Eight go down as ship dives under waters
The steamship Wisconsin sank in a Lake Michigan storm off Kenosha. Captain Hugo Morrison perished with most of the crew. eight lives were lost and six others were rescued as guardsmen battled towering waves to pull survivors from lifeboats.
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Ress
Kenosha
Wis
Lake Michigan
Wisconsin
Hugo Morrison
Chicago
Coast
Morrison
Milwaukee
Fred Trevier
Eat Soup With One Hand Shoot With Other
Francis W. Steel at the House of Niles roadhouse in Chicago ordered soup then liquor and fired a gun into the air when refused. Police found him at bay with a pistol in his right hand while he ate soup with his left.
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Chicago
Frank W. Steel
Steel
Stell
Girl in Boy's Garb Held in New Orleans
A 15-year-old Elmira girl, Ruby Genevieve Abbott, was found in a rooming house dressed as a boy and using the name Norton Barry. Police charged her companion and another man, both linked to names Frank Armstrong and Everett Armstrong, with related offenses after the incident in New Orleans. The girl said she ran away from home for freedom after tiring of study.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Ruby Genevieve Abbott
Elmira
N. Y
Norton Barry
Frank A. Armstrong
Frank Lee
Anthony Thomas
Everett Armstrong
U. S. Ss
Wyoming
New York
Louisiana to auction five million highway bonds next month
Governor Huey P. Long announced that Louisiana will open bids on exactly 5,000,000 in hard surfaced highway bonds November 15. He said no further road bonds would be offered before February 15, 1930, perhaps not then, noting market conditions did not drive the limit. The state board of liquidation authorized the offering with a potential 10,000,000 cap if warranted.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
State Board of Liquidation
State Board of Public Examiners
Man killed by taut wire after car strike high toss
Fred Everett a bondsman was killed near Knoxville Tennessee when a taut rope pulled by a wrecker struck by another car catapulted him 75 feet into the air. He died later in a hospital.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Fred Everett
Here
Everett
White Supremacy Charges Stir Va Campaign
Charges and denials over a printed circular claiming the Republican Party sought repeal of the poll tax surfaced in Virginia's gubernatorial race. Republican leader Henry W. Anderson labeled the pamphlet an outrageous attempt to link Dr Brown and himself with DePriest, while Democratic director T McCall Frazier denied official Democratic ties and Pollard absence on the matter.
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Associated Press
Richmond
Oscar DePriest
DePriest
Virginia
Henry W. Anderson
T. McCall Frazier
Mr. Anderson
Dr. Brown
William Mosley Brown
Frazier
John Garland Pollard
Anderson
World-Wide Liquidations Trigger Late Rally On Wall Street
Stocks plunged early with widespread liquidations dragging values for major names. U S Steel rose from 171 to 186 while General Electric climbed from 214 to 244 and American Can moved from 115 to 119. Westinghouse Electric, Radio, and JohnsManville also jumped as prices rebounded before 1:20 p m in New York.
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Associated Press
New York
U. S. Steel Common
General Electric
American Can
Will They Blame Us Message Sparks Democratic Debate
In Springfield Massachusetts Alfred F Smith sent a terse message to a western Massachusetts Democratic club meeting the night after Governor Roosevelt blamed a stock market collapse on the party in power. The crowd applauded the remark as part of the broader party dialogue.
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Springfield
Mass
Alfred F. Smith
Massachusetts
Democratic Club
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Stock futures shift as firms urge NYSE trading suspension
Manville rises to 121 from 109 while International Telephone climbs to 73 from 43 and New York Central advances to 185 from 175. American Telephone dips to 216 from 297 and Atchison edges to 229.50 from 221. Partners at several firms urge suspending trading on the New York Stock Exchange next Monday, the day before the election.
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International Telephone
New York Central
American Telephone
Atchison
New York Stock Exchange
Ritter's Judas Was Bootlegger Revealed By Police
New Orleans today carried an Item interview detailing the betrayal of Connie Ritter, a Birger Illino is gangster, by a New Orleans rum runner who later fled. Ritter’s arrest linked to a man paid to unload the Honduran schooner Douglas Conrad with whisky, which sank six months ago in the gulf. The informant’s name is well known in prohibition circles.
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New Orleans
Connie Ritter
Ritter
Douglas Conrad
Gulf
Underworld
Mystery Jane Identified as Gloria Outer in Creole Case
New Orleans reports identify the mysterious traveling companion of Jack Kraft as Florida R. Ouzer. NY detectives say R. Taylor, a Westchester resident, once gave the girl a gold medal and recognized her photo. The captured woman, now in Pointe a la Hache jail, refuses to discuss her identity.
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New Orleans
Jnne Orde
Jack Kraft
New York
Mississippi River
Florida R. Ouzer
R. Taylor
Westchester County
Taylor
John McGouldrick
Young Kraft
Labor Fed Postpones Pan American Labor Congress
The Pan American Federation of Labor postpones its sixth congress due to threats to the labor movement in the southern states. Federation head William Green says over a million southern workers are targeted in a major employer campaign, shifting focus to organizing efforts in the region. The event was to open January 6 in Havana.
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Washington
Pan American Federation of Labor
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Pan American Labor Congress
Organized Labor Movement
South
Pan American Congress
Havana
Cuba
Air Mail Pilot Killed As Airship Falls In Flames
F M Kane air mail pilot for Universal Airlines died when his plane crashed on the William Johns farm nine miles southwest of Mt Vernon Ohio and burst into flames after departing Akron at 444 am for Columbus Weather was precarious but officials say he insisted on completing the mail run
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Mt, Vernon
Ohio
F. M. Kane
Universal Airlines
William Johns
Here
Kane
Akron
Columbus
Universal
Tennessee man killed in Dallas over air in tires
Frank B. Mackdeon, 28, previously of Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., was shot and killed in Dallas after an argument over letting air out of car tires. Vincent C. Corrier, 40, a contractor, was arrested on a murder charge and denies shooting, saying the pistol fired during a struggle.
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Dallas
Frank B. Mackdeon
Nashville
Memphis
Trail of blood links to St Valentine massacre case
A blood trail to a Detroit police uniform and three 45 calibre pistols found in a Dakin Street apartment sparks fresh leads in the Moran gang massacre probe. Wounded Allister O'Brien could not speak clearly after being shot in the jaw while recounting robbers.
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Chicago
Detroit
Dakin Street
Moran
Allister O’brien
Frank McCarthy
McCarthy
Michigan
Joseph Clement
Dakin
Purple
U S Destroyers Sought as China War Escalates in Yangtse Valley
American minister Charles Mac Veagh asked Manila to move a division of U S destroyers to Shanghai due to disturbed Yangtse conditions and ongoing fighting between Nationalist forces and the Kuominchun along the Lunghai line west of Chengchow in Henan.
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Associated Press
Shanghay
Charles MacVeagh
China
United States
Manila
Shanghai
Yangtse Valley
Kuominchun
People's Army
Lunghai Railway
Chengchow
Henan Province
Fireman Killed in Georgia Train Wreck Near New England
Chattanooga Tenn Oct 29 Fireman Forrest Aderholt of Number 3 engine was killed and twelve others injured when the passenger train on the Alabama rear Southern line derailed at New England Georgia twelve miles from Chattanooga shortly before seven this morning.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Forrest Aderholt
Alabama
New England
John Straton Dies Militants Baptist Preacher at 54
Clifton Springs New York October 29 Rev Dr John Roach Straton militant fundamentalist pastor of Calvary Baptist New York died at a sanitarium at 5 50 am He suffered a nervous breakdown after a stroke in April and opposing Alfred E Smith in the last election he campaigned against him in the south.
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Clifton Springs
N. Y
John Roach Straton
Atlanta
Calvary Baptist Church
New York
Alfred E. Smith
South
Straton
Radium Poison Cases Nearing Final Accounting
Five women from Orange New Jersey poisoned by luminous dial painting brushes face a nearing end as Mrs Quiza MacDonald dies and others worsen. The group previously settled claims against the company for 10000 dollars cash 800 dollar annual pension and expert medical care.
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New York
Orange
N. J
Quiza MacDonald
Memorial Hospital
Edna Hussman
Hillside
Grace Fryer
Man Confesses Odd Home Invasion In Irvington
Howard B. Ford testified in magistrate's court that he entered William Smith's home mistaken for his own, wore the daughter's dress thinking it was his pajamas, slept in the girl's bed, and consumed a potent drink before the mix up. The incident occurred in Irvington New Jersey on October 29.
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Irvington
N. J
Howard B. Ford
Ford
William Smith
Smith
Pantages to Seek New Trial Using Jurors
Alexander Pantages plans to subpoena seven women and five men from his 1929 case to argue irregularities in juror deliberations. He aims for a higher court review as his motion for a new trial is set before Superior Judge Charles Fricke.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Alexander Pantages
Eunice Pringle
Charles Fricke
Hazel Brown
Poisoned well blamed for death in Arkansas home
Eva May Hicks, 16, died and six family members were gravely ill in Blytheville as health officials investigate a suspected poisoned well near Osceola. Water samples were sent to the city chemist for analysis while a storm warning circulated for southeastern states and Texas.
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Arkansas
Blytheville
Ark
Eva May Hicks
C. G. Hicks
Osceola
Blytheville Hospital
Five missing aboard aero vessel near Navajo Arizona
Five persons are missing after an aero vessel disappeared during a snow storm above the town of Navajo Arizona. Rescue teams search the area as weather hinders progress and authorities issue alerts for possible survivors.
Snowbound search for Western Air Express plane in border lands
A blinding snow storm halts aerial search for a Western Air Express passenger plane missing since yesterday morning along the New Mexico Arizona border. Five aboard including two passengers and three crew. Fear grows for the fate of the craft seen over the border country hours earlier.
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Albuquerour. N. M
Taday
Western Air Express
New Mexico-Arizona
Los Angeles
Calif
Shreveport Native Pilot in Western Air Express Mystery
James E. Doles of Shreveport, pilot of the missing Western Air Express plane in Arizona, has about 2,730 flight hours and nine years in the air. His step-father, C. B. Bennet, notes no prior accidents, and Doles served in the Army Air Corps in World War I training in California. His mother is Mrs. C. B. Bennett of Shreveport. his father is James Doles of Plain Dealing.
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Doles
Army Air Corps
California
James Doles
Unclear Local Route Mentioned for City of Sea Search
Adamana Arizona near Albuquerque noted as the destination area linked to the search for the liner City of Sea. The text references the landing section and notes continuation on page twelve.
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Adamana
Ariz
Albuquerque
Man Drops Dead After Drinking From Glass
SHREVEPORT on October 29 C M M Roundtree of Gainesville Texas collapsed on a porch after drinking from a glass given by a woman. He had asked for water claiming illness. The coroner investigates whether death was natural or poison.
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Shreveport
Roundtree
Gainesville
Texas
House Broken begins in The News Star weekly serial
A man is deserted on an island after a failed elopement and the wife of his friend leaves him to starve while the beloved daughter misunderstands his plight. The first installment of the fiction thriller runs in Monday's News Star issue.
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News-Star
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