Lindbergh Admires Dispute Ends With Knockdown Blow
A process server rushing to hand a document to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh as he and Mrs. Lindbergh prepared for an Orient flight was knocked down by a Lindbergh admirer. The attack occurred as a mechanic tackled the assailant. the server escaped, later quoting his claim that he served the summons. The Herald Tribune notes clipping service history and rising bureau charges.
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New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
The
Herald Tribune
Walter Hyams and Company
Lin
Huntington Discharges Police Amid Administration Change
Old civil service board discharged former Mayor J B Taylor and ex Commissioner E V Perry from police posts. Perry and Taylor had earlier arranged mutual appointments with no salaries while holding other offices. New board members and city officials debated legality as reassignments and terminations raised questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W.a
Civil Service Board
J. B. Taylor
E. V. Perry
Perry
Alex Garred
Taylor
Police Department
H. L. Ducker
Citizens Board
New Citizens Board
Sisler
Cecil Williams
R. C. Smith
Abe Forsythe
W. T. Bardin
Autogiro Flight Bridges Navy Leaders To Rapidan Camp
Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams and David Ingalls flew by autogiro from Anacostia to President Hoover’s Rapidan camp. Ingalls adjusts Adams’s parachute before takeoff in the wind mill plane as they discuss economy measures in navy affairs at the conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Francis Adams
David Ingalls
Filipino servant admits slaying Brooklyn doctor during robbery
In New York a Filipino houseboy, George Damiar, described how he entered the Deely mansion with a stolen key, stabbed Dr. George Edward Deely to death after the physician woke, tied a wire around the neck, and fled with the pocketbook and $54. He was captured in Philadelphia and indicted for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
George Edward Deely
Brooklyn
Deely
Philadelphia
George Damiar
Lowther Tells of Firing Fatal Shot in Murder Trial
Maude Lowther 23 testifies in Jefferson Ohio that she shot Mrs. Clara Smith 28 at the urging of her paramour Tilby Smith 27 who awaits execution in Ohio. She traces a ten day romance ending near Ashtabula May 29 1930 and recalls her life from Clarksburg West Virginia born December 1907. She describes marriages to Earl Frush and A L Lowther and a first marriage annulment.
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Jefferson, O
Maude Lowther
West Virginia
Clara Smith
Tilby Smith
Smith
Ohio
Astabula
Clarksburg
W. Va
Earl Frush
Frush
A. L. Lowther
Grandstand Collapse Injures Dozens at Gary Park Pageant
A grandstand collapse at Marquette park during Gary's twenty fifth anniversary pageant injures more than forty people. About 25 000 spectators were present as a 500 seat section fell, trapping and delaying emergency response. Thirteen were hospitalized with serious injuries. most others treated for minor bruises.
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Gary
Ind
Marquette Park
115Th Engineers’ Corps
Park
Miller
Mother Rescues Child From River After Crash
Mrs. Avery Cruse of Faraday Virginia is hospitalized in Bluefield after an auto wreck eight miles from Grundy. She saved her ten month old son Charlie Hugh Crouse from the Dismal River and then aided her husband, who was trapped under the overturned car.
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Avery Cruse
Faraday
Grundy
Bluefield Sanitarium
Bluefield
Mrs. Crouse
Identifies Body Cast Up on Beach
New York June 8 Stanley E Faithful of New York and Boston identifies as his daughter Starr Faithful 25 whose body was found on Long Beach Long Island. Nassau police believe the victim was slain but cannot state a motive autopsy shows ruptured liver and bruises on the arm and breast. The Faithful family is socially prominent Starr had just returned from Europe and was reported missing two hours before the discovery by a beach comber. The father said he knew of no reason for her leaving home and requested a secret search before broadcasting her disappearance.
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New York
Stanley E. Faithful
Boston
Starr
Long Beach
Long Island
Nassau County
Mineola
Faithful
Europe
Heat Wave Spreads Across the Prairies
The heat wave that swept the prairies over the weekend reached 103 degrees in Saskatchewan and damaged parched farms. Showers were reported in isolated areas as clouds overcast many districts, with southern and central Saskatchewan and Alberta needing soaking rains for relief.
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Winnipeg
Prairies
Saskatchewan
Sassekachewan
Alberta
Mexican Embassy Reports Ardmore Student Shootings
The Mexican embassy asked the U S State Department to investigate the fatal Ardmore Oklahoma shooting of two Mexican students. Embassy officials stated the move was to obtain full information for transmission to Mexico City and not a protest.
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Washington
State Department
Ardmore
Oklahoma
Mexico City
Oklahoma deputy sheriffs to be charged in Ardmore killings
Ardmore officials reveal County Attorney Marvin Shilling will file murder charges tomorrow against Bill Guess and Cecil Crosby for the fatal shooting of two Mexican students near a United States college. Salvador Cortes Rubio, Emilio Cortes Rubio, and Manuel Gomez were involved. one other student survived. Governor Murray orders a thorough investigation and warns officers need warrants for arrests.
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Ardmore
Okla
Marvin Shilline
Bill Guess
Cecil Crosby
United States College
Ortiz Rubio
Mexico
Emilio Cortes Rubio
Manuel Gomez
Carter County
Guess
Salvador Cortes Rubio 24
Unurt
Shilling
Senor H. Valdez
Oklahoma City
Senor Valdez
Salvador Cortestubio
Gomez
St. Benedict's College
Atchison
Kas
Fernando
Guillermo Artiz Rubio
Mexico City
Emilio
Rolla, Mo
School of Mines
Crosby
Salvador
Pat O'Day
Estelline
Texas
W. H. Murray
Shill'ne
Murray
Honor student shot during attempted streetcar hold up
A 21 year old honor student Trim bel E. Winborn of Coldwater Mississippi was critically wounded in New Orleans while attempting to hold up a streetcar and a motor bus. He admitted gambling debts and theft of 8.75 dollars from streetcar motorman Robert Glass and conductor Perry Curtis before being shot by Glass.
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New Orleans
Trimbel E. Winborn
Coldwater
Miss
Robert Glass
Perry Curtis
Curtis
Winborn
Glass
Cabinet camp claimed by Ward Rue Lumber Co
The Ward Rue Lumber company claimed ownership of a cabinet camp near Madison Virginia erected on its land. The six small cottages lie a mile from President Hoover's Rapidan river camp and were to be leased, though no contract was completed. The claim totals over 1 million dollars and excludes Hoover’s camp land from the dispute.
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Madison
Cabinet
Ward Rue Lumber Company
Blue Ridge Mountains
Hoover
Rapidan River
Shenandoah National Park
President Hoover
Lumber Company
Senators Strike Back at Critics Amid Judicial Appointment Debate
Washington June 8 Senate leaders defend the right of lawmakers to recommend federal district attorney appointments after a law enforcement commission attacked political interference. Senators Walsh Bingham and Caraway rebut the commission while Hoover faces renewed pressure over judicial nominations and a pending recess appointee Gunnar Norbye.
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Washington
Law Enforcement Commission
Walsh
Montana
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Bingham
Connecticut
Caraway
Arkansas
Commission
Hoover
Schall
Minnesota
Gunnar Norbye
Bronx beer war claims its sixth victim
In New York on June 8, the Bronx beer war added a sixth casualty in three weeks. The body of John Jacapraro, 24, a henchman of Arthur Dutch Schultz, was found in a parked vehicle with five bullet wounds and identified as the driver of a truck.
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New York
Bronx
Arthur
Dutch) Schultz
Factor's Extradition Hearing Delayed to June 22
Chicago June 8 The extradition hearing of John Jake The Barber Factor was continued to June 22 as the British government's voluminous case report had not been printed. Over 500 depositions by British investors accusing Factor of swindling were read into the record while printers were given two weeks to deliver to attorneys before defense begins. Factor faced accusations of swindling British investors of several millions through manipulation of worth less securities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John “Jake the
Factor
Drilling Operations Begin Along St Lawrence South Shore
Montreal June 8 Active drilling has started in natural gas fields along the south shore of the St Lawrence River with one company at work and two others considering erection of machinery by summer end About a million acres have been taken from Lotbiniere to St Hyacinthe The Hope Engineering company the Mexican Seaboard Oil company and the South Shore Oil Tands Limited are the main players in the early stages.
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Montreal
Que
St. Lawrence River
Lotbiniere County
St. Hyacinthe
Hope Engineering Company
Mexican Seaboard Oil Company
The
South Shore Oil Tands Limited
Miners clash as Pennsylvania strike erupts into chaos
In southwestern Pennsylvania outbreaks injure demonstrators and a state trooper. Police deploy tear gas to disperse about 1,000 protesters near Westland Washington County. Four shot or wounded. miners pulled from a streetcar. marchers clash with 15 coal and iron policemen near Ellsworth. Union leaders demand eight hour workday and recognition.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Seaman
Washington County
R. B. Johnston
Westmoreland County
Robert Cain
Allegheny
Westland
Earl Limbers
Butler
Ellsworth
Ellsworth Collieries Company
Frank Bortch
National Miner's Union
Pinchot
Williams' Successor Named state health commissioner
Governor Pollard announced the appointment of Dr Warren F Draper of Clarendon as state health commissioner succeeding the late Dr Ennion G Williams. Draper will serve as assistant surgeon general of the United States public health service.
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Williams
Richmond
Pollard
Warren F. Draper
Clarendon
United States Public Health Service
Ennion G. Williams
Huntington Board of Education to Convene on Teacher Salaries
In Huntington West Virginia the board halted a four four deadlock by an absent member. they plan a Thursday meeting with Superintendent C L Wright and all principals to discuss possible teacher salary reductions. The old board had granted raises under a standard schedule and four holdover members remain. Some members seek voluntary cuts from teachers to reach an agreement.
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Huntington
W. Va
Huntington Board of Education
C. L. Wright
Hundreds of Los Angeles children receive noon day lunches
Los Angeles on June 8 saw ten thousand hungry children in 157 schools receive milk and noon day lunches as public contributions bolstered the welfare fund and orders were issued to resume distribution. The crisis of more than a week ended as needy children offered to swap marbles for sandwiches and citywide appeals for funds followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Parent-Teachers Association
Norfolk Waterfront Fire Destroys million-dollar District
June 8 Norfolk Virginia reports the waterfront blaze as the city’s largest ever with over six blocks burned. Damage is estimated around 3 million dollars with nearly fifty people treated for smoke inhalation or injuries. Fire started at the Buxton line warehouse and spread through the wholesale district aided by rain and wind.
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Norfolk
Aailors
Buxton Line
Diplomats Turn to Social Affairs After Chequers Meet
London reports suggest the Anglo German talks at Chequers have sparked talk of a world economic conference on war reparations. German ministers avoided politics and pursued social engagement as a 20 minute Buckingham Palace meeting with King George V marked the first postwar reception of German statesmen.
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London
George V
Buckingham Palace
Europe
Henry L. Stimson
Andrew W. Mellon
Paramount Cancels Clara Bow Contract in Health Move
Hollywood officials announced Paramount has broken the contract of Clara Bow the IT girl. The release comes after intense requests from Bow to free her to regain her health.
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Paramount
Hollywood
Cal
Paramount Studio
Clara Bow
Saloons in Poland Ordered Closed
A Warsaw dispatch reports Polish finance minister decreed closing 1,155 saloons in Poland. The law caps saloons at 20,000. the count now exceeds the limit. German minorities fear repercussions recalled from a prior action affecting Prussian land.
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Berlin
Union
Warsaw
Poland
League of Nations
Vatican Government Still Seeks Agreement
Rome June 8 scholars report the Vatican and the Italian government continue talks for a temporary solution to their dispute. Papal Nuncio Borgongini Duca and Ambassador De Vecchi keep normal duties while negotiations are overseen by Pacelli. Rumors of a withdrawal or rupture are unfounded.
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Rome
Vatican
Nunico Borgongini Duca
Ambassador de Vecchi
Marches Pacelli
West Virginia Lawyer Faces Life Sentence in Forgery Trial
Clarence C. Mason, once a Harrisonville lawyer, goes on trial in general sessions court as a fourth offender. Records show forgery convictions in 1916 Ohio, 1918 Wisconsin, 1921 Texas, and 1930 New York for forging the name of Thomas J. Davis to a telegram seeking $1,000 from the People’s Bank of Harrisonville.
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New York
Clarence C. Mason
Harrisonville
W. Va
General Sessions Court
Pilataky
Mason
Washington County
Ohio
Milwaukee
Wis
Tarrant County
Texas
Thomas J. Davis
People’s Bank of
People’s Bank
Four Chicago Banks Merge Into Two in Major Deal
Four of Chicago's five largest banks unite into two entities the Foreman state banks with First National and National Bank of the Republic with Central Trust. The merger calms markets but triggers the voluntary closing of six local banks with about 29 million dollars in deposits. About 3,300 First National savers withdrew funds as the consolidation boosted confidence and elevated First National to America's fifth largest bank with roughly 900 million in resources.
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Chicago
Bankers United
Foreman State
First National
National Bank of the Republic
Central Trust Company
Foreman
Foreman Group
Foreman Bank
First National Savings
Continental Illinois Bank
America
Traylor Heads Nation’s Fifth Largest Bank After Merger
Chicago June 8 Melvin Alvah Traylor 52 presides at the merged First National and Foreman State National banks. He reassures anxious depositors, claiming money is safe as he addresses crowds outside the bank amid fatigue and late negotiations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Melvin Alvah Traylor
First National Bank
Foreman State National Bank
Traylor
Melvin Traylor
Hyde Urges Farmers Align Production With Market Demands
Secretary Hyde told American farmers that production plans must start with market demands. He asserted farmers must aim for an American standard of living and sell on world markets at world prices to compete internationally, including comparing living standards with India and China.
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Manhattan
Kas
Secreary
Hyde
American Institute of Cooperation
Department of Agriculture
India
China
French Aviators Seek Endurance Record In Marathon Flight
French aviators Le Brix and Boret chased the world endurance mark for a closed circuit from America. They had flown 44 hours and 27 minutes when they passed Marignane at 1 16 this morning with favorable weather and the plane reported in perfect condition.
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Marseilles
France
le Brix
Boret
America
Marignane
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