Hoover addresses labor leaders and Legion in Boston
President Hoover spoke to the American Federation of Labor and the American Legion in Boston. He praised national team play curbing unemployment and urged Legion members to foster good will, law enforcement, and civic duties while noting wage stability amid a declared peace for the country.
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Boston
Hoover
American Federation of Labor
American Legion
Startler
White House
R-101 Toll Rises to 48 in Dirigible Crash
Paris dispatch says Air Commander A V Holt, chief British investigator, tells Le Temps the disaster to the R-101 resulted from a rupture in the metallic framework rather than engine trouble. The finding includes metal parts located five miles from the crash site as authorities seek the cause.
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Paris
A. V. Holt
le Temps Tonight
Martial law shocks Brazil as banks close and air mail halts
Brazil declares martial law through December 31 amid a southern revolt. Banks close by government order to curb speculation and exchange rates, and air mail service abroad is suspended. In St Louis, Jimmy Foxx belts a homer as the A’s beat the Cardinals 2 0 to pull ahead 3 games to 2 in the world series.
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Pan American
Condor
Aero
Sportsman Park
St. Louis
Jimmy Fox
Cochrane
Athletics
Cardinals
Mackmen
Phillies Defeat Cardinals Behind Foxx Home Run
Philadelphia and St. Louis played a tight game with Foxx driving in two runs and two hits by Wilson. Earnshaw earned the win for the Cardinals as Grimes fanned seven in a 2 0 loss while Bottomley contributed with a solid defensive showing and Adams-Toward-Frisch double.
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St. Louis
Bottomley
Watkins
Philadelphia
Foxx
Wilson
Grimes
Adams
Frisch
More Cochrane
Earnshaw
Gelbert
Hafey
Grove
Blades
Bishop
Boley
Cochrane
Miller
Luft hansa Plane Crashes Near Dresden Killing Eight
A Lufthansa passenger plane from Berlin to Vienna crashed on moorlands near Dresden. Eight aboard, including two women, died. one survivor died en route to hospital. Pilot Erich Post and mechanic Max Lange named among the dead. Weather was clear, cause unknown. Passengers included P. W. Blackwell of Shanghai and several Germans and Austrians.
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Berlin
a_ Lufthansa
Vienna
Dresden
Lufthansa
Sprague
Fraulein Bluemel
Frauk Graefe
Blackwell
Foeldes
Knittel
Kuehnelt
Erich Post
Max Lange
P. W. Blackwell
Shanghai
Hamburg
Prague
Frau Grefe
Sofia
President Hoover to attend Kings Mountain sesquicentennial
President Hoover will join tens of thousands in Kings Mountain North Carolina for the Kings Mountain sesquicentennial celebration marking the 1780 battle. He will arrive by special train, tour the battleground, deliver a roughly twenty minute speech, and dedicate the Ferguson monument with British official Ronald Campbell present.
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Kings Mountain
Hoover
South Carolina
N. C
Patrick Ferguson
Ferguson
Ronald Campbell
Washington
Ronald Lindsay
United States
Battleground
Ferguson Monument
Battle of Kings Mountain
Charlotte
Death threats force special guard for Bell in Lingle case
Chicago October 6 Frank H Bell jail inmate who confessed to authorities about the Jake Lingle murder is kept under special guard after revealing a jail break plot involving Richard Sullivan. Bell requested isolation fearing violence from fellow prisoners. Lenhardt, sentenced to death, allegedly planned the escape with a pistol hacksaw and aid from a confederate taxi. Bell receives individually cooked meals to prevent poisoning.
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Chicago
Frank H. Bell
Jake Lingle
Tribune
Richard Sullivan
Bell
Lingle
William Lenhardt
Lenhardt
Negro Killed In Asheville Crash Involving Ten Negroes
ASHEVILLE October 6. Robert Spain a Negro died and eight others injured when a ten passenger car carrying Black riders collided with a four man white car just north of Asheville. Three of the injured were white in the collision reported yesterday.
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Asheville
Robert Spain
Damage to the R 101 disaster prompts joint inquiry
Be a uvais France Oct 6 AP British and French officials press a shared probe into the R 101 airship wreck that killed 48, with the possible stowaway factor and revised aboard totals. Bodies prepared for transport to Boulogne for London as investigations continue.
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Beauvais
France
England
Britain
Boulogne
London
Paris
Charlotte Police Hunt for 37166 Hidden Loot
Charlotte police seek 37166 believed buried in Union county as the unrecovered balance from 64000 stolen in a faked holdup at the American Trust Company. Carl Bailey, the confessed ringleader, and three Union county men are in custody. 27434 of the funds have been recovered. Bailey showed remorse and met with his pastor for a spiritual talk.
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Charlotte
N. C
Union County
American Trust Company
Carl Bailey
Victor S. Hunter
Walter Thomas
Richard McManus
Bailey
W. W. Peele
First Methodist Church
Brazilian states push to unseat Brazil’s president-elect
Reports from Montevideo indicate eight of Brazil’s 21 states back Francisco Flores Da Cunha in a bid to destabilize Washington Luis’s government. Rio Grande do Sul troops and civilians join the revolt as Sao Paulo plans an incident, with siege declared in Rio Grande do Sul and Minas Gerais and $10,000,000 allotted to quell the rebellion.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Washing Luis
Brazil
Rio Grade Do Sul
Minis Geraes
Montevideo
Uruguay
South American Republic
Foward
Washington Luis
Julio Prestes
Rio Grande Do Sul
Francisco Flores da Cunha
Parana
Santa Cartarina
Piahuy
Cera
Rio Grande Do Notre
Parahyba
Minas Geraes
Sao Paulo
da Cunha
Santa Catarina
Coolidge Drafted For Speech Before Legion Convention
In Boston on October 6 Calvin Coolidge addressed the American Legion convention. He joked about being drafted by legionnaires before delivering a brief speech as Mrs Coolidge declined to speak. President Hoover and Mrs Hoover were on hand to applaud the presentation to legionnaires.
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Boston
Calvin Coolidge
American Legion Convention
Lafayette
United States
Legionnaire
Graf Zeppelin Lands in FRIEDRICHSHAFEN After Voyage
The Graft Zeppelin returned from a weekend Leipzig Goeilitz cruise and landed in Friedrichshafen at 7 05 a m today marking the completion of its air journey.
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Graf
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Mars Hill to mark 75th founding and Brown centennial
Mars Hill College in Mars Hill North Carolina will celebrate the institution's 75th founding anniversary and the birth centennial of its first president W A G Brown from October 12 to 14 with events and commemorations featuring campus leaders and alumni.
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Mars Hills
Mars Hill
N. C
Mars Hill College
W. A. G. Brown
Bulgarian Princess Engaged To Italian
Sofia dispatch reports Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, 32, betrothed to Duke Charles of Spoleto, 30, son of Prince Costa of Italy. The duke, an archaeologist, is recovering in a hospital after a broken leg from automobile racing.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Boris
Eudoxia
Charles of
Danville Picket Lines Bolstered In Labor Clash
In Danville Virginia strikers doubled picket lines after news Riverside and Dan River mills may resume after a week idle from a 4000-worker strike. Non union workers reported at Dan River plants to load cloth. Union leaders plan to seek dissolution of injunctions. Two men, W. R. Murdoch and Marvin Mahan, held on inciting to violence charges.
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Danville
Riverside
Dan River
United Textile Workers Union
W. R. Murdoch
National Textile Workers Union
Marvin Mahan
Theaters Guarded After Bombing in Tacoma
Tacoma police guarded about 11 show houses following the bombing incident tied to a dispute with the Motion Picture Operators' union. Chief M. D. Guy reported guards stationed at the affected theaters.
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Tacoma
Wash
M. D. Guy
Motion Picture Operators’ Union
Montcalm In Port Battled By Hurricane
The ocean tug Montcalm arrived in Charleston after a five day period at sea battered by hurricane winds. With 42 enlisted men and three officers exhausted from duty, the Guantanamo station vessel rode out the storm 28 hours and will stay for overhaul at the navy yard until November 16.
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Charleston
S. C
U. S. S. Montcalm
Montcalim
Guantanamo
Cuba
William J. Smith
Concord
Montcalm
Orbita
Navy Yard
Century-Old Belle Ryans Aims for Air Travel
Belle Ryans of Savannah is 119 years old and has smoked a pipe for a century. She longs to ride in an airplane but is denied due to age. Born March 4, 1811 in Tennessee, she married at 15, endured two Confederate sons’ deaths, and outlived both husbands. She prefers the automobile to travel but would choose flight if possible.
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Savannah
Belle Ryans
Ryans
Tennessee
William McBee
John Ryans
Labor Assembly Opens at Boston
Representatives of labor from the United States and Canada gather for the 50th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor in Boston. President Hoover will attend after addressing the American Legion. The annual report highlights unemployment, business conditions, and critiques the economic system for breakdowns in production and credit.
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Boston
United States
Canada
American Federation of Labor
Hoover
American Legion
William R. Green
Young Man Crushed To Death By Truck
Canton, Oct 6. William Manor 22 of Skyland died instantly when a truck wheel ran over him after knocking him down near Cruso in Haywood County. Roy Dills Cruso was injured. Driver Roy Pipes held in prison awaiting inquest.
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Canton
William Manor
Skyland
Cruso
Haywood County
Roy Dills
Manor
Roy Pipes
Virginia Population Increase Smallest In Over 50 Years
The 1930 census bulletin shows Virginia with its smallest decennial population rise since the 1880s. As of April 1, 1930 the state total reached 2,241,851, up 112,664 people or 4.9 percent from 1920.
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Virginia
Washington
Census Bureau
Ill Health Forces Maniu To Resign
Paris dispatches report Romanian Prime Minister Oct 6 resigning due to ill health. He handed the resignation to King Carol at Sinaia and it was accepted amid talks of a government reorganization. Dispute with the king over Queen Helen and the coronation plans fueled retirement talks. a provisional government was anticipated with Mironescu or Junian as possible premier.
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Paris
Havas
Bucharest
Julio Maniu
Rumania
Sinaia
Carol
Maniu
Helen
Mironescu
Junian
French Airmen Head For Pensacola on goodwill tour
French trans Atlantic fliers Major Dieudonne Coste and Lieut Maurice Bellonte left New Orleans at 9 45 a m heading for Pensacola Florida with two Commerce Department escort planes on a goodwill tour of the United States. They are due in Atlanta this afternoon.
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New Orleans
Dieudonne Coste
Maurice Bellonte
Pensacola
Fla
Department of Commerce
Atlanta
United States
Slaying of 12 Year Old Earl Fuller Jr Baffles Police
In Dubuque Iowa on October 6 police and volunteers searched the Mississippi river flats for clues to the death of 12 year old Earl Fuller Jr found strangled with a tightly drawn wire near willows. He was last seen playing football Saturday evening and abducted near a transient rendezvous. About 15 itinerants were questioned with no leads. Police suspect a tramp as the killer.
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Dubuuque
Mississippi
Earl Fuller, Jr
Earl
Henry Waltz
Dubuque
Waltz
Fullers
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Tomley
Inot
Europe
Boris II
Giovanna
Victor Emmanuel
Italy
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Pius
Frankie Bell
John Holt
W. G. Radcliffe
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