Drop in Exports Under Hawley Smoot Tariff Meant Woes
The May 13 report shows foreign demand for U S goods collapsed in early 1930 with a 20 percent drop overall and a 50 percent fall for autos. Machinery and petroleum rose but abroad, buyers shift to self sufficiency, signaling retaliation risks as tariffs bite. The trend threatens workers and future trade.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
America
Canada
Great Britain
France
United States
Police Seek Husband In Beating Case On East Georgia Street
Police continued the search for Arthur Price accused by his wife Violet Price of beating her unconscious in their car Monday afternoon in the 900 block of East Georgia street. She said he spent his week’s salary on liquor and beat her after she reproached him for leaving their four children without food.
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Arthur Price
Violet Price
Edgewood
East Georgia Street
Dartmouth students to wear khaki shorts on campus
In Hanover on May 13 United Press reports Dartmouth undergraduates plan a knee independence protest against the long trousers rule. At least half of the student body is expected in khaki shorts with the Daily Dartmouth endorsing the freedom declaration and predicting global attention.
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United Preas Anover
N. H
Dartmouth
Daily
Hanover
Cagle to resign Army career after secret marriage
Christian K. Cagle Army halfback and West Point senior will resign after officials confirmed a secret marriage to Marion Hale in 1928. Officials said the move stems from the marriage and Cagle’s plans to pursue business and coaching, amid salary concerns.
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United Press
Washington
Christian K. Cagle
West Point
War Department
Cagle
Marion Hale
New Roads
Gretna
Whipple
Academy
Mississippi A
New Orleans
Ford challenges students to 100 yard foot race
Speedy Ford in AwveN Michigan offers to out sprint any student from Dearborn High in a 100 yard race a challenge issued during an old fashioned school dance. Ford signed programs for 300 children watched by Mrs Ford and old friends as he reminisced with former schoolmates.
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Ae Awven
Mich
Henry Ford
Dearborn
Motor
Ford
Eleanor Woodward
Policeman Fired and Fireman Fined in City Actions
Patrolman Claude Koontz was discharged by the board of safety after a conviction for intoxication. Fireman Thomas J. McGlynn, who pleaded guilty, received a four month fine after fifteen years of service. The safety board also revoked special police powers of Charles Bruner tied to a hit and run accident at Meridian and Maryland streets.
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Claude Koontz
Board of Safety
Thomas J. McGlynn
The
Safety Board
Charles Bruner
East Tenth Street
Meridian
Maryland Streets
Tears Help Win Divorce for Colleen
Colleen Moore formerly Karleen Morrison McCormick wins an interlocutory divorce from John E. McCormick after testifying to humiliations and constant fits of anger. Judge Thomas Gould granted the decree as Moore described disparaging remarks about her friends and a lack of apology.
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United Press
Los Angeles
Colleen Moore
Thomas Gould
John E. McCormick
Karleen Morrison McCormick
McCormick
Hoover to View Fleet at Virginia Capes
President Hoover will review the United States battle fleet off the Virginia capes next Tuesday, an announcement from the White House said today.
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U. S
Virginia Capes
United Press
Washington
Hoover
White House
Four youths face judgment in Indiana safe blowings case
Four alleged teen members of a burglary ring will appear before Criminal Judge James A. Collins to hear judgment on auto banditry and burglary charges. Ralph Baines 22 Everett Perry 22 Alonzo Head 18 and Freddie Donaldson 19 are named with addresses and were said to have blown twenty safes and entered a dozen stores across major Indiana cities. Defense motions to suppress statements were sustained and trials were continued to Saturday.
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Aang
Indiana
James A. Collins
Ralph Baines
Emerson Avenue
Everett Perry
Sheffield Avenue
Alonzo Head
Prospect Street
Freddie Donaldson
Raymond Street
William R. Ringer
Collins
Ketrow Arson Case Continued To May 16
Charles Ketrow 56 of 405 North Blackford street faced arson charges over an alleged attempt to burn Balke and Krauss Laundry Co at 427 West Market Street. The municipal judge Paul C. Wetter postponed the case until May 16.
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Charles Ketrow
North Blackford Street
Balke & Krauss
West Market Street
Paul C. Wetter
Negro Held for Theft at Carr Tire Shop
Detectives George Hubbard and Edgar Deeter arrested a 28 year old Negro from 2310 Indianapolis avenue for stealing 33 dollars from the Carr Tire and Battery shop at 43 West Walnut street Turner Ho well.
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Carr Tire and Battery
West
Walnut Street
Turner Howell
Indianapolis Avenue
George Hubbard
Edgar Deeter
Nansen the Arctic Explorer Dies at 68
Fridtjof Nansen, famed Norwegian explorer and statesman, dies at 68 in Oslo. His career spanned polar voyages on the Fram, Greenland ski crossing, and support for Arctic exploration including a planned aerial expedition. He spoke at Shortridge High School in 1929 under Indiana Council of International Relations.
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United Prose
Oslo
Viking
Greenland
Nansen
Museum of Comparative Anatomy
Eva Sars
Michael Sars
Chris
Siberia
North Pole
Fram
Fridtjof Nansen
Indianapolis
Caleb Mills
Shortridge High School
Indiana Council of International Relations
Home Brew Legality Question Raises Doubts In Senate Hearing
Anti-Saloon League official F Scott McBride told the senate lobby committee that home brewing of beer and wines might be lawful under the prohibition law but he cautioned the league has not taken a position and is unsure about loopholes. He also said the league supports some dry congressmen who drink, and denied threatening Dwight W Morrow in New Jersey politics. The session adjourned until next Tuesday for further questioning.
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United Press
Washington
F. Scott McBride
Anti-Saloon League
Senate
McBride
Franklin Fort
Rep
N. J
League
Illinois
Ohio
George W. English
English
House
Congress
Blaine
Wis
Caraway
New Jersey
Dwight W. Morrow
Representative Fort
Morrow
Mr. Fort
Turner Fliers Lands in Wichita Short of Lindbergh Record
Flier Colonel Roscoe Turner arrived at Wichita Municipal Airport at 10 44 PM local time after a coast to coast flight from Los Angeles in 7 hours 41 minutes. He aimed to break Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's 1 249 mile record of 6 hours 56 minutes 10 seconds, landing about forty five minutes slower.
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United Press
Wichita
Kan
Roscoe Turner
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Turner
Los Angeles
Cities Show Gains as Census Reports Rise sharply
Washington May 13 Palo Alto Hoover hometown and four other cities filed preliminary census returns with the bureau showing population gains over 100 percent. Palo Alto up 131 percent to 13 635. Amarillo 162 percent to 43 107. San Mateo 124 percent. Monroe 108 percent. Ponca percent
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United Press
Washington
Palo Alto
Cal
Hoover
Census Bureau Today
Amarillo
Tex
San Mateo
Monroe
Ponca
Mother's plea to find buried son's WWI grave in France
Mrs. Addie Winslow of Fairmount Indiana appeals to the War Department and the American Graves Registration bureau in Paris to locate her son Lee G Winslow buried near a road in a farmer's field amid blackberry bushes. Officials say the ground is under cultivation and search must wait until after harvest.
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France
Indiana
Lee G. Winslow
Co. E
2Nd Engineers
Addie Winslow
Fairmount
Ind
United States
War Department
American Graves Registration Bureau
Paris
Lee
Second Engineers
French Fliers Span Atlantic in First South Atlantic Mail Crossing
Jean Mermoz Navigator D Abry and Radio Operator Gimie completed a trans Atlantic test flight to carry 308 pounds of French mail from St Louis Senegal to Natal Brazil. The seaplane arrived about twenty hours fifteen minutes after take off marking a new commercial air crossing of the South Atlantic. Curtains Burned in Kee Ray Beauty Shop in Meyer Kiser Bank Building caused damage confined to drapes.
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United Press
Natal
Brazil
Jean Mermoz
St. Louis
Senegal
Mermoz
D’abry
Gimie
South Atlantic
Compagnie Aeropostale
Kee-Ray
Meyer-Kiser Bank
Hearse Driver Held After Funeral Car Crash
Genoir North Carolina May 13 Robert Moritz an undertaker was held on a charge of driving a hearse while intoxicated. Moritz hearse collided with another automobile.
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Genoir
N. C
Robert Moritz
Moritz
Man Performs Self Appendectomy With Razor Dies
Louis Capetta, who believed he treated appendicitis himself with a razor blade, died Monday night from peritonitis after two self surgeries. He had no anesthetic and used a cheap medical book to locate the appendix.
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Times
York
Louis Capetta
Capetta
Acquit 4 Bishops Censure Vote In South Conference
In Dallas on May 13 Bishop James Cannon Jr. faced formal censure amid factional turmoil over alleged scandalous actions. Four other bishops were acquitted on charges of maladministration or stock dealing, while Cannon anticipated a formal charge over speculative dealings with a New York bucket shop.
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United Press
Dallas
Tex
James Cannon Jr
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Cannon
New York
Committee On Episcopacy
Three Barriers Children Missing in New Orleans
Search began today for Imedia Barriers age 10, Homer 8, and Hubert 7, children of Mr and Mrs H C Barriers, who disappeared Saturday after being sent on an errand to a store and are believed kidnapped.
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New Orleans
H. C. Barriers
Imedia
Homer
Hubert
Weather brings showers and cooling with thunder possible
Indianapolis faces a Wednesday drop as showers and possible thunderstorms sweep in. The high today reached the seventies, with Wednesday's high forecast between 60 and 70. A cool front will lower temperatures in the northwest part of the state tonight. Meanwhile, 47 year old Harry Strasser of Denison hotel was arrested on forgery charges for signing Kurt Pantzer’s name to a 4 dollar check cashed downtown.
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Indianapolis
J. H. Armington
United States Weather Bureau
Armington
Harry Strasser
Denison Hotel
Kurt F. Pantzer
North
Delaware Street
Restore a definite speed limit on Indiana highways
State police chief Robert L. Humes urged restoring a fixed speed limit to reduce rising rural accidents. He proposes not more than fifty miles per hour and limits on long truck loads, saying courts have been burdened since the 1929 repeal. Secretary Otto G. Fifield remains undecided but agrees action is needed.
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Indiana
Robert L. Humes
State Police Department
Humes
Otto G. Fifield
Fifield
Woman pursues dog torturer three months
Mrs Irene Castle McLaughlin Chicago society leader and former dancer concluded a three month pursuit of a man accused of dog mistreatment. She saw him incarcerated in Bridewell to serve a $25 fine after aiding the state in locating Henry Prenshaffer who left a crippled collie in 14 degrees below zero outside Des Plaines before moving to Chicago.
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United Presse
Chicago
Irene Castle McLaughlin
Chicago Society
McLaughlin
Henry Prenshaffer
Des Plaines
McAleer Re-Elected Chairman of Tenth Indiana District
Hammond attorney W. J. McAleer was re-elected Republican chairman of Indiana's Tenth district at the district convention in Rensselaer. He has held the post for fifteen months.
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Hammond
Ind
W. J. McAleer
Indiana
Rensselaer
Auto theft arrest for Milton Totton at Pershing Ave
Milton Totton aged 19 of 1235 South Pershing avenue is under arrest on vehicle taking charges accused of stealing an automobile in the city last fall.
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Milton Totton
South Pershing Avenue
Murderer of Evelyn Lee Sought by Vigilant Iowa Mob
Des Moines May 13 armed citizen posses with police and soldiers hunted the perpetrator of 9 year old Evelyn Lee's slaying. Bloodhounds failed to find a trail at Four Mile creek as authorities halted other police work and Tobias Lee, the girl's father, expressed grief and questions. Detectives remained uncertain.
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United Press
Des Moines
Evelyn Lee
Ft. Des Moines
Four Mile Creek
Evelyn
Tobias C. Lee
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