California to Show the Greatest Gain in Congress
Unofficial estimates from the 1930 census indicate California could gain up to nine congressional seats, boosting its delegation as other states like Missouri Indiana Iowa Kentucky Mississippi Alabama and several others are projected to lose one or more seats. New York may gain a seat instead of the projected loss, bringing its total to 44, while Illinois Rhode Island Minnesota and others are listed among probable losers.
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Congress
Illinois
Arkansas
Rhode Island
Minnesota
California
Calieee
Missouri
Indiana
Iowa
Kentucky
Mississippi
Alabama
Sas
Louisiana
Maine
Massausetts
Nebraska
North Dakota
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
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Virginia
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Michigan
Tharp’s death by own action succeeds after note left
In Nashville on July 17 M. C. Tharp, 56, hanged himself in his kitchen with a window cord after leaving a note to a neighborhood grocer marked open at once. Relatives cited unemployment and debt as factors. The grocer reached the home about a four block run and cut the rope. Tharp died at a hospital the following night.
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Nashville
M. C
Tharp
Officers Search For Negro Fiend
Houston police and sheriffs searched all available officers for a black assailant who robbed and assaulted a Houston merchant’s wife at six this morning. The attacker, armed with a knife, dragged the woman from the dining room after she escaped the locked front door. Her eight year old son witnessed the attack and the assailant fled with the purse.
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Houston
Texas
Dictatorship Looms in Germany as Finance Decrees Lose Support
Berlin reports the chancellor Dr Heinrich Bruening threatens to rule by decree after the Reichstag rejected a finance article 256 to 204. President Hindenburg and Finance Minister Hermann Dietrich would assume near unlimited authority under Article 48. The cabinet moved to enact the tax program by decree, with new taxes estimated at 115 million dollars and reduced income tax exemptions.
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Berlin
Germany
Heinrich Bruening
Reichstag
Paul von Hindenburg
Hermann Dietrich
Finance Ministry
German Reich
Hare
Socialist Party
Watchman Dies as Result of Injuries
Nashville July 17 A 55 year old watchman L K Reagan died from injuries after being struck by an ice truck He was hit while crossing the street and the driver said lights of an approaching car hindered visibility He was taken to a hospital and the driver was not held
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Nashville
L. Kk. Reagan
Regan
Hull Ignores Todd Debate Challenge in Senate Race
Nashville July 17. Representative Cordell Hull announced he would ignore Andrew L. Todd of Murfreesboro in the democratic race for the long term junior United States senator. Todd demanded two debates daily until the August 7 primary but Hull said he will press on with his plan to discuss national and Tennessee issues directly with the people.
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Nashville
Cordell Hull
Andrew L. Todd
Murfreesboro
United States
Todd
Kingsport
Hull
Tennessee
Zane Grey Faces Plagiarism Suit
A $500000 plagiarism suit against Zane Grey was heard in federal court in Los Angeles. Plaintiff Charles A. Maddux, acting under an assignment from John H. Cook’s widow, alleges Grey’s novel The Thundering Herd borrows from Cook’s 1907 story.
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Los Angeles
Zane Grey
Charles A. Maddux
Grey
John H. Cook
Madrux
Cook
Noneer
Zeppelin Passes Over South Coast of Iceland
The Graf Zeppelin passed over Cape Portland on Iceland’s south coast during a flight toward Spitzbergen this morning. Among 22 aboard is General Umberto Nobile, the Italian explorer revisiting the 1928 Italia expedition site where his airship was lost on the return from the North Pole.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Spitzenbergen
Cape ?Ortland
Gen“al Umberto Nobile
Italia
North Pole
Weather Fair and Warmer Across States
TENNESSEE generally fair tonight and Friday with slightly warmer conditions in the west. VIRGINIA mostly cloudy with coastal showers and warmer tonight, then partly cloudy Friday. possible local thundershowers in extreme north Friday afternoon. light to gentle variable winds. Readings at 6:30 p m show yesterday high 87 or 62 last year, no rain on either date.
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Tennessee
Virginia
C. L. Bunn
William Hulsey and Son Sentenced to Death in Ga
William Hulsey and his son Fred were convicted of murdering three men after a card game and were sentenced to be electrocuted August 29. Defense filed a motion for a new trial as prosecutors described the killings near Rockmart Georgia and the bodies found in an abandoned well.
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Cedartown
William Huuisey
Fred
William Hulsey
Cliff Jones
Lige Harper
Ernest McCullough
Rockmart
Polk Superior Court
Husseys
Jones
Hulsey Farm
Hasey
L. E. McCullough
Halsey
Discovery Climax Ends Air Mail Pilot Search
Maurice Graham, air mail pilot for Western Air Express, who vanished last January while en route from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City, was found dead in the Kanarraville mountains southeast of Cedar City Utah. Major Richard N McDonald led the search and identified the body by personal items, a revolver, and foodstuffs. The death is attributed to exposure after his plane crashed during a January storm.
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Graham
Salt Lake City
Cedar City
Utah
Maurice Graham
Western Air Express Air Mail
Richard N. McDonald
Air Mail
Kanarra Mountains
Here
McDonald
Los Angeles
Nevada
Las Vegas
Pilot Maurice Graham dies after long air mail career
Maurice Graham, a World War II aviation veteran who flew the Los Angeles to Salt Lake City air mail route without a delay, died. His 180,000 miles of service marked a standout record in punctual mail delivery and wartime aviation endurance.
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Los Angeles
Maurice Graham
Salt Lake City
Twelve men killed in Hetch Hetchy tunnel gas blast
A gas explosion in a tunnel of San Francisco's Hetch Hetchy project killed twelve men in the east drift. Rescue efforts found two bodies. thirteen men in the west drift were unharmed but shaken. Camp Mitchell, Alameda county, about 65 miles from Oakland, houses the site amid a plan to deliver 400 million gallons of water daily and substantial hydroelectric power.
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Camp Mitchell
Cal
Hetch Hetchy
San Francisco
Charles O’malley
C. R. Rankin
John McNichols
J. C. Haybin
G. Nations
C. R. Kavanaugh
P. E. Kaub
E. Yaworski
A. W. de Molay
Tony Redka
G. Urich
J. Master
Patrick Gallagher
L. R. Crowley
Alameda County
Oakland
High Sierras
Goldsborough Victim in Birthday Crash in Vermont Mountains
Frank Goldsborough, on his 20th birthday, died after a plane crash in foggy Woodford mountain forest. He held junior trans continental records and lay unconscious for 18 hours before rescue. Companion Donald Mockler escaped. body sent to New York for funeral. Brice Goldsborough disappeared years earlier in a Dawn flight.
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Bennington
Frank Goldsborough
Brice Goldsborough
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Woodford Mountain
New York City
Goldsborough
Donald Mockler
Gertrude Goldsborough
Frances Grayson
Gerard predicts new war between Italy and France
James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, returned from France and said a new war is brewing between Italy and France. He termed it imminent and in the air, noting he spoke to no diplomats. He suggested France fears another war rather than being the aggressor.
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New York
James W. Gerard
Germany
Wilson
France
Italy
Hoover hosts garden party for disabled veterans
President and Mrs Hoover entertain 250 disabled veterans at an official garden party in Washington. In Calcutta riots at Kishorenanj leave fifteen dead and seven injured, officials report.
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Washington
Hoover
Calcutta
Kishorenanj
Consuls Evidence Anxiety in Alexandria Riots
Cairo July 17 AP reports foreign consuls in Alexandria warned the government they will view any reduction of military forces there with great anxiety. Alexandria remains quiet as residents of Giza invite Nahas Pasha to speak, with no date set. Members of the Alexandria ward committee Abd Elfattah El Tawil Hassan Sourour Ahmed Morsibadr El Sayed Kara arrested. Gharably Pasha went to Alexandria to defend their interests.
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Cairo
Egypt
Alexandria
Giza
Nahas Pasha
Abd Elfattah el Tawil
Hassan Sourour
Ahmed Morsibadr
el Sayed Kara
Egyptaan
Gharably Pasha
MacDonald Announces Dispatch of Battleships to Alexandria
In the London House of Commons yesterday Prime Minister MacDonald said two battleships were sent to Alexandria to protect life and property amid disorders there. Reports from Alexandria said streets were patrolled by soldiers to curb clashes between police and Wafdist strikers. Three Wafdist newspapers were suppressed for urging disobedience and mutiny against authorities.
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MacDonald
House of Commons
London
Alexandria
Cows Lead Search for Gold in Cascade Grazing Ground
WENATCHEE Washington July 17 A cow jawbone with gold colored teeth was presented as proof of a tale that cattle grazing in Alder creek basin higher in the Cascade range have become coated with gold. Yakima miner Victor Koerner suggested lime in the teeth caused the gold to adhere in grazing ground meals.
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Wenatchee
Wash
Alder Creek Basin
Cascade Range
Victor Koerner
Yakima
Johnson Opposed to Limitation Debate On Naval Treaty
A petition to invoke cloture on the London naval treaty debate was circulated by Senator Watson after Senator Johnson blocked an agreement for limits. The 16 signatures were quickly gathered and a Saturday vote was planned. If adopted, each senator would have one hour of debate on the treaty thereafter.
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London
Demand Early Vote On London Naval Treaty
Washington July 17 pro Senate advocates of the London naval treaty demand an early vote upon the pact and plan to use force if needed to end debate. A Cloture petition is ready for circulation as pro treaty forces hope to avoid a unanimous consent time limit. Senator Johnson California Republican leads the opposition insisting no agreement until Senator Moses New Hampshire Republican ally returns tonight or tomorrow after a death in the family. Senator Watson Indiana is mentioned.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
California
Moses
New Hampshire
Watson
Indiana
Arrested in Case Miss Mary Baker
Montreal July 17 AP Herman Henry Barrere 37 itinerant painter held in jail for Virginia authorities wanted in the slaying of Mary Baker a Navy Department employee in Washington The woman companion held for information and identified as a Pennsylvania resident was not named by police
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Montreal
Herman Henry Barrere
Barrere
Virginia
Mary Baker
Navy Department
Washington
Pennsylvania
Montreal Holds Suspect in Miss Baker Slaying
An itinerant painter, Barrero Barrere, was detained in Montreal on a Virginia murder warrant for the slaying of Miss Mary Baker, a Navy Department employee found shot and assaulted near Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney William G. Gloth plans extradition.
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Herman Henry Barrere
Mary Baker
Navy Department
Washington
Arlington
Virginia
Barrero
William G. Gloth
Arlington County
Barrere
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Herman Barrere
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