Californians Among Six Killed in Lucerne Plane Crash
Six people died when a plane carrying golfers and a pilot crashed near Lucerne, California, half a mile from the landing field. The victims include George Ritchie, Jack Kerrigan, Leon Keller, Louis Becker, Mrs. Sigmunda Lax, and William Hoffman. The pilots and players had just finished exhibition games at the course before takeoff. The plane lost engine power twenty minutes after departure and sank in a hillside amid a holiday crowd.
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Lucerne
Cal
Lucerne Landing Field
George Ritchie
California
Jack Kerrigan
Rio del Mar Country Club
Los Angeles
Leon Keller
Southern California
Louis M. Becker
Sigmunda Lax
Long Beach
Gecker
William Hoffman
Berkeley
George Horan
San Francisco
Hoffman
Soviet Olive Branch to Bourgeoisie and Kulaks for Cooperation
Soviet Russia offers former bourgeoisie and kulaks a path to cooperation with the regime. The plan seeks to use their skills for industrial and agricultural development while maintaining strict controls on counter revolutionary activity. Stalin announces wage readjustment, labor organization, and a push to develop working class intelligentsia as part of the five year plan. The campaign against kulaks continues, as private ownership remains rejected in the Soviet state.
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Stanley P. Richardson
Moscow
Soviet
Russia
Stalin
Bolshevist
Missouri to Build Over Three Thousand Miles of Roads in 1931
The Missouri highway commission announced plans to construct more than 3,000 miles of roads in 1931, signaling a major expansion of state infrastructure and public works.
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Missouri
Quail Mortality and Breeding Insights in Georgia
This sixth column by Herbert L. Stoddard, sponsored by the Georgia Department of Game and Fish, explains quail breeding potential, egg sets, and mortality factors. It notes wild quail may lay multiple sets but often only one brood is raised, with about twelve chicks per successful pair, and outlines enemies and conditions affecting quail numbers.
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Herbert L. Stoddard
Times-Enterprise
Georgia Department of Game and Fish
White Oak
Drownings Near Albany Claim Three Lives
In Kinchafonee creek near Albany Georgia on Sunday two Black women and a Black man drowned while wading Johnny May Jones and Rosa Lee Merver were involved in the incident with one woman pulling another into deeper water Jim Jones brother of Johnnie May Jones died while trying to rescue the pair.
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Albany
Kinchafonee Creek
Johnny May
Jones
Rosa Lee
Merver
Jim Jones
Johnnie May Jones
Meuse Argonne Offensive Opens with Massive Modern Battle
The Meuse Argonne push began September 26, lasting 47 days, the longest sustained American attack in history. Across a 24 mile front the line extended toward the Moselle, with 1.2 million troops pressing through Bois de Forges and Montfaucon as divisions like Bullard, Cronkite, Hines, and Liggett moved to secure positions and push the German defenses back, despite heavy machine gun fire, terrain, and counterattacks.
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Meuse-Argonne
Argonne Forest
Moselle
Meuse-Moselle
Fourth Army
Gouraud
Third Corps
Bullard
Meuse
Thirty Third Division
Bell
Bois de Forges
Eightieth
Cronkite
Bois Jure
Dannevoux
Fourth Division
Hines
Septarges
Nantillois
Montfaucon
Fifth Corps
Cameron
Johnston
Kuhn
Malan Court
Bois de Beuge
Bois de la Cote Lamont
Brieulles-sur-Meuse
Thirty-third
Bois de Brieulles
Bois de Ogons
Ivoiry-Montfaucon
Cierges-Nantillois
Cierges
Epinonville
Hellsfontaine
Bois de Clerges
Gesnes
Charpentry
Montrebeau Wood
Exermont Valley
Thirty-fifth
Twenty-eighth
Argonne
Montblainville
Use
Bois de
Lemont-Nantillois-Apremont
France
Whey
Eskimo Hunter Dements After First Civilized Sight
Knudsen, an Eskimo hunter from the Langé Koch Arctic expedition, grew violently demented after his first exposure to a movie in Thorshavn Fame Island. His companions restrained him and lashed him to his berth aboard the steamer Tjaldur in Copenhagen where he arrived yesterday.
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Copenhagen
Knudsen
Langé Koch
Thorshavn
Fame Island
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Traub
Varery
Aire
Betwee Varennes
Cheppy
Charpe
Twenty-Eighth Division
Muir
Varennes
Thdr Forest
Champ Mahaut
Alexander
The
Georgia
Steyerman
Steyerman’s
Titton, Moultrie
Thomasville
Bainbridge
Cairo
Moultrie
Titton
Cadillac
Buick
LaBalle
Marquette
Titus Motors, Inc
Madison
Ll’s Dairy
Steg
Flowers Baking Co
Flowers. Quality Bread
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