Mooney Defense Bets On New Angle In Pardons Issue
John McDonald a key California trial witness against Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings says he lied at the 1916 San Francisco bombing case and seeks to undo the wrong. He now faces a nominal investigation charge in Baltimore after admitting perjury and repudiating his prior identification of Mooney. Governor Young’s pardon decision hinged on McDonald’s testimony and Mooney’s death sentence once stood, later commuted.
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Baltimore
John McDonald
Thomas Mooney
Warren K. Billings
San Francisco
Mooney Defense League
McDonald
Jomn McDonald
Baltimore City
Mooney
Billings
Trenton
N. J
C. C. Young
California
Witness McDonald Denied Freedom in Mooney Billings Case
Baltimore July 12 AP John McDonald recanting witness who says he perjured himself in California case sending Tom Mooney and Warren K Billings to life prison terms was denied release on a writ of habeas corpus and ordered held pending advices from California authorities.
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Baltimore
John McDonald
Tom Mooney
Warren K. Billings
California
Californie
Mooney Defense Leauge Seeks Walsh to Question McDonald
The Mooney Defense League will ask Frank P. Walsh to induce John McDonald to return to San Francisco for questioning about his Baltimore confession that his testimony against Thomas J. Mooney was false. The plan followed cheers from the San Francisco Labor Council amid a dispute over Carmen's union resolutions urging a new Mooney drive.
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Mooney Defense League
Frank P. Walsh
New York
John McDonald
Baltimore
Thomas J. Mooney
McDonald
San Francisco Labor Council
Carmen's
Mooney
Gasoline War Ends On Coast With Price Restorations
On the Pacific coast Standard and Shell Oil announce a return to June 12 wholesale prices. Retailers must sell at 20 cents a gallon and refuse to dealers guilty of price cutting. Prices across cities vary from five to fourteen cents, signaling an end to the coast gasoline war.
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The
Standard
Shell Oilcom
Pacific Coast
Shell Company
Richfield, Union and Associated Companies
Nck
Denied Pardon for Warren K Billings in 1916 Bombing Case
Warren K Billings, alongside Thomas J Mooney, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1916 preparedness day bombing in San Francisco. Courts and the governor refused his pardon.
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Warren K. Billings
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
Attic Man Freed After Slaying of Milwaukee Manufacturer
Otto Sanhuber known as attic man is freed after a jury convicts him of manslaughter in the killing of Fred Oesterreich, a Milwaukee manufacturer, eight years after the crime. The defense argued the statute of limitations had run, and the judge granted a new trial and release.
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Los Angeles
Otto Sanhuber
Fred Oesterreich
Milwaukee
Sanhuber
Oesterreich Hames
Walburga Oesterreich
Byrd Dedicates Lindbergh Field in St Louis Ceremony
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd arrived in heat parched St. Louis to dedicate Colonel Charles A. Lindberghs home Lambert St Louis field and to be acclaimed by the city. He flew from Chicago with Antarctic expedition members and was escorted by about 25 planes including army craft from Scott Field. A dedicatory tablet was unveiled in a ceremony led by Major General James E Fechet and city officials.
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Richard E. Byrd
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lambert-St. Louis Field
Chicago
Lambert Field
Scott Field
Ills
James E. Fechet
Army Air Corps
North Carolina Population Grows 23.68 Percent in Decade
North Carolina's 1930 population is 3 165 146 as tabulated by the Associated Press. The state gained 606 023 inhabitants or 23.68 percent from 1920 to 1930. The 1920 population was 2 559 123.
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Charlotte
N. C
North Carolina
Associated Press
Union Pacific Tackles Main Line Slide at Weber Canyon
Union Pacific in Weber canyon battles a cloudburst slide to clear the main line with William Jeffers leading operations. A second team works to reopen the Davis and Weber county canal after a mile of fill wrecks irrigation for farmers whose supply is at four days of delay. An Ogden Standard Examiner air delivery is used in Utah while workmen rebuild the old Huntsville trail in Ogden canyon toward Morgan county.
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William Jeffers
Union Pacific System
Weber Canyon
Davis and
Weber County
Ogden Standard Examiner
Utah
Kigtiene’ Taneene Weety
Huntsville
Ogden Canyon
Morgan County
Bullets Fly in Grape Section in Fresno
In Fresno on July 12 Willie Maglio 23 was held while his half brother Joseph Egileo ? sought. A. L. Matignon 33 was fatally shot during a visit by Wilbur Berry 33 and ten campaigners seeking Angela Egileo to sign a federal farm board cooperative contract. Berry and Mrs Egileo were wounded lightly. Maglio said he fired two shots after hearing shooting.
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Fresno
Cal
Willie Maglio
Joseph Egileo
A. L. Matignon
Angela Egileo
Federal Farm Board
Matignon
Wilbur Berry
Egileo
Berry
Maglio
Butler One Of Four Contenders For Marine Commandant
Four senior officers vie to succeed Major General Wendell C. Neville as commandant of the Marine Corps. Top candidate Major General Smedley Butler, 49, leads a list that includes Logan Feland, Brigadier Generals Ben Fuller and John Henry Russell. Fuller is acting commandant. Butler heads the Philadelphia safety drive and commands at Quantico. Feland leads Marines in the Pacific. Russell served as American high commissioner in Haiti.
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Marine Corps
Wendell C. Neville
Smedley Darlington Butler
Logan Feland
Ben Tebard Fuller
John Henry Russell
General Butler
Caribbean
Neville
Butler
Public Safety
Philadelphia
Marine
Quantico
Virginia
Feland
Pacific
Russel
Haiti
Buenos Aires Street Car Plunges Into Riache River
In fog a street car derailed when a cantilever bridge section opened and collapsed into Riache River. At least sixty people, mostly laborers, perished with divers and rescue crews recovering bodies. 30 bodies found by 10:15 a.m. and 53 by noon amid identification scenes.
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Buenos Aires
Avellaneda
Baseball results from multiple games in national league action
Summary of several games with St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Boston Brooklyn New York Cincinnati Philadelphia Washington Detroit and Chicago matchups. Key box scores show runs by inning and final tallies with pitchers listed.
Colorado Governor Denies Clemency for Two Bandits
Governor W H Adams refused clemency for George J Abshier and Howard L Roy ston of Lamar. They face execution next week at Canon City state penitentiary for the May 1928 bank holdup at the First National Bank of Samar and the murder of four people during and after the raid.
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W H. Adams
George J. Abshier
Howard L. Royston
Lamar
State Penitentiary
Canon City
First National Bank of
Aviatrix Flies To New Height At Sixteen Thousand Feet
Ruth Alexander of San Diego describes reaching 26 000 feet in a 90 horsepower light plane setting a women’s altitude record. She lost consciousness at 22 000 feet as oxygen failed and the plane climbed with her at the controls before she diverted to 7 000 feet and landed at Lindbergh Field.
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Cal
Ruth Alxander
Avatrix
Alexander
Lindbergh Field
Hoover Takes Weekend Rest at Virginia Camp
President Hoover left Washington with Mrs Hoover and a party for a weekend rest at his Rapidan River camp in Virginia. The trip includes Mrs Smoot of Utah, Mrs McMullin, Rep Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, Capt Joel Boone, Julius Klein, Lawrance Richey, and Frederick Wile.
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Hoover
Virginia
Washington
Smoot
Senator Smoot
Utah
Dave McMullin
California
Edith Nurse Rogers
Massachusetts
Joel T. Boone
Captain Boone
White House
Suzanne
Rapidan River
Reed Smoot
Hebert
Rhode Island
Allen
Kansas
Thomas
Idaho
Edith Nourse Rogers
Julius Klein
Department of Commerce
Joel T Boone
Boone
Lawrance Richey
Frederick William Wile
Jones Defending Open Title In Great Play
Bobby Jones stretched his Open lead in the fourth round of the United States Open, firing a 68 to reach 212 for 54 holes and holding a five stroke edge over Harry Cooper as Horton Smith faltered with a 76.
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Interlachen Club
Minneapolis
Bobby Jones
Bobby
Harry Cooper
Horton Smith
Johnny Golden
Cooper
Yued Buten Sah
Oil Well Fire Takes 5 Lives Near Haynesville Farm
In Owensboro Kentucky four boys and a man died and three men were hospitalized with serious burns after an oil well on Thurman Crowe’s farm near Haynesville caught fire during repairs. Victims include James Crowe 12 Matt Crowe 14 Elmer Puqua 13 and others injured James Maine 3 and Cornell 18 were burn victims. The blaze followed a rig-related incident last night.
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Haynesville
Here
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Matt Crowe
Elmer Puqua
Thurman Crowe
Crowe
Senate resumes treaty debate over London pact reservations
The Senate continues the London naval treaty debate after President Hoover refused to provide certain negotiation documents. A Norris reservation seeks ratification with no extraneous understandings. Divisions arise over preamble language and overall approval. Debate resumes Monday as opponents demand stronger action.
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Hoover
Norris
Nebraska
Reed
Pennsylvania
London
Borah
Foreign Relations Committee
Johnson
California
Bromley Prepares for Ocean Flight to Tokyo
In Los Angeles on July 12 Lieutenant Harold Bromley lifted off at 6 30 am in a new high wing monoplane bound for Tacoma Washington. He aims for another trans Pacific attempt to Tokyo with 27 year old Australian navigator Harold Gatty aboard. Bromley hopes to hop for Tokyo in a few days.
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Harold Bromley
Tacoma
Wash
Tokyo
Bromley
Harold Gatty
Lake Keechelus Tragedy Claims two missing boaters in capsized craft
July 12 reporting from Ellensburg Washington describes rescue efforts at Lake Keechelus for the Lewitgharts caretakers of Mountaineers cabin after their motor boat capsized. Gerald Harrigen survived and alerted help while Mrs Harrigen and Stanley Hayes were saved. No trace yet found of the Lewitgharts.
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Wash
Lake Keechelus
Cascades
Fred Lewitghart
Mountaineers
Gerald Harrigen
Idaho Education Receives 41 Percent Of State Budget
State tabulation shows education consuming 41.4 percent of 1929 1930 appropriations totaling 5.786 million dollars. General government accounts for 14.2 percent, with University of Idaho receiving 1.439 million dollars, representing 60.1 percent of education funds.
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General Fund
University of Idaho
Agreeable Hold Up Lands in Prison
In Ogden Utah on July 12 a man giving his name as Bert Kasdorf thirty of Glendale California held up a service station taking only a dollar after stealing oil gasoline and an inner tube He pistol whipped the attendant and locked him in a lavatory but released him Kasdorf fled toward Wellsville where he was arrested and returned Kasdorf said it was his first robbery and that he was driven to crime by unemployment.
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Ogden
Bert Kasdorf
Glendale
Cal
Kasdorf
Wellsville
Negro rushed from danger in mob incident in Texas
Jesse Lee Washington, an African American man, was moved from Texas to Granite, Oklahoma reformatory where he reportedly confessed to killing Mrs Henry Vaughan near Sherman. Officials said a mob pursued the transport road to the Oklahoma border but was outrun.
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Sherman
Tex
Texas
Jesse Lee Washington
State Reformatory
Granite
Okla
Henry Vaughan
George A. Waters
Granite Reformatory
Washington
James C. Mahan
Lee Gribble
Childress
Hollis
Oklo
Llaude McKinney
Oklahoma
Wheat prices sink to new lows as government sells surplus
Wheat prices slide to record lows with Northwest weather expectations weighing on markets. September and December futures drop 1 to 4 cents per bushel, while July contracts hit a bottom near 857 8 cents. In Kansas City, officials say the Grain Stabilization Corporation will store moderate wheat quantities to stabilize prices under the farm board plan.
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Northwest
Grain Stabilization Corporation
Federal Farm Board
Kansas City
Farm Board
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