Two Aviators Begin Hop to Britain in Bad Weather
The steamer Quaker City sighted the Columbia, flying at 200 feet, while Captain Errol Boyd and navigator Harry Connor set out from Harbor Grace for a trans Atlantic flight to England. John A. O'Brien funds the mission as the monoplane Columbia attempts another crossing after fog delays.
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Harbor Grace
N. F
Errol Boyd
Picut
Harry Connor
England
New York
New Foundland
John A. O'Brien
Columbia
Atlantic Ocean
N. P
Harry F. Connor
Charles A. Levine
Clarence Chamberlin
Levine
Atlantic
Roosevelt Field
Kottbus
Germany
Mabel Bell
Havana
Rome
Jacksons 20th Natural Gas Well Blows In
The Lafleuroi and Gas company well near Jackson Mississippi blew in today sending the field to about 600 million cubic feet daily open flow. The well came in after the bailer had run 20 times and adds an estimated 40 to 50 million cubic feet daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson, Miss
Jackson
Lafleuroi and Gas Company
Storm drives ships to safety at Cuxhaven and other late notes
United Press reports a hurricane like storm forcing 59 vessels to seek refuge at Cuxhaven Germany. In Arkansas heavy rains sink nine motorboats on Lake Catherine and divers work to raise them. In Mendota Illinois Andrew Moore eighty pedals 28 miles to a Dixon physician, a village blacksmith. Chicago judge rejects Ralph Capone ten thousand dollar cash bond and orders him held for questioning.
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Hamburg
Germany
Cuxhaven
Hot Springs
Ark
Lake Catherine
Here
Dixon
Andrew Moore
Mendota
Moore
Associated Press
Chicago
John P. Lyle
Ralph Capone
Bureau of Identification
Motorcade to Vicksburg over paving planned
A motorcade from Shreveport to Vicksburg is planned by the Shreveport Motorclub to celebrate the Dixie Overland highway paving from the Mississippi river to the Texas line. About 60 to 100 cars from Shreveport are expected with a large Monroe delegation. tentative date October 18 with a return October 19 in Vicksburg.
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Shreveport
Vicksburg
Shreveport Motorclub
Shreveport Chamber of Commerce
Mississippi River
Texas Line
Monroe
Rayville
Chambers of Commerce
Monroe Motor Club
Monroe and
West Monroe
U S Steel Slips to Two Year Low Amid Market Slide
A broad liquidation hit Wall Street as U S Steel tumbled to 147.50 amid a market downturn sparked by the suspension of Prince and Whitely, with several key stocks breaching two year lows while the market remained orderly. Richard Whitney emerged as a large buyer during intraday declines.
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New York
Stock Exchange of
Prince and Whitely
Wall Street
VU. 8. Pt
U. S. Steel
Richard Whitney
Lee Christmas Daughter Marries Loyola Graduate
Five people died in two separate crashes today. In Utah Texas near Eunice Louisiana area the Kleiser family car hit a culvert injuring T C Kleiser and fatally wounding Mrs. Kleiser while their two children escaped unharmed. In Indiana four residents from Munice and one from Daleville died in a crash six miles west of Munice with one injured.
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Ugarland
Texas
T. C. Kleiser
Here
Munice
Ind
Kenneth E. Verhart
Gaylord Springer
Letha Cooper
Howard Allen
Daleville
Decisive Battle Expected at Coffee Capital
Revolutionary armies from southern Brazilian states converge on Sao Paulo the coffee capital as Rio de Janeiro fortifies defenses. Uruguayan reports place 80 000 men under arms and 100 000 mobilized with Parana and Santa Catharina forces of 30 000 marching toward the Uruguay river to unite for a northern advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montevideo
Uruguay
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Rio de Janiero
Parana
Santa Catharina
Uruguay River
Veteran Memphis Policeman Hulet Smith Dies
Captain Hulet Smith age 54 longtime Memphis police officer died in Memphis after being stricken while visiting Chicago six weeks earlier and confined at Methodist hospital.
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Memphis
Tenn
Hulet Smith
Memphis Police Department
Chicago
Methodist
Safety program dominates oil congress in Tulsa
The seventh annual international petroleum exposition and congress featured a full day safety program by oil companies. The Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association held its safety contest, culminating in tonight's dinner by the association's safety division. John M. Lovejoy called government charges against the interior department misleading to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Tulsa
Okla
Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association
Association
John M. Lovejoy
New York
Tulsa Oil
George S. Kelley
Interior Department
John Hay Whitney and Jill the terrier fly south in Amphibian plane
John Hay Whitney and his wife on a Virginia honeymoon say farewell to their pet Jill. The dog travels with a valet and two pilots aboard an Amphibian plane from a flying field for a southward journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John Hay Whitney
Virginia
Trans Atlantic Aviator Weds After Last Flight Home
Wing Commander Charles Kingsford Smith, famed for Atlantic and Pacific hops, leaves Heston for Australia to end his aviation career and marry Miss Mary Powell of Melbourne. The couple had planned a Sydney wedding after his final Atlantic solo flight was paused for the marriage. The team on the Southern Cross included Captains Van Dyk and Saul and John Stannage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Heston
England
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Atlantic
Pacific
Australia
Mary Powell
Melbourne
Kingsford-Smith
Southern Cross Junior
America
Bourne
Pacific Ocean
Ireland
New York
Miss Powell
Sydney
Kingsford- Smith
Everet van Dyk
J. Patrick Saul
John W. Stannage
Legionnaires Refuse to Consider on Prohibition
The American Legion today refused to consider repeal of the 18th amendment. A New York department resolution calling for repeal was ruled out of order by National Commander O. L. Bodenhamer.
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Boton
The
American Legion Today
Department of New York
O. L. Bodenhamer
Kansan Named National Commander of American Legion
Ralph T. O'Neil of Topeka Kansas was elected national commander at the American Legion's national convention. He defeated Munroe Johnson of Marion South Carolina on a roll call vote 879 to 346 and the election was made unanimous upon Johnson's request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Ralph T. O'Neil
Topeka
Kansas
American Legion
O'Neil
Munroe Johnson
Marion
S. C
Johnston
Johnson
Hambone's Meditations Excerpt by J P Alley
A dialect piece voices Hambone's anxieties about a coming famine and predicts that possums and friends will face hunger, with a humorous stubborn tone reflecting rural Southern speech and cultural caricature.
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Hambone’s Meditations
J. P. Alley
New Orleans Wedding Connects Americas Through History
In New Orleans on October 9, Maria Adelaida Christmas wed Jose Guillermo Mayorga son of Guatemala’s postmaster. The marriage links the Christmas family to 19th century South American upheaval tied to General Lee Christmas who aided a 1911 Ceiba capture. The bride will send her bouquet to General Christmas’ grave in New Orleans before the couple settles in Zacapas Guatemala where Mayorga runs a drug store after Loyola University graduation.
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New Orleans
South America
Maria Adelaida Christmas
Jose Guillermo Mayorga
Guatemala
Miss Christmas
Lee Christmas
Guy Maolony
Ceiba
Anduras
Manuel Bonilla
New Englander Surrenders to Orleans Police
Roy C. Hale a 22 year old from Allston Massachusetts turned himself in at New Orleans police claiming he stole 2000 dollars from Mack Motor Truck Company at 75 North Beacon Street in Allston. He said an urge to travel and gamble led to the theft and blamed relatives for making good the loss.
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New Orleans
Allston
Mass
Roy C. Hale
Hale
Mack Motor Truck Company
North Beacon Street
Noted Mississippi attorney dies from mule kick
T. E. Mortimer, 54, prominent attorney and delta planter, died in Belzoni Mississippi from complications after a mule kick suffered two weeks earlier. He appeared to recover but passed away at 2 30 this morning.
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Mississippi
Associated Press
Belzoni
Miss
T. E. Mortimer
Honeymoon Plane Falls Near Nimule Crash
Khartoum Sudan Oct 9 United Press reports a plane carrying Marshall Field III of Chicago and his bride on a honeymoon tour through the big game country crashed near Nimule. All members of the party were reported safe.
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Khartoum
Sudan
Africa
Marshall Field III
Chicago
Nimule
Man Recounts 40 Day Starvation Fast Near Missouri River
Francis Pool, 65, in a Kansas City hospital after claiming a 40 day fast. He said he went to the river to camp after injuring his wrist and could not work. Found along the Missouri river banks, he grew weak from not eating and survived on only spring water since food ran out.
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Kansas City
Francis Pool
Missouri River
Two men drown when river boat capsizes near Ouachita City
Louis Scott and Luther Hawkins, both of Fairbanks, die when their boat capsizes while six co workers swim to shore. Others reach safety as emergency crews from Monroe rush to recover the missing men near the Bayou Bartholomew mouth.
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Southern Carbon Company
Ouachita River
Ouachita City
Bayou Bartholomew
Louis Scott
Luther Hawkins
Fairbanks
Union Parish
Scott
Hawkins
American Legion
Monroe
Dissolution Sought for Specification Motor Oil Co in Hot Springs
Hot Springs Ark Oct 9 stockholders filed a chancery court petition seeking dissolution of the Specification Motor Oil Company of Arkansas. The filing requests a receiver and alleges lack of accounting to stockholders and that the firm is attempting to sell leases without stockholder consent.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Specification Motor Oil Company of Arkansas
Chancery Court
Treasury Contracts Reach 43 Million For Public Buildings
The Treasury reports 43 million dollars in contracts for public building since January with 1 666 contracts to date. Another 49 contracts totaling 30 million are to be let later in 1930. Including land costs, the year's building program totals about 100 million.
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Associated Press
Washington
Treasury
Ferry K. Heath
Hoover
Congress
Federal sleuths expose new gin racket in New Orleans
Federal prohibition agents reported a puzzling bootleg operation in New Orleans after six nights of search work near Franklin and Graiver streets. They found about 2000 pints of gin hidden in vacant houses, gutter drains, and garbage cans, but no arrests as dealers remained elusive.
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New Orleans
Franklin and
Gravier Streets
Students deem legs overrated in campus survey
A Missouri Student committee surveyed coeds at the University of Missouri and found most had indifferent legs. Among 100 randomly chosen women only five had good looking limbs and one had notably sightly legs with broad agreement.
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Columbia, Mo
Missouri
University of Missouri Publication
Texas Youth Kills Girl Then Dies in Car Fatal
Hamilton Bryant 23 of Colmesneil shot and killed Myrtis Odom 16 of Jasper, then killed himself in a car on a road near Colmesneil in Tyler county. Justice S. M. Meadows ruled murder by self-destruction. Eyewitnesses Eddie Law and Ethel May Oxford were in the rumble seat and had no quarrel to report.
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Associated Press
Beaumont
Tex
Hamilton Bryant
Colmesneil
Myrtis Odom
Jasper
Tyler County
S. M. Meadows
Eddie Law
Ethel May Oxford
Bryant
State May Turn Couple Over to U S Authorities
Indications that Clarence Rayborn and his sister in law Clara Batey, who eloped from Wisner two weeks ago, would be turned over to federal prosecutors were given after Richland Parish District Attorney Carey Ellis met with U S Commissioner H M Eshelman. Ellis favored federal charges citing stronger evidence, with the case continued on page nine.
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Clarence Rayborn
Clara Batey
Wisner
Carey Ellis
Richland
Franklin
West Carroll
Ellis
H. M. Eshelman
United States
Mr. Ellis
Rayborn
River Stages Report With Flood Present
The record shows flood conditions along the Ouachita Camden station with a 3.2 unit rise to stage 30 and 186 stage value, while Monroe reads 14.7 unchanged.
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Ouachita
Camden
Monroe
Bank of Converse Robbery Nets $2500 to $3000
Three bandits robbed the Bank of Converse of between 2500 and 3000 dollars as Cashier R D Darnell and his wife were taken to the vault. The robbers fled in a automobile toward Sabine parish. Sheriff Williams of DeSoto Parish pursued but trailing was lost near Benson.
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Converse
Myri!’s Ferry
Sabine River
Here
E. N. Nolan
Benson
Goodwin Harris
Mansfield
R. D. Darnell
C. W. Worsham
D. Darnell
Sabine Parish
Williams
DeSoto Parsh
Darnell
Hoy al elected president of Legion Auxiliary
Mrs Wilma Hoyal of Douglas Arizona was chosen president of the American Legion Auxiliary at the national convention session held in Boston on October 9.
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Boston
Wilma Hoyal
Douglas, Ariz
Women’s Auxiliary of the American Legion
Auxiliary
Chicago Honors Fire Anniversary With Parade And Hearst Guest
Chicago marked the fire anniversary with a 25 mile parade starting at 1 30 pm attended by Hearst as official guest. A private luncheon for Hearst and several senators preceded the event before a Soldier Field finale for about 150 000 spectators. The spectacle included 1000 aerial bombs and 1000 flags released amid a 3000 piece band and 2000 voice chorus.
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Associated Press
Chicago
William Randolph Hearst
Hearst
James E. Watson
Indiana
Smith W. Brookhart
Soldier Field
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Meir
Britain
Boyd
Connor
Newfoundland
Weather Man
Associated Preas
Radio Marine Corporation
Quaker City
Cape Race
United Press
U. S
Loyola
California
Eunice, la
Kleisers
Eunice
Tulsan
Kelley
Southern Cross
Unted Press
Kansan
Bet Syndicate, Inc
Guatamala
New
Motor Oil Company
Stude Committee
Benson But Roses Trail
Legion Auxiliary
James A. Reed
Banda
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