Tornado Toll Rises Across Minnesota Wisconsin
A wave of tornadoes struck southern Minnesota and Wisconsin causing five deaths and more than sixty injuries. Damages exceed 1 million dollars with big losses around Menomonie Eau Claire Randolph and St Paul Park. National Guard units mobilized near Randolph to assist in the disaster response.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Menomonie
Wist
Randolph
Minn
Ranolph
Eau Claire
Wis
St. Paul Park
St. Paul
Mewnomonie
Austin
Oslo
Munson Hill
Nationalist Army Suffers Reverses Near Wuchang
Unconfirmed battlefield dispatches report the Nationalist government army unable to halt the Kwangsi rebels advancing toward Wuchang on the Yangtse River forty miles south of the city. A separate Tientsin dispatch says 50,000 northern rebels crossed to the south bank of the Yellow River near Tsinan, threatening Shantung capital's loss.
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Hankow
Kwangsi Province
Wuchang
Yangtse
Shanghai
Tientsin
Yellow River
Tsinan
Shantung Province
Boxing Association Recognizes German As World Champion
Max Schmeling awarded world heavyweight title by the National Boxing Association after defeating Jack Sharkey on a foul in a Chicago bout.
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Boxing Association
Cencinnate
Janett
Max Schmeling
Jack Sharkey
National Boxing Association
Blind Senator Faces Primary in Minnesota Election
ST. PAUL Minn June 14 AP Minnesota's blind U S senator Thomas D Schall Republican faces the Monday primary hurdle that has felled three fellow senators this spring as he seeks renomination in his home state.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
United States
Thomas D. Schall
Queen Marie Aims to Reconcile King Carol II and Queen Helen
Queen Marie believed to have eased tensions between King Carol II and Queen Helen and prepared them for a family reunion at Queen Marie’s palace. Queen Helen’s illness delayed greetings at the railway. Carol’s regime now operates with a cabinet similar to Maniu’s, including strong Peasant Party members.
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Marie
Bucharest
Carol II
Queen Helen
Helen
Queen Marie
Germany
Carol
Paris
Mme
Magda Lupescu
M. Maniu
Michael
England Retakes Wightman Cup Over Americans
England's women defeated the United States four matches to three to reclaim the Wightman Cup. The final doubles clinched the victory as Americans Helen Wills Moody and Helen Jacobs were beaten.
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England
Wibledon
America
Helen Wills Moody
Helen Jacobs
National Guard Officer Promoted in Arizona
Adjutant General Joseph I. Pom eroy announced the promotion of Liet Lester Stallecup of the Arizona National Guard in Mesa to captain. Captain Stalleup will go to Nogales today to take a dentistry examination.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Joseph I. Pomeroy
Lester Stallecup
Medical Corps
Arizona National Guard
Mesa
Stalleup
Nogales
Pomeroy
Totten Nominated by Hoover as Minister to South Africa
Ralph J. Totten of Tennessee has been nominated by President Hoover to serve as minister to the Union of South Africa.
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Washington
Ralph J. Totten
Tennessee
Hoover
Union of South Africa
Electric chair to claim lives of two
Lester Underdown and Mrs Hattie Evans were found guilty today of murdering Robert Evans. They were sentenced to die in the electric chair with no mercy recommendation from the jury.
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Tom’s River
N. J
Lester Underdown
Hattie Evans
Robert Evans
Detroit Aviators Begin Transcontinental Flight from Atlanta
William Brock and Edward Schlee left Atlanta early today bound for Jacksonville to start a cross country flight to San Diego. They aim to demonstrate long distance air travel capabilities and promote aviation progress.
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Atlanta
William Brock
Edward Schlee
Detroit
Jacksonville
Fla
San Diego
Cal
Two University Students Die in Montlake Street Car Crash
Two University of Washington students were killed instantly when their roadster collided with a Montlake street car just before midnight. Authorities report the victims as students from the university. no further identities are released in the early account.
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Seattle
University of Washington
Montlake
Hoover Halfway Through Term Faces Pressure On Key Issues
President Hoover enters the political halfway point of his four year term surrounded by public disputes over tariffs farm relief prohibition foreign relations and party troubles. Advisors pull him toward or away from signing or vetoing the tariff bill as division and debate ripple through the Republican ranks. The farm relief program faces renewed scrutiny even as renomination looms and advisers debate his course of action.
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Byron ‘Price Washington
Hoover
Sal
Republican Party
Hoover Farm
Jamie
Farm Board
Sey
End of long Republican tax bill moves toward Hoover
After three hours of debate the bill clears both houses with the Senate approving 44 to 42 and heads to President Hoover for signature or veto. If signed rates take effect the next day amid Republican leaders predicting approval.
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Washington
House
Sesling
Brancnes
Senate
Hoover
Congress
Communists Raid Two Hupeh Cities Amid Looting
Communist forces estimated at around 2,000 men raided Tayeh and Hwangéith kang in Hupeh, capturing and looting, causing foreigners including many Japanese to flee. A Japanese cruiser moved up the Yangtse to Hwang shihkang, taking aboard numerous Japanese nationals and other foreigners including three American missionaries.
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Shanghai
Tayeh
Hwangéithkang
Hankow
Hupeh
Yangtse
Hwangshihkang
Million Dollar Brewery Burns In Chicago Fire
A $100,000 brewery used by beer barons Terry Bruggan and Frankie Lake was destroyed by fire in Chicago early today. The five story brick plant occupied a full city block and started on the second level from an undetermined cause.
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Chicago
Terry Bruggan
Frankie Lake
Tonopah Mining Firm Cuts Labor Wages to 5.25 a Day
The Tonopah Extension Company announced a wage cut effective June 16, reducing all mine labor pay by 50 cents. The basic rate will be 5.25 dollars per day for miners, a scale set in 1922 when silver sold for about one dollar an ounce.
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Tonopah, Nev
Tonopah Extension Company
Missing Jewelry Salesman Reported Found in Los Angeles
A Gallup dispatch said Sheriff Bob Roberts received a call from Los Angeles detectives claiming Lowell Fox, a Zuni jeweler missing near Salt Lake City for two weeks, had been found there. Los Angeles police denied the claim and said no officer involved had knowledge of Fox’s location.
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Gallup
N.mex
Bob Roberts
McKinley County
Los Angeles
Lowell Pex
Zuni
N. Mex
Salt Lake City
Joe Taylor
Lowell Fox
Fox
Rivers and Harbors Bill Advances in Congress
The rivers and harbors bill, approved by the House with at least 122 million dollars in appropriations, faces Senate action Monday. Opponents threaten a filibuster over a clause permitting federal operation of the Illinois State Waterway, raising a possible revisiting of Lake Michigan water diversion via the Chicago drainage canal.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Lake Michigan
Chicago Drainage Canal
Women’s Federation Names Phoenix for Spring Meeting
The general federation of Women’s Clubs announced Phoenix, Arizona as the site for its 1931 spring meeting. Date for the council session will be set at a later post convention executive committee meeting in Denver.
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Women’s Federation
Phoenix
Denver
General Council of
General ‘Federation of Women’s Clubs
Ariz
Ex-Convict King Faces Death for Mrs McCoy Slaying
Clarence L. King, an ex convict, was found guilty of first degree murder in the slaying of Minnie McCoy on the Redwood highway last February. The verdict required the death sentence, with Judge Falk to pronounce it Tuesday. King's wife Eunice Pardee of Corvallis wept in court after the verdict.
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Eureka
Cal
Clarence L. King
San Quentin
Minnie McCoy
Redwood Highway
King
Harry
Falk
Eunice- Pardee
Corvallis
Ore
Daniels to wed Lyon in Hollywood hotel ceremony
Actress Bebe Daniels and actor Ben Lyon will marry at 8 30 tonight in a Hollywood hotel. Intimate friends and notable film figures will attend the ceremony, witnesses among the couple's closest circle in Los Angeles.
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Bebe Daniels
Ben Lyon
Los Angeles
Screen Players
Hollywood
Reappointed Minnie Benson to State Nurse Examiners Board
Announcement from Phoenix offices states Minnie Benson of Tucson is reappointed as a member of the State Board of Nurse Examiners for a five year term, announced by Governor John C. Phillips.
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Phoenix. Ariz
Minnie Benson
Tucson
State Board of Nurse Examiners
John C. Phillips
Missing Jewel Ty salesman resurfaces in Gallup
Lowell Fox reappeared in Gallup around noon today, ending his disappearance from June 4 near Salt Lake City Utah. Maria Vasquez, 20, was shot by her husband Diallo Vasquez 26 in Miame Arizona today, later wounding himself. Hospital staff say Vasquez faces poor recovery prospects for the chest wound while Maria has potential fatal injuries.
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Gallup
N. M
Lowell Fox
Salt Lake City
Utah
Miame
Ariz
Maria Vasquez
Diallo Vasquez
Arizona Highway Budget Hearings Set for Next Monday
M. C. Hawkins, secretary of the Arizona Highway Commission, announced public hearings and final adoption of the 1930 1931 highway budget are scheduled for next Monday in Phoenix.
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Phoenix
Ariz
M. C. Hawkins
Arizona Highway Commission
Romanian King Carol Divorce Annullment Declared
Bucharest dispatch reports the Romanian Holy Synod annulled the divorce decree of King Carol and Queen Helen, restoring their royal status and marital legitimacy.
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Vienna
Bucharest
Holy Synod
Carol
Helen
Probe urged into Chicago police after Lingle slaying
Chicago officials and allies pressed for a full investigation of the police department following the Alfred Lingle murder. Alderman Arthur Albert announced six council members pledged support to press Mayor Thompson to remove Police Commissioner Russell and Chief Detective Stege for 60 days as scrutiny intensified.
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Arthur Albert
William Hale Thompson
William “Russell
John Stege
Jedst
Baltimore Fire Claims Swift Brother in Plant Blaze
Charles Swift, one of three Swift brothers who ran M. J. Swift and Company burlap bag makers, died in a blaze at the Wayside and Thomson streets plant in East Baltimore. The crippled worker was trapped on the third floor as interior walls burned.
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Baltimore
June Li
Charles Swift
M. J. Swift ,and Company
Wayside
Thomson Streets
Swift
Sepoy Troops Rushed to Bombay on Special Train
A battalion of Mahratta Sepoy troops was dispatched to Bombay on a special train with another sixty-car train to follow. The move aims to intensify protection and surveillance around nationalist activities in the city amid urgent military needs.
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Poona
Bombay
India
Phoenix Girl Wins State Prose Award
Margaret Farra of Phoenix won the first annual statewide prose contest sponsored by the University of Arizona literary magazine. Her paper was titled P. T. A. and the announcement came from Tucson on June 14.
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Tucson
Ariz
Margaret Farra
Phoenix
University of Arizona Literary Magazine
Postmaster Appointed for Clemenceau Arizona
Edward L. Gay was named postmaster at Clemenceau Arizona in a phoenix post office announcement dated June 13. The appointment was officially announced by the Phoenix post office.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Phoenix
Edward L. Gay
Clemenceau
Arizona
Stock Market Sways After Hawley Smoot Passage
New York traders priced in the Senate tariff bill yesterday with a bearish bias as stocks fell across the board. The two hour session saw only modest turnover about 1 million shares amid broad declines with several copper issues and major names slipping to new yearly lows. International Telephone and various rails dropped sharply while U S Steel General Electric and Bethlehem Steel also faced sizable losses.
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New York
Senate
Angeenda
Convicts to be moved to Fort Huachuca in Arizona
Sanford Bates federal prisons chief after a meeting with George A. Mauk U S marshal for Arizona announced 100 short term federal prisoners in Arizona county jails will be transferred to Fort Huachuca Arizona to relieve jail congestion. The war department approved the plan and prisoners will repair roads under civilian guards.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Sanford Bates
Federal Superintendent of Prisons
George A. Mauk
U. S
Arizona
Fort Hauchuca
Bates
War Department
Grain Prices Fall as Strong Weather Sparks Selloff
In Chicago on June 14, prices for wheat, corn, oats and rye fell to new seasonal lows as favorable weather in the grain states spurred heavy selling. July wheat dropped below the one dollar mark for the first time this year.
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Chicago
Dismiss Padlock Proceedings For Capone Mansion
Miami Beach residence of Capone found not a nuisance as state fails to prove allegations in bill of complaint. Circuit Judge Paul D. Barns dismissed padlock proceedings in circuit court in Miami Florida.
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Miami, Fla
Miami Beach
Scarface al Capone
Paul D. Barns
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Jake” Lingle
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Jake) Lingle
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