Rebels Bombard Madrid In First Strike On City
Fascist aerial bombs hit downtown Madrid for the first time wounding several and damaging government buildings. Two bengal lights and two bombs struck the ministry of war garden and plaza Cibeles as authorities repelled a fifth rebel attempt with quick socialist air response. Police and militiamen mistook government planes for rebels triggering rifle fire until corrected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ramon Blardoney
Associated Press
Madrid
Ministry of War
Vicalvaro
Floggers of Woman Suit Filed in Arkansas
Miss Willie Sue Blagden of Memphis sues five men in federal court claiming she was flogged in East Arkansas in June amid a sharecropper dispute. Two other plaintiffs, a woman and a man, also sue for damages, each seeking 15000 dollars for alleged beatings in Crittenden county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonesboro
Ark
Willie Sue Blagden
Memphis
East Arkansas
Federal District Court Today
Crittenden County
Miss
F. GIBSON CALLED HOME IN HARTSELLE
F. GIBSON prominent Hartselle resident died Friday night at Benevolent Society Hospital at age 76. Survived by two daughters Mrs. M. M. Kyle and Mrs. Wall Johnson, two sons Roy and Homer Gibson, nine sisters, one brother. Funeral Sunday at Herring at 10 a.m. Rev. Frank T. Smith officiating. interment at Herring. Peck directing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. F. Gibson
Hartselle
Benevolent Society Hospital
Gibson
M. M. Kyle
Wall Johnson
Huntsville
Roy Gibson
Odenville
Homer Gibson
Aubane
J. R. Gibson
Decatur
R. B. Minster
Falkville
Henry Gibson
Herring
Frank T.smith
Peck
Toll Bridge Robbery Suspect Sentenced in Pell City
Ollie Spears received a ten year prison term for robbing a toll bridge at Riverside on April 16. State highway officials said the bridge has been robbed seven times in recent months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Ollie Spears
Riverside
Pell City
Horse Stealing Baffles Police In Carolina City
Three horse thefts troubled Winston Salem police this week. An animal stolen from the city barn was recovered and stolen again the same night. A second horse from the barn was recovered. A negro boy reported his pony taken in the third incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winston Salem
N. C
Police Probe After Socialite Drives Butcher Truck Home
Nassau police investigate how Mrs Helen Fortescue Reynolds, prominent socialite and sister of a Hawaii case figure, arrived home in a Valley Stream butcher's battery truck. Officials questioned drivers and the butcher as they seek to determine if bribery or other misconduct occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mineola
Nassau County
Helen Fortescue Reynolds
Long Island
North Shore
Reynolds
Thalia Massie
Hawaii
Glen Cove
Valley Stream
Manchester
N. H
Har Schuraski
Mrs. Reynolds
Lemke Makes Tour by Air on Stump Across U S
North Dakota congressman William Lemke who heads the union party ticket conducts a rapid campaign schedule aimed at 30 000 miles by air. Campaign manager John Nystul said he has already logged 12 000 miles by plane and would fly 15 000 to 20 000 more before November. Lemke uses trains when possible but time is tight. he spoke in Merriam Kansas and Worcester Massachusetts before continuing to the west coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
William Lemke
North Dakota
Union Party
Lemke
John Nystul
Nystul
Kansas
Boston
Middle Western
Prairies
New England
Merriam
Kas
Worcester
Mass
West Coast
Bids Sought on New Warrior Dam in Alabama
Bids for a concrete dam on the Black Warrior River near Tuscaloosa are to be requested soon. Major Charles R. Shaw of the U S Engineers Department announced an estimated cost of 3.5 million dollars for the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Black Warrior River
Tuscaloosa
Charles R. Shaw
United States Engineers Department
Korean typhoon deaths reach three hundred ninety one
Seoul reports a Korean typhoon caused 391 deaths on the southern peninsula with 89 missing 45 injured and extensive property damage officials said today
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
Korea
City Schools Announce 1936 37 Faculty Additions
City officials led by Prof. W. W. Benson finalize the 1936 37 faculty for Decatur schools. Total staff 91 with 74 in white units and 12 in Negro units, five new teachers selected. Complete lists by school include Decatur Senior High Junior High Carver Negro and Lafayette Street with administration and librarians noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Benson
Board of Education
Katherine Brandal
Knoxville
Mary Jones
Fairview
Rosa Lee Mathews
Decatur
Decatur Senior High
W. .T. Jordan
W. J. Brown
Paul Crouch
Katherine Brandau
Elizabeth Eich
Leon Moody
Lillian Odom
H. L. Ogle
Aileen Pope
Mary
Hagerman
Evelyn Beard
Fannie Blackwell
Ruth Briscoe
Dorothy Cornelius
Helen Fischer
Lila Mae Jolly
Clarice Lee
Kate B. Lile
Clendora Maner
Frances
Elizabeth Peer
Bernid Sadie Smith
Lafayette Street
Mary Turley
Lougene Clem
Edna Holland
Elizabeth Houston
Esther P. Hunter
Viola Speer
Mary B. Terrell
Z. Trimble
Ward Fool
J. E. Blair
Is Walsh
Alicia Weaver
Elbert Weaver
Sara Ward I
L. P. Troup
Marvalene Harley
Inez McCall
Katherine Ivy
Evelyn Murphree
Jeanne Stone
Ward
J. N. Hodges
Bernice Nicholson
Priscilla Thompson
Carver Negro School
W. J. Wilson
Wynetta E. Loving
Louise Wilson
Mary B. Connell
J. M. Givens
W. T Jordan
Tennis Tidwell
Deaf and Dumb Man Sentenced to Death in North Carolina
Raymond Early Moore, 21, a deaf and mute Black man, was convicted of assaulting a white woman and sentenced by Judge J. H. Clement to die in the gas chamber. The verdict was announced in superior court with Moore’s wife, also deaf and dumb, present. an appeal was filed. The prosecuting witness was Wilkins, 28, of Jonesville, who testified that Moore entered via a window and attacked her after her husband awoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vackinville
Raymond Early Moore
J. H. Clement
Moore
S Supreme Court
Oe ‘Wilkins
Jonesville
Fire Damages Frank Namie Store Living Quarters
A morning blaze at 525 West Vine Street damaged the rear living quarters of the Frank Namie Store. Firefighters from both companies responded and contained the fire before it reached the merchandise stock. Origin undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Namie
West Vine Street
Crater Hunt Pushed Today In California Mountains
Los Angeles police led by Captain Walter Allen search the Cuyamaca range near Banner and Mesa Grande for Joseph F Crater a missing man described as a former New York supreme court judge. Ranchers Mike Morani and Bill Barrett identify the photograph as Crater and recall a six month westward prospecting period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Eisenenger
Banner
San Felipe Valley
Mike Morani
Bill Barrett
Valice Angel
Mesa Grande
Morani
Crater
Joe, Crater
Supreme Court
New York
Marlett
Lucky Blackiet
Chinese girl flier enters air derby
Miss Katherine Sui Fun Cheung a Chinese girl flier from Los Angeles began the Ruth Chatterton cross country air derby from Cleveland at 10 29 a m with 33 other pilots including nine women. The first leg ends at Cincinnati where filers will have luncheon. Miss Chatterton led the field at dinner last night offering the pilots good luck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Katherine Sui Fun Cheung
Los Angeles
Ruth Chatterton
Miss Cheung
Cincinnati
Miss Chatterton
Nyack District Attorney Halts Night Dog Races
Nyack New York August 30 District Attorney George Dorsey ordered all available sheriffs and state police to halt dog racing at the Nyack kennel club pending further action. Attorney General Richard Bennett had recently secured a court injunction against stock sales in the kennel club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nyack
N.Y
Geor Dorsey
Roote
Nyack’ Kernel Lab
Ece
Pierre A. Bernard
Bernar
Richard Bennett
Kennel Club
Italy's Ambition Grows Beyond Ethiopia Campaign
The AP report from New York on August 29 1986 argues Italy seeks more land and power after its Ethiopia victory. It cites British officials and secret reports noting Italian and German money behind Palestine unrest and fascist expansion in the Aegean and Spain while Rome gloats over early gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Italy
Near East
Ethiopia
Abyssinia
Palestine
Spain
Rome
Aegean Sea
Fas
Bad Checks Ruin Romance In New Orleans Case
New Orleans police say Henry Clay Robinson posed as a naval lieutenant to marry Jewel Grace Corbein after meeting her at the Dog House dance hall. The couple wed in St Bernard Parish with a fee paid by a bounced check. More checks followed during their Biloxi honeymoon and on return to New Orleans. Robinson admitted he was not a naval officer and had once killed two moonshiners in 1929. The bride, who came from Meadville Mississippi, says she plans to return to the Dog House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
John L. Grosch
Henry Clay Robinson
Jewel Grace Corbein
Dog House
Ina Navy
St. Berard Parish
Grosch
Rene D. Cortes
Biloxi
Miss
Robinson
Front Royal
Meadville
Funeral rites for War Secretary George Dern held today
The body of George Henry Dern, secretary of war, accompanied by a guard of honor, was moved from Walter Reed to Mount Pleasant Congregational Church for funeral services this afternoon. High ranking officials from military and civil branches gathered to pay final honors to the late war secretary who died Thursday. Cabinet members and General Malin Craig were among the pallbearers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
George Henry Dern
Walter Reed Tigisal
Mount Pleasant Congregational Church
Peden Enters Board Race
E. B. Peden, a well known local businessman, announces candidacy for one of five alderman seats in Decatur. Since moving to Decatur in 1913 he has worked in haberdashery and auto sales, presently with Hill Chevrolet, and plans to serve the people if elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. B. Peden
Decatur
Peden
Hill Chevrolet Company
LIFER S LEGS GET HIM 30 DAY PAROLE
Elmore Jones a Mobile inmate serving life earned 30 days parole after chasing two men on the Alabama Capitol grounds. Jones a capitol custodian pursued the pair armed with an ice pick and helped capture them. they were later sentenced by Governor Bibb Graves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lifer
Montgomery
Ala
Elmore Jones
Mobile
Jones
State Capitol
Capitol
Bibb Graves
Milk dealers lose licenses in Mobile ruling
Alabama Milk Control Board revoked licenses of three Mobile milk dealers. John W. Kamphius trading as Shady Springs Dairy was ordered to stop selling fluid milk for 30 days or until complying with board regulations. R L Graham and C C Rettig received 60 day bans on fluid milk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Milk Control Board
D. S. Satterwhite
John W. Kamphius
Shady Springs Dairy
R.L. Graham
C. C. Rettig
Satterwhite
Mary Reunites With Mother After Long Absence
Mary returns at dawn to her Mississippi valley home after running away to marry Jesse Greer. Greer, 40, was arrested in Louisville for forging 995 dollars on his father’s account in 1917. Sheriff Campbell brought Greer to jail. the father’s stance on prosecution remains unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawn Ody
Sid Campbell
Greer
W. C. Greer
Bledsoe
Shooting Gallery Death Sealed by Own Shot in Chicago
In Chicago on August 20 a 19 year old, Alex Storm Jr., shot himself after a crowd applauded his rifle trick shots. Investigators report Storm then turned to a revolver and fired into his chest, dying shortly after. attendants Nick Matt and Perry Santos testified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Alex Storm, Jr
Nick Matt
Perry Santos
Storm
Matt
Showers Bring Small Relief From Heat Wave
Intermittent morning showers lowered the day’s heat as rainfall of 0.19 inch was recorded by noon. The temperature eased to 99 degrees at 1 p.m. after a high of 101, keeping the city just under the previous day’s peak.
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Weather Bureau
Hitler Receives Catholic Protest From Church Memorandum
Chancellor Adolf Hitler received through the Bishop of Mainz a memorandum outlining Catholic grievances. Church circles called it the strongest language yet in the church state conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Mainz
Roosevelt pushes long range drought relief plan
President Roosevelt urged a long range drought relief program during a tour ending speeches to thousands at Aberdeen and Huron. He argued for better land use and spending now to save money later, outlining planning for future emergencies. The trip included stops in North and South Dakota with anticipated conferences in several states.
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Harold Oliver
Associated Press
Pierre
Roosevelt
Roosvelt
Rooseve
South Dakota
Aberdéen
Huron
North
Dakota
Miller
Wyoming
Rapid City
S. D
Salt City
Dern
Des Moines
Ill
Indianapolis
Ind
Salt Lake
St. Paul
Minn
LaCrosse
Wis
ToWa
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Aberdeen
Mr. Roosevelt
Dr Partlow Talks About Night Fox Hunting
In Tuscaloosa Alabama Dr W D Partlow superintendent of Alabama insane hospitals confesses to an inmate he hunted foxes at night, admits teasing about the dogs and thrill of the chase while noting most hunts lack sight of the fox and dogs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuscaloosa
Ala
W. D. Partlow
Alabama
Weather summary from Tennessee River observations and Gulf area outlook
The Tennessee River stood at 2.3 feet with a 24 hour high of 101 and low of 75 and no rainfall. Alabama and northwest Florida see partly cloudy skies with scattered thundershowers tonight. Tennessee remains cloudy with cooler west and showers east. The outlook for Monday calls for mostly fair in the northwest Gulf region and afternoon showers in the eastern portions with near normal temperatures, easing in northwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Alabama
Florida
Central
East Gulf
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Floggers OF Woman
T F. Gibson
Carolina City
Korean
Chamber of Commerce
Ingalls Iron Works Company
Standard Oil Company of
Kentucky
Paducah
Standard Oil Company
United States
Pittsburgh
Tennessee River
Edward J. Neil
Hitler
DR. Partlow
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