Tragedy Strikes Milwaukee Downer Girls Campus
Milwaukee June 7 a slaying and a death by own action on the campus of Downer College followed an automobile accident near Waukesha. Leonard Nelson a 29 year old janitor shot himself Gustave Peterson 27 shot by Nelson Alvin Nielsen 21 died of injuries from the crash Irma Nielsen 19 passenger in Nelsons car Janette Rozsak 17 critically injured and Erna Nielsen 19 also injured were in the wreck and rushed to hospital.
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Downer College
Waukesha
Waukesha Beach
Leonard Nelson
Gustave Peterson
Nelson
Alvin Nielson
Nielson
Miss Roszak
Waukesha Municipal Hospital
Miss Nielson
Giraffe-Neck Woman Ill Delays Circus Appearance
The famed giraffe-neck performer from Burma fell ill in Lewisburg Pennsylvania and was taken to a Harrisburg hospital where doctors ordered continued observation. She was slated to rejoin Hagenbeck-Wallace in Hagerstown but remains under care for several days.
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Burma
Harrisburg
Lewisburg
Hagerstown
Hen adopts two puppies at Linwood Sutton farm
A hen on the Linwood A Sutton farm is caring for two puppies day and night as if tending a brood of chicks. One night the hen was briefly taken from the pups and they cried loudly until she was returned.
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Chestertown
Linwood A. Sutton
Father of 43 children seeks pension in Turkey
Hadji Hamdi, father of 38 boys and five girls, living in Papa Selimiye, Turkey, has asked the government for a pension. He is 43 years old and the request follows extensive family support needs.
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Papa Selimiye
Turkey
Hadji Hamdi
Hawkertown Knights of Columbus to elect council officers
The annual election for Hawkertown Council 1365 Knights of Columbus will be held Thursday night June 8 at 8 15 p m in the club rooms of the Thomas building.
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Hawkerstown Council
Knights of Columbus
Thomas Building
New Truck Law To Be Enforced Nationwide
An intensified enforcement drive starts tomorrow for the new truck law effective June 1. Commissioner E Austin Baughman says it requires re registration of all pneumatic tire commercial for hire vehicles not on a fixed route and re classification of all trailers with extra fees. Compliance so far has been unsatisfactory.
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E. Austin Baughman
Baughman
Milk price hike hits Harrisburg and Reading districts
Milk in Harrisburg and Reading rose one cent per quart with pints up six cents. Dealers through the Interstate Milk Producers Association set the new producer price at about 2.13 dollars per hundred pounds of 4 percent butterfat milk in Harrisburg and 2.12 dollars in Reading, pending Farm Relief Act approval.
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Pennsylvania
Reading
Interstate Milk Producers Association
Delaware
New Jersey
Maryland
Wallace
Deaths: Sara Couchman Knipe and others in local obituaries
Mrs. Sara Couchman Knipe 32 died at home in Martinsburg after a two year illness. Survived by husband, two daughters, mother, sisters and brothers. Funeral Thursday with service at Coffman funeral home and burial in Green Hill cemetery. Also listed are Joseph D. Updegraff and Minnie R. Lyon deaths with funeral details and family survivors in local notices.
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Virginia Avenue
Martinsburg
Benjamin
Jennie Small Couchman
St. Paul's M. E. Church
Women’s Bible Class
Mary Lee
Helen
Jennie Couchman
City
Eugene Stahl
Virgina Lee
Couchman
Harmon
Washington
Glenn
Frederick
Ralph
John Williard
Coffman
J.M. Gillum
Green Hill Cemetery
Minnie R. Lyon
Jacob Lyon
Chambersburg
Samuel Black
Scranton
George Chatkin
Josephia
Altoona
Maurice
Pittsburgh
Fred
Wilmington
N. C
Claine
George
Beulah
Lewis Socks
Baltimore
Jacob Brenner
Roanoke
Herman and
Samuel Socks
Halfway
Spring Race Meeting Here Big Success
The five day spring racing meet of the Hagerstown Fair Association ended as one of the most successful in its history. Parimutuel bets totaled 255 550 over the run down from last spring by about 73 000. Officials praised Vice-president Harold F Bes ter for the meet which drew record crowds every day and saw yesterday’s wagering exceed Saturday’s.
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Hagerstown Fair Association
Harold F. Bester
Fifty-Fifth Graduation Here Today at Hagerstown High
The Hagerstown High School graduation included multiple awards with Miss Leiter and Mr. Strock receiving Elks rings. Prizes honored character, service, and leadership, including Zeigler and Schwartz awards to David Schnebly and Margaret Smith, and other accolades to Paul Whipp, William Layman, Richard Strock, Robert Campbell, Bruce Danzer, Margaret Fry, and Roszel McConnell. A class chorus performed before diplomas were handed by Superintendent Grimes, with benediction by Rev. Harms and a final orchestra selection.
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Elks
Leiter
Strock
Hagerstown High School Alumni Association
Robert E. Zeigler
Ida F. Schwartz
David Schnebly
Margaret Smith
H. C. Baughman
Charles
Paul Whipp
William Layman
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Roger Funk Weagley
Roy C. F. Weagley
Sejusof
Richard Strock
Robert Campbell
Jake Layman
J. Walter Layman, Jr
J. Walter Layman
Bruce Danzer
Morris Frock Post
American Jegion
Margaret Fry
Roszel McConnell
B. J. Grimes
J. Edward Harms
No Deportation Needed Over Cousin Marriage Case
Cosmo Corini a 19 year old in Philadelphia faces possible deportation to stop his marriage to his 17 year old cousin Angeline Corino While his father seeks removal to prevent the union Magistrate Cronin rules Indian law bans such marriage and Cosmo remains jailed as the case continues
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Philadelphia
Cosmo Corini
Italy
Angeline Corino
Cronin
Cosmo
Ocean Service Tests Boost All Air Mail Plan
In Rio de Janeiro on June 7 1930 a Lufthansa flying boat Monsun conducted successful landing and catapult tests aboard the ship Westphalen during trials off Africa and mid ocean. The Monsun weight 12 tons arrived at Natal after eight hours 25 minutes with five pilots and technicians aboard.
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Germany
South America
Lufthansa
Monsun
Mid Ocean
Westphalen
Africa
Mantsun
Natal
Congress Near Big Administration Measures in Session
Senate moves to delay veterans expenditure increases to allow understanding of new executive orders liberalizing soldier payments. Floor consideration of the independent offices appropriation bill set for tomorrow as public works industrial control tax bill looms amid controversy and amendments. Major bills linger at conference. Hawaii governorship and bankruptcy revision await passage unless tariff authority is proposed.
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Independent Offices
House
Hawaii
Davis seeks postponement in Davis trial
U S Senator James J Davis seeks another postponement of his New York trial on lottery charges his attorney says he remains too ill to endure a three week proceeding Davis recently underwent an emergency appendectomy and is recuperating in Washington this would be the fifth postponement A superseding indictment against Davis is being sought by federal prosecutors to clarify points raised by appeals court in related Mann Eagles case A Berlin critic Hooper Trask was killed in a car crash in Bolzano Italy his wife was seriously injured
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U. S
James J. Davis
New York
Charles J. Margiotti
Davis
Washington
Moose Lodge
United States
Louis Mead Treadwell
United States Attorney
United States Circuit Court. of Appeals
Conrad H. Mann
Berlin
Auto Owners in Protest Over Higher City Fees
New York June 7 A mass protest swirled as about a million auto owners faced a plan to double license fees. The board of aldermen backed Mayor O'Brien 51 to 2, making the plan law effective July 1. The city registration would equal the state rate of 50 cents per hundred pounds, doubling for a 2500 pound car from 12.50 to 25.00 annually.
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New York
Board of Aldermen
O’brien
Board of Estimate
Landlord cannot claim carpet in Wisconsin ruling
Wisconsin Supreme Court rules a landlord cannot claim title to a tenant tacked carpet unless there was an agreement that the carpet would not be removed. The decision favors Milwaukee’s N Gust Harberg and supports tenant improvements for personal use. Also noted is Salisbury Maryland tax cut setting 95 cents per $1060 assessable basis for next year, the lowest since 1913.
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Wis
Wisconsin
Supreme Court
N. Gust Harberg
Milwaukee
Salisbury
Board of County Commissioners
Adventurer’s Repair Delays Layover In Moscow To Moscow Omsk Flight
A Texan aviator delays after a wing strut breaks during a post GATTY flight. He rests briefly then continues the 1450 mile Moscow Omsk leg in 12 hours 21 minutes at about 120 mph, landing Moscow time Tuesday. He praises Omsk officials for help before departing for Chita.
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Gatty
Jomfruland Island
Oslo
Norway
Moscow
Omsk
Moscow-Omsk
Chita
Here
Associated Press
US expects its debtors to pay up
Washington reports President Roosevelt maintains insistence on debt settlements. Installments of 144.18 million dollars due next week as Britain weighs its 75.95 million pound payment. Informal talks continue with Ambassador Lindsay frequenting the State Department, though Roosevelt handles the matter personally with Congress opposed to revision.
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Roosevelt
London
White House
Lindsay
State Department
Congress
Bookkeeper Held in Embezzlement Case at Manor Club
William Harley a 50 year old assistant bookkeeper at the Manor Club Norbeck was arrested on charges of misappropriating 2410.99 dollars from the club. He posted a 2000 dollar bond and appeared for a preliminary hearing set for June 15. He reportedly signed a confession admitting gambling with club funds.
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Rockville
William Harley
Manor Club
Norbeck
Liberty
Montgomery County
Theodore Vollten
Harley
Justice of the Peace
Frederick van
Stedman Prescott
Dunkards In Convention Open Brethren Conference
Plain-clothed officials delegates and laymen of the Dunkard sect open the annual Church of the Brethren conference in Hershey Pennsylvania. Attendees from across the United States and abroad discuss prohibition world peace world debts youth dress and mission work as leaders urge ending commercial amusements at the park to preserve the event’s religious character.
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Hershey
Church of the Brethren
United States
First Lady Ends Flight From Washington to West Coast
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt flies across the continent arriving in Los Angeles to cheers. She travels west after leaving Washington and is hosted by Mrs. Franklin K. Lane and her son Elliott who met her at Douglas Arizona with a welcoming delegation including Will Rogers and Mayor John C. Porter.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Washington
Franklin K. Lane
Wilson
Ellott
Elliott
Douglas
Ariz
Lane
Franklin Lane, Jr
Will Rogers
Grove James Rolph, Jr
John C. Porter
Siberstein Triumph Echoes Father in 60 Yard Dash
Jerry Siberstein wins the 60 yard dash in the scholastic field and track meet, wearing the track shoes his father wore twenty years ago. The moment evokes a family legacy as he fills his dad's shoes in Baltimore.
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Haltimore
Jane
Jerry Siberstein
Grain Market Quotations From The Stickell Sales
Chicago grain market update features quotations from The Stickell Sales Corporation based in Hagerstown Ma. The item lists prevailing bid and ask prices for key grains and notes market trends for traders and dealers.
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The
Stickell Sales Corporation
Washington St
Hageratown, Ma
Maryland Debates State Public Works Funds Split
Maryland Governor Albert C. Ritchie and the state’s congressional delegation display differing plans for Maryland’s share of the $3.3 billion federal public works fund. Ambrose J. Kennedy says the delegation was not consulted and favors about $31.6 million for Baltimore City, while the governor aims to submit needs via a separate process.
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Albert C. Ritchie
Maryland
Congress
Hugh 8
Johnson
Ambrose J. Kennedy
Washington
Ritchie
Kennedy
Baltimore City
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