Lightning Claims 14 Year Old Ruby Lindsey
A Cullman county girl, Ruby Lindsey, 14, died after a bolt of lightning struck her hoe as she ran home from work. Her brother Johnny, 13, and neighbor FE Gordon, 11, witnessed the strike and rushed to notify the family. Funeral rites were set for Goodhope with Rev. Luther Hudson officiating. Survivors include her parents Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Lindsey and a brother Johnny.
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Cullman County
Ruby Lindsey
Goodhope
Cullman
FE. C. Gordon
Lindsey
Ruby
Johnny
Luther Hudson
Moss Schelling
Jasper Lindsey
Du Pont To Face Probe Over Stock Discrepancies
The Securities Commission announced an investigation into discrepancies in Du Pont common stock transactions reported by Pierre S. Du Pont, chairman of the board. Corrections show he owed more shares than previously disclosed, altering the official holdings since November 1934.
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Washington
The
Securities Commission
du Pont Common
Pierre S. du Pont
du Pont
SEC
Pierres. du Pont
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
Mexico Expresses No Justification for Anti American Demonstrations
Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay says there was utter lack of justification for anti United States manifestations after the death of Francisco Sarabia. Government printed a 500 word statement. a demonstration followed the stoning of the American school and police guard at the U.S. embassy.
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Mexico City
Eduardo Hay
United States
Francisco Sarabia
Federal Department of Press and Publicity
Hay
Excessive Heat Causes Farm Stock Deaths in Georgia
In Laurens County, over 40 mules and horses died from heat stroke as temperatures hovered in the 90s. Dublin veterinarian Dr. J. L. Smalley cited hard ground, heavy work, and recent rains that delayed farming as factors increasing heat stress on work animals.
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Dublin
Lauens
J. L. Smalley
Smalley
Court Ducks TVA Inquiry
The Alabama Supreme Court declined to answer Governor Dixon on the constitutionality of the 1935 act removing TVA operations from the Public Service Commission. Chief Justice Anderson said advisory opinions require argument and briefs in a formal proceeding, not a contested issue. The questions cover limits on defining non utilities and safeguarding regulatory power and due process.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
Frank Dixon
TVA
State Public Service Commission
Dixon
John C. Anderson
Walker
Alabama Public Service Commission
Alabama
Mrs Rubens to be freed soon after long Soviet detention
Ruth Marie Rubens, an American woman held in the Soviet Union, was sentenced in Moscow to 18 months for a false passport but will be freed tomorrow after serving nearly all the term. Her husband Donald Robinson remains missing as US officials pursue his fate.
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Moscow
Ruth Marie Rubens
Russia
United States
Ruebens
France
Italy
Europe
Rubens
Donald Robinson
Ruth Rubens
U. S. State Department
Adolph Arnold Rubens
Donald L. Robinson
New York
Alabama Twins Association opens annual meeting in Birmingham
Birmingham clerks report a flood of look alike registrants on opening day as the Alabama Twins Association begins its annual meeting. J R Button Shoe John, president, expects at least 150 pairs to register. Contests will award prizes for the most identical, most beautiful, oldest and youngest twins.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Twins Association
J. R
John
Button
J. C
Child in Miami Welcomes Mother Home After 10 Years
Ruth Rubens, now nine, joyfully greets her mother Adolph Rubens released from a Russian jail. Ruth recalls Christmas 1927 when she shopped early for a reunion, and she unveils a wrapped 1937 Christmas present. The family had been separated since the Rubens were detained on espionage suspicions.
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Miami
Fla
Ruth Rubens
Ruth
Adolph Rubens
Rubens
Russia
Little Ruth
Ruben
German ultimatum to Czechs over killed policeman
Prague reports German authorities extended a 24 hour window to solve the slaying of German officer Wilhelm Koilest in Kladno. The deadline passed without identified killer or retaliation details being announced.
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Prague
Creche
Kladno
Sayer
Wilhelm Koilest
German Czech crisis deepens over Kladno slaying
As German authorities threaten mass arrests and potential martial law, Kladno remains tense after the German police slaying. Baron Von Neurath enforces near martial law with police disarmament and curfews while civilians and officials are detained. Concurrently Jewish expulsions spread from Berlin to Leipzig and Munich ahead of June 20 notices.
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Bohemia-Moravia
Kladno
Baron Konstantin von Neurath
Berlin
Germany
East Prussia
Leipzig
Munich
Breslau
Kassel
Bucharest
Grigore Gafencu
Rumania
Four Negroes Executed in Kilby Prison Mass Electrocution
In Montgomery Alabama on June 9 four Black men were executed in Kilby prison's electric chair, the second largest mass electrocution in state history. Charles White 51 Ray Anderson 26 Grady Tubbs 24 and Joseph Frazier 22 were pronounced dead between 12:15 and 12:55 a.m. after confessing their crimes.
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Montgomery
Ala
Kilby
Alabama
Charles W. White
Earl Wilson
Troy
White
Ray Anderson
Birmingham
Grady Tubbs
I. c
Garden Party For Royalty Resembled Missouri Church Social
The British King and Queen hosted 1400 guests at the British embassy garden party in Washington in a setting with formal entries and escorts. U S officials and prominent guests mixed with royals while fashion and etiquette sparked casual comparisons to Missouri church socials. Queen Elizabeth carried a parasol and wore diamonds while guests included Vanderbilt Lodge Rockefeller and Edith Nourse Rogers.
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Missouri
Washington
Buckingham Palace
Scotland Yard
Bell
Dmo
Vanderbilt
Lodge
Rockefeller
Congress
Landon Injuries Do Not Halt Maine Coast Cruise
Alf Landon, the 1936 Republican presidential nominee, refused to pause his Maine coast cruise after fracturing the sixth and seventh ribs in a fall aboard the ketch Blue Moon. He left Knox County Hospital after X rays confirmed the injuries and sailed again last night, calling the ailment nothing serious.
Tombigbee waterway group backs project despite Warrior route setback
The Tennessee Warrior canal association voted to support the Tennessee Tombigbee waterway plan after Army engineers deemed the Warrior route not feasible. Governor Dixon outlined the decision at a meeting, with efforts to secure a 66 million dollar congression al appropriation and to obtain new all water freight rates to the middle west. Col Ayers said the Anniston Star will provide information and study the Warrior proposal.
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Birmingham
Ala
Tennessee-Warrior Canal Association
Tombigbee River
Frank M. Dixon
Army Engineers
H. A. Berg
Woodward Iron Company
Citizens Committee
Athens Chamber to Open Offices in Bank Building
The Athens Chamber of Commerce will open offices next week on the first floor of the Tennessee Valley Bank building in Athens Alabama. Miss Martha T Armstrong will serve as permanent secretary in charge of the new office.
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Athens
Ala
Athens Chamber of Commerce
Stormier
Tennessee Valley Bank
Martha T. Armstrong
New Limestone County Jury Commissioners Named by Governor
Athens Alabama June 9 Henderson Legg R E Fielding and Comner Cole named the new Limestone county jury commissioners by Governor Dixon succeeding the old board consisting of Legg John C Batis Jr and B N Bibb
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Athens
Ala
Henderson Legg
R. E. Fielding
Comner Cole
Limestone County
F. M. Dixon
Mr. Legg
John C. Batis, Jr
B. N. Bibb
TCI Miners Get Checks
Montgomery June 9. John D. Petree announced Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad miners will receive unemployment benefits for six weeks of mine closures in Alabama. The appeals board in Birmingham approved payments totaling about 300000. The decision notes no general Alabama coal mine labor dispute, only actions by the employer.
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Montgomery
Ala
John D. Petree
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Alabama
Petree
TCI
Unemployment Compensation Board of Appeals
George R. Stuart
Birmingham
G. Arthur Cook
James A. Lipscomb
Alabama By-Products Corporation
Department of Industrial Relations
Appeals Board
Court Considers Punishing Trio In Insurance Murder Plots
A three judge special court began hearings in Philadelphia to determine guilt and punishments for three men who pleaded guilty in the eastern insurance murder plots. Seven others pleaded innocent and will be tried later by jury in the stay for pay scheme blamed for many deaths.
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Philadelphia
Reception honors Britain’s King George and Queen Elizabeth in Washington
In the Capitol rotunda on June 9, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth greeted about 400 senators and representatives. Vice President Garner and Speaker Bankhead welcomed them, with Pittman introducing the lawmakers. Veterans and dignitaries met the royal couple at the British embassy earlier, as paintings of American victories and statues of Jefferson and Washington watched the event.
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Bulow
D-Sd
Garner
Washington
Britain
George
Elizabeth
Pittman
Congress
Borah
Ida
Senate
Pittman D
Nev
Bankhead
Capitol Plaza
Capitol
British Empire
A. E. Graham
Indianapolis
Amiens
Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson
Cairo
Tll
Lord Cornwallis
Yorktown
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
House
Tennessee River Gauge Rises to 21.1 Feet with Warm Temps
The river gauge reached 21.1 feet today with rising levels and a high of 90 degrees and a low of 69 in the last 24 hours. A trace of rain was observed with partly cloudy skies in Alabama and extreme northwest Florida. Expect scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and Saturday with light to moderate westerly coastal winds.
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Tennessee
Alabama
Florida
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Edith Nourse Rogers
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