontario
Willys-Overland Holdings Seized by Toledo Group
NY July 9 The personal holdings of John N Willys president of Willys Overland Inc have been obtained by C O Miniger George M Jones and associates of Toledo giving that group control of the company.
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Willys
New York
John N. Willys
Willys-Overland, Inc
C. O. Miniger
George M. Jones
New Orleans Public Service Bondholders Granted Injunction
Judge Wayne G. Borah in United States district court announced after noon today that he would grant the injunc tion sought by the bondholders of New Orleans Public Service Inc to restrain the striking street car men from interfering in the operation of street cars or damaging the company property.
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New Orleans
Wayne G. Borah
United States District Court
New Orleans Public Service, Inc
Pathfinder transatlantic flight to Rome underway from Old Orchard
The Bellanca Pathfinder carrying Roger Q. Williams and Captain Lewis A. Yancey departed Old Orchard Maine at 7:49 gmt bound for Rome. With favorable winds expected to cut fuel use, the crew planned 45 hours of flight across 4232 miles, routed via Cape Sable, Cape Ortegal and the Mediterranean.
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New York
Old Orchard
Rome
Roger Q. Williams
Lewis A. Yancey
Atlantic
Yancey
Portland
Coast Guard
Cape Sable
Cape Ortegal
Spain
Bayonne
France
Mediterranean
James H. Kimball
Weather Bureau
Ocean
mid-Atlantic
Green Flash
Pathfinder
Murder trial of Day Agent 1 continued in Tecumseh
Preliminary hearings for W. W. Thomason and three undercover men on charges of murder in the Harris liquor raid were delayed from today to Saturday. Randall Pittman, the county attorney, said J. B. Dudley representing the four defendants sought the postponement to prepare their case.
Farmer Injured by Train at Greensboro
William C. Smith, 60, a Greensboro area farmer, was seriously injured when an automobile he rode in was struck by an eastbound Southern Railway passenger train at a grade crossing near the Colfax station on the Greensboro Winston-Salem line. He was hospitalized with a crushed left foot, a broken right arm, and multiple cuts.
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Greensboro
William C. Smith
Southern Railway
Colfax Station
Winston-Salem
Smith
Less Canadian liquor coming into U S from Windsor
Washington reports a drastic drop in Canadian alcoholic beverage exports through Windsor last month. Treasury figures show 112,878 gallons shipped in June 1929 versus 470,033 gallons in June 1928, due to new border patrol efforts to curb smuggling between lakes Erie and Huron.
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Washington
Canada
United States
Windsor
The
Treasury
Collector of National Revenue
Ottawa
Border Patrol
Lakes Erie
Huron
Border Patrolman Shot After Chase Near Calexico
Clarence C. Griffith a border patrolman in Calexico California was wounded with a pullet shattered hip he says he could have prevented the shooting by firing at a Mexican fugitive who fled during an attempted illegal crossing Griffith held fire amid criticism of firearms use and was knocked down during the arrest attempt as the Mexican fled into Mexico
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Calexico
Calif
Clarence C. Griffith
Customs Department
Griffith
Mexico
Lutheran Women 44th Mission Meet Set at St Mark's
The 44th annual convention of the United Evangelical Lutheran synod of North Carolina women’s missionary society will be held at St. Mark's Church in China Grove on July 13 to 15. An interesting program has been prepared and a large state delegation is expected to attend.
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China Grove
Women’s Missionary Society of the
United Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North Carolina
St. Mark's Church
Curiosity Demand for Smaller Currency Sweeps Banks
Banks reopen tomorrow as the nation prepares for the new currency replacing the old. The one third smaller notes prompt a curiosity rush lasting weeks. Treasury officials expect the old notes to gain similar curiosity in a year. Limited denominations from 1 to 20 will be released. larger notes follow later.
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Washington
Treasury
Enemy of Marlow Sought by Police
New York police identify the man who planned the murder of Frank Marlow as the head of a powerful Italian secret society. He left the state after Marlow was fatally shot near Broadway on June 24 and is being hunted nationwide. Marlow, an Italian with home in Gondolfo Curto, was expelled from a Brooklyn secret order.
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New York
Frank Marlow
Whalen
Broadway
Marlow
Brooklyn
Gondolfo Curto
Kingsford Smith Plans Westward Flight from England
Captain Charles Kingsford Smith, famed Australian flier, told the Associated Press he aims to fly from England to the United States in the Southern Cross after overhauling its three Whirlwind motors. He arrived in Rome en route to London from Sydney and was met by C C Maidment of Wright Whirlwind Motor Company to supervise the work. The motors have logged about 600 hours.
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Rome
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Associated Press Today
England
United States
London
Sydney
C. C. Maidment
Wright Whirlwind Motor Company
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L-12
S. C
J. K. Henry
Rafe F. King
Associated Press
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Panama Canal Zone
Henry F. Sessions
Georgia
William H. Bleakley
Fort Clayton Field
Montreal
Quebec
E. A. Golds
Tor
His
Sica Sa
Gosa
Shelby
Record
Roy L. Mitchell
Byron K. Newcomb
Cleveland
Ates
Bob’ Jones
East
Mid- West
U. S
Charles Kingsford Smith
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