Endurance Flight Near Record as Keys Flight Extends
The Keys and partner near surpassing the 1990 Hunter Brothers endurance record of 563 hours 41 minutes 30 seconds set in Chicago. They must stay aloft beyond 3 13 PM CST to be recognized, with 22 days in the air since departure from Oxford on June 4.
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Red
al Key
Rew
Hunter Brothers
Chicago
Ole Miss
Babe Pierce
Alabama University
Fred Key
Ben Woodruff
Fred
Record flight thrills Meridian crowd as caroon pilot blazes
A pilot atop a moving plane baffles observers in Meridian. He jokes the motor acts like a mule and boasts he can calm it by talking to it. Spectators crowd in for the record hour, with newsreels to follow at a local theatre. Twins born to Mr and Mrs Hollingsworth are named Al and Pred Dilliam Hollingsworth.
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Meridian
H. J. Hollingsworth
Conehatta
Newton Weo
Pred Dilliam Hollingsworth
Claus
Figures Reveal High Tax Costs for Citizens in 1935
AP report computes direct taxes paid by the average citizen in 1935 across 39 states. Five month totals show per capita direct taxes at 4.27 cents daily, with car owners paying about 75 cents daily for gasoline taxes. Colorado highest for direct taxes, New Hampshire lowest. Florida highest per car gas tax, Rhode Island lowest.
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Chicago
Colorado
New Hampshire
Florida
Rhode Island
Rabbit drives against crops spark farmer conflict
Dr. Kelley began a campaign against crop pests by feeding rabbits to control them, initiating a year long fight over agricultural methods.
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Dr. Kelley
Kiwanis Meeting at Noon Features Johnson and Dance
Kiwanis Club plans a noon Thursday gathering at Hotel Lyons assembly room. O D Johnson TVA recreational director will speak and Miss Robbie Peterson will dance as part of the program. Efforts aim to have every Kiwanian present for the meeting.
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O. D. Johnson
TVA
Robbie Peterson
Hotel Lyons
Mrs Mudd McClanahan Suffers Stroke at Moss Chapel
Friends mourn as Mrs. Mudd McClanahan suffers paralysis stroke at daughter Mrs. Carl Sparkman home Moss chapel.
First Cotton Bloom Shown In Limestone County
The first cotton bloom of 1935 in Limestone county was shown in Athens by Wald D. Gray. It was grown by thirteen year old Willie Pride Binford, a tenant on Mrs. Gray's southeast Athens plantation.
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Athens
Ala
Limestone County
Wald D. Gray
Willie Pride Binford
Election odds favor both parties at Charlestown race track
In Charleston West Virginia on June 26 the race track paid both parties equally. William B. Snyder, Republican county chairman, and Joseph W. Strider, Democratic chairman, each collected 580 dollars from a daily double win at the payoff window.
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Charleston
W. Va
Grand Jury to Probe Double Slaying in Lowndes County
Lowndes County grand jury, in special session, will examine the double murder of Mr and Mrs John E Norman of Fort Deposit. BE N Arant allegedly confessed to the killings. sheriff says evidence collection may counter his unwritten law defense. A first degree murder warrant stands. Arant moved for safekeeping.
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Hayneville
Ala
Lowndes County
Grand Jury
John E. Norman
Fort Deposit
BE. N. Arant
R. F. Woodruff
Arant
Montgomery County Adva
Norman
Paterson
Woodruff
Rae
Montgomery County
Kilby State
Hayseed
Community social notes from Pines area
Miss Edith Peck and guests Edith Peck Leon Dobbs and Herman Smith visited Saturday afternoon. Jack Thompson stayed with Miss Peck’s parents Saturday night. Visiting Sunday were Glenn Watkins Harold Waugh and Miss Winifred Vincent. Reverend Gast visiting relatives in Tuscaloosa this week. Several local youths attended a Sandy Bottom swimming party chap eroned by Mrs M G Peck and Mrs G C Vincent. Margie Frances Reese ill. Catherine Peck spent Saturday night with Edith Peck.
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Edith Peck
Leon Dobbs
Herman Smith
Catherine Peck
Jack Thompson
Josh
Glenn Watkins
Harold Waugh
Winifred Vincent
Cecil Hipps
E. Chambers
Eva
Tula Merle Wigginton
Florette
Reverend Gast
Tuscaloosa
Katie Gast
Sandy Bottom
M. G. Peck
G. C. Vincent
Josephine Peck
Lucile Fowler
Annie Black
Mary Sherill
Jack Reese
Margie Frances
Dietrich Masters Rolling Her Own Cigarettes
Marlene Dietrich has learned to roll her own cigarettes for a role in Paramount's The Devil Is a Woman. The Strand Theatre opens today featuring Dietrich as a heartless but beguiling Spanish senorita with a factory scene showing her meeting Lionel Atwill.
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Marlene Dietrich
Miss Dietrich
Paramout
Strand Theatre
Lionel Atwill
Public Enemies Extermination Effort Reported in Kansas
A Kansas State College field marshal Dr E G Kell led a campaign against jack rabbits noted as pests in Manhattan Kansas. The preliminary tally shows about 940000 rabbits attacked with 782000 killed in planned drive.
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Manhattan
Kas
E. G. Kell
Kansas State College
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