Nine Bombs Drop From Monoplane at Providence Ky
An orange collared monoplane dropped nine bombs into a coal region near Providence Kentucky causing alarms but no injuries or property damage. The plane from Illinois circled the town and targeted mines including Ruckian Meador Holt and Young, with several bombs failing to explode. Authorities requested troops after dynamite blasts in area mines, but Governor Sampson declined, saying detectives suffice.
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Providence
Illinois
Clay City
Here
Meader
Young and Holt
Diamond Mine Company
Meador, Holt and Young Company
Leck
Harrisburg
Sampson
Dirigible R-100 Tours Canada Before Return Across Atlantic
The British airship R-100 flew over Montreal Ottawa Toronto and Niagara Falls in a test flight after recent repairs. The craft then headed toward the Atlantic as favorable weather supported plans to resume its cross Atlantic voyage this week.
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Toronto
United States
Niagara Falls
England
Montreal
Canada
Ottawa
Lake Ontario
Atlantic
New York City Transfers Stir Up Liquor Smuggling Clampdown
New York city street cleaning workers were reassigned in a major shake up aimed at stopping liquor from being landed by garbage scows. The uprooting follows a raid when eight hundred bags of liquor were dumped at an ash dump after customs officers intercepted a city barge.
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New York
Agi
Girl Poet Nathalia Crane Becomes Grown Poetess
Nathalia Crane marks her seventeenth birthday in Brooklyn as she discards child prodigy label and adopts the full title of grown up poetess. The New York AP dispatch notes Crane has four books of verse and two novels to her credit and now prefers being called Miss Crane.
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New York
Nathalia Crane
Nathalia
Miss Crane
Brooklyn
Air mail pounds climb in July to 693627
Air mail poundage for July reached 693627 pounds, up by 12627 from June, according to AP reports from Washington.
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Washington
Tacoma Tokio Flier Lands at Vancouver
Bob Wark and Edward Brown en route to Tokyo from Tacoma crashlanded at Ladner airport near Vancouver. Wark sustains a knee injury while Brown escaped unhurt. The pair planned to resume their flight toward Whitehorse after halting to refuel at Vancouver.
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Tacoma
TOKIO
Vancouver
Seattle
Wash
Bob Wark
Edward Brown
Tokyo
Times
Ladner
B. C
Wark
Brown
Whitehorse
Yukon Territory
Eddie Brown
Tacoma Field
Sulu Island
Fairbanks
Nome
Alaska
Petropavlosk
Siberia
Border Patrol Fights Liquor Smugglers. Officer Killed
In La Feria Texas an exchange of gunfire between border patrolmen and bootleggers left Margarito Rodriguez dead and his brother Victor wounded while agents hunted liquor slavers tied to Burt Ellis, a customs inspector slain nearby by seven bootleggers at a Hidalgo county dance hall.
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Laferia
Tex
Margarito Rodriguez
Victor
Burt Ellis
Hargill
Hidalgo County
Unfair Methods Charged To Utah And Idaho Firms
The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint accusing the Idaho Coal Dealers Association Utah Coal Producers Association and the Retail Fuel Dealers Association of Utah of unfair methods of competition in interstate commerce. The action targets 311 member companies across the three associations.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Idaho Coal Dealers Association
Utah Coal Producers Association
Retail Fuel Dealers Association of
Utah
Drought Eases as Cool Rains Arrive Across the Nation
Heat breaks across the U S with weekend showers cooling regions from Little Rock to Chicago. Temperatures fall by 10 to 20 degrees though drought crops remain at risk. Oklahoma City and Dodge City report 102 and 98 degrees as Kansas and central states see relief in the 70s and 80s.
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Chicago
Weather Bureau
Little Rock
Oklahoma City
Kansas
Dodge City
Wichita
Concordia
Corn Belt
Million Dollar Pier Destroyed in Vancouver Fire
The new Canadian National Railway pier in Vancouver burned to a blackened ruin. Officials estimate damage at 1.25 million dollars including freight and structure. Origin of the blaze unknown as firemen fought massive flames near a ferry wharf. spectator James Cathcart died of a heart attack. Crowds gathered while a watchman escaped to alert authorities. No ships were mooted at the pier.
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Vancouver
B. C
Canadian National Railway
James Cathcart
Boy Who Set Fire To Lumber Yard Is Given Reform Term
Eldores Taylor a nine year old who started a $75,000 blaze at a Duncan lumber yard was committed by County Judge John W. Scott to the training school at Pauls Valley until he reaches age. He said he acted because he wanted to attack chain stores but gave no reason.
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Duncan
Okla
Eldores Taylor
John W. Scott
Paul's Valley
Eldores
Railroads Agree To Cut Freight Rates In Drought Region
A memorandum shows eleven railroads have agreed to reduce freight rates on hay to Indiana points hit by drought affecting cattle feed crops. Representative Ludlow of Indiana left the document at the White House for President Hoover.
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Washington
Indiana
White House
Hoover
Ludlow
Fire Kills Five In Cottage Blaze At Park
Five people died in a cottage fire at an amusement park near Johnson City Tennessee. Two others were seriously burned when the six room structure burned with victims found in their beds. Names include Mrs Hugh Lee Witt and her children Hugh Lee Witt Jr Marie Witt Iva Witt plus Paul Reeder and Charles Witt.
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Johnson City
Tem
Charles Witt
Endurancers Close On Endurance Flight Record
Dale Jackson and Forest O Brine neared a new world endurance refueling flight mark in St Louis as they entered the fourth week aloft. At 7 11 a m they had 504 hours airborne with the motor running smoothly and faced a potential record challenge from the Hunter brothers 554 hours set in Chicago last month. Crowds exceeded 15 000 at the field watching the event.
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ST. Louis
Dale Jackson
Forest O’brine
Jackson
Hunter Brothers
Sparta
Chicago
Babies Should Wear Few Clothes In Heat, Says Bureau
Washington reports the United States children's bureau advises minimal clothing for infants in hot weather. The 1930 August costume for babies should omit shirts, with officials stating the fewer clothes the infant wears the better in high temperatures.
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Washington
United States Children’s Bureau
Bureau
Tragic triple murder and suicide shock BC town
In Burnaby British Columbia three young children and their father were found dead after Otto Zellar forced them into a stump hole on a highway and detonated dynamite. The deaths occurred last night in a case described as a triple murder and self-destruction. In Sayre Oklahoma four people died and two were hurt when a car hit a parked vehicle on a river bridge. The deceased include Ralph Burkhalter driver John Hartman and two women Miss Grace Dees and Miss Winona Moreland.
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Burnaby
B. C
CHB
Otto Zellar
Sayre
Okla
Ralph Burkhalter
John Hartman
Grace Dees
Winona Moreland
Salvatore Tescrearo and Wife Involved in Incident
New York report notes Salvatore Tescrearo and his wife Concet were mentioned in an August 11 AP dispatch. Details are incomplete in the fragment but indicate a personal or domestic incident under investigation.
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New York
Salvatore Tescrearo
Battle in Shantung Seen Under Way With Clashing Claims
Shanghai dispatch reports the Nationalists and rebels in Shantung exchange advances around Taian and Tsinan. Nationalist sources say they push toward Tsinan with capture expected in a few days. Rebel reports claim Yen Hsi-Shan halted them near Taian and Feidhenz, inflicting heavy losses.
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Shanghai
Shantung
Tsinan
Yen Hsi-Shan
Landslide Blocks Mexican Railway
A heavy rains landslide near Tepic blocks tunnel 19 on the Southern Pacific line eight miles southeast of Tepic. Two passenger trains met and exchanged passengers, who crawled through a narrow opening in rocks and mud to pass the obstruction.
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Tepic
Mexico
Southern Pacific
Hungarian Flyers Delay Trip East
Alexander Magyar and George Endres, Hungarian aviators preparing for a flight to Budapest via Flint and Newfoundland, will not start for a couple of days. Magyar announced the delay at their Burbank hotel.
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Burbank
Cal
Alexander Magyar
George Endres
Budapest
Hungary
Flint
Mich
Newfoundland
Magyar
Shadow of Smith Shapes Early Primary Battles
The piece notes Alfred E. Smith’s lingering influence on three of four state primaries this Tuesday including Alabama Arkansas and Nebraska with prohibition shaping votes in the fourth. Alabama voters choose a Heflin successor amid his independent bid for November, while John H Bankhead of Jasper and Frederick I Thompson mobilize for the Senate race.
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Washington
Alfred E. Smith
Alabama
Arkansas
Nebraska
J. Thomas Heflin
King George Regains Full Health on Canadian Tour
Lord Dawson reports King George III fully recovered from last year’s illness and in excellent health during his Canadian tour. The physician plans visits to Montreal Ottawa Kingston and Toronto then Winnipeg for the Canadian Medical Association meeting.
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Quebec
Lord Dawson of
Penn
George
Lord Dawson
Montreal
Ottawa
Kingston
Toronto
Winnipeg
Canadian Medical Association
Order of Eagles Opens Convention in San Francisco
Twenty thousand delegates gather for the thirty second annual international grand aeria convention of the fraternal Order of Eagles in San Francisco. Sessions run through August 16 with delegates from 7800 subordinate armies and about 700,000 members attending.
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San Francisco
Order of Eagles
Isasgledom
Order
Georges DePorte Riche At Risk In Paris
Georges DePorte Riche, 83, noted author dramatist and member of the French Academy, was dangerously ill in Paris on August 11 according to AP dispatches.
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Paris
Georges DePorte Riche
French Academy
Sixty Five Saved When Ship Crashes
The steamer Caribou struck a Newfoundland coast and foremast, forcing a six hour lifeboat pull. Sixty five passengers and crew, including nineteen women and several children, were landed at Port Aux Basques from North Sydney. Authorities salvage mail and freight. the ship, built in 1925 in St Johns, is owned by the Newfoundland government.
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ST. Johns
N. F
Caribou
Newfoundland
Port Aux Basques
North Sydney
Grand Bay
Aged Hitch-Hiker Killed By Train
An unidentified elderly hitch-hiker was struck and killed by Santa Fe train No. 3 in Holbrook Arizona. He wandered into town Saturday, received charity for food, and tried to send a telegram to a presumed son named Robert Randall before the fatal encounter. The body was buried in Holbrook cemetery by Navajo county authorities.
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Daily Mail
Holbrook
Ariz
Santa Fe
Navajo County
Robert Randall
China Needs Century of Education to End Troubles
Bur ris Jenkins, Kansas City clergyman and author, touring China, says a century of education and aid is needed to end banditry, communism, and civil war. He urges missionary work centered on education and believes America must provide patient understanding for at least 100 more years.
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America
Fire destroys Portland paper box factory in $750000 loss
Fire swept the F. C. Stettler paper box factory in Portland at an early hour, gutting the plant and causing owner-estimated damage of 750000 dollars. Two Portland firefighters, George Viadne and Harry B. Landru, were severely burned when a flame blast struck their faces and they were rushed to the emergency hospital.
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Portland
F. C. Stettler
George Viadne
Harry B. Landru
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Young, Ariz
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J. A. Allen
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Arthur Bright
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Louis Mosley
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