Explosion at fireworks yard kills ten in Pennsylvania area
Fireworks stored for holidays exploded prematurely near Devon Pennsylvania and across neighboring New Jersey, killing at least ten people. About eighty were injured as blasts rocked the region and disrupted communications. Assailants cited workers from Penn Fireworks company among the dead.
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United Press
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Penn Fireworks Company
Devon
Explosions Blew Manhole Covers in Lower Broadway Repairs
Several injured as a sequence of blasts tore off about a dozen manhole covers on lower Broadway between 28th and 30th streets. Workmen repairing a gas main triggered the incidents. police and guards evacuated nearby buildings including hotels.
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New York
Lower Broadway
30Th Street
Tremor Hits Plant as Aerial Bombs Burst in Blast
A building that once housed aerial bombs trembled and shot skyward with a terrific detonation. The blast was heard thirty miles away in Trenton New Jersey. CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN.
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Trenton
N. J
Pennsyl
Presidents Talk in International Telephone Calls
President Hoover opened radio telephone service to South America and made good-will calls to the presidents of Chile and Uruguay. He exchanged greetings via rapid communication, saving the months long voyage required on his prior goodwill tour two years earlier.
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Washington
South America
Hoover
Chile
Uruguay
Census Refusal Triggers Federal Penalty Explained
A Cleveland case shows a housewife summoned for census questions and refusing to answer. The article notes a federal statute subjects refusals to a misdemeanor with up to 100 dollars fine or 60 days in jail, while false answers carry up to 500 dollars fine or one year imprisonment.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Shortage Found at Oakdale Bank After Chief's Attempt
Oakdale Bank and Trust Company faced a shortage estimated between 16000 and 17000 dollars. The bank was closed by a stockholders and directors meeting after State Auditor Callah reported the deficit. President and cashier S N Oakley, who shot himself in a Chattanooga hotel, remains in serious condition.
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Oakdale
Oakdale Bank and Trust Company
Callah
Oakdale Bank
S. N. Oakley
Chattanooga
Mr. Oakley
Premier Tardieu Falls Ill at Committees Meeting
Paris reports Premier Tardieu was seized by sudden illness during a committee meeting and required assistance to his car then to his hotel.
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Associated Press
Paris
Tardieu
Wife of Drummer Boy of Shiloh Dies in Rockies
Denver reports the death of Adelia Darrow at 78, widow of the drummer boy of Shiloh, famed for story of talking back to Jesse James. She and Daniel Barrow lived in southern Kansas near Anthony before moving to Colorado in 1886. The death followed grief over a son’s loss four years earlier.
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Shiloh
Rockies
Denver
Colo
Old West
Adelia Darrow
Jesse James
Daniel Homer Barrow
Iowa
Darrow
Darrows
Kansas
Anthony
Colorado
Death toll from spinal meningitis climbs in Memphis
In Memphis on April 38 the death toll from spinal meningitis rose to 61 since January 1 as two more people died. Three new patients were admitted to Isolation hospital, bringing the year’s total to 123 victims.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi Cadet Boxer at Hospital After Knockout
Mississipp i A and M captain known as Big Boy Akin is hospitalized with a broken jaw after a knockout by Heavyweight Brown. He had been missing five days before teammates found him in Jackson hospital and he will miss the April 11 match with Louisiana State University.
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Jackson
Miss
Akin
Mississippi A. & M
Brown
Southwest Louisiana Institute
Ethel, Miss
Louisiana State University
Louisiana Federated Music clubs open two day meeting
The Louisiana Federated Music clubs began their two day gathering with about 50 delegates at Hotel Monroe. A 10 a m board meeting and luncheon led by toast mistress Mrs. H H Land featured musical interludes. The formal opening occurred at 2 p m with a program at the Jewish synagogue annex and a welcome address by Mayor Arnold Bernstein.
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Louisiana Federated Music Clubs
Hotel Monroe
H. H. Land
Harry Oliver
Kate Allison
Florence Zeigler
Henry Whitfield
F. K. Hirsch
Arnold Bernstein
Lanier
Aramay Sinks While Being Taken to Boston
The British two masted schooner Aramay laden with liquor seized off the Maine coast sank during towing to Boston. Coast Guard Commander Hiram R. Searles said the crew likely scuttled the vessel to destroy evidence.
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Boston
Maine
Hiram R. Searles
Coast Guard
First Census Returns Begin To Be Wired In
First returns from small districts flowed into the census bureau as Centerville Missouri claimed to be the first incorporated city completely enumerated and reported Idaho’s Loonetai county wired in at 9 30 am yesterday District of Columbia census supervisor J Sterling Moran counted the White House family listing in the capital
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Washington
Census Bureau
Centerville
Missouri
Lootenai County
Idaho
J. Sterling Moran
District of Columbia
White House
Kansas Farmer Kills Taxicab Man Then Shoots Woman
United Press reports Max Searles, a Kansas farmer, shot and killed Bob Boaz as he stepped from a confectionery, then went to Bonnie White’s home and shot her in the head before turning the pistol on himself. Searles said he killed Boaz and White because they sold him bad dope.
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Kansas
Wichita
Kas
Max Searles
Bob Boaz
Bonnie White
Captain Hawks Lands Glider Flight in Springfield
Captain Frank N. Hawks landed at Municipal airport Springfield at 12 55 p m after a flight from San Diego to New York in a glider towed by an airplane. He battled strong headwinds from Tulsa during the trip.
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Springfield
Frank N. Hawks
San Diego
New York
Municipal Airport
Tulsa
Hambone's Meditations Reflection On Public Perception
A brief meditation notes how what others think about you can be a burden yet potentially a positive influence. The piece reflects on social judgment and personal resilience in everyday life.
Dew Ordered Held Here in Murder Case
Houston officers grilled John W. Dew alias J B Murray 19 for two hours in the parish jail in connection with the murder of Charles Gouge 20 and the wounding of Lilian Gossett at Morgan's Point last July. Dew is held for federal authorities on auto theft charges from Atlanta to Shreveport. authorities arrived from Shreveport to question him at the time they deemed most effective.
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Houston
John W. Dew
J. B. Murray
Charles Howard Gouge
Lillian Gossett
Morgan’s Point
Milton Coverdale
T. A. Binford
J. S. Wyatt
Dew
Atlanta
Shreveport
Mississippis 1930 Revenue Act Cuts Sales Tax Rates
Mississippi will collect taxes in smaller portions but more of them under the revenue act of 1930. The bill passed the house 68 to 33 and aims to bring in about 3.15 million dollars each biennium. A one percent sales tax was reduced to one quarter generally with wholesalers paying half and oil gas logging industries paying one percent.
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Associated Press
Jackson, Miss
Mississippi
Senate
House
German General Conrad von der Goltz dies at 80
Berlin reports the death of General Conrad von der Goltz born 1865. A key figure in the Battle of Tannenberg, he led a postwar volunteer force in the Baltic and faced suspicions of planning an attack on German republic forces.
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United Press
Berlin
Conrad von der Goltz
Tannenberg
Count von der Goltz
Baltic
Germany
Birthday excuse frees man in drunkenness case
G E K Bledsoe was released after telling Judge Fitzhugh it was his birthday and he was celebrating, prompting the judge to call it a good one and dismiss the case.
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Memphis
Tenn
Love Spurned Hires Trip To Mar His Girl
An aged physician, Arthur G. Greenoble of Jacksonville, is jailed in Savannah on a transfer from Effingham county. Charges against the 78 year old were suppressed as authorities claim they know nothing of the case. Effingham officials say the arrest followed his treatment of a Springfield woman patient.
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Savannah
Jacksonville
Arthur G. Greenoble
Chatham County
Effingham County
Springfield
United Press
Greenoble
Wall Street's Junk Man Roland Smythe Dies at 75
Roland M. Smythe, 75, known as Wall Street's junk man for five decades, died of acute indigestion. Based from 2 Broadway, he traded in extinct and repudiated securities, including South Carolina bonds sold for 1200 dollars, and advised bankers on the value of old certificates.
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Associated Press
New York
Wall Street
Roland M. Smythe
2 Broadway
Smythe
Stock Exchange
South Carolina
Death attributed to jake paralysis in Winnsboro
J. J. May, 71, died at the Winnsboro sanitarium from a cerebral hemorrhage after being seized by jake paralysis a week earlier. Found unconscious March 26 in his grocery store, with the left side paralyzed, he never regained consciousness and was fed through a tube until death.
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Stan
Winnsboro
J. J. May
May
Alleged Orleans Bandit Caught on Return to Scene
In New Orleans on April 3 a man identified as the April 1 would be holdup suspect by a victim and a companion when he returned to the scene. Police found Billy Robson, 37, there and Robson reportedly broke a hip pocket flask during arrest efforts.
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Orleans
Associated Press
New Orleans
Billy Robson
Robert Monroe
Robson
Spurned lover hires gangsters to loot homes for revenge
Wallace Downer 29, a former bank clerk, admitted to police he paid three men to raid the Brooklyn apartment where Martha Kranquist worked, after she spurned him. The robbers agreed to slash her but harmed none. The trio named Jack Lee, John Gray, and Louis Duval.
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New York
Wallace Downer
Martha Kranquist
Brooklyn
Downer
Jack Lee
John Gray
Louis Duval
Louisville
Rain Expected to End Forest Fires Across Maryland Virginia
Rain began falling across Maryland and Virginia, forecast to quell wildfires that have consumed over 2 000 acres. The Great Falls lock house burned, a District call for aid brought in an engine company, and Fairfax County brush fires destroyed a saw mill while threatening the Lorton Reformatory. Inmates and soldiers protected the prison as flames raged nearby.
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Washington
Maryland
Virginia
Great Falls Dam
District of Columbia
Fairfax County
Lorton Reformatory
Fort Humphries
Red Lilac Lila Jimerson Pleads Guilty in Murder Case
In Buffalo on April 3 Lila Jimerson known as the Red Lilac of the Cayuga Indians pleaded guilty in a hospital room that became a county court to second degree murder in the slaying of Mrs Clothilde Marchand wife of artist Henri Marchand.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Lila Jimerson
Clothilde Marchand
Henri Marchand
Conspirators charged after plot to free ex convict Bone
Sheriff Milton Coverdale foiled Luther C Bone's jail break plan as three men faced conspiracy to commit murder charges. Bone concealed a .38 revolver under a towel and shirt tail, intending to shoot his way to freedom while being transported to Arcadia. He claimed no intent to shoot officers.
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Milton Coverdale
Luther C. Bone
Arcadia
Bone
Policeman Beaten as Riot Hits USC Campus
In Los Angeles riot police called to USC campus after a patrolman was said to be beaten while officers tried to rescue him following a collision between his car and that of a coed student. Emergency squads deployed as hundreds of students clashed with police.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
University of Southern California
Nomination of Tom W. Daton as U S marshal for eastern Louisiana
President Hoover sent to the senate the nomination of Tom W. Daton to be United States marshal for the eastern district of Louisiana to replace Victor Loisel whose term has expired.
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Washington
Tom W. Daton
United States
Louisiana
Victor Loisel
Senate
Hoover
Florida cafe guest likened to Capone and seen in Apalachicola
A man who called himself Al Capone visited Apalachicola Florida passing through after dinner at a cafe. A cafe proprietor noted the resemblance to Capone and said the guest admitted the association. The group then ferried to East Point aboard an Ohio-licensed car.
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Capone
Florida
Associated Press
Apalachicola
Fla
al Capone
Chicago
Gulf of Mexico
Miami
Atlantic Ocean
East Point
Unemployment Relief Bills Favorably Reported by Senate
Two unemployment relief bills from Senator Wagner of New York were favorably reported to the senate commerce committee. The measures were approved unanimously after earlier action by a subcommittee.
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Washington
Wagner
New York
Senate
Commerce Committelas
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