Storm relief funds resumed for Georgia and South Carolina sufferers
The House approved a resolution to release 2,000,000 remaining from a 6,000,000 storm relief fund for victims of cyclones and hail in Georgia, South Carolina, and neighboring states. Loans for seed, feed, and fertilizer would be available under existing rules, with the measure sent to the Senate.
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Washington
House
Georgia
South Carolina
North
Florida
Alabama
Senate
Larson
George
Agriculture Committee
George and
Smith
Jones
Watson
Indiana
Bulloch County Toll Rises to Twenty Four in Tornado Toll
In Statesboro Georgia the toll from Thursday’s Bulloch county tornado climbs to 24 with two more deaths Fannie Hagin and John Odom 53. 42 injured remain in three Statesboro hospitals with 30 white and 12 black. Replanting begins as tents arrive and Red Cross cooperates with volunteers.
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Statesboro
Bulloch County
John Odom
Fannie Hagin
Atlantic Coast Line Reports Net Operating Income Rise
New York April 29 Atlantic Coast Line posts three months net operating income of 6.15 million dollars up from 3.83 million a year ago, reflecting improved earnings for the period.
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New York
Atlantic Coast Line
Storm ravished communities are returning to normal
Georgia towns still recovering from last Thursday tornadoes report progress as relief agencies care for injured and homeless. 52 dead were buried in scattered funerals. Health surveys begin to curb disease while state welfare teams direct response in Statesboro, Bulloch, and Candler counties. National Red Cross relief director John W. Clarke oversees operations with Lucile A. Boylan. Fort Screven's Colonel Fred W. Bugbee orders area inspection. Fort McPherson provides tents and supplies for about 800 injuries and 2,000 homeless.
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Atlanta
Georgia
State Department of Welfare
Statesboro
John W. Clarke
National Red Cross
Washington
Lucile A. Boylan
Dr. Clarke
Bulloch
Candler
Army
Fred W. Bugbee
Eighth Infantry
Fort Screven
Savannah
Fort McPherson
Anniston Woman Killed in Car Skid and Overturn
Rome Georgia April 29 Mrs Roach an Anniston woman was instantly killed when the automobile she rode in skidded on a curve and overturned on the way to Chattanooga Tennessee driven by C M Roberts also in the car were two children who were not seriously hurt The death is Floyd counties sixth auto wreck in three weeks with two prior women killed on Second avenue and three on the Rome Calhoun highway.
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Rome
Ala
Rome-Calhoun
91 Year Old Confederate Veteran Arrested on Prohibition Charge
Dothan Alabama April 29 91 year old Confederate veteran G A Bodiford faced trial on charges of violating the prohibition law and carrying concealed weapons after a raid of his residence yesterday. Sheriff Rollins said Bodiford had two loaded pistols and a half pint of whiskey on his person when arrested. He posted bail of 600 dollars for his release.
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Dothan
Ala
G. A. Bodiford
Rollins
Bodiford
Campaign to Exterminate Speakeasies Arouses New York
Canon William S. Chase of the International Reform Federation accuses officials of tolerating 32 000 speakeasies and $20 million in graft. A citizens committee plans a constitutional campaign led by the Prohibition Educational League with a public meeting at Grand Central Palace.
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New York
Citizens’ Committee
Canon William S. Chase
International Reform Federation
Grover A. Whalen
Hoover
David Barnett
Prohibition Educational League
Grand Central Palace
Mrs Pope and Polster Given Twenty Years Each
Madison Wisconsin April 29 Mrs Rose Pope 30 and Philip Polster 26 were sentenced to 20 years in the state prison for assault with intent to murder focusing on Mrs Pope s husband John Pope 38 A confession and story of the trio reveal a plot to dispose of the husband using acid and a mallet with Mrs Pope urging more blows to finish the job.
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Madison
Wis
Rose Pope
Philip Polster
Sydney-Gray
Wisconsin
John Pope
Here
Havana Rum Ring Exposed by Cuban Secret Police
A Cuba based liquor smuggling network involving Americans and a Havana headquarters was exposed by Cuban secret police. Sydney Hoffman, alleged leader, confessed before deportation. 18 American residents in Cuba were named as implicated. Prohibition officials note ties to a New Yorker swindled of 70 000 dollars and a Florida hotel death.
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Havana
United States
Alfonso Fors
Sydney Hoffman
Hoffman
Cuba
Washington
Prohibition
Thomas Walsh
Florida
Syd
Ney Hoffman
Walsh
Arnold Rothstein
New York
Nassau
New Yorker
Agriculture Committee OKs Four Measured Bills on Farm Aid
The House Agriculture Committee approved four bills including the Haugen oleomargarine definition change and the Federal Warehouse Act updates. The Maples canning standards and Ketcham foreign service representation bills were also approved. The panel plans to seek floor passage this week.
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Washington
Foned Agriculture Committee
Department of Agriculture
Foreign Service
House Rules Committee
Agriculture Committee
Vinson
Fulmer
Revolt in Sonora Ends as Calles Reports Success
General Calles announced to President Portes Gil that the Sonora revolt is terminated with two rebel groups totaling about 1000 men surrendering unconditionally. Federal troops block rebel positions, while guerrilla warfare fades but persists in mountain districts. A separate Cristero clash continues in Guanajuato and Jalisco under General Cedillo.
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Plutarco Elias Calles
Sonora
Portes ii
Fedral
Portes Gil
Guanajuato
Jalisco
Saturnino Cedillo
Negro congressman meets President Hoover at White House
Representative De Priest the only Black member of the House, Republican from Illinois, called on President Hoover today at the White House to pay his respects in his first meeting with the chief executive.
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Hoover
Washington
de Priest
Republican
Illinois
White House
Woman fined $300 for sending obscene matter through the mails
Mary Ware Bennett, 63, convicted of mailing obscene material, was fined $300 in Federal Court Brooklyn by Judge Warren B. Burrows. She remains on parole under her attorney’s custody until Thursday pending an appeal and bail posting. The case involved her pamphlet The Sex Side of Life, once distributed by YMCA churches and other groups.
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New York
Mary Ware Bennett
Warren B. Burrows
Brooklyn
Grottoes
Subway and Elevated Collision Kills Three in Bronx
In New York on April 29 a rear end crash between a Bronx subway and the elevated L train at 167th Street killed three men including subway motorman J Cullen and an unidentified youth. About 2,000 to 3,000 workers were aboard. more than forty were injured in a chaotic scramble to escape as fire broke out on a wooden car and rescuers fought to reach victims.
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New York
167Th Street
Bronx
J. Cullen
Cullen
Tornadoes Hit South Carolina. One Dead and Fourteen Hurt
Camden reports a second South Carolina tornado in four days killed Nora Murphy a 70 year old Black woman and injured fourteen white residents all taken to hospital. The West Wateree path wrecked four houses and hurled a car over 200 yards. Damage extended to Camden and Antioch ten miles east with the high school and Woodmen's hall damaged.
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Camden
D. C
South Carolina
Nora Murphy
West Wateree
Antioch
Here
Examining Commission Begins 10 Day Tour of State Institutions
The state examining commission opened a ten day inspection tour of Georgia state institutions in Atlanta. It will assess needs for 1930 1931 buildings and hear appropriation requests, reporting to a May 10 joint meeting with the investigating and budget commission. Governor Hardman provided military department cars for travel. Institutions visited include Georgia Tech Confederate Soldiers Home Girls Training School on Marietta Road with Powder Springs A and M Bowdon Normal and Industrial Cave Springs Deaf School on the schedule. Members include the governor attorney general state superintendent of schools and chairmen of the senate and house appropriations committees.
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State Examining Commission
Investigating and Budget Commission
Hardman
Military Department
Georgia School of Technology
Confederate Soldiers’ Home
Girls’ Training School
Marietta Road
Powder Springs
State Normal and Industrial School
Bowdon
School For the Deaf
Cave Springs
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
King George Honors Bramwell Booth With Honor Rank
King George today ordered General Bramwell Booth a Companion of Honor, elevating the deposed Salvation Army commander in chief. The award carries no title, ranks after the first class of the British Empire, and has been limited to select members of both sexes.
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George
Bramwell Booth
London
Salvation Army
Order of
Senate approves 4 250 000 fruit fly relief for Florida
The Senate passed a house bill to make 4 250 000 immediately available to combat the Mediterranean fruit fly in Florida. The measure transfers funds within the Department of Agriculture and was approved without debate. Officials warn the pest likely arrived via uninspected fruit or smuggled goods and detail plans to bury infested fruit and heat graves as part of eradication efforts. The threat to nearby Georgia and North Carolina peach crops raises fears of wider spread.
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Washington
Senate
House
Florida
Warren
Appropriations Committee
Department of Agriculture
Africa
Bahamas
Department
Orlando
Georgia
North Carolina
Trotzky predicts World War within ten years from Anglo American rivalries
Exiled Bolshevik Leon Trotzky, in a Constantinople cottage, condemns Stalin and Germany and warns that a new global war will erupt within a decade, caused by Anglo American rivalries. He imagines a world consumed by conflict as he frames his defiant stance from exile.
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Priscilla Ring
Associated Press
Constantinople
White House
Leon Trotaxy
Lenin
Trotzky
Stalin
Russia
Germany
Gibson proposal attacked by Rep Britten in Senate
Chairman Britten of the House Naval Committee accused Ambassador Hugh Gibson of urging reserves not to count in naval strength estimates. He said the suggestion mirrors British and French diplomacy and warned the Geneva commission will likely fail.
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Gibson
Britten
Senate
Washington
House Naval Committee
Hugh Gibson
Seventeen Crewmembers Lost After Viking Explodes
Manila reports the Interisland steamer Viking burned in the Visayan Sea between Masbate and Cebu. Seventeen crew members are missing or believed dead, with the Swedish steamer Delhi rescuing twelve survivors. Charles Olsen, veteran Interisland officer, provided the details.
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Interisland
Viking
Visayan Sea
Masbate
Cebu
Delhi
Charles Olsen
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