Germany uses full dictatorial powers to push finance program
Berlin reports the Bruning cabinet invoked Article 48 to pass its financial measures after Dietrich's proposals failed. President von Hindenburg had authorized use of the article, normally applied to suspend emergency laws. A Reichstag motion of non confidence was rejected 244 to 59 with 151 abstentions.
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Berlin
Brueming
of Finance Mini
Dietrich
Reichstag
Bruening
von Hindenburg
Publisher Aided Woman Candidate in Illinois Senate Race
Chicago July 16 AP Col R R McCormick publisher of the Chicago Tribune disclosed to the senate campaign fund committee that he contributed 15000 to Ruth Hanna McCormick for her senatorial bid. He noted 2500 of this was already counted in 327000 campaign expenses with a 10000 check dated April 1, 1930 sent before the primary. he said the money arrived too late to use and was not returned. He also corrected a prior statement by dropping a 2000 contribution later identified as for congresswoman at large.
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Chicago
R. R. McCormick
The
Chicago Tribune
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Senate Campaign Fund Committee
Asher
Col. McCormick
England sends two warships to Egypt amid Alexandria riots
AP dispatch reports riots in Alexandria left 14 dead and 56 seriously injured. 147 arrested, mostly youths, with eight European injuries and 39 workers hurt. troops deployed for funerals and to curb further violence as two Royal Navy ships head to Egypt per MacDonald’s Commons announcement.
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Alexander
Alexandria
Pastor Pleads Guilty in Alien Smuggling Case
Rev. Stephen Czuturos 35 pastor of the Magyar Presbyterian Church Cleveland pleaded guilty in federal court to alien smuggling. Judge Simon L. Adler imposed a $500 fine and suspended a year and one day in At ta federal penitentiary.
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Jamestown
N. Y
Stephen Czuturos
Magyar Presbyterian Church
Cleveland
Simon L. Adler
Atta
Northwest Forest Fires Rampage Threaten Oregon Lake Odell
Fires raged across dry western timberlands with Malaki Mountain near Deschutes National Forest battling leaps in flames toward Odell Lake. Three hundred more fighters rushed in as trenches failed to hold. Dugout Springs fire in Sisters district escaped bounds again with winds driving toward lava beds. Idaho’s forest fire situation remained unsettled.
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Malaki Mountain
Oregon
Deschutes National Forest
Odell Lake
Two Girls Drown in North Idaho Spillway Tragedy
In Lewiston Idaho on July 16 two young girls Helen Callan eleven and Gladys Budig fifteen drowned in the spillway of the Washington Water Power plant while attempting a rescue. Helen’s sister Dorothy eight and a non swimmer onshore watched as others tried to save them. both bodies were recovered.
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Lewiston
Idaho
Washington Water Power Company
Helen Callan
Thomas Callan
Starbuck
Wash
Gladys Budig
Joseph Budig
Dorothy Callan
Helen
Unemployed man offers body to secure wife’s future
Chester Taylor a 35 year old unemployed man from Bridgeport Connecticut proposes to sacrifice his life by inoculation with the trachoma germ to guarantee his wife’s security. He says he will die content if the disease kills him and cites a prior case where a condemned man offered life in exchange for a commutation.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Chester Taylor
Woo Dak Ben
New Mexico
Utah Woolgrowers Promote Lamb Sales Efforts
Utah Woolgrowers Association ends its two day convention with resolutions urging predatory animal control and a continued lamb advertising campaign. Delegates target Congress and lawmakers, stressing industry losses and need for funds. August 23 31 named Lembis Delicious Week. American Fork bids to host 1931 gathering.
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Logan
Utah
Utah Woolgrowers Association
House of Representatives’ Agricultural Committee
United States
House
Congress
Lamb
W. H. Harvey
State Association
James A. Hooper
F. P. Champ
Utah Bankers Association
American Fork
Playwright Alice Ives Dies After Notable Career
Alice E. Ives, noted writer of the nine lives era, died in New York after moving from Detroit in 1890 to work in newspapers and later become a prolific playwright. Her hit The Village Postmaster ran 217 performances in 1896 and remains stocked in theaters. Ives wrote nine plays and 11 one acts.
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New York
Alice E. Ives
Miss Ives
Detroit
Newlyweds Parents Targeted in Honeymoon Fraud
George Graham a former inmate of McNeill Island and Oregon prisons was held in Tacoma Washington on a honeymoon ruse to defraud parents of newly married couples. He allegedly sent wires asking for money after reading society pages about out of state couples honeymooning in Washington. State Senator Thomas P. Stewart of Anaconda Montana helped expose the scheme when his son was on a wedding trip.
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Tacoma
Wash
George Graham
McNeill Island
Oregon
Graham
Washington
Thomas P. Stewart
Anaconda
Mont
Stewart
Baseball scores and line results from multiple games
A jumble of box scores shows Cincinnati at New York tied 8 to 15 in runs, St. Louis at Philadelphia 5 to 10, Chicago at Brooklyn 6 to 4, Pittsburgh at Boston 9 to 3, Washington at Cleveland 6 to 9, and New York at St. Louis 1 to 0 with various pitchers and fielding details across the day’s schedule.
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R. HE
Washington
Clevnland
Crowder
Spence
Pene Jablonowski
Brown End
Ruel
Shoffner
Islphia
Res
Cochrane
Lyons
Ina Ae
Berry
Whitehill
Desautels
New York
St. Louis
Grasshoppers Threaten Idaho Crops In Nationwide Outbreak
Washington AP report says an expanding army of grasshoppers is moving across the western states, with Idaho at risk. Entomologists warn of range caterpillars and bread sugar beet leaf hoppers harming thousands of acres, while a wasp is introduced to target caterpillars. Chemical control research continues.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Department
Dy W. H Larrimer
New Mexico
Egypt
Palestine
United States
South
Dakota
Michigan
Nebraska
Idaho
Colorado
West
Larrimer
Angry Suitor Accuses Tire Puncturing Rival
Lester A. Gale, a San Francisco butcher, files a damage suit against Peter Workintin alleging he punctured 15 tires over six months. Gale seeks 1,964 dollars, claiming tire upkeep rose after a woman shifted affection to Gale and that punctures occurred on Christmas New Year Easter and other nights with continued threats for ten years.
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San Francisco
Lester A. Gale
Peter K. Workintin
Gale
King's Return Being Opposed in Canadian Election Drive
Ontario and Saskatchewan push back against Liberal government of Premier Mackenzie King as July 28 general election nears. Conservative leaders Bennett and Ferguson rally against federal party while Premier Anderson joins in Saskatchewan campaign.
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Ottawa
Liberal
MacKenzie King
Ontario
Saskatchewan
House of Commons
Conservative Party
R. B Bennett
Ferguson
Anderson
Federal witness finally located after 12 years
The missing key witness in the Kingsland ammunition plant disaster case has been found after 12 years. Theodore Wozniak, once employed at Kingsland and later a prominent figure in Germany's defense against sabotage claims, was located at Tupper Lake New York with a German attorney who would not permit questioning.
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Washington
Kingland
N. J
Theodore Wozniak
Kingsland
Germany
America
Black Tom Arsenal
Lehigh Valley
Mixed Claims Commission
Tupper Lake
N. Y
Philadelphia population falls short of two million mark
Philadelphia data show a final population of 1,961,458, up 137,679 from 1920. Suburban drift toward New Jersey towns explains the growth gap, as the city remains the third largest in the nation behind New York and Chicago.
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Philadelphia
New Jersey
New York
Chicago
Canton Robbery Ends in Fatal Shootout and Wounding
In Canton Ohio a bank messenger was critically wounded and a suspect was killed during a hold up of two messengers delivering registered mail to the post office for the Federal Reserve Bank at Cleveland. Charles M Riblet a former Canton police chief and bank messenger was named as a robber and was killed by police gunfire.
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Canton
Ohio
Federal Reserve Bank
Cleveland
Charles M Riblet
First National Bank
Ribiet
Young Lindbergh to Try His Wings
Charles August Lindbergh Jr. may have his first airplane ride within four weeks. His father says no flight plans have been made yet for a trip with Mrs Lindbergh and Charles Jr. to Dwight W. Morrow's summer home in North Haven Maine. If they fly, the family would likely use a smaller plane than the Serius used on the transcontinental record flight. Charles Jr. is four weeks old.
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New York
Charles August Lindberg, Jr
Lindbergh
Charles, Jr
Dwight W. Morrow
North Haven
Charles
Junior
Riots in Kishorenanj Cause 15 Deaths and 7 Injuries
Calcutta July 16 AP Fifteen people were killed and seven injured in Kishorenanj disorders after hours of unrest. Four rioters and 11 others died with five government officers and two natives wounded. The Bengal governor reported the situation improved overall and attributed the violence to economic distress from low prices in the ute market rather than religion.
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Calcutta
India
Kishorenanj
Bengal
Seven-Year-Old Boy Found Safe After Week in Woods
Oni Renfrew reports a seven year old boy who wandered seven days from his uncle’s farm. He survived on berries and slept under trees, was found on a boulder near the farm eating berries. He was taken to a hospital for observation.
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Renfrew
Oni
Lloyd Warren
Flyer in Vermont crash remains in critical condition
Bennington Vermont July 16 The condition of Frank Gooldsborough 19-year-old junior trans continental flying record holder remained extremely critical today Hospital bulletin said no improvement since admission yesterday after a mountainside crash He lay beside his wrecked plane for 18 hours while search parties combed thick underbrush to locate him
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Bennington
Frank Gooldsborough
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Wallace seeks pardon for former police chief Bailey
Friends of W J Bailey former Wallace police chief convicted in the Wallace liquor conspiracy trial in Coeur d Alene prepare a petition in Shoshone county calling for an unconditional pardon and restoration of citizenship rights by President Hoover A similar petition for W H Herrick former county assessor and ex mayor serving 15 months has already drawn hundreds of signatures
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Wallace
Idaho
Friends
W. J. Bailey
Coeur d'Alene
Shoshone
Hoover
Perdon
W. H. Herrick
Turner Aims For Border To Border Flight Record
Col. Roscoe Turner, United States Army flier, took off at 7 a m from a farm 20 miles south of Vancouver for Tijuana Mexico. He seeks a speed record for border to border flight and hoped to reach Mexico in seven hours.
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Turner
Vancouver
B. C
Roscoe Turner
United States Army Flier
Tijuana
Mexico
Plane crash ends attempted long distance flight near Bostwick
Three pilots parachute to safety after their mineplane runs out of fuel and crashes one mile west of Bostwick Georgia. Jimmy Garrigan and companions escaped uninjured after a bad visibility and heavy weather forced an emergency descent. They had been en route from Roosevelt Field to Buenos Aires with refueling stops planned.
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New York
Buenos Aires
Bostwick
South America
Jimmy Garrigan
Garrigan
Roosevelt Field
Bueenous Aires
Atlanta
Garland Peed
Randy Enstow
Seaboard
Havana
Fiers
Eddie Stinson
Germany
Copper Price Drops to New Domestic Low in 1921 Era
New York reports custom smelters cut domestic copper to 11 cents per pound delivered, down a quarter cent from prior level and the lowest since 1921. Large producers kept copper at 110 cents, while foreign price remained 11.80 cents CIP European ports. Forenoon sales reached 2.25 million pounds, with yesterday’s total at 3.5 million pounds.
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New York
Stunter Roy Ahearn Killed in Biplane Crash
Roy Ahearn a stunt flyer from Ware Massachusetts died when the wings of his biplane separated at about 10 000 feet above Teterboro airport Hasbrouck Heights New Jersey. He was from Ware Massachusetts.
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Hasbrouck Heights
Roy Ahearn
Teterboro
Ware
Mass
Search party advances in Kanarra mountains Utah
Major R N McDonald and Iron county Sheriff J C Leigh lead a search party pushing deeper into Kanarra mountains to trace Maurice Graham the missing aviator. They report finding fire remains and three revolver cartridges as possible remains near the wreck site with rumors of a shack on the Colorado river near Boulder Canyon dam site.
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Cedar City
Utah
R. N. McDonald
J. C. Leigh
Iron County
Maurice Graham
Airma
Kanarra Mountains
Major McDonald
Graham
Ray
Colorado River
Boulder Canyon Dam
Lions Club Speaker Urges Desocializing War
Denver July 16 AP The president of a small college once started by a single classroom where Mrs Herbert Hoover studied told the Lions clubs convention that war is not inevitable. He urged members to desocialize war and focus on peace efforts.
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Lions Club
Denver
Little Centennis College
Herbert Hoover
Lions Clubs
Hooverture
Banane Tette
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