Drys Open Move To Block Vote In California
California faced a potential delay in certifying Los Angeles results as drys sought to block the vote on repealing the 18th Amendment. Richard M. Cannon and Frank G H Stevens secured a temporary injunction in Los Angeles Superior Court challenging the election act. With 8,951 of 9,347 precincts reporting, repeal led 965,256 to 305,568 against.
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Los Angeles
Richard M. Cannon
James Cannon, Jr
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Frank G. H. Stevens
Fatty Arbuckle Dies at 46 After Tumultuous Career
The comedian Fatty Arbuckle dies after a career marked by scandal and revival efforts. He rose from vaudeville to film stardom with Mack Sennett and later helped shape contract morality clauses. His life included three marriages, a stint in restaurants, and final funeral plans in New York.
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Pickaninny
Arbuckle
Frank Bacon
San Jose
Cal
Leon Errol
Orpheum Theater
Portland
Ore
Mack Sennett
Bathing Beauty
Sennett
Mabel Normand
Chester Conklin
Charles Chaplin
Ford Sterling
Joseph Schenck
United Artists
Famous Players Lasky Corporation
Minta Durfee
Rappe
Doris Deane
Addie McPhail
New York
Fatty Arbuckle
Broadway and
6Th Street
Rudolph Valentino
Alabama Farmers Embrace Live-at-Home Plan
A statewide live-at-home campaign in Alabama reports over 15 000 farmers pledging to raise food and feed for livestock. Led by Dr L N Duncan the effort spans 56 counties with county agents and district leaders coordinating garden canning meat and dairy efforts. Miss Helen Johnson notes increased hogs dairy cattle and poultry despite economic lows.
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Alabama
O. K
Auburn
Ala
L. N. Duncan
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Duncan
Mass Firing Reduces 112 Federal Employees Friday
A large wave of terminations sweeps through federal agencies across the region. Northern Alabama and southern Georgia see multiple resignations, with several successors named. In Louisiana and Texas, numerous special agents and staff are released, including clerks, attorneys, and a radio technician, as offices announce reductions of personnel.
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Alabama
Eugene Smith
F. D. Dismuke
Middle
Georgia
Walter C. Grubbs
J. T. Crowder
W. M. Weaver
S. O. McPherson
Florida
Eugene S. Forsyth
M. H. Daily
Mississippi
E. S. Chapman
Clarksdale
Albert B. Brister
C. H. Kellogg
Texas
Richard B. Hamilton
C. B. Cooper
Richard C. McCall
Verne Miller
W. B. Reynolds
H. P. Wright
Atlanta
L. M. Reynolds
Beaumont
W. L. Getzer
Pensacola
Oklahoma man held in deaths of two children
After the shootings as he hitchhiked toward Sand Springs, an Oklahoma man was detained in the deaths of two children. On arrival at the farm he shot Sam Sewell and John Voss, injuring Sewell severely. Voss was expected to recover.
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Oklahoma
Sand Springs
Jones
Sam Sewell
Ingram
John Voss
Sewell
Muskogee
Voss
Texas Gasoline Tax Collections Increase
Texas shows a record rise in gasoline tax receipts despite a US drop in consumption. State Comptroller George Sheppard cites a 1 percent increase under the existing rate, attributing the rise to a new collection law amid broader national declines.
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Austin
U.P
Texas
George Sheppard
United States
Sheppard
Reduction of tax accorded to Kahn
Senate investigators heard that Otto H. Kahn received a 1930 income tax deduction on stock sales without knowing the stock was sold to his daughter. He also claimed a 1930 foreign tax of 4480, though none was due in the United States.
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Washington
Senate
Otto H. Kahn
Kahn
England
Kahn, Loeb and Company
New York
Ferdinand Pecora
Internal Revenue Bureau
Pecora
Mercury 111 at Liberal Kansas Shatters Heat Records
The report notes Liberal Kansas reached 111 degrees as a heat wave spread from a south Atlantic high pressure. Eastern North Dakota cooled after rain with Fargo and Grand Forks at 71 degrees, while St. Paul Minneapolis registered 84 at midnight. Relief was promised for several midwestern states by Friday.
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North Dakota
Fargo
Grand Forks
Twin Cities
St. Paul
Minneapolis
A. G. Pursell
Wisconsin
Missouri
Iowa
Minnesota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Ilinois
Indiana
Michigan
Liberal
Kas
City cuts refrigeration electricity by half
The city commission authorized a fifty percent reduction in the price of electric current for refrigeration. Starting Saturday July 1 the rate drops from six to three cents per kilowatt hour for all users including homes and businesses. Dealers in electric ice boxes are promoting sales amid the lower rate.
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City Commission
Woman Ends Life After Losing Government Job
In the wake of a broad government staff reshuffle under the new administration a 30 year old woman, Helen Warfield, lost her job at the Interstate Commerce Commission and died by gas exposure. John C Perkins, 62, a senate enrollment clerk, took poison and cut his throat amid staffing upheavals. Hospital officials feared he would not survive.
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Washington
U.P
Helen Warfield
Interstate Commerce Commission
John C. Perkins
Senate
Perkins
Electrocution hits coast guard radioman at Pelican Spit station
William Oliver, about 29, chief coast guard radioman, died after being electrocuted while working on a transmitter at Pelican Spit coast guard radio station near Galveston. The body was held pending advice from Mobile, Alabama, relatives.
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Galveston
Tex
William Oliver
Coast Guard
Pelican Spit
Mobile
Ala
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Jean Harlow
Kansas City
S. D. Harlow
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F. W. Gist
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William C. Ammerman
James B. Barton
Richard M. Dumphy
Restora L. Fauquier
Joseph M. Robinson
Ray Seale
Reed L. Shockey
Victor M. Walz
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Leo J. Nolte
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Grover C. Trumbo
James Simmons
Dallas
Virgil A. Smith
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Monroe Day
Ation Offer
Johnson
Johnson’s
Penny Sale
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Capitol
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