Theft at Brock and Spight Wholesale Groc Company
Officers investigate a bold theft at Brock and Spight Wholesale Groc Company on a Friday afternoon. More than $200 in currency and checks disappear from the shipping department after a Black man asked to change a 25-cent piece and left before staff could return the money. Authorities report about $290 missing. no arrests made yet.
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Brock and Spight Wholesale Groc Company
Street
Shipping Department
Owens Stars In New Role In Berlin Olympic Trials
American sprinters pace the relay trials as Owens and teammates Metcalfe Draper and Wykoff match the 40 second world mark in the 400 meter relay. Iso Hollo wins the steeplechase defending his title while Morris Clark and Parker lead the decathlon after seven events.
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Alan Gould
Associated Press
Berlin
Jesse Owens
Finland
Volmari Iso-Hollo
America
Glenn Morris
Bob Clark
Jack Parker
Morris
Clark
Owens
Ralph Metcalfe
Foy Draper
Frank Wykoff
Metcalfe
Draper
Wykoff
Los Angeles
Carpenteria
Calif
Italy
United States
Germany
Canada
Holland
Harriett Blaird
Annette Rogers
Betty Robinson
Helen Stephens
Iso-Hollo
Beth
Parker Sweeps Meadow Club Invitation Title Again
Frankie Parker of Spring Lake New Jersey wins the Meadow Club invitation tennis tournament for the third straight year defeating Gregory Mangir of Newark in the final 1 6 1 6 2 6 0 6 0.
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Southampton
N. Y
Frankie Parker
Spring Lake
N. J
Meadow Club
Gregory Mangir
Newark
Pastor Urges Decatur To Return To Church Sunday
Dr. Ira F. Hawkins of Central Methodist church declares no infantile paralysis epidemic in Decatur and urges all residents to attend services next Sunday as public gatherings resume. The expert says precautions were proper to prevent the outbreak and now it is safe to renew normal gatherings.
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Decatur
Ira F. Hawkins
Central Methodist Church
City
God
Summer school to reopen Monday with extended term
A conference of the city summer school faculty decided to reopen on Monday August 10 at eight o’clock. The second term will run thirty days with Saturday classes and afternoon sessions to meet the requirement. Teachers include Mrs W J Brown Miss Ethel Rhinehart Miss Ruth Briscoe Mrs Jeanne Stone and Principal O S Hagerman.
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W. J. Brown
Ethel Rhinehart
Ruth Briscoe
Jeanne Stone
O. S. Hagerman
Briscoe
Approval for paving Somerville Road in Somerville
R T Scarborough WPA district one administrator announced final Washington approval for paving Somerville Road from E Moulton street to Fairview a distance of one and a half miles. About 30 men to be employed starting Monday with a three month completion expected.
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R. T. Scarborough
WPA
District One
Washington
Somerville Road
E. Moulton Street
Fairview
Scarborough
Hospital Road
Face of Capital City Undergoes Change
Madrid in a social revolution as leftist governance seizes property, imposes permits for travel to battlefronts, and militia control dominates daily life. Proletarian power redresses social order while aristocrats and clergy face confiscation and new street realities.
Eternal Triangle Ends In Lion Farm Tragedy
At the Lion Farm in Fort Lauderdale Minnie the matron lioness killed Eva, a rival for Prince the jungle lord. Keeper Kirkbride tried to separate the felines as night feeding approached, but Eva died from a jugular bite.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fila
Minnie
Eva
Prince
Kirkbride
King Edward Lands at Calais on France Stopover
King Edward of Great Britain arrives near Calais at 4 32 p m on the first leg of a month long Adriatic holiday he is flying to France for the initial stage of his tour.
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Calais
France
Edward of
Great Britain
Adriatic
Drought Talks Set in Hyde Park as Roosevelt Plans Tours
President Roosevelt arranged a drought conference likely in early next month with Alf M London of Kansas to discuss relief and federal cooperation. He plans a drought tour from August 25 to September 10, visiting North Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa Illinois Indiana Ohio Michigan Kentucky and then back to Hyde Park for Franklin D Roosevelt Jr's birthday.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Alf M. London
Kansas
Dent
Washington
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Topeka
Dentral
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Mississippi
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Miners Fate To Be Up To Soldiers Soon
In Ashville Alabama the fate of 11 non union miners from the Alabama Fuel and Iron Company at Margaret shifts toward a Circuit jury. They face two conspiracy to beat and shoot counts tied to the Oct 28 gunfight with union miners and the discharge of firearms on a public highway. Trials for related defendants including Charlie Shepherd and Herbert Jinright are scheduled for August 17 to 18 at Pell City. Virgie Thomas, a union miner, was killed in a separate morning clash.
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Ashville
Ala
Alabama Fuel and Iron Company
Margaret
Clair County
Sylvester Isbell
Counsé
J. H., Disque, Jr
Charles F. Debardeleben
Alabama Fuel
Ateys
Virgie Thomas
Union
Pell City
Charlie Shepherd
Acmar
Herbert Jinright
World Baseball Group Is Set Up in Berlin
The first world’s international baseball federation was completed today with 16 nations plus Hawaii as charter members. Honorary presidents will come from the United States and Japan. Frank Matsumoto named executive secretary treasurer. Dinty Dennis of the Miami Herald named assistant secretary. International headquarters will be in Miami for four years.
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Berlin
Hawaii
United States
Japan
Frank Matsumata
Dinty Dennis
Miami
Fla
Herald
Picket Line Gun Battle Probe Ends
Investigation into the July 22 picket line gun battle in Talladega Alabama, where two persons died and 17 were wounded, was nearing completion by a Special grand jury. The panel had heard about 60 of 75 witnesses as it reconvened and would report to Circuit Judge R B Carr who convened the session.
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Talladega
Ala
R. B. Carr
Fair Maiden of Ethiopia and Fisherman Land in Hoose-Gow
State highway patrolmen report two humorous incidents. A young Ethiopian woman, detained after being questioned about her identity and residence, was escorted to Limestone County jail. Later, a man fishing on Sixth avenue was found with an unconscious companion, and both were taken to Morgan County jail.
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Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Limestone County
Athens
O. C. Hitt
L. A. Bennett
Sixth Avenue
Izaak Walton
Morgan County
Price shifts from Wheat to Crop News Across Cities
News bulletin notes Canada reports wheat crop at 45 percent of normal while Chicago markets react to the crop estimate. Cotton in New Orleans slips amid quiet trade as Boston plans October auction of Amoskeag plant. Oklahoma will Rogers estate sale to pay taxes. Warren Fabrics union talks with UTIU after plant walkout.
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Chicago
Canada
New Orleans
Boston
Amoskeag Manufacturing Co
Manchester
N. H
United Textile Workers of America
General Motors Reports Record July and November Vehicle Sales
General Motors Corp today announced the highest July and November inventory sales of cars and trucks. The total shipped to U.S. and Canadian dealers was 204,693, up from 167,700 in July last year and 217,931 in the previous month, with one shipment abroad.
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New York
General Motors Corp
U. S
Antis Form Committee Formed To Oppose Roosevelt
A Detroit meeting formed The National Jeffersonian Democrats an anti New Deal group led by former Senator James A Reed to campaign in all states. Reed denied it as a new party while outlining principles criticizing the Roosevelt administration.
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Detroit
James A. Reed
Reed
Sterling E. Edmunds
Landon
Edmunds
Reid
Flag waves over new Colorado territory annexation
Breckenridge Colorado August 8 The American flag raised over new territory announces the westward conquest completion. Thirteen hundred square miles bought from Napoleon for about three cents an acre in the heart of Colorado is formally annexed with flag ceremonies and an address by Gov. Ed C Johnson.
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Breckenridge
Colo
West
Napoleon Bonaparte
Colorado
Ed C. Johnson
Landon to Speak in Pennsylvania Campaign Tour
Gov Alf Landon announced six Ohio platform appearances as he travels to West Middlesex Pennsylvania to open his eastern presidential campaign. The schedule marks the start of a broader push across the region.
Cotton Crop Forecast Hits 12.481 Million Bales for 1935
Washington reports the Agriculture Department's first 1935 crop forecast at 12,481,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, up from 10.6 million last year. Acreage at 20,924,000. condition August 1 at 72.3 percent of normal. ginning prior to August 1 totals 41,130 running bales. States show varied production, with Texas and Mississippi among top outputs.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Saey
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Census Bureau
Virginia
North Carolina
Beuth Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Missouri
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
States
Old Mexico
United States
Travis to face early trial in train wreck case
Pensacola Florida August 8 The court said Bar Travis will be tried this month on a charge of conspiring with Mrs Mary Vann to wreck a railroad train Mrs Vann was convicted yesterday The state pressed the prosecution against her alleging they planned to wreck the train driven by L W Vann to die and insurers pay She sought a new trial Judge L L Fabisinski set August 31 at Crestview for a hearing on the motion The Vann trial moved from Pensacola to Milton Allen Langston and Allen Finley pled guilty to tampering and will be sentenced later Travis asked for separate trial and faces possible sentences for the Vann case include one to 40 years for the two women involved
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Pensacola
Fila
Bar
Travis
Mary Vann
Vann
L. L. Fabisinski
Crestview
Milton
Allen Langston
Allen Finley
Russian fliers depart Seattle toward Alaska on 10000 mile San Diego Moscow leg
Sigis mund Levanevsky and Victor I. Lévchenko left the Sand Point naval air station at 10 20 a m local time for Jureau Alaska as part of their 10000 mile flight from San Diego to Moscow.
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Seattle
Sigismund Levanevsky
Victor I. Lévchenko
Jureau
Alaska
Sand Point Naval Air Station Base
San Diego
Moscow
Body Found In Calera Farmer Shot On Porch
The body of Marion W. Glass 60 a farmer of Route 1 Calera was found on his porch with left chest wounds from a 12 gauge shotgun. An unsigned note lay beside him. The widow and several children survive.
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Clanton
Ala
Marion W. Glass
Route 1
Calera
Plans for Decatur livestock yard and barn outlined
A Decatur Chamber of Commerce agricultural committee meeting moved plans to create a multi county stock yard and sales barn. The $2 500 unit would be funded in part by a $500 stock subscription with future involvement from Morgan Lawrence and Limestone counties. The project aims to boost the livestock trade with weighing facilities pens and weekly buyer visits.
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Decatur
Agricultural Committee
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
W. E. Siviey
A. A. Jones
L. L. R. Nash
Ranery Rane
Chamber of Commerce
Dempsey Opens for Roosevelt Reelection Headquarters
Jack Dempsey opened headquarters as chairman of the sports committee for Roosevelt and Lehman in New York. He met with Chairman James A. Parley and outlined plans to organize a representative group from the world of sport for the campaign.
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New York
Jack Dempsey
Roosevelt
Lehman
James A. Parley
Dempsey
Madison Child Bitten by Rabid Dog
Alta Pauline Johnson, young daughter of Sam Johnson of Toney route 2 Madison County, was bitten by a dog at home yesterday. Tennessee Valley Laboratory issued a tetanus vaccine treatment and rabies analysis of the animal’s head showed positive signs of rabies. The dog sprang at the child in the yard and scratched her on the head and back.
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Tennessee Valley Laboratory
Alta Pauline Johnson
Sam Johnson
Toney
Madison County
State mechanic Burt Usery to overhaul patrol cars
Burt Usery the state mechanic arrived in Decatur to overhaul cars of the state highway patrol unit. He is a champion stunt motorcycle rider and will represent the patrol in the rodeo at Mobile on August 16.
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Burt Usery
Decatur
Mr. Usery
Highway Patrol
Mobile
Weather snapshot across Tennessee and gulf states
The Tennessee River stood at 2.7 feet with 1.66 inches of rain in 24 hours. Highs reached 88 and lows 70 while Alabama and northwest Florida saw partly cloudy skies with scattered showers tonight. The outlook calls for frequent afternoon thundershowers from Monday across the central and east gulf states with mostly fair conditions in the west portions.
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Tennessee
Alabama
Florida
Central
East Gulf States
Southern Plains
West Gulf States
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Popular Front
És Darramas
Ona
Mane
Europe
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Fishkill
White House
James Townsend
Poughkeepsie
Dutchess County
Democratic Committee
World Baseball Group
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Claremore
Okla
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Herb McSpadden
C. Ofc
Madison Child
Mad Dog
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