Unemployment Survey Opens Next Tuesday
The Senate Appropriations Committee will begin a congressional survey of unemployment and relief problems led by Colonel Arthur Woods and John Barton Payne. It seeks information on unemployment extent, relief measures, and public works needs, plus drought conditions and Red Cross relief capabilities.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Arthur Woods
Hoover
Emergency Committee
John Barton Payne
Theerican Red Cross
Congress
Appropriations Committee
Senate
Colonel Woods
Judge Payne
Marines Pursue Bandits After Fatal Ambush in Nicaragua
United States Marines combed hills near Achuara Nicaragua seeking insurgents who killed eight men of a patrol between Ocotal and Apali. The bodies were mutilated in the ambush, the worst loss since 1927. Colonel Bradman now has full authority to combat the bandits as Washington awaits fuller reports. Senator King urges immediate withdrawal from Nicaragua.
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Managua
Nicaragua
United States
Achuara
Ocotal
Apali
Washington
Frederic Bradman
Marine
Augustino Sandino
Bradman
King
Utah
Marshal Jofre in coma alive after serum injections
Paris reports Marshal Jofre, in a deep coma, remained alive as doctors administered serum. Communiques at 7:30 am and at midday said his condition was unchanged with slow breathing noted by Colonel Desmares. Idaho forecast calls for rain and snow with colder southwest conditions tonight and Friday.
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Paris
Marshal Joffre
Leriche
Boulin
Will Rogers Wires The Tribune Predictions
Beverly Hills January 2 Will Rogers notes a Christmas wish came true as Charley Schwab’s famed predictions were missing from The Tribune. He quips about J P Sloan and Yom Lamont predicting for J P Morgan while Morrow stays silent and laments optimistic forecasts for 1930.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Charley Schwab
J. P. Sloan
Morrow
Italian Seaplane Squadron Plans Pacific Atlantic Flight
A squadron of 14 Italian seaplanes preparing at Boloma in Portuguese Guiana for a trans Atlantic flight to Rio de Janeiro will depart Monday for Port Natal Brazil. The line up includes a possible stop in Natal before continuing to Rio and perhaps Buenos Aires.
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Boloma
Natal
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Rome
Portuguese Guiana
Port Natal
Air Ministry
Woman tarred by hooded pair near Riverside
Mrs. Anna Wood a San Jacinto foothills homesteader was tarred and feathered by two masked men on New Year’s Day. Deputy Sheriff Carl Rayburn said the attack followed her defiance of cattlemen who allegedly demanded she quit her homestead and mining claims near Cabazon on the Beaumont Pass road to Palm Springs. Arrests were reported to be imminent.
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Riverside
Calif
Anna Wood
San Jacinto Mountain
Carl Rayburn
Here
Rayburn
Wood
Cabazon
Beaumont Pass
Palm Springs
Blame Placed for Idaho Delinquency
Idaho officials attribute the delinquency problem to families, schools, and churches. Superintendent E. O. Cook reports that poor early life conditions lead youths to crime, and that after release from the industrial school many struggle to resume schooling, lasting about 16 months on average.
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Boise
Idaho
E. O. Cook
State Industrial School
Utahns Suffer Fractured Skull in Canyon Crash
Robert Parker 19 was in critical condition after an automobile accident in a canyon near here last night. The car he rode in with Mr and Mrs Martin McCrone struck a parked truck. Mrs McCrone was slightly injured.
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Price
Utah
Robert Parker
Barker
Martin McCrone
McCrone
Hoover era teacher Mollie Curran ill in West Branch
Mrs. Mollie Brown Curran, who taught Herbert Hoover his A B C s, is ill at her home in West Branch Iowa. Her daughter Eleanor Curran said she has a nervous ailment but is not in critical condition.
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Hoover
West Branch
Mollie Brown Curran
Eleanor Curran
Earth disturbance lasts two hours in Denver area
Seismograph at Regis College recorded an unusual earth disturbance lasting from 2 53 a m to 4 40 a m local time. Father A W Forstal, in charge, said the source likely was about 2000 miles away on the North American continent. The maximum wave appeared around 3 a m.
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Denver
Regis College
A. W. Forstall
North American
Newspaper Mergers and Suspensions Mark 1930 Trend
The year 1930 saw widespread suspensions and consolidations in the newspaper industry as advertisers tightened budgets. Leading publishers note papers must prove quality and value to survive the coming years of restrained buying. The Arizona Republican is among those highlighting the trend.
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The
Arizona Republican
Malad Man Named to State Position
L. A. Thomas, Malad city schools superintendent for seven years, was named assistant superintendent of public instruction by Mrs. Myrtle R. Davis. He organized Idaho then pioneered separate curricula for fast, medium, and slow students. He studied at Albion Normal, the University of Idaho, and pursues graduate work at the University of Chicago and taught in Lewisville Idaho.
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Southern
University At Pocatello
Capitol Elevator Operator Dies in Manhattan Kansas
O A Kelly a longtime state house elevator operator died in Manhattan Kansas after a railway trip to his daughter's home. He was 72 and had spent the last 12 years at the state capitol elevating and descending for thousands of miles. His passing drew expressions of sorrow from state house staff and others who knew him.
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Boise
O. A. Kelly
Statehouse
Manhattan
Kansas
State House
Kelly
Wyoming Woman Faces Murder Trial Defense Claims Mental Irresponsibility
BASIN Wyoming Jan 2 Opening its case in the woman s murder trial today the defense claimed Mrs Leona Fitzmaurice was mentally irresponsible last August the time she is accused of shooting to death her husband Charles Fitzmaurice former Greybull Wyoming postmaster
Gas Producers Seek Entry to North Idaho Gas Line
Jerome L. Drumheller files for certificate of convenience and necessity to pipe Montana and Canadian gas into north Idaho and on to Spokane. Project costs around 15 million dollars with a hearing likely late January. Survey within six months, construction by May 15 1932, completion by September 15 1933. possible future extension to the Pacific coast.
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Boise
Montana
Candian
Idaho
Spokane
Washington
Public Utilities Commission
Jerome L. Drumheller
Spokane Capitalist
Cut Bank
Glacier County
Burke
Taylor Named Brigadier General of Idaho Wyoming Guard
Governor Emmerson announced that Colonel W R Taylor has been approved by the War Department to lead National Guard units of Idaho and Wyoming as brigadier general. The appointment became automatically effective and Taylor has assumed the post.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
W. R. Taylor
Idaho
Wyoming
War Department
Washington
Frank C. Emmerson
Taylor
Emmerson
Cargo carrier to undertake first cargo laden trans Atlantic flight
Mrs Beryl Hart and Lieut W S MacLaren plan a New York to Paris flight via Bermuda and the Azores with 200 pounds of food aboard. The cabinet monoplane The Trade Wind, with pontoons, will depart from North Beach seaplane base at 6 am and aim for Bermuda by mid afternoon, with 44 hours of flying time projected.
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New York
Beryl Hart
W. S. MacLaren
Paris
Bermuda
Azores
Hart
MacLaren
Annapolis
Navy
North Beach
Bryce Canyon to be enlarged nearly double in Utah
Dr Ray Lyman Wilbur secretary of the interior approved plans to enlarge Bryce Canyon national park in Utah to about twice its present size. Hyde secretary of agriculture must approve before the proclamation is sent to President Hoover. An agreement on the added territory was reached by E. T. Scoven Bryce Canyon superintendent and R. H. Rutledge district forester.
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Salt Lake City
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Secretary of the Interior
Bryce Canyon National Park
Utah
Salt Lake Tribune
Secretary of Agriculture
Arthur M. Hyde
Hoover
E. T. Scoven
Bryce Canyon Park
R. H. Rutledge
Weather shifts with rain and snow forecast for Saturday
Forecaster A R Teeple predicts rain and snow after a New Year thaw with a cloudy Saturday and stationary temperatures. Temperatures ranged from 10 degrees above zero to 30 by noon with a 55 degree high in 1918 and a 36 degree high last year. Sunrise 8 02. Sunset 5 08. Utah reports occasional snow and cold tonight and Saturday.
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A. R. Teeple
Mercury
1930 sees leadership shifts in eleven Latin nations
A year of upheaval across Latin America, with eleven of twenty republics changing presidents in 1930. Revolutions and military coups propelled new leaders in Argentina Brazil Bolivia Peru Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, Guatemala experiencing three presidents in one week before Manuel Mario Orellana took power. A Baltimore Post fire destroyed the printing plant, injuring one and killing a worker, with publishing moved to the Baltimore Sun.
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Latin America
Baltimore
Baltimore Post
Scripps-Howard
Baltimore Sun
New York
Joseph R. Douglas
Unotype
Rio Grande
Caribbean Sea
Strait of Magellan
Argentina
Brazil
Bolivia
Peru
Guatemala
Dominican Republic
Manuel Mario Orellana
Baudillo Palma
United States
Pelma
Nine Die in Harvey Grade Crossing Train Crash
A New Year’s Day auto trip in suburban Harvey ended with nine fatalities when a car was struck by the Grand Trunk International Limited. Only three month old Lorraine Margaret Olason survived, found in a snow ditch uninjured.
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Chicago
Harvey
International Limited
Grand Trunk
Lorraine Margaret Olason
Lorraine
Mra
Matthew Olason
Elmhurst
Calvin
Muriel
Vilborg
Frank Nowak
Adam
Amy Johnson aims for Peiping flight from Britain to China
British aviator Miss Amy Johnson previously honored by the King for her Australia flight arrived in Cologne Germany after a flight across northern Eurasia. She announces plans to continue toward Peiping China with a new daring route and destination.
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Amy Johnson
England
Great Britain
Australia
Eurasia
Peiping
China
Cologne
Germany
Ber
Lindys Hero of Midwest Boys
Lindbergh and science captivate Midwest boys amid a shift from fantasies of Babe Ruth and detectives to aviation and applied sciences. Girls favor typists but aim to be housewives. in willingness rankings, housewives lead for girls while aviation tops for boys with civil engineering and law rising in the list.
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Cleveland
Lindbergh
Babe Ruth
Cowboy
Babe Ruths
Casey Joneses
Caime
Nurse
Flyers Continue Search for Pilot Cunningham Lost near Canyonville
In Douglas county Oregon on January 2 searchers from Filers and mountaineers scoured the region for Russell Cunningham of Seattle a Pacific Air Transport pilot reported lost in sleet and fog while en route from Medford to Seattle. Cunningham last radioed he must land and believed he was over Canyonville. Six planes searched southern Oregon Thursday and Friday with four more planes expected to join from Medford.
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Roseburg
Ore
Douglas County
Russell Cunningham
Seattle
Pacific Air Transport
Cunningham
Medford
Canyonville
Oregon
Legge Denies Wheat Price Depression Charge
Chairman Legge of the Farm Board says Simpson's charges are absolutely untrue. He released a December 31 reply to a letter from John A. Simpson of the Farmers Education and Cooperative union of Oklahoma City, replying to allegations that Legge testified the board sought to depress wheat prices.
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Washington
Jan
Legge
Farm Board Today
John A. Simpson
Farmers Education and Cooperative Union of
Oklahoma City
Simpson
Senate Agriculture Committee
College Students for Modification Favor Easing Prohibition
The National Students' Federation of America, in Atlanta at its sixth annual congress, votes 66 for modification 23 for repeal and 38 for enforcement with one vote per college or university representation.
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Atlanta
National Students’ Federation of America
President Arosemena Outsted in Panama Revolt
Panama City reports a sudden revolt toppled President Arosemena as Harmodis Arias led a revolutionary junta. Arias named premier, then formed a new cabinet. Premier Ballen resigned, Vice President Duque’s status unclear. American correspondent Hartwell Ayers died from wounds. U.S. officials doubt American intervention.
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Panama City
Arosemena
Harmodis Arias
Panama
Arias
Daniel Ballen
Tomas Gabriel Duque
Hartwell F. Ayers
Gorgas Hospital
Explosion and Fire Ravage Monessen Business District
A massive explosion in Monessen Pennsylvania early today sparked a fire causing an estimated 200000 to 250000 in damage. An entire block was destroyed and many residents were driven from beds as windows shattered across blocks. Mrs Isadore Pavalovich awoke to the blast and rescued her baby from the crib escaping injury.
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Monessen
William Laird
Isadore Pavalovich
Negro Kidnaps and Returns Youth in St Louis Incident
Charles Y Abernathy a 28 year old Black man and son of Pearl Abernathy admitted kidnapping 13 year old Adolphus Busch Orthwein grandson of August Busch president of Anheuser Busch Inc The boy was recovered by the police and returned to his parents after about 20 hours no ransom was paid and the release was said to hinge on a promise not to prosecute Abernathy The youth’s abductor was reported by attorney Harry Troll to be in hiding after the episode from New Year’s Eve
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ST. Louis
Charles Y. Abernathy
Pearl Abernathy
Adolphus Busch
Abernathy
Orthwein
Charles Abernathy
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