Navy Salvagers Prepare Second Lifting Of Squalus
Navy salvage crews at Portsmouth New Hampshire prepare hoisting gear for a second lift of the sunken submarine Squalus. President Roosevelt, aboard the Tuscaloosa, observed the operation as Admiral Cyrus W. Cole guides salvage work after the vessel ran aground on an uncharted mud bank during a test dive.
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Navy
Portsmouth
N. H
Nany
Roosevelt
New England
Canadian
Tuscaloosa
Cyrus W. Cole
Pourtsmouth Navy Yard
Cole
Falcon
Jail Full in Lame Stone County Amid Dull Season
In Athens Alabama a lively county jail bustles with about thirty inmates, many jailed for prohibition violations public drunkenness driving while intoxicated and related offenses marking an unusually crowded period for the year in Lame Stone County.
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Athens
Ala
Lame
Stone County
Airport officials locate missing flyer after nap in plane
Airport staff traced A. B. Hilliard who had been missing for hours after a flight from Franklin Field. Police and officials checked hangars and found Hilliard napping in his plane waiting for his wife to pick him up in the family car.
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Richmond
A. B. Hilliard
Franklin Field
Hillard
Six Militiamen Killed by Dud in Kentucky Incident
At Knox Kentucky six militiamen from Indiana were killed when a shell thought to be a dud exploded during summer training. Three others were wounded. General Robert H. Tyndall ordered a Board of Inquiry as details remain sparse since all those connected died in the blast. The dead include Charles Handricks and Roy Maxey of Oakland City and Paul Maxey, Arthur McCarty, John Jones, and Willie Snow Jr. were among the injured or deceased. Initial reports say the men stood around the shell on a company street when it exploded.
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T Knox
Indiana
Robert H. Tyndall
129Th Field Artillery
Corp
Charles E. Handricks
Oakland City
Roy EB. Maxey
Paul Maxey
Willie Snow, Jr
Evansville
John R. Jones
Princeton
Arthur McCarty
Golf Club Tossed Away Kills Caddy
James B. McFarland 3rd, 27, charged with involuntary manslaughter after a golf club hurled in anger struck and killed caddy John Klemming 35 at Huntington Valley Country Club. Bail set at 2000 dollars. McFarland said he swung the club strongly after a bad shot.
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Philadelphia
James B. McFarland
McFarland
Justice of the Peace
Howard
Gurnea
John Klemming
Huntington Valley Country Club
Work relief jobs filled in Pennsylvania plan
Eight hundred unemployed in Pennsylvania were called to work under the new work or get off relief program. Forty seven projects across counties will employ able bodied relief recipients at common labor wages as the state expands the system amid a four year high in relief totals.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
WPA
PWA
Republi
Howard L. Russell
Russell
Mercer Escapes Tyler County Jail Returns Home
J H Mercer, missing for six days, phoned from a distant community to report aching feet and hunger and asked the sheriff to send a automobile. The sheriff complied as Mercer was glad to be back in Tyler county jail.
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Middlebourne
W. Va
J. H. Mercer
Tyler County
Griffin High coach resigns for Alabama post
Frank Gantt resigns as Griffin high school athletic coach to take a coaching job in Gadsden Alabama. Gantt, a former Auburn football player, joined Griffin last year.
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Griffin, Ga
Frank Gantt
Griffin High ‘School
Gadsden
Ala
Gantt
Auburn
Griffin
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Ralph Carter
Fort Branch
Dorris K. Pitch
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George Quigley
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