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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1930
Page
3
A passenger plane plummeted 200 feet during a fierce storm and crashed into Peoples Gas tank in Chicago. Two sisters and a pilot died. rescuers recovered the bodies after hours of searching, and gas in the dome was vented. Damage to the tank was about 50 000 dollars.
The beet sugar sector may pivot on chemically discovered sugar from cotton seed. Currently the U S produces about seven million tons of beets yearly valued near 75 million dollars, with nearly the entire crop directed to sugar.
Frank Hawks completed a cross country flight from Curtis Field New York to Los Angeles Municipal Airport in 14 hours 50 minutes 13 seconds setting a new record. Ulises A sharp answer may indicate a dull mind.
Authorities in Ban Luis Potosi, Mexico accuse forty Mexican farmers of murdering Vidal Fernandez administrator of the Tepetate hacienda. The Spaniard by birth was found with about thirty wounds from a machete and knife. the body was almost unrecognizable. The military police lead the inquiry.
London authorities report heightened vigilance catching nearly twenty stowaways aboard incoming transatlantic liners in recent days.
The department of immigration refused entry into Mexico for Benedicto Homes, chief of the Recife Boy Scouts, who is traveling on foot from South America toward the United States. A health note warns about careless remarks that may harm others.
In Marion Indiana a mob of about 5 000 hung two Black men Timas Shipp and Abe Smith after accusing them of killing Claude Deeter and raping Miss Mary Ball. A third Black man Herbert Cameron was beaten and returned to jail. State guard was ordered to Marion as police and deputies watched.
Foreign indebtedness of Norwegian industrial and similar enterprises in the past year reached about 2,120 million kroner, roughly 15 percent of total invested capital in these enterprises.
Malcolm M. Rose, seventeen, of Manlius New York, suffered chronic lung hemorrhages thought to stem from tuberculosis and malnutrition. An X-ray revealed an eight inch straw in his left lung. Surgeons removed the straw and the youth is recovering.
A vast network of 22,500 factories and business houses participates in Chicago’s annual trade turnover totaling 13 billion dollars, highlighting the city’s industrial scale and commercial activity.
Washington reports preliminary census figures place continental United States at 122,729,472 with grand total including possessions at 187,501,561. Reapportionment under major fractions would adjust House seats, with California gaining nine and Missouri losing three, while Georgia and Michigan also face changes.
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