Train Robbery in Martinez Halts Southern Pacific Mail
A Southern Pacific local train en route from Martinez to Pittsburg was held up near McCarthy Point by two robbers using a car with a mounted machine gun. They wounded Engineer H. Barnes, looted mail sacks, and fled. The value of mail stolen was estimated in the thousands. Barnes was taken to Pittsburg hospital and expected to recover.
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Pittsburg
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Charge faces flier seeking new air mark
Los Angeles police received a report from Fresno chief W G Walker that Lee Schoenhart a trans continental non stop flight card seeker was arrested on a bad check charge. The arrest occurred as the air departed for New York and was reported 30 days after the search began.
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Lee Schoenk
New York
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Schoenhair
Wallater
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Seminole chief freed on murder charge by tribal council
Josie Billie, 41, a Seminole chieftain, was acquitted by the tribal medicine men council on the murder of Nui-Che after testimony at a green corn dance gathering in the Everglades. The council ruled that such acquittals restore tribal privileges with no white authority interference.
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Josie Billie
Musa Isle
Everglades
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Corn Billie
Professor Snook Indicted for Murder Awaits Jury Trial
Dr James H Snook former Ohio State University professor faces a first degree murder indictment for the slaying of Theora Hix 25 a medical student. He will not plead guilty and prosecutors weigh a summer term court. Mrs Snook defends him declaring his innocence and intends to stand by him. The defense considers temporary derangement and a possible plea. The indictment accuses premeditated murder.
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Columbus. O
James H. Snook
Ohio State University
Theora Hix
Snook
John J. Chester, Jr
Mexico Backs Away From Religious Strife and Reopens Churches
Mexicans filled urban churches today to celebrate a settlement ending the religious crisis. Government permits return of church property and clergy for Masses starting June 29 with Archbishop Ruiz Y Flores and Bishop Jaz coordinating plans for nationwide reentry and a July 6 demonstration to President Portes Gil.
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Mexico
Nuestra Senora de la Guadalupe
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Congressmen Absent Plans Reception After Vacation
Washington June 22 Representative De Priest of Illinois announces a repeat benefit musicale and reception in February after summer recess. Invitations extended to all but two Republicans. audience numbered about 3,000 with few white attendees. De Priest defends his wife attending a White House tea, stating no social equality issue and acknowledging personal taste. James Weldon Johnson commends the event as dignified amid surrounding controversy.
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Payroll Robbery Foiled At Dunlop Tire Plant
In Buffalo on June 22, four armed bandits attempted a payroll heist at the Dunlop Tire and Rubber factory as 500 workers queued for pay. They overpowered the watchman Ralph Pierce and were about to strike the safe before two company policemen arrived with revolvers. the robbers fled.
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Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company
Ralph Pierce
Golf Pro Strives To Break 80 For A Five Dollar Bet
Alfred S. Austrian, Chicago attorney, paid $10 000 toLake Shore Country Club pro George A. Neil to learn to break 80. After months of training he finally shot 78 then 73 then 77 and paid the wager to win a five dollar bet.
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Chicago
Alfred S. Austrian
George A. Neil
Lake Shore Country Club
Neil
High Court Orders Sinclair and Day to Jail
The District of Columbia supreme court ordered Harry F. Sinclair and Henry Mason Day jailed for contempt of court linked to jury shadowing during the Fall-Sinclair trial. Sinclair already serves three months for refusing to answer Senate questions, with the new sentence to run concurrently, shortening total time behind bars. Burns received a $1,000 fine. William J. Burns’ prior 15 days were set aside. Day to surrender Monday for four months to join Sinclair.
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Harry F. Sinclair
Henry Mason Day
Sinclair
District of Columbia Supreme Court
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Burns Detective Agency
William J. Burns
Supreme Court
Day
New Orleans Chosen for 1930 T P A Meet
DETROIT June 22 New Orleans was chosen as the site of the 1930 Travelers Protective association convention at the closing session of the gathering yesterday.
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Detroit
New Orleans
Travelers Protective Association
Hambones Meditations by J P Alley
A reflective piece by J P Alley titled Hambones Meditations appears with dialect style lines about men and women and street life. The verses contrast different fates and behaviors through vivid local speech and humor.
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Hambones Meditations
J. P. Alley
Judge rebukes man who tried to be his own lawyer
In Shreveport Louisiana on June 22 W C Rogers of Norman Mississippi and Miss Dorothy Grimes of Jackson Mississippi pleaded guilty in federal court to violating the main act. Imposition of sentence was deferred for a year with probation under bond and required appearance within the year. Judge Dawkins signaled leniency if conduct remains good. Relatives and friends attended court as the couple, who left their homes to come to Shreveport, were released on bond. An infant Grimes child died Monday in Jackson. Bell S Ther iot of the city received a year in jail for violation of the federal homestead law with a motion to arrest judgment overruled and bond pending appeal.
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Dorothy Grimes
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Bell
Lutheran calls prohi slayings sheer murder
Dr W C Kohn president of Concordia college Illinois denounces the Volstead act enforcement as criminal. He says dry shootings are murder and killing transgressors without a fair trial is unbiblical un American and uncivilized. He spoke during the 34th triennial conference of the Evangelical Lutheran synod.
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Basque camp drawings by Quin Hall on Schmeling bout
Quin Hall the famous sports writer and cartoonist visits the Basque camp of Faolino Uzcudun where preparations for a bout with Max Schmeling are under way. Hall will present drawings and articles on the Azcadan prospects in upcoming News-Star sports sections.
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Road Bond Issue to Have 2 Million Dollar Balance
Baton Rouge report on a ten million dollar road bond issue shows a current balance of 1 935 417 87 after paying old Louisiana Highway commission debts. Ten new projects total 2 492 379 83 for nine roads and one bridge on four state highways.
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Pilot Dies as Plane Crashes Near Texarkana
Oscar Nash, a Texarkana pilot, was killed and Howard Webb, a passenger from Texarkana, injured when their plane crashed into a tree at a temporary landing field while taking off for Dallas. Miss Gladys Fisher witnessed the accident and helped move both men to a hospital where Nash was pronounced dead. Webb suffered fractured ribs and bruises with no serious injury.
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Oscar Nash
Howard Webb
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Dallas
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Webb
Fisher
Envoy Morrow in Mexico Laughs at Crank Letters
Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow, ill in bed in Mexico City, received crank letters after guiding settlement talks in the Mexican religious controversy. He called them the work of cranks and declined to be worried. He spoke by phone with President Portes Gil, rested, and maintained a contented view of the talks’ outcome.
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Envoy Morrow
Mexico City
Dwight W. Morrow
Mr. Morrow
Portes Gil
The
American School
Airmen Believed to Land on Miguel Island
Reports from Cartagena Spain say Major Ramon Franco and crew landed on the island of Miguel in the Azores after a flight from Cartagena. They planned to resume to New York tonight, with similar hints reaching Lisbon and Madrid but not independently confirmed.
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Island of Miguel
Trans-Atlantic plane mystery reaches Horta Azores
In Horta on Fayal Island, June 22, crowds awaited Major Franco and three companions amid rumors of a flight from Cartagena to New York. No official word arrived by afternoon though Lisbon and Madrid reports stirred excitement about the Spanish airmen in the Azores.
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Reinforcement urged for patrol on Detroit River
Alfred E. Cuddy deputy Ontario police urged stronger waterfront patrols and searches for weapons along the Detroit river to curb liquor smuggling during the U S offensive. He recommended additional Essex county officers and Dominion customs help to inspect rum runners and craft for weapons.
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Ontario
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