Violinist Held After Girl's Death in Asheville
Sheriff Brown disclosed four more suspects join Mark Wollner in disputing his alibi for Thursday night when Helen Clevenger was killed at the Battery Park Hotel. Wollner and his fiancée Mildred Ward faced questions as witnesses gave sightings on city streets and at a boarding house.
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Asheville
N. C
Lawrence Brown
Mark Wollner
Helen Clevenger
New York
Battery Park Hotel
Town Hall
Brown
Mildred Ward
Woliner
Miss Clevenger
Daniel Gaddy
Gaddy
Sheriff Brown
Miss Ward
Wollner
Charles English
Youth Shot for Leaving Home
Carl Conine a 20 year old farm youth was shot in the left lung and hospitalized after saying he would leave home. His mother Mrs Bessie Conine was jailed on a malfeasance charge after allegedly firing the pistol as he packed to depart with Margaret Oren 20 near Gilboa.
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Ottawa
U.P
Carl Conine
Here
Lima
Bessie Conine
Putnam County
Clinton L. Felkey
Carr
Lawrence Oren
Gilboa
Margaret Oren
Oren
Inquest to be held after fatal farm truck crash
CAPAC Michigan reports an inquest will be held today into the death of five people killed Saturday midnight when a farm truck collided with a Grand Trunk passenger locomotive at a grade crossing. Deceased are George Kristoff aged 35. Charles Kile aged 5. Mrs Mabel Hendrickson 48. Beatrice 13. Charles 10.
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CAPAC
Mich
U.R
Grand Trunk
George Kristoff
Farmer
Charles Kile
Mabel Hendrickson
Beatrice
Charles
Trial date set for Dorothy Sherwood in infant death case
Newburgh New York officials announce a new trial date for Mrs. Dorothy Sherwood who was formerly sentenced to death for drowning her infant son. The proceeding is scheduled for September 16 with court officials and the defense expected to present new evidence and arguments.
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Newburgh
N. Y
U.P
Dorothy Sherwood
Cronin Family Matriarch Dies in San Francisco
Mrs. Benjamin Cronin aged 55 mother of Joe Cronin manager of the Boston Red Sox died at her home in San Francisco from pneumonia.
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San Francisco
Benjamin Cronin
Joe Cronin
Boston Red Sox
Murder Probe After Slaying of Helen Clevenger
Police grilled a 27 year old hotel bellboy, a hotel employee, in connection with the stabbing and shooting death of 19 year old Helen Clevenger an NYU honor student on a university tour with her Raleigh professor uncle in Asheville North Carolina.
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Helen Clevenger
New York University
Asheville
N. C
Raleigh College
Court Hears Girl Story In Kovases Case Near Martins Ferry
In a preliminary hearing probate officials estimated the Kovases were worth 25 000 dollars. Katherine, 13, became a ward after taking 25 dollars from a 600 dollar family stash to buy slack pants and a perm. She said her mother knocked her unconscious with a frying pan and shaved her head to shame her. The girl claimed she was forced to hard farm work while seven siblings received lighter tasks.
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ST. Clairsville
U.P
Gus Kovas
Martins Ferry
Kovases
Katherine
Albright
Convict Trapped in Hospital Gun Battle Fatally Shot
William Keane 28, a former convict, was killed in Ly ing-in Hospital nurses home after a 30 minute gun battle with ten patrol car squads. He was cornered beneath a bed in Nurse Gertrude Arnold s room and shot as he reached for a revolver. Nurses summoned police when they saw a man on the back porch.
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Chicago
U.P
William Keane
Keane
Gertrude Arnold
Frank Rothman
Conservation groups in Ohio to pick delegates Monday
Conservation groups in 88 counties will meet Monday July 27 to select delegates for a state wide conservation meeting in Columbus, announced by the State Conservation Department.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
State Conservation Department
Paramount sues Goldwyn over Gary Cooper dispute
Adolph Zukor, head of Paramount Pictures, filed a 5 million dollar damage suit against Samuel Goldwyn claiming he lured star Gary Cooper away from Paramount. The action highlights tensions in the Hollywood studio system as top talent changes hands.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Adolph Zukor
Paramount Studio
Samuel Goldwyn Today
Paramount
Gary Cooper
Mother of Two Shoots Self in Mansfield Farm Home
Eva Osborne age 21 mother of two children including a 10 day old infant shot herself at her Mansfield farm home Sunday. Coroner L C High said she had been suffering from melancholia.
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Mansfield
U.P
Eva Osborne
Here
L. C. High
Honeymoon Hurdle For Violet Hilton and James Moore
Violet Hilton the Siamese twin and dancer James Moore wed in the Cotton Bowl at the Texas Centennial Exposition. Daisy Hilton Moore joins the couple as sister support, with a two week honeymoon planned but blocked by show bookings. The ceremony drew about five thousand spectators.
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Dallas
Tex
U.P
Violet Hilton
James Moore
Daisy
Violet
Moore
Mrs. Moore
Henry May
Brighton
England
Drought Lingers as Five Southern States Still Struck By Heat
The heat wave and drought relief shifted to five southern states Arkansas Oklahoma Southern Missouri Southern Kansas and Northern Texas where temperatures were forecast to hold. Thunderstorms soaked parched soil across most affected areas though full drought relief requires soaking rains. Severe wind and rain battered Iowa Missouri and Nebraska causing property and crop damage in several cities.
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Chicago
Canada
Alaska
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Tony
Iowa
Nebraska
Des Moines
Council Bluffs
Missouri Valley
Shenandooah
Omaha
Neb
Kansas City
Lawrence
Topeka
Kan
Relief Bill Is Being Shaped In Ohio
Columbus U P reports the legislature will reconvene to pass the amended permanent relief bill from a conference committee. Rural counties win a guaranteed share, and counties exceeding the formula must match excess funds locally. If acceptable to both houses, the special session may adjourn sine die tonight.
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Columbus
U.P
House
Senate
Argentine dancer La Argentina dies in Bayonne villa
Bayonne France renowned dancer La Argentina died at her villa on Saturday night from a heart attack. Her fame stretched across Europe and the Americas.
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Bayonne
France
U.P
la Argentina
Europe
North
South America
Rydz-Smigly Named Poland's Principal Leader
No 2 man Gen Edward Rydz Smigly, inheriting Marshal Pilsudski's military power after his 1935 death, has also assumed the late marshal's political role. A new proclamation designates Rydz Smigly as the nation's first citizen beside President Ignaz Moscicki.
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Edward Rydz-Smigly
Marshal Pilsudski
Marshal
Poland
Rydz-Smigly
Ignaz Moscicki
U. S. Newsman Wounded in Southern Spain Revolt
Jay Allen of Oregon a Chicago Daily News correspondent was wounded when bullets hit a motor car carrying American and British reporters traveling toward Gibraltar in southern Spain. His friends were advised of the injury.
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Paris
U.P
Jay Allen
Oregon
Chicago Daily News
Spain
Gibraltar
Allen
Americans in Madrid urged to seek refuge at embassy
The U S embassy in Madrid asked all Americans to take refuge within the embassy if they choose to do so, as tensions rise around the city.
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Madrid
United States
DARP Plan Secures Pact To Back Lemke In 1944 Campaign
In Cleveland and at a Townsend convention, leaders of three minority movements endorse William Lemke for president and aim to block major candidates from an electoral majority. Lemke gains cross support from Father Coughlin and Rev Gerald Smith. Huey Long is praised to rally Townsend followers.
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Cleveland
U.P
Roosevelt
Townsend Old Age Pension Clubs
William Lemke
New Union Party
Alf M. Landon
New Deal
House of Representatives
Gomer Smith
Townsend Movement
New York
James A. Farley
National Democratic
Lemke
Father Coughlin
National Union
Townsend
Huey P. Long
Landon Prepares for Historic Nomination Acceptance
Governor Alf M. Landon observes Topeka's rush to host his Republican nomination acceptance set for Thursday evening. He revises his speech likely for the last time as banners, a 300 Indian parade, 79 bands, 15 prairie schooners, elephants and a Lincoln carriage fill the city. Peggy Anne Landon and Mrs. Landon arrive from Estes Park as the celebration includes an Indian dance and barbecue at 8 P.M.
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Topeka
Kans
U.P
Alf M. Landon
Abraham Lincoln
Landon
Rubber Union Bans Unauthorized Strikes
The United Rubber Workers Local Union approved a resolution condemning unauthorized sit down strikes at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plants in Akron. Members ignoring the rules face summary action, understood to mean expulsion from the union.
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Akron
U.P
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
United Rubber Workers Local Union
Champion Peeker of 1935 Opens New Crusade Against Nudists
Will Searles a Washington Township farmer constable restates his 1935 effort to shame nudists by peeping over camp fences inviting friends to peep He blames nudists for a car accident and vows to arrest offenders as he plans a stadium and Sunday clam bake along his fence for 1936 continuing the campaign against nudists in Long Valley New Jersey.
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New Jersey
Long Valley
WN. J
U.P
Will Searles
Washington Township
Searle
Searles
Will Searles, Jr
CIO Planning Drive in Rayon Mills Sparks Labor Split
Industrial unionists of the CIO allied United Textile Workers outline an August 1 organizing drive in the rayon industry. The move follows a two day conference led by John L. Lewis amid ongoing conflict with the AFL and its rebel unions. The CIO plans come as 60,000 timber workers in the northwest threaten to leave the Carpenters union and join CIO ranks.
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Washington
U.P
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
United Textile Workers of America
CIO
John L. Lewis
Industrial Organization
A. F. of L
Lewis
A. F. of L. Executive Council
Northwest
Timberlands
Carpenter's Union
William Hutcheson
Revise Military Clause From Postwar Treaty
Istanbul reports a national holiday as Turkish regiments move into the Dardanelles signaling remilitarization of the Black Sea gateway. Rearmament along the Dardanelles and Bosphorus was formally approved Saturday in Geneva at a signatories meeting revising the Lausanne postwar treaty clause.
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Istanbul
Turkey
U.P
Dardanelles
Black Sea
Bosphorus
Montreux
Switzerland
Seven Die In Ohio Weekend Accidents
At least seven persons died in Ohio accidents over the week end. John Bregger, 6, Marshfield Oregon, a Townsend Convention delegate in Cleveland, was struck by a hit and run driver. Delphon Cox, 17, a farm youth, was electrocuted near Manchester while fishing with his father as a high voltage wire looped a boat. Police pursued a license number from witnesses in Elyria.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
John Bregger
Marshfield
Ore
Cleveland
Elyria
Delphon Cox
Manchester
Three Ambulances Respond To Shared Auto Wreck
A police radio car and an ambulance were dispatched to a Sunday night motor car accident in New York. They met en route and another ambulance carried the two-man crew to a hospital. A second police squad arrested the ambulance driver for careless driving. A third ambulance and car reached the wreck where no injuries were reported.
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New York
Government Says Madrid Riot Suppressed By Rebels Retain Control
The government claims the uprising in Madrid is ended while rebels hold the city. Reports from Algeciras and Cadiz mention casualties among workers and rebel troops. Refugees describe executions in Spanish Morocco as Franco warns factions to unite. Frontier areas brace for further action as naval forces target rebel strongholds.
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Algeciras
Tangier
Spanish Morocco
Spain teeters as rebels clash with government forces
In a day of intense confrontations Spain sees fighting on land sea and air between right and left wing factions. Rebel troops aided by Fascists seize cities while the government reports a Madrid revolt suppressed. Gibraltar reports rebel threats to bombard Madrid within two hours if it does not surrender.
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Madrid
Spain
Gibraltar
Seville
Aede Ee Ebee Lee
Cervates
Cadiz
Malaga
Melilla
Ceuta
Morocco
Jose Giral Pereira
Asturias
Radio Madrid
Radio Seveille
Manuel Azana
Count of Covadonga says revolt aims to cleanse republic
Alfonso, the Count of Covadonga and heir to the former Spanish throne, defended the revolt in Spain as a purge of terroristic elements not a bid to restore the monarchy. He blamed radical leftist policies for the uprising and said he left the throne to marry a Cuban commoner and to earn a living in exile.
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New York
Spain
Republic
Alfonso
Covadonga
President Roosevelts Fishing Trip Off Shelburne
President Roosevelt sails aboard the schooner Liberty with the Roosevelt party seeking tuna haddock pollock and cod reported plentiful outside Shelburne harbor during a weekend fishing excursion.
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Liberty
Roosevelt
Shelburne
Liberty League Attacks New Deal Tax Program
The Liberty League denounces the 1935 and 1936 revenue laws as aligning with the New Deal and European dictatorships. A league pamphlet claims the tax program enables economic planning and government control of industry, beyond raising revenue.
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Washington
U.P
Liberty League
League
Confesses Murder To Save His Companion
An 18 year old Dayton youth in jail on an automobile theft charge confessed to a murder. He says he killed David O. Lesiie during a May 27 grocery store hold up. Charles W. Smithson, also 18, was convicted of the crime by a Montgomery County jury.
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Dayton
Unknown Woman Sought in Scarlet Sin Case
Erie police hunted an unknown woman tied to the murder case of Samuel C. Weed a 40 year old Sunday School worker. Weed confessed to killing his wife and two children in Wesleyville where he did most of his Sunday School work and recently acted as pastor. He said a scarlet sin compelled him to surrender.
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Erie
U.P
Samuel C. Weed
Wesleyville
Weed
Nazarene Church
New Corn By-Product Dyna Explodes as Election Year Mood
Prof Edo ward Bartow of Iowa University announces a cornstarch by-product forms a new super-dynamite. He notes traces exist in the human body, possibly explaining rising tempers this election year. Daily solace comes from Messenger classified ads offering business emolients.
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Edoward Bartow
Iowa University
Messenger
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