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RECORD ATTEMPT FAILS. [United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] ; (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 1. At Daytona Beach, Kaye Don made three round trips of the nine mile course, attaining a~, top speed of 186.046 miles per hour for a record mile, on one run. which is the best official time he has ma<,l,e ;so far, but it is some forty-rive miles per,hour short of Segraye’s . record, ilie engine . 'behaved ■ poorly. , He lames to run again to-morrow. SHOOTING TRAGEDY. (Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) ' Vancouver. April 1. The town of Yazo, a city with a population of. 5000, in the State of Mississippi, yeas the scene of a curious tragedy,, when Mayor Strickland killed Frank Birdsall, editor of the local paper. Birdsall had been campaigning against Strickland’s administration, and the Mayor, becoming furiously drunk, 1 invaded the newspaper office,' and fired three shots into the editor’s body and then went to his son’s undertaking parlours, where standing alongside , a coffin, he had previously picked, committed suicide.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1930, Page 5
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