Kidnapped Ralph Shields Driven Off By Bandit Mob Near Underwood
A gang of three youths abducted 18 year old Ralph Shields forcing him to drive away in his car with a pistol at his head. Deputies and a posse of about 200 men hunted the robbers after a deputy sheriff was wounded and a policeman injured.
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Underwood
Ind
Indiana
Ralph Shields
Shiels
Sajem
Gilbert Shields
Ralph
Young Shields
Shields Place
Shields
Ada Shields
Scottsburg
Sheriff's Office
Shield
John Pfaffenberger
Seymour
Harold Amick
Scott County
Pfaffenberger
U. S
Amick
Gilbert Smelds
House Probe Opens On Nazi Propaganda Funding In U S
A Congressional inquiry began in Washington to determine if German money financed Nazi propaganda in America. Representative McCormack subpoenaed 25 witnesses for the opening hearing as the committee probes subversive activities. Details point to a New York firm paying six thousand dollars monthly to a Hitler official and cash to a Nazi adherent, plus possible payments to other figures tied to anti Jewish material.
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Washington
Germany
America
McCormack
House
Miembers
New York
Willny
Steel Mets
Midmore
Weather Update For Tennessee And Northwestern Areas
Partly cloudy conditions expected in Tennessee with possible thunder activity. Mostly cloudy skies with isolated thundershowers tonight and Wednesday. Northern regions may experience local thunder showers and cooler air by midweek.
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Tennessee
Aged Shamanist Abbot Buried Alive at Own Request
In Simla India pilgrims report that an aged Shamanist abbot near Bareilly requested burial in a grave. He, claimed to be 157 years old, believed life was over and life would insult the deities. Followers performed rites and covered him with earth. He had served in the temple over 50 years.
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Simla
India
Bareilly
Keys Foursome Says Five Babies Will Have Fun
Oklahoma sisters Mary Leota Mona and Roberta Keys, famed as quadruplets, express mixed feelings about the quintuplets Dionne siblings from Corbiel Ontario. They anticipate publicity yet hope the newcomers will live, and plan an official greeting with a long letter and perhaps a present.
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Hollis
Okla
Dionne
Corbiel
Ont
Oklahoma
Mary
Leota
Mona
Roberta
Mama
Texas
City council cuts gin bill and sets new rate
City council approved a 20 percent reduction in electricity bills for local gins for the 1933 season and set a new fixed rate for this and future seasons. A school census plan was read, with per capita expenditures of five cents for white children and four cents for Negroes. City Clerk Scarborough to bill Alabama Power Co. 2512.15 for alleged overcharge from 1929 to 1931.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Moseley
J. P. Scarborough
Alabama Power Co
League Moves to Halt Arms Shipments to Chaco
The League of Nations sent urgent cables to Moscow and Tokyo urging Russia and Japan to join a world embargo on arms to Paraguay and Bolivia. Italy pledged not to send arms if others refrain, while Bolivia seeks a treaty securing perpetual transit rights through Chile and Peru.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Moscow
Tokyo
Russia
Japan
Paraguay
Bolivia
Italy
League
Associated Press
Chile
Peru
Five Die in Auto Collision Near Bristol and Johnson City
A tire blowout is blamed for a head-on crash on the Bristol Johnson City Highway eight miles east of Johnson City. Five people died and two were seriously injured. victims include Mrs. Elizabeth Cox 65 of Bristol and Mrs. Hunter Mann 4 of Bristol, with relatives from Bellefonte Pennsylvania.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Elizabeth Cox
Briston
James B. Cox
United States
East Tennessee
Munsey-Slack
Bristol
Hunter Mann
Cox
Cornelius Musser
Bellefonte
Frank Keller
Musser
Audrey Keller
Kathryn Keller
Pennsylvania
Mann
Bristol-Johnson City
Here
Kelley Graham
Tennessee
D. W. Oliver
Texas
Former GridIson Coach Chadwick Killed in Crash
William Dean Chadwick 51, longtime Mississippi State College gridiron coach and administrator, died in an auto crash near Jackson. He led the 1910s era football program to 29 wins, 12 losses, and 2 ties in five seasons after arriving in 192?. later moved to registrar’s office before leaving for insurance work in 1931.
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Starkeville
Miss
William Dean Chadwick
Jackson
Mississippi State College Athletic Department
Chad
Relief Agencies To Provide Cows In Alabama
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration offered 70 000 cows and 33 000 yearlings to the Alabama relief administration to aid drought distressed areas. Alabama will accept about 13 000 cows at once. others to follow as provisions permit. Livestock will be loaned or sold to 6000 rural families and relief recipients, with payment via work programs. Cattle remain state property. disease free and delivered without cost.
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Montgomery
Ala
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Alabama Relief Administration
Middle West
Alabama Relief Agency
Alabama
Thad Holst
Relief Administration
Animal Industry Bureau
Dutch Emissary Escape From Ellis Island Custody
Pie ter Jaarsma, who posed as an unofficial goodwill ambassador of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, escaped Ellis Island guard custody yesterday. Jaarsma, detained after a coast to coast manhunt, had drawn attention for deceiving officials to obtain seals and autographs. He bolted during a dental visit in Manhattan, prompting a manhunt and further investigations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pieter Jaarsma
Manhattan
Arson Adds to Terror in Birmingham Mining Strike
In Birmingham a strike among 8000 red ore miners escalates as arson destroys two non union miners homes in Wenonah camp of Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Co with gasoline indicated. A dynamite blast hits a Republic Steel filling station in East Thomas. Conciliator L Richardon pursues talks with employers and unions amid walkouts of butchers and packing house workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
J. F. Hawkins
Wenonah
Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co
Hawking
East Thomas
Republic Steel Corporation
W. T. Elders
Thomas
L. Richardazon
Fulford Hearing Postponed in Fatal Shooting Case
The preliminary murder hearing for Atlas Fulford in the fatal shooting of Jerry Cannon was continued to June 15 by Judge Keener Baxley due to absence of defense witnesses. Fulford remains jailed without bond awaiting the hearing.
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Atlas Fulford
Jerry Cannon
Keener Baxley
Fulford
U S Ticket Holders Win In Irish Sweepstakes
Dublin June 5 AP ticket holders in the United States again received prizes in the Irish Hospital sweepstakes. The May drawings awarded concolation and residual prizes around $500 to $1,190, with 600 more prizes of about $500 to be drawn tomorrow. Anna Mercker of Reaton, Mars was named among the winners as the 39 909th prize was drawn. Della Case of Skyland NJ and Harry Morrie of Bremo Bluff VA won $59 consolation prizes in the South.
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Dublin
Irish Free State
Anna Mercker
Reaton
Mars
South
Della Case
Skyland
Harry Morrie
Bremo Bluff
Petition Drive Delayed By Merchants Signing Time
Claude T. Cotton of the Iowa NRA code authority says the circulating petition among local merchants will not take effect until Wednesday of next week. He notes cloning will not start this week as some merchants have not yet signed. firms may still sign by calling Cotton.
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Claude T. Cotton
Iowa
NRA Code Authority
Cotton
Girl Found On Highway In Ozark Seriously Hurt
Hazel Oliver, 18, of Rockport Indiana, was found unconscious on the Dothan and Ozark highway near Ozark early yesterday. She told two vary versions of her injuries and may have been thrown from a moving car. She was hospitalized after being moved from Ozark to a local hospital. Authorities sought to contact her relatives in Rockport. The girl was found wearing boys clothes.
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Hazel Oliver
Rockport
Ind
Dothan and
Ozark
Steagall Urged to Aid County Game Preserve Initiative
Congressmen Henry F. Steagall is asked to assist in locating a game and bird preserve in Houston County by the Dothan Kiwanis Club. The refuge efforts follow the Agricultural Adjustment Act plan to establish preserves nationwide. A tract in southeastern Houston County has been surveyed by Co. M Ling, farm agent. In Athens, Georgia, Graham Fatchelor, University of Georgia’s star, debuts as a professional heavyweight tonight against Bull Johnson of Fort McPherson after his last intercollegiate appearance.
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Henry FB Dteazall
Houston County
Dothan Kiwania Club
Co. M Ling
Athens
Graham Fatchelor
University of Georgia
Atlanta
Bull Johnson
Fort McPherson
Science Leads Way Out Of Economic Tangle
Massachusetts Institute of Technology address by AP science editor Howard Blakeslee argues scientific progress will massively raise world wealth and leisure. He cites a new physics cooling method for castings and notes future tech may cut costs and boost durability, with broader bets on energy, materials, irrigation, and synthetic textiles.
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Boston
Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Massachuestts Institute of Technology
Blakeslee
Midwest
Quartet Acquitted by Jury Fined One Cent
A United States court jury acquitted S. B. Davis Wilbur Givens Cecil Griffin and H. W. Givens of violating the migratory act. They were brought on a capias for failing to appear and ordered to pay one cent plus court costs in lieu of bond forfeiture. The ruling closes the criminal docket for this session with civil cases to be heard later this term.
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United States
S. B. Davis
Wilbur Givens
Cecil Griffin
H. W. Givens
C. B. Kennamer
Kennamer
Dixon Club Names Officials for Governor Campaign
Officers of the Young People's Dixon For Governor Club were elected at the Houston Hotel mezzanine. N Frank Pridgen is president J Theodore Jackson vice president Earl Stapleton secretary and Lawrence T Oakey treasurer. Members listed include Claude Cotton Betts Slinghilf and others as Dixon supporters plan active duty in the second primary.
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Young People's
Dixon For Governor Club
Houston Hotel
N. Frank Pridgen
J. Theodore Jackson
Earl Stapleton
Lawrence T. Oakey
Claude T. Cotton
Betts Slinghilf
T. J. Whitley
Earl McRae
Henry Mallen
Aaron Kraselsky
Wallace Scarborough
Julian Hall
Julian Hall, ©. R. Robinson
J. Ray Camp
Robert Malone
F. C. Wiggins
Harvey McBride
Lawrence T. Oakley
J. T. Edmondson, Jr
Charlie B. Kingly
D. Fields Bailey
Harry Hall
Horace Hall
Tom Lane
Nat. Faulk
DeWitt Thomas
Alec Price
James Strickland
Lonely Dennis
Dixon
Wells Voting Records Impounded In Houston County Primary
Ballots tally sheets voting lists and affidavits of challenged voters from the May 1 Democratic Primary were impounded by order of County Judge A Pearce. They will be kept by W T Welle until presented to the next grand jury investigating irregularities.
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Houston County
A. Pearce
W. T. Welle
Welle
Are
Isc Ged
Salistfor J. Hubert Farmer
Pearce
Grand
Carolina crowd protests red tape in relief activity
A mixed audience in Columbia gathered to denounce federal and local relief administration red tape that displaced workers from the CWA program. They urged orderly action to secure relief and employment with a mass meeting planned at the Richland County courthouse. Rexford Tugwell set a sugar processing tax at half a cent per pound in Washington.
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Columbta
San Persona
Emergency
Federal Emergency Relief Program
CWA
Richland County
L. B. Owens
Columbia
Washington
Rexford G. Tugwell
Relief Funds for Drought Area Approved in Senate Action
A $525,000,000 drought relief program advances as Roosevelt and a congressional delegation back measures to aid dry regions with cattle purchases, feed and seed for farmers, and work programs. Johnson pushes steel labor concessions while Senate debates the silver bill and NRA plans to set a steel labor board.
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Washington
Roosevelt
NRA
Hugh S. Johnson
Johnson
Allver
Senate
House
Hans Luther
Germany
Rules Committee
Ways and Means
White House
June Robles to appear in movies and vaudeville
Fernanda Robles says June Robles, 19, will perform four weeks at 31000 per week for film or vaudeville, with $1500 of earnings set as a kidnapping reward. Family plans to push for kidnapers' capture as part of the offer discussion in Long Beach California.
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Long Beach
Tucson
Ariz
June Robles
Fernanda Robles
Little June
June
Death of Father O Donnell noted by Will Rogers
Will Rogers reports the death of Father O Donnell of Notre Dame University. He praises his influence on players and character off the field and recalls Knute Rockne. He adds a light note about rain in the Midwest and relief from Washington.
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Hollywood
Cal
O'Hara
Odonnell
Notre Dame University
Rockne
Middle West
Washington
Will Rogers
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Chaco Region
Drouth
Chicago
O. E. Reed
Dairy Industry Bureau
BE. W. Sheets
National
Drouth Relief
iState
Ellis Island
Fumimaro Konoye
House of Peers
Konoye
Steagall
Maker Pro
Ailso
Ttig
Dixon Club
Young People's Organization
Wells
Carolina
Dothan
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