Four Suspects Held In Birmingham Girl Slaying Case
In Birmingham Alabama three of four suspects in the murder and wounding of three young women were released as three more were jailed. Police found communist literature and a list of names on the suspects. Rewards totaling 2200 dollars spurred searchers as Rufus Austin remained in jail with a gun in his possession.
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Birmingham
Ala
Eugene Braxton
Daniel James
John James
Augusta Williams
Nell Williams
Jennie Wood
Rufus Austin
Anniston
Lynching of 16-Year-Old Negro Reported in Alabama
In Haynesville Alabama a 16-year-old negro accused of attempting to attack an 11-year-old white girl was lynched by a mob in Sandy Ridge. The body with 32 bullet wounds was found tied to a tree trunk. Sheriff W E Meadows said no arrests had been made and he would continue the investigation. The girl resisted and escaped after being dragged toward a cornfield.
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Haynesville
Ala
Sandy Ridge
W. E. Meadows
Lowndes County
Sheriff Battles To Hold Jasper County Office
Governor Blackwood weighs next moves in the legal fight with Ben F. Spivey to oust the Jasper county sheriff. The governor met with Attorney General John M. Daniel and others but gave no decision. Spivey refused to surrender his keys after failing to obtain a writ of certiorari to review the case. His office was declared vacant weeks earlier by proclamation due to bond nonrenewal.
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Columbia
Blackwood
Ben F. Spivey
Jasper County
John M. Daniel
Cordie Page
H. Klugh Purdy
Jasper
Purdy
G. L. Langford
Spivey
Want Ad Attracts 42 Applicants In Hours
Forty two applicants responded within hours to a want ad in yesterday's Enterprise. Bright young men and women flocked to see Mr Moyle at the Sheraton Hotel between three and eight seeking sales positions offered with good salaries.
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Moyle
Sheraton Hotel
Plato Edney Held for Wife Murder in Hendersonville
Plato Edney a 33 year old Henderson county farmer was held without bond for Superior Court on a shotgun murder of his wife and wounding two children. A coroner's jury ordered detention after testimony from 12 year old Ethel Edney and neighbors. Edney fled but was captured after a two day search. Relatives cite jealousy as motive.
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Hendersonville
Plato Edney
Henderson County
Superior Court
Edney
Ethel Edney
Clarence Edney
Mississippi Governor Runoff Contenders Forge Alliances
In Jackson Mississippi Hugh L White and Mike Sennett Conner begin bargaining to gain votes from eliminated rivals for the Democratic runoff. Governor Theodore Bilbo and allies consider supporting Bilbo’s candidate while Dennis Murphree’s reelection bid affects Adam. First primary totals show White 8831, Conner 73695, Johnson 47752, Mitchell 45197 from 49 counties.
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Jackson
Miss
Hugh L. White
Mike Sennett
Conner
Theodore G. Bilbo
George T. Mitchell
Bidwell Adam
Dennis Murphree
Bilbo
South
Mississippi
Henry Clay Yawn
Lewis
Brandon
Yawn
Pvrth
White
Paul B. Johnson
Mitchell
Bank Robbers Escape In High Powered Car
Charlotte police pursue John McCall, sought for slashing his wife's throat and then fled to Concord on an oil truck. His arrest follows a violent quarrel at home as Mrs McCall lies severely injured near a suburban school. Detectives to return him to Charlotte.
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Concord
John McCall
Charlotte
B. F Widenhouse
Homer Isenhour
Widenhouse
McCall
Fiery Major Retires From Marine Corps in October
Major General Smedley D. Butler, famed recipient of two congressional medals of honor, requests 380 days leave before retirement in October. The Quaker soldier, who has commanded the Marine base at Quantico, has served 30 years and earned honors in Cuba Mexico Haiti the Philippines Nicaragua China and World War I. He became brigadier general at 39 and major general at 48.
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Smedley D. Butler
Marine Corps
United States
Mussolini
Italy
Ben H. Fuller
Quantico
Butler
Marines
Cuba
Mexico
Haiti
Philippines
Nicaragua
China
France
Pennsylvanian
Attempted Arrest Ends in Fatal Shootout in Arkansas
In Conway Arkansas an effort to arrest a man for stealing peaches led to a gun battle that killed two people and wounded four others. Deputy Sheriff Ed Hathaway died from his wounds and the suspect Major Harrell was also killed. Three other African Americans and a second deputy were wounded.
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Conway
Ark
Ed Hathaway
Harrell
Navy shipbuilding program ready for president
Washington August 6 The Navy said the next fiscal year's shipbuilding program is ready for submission to President Hoover. Details are guarded until Congress receives it. Officials noted recent drafts differ and the plan may include one or more destroyers in addition to the listed vessels and equipment.
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Washington
Navy
Department
Hoover
Congress
Ranger
Adams
Ring Breakup Describes Immigrant Permit Racketeers
Washington Aug 6 The government announced the break up of a New York ring that brought 100000 aliens into the United States illegally in ten years Ten leaders were arrested for selling return permits to barred aliens Three were New York immigration bureau employees Edward Burns Albert F Borrelli Simon Rothberg Robert Bader Spiro Dracopoulos John Salitario B Paggioli Joseph Sousa Gus Schieman Anthony Allocca and others were private bankers steamship agents tailors and operators The secretary of labor said arrests likely ended one of the nations largest rackets
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Washington
Aus
New York
Doak
United States
Immigration Bureau
Edward Burns
Albert F. Borrelli
Ellis Island
Simon Rothberg
Robert Bader
Spiro Dracopoulos
John Salitario
B. Paggioli
Joseph Sousa
Gus Schieman
Anthony Allocca
Secretary of Labor
Senator Harrison Teaches Gov Long How To Play Golf
In New Orleans Pat Harrison Mississippi's senior senator played a friendly golf match with Governor Huey P. Long and Seymour Weiss. Harrison shot 76 the governor 92 and Weiss 82 at Audubon golf course. The informal contest included a supper as a stake.
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Senator Harrison
Gov. Long
Golf
New Orleans
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Huey P. Long
Seymour Weiss
Harrison
Audubon Golf Course
Long
Weiss
Mae Murray and Prince M Di Van i reunite in Hollywood
Mae Murray and her husband Prince David M D Vanani were together again in Hollywood as her divorcee suit was dropped. She won permission to continue her acting career in films.
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Hollywood
Cal
Mae Murray
Prince David M'Divani
Miss Murray
Quiet Reigns In Oil War In Oklahoma
Oklahoma Governor W H Murray maintains closure of major oil fields to support a $1 a barrel price. National guardsmen guard the remaining wells with little opposition. In Texas, a federal judge dissolves the Red River Bridge injunction allowing reversion to toll bridge control. Governor says he will withdraw troops at Durant once notice of dissolution is received.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
W. H. Murray
Cicero I. Murray
Charles F. Barrett
Murray
Red River Bridge Company
U. S
T. M. Kennerly
Durant
Okla
Denison
Tex
W. H
Bill’ Murray
Texas
Red River
Communists Plot To Foment Rent Strike Among Negroes
The Chicago Tribune reported a communist plot to incite a rent strike among Chicago's Negro residents, uncovered as authorities investigate a south side riot that killed three Negroes after a protest against eviction for non payment of rent. The Tribune noted alleged large numbers of Negro adherents cited at a meeting of Negro clergy and business men.
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Chicago
Chicago Tribune
South Side
the Tribune
Four Paroled Two Recalled By Executive In North Caro lina
Raleigh August 6 Tyre Co Taylor executive counsel to Governor Max Gardner announced four paroles and two revocations. Frank Thomas Mecklenburg County paroled after a 90 day drunkenness and reckless driving sentence Garfield Beaufort County paroled after a 120 day sentence for receiving stolen goods Paroles of Zennie Whisnant Burke County and James Lassiter Chowan County revoked.
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Raleigh
Tyre Co. Taylor
Max Gardner
Frank Thomas
Mecklenburg County
Garfield
Beaufort County
Zennie Whisnant
Burke County
James Lassiter
Chowan County
Taylor
Akron Dirigible to be christened by Mrs. Hoover this Saturday
Akron will christen its new Navy dirigible Akron with Mrs. Herbert Hoover presiding. The airship features eight Maybach engines delivering 4 480 horsepower and can reach 80 miles per hour with 2 000 foot per minute climb. It uses inert helium and armored outer skin and includes five monorail launched planes for scout, attack, or defense.
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Navy
Akron
Karl Arnstein
German ministers head to Rome to meet Mussolini
Berlin reports say Chancellor Bruening and Foreign Minister Curtius travel toward Rome to confer with Mussolini and Grandi. Officials discuss possible cotton purchases from the United States and a tentative deal weighing 600000 bales, with no definite offer yet. World War debt relief hoped to be acknowledged at talks.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
United States
Germany
Rome Express
Heinrich Bruening
Julius Curtius
Rome
Mussolini
Dino Grandi
Brevard Bankers and Officials Go on Trial in NC
In Brevard North Carolina on August 6 a jury trial began for two bankers five former county commissioners and an attorney. They face conspiracy charges over selling a hundred thousand dollar county note to aid the Bank of Brevard before it failed. The first witness Jess A Calloway register of deeds identified records from the predecessor to the current clerk to the former board of county commissioners.
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Brevard
N. C
Superior Court
Hoyle Sink
Bank of Brevard
Jess A. Calloway
Register of Deeds
Transylvania County
Board of County Commissioners
Brevard Bank Officials Face Conspiracy Trial
In Brevard North Carolina on August 6 a jury of seven farmers two barbers a clerk a mechanic and a laundry man heard the case against former Brevard Bank leaders Thomas H Shipman and Joseph S Silverseen and six former Transylvania officials charged with conspiracy The bank’s president and vice president are among those on trial with former county commissioners and the former county attorney Also a merchant served as a spare juror The trial opened today after jurors selected from Haywood County
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Brevard
N. C
Transylvania County
Haywood
Thomas H. Shipman
Joseph S. Silversteen
Brevard Bank
J. H. Pickelsimer
C. R. McNeely
A. M. White
W. L. Talley
S. R. Owen
Ralph Fisher
Cole L. Blease Plans Senate Comeback Tour
Cole L. Blease, former U S senator from South Carolina, announced at a picnic in Jolly Street that he will re-enter the Senate race next year as Coley friend and Coley candidate. He vowed no repeat of the 1930 poll thefts and said he will oppose Senator Ellison D. Smith, whose term expires in 1933.
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Jolly Street
Cole L. Blease
United States
South Carolina
Coley
United States Senate
James F. Byrnes
Spartanburg
Ellison D. Smith
Benator Smith
Smith
Death of former editor James I. of Ne ville Tennesseean
Edward James I, 54, longtime owner and publisher of the Columbia Daily Herald, died of a heart attack at Sleepy Hollow near Gilleoka after retiring earlier this year for health reasons. He led Columbia newspaper operations for years.
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Columbia, Tenn
James I
Neville Tennesseean
Sleepy Hollow
Gulleoka
Columbia Daily Herald
Lord Reading Weds Stella Chaurphos Private Secretary
Lord Reading, 70, former viceroy of India and U S ambassador, married Stella Chaurphos in a private ceremony at Prices Row. The couple planned a night at Deal Castle and a trip to Paris the next day.
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London
Lord Reading
India
United States
Istry
Prices Row
Stella Chaurphoas
Deal
Old Deal Castle
Paris
Trans-Atlantic airmail route charted by Trans- American
Officials of Trans- American Airlines confirmed plans for a news trans-Atlantic air mail route. Parker D. Cramer landed his diesel Bellanca monoplane yesterday at Angmagssalik Greenland after crossing the Greenland ice cap.
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Cleveland
Trans- American Air Lines Corporation
Parker D. (Shorty) Cramer
Angmagsalik
Greenland
Greenland Ice Cap
Death of Dr. John F. Crowell Former Trinity Duke President
Durham reports the death of Dr. John Franklin Crowell in East Orange New Jersey. He was a former president of Trinity College now Duke University and his passing was announced today.
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Durham
East Orange
N.J
John Franklin Crowell
Trinity College
Duke University
Mount Tlannapa eruption buries ten near Coscomatepec
Ten people were buried under tons of dirt after Mt Tlannapa, previously viewed as non volcanic, violently erupted. Water and mud streams swept into homes at the mountain's base near Coscomatepec in Vera Cruz.
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Mexico City
Mt. Tlanapa
Coscomatepec
Vera Cruz
Barnhill’s Daughter Recovers After Home Fall
Nine year old Barnhill daughter of Judge M W Barnhill of the superior court sustained a broken arm and other injuries in a fall at her Asheville home yesterday and was reported recovering today.
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Asheville
Barnhill
M. W. Barnhill
Superior Court
Mollison breaks Australia to England flight record
J A Mollison landed at Pevensey Bay near Eastbourne at 2 30 pm local time to beat Lieutenant C W A Scott’s 20 day 23 hour record from Wyndham West Australia. Weather delays lengthened the journey but the aviator aims to bring his ship into Croydon later today.
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London
J. A. Mollison
Pevensey Bay
Eastbourne
C. W. A. Scott
Wyndham
La Guardia Inquires Alabama Inheritance Tax
Congressman La Guardia of New York asked Governor Miller how much Alabama collects in inheritance tax from estates over 26 million dollars. Governor Miller replied that the king does not die in Alabama.
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Montgomery
Ala
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