Byrd Returns From South Pole Flight To Lit tle America
Commander Richard E. Byrd safely lands at Little America after a successful South Pole reconnaissance flight. The New York Times and affiliated papers report the expedition without mishap and note Hoover’s message praising Byrd and his team for courage and leadership.
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New York
New York Times
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Richard E. Byrd
Byrd
Little America
South Pole
the Times
Hoover
Richard F. Byrd
Little
America
Herbert Hoover
Textile worker leader acquitted in resisting charges rioting verdict
In McDowell superior court a jury convicted Alfred Hoffman and three other strikers of rioting but acquitted them on resisting officers. Hoffman fined 1000 dollars and jailed for one month while Fowler Hogan and Lewis received six months on the chain gang. Charges stemmed from a union strike at Clinchfield and Marion Manufacturing mills on August 30 to block a non union worker.
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Marion
Alfred Hoffman
United Textile Workers of America
Lawrence Hogan
del Lewis
Wes Fowler
McDowell Superior Court
Hoffman
Fowler
Hogan
Lewis
Clinchfield and Marion
O. F. Adkins
South
Elizabethton
Tenn
Byrd Becomes First to Fly Both Poles
Commander Richard E. Byrd returns to Little America after a South Pole flight, earning the unique distinction of completing both poles in a single career. His Antarctic trek reduced the South Pole journey from three months to under a day, a feat achieved with modern machinery and scientific progress.
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Richard E. Byrd
Little America
South Pole
Bodies of 75 American war dead return home in special train
A funeral special train carried 75 fallen soldiers from the Archangel campaign, with 56 destined for Detroit. The journey included stops at Philadelphia, Lancaster, Harrisburg, and Pittsburgh with brief tributes and escorts from veterans groups. Memorial services are planned in Detroit.
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New York
Pennsylvania
West
Archangel
Detroit
United States Army
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Polar Bear Association
Pennsylvania Railroad
North Philadelphia
Washington, D. C
South
Boston
Lancaster
Harrisburg
John
Fisher
Pittsburgh
Byrd’s Polar Feats Span Three Historic Flights
The record lists Byrd’s flights including May 9, 1926 from King's Bay Spitzbergen to the Pole and back aboard Miss Josephine Ford, June 29, 1927 crossing the Atlantic from Roosevelt Field to Ver Sur Mer in Ameri ca, and November 29, 1929 flying from the Antarctic ice edge to the South Pole and return aboard Floyd Bennett.
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North Pole
King’s Bay
Spitzbergen
Josephine Ford
Atlantic
America
Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Ver-Sur-Mer
France
South Pole
Floyd Bennett
Knoxville Man Injured by Bomb in Townsend Tennessee
Clark Scott 26 was seriously hurt when a bomb exploded in a Townsend boarding house. A telegram from Los Angeles warned not to open the package, signed Dementia, and inspectors seek the sender as Scott recovers in a Maryville hospital with severe injuries to his left hand and burns.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Los Angeles
Clark Scott
Townsend, Tenn
Scott
Little River Railway Company
Southern Pacific Railroad
Maryville, Tenn
Bomb Injures Clark Scott Prompt Warning Telegram Sent From Local Telegraph Office
Investigators say a warning telegram signed Demen tia was mailed from a Los Angeles suburb to Clark Scott in Knoxville shortly after he sustained serious injuries from a bomb in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Clark Scott
Knoxville
Tenn
Hopes of Finding Alaskan Aviators Dashed
Nome Alaska reports engineer Deersdorf aboard the Nanuk scouted 90 miles of the frigid Siberian coast but found no trace of missing aviators Car Ben Nielsen and Earl Borland. He traversed coast and foothills with a dog team and spoke with a Russian trapper who heard the plane on November 9 but could not see it due to heavy fog.
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Nome
Alaska
Siberia
Deersdorf
Ben Nielson
Earl Borland
Eielson
French Begin Evacuation of Second Zone at Koblenz
French troops withdraw from Ehrenbreitstein fortress and begin evacuating the second zone at Koblenz Germany as of November 30. The French flag was lowered from the fort during the action.
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Coblenz
Germany
Ehrenbreitstein
Good's Own Signature On Report
The cabinet veteran James W. Good, dead, signed the War Department annual report submitted to President Hoover. He highlighted instruction before command and praised the Army Educational System. He stressed mobility without sacrificing protection and noted border tensions with Mexico. The report lists 130,937 regulars, 10,890 in the air corps, and pilots with 288,542 flight hours.
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Washington
James W., Good
War Department
Hoover
Good
Mexico
Highth Corps
National Guard
British Freighter Norwich City Aground Near Gardner Island
The Norwich City, a 4587-ton oil burning freighter built in 1911 for Reardon Smith, went ashore on Gardner Island in the Phoenix group south of Hawaii. A wireless message reported the ship was ashore and going fast, relayed to San Francisco via Tutuila and Honolulu.
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San Francisco
Radio Marine Corporation Today
Norwich City
Gardner Island
Phoenix Group
Pacific
Hawaii
Tutuila
Samoa
Honolulu
Whittlepool
England
Reardon Smith Line
Widows in Court Over Mexican General’s Bigamy Case
In Mexico City two widows of General Moises Vidal faced off in court. The first wife testified about her feelings toward the second wife who had replaced her in Vidal’s affections. The second wife, Miss Mexico, said she loved Vidal and would become a nun if convicted.
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Mexico City
Moises Vidal
Senora
Maria Teresa Landa de Vidal
Vidal
Vera Cruz
Germans Vote On Young's Plan Rejected In Reichstag Referendum
In Berlin on November 30 the Nationalist bill opposing the Young plan was defeated. The Reichstag referred the issue to a December 22 national referendum after the first section failed 318 to 82 with four abstentions. The second section was approved by acclamation. The bill seeks to repudiate war guilt, annul Article 231, and end occupation and related obligations, with the law to take effect on proclamation.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Paris
Icy grip chills nation as deep freeze tightens mainly south
Winter holds the United States in sub freezing weather with snow in many states and sub zero readings. The cold wave brings deaths in the Midwest and heavy frost in cities like New York and Chicago where the homeless seek aid. In the south masks of snow appear in Kentucky and Virginia as Louisville notes near ten degrees and Savannah remains milder in the forties.
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Associated Press
United States
Virginia
Middle West
New York
Chicago
Seaboard
Dixie
Atlanta
Southland
Kentucky
Gulf Coast
South
Louis
Ville
North Carolina
Tennessee
Atlantic
Carolinas
Savannah
Louisville
Mississippi
Georgia
Alabama
Arkansas
Two Contributions Made To Empty Stocking Fund
Donations totaling 68.50 were made today for the Empty Stocking Fund including 10.00 from Imperial Life Insurance Company employees and 2.00 from Mrs. Carson C Deal. The appeal notes cold weather and asks readers to help reach about 3,000 for toys and food for needy children on Christmas Day.
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Imperial Life Insurance Company
Carson C. Deal
Ladies Aid Society
Wesley Memorial Ch
Wither Jones
Elk’s Club
Tifth District
Ebry Wwells
Lou
S&s
BE. W. Marshall
Willie London
R. F. Edmisien
Imperial Life Ins. Co
FERRO
Nanking denies direct talks with Russia over Manchuria
C T Wang foreign minister of the Nanking government denied that direct negotiations were under way with Moscow on the military问题 around the Chinese Eastern Railway. He said Moscow must accept Nanking's proposals first and that a basis for negotiation has not yet been reached.
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Nanking
China
C. T. Wang
Wang
Moscow
Clever Rum Runner Nabbed At Cleveland
Larry Davidson dubbed the cleverest rum runner on the Great Lakes was arrested in a downtown Cleveland hotel on conspiracy to violate liquor laws from March 15 to June 7 this year at Harbor View near Sandusky. Three others, James Courtney D F Coughlin of Pittsburgh and an unidentified man with a concealed weapon, were arrested in the same suite as federal agents broke up the rendezvous.
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Cleveland
Larry Davidson
Great Lakes
Harbor View
Sandusky
Davidson
James Courtney
D. F. Coughlin
Pittsburgh
Mother dies two days after son's funeral burial
In Lancaster England on November 30 Mary Garrison, who had brought her son Joseph’s body from America, died two days after his burial and was laid to rest near his grave.
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Lancaster
Eng
Joseph
America
Mary Garrison
State Prison Produces Auto Plates for $50 per Thousand
The North Carolina State Prison has been paid 50 000 this year by the State Revenue Department for 1 200 000 automobile license plates to be sold December 15. Superintendent George Ross Pou says 26 000 was paid recently bringing total to 50 000. The 1929 appropriation covered 600 000 plates at 42 000. an act adds front and rear plates totaling 1 200 000 and373 will cost about 60 000 with 10 000 more to be paid from contingency funds. This is the prison's first license plate production at 50 per thousand. last year's bid by a private firm was 50 43.
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Raleigh
Navy
State Revenue Department
George Ross Pou
State Prison
Revenue Department
Pou
General Assembly
The
States
Explosion Destroys Fireworks Plant on Staten Island
An explosion and ensuing fire at the Unexcelled Manufacturing Company fireworks plant in Graniteville Staten Island seriously burned three firefighters Captain Eugene Duns Joseph Wood and Arthur Rudle. The injured were treated on scene and later taken to St Vincent's hospital West New Brighton.
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New York
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NEA Service, Inc
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Carl Place
L. I
M. F P. Boges
Department of Commerce
Harry MacDonald
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Missis
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U. S
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Greensboro
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