Indicted for Arson After Clayton Explosion
Thomas L Cravey J C English and Gil Alabama faces multiple arson counts for a store explosion at Choctaw near Clayton which destroyed four buildings and caused $25 000 in damage. Bloodhounds led police to Craveys home. Cravey bond set at 5000. Eng lish bond set at 10000. Fire Marshal D M Slaughter and T M Patterson led the inquiry for the grand jury which returned indictments yesterday.
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Thomas L. Cravey
Gil
J. C. English
Blue Springs
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Bundey
Gores
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Engteh
Williams
Tee
D. M. “Slaughter
Aldot. Pillettor
T. M. ‘Patterson
Igraed
President Hoover Receives Flood of Invites
President Hoover faces an endless stream of requests to visit states and cities as Congress readies to adjourn. Officials and civic leaders, including senators and mayors, press for a concrete itinerary but no travel plan is being considered.
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Associated: Press
Washington
Mississippi River
Hoover
Congress
Chambers of Commerce
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Maniac Slayer Believed Guilty in Brooklyn Murder Case
Police tied a Brooklyn shooting to earlier Queens killings as letters in the slayer’s handwriting claimed more targets. The same suspect, described in recent letters, is linked to Mozynski Sowley and Horwitz slayings and a hospital escape suspect, with seven names named for death and others spared.
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Brooklyn
New York
Bearch
Queens
Morris Horwitz
Joseph Mosynski
Noel Sowley
Horwitz
Mozynski
Sowley
W. R
College Point
Bayside
Morynski
Horwits
N. Y
Catherine May
Lowley
Elizabeth King
Queens Village
Carrol Street
Manisc
Joseph Ustica
Kings Park Hospital
William Gilpride
Broklyn
Ustics
Gayer
Motynski
Ustica
Philadelphia
Joseph Clark
Alabama Heat Wave Grips Dothan and State
Dothan swelters under a blazing sun with temperatures near 92 to 94 degrees at noon and 2 pm. Alabama swelters as the mercury tops into the nineties statewide with Wetumpka reported hottest at near century levels. Weather official P H Smyth says the heat will continue with only slight cooling tonight and tomorrow.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Wetumpka
P. H. Smyth
Finnell Audiences Promises Cash-Sparing Alabama Roads
Colonel Finnell Democratic gubernatorial candidate and current state highway commissioner told a Houston county crowd he would build a superior road system without raising taxes. He urged a prison trustees board to replace gubernatorial control, opposed large bond issues, and supported tax cuts while maintaining schools and road work funded by federal aid. He touted the Columbia to Dothan to Enterprise to Flomaton corridor and the Bee Line as key projects.
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Woolsey Finner
Houston County Court House
Finnell
Department of Prisons
Montgomery
Dothan
Houston County
Columbia
Enterprise
Flomaton
Finner
Alabama’s first triple execution at Kilby Prison
Three black men were executed in a single night at Kilby Prison marking Alabama’s first triple electrocution. Roy Lee Miles and Edgar Harris proclaimed innocence while Jack Bowen, who confessed, offered final remarks as the chair delivered death after two current charges.
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Montgomery
Ala
Meek
Kilby
Roy Lee Miles
J. F. Barbaree
Union Springs
Edgar Harris
J. R. Moss
Hugo Postmaster
Jack Bown
Harris
Moss
Captain Frank
Bowen
Frank Boswell
Frank
Miles
Will of John M. Yours Proposes Odd Funeral Fun
Probate filing in Newslery Michigan reveals John M. Yours wills a $150 monument a lively coffin march and cigars for all men at his funeral Executrix ordered to supply candy and gum for women and children with a festive mood throughout the event.
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Newslerry
Mich
John M
Fed banks cut rediscount rate to 2 1/2 percent
The Federal Reserve Board announces that the New York district banks have set the rediscount rate at 2 1/2 percent on all classes of paper and all maturities effective today. This marks the lowest rate in the bank’s history, down from 3 percent.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Banks of
New York
Alabama PSC approves Orrville telephone rate schedule
The Alabama Public Service Commission approved a new schedule of rates for Orrville telephone service after a June 12 hearing. Testimony supporting the revision came from Orrville mayor and councilmen and a majority of subscribers, citing improved service. The petition was filed by agreement, reducing party line rates from $2.10 to $2.
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Montgomery
Ala
Petiion
Ortville Telephone Company
Alabama Public Service Commission
Orrville
Harold Schroeder Captured in Mobile After Indianapolis Torch Murder
Harold H. Schroeder, a Mobile man missing after a torch murder near Indianapolis, was arrested by county officers at Brown and Lafayette streets. He faces a conspiracy to murder charge and fugitive from justice warrant as investigators trace letters to Nashville. Schroeder was identified by a hitchhiker and belongings found with clues tied to the Indianapolis case.
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Mobile
Ala
Harold H. Schroeder
Indianapolis
Sheriff's Department
Brown
Lafayette
Bart B. Chamberlain
Schroeder
Leah Schroeder
Nashville
Inferior Criminal Court
Pat Byrne
Schroeders
Motorista
Three Men Found Dead in Rockmart Well Mystery
Coroner postpones inquest as authorities investigate three slain men Clif Jones Lige Harper and Ernest McCullough found head downward in an abandoned well near Rockmart Georgia. Suspected involvement of Bill Hulsey and son Fred centers on a burned wagon report and witness statements.
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Cedartown
Regsdale
Polk County
Tom Hicks
Inlaw
Fred Hulsey
Cliff Jones
Lige Harper
Ernest McCullough
Rockmart
Ragsdale
Hicks
Invest
Solicitor General
Hulsey
Tom
June
Clif Jones
Alonso Sorrell
John Dennis
Harper
Bill Hulsey
Fred
B. H. Leonard
Dennis
Slocomb Officer Shoots Negress in Public Fight
Special to The Eagle reports Liz zie Johnson a Black woman was wounded when Night Marshall Ernest Davis shot her during a daytime confrontation in Slocomb Alabama. Witnesses say a fist fight followed by an iron pipe attack on the officer led to the shooting.
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Eagle Slocomb
Ala
Lizzie Johnson
Marshall Ernest Davis
Marshall
Preston Johnson
Davis
Preston
Bridge Collapse Kills At Frederick Michigan?
Two or more men died and six were injured when half of the state highway bridge over the McNeary river on the Washington highway near Frederick Maryland collapsed into the swollen waters.
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Frederick
Steal State Highway
McNecacy River
Washington Highway
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