Federal plan urged for centralized crime bureau
A Senate subcommittee heard Joseph B. Keenan urge universal finger printing and a federal centralized crime bureau to curb racketeering. He called for rapid exchange of records, tighter firearms controls, and public punishment measures to deter criminals. Mulrooney backed federal firearms control and universal finger printing, proposing public 20 lash sentences for repeat offenders.
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Scotland Yard
Senate
Joseph B. Keenan
Chicago
United States Attorney General
Central Crime Bureau
Keenan
Royal 8 S. Copeland
Edward P. Mulrooney
State Beer Board
Washington
Mulrooney
Copeland
Negro shoots wife in Gastonia killing Lillian Wilson
Ezra Wilson, a Black man, shot and killed his wife Lillian and seriously wounded two other Black individuals in Gastonia early today. Wilson escaped custody.
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Gastonia
Ezra Wilson
Lillian
Wilson
Eagles Pinions Hover Over Fourth Of Nation's Workers
Roosevelt and Johnson confer as NRA blue eagle symbolism signals wage rise and work spreading. The first post vacation meeting between President Roosevelt and Hugh S. Johnson marks ongoing planning for the recovery program and expansion of coverage to more workers.
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Washington
NRA
Roosevelt
Hugh S. Johnson
National Recovery
Johnson
St. Louis
Life terms for Claud Lail and Ralph Page in Shuping case
In Morganton and Tuscaloosa reports two trials produced life sentences for Claud Lail and Ralph Page after guilty pleas to accessory before the fact in the Drexel Shuping murder. Lail confessed shooting in self defense. Page claimed no motive beyond robbery. Both men sentenced as court opened with juries to hear arguments and protectives.
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Shuping
Lail
South Carolina Legion Head Drowns
Richmond H. Hilton 34 of Columbia commander of the South Carolina department of the American Legion drowned in Lake Murray when he fell from a cabin boat during a cruiser trip. He joined the 118th infantry in 1916 and served on the Mexican border, twice wounded in France.
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Columbia
Richmond
H. Hilton
South Carolina
Department of the American Legion
Lake Murray
Hilton
118Th Infantry
Camden
France
Century Plant Rooters Demand Bloom as Centennial Plant Fails
In New York a century plant at the Bronx park botanic gardens did not bloom on its appointed Sabbath drawing crowds of fans and angering regulars and NRA watchers. Critics threaten action if the plant does not flower next Sunday, while a local horticulturist defends nature's timing.
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Dale Harrison
New York
Century
Bronx Park Botanical Gardens
Century Plant
NRA
T. H. Everett
Museum Horiculturist
Three Forks
America
Beavis Balbo trip ends as Mussolini greets crowd
The report notes Balbo's successful voyage and a warm reception by Mussolini with the Italian leadership showing affection. The author speculates on an ex-president of Cuba lurking nearby, tied to a kidnapping scare. A machine gun firm pledges not to ship weapons to gangsters until existing stock is used.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Balbo
Mussolini
Italy
Cuba
Wili
Plan to pay 200 million to farmers
Washington plans to disburse over 200 million dollars in benefits to wheat and cotton farmers for production curtailment. The scheme would waive government claims on crop loans temporarily while renewing farmer obligations, with a later offset policy debated by a cabinet committee led by Secretary Wallace and Morgenthau.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Cabinet Advisory Board
Wallace
Jones
Reconstruction Corporation
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Farm Credit Administration
Cummings
Leader in jail break captured in Texas arrest
Attorney General Cummings announced the arrest of Harvey Bailey on a Texas farm, identifying him as the Kansas City depot slayings leader and Frank Nash killer. He said Bailey carried marked ransom money used by the Urachel family to pay kidnappers, and tied to the Oklahoma City July 22 kidnapping.
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Washington
Cummings
Harvey Bailey
Texas
Kansas City
Charles F
Oklahoma City
Bailey
Frank Nash
Paradise
Urachel
Machado In Exile Goes On Shopping Tour For Clothes
Exiled Cuban leader Gerardo Machado and four associates, after fleeing Cuba by plane, are in Nassau Bahamas. They sent a wireless message to Mrs Machado in Key West while seeking transport to Bermuda or Europe. The party slept aboard the plane near Andros Island after a difficult night ashore.
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H. P
Cuba
Gerardo Machado
Key West
Machado
United States
Europe
Bermuda
Furopean
Eugenio Molinez
Jose Isquierdo
Havana
Octavio Averhoff
Manuel Mireno
Andros Island
Bahamas
William McCullough
Exploding Tank Injures Three Children in Thomasville
A discarded lacquer tank near a factory site exploded after a match was struck beside a hole in the container. Three Summey brothers Billy Joe 6 Charles 8 Leodius 10 burned seriously while Raymond Griffin 8 and Lillian Summey 13 escaped with minor injuries. The tank had been moved from the Thomasville Chair plant site and the blast occurred as work continued on the lot.
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Thomasville
Billy Joe
Charles
Leodius Summey
W. G. Summey
Raymond Griffin
Raymond
Lillian Summey
Leodius
Thomasville Chair Company
Griffin
Sumey
Ahepa Holds Second Annual Meet In Columbia
The Carolinas and Georgia district of Ahepa opened its second annual convention in Columbia. Speakers included Governor I. C. Blackwood and Lieutenant Governor James C. Sheppard of Edgefield.
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Columbia
Carolinas
Georgia
Ahepa
Greek Society
I. C. Blackwood
James C. Sheppard
Edgefield
Police Seek Youths On Assault Charges
Tarboro report says Ray Moore Dewey Moore and George Moore are sought on assault charges after E. A. Hagan 22 was stabbed in the left chest with a knife and pistol. Hagan was hospitalized in critical condition following the incident yesterday.
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Tarboro
Ray Moore
Dewey Moore
George Moore
E. A. Hagan
Hagan
Navy dispatches ships to Cuba amid Cuba tensions
Secretary Swanson and President Roosevelt discussed Cuba as the navy sent the cruiser Richmond and destroyers Sturtevant Taylor and Claxton toward the island. The ships near Manzanillo and Havana were to protect American citizens with a 2200 man landing possibility if needed. Roosevelt monitored developments closely.
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Navy
Richmond
Cuba
Swanson
Roosevelt
Sturtevant
Manzanillo
Panama
Taylor
Claxton
Havana
White House
Richman Ma
Atlantic
Herrera Leaves Havana on United Fruit Ship Quirigua
General Alberto Herrera former secretary of war in the Machado government and his family escaped Havana by smuggling onto the United Fruit steamship Quirigua sailing to Jamaica at 2 30 am escorted to the docks by General Julio Sanguily amid heavy security. United States Ambassador Sumner Wells was reported aboard the boat.
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Havana
Alberto Herrera
Machado
Senora Herrera
United Fruit
Quirigua
Jamacca
Herrera
Camp Columbia
United States
Sumner Welles
Cuban revolution turmoil deepens as U S ships reach Havana
Havana chaos escalates with looting and arson and a new cabinet under Carlos Manuel de Cespedes. US warships Taylor and Claxton arrive to protect property while police hunt Machado gangsters and fires rage on city streets.
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Havana
United States
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
Gerardo Machado
General Machado
Machado
ABC Society
de Cespedes
Cuban Consulate Raided in New York by Celebrating Crowd
About 40 people raided the Cuban consulate general at 17 Battery Place and took a bust of former President Gerardo Machado. They forced entry after 1 p.m. EST, requested police assistance, then left the building with the bust when officers arrived.
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New York
Battery Place
Gerardo Machado
Ferrara predicts Cuba to worsen in coming months
Former Cuban secretary of state Dr Orestes Ferrara, fleeing Havana with his wife, told the Associated Press from Richmond that conditions in Cuba will grow worse over the next six months. He compared Cuba’s situation to upheavals in Russia and said the so called peace is oppressive. He plans to stay in Richmond briefly then travel to New York to write about the Cuban revolution.
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Orestes Ferrara
Havana
Associated Presse
Richmond
Cuba
Ferrara
Petrogord
New York
Europe
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Elmore Clark
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Vaudine Maddox
Pippen
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R. L. Shamblin
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Henry B. Foster
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