Gusher Near Oklahoma City Roars as Guards Contain Zone
The number 1 C. E. Stout oil well at Oklahoma City's wholesale district roared and vented fumes despite efforts by master workmen and 500 National Guardsmen. Firemen and authorities patrolled a shrinking danger zone as residents fled fumes, with many Black neighbors among those displaced. The scene drew radio coverage and continued through the night with hopes to reconnect lines and reduce danger.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
C. E. Stout Oil Weil
Death Toll From Halloween Festivities Rises
Boston reports three fatalities linked to Halloween celebrations. Irene Levesque, 12, died after her dress caught in a jack o lantern draft flow. Lena Paquette, 40, died aiding a child with burns. In Vermont, Sidney Peckham, 13, was fatally shot by his brother Ellsworth, 16, during a playful gun incident. Denver sees three young children orphaned as Forest Schaefer dies from a gunshot wound related to a party.
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Boston
Hallowe’en
New England
Fallriver
Irene Levesque
Lena Paquette
Westford
Sidney
Peckham
Ellsworth
Denver
Colo
Forest Schaefer
Europe Feels Earth Tremors Across Regions
An AP report notes eighteen shocks in FIASTRA Italy near Macerata with panic but no injuries or damage. Copenhagen and Putbus also report minor tremors with no damage from early hours.
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Europe
Fiastra
Italy
Macerata
Copenhagen
Putbus
Germany
Ruegin
Millionaire Hidalgo Sheriff A Y Baker Dies in Texas
Edinburg reports the death of A Y Baker longtime Hidalgo county sheriff founder of the Rio Grande political scene. A former Texas Ranger who built a fortune he was known as Hidalgo county's millionaire sheriff.
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Herbert M. Campbell
Oak Crest
Mary Baker
Navy Department
Washington
Edinburg
Texas
A. Y. Baker
Hidalgo County
Rio Grande Valley
Baker
Apples Help Solve Problem Of Jobless
Smiling red apples were displayed in crates by jobless men at mid town corners in New York. Placards read Unemployed Buy an apple. Prices were a nickel as apples went to work to help end unemployment in the city.
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New York
British Aviatrix Begins Leisure Air Trip to Hollywood
Mrs A Spencer Cleaver, noted British aviatrix, starts a leisurely flight from Indianapolis to Hollywood with a stop in St. Louis after arriving from Cleveland.
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Indianapolis
A. Spencer Cleaver
Hollywood
Cal
St. Louis
Cleveland
King of Kings to Be Crowned Early Sunday
Ras Tafari will be crowned king of kings with the Queen of Queens in Addis Ababa as hundreds of thousands of tribesmen gather around the capital. The vast, tented city outside the 6,000 year old empire’s seat marks a historic procession for Abyssinia.
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Ras Taffari
Abyssinia
Addis Ababa
Addis Aba
Africa
Ras Tafari
Solomon
Sheba
Ras Tatari
DO-X Set for Transatlantic Start From Lake Constance
The Dornier DO-X, the world’s largest airplane, prepared in Altenrhein Switzerland for a dawn departure tomorrow on the first leg to New York. It carries over 100 passengers and 20,000 liters of fuel, with twelve engines delivering 7,200 horsepower for an expected 18 hours. Weather permitting, the plane will lift off from Lake Constance at 8 a.m. for Amsterdam.
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Altenrhein
Switzerland
New York
Lake Constance
Amsterdam
Dog exposes stash from Leipsic bank theft
Shelbyville, KY AP reports a hunter and his dog uncovered a stash from a Leipsic bank robbery. George Bryant found five steel deposit boxes under a culvert containing about $3,200 in bonds and valuable papers, after the dog barked.
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Shelbyville
Leipsic Bank
Leipsic
Ind
George Bryant
Here
Bryant
Bar Silver news in New York market brief
Bar Silver opens in New York with a price at 36 1-8 as trading starts, signaling early market activity. The snippet notes a fixed price point and market tone for the metal on this day.
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New York
Leaders Rally as Campaign Nears Final Curtain
Campaign leaders urge Americans to vote as the nation heads toward Tuesday's general election for a new Congress and 30 state governors. Senator James Watson warned of chaos under a Democratic Congress while former Senator James Reed criticized Republican farm policy.
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Associated Press
Congress
James EB. Watson
Indiana
Senate
James A. Reed
Missouri
Hyde
World War Vet James Reidhead Dies by Own Action
Funeral services will be held for James Reidhead 36 of Holbrook at 2:30 PM tomorrow. He died yesterday at his father’s ranch near Heber from a shotgun self-inflicted wound, amid illness and despondency. A World War veteran and Holbrook American Legion member, his body was moved to Winslow by undertaker C. A. Robbins.
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Daily Mail
Holbrook
James Reidhead
Heber
Reidhead
Holbrook Post
American Legion
Legionnaires
Trains Collide Head-on Injuring Three Men
Two heavily loaded freight trains collided head-on on the Indiana harbor belt line, injuring three men and wrecking 25 cars. Traffic stopped six hours as crews cleared debris and blamed a dispatcher for conflicting signals on the same track.
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Chicago
Indiana Harbor Belt Line
Wabash
Ilinois
Boynton Starts Transcontinental Flight from Winslow
Stanley Boynton of Lexington Massachusetts begins a junior transcontinental flight from Winslow at 11 55 a m MST heading to Los Angeles with planned fuel stop at Kingman. He spent the night for repairs before continuing to the coast.
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Stanley Boynton
Lexington
Mass
Winslow
Los Angeles
Kingman
Coast City
Phillips Offers Highway Post to Gustav Becker
Reports reach Winslow that Governor John C. Phillips offered to appoint Gustav Becker to the Arizona Highway Commission if re elected in 1931. Becker denies the claim in a Holbrook Tribune letter, while a northern Arizona official cites a Springerville pioneer confirming the offer. The rumor suggests a political move to favor the Globe Springerville route over U.S. Highway 66.
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Phillips
Gustav Becker
Springerville
Winslow
John C. Phillips
Becker
Arizona Highway Commission
Arizona
Ter
Holbrook Tribune
Daily Mail
Eagar
Highway Commission
Globe-Springerville
U. S. Highway 66
Government Building Work to Create Jobs for Thousands
The War Department seeks $3,074,721 to speed army post construction and relieve unemployment. Hoover Dam prep work is urged, interior says bids for dam construction will come soon. Procter & Gamble plans year round work for 10,000 in eight North American plants. Local labor to be used at unreduced wages this winter, with nearly $1 billion in current or planned federal expenditures.
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Washington
War Department
Arthur Woods
Col. Woods
Procter & Gamble
United States
Canada
Interior Department
Hoover Dam
Treasury
Congress
Herbert Hoover Jr Reaches Asheville for Recuperation
Herbert Hoover Jr arrived in Asheville at 8 10 a m today to recover from a tubercular infection. Accompanied by his physician he alighted at Azalea station and traveled by car to Blue Briar cottage on Sunset Hill where his wife awaited him. His mother did not accompany him.
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Asheville
N. C
Herbert Hoover, Jr
Azalea
Sunset Hill
Young Hoover
Vargas Greeted by Rio De Janeiro in Coup Leader Return
Dr Getulio Vargas, greeted like a conqueror on his arrival in Rio de Janeiro, held talks with political and military chiefs and was understood to take charge as provisional president on Monday.
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Dr. Vargas
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Getulio Vargas
Hoover Opens Detroit Windsor Tunnel in $25 Million Project
President Hoover pressed the ceremonial button at 11 45 a m today signaling the opening of the Detroit Windsor international tunnel a $25 000 000 project linking Michigan and Ontario officials declared the tunnel will ease traffic and promote trade between the United States and Canada.
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Washington
Hoover
Detroit-Windsor International Tunnel
Eight Men and Child Shot Down by Thief in Philippines
In Lucena Tayabas Province on November 1, eight men and a child were killed when two assailants interrupted during a theft. One suspect was captured and jailed, the other remained at large as authorities pursued him.
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Lucena
Tayabas Province
Philippines
Giovanna Receives Hilarious Welcome In Sofia
In Sofia Bulgaria on November 1 AP reports Queen Ioanna greeted by a joyful crowd celebrating her marriage to King Boris. Children and students cheered and flung flowers while bands played, one bouquet striking the queen in the face as she endured with royal poise.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Ioanna
Italy
Boris
Fines Brought Under Control After 8 Days
Brush fires in Ventura and Los Angeles counties were largely contained after eight days of firefighting. Winds shifted, aiding containment in the Simi Hills, where about 20 square miles burned and crews reduced to a few hundred. Malibu mountains also saw relief as fire activity eased and manpower was reassigned.
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Los Angeles
Ventura
Dame
Nature
Simi Hills
Grimes Canyon
Malibu Mountains
Arizona Leads Nation in Predator Animal Control
Arizona leads the nation in predatory animal work, says Stanley E. Young, biologist for the state. He notes cooperative efforts with the U S Biological Survey and other agencies, aiming to control pests without exterminating species. Sulphur Springs valley near Willcox cited as a success story where prairie dogs dropped from 5,000,000 a decade ago to extinction in the area.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
Stanley E. Young
U. S. Biological Survey Bureau
Young
Sulphur Springs Valley
Willcox
Biological Survey Service
Italian Children Return To Area Of Rebuilt Homes
Five hundred children left Rome for northeastern Italy to return to the area hit by the July 23 quake. The orphans and others will move into new government funded homes designed to withstand future shocks and ensure safer living conditions.
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Rome
Italy
Raskob denies short selling linked to stock crash poster
Itaskob of the Democratic National Committee calls a Republican campaign poster libelous for implying he sold short in the market. He states he did not sell short any stock or commodity and warns newspapers to hold responsible any publishing the claim. He frames the charge as an attack on his business integrity.
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Washington
Itaskob
Democratic National Committee
Raskob
Democratic
Ruaskob
Hoover
Mayor Thompson's Condition Is Good After Appendectomy
Chicago reports Mayor William Hal Thompson underwent an appendectomy yesterday. This morning doctors said his condition is favorable as he rests, waking at 9 a.m. after an 11 hour sleep, and he is described as comfortable and in a jovial mood though readers are not allowed to read to him.
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Chicago
Willam Hal
Thompson
Prince of Wales May Take Brother on South America Tour
The Prince of Wales may bring his youngest brother Prince George on his upcoming South America tour as both study Spanish in preparation for the trip.
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George London
Prince of Wales
Prince George
South America
Twelve year old saves sister in Halloween fire tragedy
Billie Royal, 12, heroically battled flames with her bare hands to save her five year old sister Fay Royal when a candlelit jack o lantern touched off a fire. Fay died hours later. Billie and Fay were treated for severe burns at a Los Angeles hospital.
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Los
Angeles
iNov
Billie Royal
Hallowe’en
Merrymaker
Fay’ Royal
Billie
Fay
Halloween night assault ends in two deaths in Atlanta
In Atlanta on November 1, Ivey Allen dressed in women's clothing led Willie Moseley and Horace Allen, both Black men, home during a Halloween parade. Terrified by the scene, Allen used a public safety item to fatally injure the men before surrendering to police.
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Atlanta
Ivey Allen
Willie Moseley
Horace Alen
Wooten accused in Oklahoma wife shooting death
In Sand Springs near Tulsa Ray Edward Wooten 20 fired a pistol into the air to frighten pranksters, then turned on his 18 year old wife and shot her near the heart. She died later and Wooten was held in the county jail.
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Tulsa
Okla
Hallowe’en
Sand
Springs
Ray Edward Wooten
Wooten
Bronx family dies from coal gas fumes in apartment
AP report from New York states a family of five perished from coal gas fumes in their Melrose Avenue apartment in the Bronx. In Pasadena, J E Wood a traveling salesman aged 35 and his wife Mildred 33 were found dead of shotgun wounds in their North Allen home. Police say Wood had been without income for five months and killed his wife before suicide.
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New York
Melrose Avenue
Bronx
Pasadena
Cal
J. E. Wood
Mildred
North Allen
Wood
Prison Warden Praises Boy Scouts in Campaign Speech
Lorenzo Wright warden of the state penitentiary in Phoenix paid a high tribute to Boy Scouts of America in a scout campaign speech. In twenty years in law enforcement he said he never jailed a man who had been a scout in his youth.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Boy Scouts of America
Lorenzo Wright
State Penitentiary
Wright
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