Beer War Rages as Gangland Victims Fall in Chicago
On Chicago south side a fresh wave of gang violence erupts after a brief lull. James Red McGee former policeman and Vernie Larkin, aides of Edward O'Donnell, are killed when two gunmen ambush the Del Rio roadhouse. George Vanderkoff a waiter is seriously wounded while trying to escape.
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Chicago
South Side
James “Red” McGee
Vernie Larkin
Edward “Pike” O'Donnell
del Rio
McGee
Lakin
George Vanderkoff
Upshaw Nominated for Prohibition Party President
Indianapolis July 7. William G Upshaw former Democratic congressman from Georgia was given a second ballot nomination for the presidency by the Prohibition party national convention. He said he would withdraw if Senator William Borah or another strong leader agreed to head a third party movement. Reagan of Rockford Ill was nominated for vice presidency by acclamation. Borah was urged as a likely future third party candidate and delegates sought a draft of him by telephone.
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Indianapolis
William G. Upshaw
Congress
Georgia
Upshaw
William E. Borah
Idaho
Frank F. ‘Reagan
Rockford
Borah
William ¥. Horah
Prohibition Pary
Idaho Statesman
New York
Alfred E. Smith
Democratic Party
Smith
Roosevelt
Garner
Ien
Poy 11 Captures Flying Crane Near Weston Hospital
John Robert Minnich, age 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Minnich of West Weston, spotted a large crane in the Weston State Hospital garden. He dashed through cornstalks, performed a flying tackle, and subdued the bird whose wingspan reached about four feet. The bird had been living in a vacant chickenhouse.
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Weston
John Robert
West Virginia flood devastation hits farms and bridges
Central and southern West Virginia reels from a three day flood with farms along the Elk river hardest hit while at least a dozen railroad bridges and three highway bridges wash out across six counties. Water fills streets in Clendenin Sutton Gassaway Webster Springs and Flatwoods as highways reopen gradually and authorities assess losses.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Elk River
Braxton
Webster Counties
Clay, Nicholas
Kanawhat
Boone
Clendenin
Webster Springs
Gassiway
Sutton
Clay
Flatwood
Virginia
Clendennin
Ronceverte
Flatwoods Gassaway
Huntington
Road Commission
Orgas
Boone County
Vof Clendennin
Scary
Winfield
Birch River
Nicholas County
Summersville
Richwood
Democrats of State Ready for Campaign Charleston
Charleston July 7 Big guns in the democratic state campaign will be fired from Charleston July 9. Robert G. Kelly chairman opened the state campaign headquarters in the Kanawha Hotel with Charles Lively of Weston as vice chairman. Kelly announced a finance committee and advisory committee with members from multiple towns and per district. A negro democratic executive committee was also named by Kelly with ten members from various cities.
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Charleston
Robert G. Kelly
Democratic State Committee
Kanawha
Charles Lively
Weston
Kelly
Ruth McGraw
Clarksburg
R. H. Casto
Spencer
John.j.d. Preston
P. D. Koontz
Fred L. Fox
Sutton
Jare
Truhart Taylor
Hun Ington
Howard Robinson
Tom B. Foulk
Wheeling
Earl B. Wilk- Hinson
Grafton
P. J. Crogan
Kinewood
Katherine McCoy
Moorefield
Spain
May F. Connell
George I. Neal
Huntington
J. B. Lammet
Parkersburg
R. Finley Dunlap
Hinton
J.T. Lambert
Wayne
H. B. ‘Davenport
Frances Preston
Lewisburg
Frank H. Jackson
Fairmont
T. C. Glashen
Beckley
C. E. Kimbrough
L. G. Smith
George Williams
Elkins
Brady Briggs
E. J. James
Institute
J. K. Wells
W. H. Huston
Holden
Dave Ware
Fayetteville
Eight year old Florence Cole dies from accidental gunshot wound
In Clarksburg Florence Emma Cole, eight, died after a pistol discharged accidentally in Clay June 1. She had lingered in a hospital since, briefly improving while helping her mother shop yesterday, before a relapse caused her death.
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Clarksburg
Clay
Florence Emma Cole
Grasselli
Navy School Fire Destroys Ilha das Enxadas Campus
A major blaze ripped through the naval school Ilha das Enxadas in Rio de Janeiro on July 7, heavily damaging classrooms archives and offices and destroying valuable navy department records.
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Rio de Janeiro
Naval School
Ilha Das Enxadas
Navy Department
President and Speaker Clash Over Relief Measure
The confrontation pits President Hoover against Speaker Garner in a fierce dispute over the 2 122000000 relief act. Conferees revise the Gar sher Wagner measure to meet most objections, while Garner accuses Hoover of favoring a select clientele and seeks broader borrowing rights under the program.
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Hoover
Garner
Garsher-Wagner
Senate
House
Hooiver
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Congress
Snell
New York
Washington
Reparation Deadlock Frays Swiss Talks in Lausanne
Lausanne July 7 deadlocked over reparation terms and the war guilt stigma. Premier Harriet of France and German chancellor Franz Von Papen failed to agree on a settlement. Legal delegations pressed outlines of a treaty, while six-power talks broke up in fifteen minutes despite British optimism.
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Lausanne
Switzerland
Germany
Harriet
France
Franz von Papen
Jealous Father Kills His Daughter In family tragedy
Berlin reports Communist riots across Germany with casualties. In Clarksburg a policeman died. Henry Harrison Smith 39, employed by Hope Refining Construction, shot his daughter Es telle Waneta Smith 18 as she slept in an upstairs room after a quarrel over a river walk with a neighboring couple. The father then killed himself amid broader unrest and protests over dole reductions.
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Berlin
Germany
Clarksburg
Jeal
Scherous
Bitterfield
Spring Hill
Seved
Henry Harrison
Tinneberg
Smith
Hope ~ Refining & Construction Company
Estelle Waneta Smith
Grandmother Leads In Oklahoma Primary Runoff Fight
Oklahoma City July 7 A grandmother and anti Governor Murray foe Mrs Mabel Bassett state charities and corrections chief leads in the Democratic nomination race for Oklahoma's new congressman at large with over half precincts reporting Bassett about 4000 votes ahead of E B Howard of Tulsa and nearly 10000 ahead of Claude Weaver. Hastings trails Johnston in second district nominating race with 61 precincts reported and a runoff likely.
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Oklahoma City
W. H. Murray
Oklahoma
Mabel Bassett
Bassett
Howard
Claude Weaver
Murray
Weaver
W. W. Hastings
Alexander Johnston
Okbulgee
Hastings
Johnson
J. C
Jack” Walton
Oklaho M
Submarine Promethee Sinks Off Cherbourg
A French submarine Promethee sank off Cherbourg harbor today with a crew of 56 and 17 engineers and other workers aboard. Seven men were saved. The vessel carried additional personnel not permanently assigned to the ship.
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Paris
Promehee
Cherbourg
France
Promethee
Portrait of a governor sparks veto by art commission
Boston July 7 Former Governor Frank G Allen is painted with hands in pockets by New York artist H L Wolff. The portrait pleased Governor Bly and the executive council but the art commission vetoed it. A special council hearing will be held.
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Boston
Frank G. Allen
H. L. Wolff
New York
Joseph B. Bly
Executive Council
Diegel Shatters Par In Open Lead
Ottawa Canada July 7 Leo Diegel four time Canadian open champion shot a par shattering 72 to take the lead in the first round of the 1932 open tournament on the local course, giving observers a strong early pace at the event.
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Ottawa
Canada
Leo Diezel
Long overdue hop from Berlin for globe flight
Two American fliers James Mattern and Bennett Griffin, overdue from Berlin on a round the world attempt, had not been heard at noon Moscow time. Officials reported no contact at the government airport, with fuel limits looming, as search efforts intensified and questions about their course Eskewed. Berlin hailed their 18 hour 41 minute harbor to harbor flight as record setting, while Moscow feared over the vast steppes to Siberia.
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James Mattern
Fort Worth
Texas
Bennett Griffin
Oklahoma City
New York
Harbor Grace
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
Pont
Gatty
Moscow
Berlin
Griffin
Fiers
Mattern
Omirsk
N. F
Ye Id Mattern
Globe
Hoover Campaign Opens In Palmer House Chicago
In Chicago on July 7, the Republican campaign for re election of President Herbert Hoover opened with national headquarters set up on the Palmer House sixth floor. Everett Sanders chaired the National Committee and coordinated with Henry Allen.
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Chicago
Herbert Hoover
Palmer House
Everett Sanders
National Committee
Get
Eralisimo
Henry Allen
Kansas
West
Sanders
White +House
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