Tennessee population up more than a quarter million in decade
Van Buren County reports 3516 population as the smallest in the state. 93 of 95 counties tabulate census shows Tennessee at 2,575,891 with two counties unreported likely rising to about 2,608,439 in 1930. Shelby County remains largest at 304,788. Van Buren at 2,624 in 1920.
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Oat Saville
Tenn
Associated Press
Tennessee
Shelby County
Vanuren County
van Buren
India Bans British Goods Amid Boycott Week Turmoil
Bombay secures protests as the boycott week enters its second day with large student crowds in Horn Road attacking European stores. Theatre owners cancel shows while cotton mills face hartal spread, and leaders including Pandit Nehru are jailed for civil resistance. Martial law ends in Olapur but flag displays are prohibited.
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Bombay
Horn Road
Criminal Investigation’s Department
India
Allahabad
Pandit
Motilal Nehru
All-Indian Congress Working Com
Sayed Mahmud
Delhi
Olapur
Cnt
Grandee talk ends in divorce for Mrs Sally Lopez
In Chicago a divorce action ends as Mrs Sally Lopez cites her husband George’s grandee fantasies. He wooed with a castle scrapbook and Spain pictures claiming vast wealth tied up in litigation. Judge Lynch grants the divorce after her year of forced work.
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Chicago
Sally Lopez
George
Spain
Lopez
Aids Flying Brothers With Help From Irene Hunter
Irene Hunter assists two of her brothers in their aviation pursuits at the city airport. She writes notes and provides general help as the fliers set a new endurance record.
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John
City of My Airport
Irene Hunter
Court reverses MacIntosh case in citizenship ruling
New York appeals court orders the admission of Rev Dr Douglas Clyd MacIntosh Yale Divinity School and Miss Marie Averil Bland to citizenship. It held conscience and religious scruples against bearing arms may be honored, reversing district court refusals in New York and Connecticut.
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New York
United States Court of Appeals
Douglas Clyd
MacIntosh
Yale Divinity School
Marie Averil Bland
Federa
Connecticut
MacIntsh
Bland
Martin J. Manton
Miss Bland
Rosskmer
United States
Manton
Hunter brothers push toward 500 hours in aerial trek
Chicago July 1 AP report details the Hunter brothers atop the endurance flight aboard the City of Chicago with 471 hours aloft. The Big Ben crew seeks breakfast fuel and weather reports by note demanding provisions while Sparta Illinois backs a municipal airport.
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Chicago
Hunter Brothers
Sky Harbor
Sparta
Corso
Lynn
C.S.T
Campbell Quits Post as Day Law Chief in New York
Major Maurice Campbell resigns as prohibition administrator for New York and calls for repeal of the eighteenth amendment. He notes transfers to Boston over alcohol permit control and alleges local politicians and officials in Washington sought permits to gain support. He warns fellow administrator William Moss to resist political pressure amid the reorganization of prohibition enforcement.
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Campbell
N. York
New York
Maurice Campbell
Prohibition
Boston
Treasury Department
Department of Justice
Ashington
Seyp Renblizen
William B. Moss
Albany
N. Y
Washington
Treasury
Germans Overjoyed by Rhineland Evacuation Revelry Berlin
Sixty million Germans express joy at the Rhineland liberation with widespread celebrations across Germany. In Breslau and Mayence tensions rise as fascists clash with supporters of the new order. Berlin hosts ceremonies, salutes, and pilgrimages including Stresemann memorials.
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Berlin
Rhineland
Breslau
Kaiserslautern
Germany
Governors Study State Taxation At National Conference
The opening days of the national governors conference centered on tax policy. Governors debated replacing property taxes with sales or excise taxes, with Georgia and West Virginia officials urging reforms. Nebraska shared how intangible property assessments raised state revenue, while others questioned legislative reaction to abolishing ad valorem taxes.
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Salt Lake City
William G. Conley
West Virginia
Conley
L. G. Hardman
Georgia
Theodore E. Christianson
Arthur J. Weaver
Nebraska
Thornton Cook
Kansas City
American Bankers’ Association
George H. Sullivan
Minnesota
Association of States
Tragedy Delays Suit Over Steel Merger
Hearing delayed in Youngstown Ohio as Leroy A. Manchester, general counsel for Youngstown Company, dies by suicide on courthouse steps moments before he was to appear. The case involves a proposed merger between Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
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Youngstown
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Leroy A. Manchester
Ken
Manchester
Stade SA
Public Works Boom Exceeds 1929 Peak Says Hoover
President Hoover told governors by radio that public construction in the first six months of 1930 totaled at least 1.7 billion dollars, surpassing the 1929 boom year. He cited over 200 million in utilities projects and framed the policy as stabilizing employment and consumption, with further gains expected.
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Washington
Hoover
Salt Lake City
White House
Commerce Department
Weather Nearby Returns to Fair and Cooler Air
Tennessee sees generally fair and cooler conditions tonight and Wednesday. Virginia reports a chance of local thundershowers this afternoon or early tonight, then fair and cooler with winds shifting from southwest to northwest. Yesterday’s high 96, low 58, no rain on either date. readings taken at 6:30 p m by C L Bunn USW.
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Tennessee
Virginia
C. L.bunn
Jockey Turner Arrested on Virginia Murder Charge
Ashland Kentucky police say jockey Jack Turner, also identified as Edward D. Saul, is jailed on a murder charge linked to a 1907 shotgun slaying of Marshall King in Franklin County Virginia. Reward of 300 dollars remains. Turner, 32 or 40, claims Virginia roots and a racing career, with alleged past ties to Marshall.
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Ashland
Virginia
Jack Turner
Edward D. Saul
Marshall King
Franklin County
Rocky Mount
Express
Marshall
Turner
Harrisonburg
Saul
Byrns Withdraws From Senate Race Due to Ill Health
Tennessee Congressman Joseph W. Byrns abandons pursuit of the Democratic nomination for the U S Senate after doctors urge rest following a heart attack linked to influenza and overwork. He will keep his House seat and steps aside to allow Cordell Hull Andrew L Todd John R Neal and David W Dodson to pursue the long term nomination.
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Nashville
Tenn
Joseph W. Byrns
U. S
Tennessee
Byrns
Burns
Cordell Hull
Andrew L. Todd
Murfreesboro
John R. Neal
Knoxville
David W. Dodson
Clarksville
Senate
Mr. Burns
United States
House of Representatives
Washington
William E. Brock
Benton McMillan
Neal
McMillin
Paul E. Divine
Johnson City
Mrs Nellie Ross Hospitalized in Huron
Mrs Nellie Tayloe Ross vice chairman of the Democratic national committee and former Wyoming governor was in a hospital in Huron South Dakota today suffering from gore of her left ankle while crossing a street.
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Ross
Huron
S. D
Nellie Tayloe Ross
Democratic National Committee
Govr
Wyoming
Gore
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Reichstag
Curtius
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Peeper
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