Acquaintance Murder Probe Linked to Tuscumbia Death
Police say Vandiver is sought in connection with the double death in Tuscumbia Alabama where Lorene Redding 33 was killed and Vandiver shot Hamp Shields in Franklin County The investigation also notes a note from Vandiver threatening to kill himself and the electric chair may await him if captured. Lorene Redding had left home after Vandiver’s disappearance and was found dead at a rooming house.
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Vandiver
Lo‘Redding
O Ss
Alay- Tuscumbia
Ala
Rachine
Gawger
Redding
Rooming House
Evan Vandiver
Tuscumbia
Miss Redding
Alabama
Vandi
Itxp
Franklin
NTY
Scumbia
Wm Vandiver
Lorene Redding I Paso
Yanklin County
Anties
Hamp Shields
Febriz
Tee
Shields
Ry. Hicks
Henry Redding
Joe Smith
R L. McAdory
Smith
A. M. Searcy
James Davis
Searcy
Reynolds outlines Alabama GOP ticket and August nomination plan
Grady Reynolds, United district attorney, stated that Alabama Republicans will nominate federal and state tickets in Birmingham in August for the November election. He said the plan includes a complete state ticket and opposition to all nominees, with Hugh A. Locks as governor candidate and a cornered race for the mortal chair. An oldest resident, Tepert, age 112, is noted in a separate line.
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Ntgomery
Ala
Grady Reynolds
United District Attorney
Alabama
Birmingham
Ates
Mids
West
Reynalds
Hugh A. Locks
Pius Materiatine
Dixon Letter Rouses Senate Over Parker Supreme Court Nomination
Senate leaders faced disruption as a letter from Joseph M. Dixon to Hoover administration officials labeled Judge John J. Parker of North Carolina a supreme court nominee a major political stroke. The communication, read by Senator McKellar of Tennessee, highlighted opposition to Parker's candidacy.
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Senate
Joseph M. Dixon
Grant
Secretary of the Interior
McKellar
Tennessee
Dixon
Hoover
John J. Parker
North Carolina
Supreme Court
Ohio Governor Finds Responsibility in Prison Reform After Fire
Governor Cooper outlined his duty to make the Ohio Penitentiary fireproof and properly manned after a board of inquiry and State Fire Marshal reports. The inquiry cited delayed alarms and lack of internal command, with indications of defective wiring possibly causing the blaze that killed 220 inmates.
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Columbus
Ohio Penitentiary
Cooper
Ra. R. Gill
Board of Inquiry
Ohio
Preston E. Thomas
Walle
Catone
Robert Haubrich
Normel
Pat McDermott
den Melrett
Canton Ofifter
Boy Scouts Round-Up Draws 225 in Dothan
About 225 scouts from 17 counties in northwest Florida and southeast Alabama gathered in Dothan for the Choctawhatchee council round-up at Young Junior High School. 176 had registered by 9 this morning with 100 local scouts hosting and planning events through the afternoon ending with an honor rally at City Hall.
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Choctawhatches Area Council
Dothan
Young
John Budd
The
Eagle
Florida
Alabama
Choctawhatchee Council
Budd
Local Resident Undergoes Minor Saturday Operation
Tamiedge May of Rothan underwent a minor operation at a local hospital early Saturday morning. He was reported resting as well as could be expected several hours after the procedure.
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Tamiedge May
Rothan
Notorious Adler gang of forgers swept West
West San Francisco May 3 AP reports the Adler gang of forgers is being sought after felled by a $47,700 heist on two banks in the city. Jack Barnes 25 allegedly tied to the group was arrested after trying to cash an $8,000 check. Bank of Italy $2700 Well Fargo and Union Trust $12000 losses noted. The gang reputed to have stolen millions from eastern banks in recent years.
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San Francisco
Adler
E T the West
Jack Barnes
Barnes
Bank of Italy
Well Fargo Bank and Union Trust Company
Adler Geng
Spinach ill act run in Weed Memorial stakes
Wil Nem Etegiers Spinach ill act run in the Weed Memorial stakes at Jamaica on Saturday and will be out of training for at least two weeks after wrenching his back in the race.
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New York
Wil- Nem Etegiers
Jemaica
Wil
Tragic engagement ends in murder suicide in Humboldt Park
In Chicago at Humboldt Park rose garden Arthur Brown shoots Sally Cuta after declaring if he cannot have her no one can. Brown then kills himself. Sally, 17, was to marry but faced a breakup at her mother’s urging. Witnesses heard the fatal utterance and shots.
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Chicago
Arthur Brown
Sally Cuta
Rose Garden
Humboldt Park
Brown
Sally
Goodby
Reckless Drivers Targeted on Alabama Highways
Alabama traffic officers were ordered to curb reckless and intoxicated driving and cars with one headlight. Chief Walter K. McAdory announced the statewide drive after a meeting with Gov. Bibb Graves. In nine months the traffic bureau reported 305 arrests for traffic violations including 163 for reckless driving and 128 for intoxication.
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Bibb Graves
Montgomery
Ala
State Law Enforcement Department
Alabama
Walter K. McAdory
Caid
McAdory
Senate debate on Parker Supreme Court nomination continues
A weekend recess left the senate split with eight undecided votes as confirmation or rejection of Judge John J. Parker looms. Labor groups protest perceived prejudice while Parker’s Red Jacket coal case ties his ruling to prior Supreme Court precedent.
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Washington
Senate
John J. Parker
Supreme Court
North Carolina
Parker
Supreme Bench
American Federation of Laserdomination Etaoin N Bor
Yellow Dog
Onder
Bird
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
Red Jacket
United Mine Workers
Red Jacket Coal and Coke Company
West Virginia
Bitt
Republicans Seek To Re establish Shattered Lines
Washington May 3 AP Republicans in the house seek to reestablish voting lines for key ballots on the export debenture plan and tariff bill amendments. Despite reverses over sugar duty and lumber, leaders expect a majority against the debenture proposal as Congress prepares adjournment and the senate considers urgent tariff issues.
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Washington
House
Senate
Cuba
Hoover
Tariff Commission
Congress
Hawley
Ways and Means Committee
Death of Justice Crownhart at Wisconsin Supreme Court
Justice Charles H. Crownhart, 67, of the Wisconsin supreme court, died of a heart attack at Wisconsin General Hospital after a two day stay. A progressive Republican ally of Senator Robert M. Lafollette, he managed Lafollette's campaigns in 1910 and 1916 and was appointed to the court on April 4, 1922 by Governor John B Equ. His death gives Governor Kohler a fourth supreme court appointment since taking office.
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Madison
Wis
Charles H. Crownhart
State Supreme Court
Wisconsin General Hospital
Robert M. Lafollette
Lafollette
Supreme Court
John Bieine
Justice Crownbart
Walter J. Kohter
Central and East Gulf States Weekly Weather Outlook
Showers expected in the early part of the week with fair spells later. Temperatures near or slightly above seasonal averages across the central and eastern Gulf states.
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Central
East Gulf States
Banks cannot act as custodian of city school funds
The Alabama Attorney General ruled that banks may not be designated treasurer or custodian for city school funds. The opinion responded to Dr A F Harman and found no authority for municipal bodies in incorporated towns to appoint a bank as treasurer. It also held the 1927 act on county convict labor constitutional and noted fines and costs from the Dothan court must go to the treasurer for a special inferior court fund.
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Montgomery
Ala
Attorney General‘s Department
A. F. Harman
State Superintendent of Education
City Board of Education
State Board of Administration
Court of Common Pleas At
Dothan
Birmingham Man Charged with First Degree Murder
Lloyd Gilbert 40, nicknamed Kid Lloyd, held on first degree murder charge after coroner's inquest into George Smith's death. Smith fatally shot by bullet through a clubroom wall as he walked up stairs. Witnesses described Gilbert intoxicated and firing wildly at a downtown Birmingham clubroom on North Eighteenth Street.
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Birmingham
Als
Lloyd Gilbert
Kid Lloyd
George Smith
Smith
J. D. Russum
Gilbert
Louis Brandes
North Eighteenth Street
Florida wreck leaves one dead and twelve injured
A Florida east coast freight train rear ended a passenger train at Bunnell. One woman, Mrs. W. C. McRoberts of Palatka, was killed. About a dozen others were injured, two seriously, including flagman J. O. White and National Guardsman Jack Clemmons who was trapped for a time. Most injured were taken to a St. Augustine hospital.
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Bunnell, Fla
Florida East Coast
W. C. McRoberts
Palatka
J. O. White
Jack Clemmons
National
Bunnell
East Palatka
St. Augustine
Tyler Goodwyn Named Assistant Attorney General
Robert Tyler Goodwyn Jr. of Montgomery is appointed by Attorney General Charlie C. McCall to serve as Assistant Attorney General, succeeding J. W. Brassell who moves to the Alabama Public Service Commission. Brassell succeeds Judge J. Q. Smith, who resigns to run for Attorney General. Smith had led grand jury probes into Alabama bank failures.
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Montgomery
Alta
Robert Tyler Goodwyn, Jr
Charlie C. McCall
J. W. Brassell
Alabama Public Service Commission
Prassell
J. Q. Smith
All City Gas Stations Cut Gas Price to 24 Cents a Gallon
Dothan gas stations reduced prices from 25 to 24 cents per gallon after city council cut the city tax on gasoline from two to one cent. Gulf and Texas company stations followed the order with similar reductions. The council also imposed a four cent per quart tax on motor oils.
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Dothan
Texas Company
J. W. King
Whalesate
Cecil Lasseter
Gulf Company
The
Eagle Today
Gulf
Flurry Resigns as Head of State Weights and Measures
Horace L. Flurry, chief of the division of weights and measures in Alabama’s agriculture department, resigned effective immediately. In his letter to Commissioner Seth P. Storrs he cites lax enforcement of weights and measures laws under the current administration.
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Montgomery
Ala
Horace L. Flurry
Division of Weights and Measures
State Department of Agriculture
Seth P. Storrs
Flurtry
State drives push to repeal Prohi law for third time
Colorado voters face a third attempt to modify the state prohibi tion law as organizers file to place the repeal question on the ballot. The move, led by Dr J M Veoom and supported by the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seeks an amendment allowing alcohol distribution, not saloon legalization, and sets Denver as the headquarters.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado
Adrianna Mungerford
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Secretary of
Wets
Motive Sought in Torch Slaying Near Hunter
Police seek motive for the torch slaying of Stanley Bud Holmes 31 a farm hand whose charred body was found on a highway near Hunter Arkansas. Sheriff Bob Smith discounted robbery due to coins found on the body and said several clues are being followed. Holmes left Ed Packett’s farm Thursday morning saying he would visit his mother Mrs J H Holmes and was not seen alive again.
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Augusta
Ark
Stanley
Bud) Holmes
Hunter
Bob Smith
Woodruff County
Holmes
Ed Packett
Packett
H. Holmes
Burial Planned for UNC Student Killed in Auto Crash
The body of Cunningham Constantine 22 a University of North Carolina student will be brought to Birmingham for burial. He died in an automobile accident near Sweet Briar Virginia while en route to Sweet Briar College for May Day festivities. He is the son of Dr and Mrs K W Constantine of Birmingham.
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Birmingham
Ala
Cunningham Constantine
Sweetbriar
Sweetbriar College
University of North Carolina
K. W. Constantine
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