Earthquake Death Toll Rises in Adriatic Coast Italy
Ancona Italy Oct 30 a strong quake left thirty dead and more than 150 injured across the Adriatic coast. Seni gallia town reported twenty dead and over 100 injured while Marche province including Ancona saw five dead and 60 plus injured. Communications disrupted. military units deployed to affected areas.
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Associated Prews
Ancona
Italy
Adriatic
Senigailia
Marche
Fear Eruption Clouds Redding After Earthquakes
Four shocks rocked Redding California within 12 hours raising fears of a possible eruption of Mt Lassen. The tremors damaged Shasta County courthouse and Redding High School lightly. Mt Lassen lies about 50 miles from Redding and recalls the 1915 eruption.
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Redding
Calif
Mt. Lassen
Shasta County
Redding High School
Italian Earthquake Strikes Adriatic Coast and Inland
An earthquake disrupted towns along the Adriatic coast including Ravenna and Fano with damage spread across Umbrian hills and northern Apennines. Communications were restored to some towns as military units moved in to aid victims while government relief teams rushed to the affected area. By noon tolls remained unreported due to limited reports from rescuers.
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Ravenna
Frabriano
Fano
Magerata
Montalisa
Morono
Grottamare
Faen
Bora
Adriatic
Umbrian
Vrenum
Apennines
Dr L C Branscomb Dies From Sept Car Crash Injuries
Jasper Alabama October 30 Dr L C Branscomb 65 a noted Methodist leader and former president of the Alabama anti saloon league died at a local hospital from injuries suffered in a September 15 automobile accident.
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Jasper
Ala
L. C. Branscomb
Alabama Anti-Saloon League
Cops Help Thief Escape In Chief Beavers Car
Atlanta police faced a strange scene as two officers watched a car for a stranded motorist. They later learned the car was Chief Beavers’ gas buggy, reported stolen the night before, prompting an urgent reassessment of the incident.
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Atlanta
Beavers
Gunmen Try to Kill Police Witness in Chicago Attack
Three gunmen in a car opened fire on a Maywood Street car in Chicago wounding Sergeant James McBride as he sat to testify in the murder case of criminal "Three Fingered" Jack White. The Wisconsin-plate car followed the street car for blocks before the attack. McBride, jaw injured, was hospitalized. passengers panicked as glass shattered. The report notes the incident occurred five years after a prior gunfight with White and his gang.
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Chicago
Maywood
Jack White
19Th Avenue
McBride
Wisconsin
James McBride
Bellwood Police
White
Two Large Ventura County Brush Fires Threaten Towns and Ranches
Two fast spreading fires roared through Ventura county on October 30, burning more than 12 000 acres of pasture and brush and 600 acres of scrub oak. About 2000 men fought the blazes as Moorpark and Simi were spared though fire menaced Sim valley and Santa Clara river country.
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Ventura
Cal
Ventura County
Sim Valley
Santa Clara River
William Brill
Filippinos
Moorpark
Malibu
Simi
Gordon A. Clark Sentenced to Ten Years in Louisiana Prison
Gordon A. Clark aged 29 pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob and received a 10 year penitentiary sentence in district court. The term runs concurrently with a Bastrop sentence for an attempted Mer Rouge State Bank robbery dated May 16. E B Anderson got four years for the same Mer Rouge bank attempt.
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Gordon A. Clark
Bastrop
Mer Rouge State Bank
E. B. Anderson
Mer Rouge Bank
Jackson oil well blows in reaches new daily gas flow
Jackson Mississippi October 80. Jackson Royalties Pate No. 1 well begins natural gas flow adding to field output now about 650 million cubic feet daily. The well blew in just before noon from 2387 feet six inches after ten bailings and is producing around 50 million cubic feet daily.
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Associated Press
Jackson
Miss
Jackson Royalties Corporation
Fannin Highway
Rankin County
Prohibition Agents Raid New Orleans Speakeasy
Prohibition agents battered down a door in New Orleans to reach a speakeasy but found the occupants had escaped through a side door with the entire liquor stock. The side door was visible from the entry point.
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New Orleans
Pedstra Prohibition
Long Calls for Liquidation Board Meeting in Baton Rouge
Gov. Huey P. Long authorizes state auditor L. B. Raynard to convene the state board of liquidation next Thursday at 2 p.m. The meeting aims to discuss tax postponement for drought stricken parishes and the highway and state house bond issues ahead of the November 4 election.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
L. B. Raynard
State Board of Liquidation
State House
Long
Iquidation Board
New Orleans
Liquidation Board
Heavy frost hits north Louisiana area
Heavy frost was observed in northern Louisiana and Mississippi with forecasts of further frost for Alabama. Monroe and Shreveport reported heavy frost while Meridian and Vicksburg saw cold readings. Officials noted warnings to truck growers and livestock raisers and judged damage unlikely. New Orleans registered 54 degrees, Alexandria 39, and Baton Rouge and Monroe 43.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
United States Bureau
Alabama
Monroe
Shreveport
Meridian
Vicksburg
Miss
Alexandria
Baton Rouge
Treasury lifts embargo on parrots after psittacosis outbreak
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon signed an order lifting the embargo that had been placed on parrots in January following the psittacosis outbreak in the United States.
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Washington
Secretary of Treasury
Mellon
Governor Long Pushes Full Support for Eight Amendments
Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long urged voters to back all eight proposed amendments in the upcoming general election including refinancing of New Orleans. He said no successor to Dudley L. Guilbeau’s highway post is planned and that his salary would fund highway construction. Long heads to Baton Rouge then Shreveport for his address on the highway amendment and public improvements program.
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Long
Associated Press
New Orleans
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Highway Commission
Dudley L. Guilbeau
Opelousas
Baton Rouge
Shreveport
Prominent Delhi Citizen Missing
A Delhi family reports the husband and father has vanished after leaving for Jackson Mississippi to seek work over three weeks ago. His wife and children remain hopeful yet say no word has come since his departure.
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Delhi
News-Star
Anné
Jackson/Miss
J. M. Boone
Vanilla
Miss
W. G. Reeves
Boone
Jackson
Monroe
Waverly
Vicksburg
S. C
Fifty Business Chiefs to Ponder Low Mood Causes
Fifty business leaders gather in Memphis to discuss unemployment and a business downturn as part of a national program outlined by Washington. The meeting, led by the chamber of commerce, precedes the buyers strike week and involves service clubs and civic leaders.
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Memphis
Tenn
Washington
Chamber of Commerce
Hambone Meditations by J P Alley
Folks all wanter buy stuff fum me on de credick but landy ain t no credick else I wouldn t be out heah tryin to scratch up some money.
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Credick
French Cotton Firm Plans Doubling U S Purchases
In New Orleans on October 30 Pierre Du Pasquier said the France based firm Du Pasquier and Company will increase U S cotton buys from 100 000 150 000 bales annually to over 200 000 bales for export They expect to handle roughly twice their current volume by next year s crop.
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New Orleans
France
du Pasquier
Bank Robbery Strikes South Nashville Branch Again
For the second time in two months two unmasked bandits robbed the South Nashville branch of the Fourth and First National Bank in broad daylight shortly after noon. The loot amount was not determined.
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Nashville
South Nashville
Fourth and
First National Bank
Drafted dollars mobilize nearly one billion for American jobs
A nationwide effort mobilizes about 996 million dollars to create work and raise employment. The funds are allocated across regions from the Pacific coast to the Northeast, with private industries launching programs to hire more workers and expand wages nationwide.
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Associated Press
New York
Second Wave of Chilly Weather Hits Midwest
Chicago reports a second cold wave from the northwest with snow flurries and subfreezing temperatures. The forecast calls for three days of cold air, with a strong northwest wind and rain. Lake shippers received warnings as days of Indian summer end.
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United Press
Chicago
Middlewest
W. P. Day
U. S
Lake Shippers
Standard Oil Cuts Crude Oil Prices at Shreveport
Price reductions of 28 to 35.5 cents announced by Standard Oil in Shreveport today apply across fields including Caddo Homer Haynesville Bull Bayou Sabine Crichton DeSoto El Dorado Cotton Valley Sarepta and Carterville. Crude 40 gravity+ at 1.07. 39 gravity at 1.04. 29 gravity and below at 0.65. Smackover at 0.70. Bellevue at 1.00.
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Associated Press
Shreveport
Standard Oil Company
Caddo
Homer
Haynesville
Bull Bayou
Sabine
Crichton
DeSoto
el Dorado
Cotton Valley
Sarepta
Carterville
Bellevue
Amite Man Surrenders in Wife Slaying Case
Don Carriere, a resident near Amite, turned himself in to Tangipahoa sheriff today after being sought since last week in the slaying of his wife during an argument at her sister's home.
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Amite
Don Carriere
Tangipahoa
Divorce Attorney Sees Women Less Faithful Than Men
London report quotes Sir Ellis Hume Williams in his autobiography published today. The eminent divorce lawyer contends women are less faithful than men based on long experience and offers advice to retain a husband by maintaining attractions and understanding his work and pleasures.
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London
Ellis Hume Williams
Trio Dead in Houston Home in Suspected Murder Suicide
E A Hart 38 and his wife were found shot in their bedroom in Houston. Their 13 year old daughter Vivian was fatally wounded. Hart, fully dressed, may have shot his wife and child before killing himself, investigations by police and a justice of the peace indicate. Mrs Rosenthal heard no disturbance and found the bodies upstairs. Hart was a salesman for a refrigerator firm.
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Houston
E. A. Hart
Vivian
Hart
Presbyterian church names new moderator in Mississippi Synod
In Corinth Mississippi on October 30 the Rev Graham F Campbell was chosen moderator of the one Mississippi Synod of the Presbyterian church succeeding the Rev J N Yokley The assembly adjourned after electing Rev C P Thrailkill state clerk Rev R L Phelps permanent clerk and H L Jenkins trustee of Cumberland University
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Corinth
Miss
Graham F. Campbell
J. N. Yokley
C. P. Thrailkill
R. L. Phelps
H. L. Jenkins
Cumberland University
Vigilantes close in on two Galva kidnap suspects
In Kewanee Illinois two men are jailed and two more fugitives are hunted after a gun battle with a posse. Earl Yocum banker of Galva is held for ransom. Whiskers and Algreen are among those captured or fled, with Whiskers in Cambridge jail and two more men pursued near Lone Tree road while an airplane spots them.
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Associated Press
Kewanee
Galva
Earl Yocum
Orville Whiskers
Cambridge
Henry County
Verne Algreen
Whiskers
Lone Tree Road
Algreen
Ed McKee
Yocum
Harry Whiskers
Lloyd Winslow
Mail Pilot Killed When Parachute Fails Near Brookston
C C McGuire a 20 year old mail pilot for Embry Riddle of Cincinnati was killed when his plane crashed six miles west of Brookston Indiana early today He attempted a parachute jump but the chute snagged on the craft and dragged him to his death
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Lafayette
Ind
C. C. McGuire
Cincinnati
Embry Riddle Company
Brookston
McGuire
Marshall couple set family birthday record with triplets
Santa Rosa record: Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Marshall welcomed a baby boy born yesterday. Their two older children also share October 29 birthdays, all three born in the same hour under doctor B. B. Bachelder.
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Santa Rosa
Calif
J. W. Marshall
Marshalls
B. B. Bachelder
Woman 82 Recovering After Automobile Mishap
Mrs. Kate Campbell 82 of 203 Sixth Street was struck by a small coupe at Grammont and Sixth while crossing the street. She suffered a severely injured knee but no broken bones and is now improving at home after refusing aid at the scene. She is a German native who came to the United States at age nine.
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Kate Campbell
Sixth Street
Campbell
Grammont
Sixth Streets
Tarium
Sterlington
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Eneue Coe LP
Adriatic Coast
Crater
Mt. Lawson
California
Doheny Ranch
Clark
Mississippi Capital Field
North Louisianian
Hotel Virginia
Louisiana State Nurse’s Association
Louisiana League of Nursing Education
Clara McDonald
E. F. Hayward
W. M. Harper
Arnold Bernstein
Board of Directors
Hambone’s Meditations
J. P. Alley
The
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U.S. Business
Pacific Coast
South
Southwest
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Mountain
Northwest
Far West
Middle West
Ouachita
Camden
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