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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1930
Page
1
Seventy-nine people aboard the Chinese steamers Tung On and Lien Hsiang are missing after a fog collision off the Shantung peninsula. The Tung On sank. the Lien Hsiang was disabled. Details note vessel sizes and routes from Tsingtao to Newchwang.
Dale Jackson and Forest O Brine regained the world sustained flight record at Lambert Field with 554 hours 41 minutes, then pushed toward 1,000 hours. The crowd braved rain as the pair signaled completion and waved to cheering factory workers and locals in St. Louis.
Washington reports special permission for immediate 50 percent cut in railroad freight rates on hay feed water and livestock in drouth areas. Relief also eyed from government plans as governors meet, with Iowa and Kentucky proposing aid and seed funding.
Grey Earth a Sioux religious worker from the Flandreau and Pipestone reservations told the American school of wildlife preservation that civilization was scorned by modern Indians. He contrasted current manners with ancestral teachings of reverence for the Great Spirit and parents and abstinence from stealing.
Illinois officers hunt two young men in a small coupe after they slugged and robbed a Clinton Iowa truckman on the Lincoln Highway. Police link the incident to recent patrolman Card slaying in Sterling and vigilante Sproat murder in Tipton, tracing suspects to Galena before losing track.
Canton Aug 13 AP Seventy persons mostly women drowned when a large Chinese launch from Hongkong to Kongmoon on the Sikiang estuary was blown up by a mine. River pirates believed responsible after being refused protection fees by launch owners.
George W. Horst a Democratic political leader and Lake County sheriff candidate died suddenly last night from heart disease as he finished his dinner He served on the board of election commissioners in Hammond Indiana AP report August 13
Bombay August 13 AP British forces reinforce garrisons along the frontier after a week long Afridi attack on Peshawar. Troop and arms shipments indicate the tribesmen, though beaten in Peshawar, remain active and new disturbances may follow.
Representative La Guardia of New York presented a complaint to President Hoover alleging an undue rise in fresh vegetable prices in New York City caused by the drought.
Mrs Marion Booth Kelly of New York key advisor to the Prohibition Reform group spoke at the Institute of Public Affairs in University Pa urging repeal of the Prohibition statute. She argued prohibition harms respect for law whether enforced or unenforced and cited constitutional guarantees and past liberty fights led by Washington and Jefferson. She noted temperance progress before the eighteenth amendment and said local option varied, with states adopting prohibition in various ways.
Charles Kern a rich retiree and Mrs Kern returned to St Louis after a trip to Ohio with a $70,000 cashier’s check drawn in advance. Police feared kidnapping or swindle but Kern denied those claims and refused to discuss a real estate deal behind the withdrawal.
Reports from Hankow describe a besieged city with sandbag walls and machine guns as authorities brace for a communist thrust. Refugees flood in while rounds of executions of alleged Reds continue. foreigners including Bishop J A O Shea face danger amid collapse of nationalists control.
Lina Basquette, stage and film actress and widow of Sam Warner, was treated for a slight poisoning at a Los Angeles hospital after admitting a suicide attempt connected to custody battles for her 4 year old daughter Lita. Police said she used the name Eleanor Copeland at first but later identified herself. She was released after doctors found no serious poisoning. Her husband Peverell Marley, a cameraman, visited the hospital but she ordered him from the room and they have been separated since June.
Harry Mercer said he believes his son John M Mercer was killed by robbers after his car was found abandoned following the slaying of R G Sproat in Tipton Iowa. He criticized police progress, hired private detectives, and hopes to prove his son's innocence amid a suspected robbery and bandit gang link.
Prominent Indian civil disobedience leaders meet in Yeroda jail with Mahatma Gandhi to discuss ending activities before the London round table conference. Mrs Sarojini Naidu joins late alongside Motilal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru Tej Bahadur Sapru and Jayakar.
Iowa remains mostly cloudy with showers in the east and south central tonight and possibly Thursday. Illinois sees mostly cloudy skies with likely showers tonight and Thursday in the north and central areas, and slightly warmer readings in the extreme south. River stages show St Paul at 1.4 and a fall of 0.1.
Des Moines August 13 AP Cool weather this week slows deterioration of the Iowa corn crop. Rain in southern counties helped about half the crop while the rest will be fodder. Northeast Iowa may yield up to 60 bushels per acre. July's drought reduced 55.5 million bushels. Unbroken drought and temperatures above 100 hinder recovery, with southern and western areas potentially averaging 15 bushels or less per acre.
Otto Sanhuber the attic man testified how he lived in attics at the Oesterreich homes in Milwaukee and Chicago. He admitted initiating the clandestine affair with Mrs Walburga Oesterreich and said he suggested going out with her. Sanhuber previously faced manslaughter charge tied to the 1908 murder but was freed by the statute of limitations.
A Newark man won a $12,000 Detroit model home after a traffic signal incident. William J. Mathey of Clifton NJ received a ticket from a Detroit fireman while stopped at a traffic light on the city outskirts. He later learned the ticket entitled him to the model home awarded at the firemen’s annual field day.
A Reno cloudburst on August 13 devastates three homes and a hotel, leaving damage and risk across the city. Fire crews assess the wreckage as residents begin cleanup efforts amid emergency warnings.
Hollywood readers debate the $125 million spent on premature golf courses. The writer notes the money has not improved games or exercise but has benefited labor and material sellers nationwide, urging more such ideas if they do good.
Murphysboro aviator Paul Montgomery faces a felony warrant as investigators from two federal departments and two states gather circumstantial evidence. Three witnesses report Montgomery left the airport around 2:30 am with a strange man, who boarded his plane and carried a sack, while two women recall a preflight double date. The source says Montgomery’s possible link to the Providence area air raid is under scrutiny, with no immediate decision on when he will be taken to Dixon, Kentucky.
Flares of new forest fires reported around Newberry Michigan as fires continue to spread with authorities battling outbreaks across multiple wooded areas. Firefighting units from regional districts respond to advancing flames threatening cabins and woodlands.
Early results from Nebraska show George W Norris leading Willis M Stebbins with 80 133 to 57 674 across 1 465 precincts. Oklahoma and Ohio also report strong leads for Gore and Heflin in senate contests while Alabama and Arkansas races unfold.
Chicago Aug. 13. AP Marion Talley, once a soaring star of opera, says drought ruined her corn crop on the farm she moved to last year after her rising fame. She plans to return to New York to sing again at the Grand Opera House, signaling a shift in her career amid agricultural hardship.
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