Girl Hurt In Bristol Blvd Accident Near Lincoln School
Nita Anderson thirteen year old daughter of Mrs Kate Anderson of 1318 Chestnut street suffered a skull base fracture and minor injuries after being struck by a Whippet sedan driven by J A Phillips Jr of Bristol on Bristol Boulevard near Lincoln school. Phillips said he blew his horn as a group of children crossed. witnesses say the accident was unavoidable.
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Nita Anderson
Kate Anderson
Chestnut Street
A. m
J. A. Phillips, Jr
Bristol
Bristol Boulevard
Lincoln School
Marsh Clinic
Phillips
Anderson
Priest Held In China Bandit Kidnapping Dead Reported
AP report from Shanghai says Father Superior Tierney of St. Columbians Mission at Kiencheng died March 5 while captive of Chinese bandits. Captors demanded 40000 dollars ransom, with Tierney writing he was resigned to die. Native of Monshan Ireland, 55, he preached in western New York.
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Shanghai
St. Columbians Mission
Superior Tierney
Kiencheng
Father Tierney
St. Columbians
Nanchang
South China
Kiangsi
Kidangsi
County Monshan
Ireland
New York
Tax overassessment on Newport News Shipbuilding
The commissioner of internal revenues told the joint congressional tax committee that Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. faced an $858,723 tax overassessment. The years involved were 1919, 1922, 1923, and 1924, with the corporate income in question centered in Newport News Virginia.
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Washington
Mar
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Newport News
Virginia
Joint
Congressional Tax Committee
Commissioner of Internal Revenues
Youth Drowns in French Broad River at Leadvale
In Tennessee on March 30 an AP report states Pete Hays, 15, drowned Sunday after a boat capsized while he and his half brother Briscoe Parker went to set fish lines on the French Broad river. Parker nearly drowned but survived as authorities dragged the river today for Hays' body.
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White Pine
Tenn
French Broad
Leadvale
Pete Hays
Hays
Briscoe Parker
Parker
Fred Burke Awaits Trial for Murder of Cop in St. Joseph
St. Joseph, Mich, March 30. Fred Burke, called gang land's most dangerous killer, arrived in St. Joseph defiant of a life sentence for the Skalay murder tied to a December 14, 1929 traffic crash. He vows to fight, claims two lawyers, and faces three ready witnesses, with trial possibly in May.
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Fred Burke
St. Joseph
Mich
Joseph Skalay
Chicago
George “Bugs
Moran
Skalay
Burke
Forrest Kool
Buchanan
Michigan
Missouri
Kool
Dane
Steven Kooney
Kooney
Will Monroe Wolfe
House of David
Robbers Loot Wieboldt Store After Eight Hour Siege
Seven gunmen robbed the Wieboldt Department Store on Chicago’s South Side, looting $35,000 in cash and $15,000 in checks after keeping workers tied and rigging the vault with nitroglycerine. The raid stretched nearly eight hours, echoing a prior January break in at a Wieboldt outlet.
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Chicago
Wieboldt Department
Wieboldt
Bandit Robs Farmers Bank for 12000 in Travelers Rest
A lone bandit held up the Farmers Bank in Travelers Rest South Carolina today, taking twelve thousand dollars and fleeing in an automobile. Officers pursued him along the highway toward Asheville North Carolina.
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S. C
Farmers Bank
Asheville
N. C
Earthquake Recorded Near New York City
Fordham University reported a moderate quake within 4100 miles of New York City. The disturbance occurred yesterday with the seismograph showing impulses at 12 35 p m and again seven minutes later.
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New York
Mar
New York City
Fordham University
Stockholders rise at United States Steel in March
Stockholders of United States Steel Corp increased by 1 215 in the three months up to the March books closing date. The total common holders reached 149 122, up from 141 907 in December. Preferred dividend holders numbered 58 701, vs 59 171 in November and 61 312 in February 1930.
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New York
Mar
United States Steel Corp
Seabury to Have Free Hand in N Y
Seabury and Macy discussed plan and procedure for a yet unnamed investigative committee with Macy promising Seabury broad authority. City bureau changes anticipated after Mayor Walker returns from California include shifting kosher meat inspection to the health department and altering the board of standards and appeals. Investigations focused on five borough building bureaus.
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New York
W. Kingsland Macy
New York City
Samuel Seabury
Health Department
Board of Standards and Appeals
Snow falls again as West digs out from blizzard
Kansas City march 30 The middle west digs out from a blizzard that killed 16 last week A fresh fall begins in Colorado Wyoming Montana then Nebraska Kansas and western Missouri Temperatures are moderate no wind forecasters predict more precipitation in Oklahoma and northern Texas The storm claimed 16 lives including a seven year old boy found in a canyon and three sheepherders Fruit damage is reported across the region Transportation lines resume normal service with some bus routes still affected
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Kansas City
Middle-West
Rocky Mountain
Colorado
Wyoming
Montana
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
Boyd Edwards
Max
Towner
Lamar
New Mexico
Sef
Charles Beach
Can Chamberlin Fly New York March 28
Clarence Chamberlin, famed trans Atlantic pilot, faces a commerce department exam to renew his transport pilot license. His license expired a month ago, he was grounded for a week after a legal violation, and now he must pass a new examination described as akin to Einstein doing short division.
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Chamberlin
New York
Clarence Chamberlin
Department of Commerce
Einstein
Giant Dies in Norfolk Neb After Illness
Fred Bowie, a Nebraska giant 70 years old, died after several months of illness. He stood over seven feet tall and weighed more than 300 pounds, having rejected many circus offers due to his strength and size.
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Giant
Norfolk
Neb
Nebraska
Fred Bowie
Hold Youth in Murder of Pretty Student Nurse
A suspect is held in the murder of Verna Russell, a 20 year old nursing student found strangled on a rural road near Tiverton. The suspect, named as David Duff, 23, is identified as the slain girl's sweetheart. Attorney General Ben-
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Verna Russell
Tiverton
R. L
David Duff
Ben
Gandhi Dominates Indian Congress Endorses Key Goals
Gandhi remains the focal point as the All India National Congress meets in Karachi endorsing major aims of his independence platform. Vallabhai Patel, president, urged full self-determination while Gandhi observes a day of silence to allow defense of a potential truce. The assembly signals approval of much of his civil disobedience campaign and hints at broader support after the Delhi talks.
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Karachi
India
Gandhi
All Indian National Congress
Congress
Lord Irwin
New Delhia
Vallabhai Patel
American Romance Ends in Death on Riviera Shores
In Nice France on March 30 Mrs David Townsend formerly Peggy Davis a Broadway Follies girl drove her car from a 200 foot cliff after drinking four brandies. Police found her body and a note to her husband wealthy Wall Street broker Pavie Townsend who denies suicide insisting the death was an accident. Townsend, a famed Riviera patron, had bought her Villa Les Embrruns and a luxury car. She was identified as Margaret Laird born 1899 in Birmingham Iowa, married six years. The tragedy follows a recent Atlantic City beauty contest scandal.
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Nice
France
David Townsend
Eed
Here
Wall Street
Wally
Riviera
Playhouse O Europe
Pavie Townsend
Wal Street
Margaret
Peggy
Townsend
St. Jean Cap Ferrat
Mar Fargaret Laird
Birmingham la
Birmingham
Ala
Peggie Davis
New York Stage
Margaret Laird
Coloel J. A. Davies
Prenance Department
United State Armng
Former Broadway Beauty Peggie Davis Dies In France Crash
Birmingham dispatch reports Margaret Laird later Peggie Davis, once a Nine year old soprano in 1914 and Broadway Folies beauty, died when her car plunged 200 feet near Nice. Born December 31, 1905 in Birmingham, she married Col J A Davies in 1918 and later divorced.
Virginia Weather Report Sees Colder Night Ahead
The Virginia forecast notes rain and cooler air with tonight’s damp conditions. Tuesday will bring more rain especially in the southwest and only modest temperature changes from yesterday’s high of 53 and low of 36. Readings taken at 6 00 m by T C Harris U S Weather Office.
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Virginia
T. C. Harris
U.S.W.O
Hoover Returns to Desk After Rest as Caribbean Trip Ends
President Hoover, back from eleven days of rest aboard the battleship Arizona after a voyage to Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, confronts a piled desk and looming deficits. Treasury issues, tax receipts lagging, and the farm board wheat purchase are debated with Mellon and others as party strife and potential leadership changes stir Washington.
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Washington
Mar
Hoover
Old Point Comfort
Arizona
White House
Porto Rico
Virgin Islands
Caribbean
Mellon
Farm Board
Republican National Committee
Hurley
Brothers to Take Stand in Defense in Lingle Case
In Chicago Mar 30 AP defense lawyers for Leo Brothers plan to offer evidence that Frank Marco once top suspect in the Alfred Lingle murder. Police officers Storms and Stege may be questioned about other suspects as trial nears end.
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Criminal Court
Chicago
Leo Brothers
Alfred
Jake’’ Lingle
Frank Marco
New York
Walter L. Storms
John Stege
Foster
Brothers
Tyrrell Krum
Pfannebecker
Rubhy
Calvin Goddard
Crime Detection Laboratory
Northwestern University
Tito Schipa
Metropolitan Opera Company
Joseph Sabath
Murder case advances in third week trial in Chicago
Chicago on March 30 reports the single murder case entering its third week as the state nears the end of its string of witness testimonies. The tense courtroom drama centers on a pivotal defendant and the pursuit of a decisive verdict.
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Chicago
Clash Over Text Books Looms In Tennessee Fight
Nashville March 30 The state text book commission moves toward new five year contracts for Tennessee school books while an investigating committee plans executive session today and a public hearing later. Chairman Faulkner pressures delay urging a legislature tied readoption by July 1 with delivery and funding concerns.
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Nashville
Tenn
State Textbook Commission
Tennessee
State Affairs Investigating Committee
P. L. Harned
Walter Faulkner
Textbook Commission
L. D. Smith
Faulkner
Harned
R. H. Baker
Bank Robbery Reported In Nebo Kentucky March 30
Three men robbed Citizens Bank of Nebo locking cashier Claude Porter in a vault and forcing a customer to lie on the floor. They escaped with about $2,000. The incident occurred today in Nebo Kentucky.
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Nebo
Citizens Bank of
Claude Porter
Edison to head club for 75 and older in Fort Myers
Edison is to become president of the Three Quarters of a Century club to be organized in Fort Myers Florida on March 30 AP reports. The club aims to provide social entertainment and recreation for persons 75 years old or more with Mrs. F R Thomson of Battle Creek Michigan initiating the idea and J H Kellogg of Battle Creek as national president of the related clubs.
Texas Guinan Robbed in West Eighth Street Apartment
Texas Guinan arrived home from her night club to find her West Eighth Street apartment ransacked. Detectives arrived quickly and the star assured them nothing was missing, saying everything was all right.
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Texas
Guinan
New York
West Eighth Street
Hearings on Caldwell and Company receiverships postponed
Hearings of suits by Caldwell and Company bondholders seeking receiverships for seven West Tennessee drainage districts were postponed indefinitely in Trenton chancery court by agreement of counsel. R. E. Maiden said a later hearing date would be agreed, and Chancellor Hal Holmes indicated he would hear the cases on any Monday chosen by the attorneys.
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Trenton
Tenn
Caldwell and Company
West Tennessee
Chancery Court
R. E. Maiden
Hal Holmes
Holmes
Riots Renewed in Dharamchand Mosque Dispute
Two Muslims were killed and fifteen hurt in Dharamchand Amritsar district as thirty six assailants attacked a group over mosque construction. Twenty five of the attackers were arrested and order was restored.
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Lahore
India
Dharamchand
Amritsar
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