Sub Machine Gun Slaying Ends in Double Murder Suicide
Enraged former husband used a sub machine gun to kill his wife’s second husband and fatally wound the wife, then killed himself. The victims were George Mason and Vic Mason. the slayer identified himself as Janes Ernest Barnett of Chattanooga in a bizarre note. A boy witness saw two cars speed by and a gunman jump out. The incident occurred on a Atlanta street and Barnett died after firing a revolver.
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Atlanta
Janes Ernest Barnett
Chattanooga
Olin McCullough
Mason
Barnett
Sears head Julius Rosenwald to wed Adele Goodkind
Julius Rosenwald head of Sears Roebuck and company will marry Adele Goodkind of St Paul Minnesota. Mrs Lessing J Rosenwald daughter of the bride to be and wife of Lessing J Rosenwald confirms the engagement and says her father in law is not available for details. Lessing Rosenwald heads the Philadelphia branch and resides near Montgomery County.
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Julius Rosenwald
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Adele Goodkind
St. Paul
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Lessing J. Rosenwald
Lessing Rosenwald
New York
Meeting House Roads
Montgomery County
Winter Returns on the Wings of a Sleet Storm
A massive sleet storm swept from the Dakotas and Montana toward the Gulf, with snow rain and sleet driving southeast. Temperatures plunged, Glasgow Montana recorded 40 degrees below zero as winter roared back across the plains and eastern Rockies.
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King Winter
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Kentucky Girl Murder Baffles Police In Irvine
The body of 18 year old Daisy Horn with two bullet wounds was found in a ravine in Irvine Kentucky. A young man described as her sweetheart Ancil Proffett 22 is jailed on murder charges though footprints near the body do not match him and authorities seek motive. The girl's mother had initially said she left home with an unfamiliar man.
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Associated Press
Irvine
Daisy Horn
Boyd Horn
Ancil Proffett
Proffett
Royal Wedding Across Europe At Quirinal Chapel
Princess Marie Jose of Belgium wed Prince Humbert of Piedmont in the Pauline Chapel at the Quirinal Palace Rome. A host of royalty attended including King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium and King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. The ceremony was led by Cardinal Maffi with Monsignor Beccaria assisting. The bride entered with her father as the crown prince waited at the altar.
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Commissioner Fields to aid Monroe rail traffic improvements
Harvey G. Fields of Farmerville, Louisiana Public Service Commission member, arrived in Monroe to urge better traffic facilities on the Illinois Central line. He criticized the railroad for broken promises and offered to help Monroe work with the commission and city officials, possibly consulting on depot facilities and union station viewpoints. Francis Williams had sent a telegram to Mayor Bernstein before Fields’ arrival.
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Mother halts gangster’s death with blood transfusion
In Chicago a gunman James McManus 82 lies wounded after a street fight as his mother 50 volunteers a pint of blood to aid his life. Three guns and many shells are found on him, marking a long history with police.
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Associated Press
Chicago
James McManus
Two Youths Held in Laurel Robbery Probe
In Hattiesburg Miss on January 8 two youths, Benaid Harden 21 and Spec Randall 28, were jailed in Jones County Laurel after a vice crackdown by city and county police. Harden was arrested after investigators traced a clue connected to a robbery last Saturday when a safe was stolen from a Laurel chain grocery store.
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Civilian as Haiti high commissioner proposed by Senate chair
Washington Jan 8 Immediate appointment of a civilian as high commissioner or governor of Haiti was proposed today by Senator Bora h chairman of the senate foreign relations committee which began consideration of Hoover's request for a commission investigation.
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Haiti
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Indians Snowbound As Forecast Breaks Warning
Arizona tribesmen retreat to hogans after their weather diviners predicted no snow. Northern Arizona is covered in white with more winter storms expected as officials and residents adapt to the unexpected snowfall.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Jan. S
Arizona
Editor rebukes Governor Bilbo for his attack
In Jackson Mississippi on January 8 the Jackson Clarion Ledger fired back at Governor Bilbo after his charge that the paper printed lies and libel about him. The editorial says Bilbo has libeled himself and the paper bears no blame for his administration troubles.
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Jackson Clarion Ledger
Clarion Ledger
Jackson Day Observances Mark 115th Anniversary in New Orleans
New Orleans observes Jackson Day with banks exchanges city hall and courts closed and business partially suspended. Daughters of 1776 and 1812 participate in ceremonies at Jackson Square laying a wreath by the equestrian statue of Old Hickory.
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New Orleans
Andrew Jackson
Chalmette
Jackson Square
Old Hickory
Hambone’s Meditations by J. P. Alley
A compact note presents Hambone’s Meditations by J P Alley with dialect style and a bold claim about never being on his mind. The item reads as a cultural or literary snippet from a historical column.
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Hambone
J. P. Alley
Dog Leads Arkansas Officers to Infant Murder Scene
A dog carrying an infant leg led officers to a grisly murder in Dardanelle Arkansas. Police recovered the body beneath a large wreck in woods. the head battered and limbs torn, with the child dead for several days. Two women, including an unwed mother, were jailed on first degree murder charges.
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Dardanelle
Art
Coca Cola publicity man described as having access to Hoover
Senate lobby committee hears H. H. Pike Jr. claim W. C. D Arcy of Coca Cola can deliver concise sugar data to President Hoover. Pike says he learned this from an unnamed source. Senator Robinson presses for specifics and questions the credibility of the backchannel claim.
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Washington
Senate Lobby Committee
W. C. D'Arcy
Coca-Cola Compare
Hoover
H. H. Pike, Jr
Wall Street
P. A. Staples
Cuba
Central Hershey Company
Pike
Senator Robinson
Indiana
D'Arcy
Robinson
Oldest American Twins Charles Ellzey and Martha Knight Celebrate 80
The Jones county twins Charles Ellzey and Martha Knight, long cited as oldest living twins, mark their 80th birthday at Ellzey home between Laurel and Ellisville. About 200 relatives attended a day of music, feasting, and rejoicing. Ellzey has nine children, 64 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. Knight has five children, 13 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
America
Jones County
Charles Elizey
Laurel and
Ellisville
Charles
Martha Knight
George
Mr. Ellzey
Knight
Power and Light to Spend 3.25 Million in Louisiana
Louisiana Power and Light plans a 1930 budget of 3.25 million dollars for line and plant expansion statewide. A million will go to Northeast Louisiana with new lines, sub stations and growth radiating from the Sterlington plant.
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Louisiana Power and Light Company
Louisiana
Harvey C. Couch
Ounchita National Bank
Mr. Couch
McGregor Smith
New Orleans
William Crooks
Sterlington
Couch
Camden
Crossett
Gibsland
Mississippi Rains Rise While Rivers Swell Across Mid-South
Heavy rains flood Memphis streets and swell rivers across Tennessee Mississippi and Arkansas. More than six inches fell in 24 hours ending 7 a.m. with continued rainfall and rising water threatening the region.
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Mid-South
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Mississippi
Arkansas
Kentucky
Missouri
Mississippi Delta
Reopens Taylor murder case with new witnesses
San Francisco report says the William Desmond Taylor mystery may be reopened after two witnesses Otis Hefner and Henry Peavy offered new information. Attention centers on Edward Sands, a former Taylor employee, who Hefner claims found the director's body shortly after the killing.
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William Desmond Taylor
United Press
Otis Hefner
Henry Peavy
Taylor
Edward Sands
Sands
Hefner
Fall from Buckingham Building Kills Arow Worker
John Emerson, a row worker, plunged 25 stories from the Buckingham building in Chicago. He slipped on an icy scaffold and dangled above the street before fellow workers hauled him to safety. His body struck a crowd of commuters as they scattered in panic.
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Chicago
John Emerson
Arow
New Buckingham
Emerson
Flood Warning for Arkadelphia Area
Weather bureau warns of river crest near ten feet above flood stage on the Ouachita at Arkadelphia and Camden by January 13 due to heavy upper watershed rainfall.
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New Orleans
Jan
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Arkadelphia
Camden
Ark
Insane patient slays doctor at Harrisburg hospital
Dr. B E Miller, staff physician at the Harrisburg state hospital, was killed today by Moses Sweet an insane patient recently committed to the institution by the Dauphin county court. The attack left the physician with a fatal throat wound.
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B. E. Miller
Harrisurg State Hospital
Moses Sweet
Dauphin County
Three Trapped in High Sierras by Raging Blizzard
San Francisco report says Mr and Mrs John Nightingale and their seven year old son were stranded in the Sierra Nevada high country after a trip from Stockton to a summer cabin. Heavy snowfall blocked roads and trails as rescuers pressed efforts.
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Sierra Nevada Mountains
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Stockton
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Southern Girl Golf Champion Weds New York Undertaker
Miss Marion Terpie, southern golf champion, married Robert Chamberlain Lake, New York Elks golf champion and undertaker, in New Orleans at First Baptist Church. They left for a honeymoon in St Petersburg Florida and Biloxi where Mrs. Lake will defend her Pan American crown, then reside in Jackson Heights, Long Island.
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New Orleans
Marion Terpie
Robert Chamberlain Lake
New York Elks
First Baptist Church
John A. Haff
St. Petersburg
Fla
Biloxi
Mrs. Lake
Jackson Heights
Long Island
One Man Two Women Die In Queer Model
New Orleans police and the parish coroner investigate after a man, his wife and two women die from a shooting, poisoning and a skull injury. Anna Donellan 51 died of buckshot after a quarrel with her intoxicated husband who faced charges. Mrs Wilkins Roach 47 died from accidental poisoning on Christmas Eve. John Nunez 53 died from a skull fracture in a suspected undisclosed incident.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Anna Donellan
Wilkins Roach
John Nunez
Nunez
Motorist Deliberately Runs Down Boy on Bike
Laurel Mississippi January 8 police sought a hit and run driver who, apparently intoxicated, struck 17 year old messenger Travis Forman on a street yesterday. The boy said the driver cursed him for being in the way then rammed him on his bicycle. He suffered brain concussion contusions and lacerations.
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Dy Associated Press
Laurel
Miss
Travis Forman
Plea of Killer of Ohio Co Ed Denied By Court
The Ohio state supreme court denied Dr. James H. Snook’s request for rehearing of his death penalty appeal. He was sentenced to die in the electric chair for the June 13 murder of Miss Theora K. Hix and is slated to die January 31.
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Ohio
Associated Press
Columbus
State Supreme Court Today
James H. Snook
Theora K. Hix
Couple Reject Companionate Marriage Says It Is All Wrong
William Kenneth Moyer and Ethel Quinette Amelia Quen, two young intellectuals, say the companionate marriage idea is all wrong. They wed January 2 at Souderton seeking a child within two years, then may divorce if no baby is born, inspired by Aubrey Roselle and Josephine Haldeman Julius.
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William Kenneth Moyer
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International Rebel Poets Society
Ethel Quinette Amelia Quen
Sun Prairie
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Josephina
Aubrey
Chicago
William Nor
Asher M. Stoudt
Ethel Oylette den
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