Gunned Escapees Spur Massive Minnesota Manhunt
A mass breakout from the St. Peter state asylum on a raging night. Sixteen inmates fled after overpowering guards with chair legs and a fire hose. Lawrence De Vol and Albert Sareko among those missing as a 205th Infantry machine gun squad joins the hunt along Minnesota river bottoms.
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ST. Peter
Minn
Minnesota
Karpis-Barker
St. Peter State Asylum
Lawrence de Vol
Asylum
205Th Infantry
Floyd B. Olson
Gull Lake
Here
Arthur Danielson
Frank Gibson
Plan
State Board of Control
de Vol
Stillwater State Prison
Third Northwestern National Bank of
Minneapolis
Stillwater
Albert
Scarface) Sareko
Peter Hoffman
Tom de Largo
Alias Holloway
Adolph Walworth
Tony T. Smith
Wilburt Jorissen
Donald Reader
Missourian
Walter Hornstein
Percy Kenosha
William Lanenji
Lamnei
George Tremont
Lawrence Leonard Gunderson
Club Leaders In Session Here In Morgan County
Agricultural club leaders from six Morgan County communities met at the county training school in Hartselle for a quarterly session. T. W. Bridges, the Negro county agent, gave crop and poultry guidance, including a flock culling plan, and led song and game activities. The group planned another meeting for the first Saturday in September at the same location.
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Agricultural Club
Morgan County
Hartselle
Clu
T. W. Bridges
Negro County
Thirteen Held for Hearing in Poole Kidnaping Case
Detroit June 8 Thirteen men charged in the Black Legion kidnaping and execution of WPA worker Charles A Poole were ordered held for trial on both counts by Common Pleas Judge Ralph W Liddy He ruled the charges show premeditation and that defendants should face circuit court for trial without bail The defendants include Dayton Dears Harvey Davis Ervin D Lee Urgan Lipps Paul R Edwards Edgar Baldwin Herschel Gill Lowell Rushing Thomas R Craig John R Bannerman John B Vincent Virgil Morrow and Albert Stevens The judge noted the case is a sinister organized attempt to usurp government functions and that some may have planned the crime while others participated Two hours of argument preceded the decision.
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Detroit
Black Legion
Charles A. Poole
Common Pleas
Ralph W. Liddy
Dayton* Dears
Liddy
State Co
Way paved to pass tax act in recess session
The House sent the tax bill to conference with the Senate during a brief session before recess for the Republican National Convention. Speaker Bankhead appointed eight Ways and Means members as conferees: Doughton, Hill, Cullen, Vinson, Cooper, Treadway, Crowther, and Woodruff.
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Washington
House
Senate
Congress
Bankhead
Doughton
N.C
Samuel B. Hill
Wash
Cullen
N.Y
Vinson
Cooper
Tenn
Treadway
Mass
Crowther
Woodruff
Mich
Seven acquitted in Texas irrigation conspiracy case
A District of Columbia Supreme Court jury acquitted seven men accused of conspiracy to defraud the government in a 1934 plan for a $4,863,000 irrigation project in Willacy County Texas.
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Washington
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Willacy County
Texas
Warships report from Chinese factions reach Amoy
Fifteen warships of the Nanking government were reported to have arrived at Amoy in Fukien province today as the Canton government pressed its plea to combat Japanese aggression.
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Hong Kong
Nanking
Amoy
Fukien Province
Canton
Suspect Held for Slaying Roy Hoover
Robert Black, 28, charged with murder in the November shooting of taxi driver Roy Hoover, 23, at a Bee Line highway barbecue stand. Black was in Jefferson County jail after an arrest in Sturgess Mississippi and to be returned to Decatur.
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Robert Black
Roy Hoover
Bee Line
Here
Decatur
Birmingham
Jefferson County
Sturgess
Miss
J. Street Sandlin
Torfrans
Black
Hoover
Birming
J. W. McClung
Morgan
Veterans Leave for Old Camp in Alabama
About 400 veterans of the Alabama department United Spanish War Veterans departed Mobile for Camp Coppinger the Southern states concentration site for the Cuban War. They will unveil a marker at the old camp site and attend reunions before a Mobile Bay boat ride and a fish fry at Fairhope. The convention opened with a joint session. Department Commander James A. Lipscomb presided and greetings were received from Governor Bibb Graves Cuba's Manuel Gomez and Florida Mississippi Louisiana.
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Mobile
Ala
Alabama Department
United
James A. Lipscomb
Bibb Graves
Manuel Gomez
Cuba
Florida
Mississippi
Louisiana
Sea Monster Remains Found Near Aberdeen Washington
The 12 foot sea monster remains, weighing about 1300 pounds, were found on a local beach near Aberdeen. Baltimore zoologist D W Black described the creature as nose less with a goat like head and a body like a buffalo with a four foot tail. Witness affidavits from 1934 recount sightings near Pender Island in British Columbia.
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Aberdeen
Wash
D. W. Black
Baltimore
Puget Sound
Strait of
Juan de Fuca
British Columbia
Pender Island
Sixteen Drown In Yenisei River Collision Reported
Sixteen passengers aboard a ship on the Yenisei river were drowned Saturday in a collision with a barge. Delayed dispatches reached Moscow reporting the tragedy.
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Moscow
Yenisei River
One Killed Nine Hurt In Weekend Accidents
A weekend in the Decatur area left one man dead and nine others injured in car and truck accidents. Allen Bankston, 17, Hillsboro, died after a wreck between Moulton and Courtland early Sunday. Colbert Burden and Carl Bankston were among the others hurt in the crash. Separate injuries occurred when a pickup collided near the Bee Line highway detour, injuring J P Smith, W W Thompson Jr, and H C Chittam.
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Decatur
Allen Bankston
Hillsboro
Benevolent Society Hospital
Moulton
Courtland
Bankston
Laughlin McCaleb
Colbert Burden
Carl Bankston
Burden
Lawrence County
Brown Funeral
J.P. Smith
W. W. Thompson, Jr
H.C. Chittam
Limestone County
Bee Line
Southern Railway
Thompson
Smith
Missing Dorothy Blumenshine Is Sought After Drive
Mysterious disappearance of 14 year old Dorothy Blumenshine near Pekin Illinois prompts a mass search. Sheriff Ralph Goar and state attorney Nathan Elliff plan new steps after 500 volunteers scoured a 25 mile radius and bloodhounds traced from her shoes to the Blumenshine home with no trace found.
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Pekin
Dorothy Blumenshine
Ralph Goar
Tazewell County
Nathan Elliff
Dorothy
Mackinaw
Washington, Tl
Blumenshine
Scholarship to Paris Won by Walter II Fuller
Friends of George Fuller Walter II formerly of Decatur now teaching at Starke University Montgomery learned he won Baylor University scholarship to the University of Paris. He will sail June 27 from New York on the U S Lafayette and return late August on the Normandie. He will study philology and French literature and pursue a Doctorate after previously earning BA and MA from Vanderbilt.
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George
Fuller Walter II
Decatur
Starke University
Montgomery
Baylor University
University of Paris
New York
U. S. Lafayette
Augusta
Normandie
Walker
Vanderbilt University
Torrid Wave Here in Ware Long Drought
A blazing sun sent temperatures into the high nineties across Alabama on a drought Monday. Eufaula topped the state at 101, with Florence 100 and Montgomery 95. Rural relief costs rise to about 2 million for Alabama Georgia and South Carolina farm families on relief rolls.
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Associated Press
Alabama
U. 8
FE. D. Emigh
Montgomery
Eufaula
Florence
Thomasville
BE. S. Morgan
Georgia
South Carolina
Morgan
L. N. Duncan
Auburn
Grouth
Col
Page S. Bunker
Fayette
Walker
Commissioner of Agriculture
Bob Goode
Rain patches scorch the drought with sporadic showers
A southern storm system brought scattered rainfall from Louisiana to Virginia, with little uniform relief to crops as forecasts warn of more showers. A windstorm killed a black man near Atlanta and damaged buildings in Arkansas and Virginia. storms also destroyed a Shenandoah church. Governor Eugene Edge joined prayers for rain in Georgia and noted signs of showers in several counties.
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Santa
Louisiana
Virginia
Atlanta
Lepanto
Ark
Shenandoah County
Weather Bureau
Drouth Belt
Asheville
N. C
Roanoke
Greenville
Eugene Edge
Georgia
Baptist
McRae
Captain Carter Heads Police in New Jersey Raze of Lindbergh Case
In Trenton on June 8 Captain William J. Carter assumed temporary command of the State police after Governor Hoffman ousted Col H Norman Schwarzkopf for defying orders and continuing the Lindbergh kidnapping inquiry. Schwarzkopf left the office last midnight as Carter was named acting superintendent.
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Trenton
N. J
William J. Carter
State Police
Harold G. Hoffman
Cleveland
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkipf
Col. Schwarzkopf
Carter
Polling Places In the City Are Given In Order
In a high turn out city election tomorrow a congressional run off between John Sparkman of Huntsville and R T Simpson of Florence is anticipated as 13 polling boxes are listed for Decatur with locations including Courthouse City Hall Y M C A Black s Pressing Shop Shropshires and more
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John Sparkman
Huntsville
R. T. Simpson
Florence
Decatur
Courthouse
Sherman's
Wilson Avenue
Ferry Street
City Hall
Railroad Street
Chandler's
Frey's
Malone Park
W. Moulton Street
Johnston Street
Black
Second Avenue
Shropshire
Fourth Avenue
Sixth Street
Orr
Fifth Avenue
Ninth Street
McCormack
Grant Street
Harmon's
Fairview
Austinville
Moulton Heights
Roosevelt plans western tour with political stops
President Roosevelt in the White House study reviews legislation awaiting signature and prepares speeches for a four thousand mile western tour starting tonight. He will stop at Little Rock Dallas and Vincennes with possible guests Senator Robinson and Jesse H Jones. Mrs Roosevelt to join in Memphis.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Little Rock
Ark
Dallas
Texas
Vincennes
Ind
Robinson
Arkansas
Garner
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Corporation
Morgenthau
Farley
James M. Landis
Securities Commission
Harry L. Hopkins
WPA
Ickes
Stand Collapse Wounds Royal Spectators in Bucharest
A crowded grandstand at a Boy Scout review collapsed in Bucharest as King Carol and his heir Prince Mihai watched. Reports conflicted on casualties with officials saying three dead and over 100 injured while police claimed up to thirty dead and many more injured. President Edouard Benes of Czechoslovakia helped aid the rescue amid the chaos.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Carol Jody
Carol
Prince Mihai
Edouard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Prince Nicholas
Nurses Club to Hear Murphree Address
The Decatur Nurses club will meet Monday night at 7 30 at the Morgan County Health Department. Dr L R Murphree county health officer will address the members.
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Decatur Nurses Club
Morgan County Health Department
L. R. Murphree
Denny Will Remain University of Alabama President Through January
Bulletin from Tuscaloosa reports Dr. George H. Denny has consented to stay as president of the University of Alabama until January 1. Judge Henry B. Koster, chairman of the board of trustees, announced the decision.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
George H. Denny
University of Alabama
Henry B. Koster
Texas Delegation II Swung Into Line For Kansan
Cleveland June reports show the Republican race focusing on London and Landon. Senator Borah refused to join any move to block leading candidates, stressing no settled plans. Delegates and press crowded London rooms as Landon supporters claimed growing backing and organized campaigns.
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Texas
Kansan
Cleveland
William EB. Borah
Idaho
London
Borah
Dixie GOP group meets to discuss softening solid South
A Southern Republican meeting led by R B Creager aims to place 12 Southern states in the doubtful column. Invitations went to national committeemen from Virginia through Texas, with Tennessee's J Wills Taylor saying he is busy. The gathering is pitched as nonpartisan to promote borderlining in elections, not to discuss specific candidates.
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Donald A. Young
South
R. B. Creager
Texas
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Kentucky
Tennessee
Arkansas
Louisiana
J. Wills Taylor
Creager
Ohio
Hoover
Charles A. Jones
Carolina
Madison county grand jury dumps 1000 absentee ballots
Attorney General A. A. Carmichael conferred with foreman T. R. Kelly for over three hours on the Madison county grand jury action voiding 1000 absentee ballots and canceling disability certificates. Judge Speake had warned the panel may have overstepped its authority amid election contest talks.
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Montgomery
Ala
A. A. Carmichael
T. R. Kelly
Madison County Grand Jury
Kelly
Madison County
Huntsville Times
Paul Speake
Grand Jury
Judge Speake
Speake
R. T. Simpson, Jr
Florence
John J. Sparkman
Huntsville
Bia
Longest vote in history looms in eighth district election
Voters prepare to go to the polls Tuesday to choose the Democratic candidate for congress in what observers call the longest and likely most hostile campaign. Absentee ballots in Madison County face contest after a grand jury ordered officials removed. Sparkman supporters claim Colbert County joins others as protests against Florence TVA benefits influence voters.
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Congress
Madison County
Board of Revenue
Oon
John Sparkman
Gay
Colbert County
Florence
TVA
Sparkman
Sparkman Wrho
Athens
Jackson County
Simpson
Sheffield
Colbert
Lauderdale
Morgan
Madison
Lawrence
Limestone
Jackson
Bitter runoffs tighten two key congressional races
In Birmingham and the Tennessee Valley counties two close Democratic runoffs near the finish line. In Jefferson County the Huddleston Patrick race centers on New Deal loyalty and racial questions with Patrick challenging Huddleston after a heated campaign incident. In the Tennessee Valley district Sparkman and Simpson closed in a neck race with party stakes high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Tennessee Valley
Jefferson County
George Huddleston
Washington
Luther Patrick
Huddleston
Patrick
John J. Sparkman
Huntsville
Robert T. Simpson
Florence
Weather Synopsis for Tennessee Alabama and Florida
The Tennessee River fell to 2.4 feet with no rainfall in the past 24 hours. Temperatures ranged from 91 to 10 degrees. Partly cloudy conditions are expected across Alabama and northwest Florida with possible thundershowers on Tuesday. Tennessee will be partly cloudy, cooler in the north central area tonight.
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Tennessee
Alabama
Florida
North Central
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John D. M. Hamilton
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