Hex slaying probe in Kalamazoo jail report
Four people, including Eugene Burgess and his wife, are in Kalamazoo jail as officers pursue a hex slaying case. Burgess allegedly beat Mrs. Etta L. Fairchilds to death with a lead pipe and hammer after claiming she cast an evil influence over his family. The home visit occurred yesterday. Burgess said he struck her at dinner and dragged her to the living room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Burgens
Etta L. Fairchilds
Burgess
Fairchilds
Jane
Air ace Hoyt aims Nome Alaska flight record
Capt Ross G. Hoyt plans a Mitchell Field to Nome and return flight in 75 hours 40 minutes for 8460 miles. He departed Mitchell Field yesterday 2 38 P M EST reaching Minneapolis at 7 58 P M CST and refueled before a 1100 mile leg to Edmonton Alberta.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Nome
Alaska
Ross G. Hoyt
Mitchell Field
New York
Hoyt
Wold Chamberlin Field
Edmonton
Alta
75 Percent Of Bootlegging In Arkansas By Women
Texarkana Ark July 19 Deputy prohibition administrator for the western section of Arkansas says 75 percent of bootlegging in the state is by women. He has already arrested 14 women and warns hundreds more will face federal judges. He says many women act as agents for husbands or male associates.
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Texarkana
Ark
Arkansas
M. Gurley
Prohibition
Gurley
Nine Bodies Recovered After Wrecked Chicago Line Train
Stratton July 19 Nine bodies were recovered from the wreck of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific crack passenger train after it plunged through a flood weakened bridge into a creek near Stratton. Wrecking trains with flood lamps searched tangled Pullmans and baggage cars for more victims as the Cape Porpoise lay submerged. The ninth body, a negro Pullman porter, was found downstream a mile away. Scores of passengers were injured as the westbound train met disaster shortly after a siding permit for the eastbound train. the eastbound had crossed the bridge 45 minutes earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stratton
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Cape Porpoise
Bank Armored Car Held Up by Bandits in New Orleans
Seven bandits seized an Hibernia Bank armored truck in New Orleans. They threw the guards off, drove away with $42,583.90 and fled in a following car, with police still searching for the vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank
New Orleans
Hibernia Bank and Trust Company
New Cardinal Made at Vatican Consistory
Vatican City July 19 Pope Pius publicly elevated Monsignor Idéfon-80 Schuster, abbot of Saint Paul outside the walls, to cardinal in a consistory in the Sala Regia, solemnly bestowing the red hat as the mark of his new station.
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Vatican City
Sacred College
Pope Pius
Sala Regia
Idéfon
Schuster
Saint Paul'ss
Sick and Lonely Boy Yearns for Home in Carolina
Claude Blackburn of Cliffside North Carolina was found critically injured near Bolyard’s Blueville home Wednesday night. He remained at City Hospital with no contact from his mother and police reporting no answer to messages. Night Patrolmen investigated and found he had just been released from Taylor county jail after a ten day sentence for train riding. The report indicates he was discovered face down and seriously injured. the story continues on page seven.
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Claude Blackburn
Cliffside
North Carolina
Bolyard
Blueville
City Hospital
Blackburn
W. T. Bolyard, Jr
Grafton
Wallace Henderson
Earl C. DeMoss
Taylor County
Dr._F
Suddarth
Seven Killed In Logan's Ferry Works Explosion
New Kensington Pennsylvania reports seven dead and nine injured after an explosion wrecked part of the Logan's Ferry works of United States Aluminum Company. Coroner confirms a machine belt clog and dust ignition as likely causes. two brick one story structures collapsed, $10,000 damage estimated.
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New Kensington
Logan's Ferry Works
United States Aluminum Company
The
Aluminum Company of America
W. J. McGregor
Paustenbach
Tarantum
Pathfinder reaches Cherbourg in transatlantic flight
American aviators Captain Lewis A. Yancey and Roger Q. Williams aboard the Pathfinder arrived at Cherbourg from Le Bourget. The plane will be dismantled and loaded onto the liner Republic, which carries the aviators to America tonight.
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Cherbourg
France
Pathfinder
Lewis A. Yancey
Roger Q. Williams
le Bourget
Republic
America
President Hoover to participate in tariff fight reportedly
Washington dispatch says Hoover directs the tariff commission to report all Democratic members of the house and senate who have made requests. He prepares to engage the tariff fight. The report, expected in a week or ten days, notes few Democrats asked for increases, mostly on agricultural products.
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Hoover
Tariff Body
Washington
Washington Post Today
Tarif Commission
House
Investigation Underway After Belvedere Convent Raid
Los Angeles July 19 preparations for a grand jury probe into the Belvedere convent raid seek to fix responsibility for the July 13 seizure by prohibition agents without a warrant. District Attorney Baron Fitts apologized, ordered damage paid, and said no further raids will occur without warrants. Four prohibition officers to be dismissed.
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Los Angeles
Baron Fitts
Belvedere
Prohibition
Mey
Fitts
Italian City Struck by Quake Tremor
Florence and surrounding villages were rattled by an after hours earthquake, about eight seconds long, causing wall and roof damage without injuries. Crevices appeared in Borgo San Lorenzo Viceno Barberino Firenzula as residents spent the night outside. Epicenter estimated 25 miles away with lighter shocks felt in Bologna.
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Florence
Italy
Borgo
San Lorenzo
Vicenio
Barberino
Firenzuola
Lakefront battered by nor eastern gale in Chicago
A nor easter struck Lake Michigan causing thousands of dollars in damage to lakefront properties and moored craft. Fifteen foot waves battered apartment buildings and beaches while streets from Sheridan Road to Lincoln Park and Evanston faced flooding and washouts. Shipping struggled through rough seas as the Columbus returned late from Milwaukee with passengers disembarking due to high tides.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Coast Guard
Sheridan Road
Lincoln Park
Evanston
Calvary Cemetery
Columbus
Milwaukee
War Menace in Manchuria Persists Amid Clashes
Reports from Harbin and border towns describe Russian advances and Chinese resistance along the Chinese Eastern Railway. Aircraft drop pamphlets urging Chinese support as martial law restricts daily life in Manchuria. Moscow refutes war plans while Kellogg pact cited to deter conflict. French attention centers on Sino Russian tensions in Manchuria.
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Associated Press
Manchuria
Harbin
Balgoveshchensk
Balgoveshchynsk
Shial
Russia
China
Shanghai
Amur
Blajvestchensk
Sungarier
Chinelse
Moscow
Soviet
Rudzutak
Alexei Rykoff
Ruduzutak
Council of Commissars of
U. S
Commissar Formunications
Council
Paris
Fate of Martyr to Science Recalled
London it recalls the tragic fate of a martyr to science with a civil list pension of 250 to Mrs. E W Williams. The late Dr G C Williams was a pioneer in X ray work who applied the rays to relieve suffering. He joined the royal army medical corps at the outbreak of world war I and endured surgery yet continued his research and patient interviews despite losing most of his hands.
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London
E.W. Williams
G. C. Williams
Roentgen
Williams
Royal Army Medical Corps
False liquor raid tips may cause suits
Los Angeles July 19 The district court of appeals ruled informers who send officers on fruitless liquor raids can be sued for malicious prosecution by raid victims The Blanchetts sued neighbors John Jenny and Daisy Barr The court held an informer need not sign a complaint to be responsible and a person instrumental in setting the law in motion may be held accountable.
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Los Angeles
District Court of Appeals
Earl R. Blanchett
John
Jenny
Daisy Barr
Blanchetts
Mabh
Lion hailed as Japan's new premier in AP photo caption
The Associated Press identifies Yuko Hamagushi as Japan's new premier nicknamed "the lion" in a caption describing the political leadership.
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Associated Press
Yuko Hamagushi
Japan
Endurance Planes Fly On After Six Days In The Air
In St Louis on July 19 the St Lois Robin endurance plane piloted by Dale Jackson and Forest O Brine stayed aloft a full six days, refueled to 144 hours at 7 17 am, and pressed toward a new endurance record of 246 hours 33 minutes 32 seconds while its sister Missouri Robin, flown by Joseph Hammer and W Gentry Shelton, neared two days in flight after a refueling mishap.
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St. Louis
St. Lois
Missouri
Joseph Hammer
W. Gentry Shelton
Labor Figures Show Employment Decrease in June
Washington reports a 0.3 percent drop in employment and a 1.9 percent fall in payrolls for June versus May. Gains appeared in metalliferous mining, quarrying, nonmetal mining, utilities, wholesale and retail trade, hotels, canning, preserving industries, and coal mining. Net loss: 17,000 jobs from over 5 million. Brussels says Mrs. Hugh S. Gibson gave birth to a son yesterday. mother and child healthy.
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Washington
Labor Department
Brussels
Hugh S. Gibson
B and C Employes Picnic At Olympia Park
B and C Employes to hold picnic at Park tomorrow with 150 to 200 workers from Baltimore and Ohio railroad expected to depart Grafton at five in the morning to join a large delegation for the annual picnic day exercises in Olympia Park Versailles Pa. Several hundred are expected to attend with representation from Ohio Maryland West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Eight trains are to be made up from Grafton Wheeling Cumberland New Martinsville and other points.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Grafton
Olympia Park
Versailles
Thomas Beall
Veterans’ Association
Clarksburg
Fairmont
Graf
Ton
Pittsburgh
Wheeling
East
Ohio
Maryland
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Cumberl
New Martinsville
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Mhex
Michigan
Kalamazoo
Eugene Burgess
Air Ace
Capt
Denver
Carolina
Assembly of Governors
Naplomhon
Conn
William G. Conly
Max . Gardner
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Charles Toby
New Hampshire
John Trumbull
Connecticut
Logan’s Ferry Works
Ross Arnold
Greater
Des Moines
Jag
Greater Des Moines
Here
Charles Gatschet
West Side Bakery
Hess Bakery
Bologna
A.m
Lakefront
Windy City
Water Front
Blago-vestchensk
the Lion
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