Three Held In Hotel Murder In Chicago
In Chicago three suspects, Myrtle Hynes A L Martin and Claude Davis all 18 to 30, were taken for questioning in the murder of Mrs Mary Louise Tram mell a 24 year old former Knoxville stenographer found beaten to death in a State hotel room on the south side.
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Chicago
Mary Louise Tramell
South Side
Myrtle Hynes
A. L. Martin
Claude Davis
Trammell
Davis
Thames Mell
State Hotel
Ten
Victor Kilaeger
Michigan
Johnson
William Schumacher
Forecast of 1936 National Income Near Sixty Billion
Commerce department officials forecast 1936 national income near 60 billion dollars, aligning income produced with income paid out for the first time since 1929. They base projections on seven months of business barometers and note per capita employer income should rise with the national total. The trend follows a post-1932 rebound from a 1929 peak of 81.03 billion to 39.55 billion in 1932 and 52.96 billion in 1935.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Manufac
Indictments Returned in Clevenger Case
Asheville August 17 AP Martin Moore a 22 year old towering former hall boy is arraigned on murder and first degree burglary charges in the death of Helen Clevenger. Buncombe County grand jury indicted Moore on capital counts. Witnesses included Prof W L Clevenger and hotel officials with a signed confession claimed by Sheriff Brown.
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Asheville
Martin Moore
Petite Helen Clevenger
Buncombe County
Helen Clevenger
Zeb V. Nettles
Laurence Brown
New York University
Nettles
Fashionable
Battery Park Hotel
Wit
W. L. Clevenger
North Carolina State College
Raleigh
Staten Island
N. Y
Brown
Astor Case Romeo Ends His Hiding Amid Spanish Civil War Turmoil
Rebels and government forces clash across north central Spain with bombardments at the Bay of Biscay and sanctions on hostages. Gen Francisco Franco travels to Burgos as both sides plan simultaneous offensives pointing to widespread executions and new offensives affecting Madrid and Zaragoza.
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Bilbao
Saint Jean de Luz
Seedler
France
Madrid
Burgos
Atienza
Spain
Zaragoza
San Sebastian
Bay Biscay
Bay of Biscay
Francisco Franco
Badoz
Rebe
Defea
Portugal
Badajoz
Mdrid
Ant
Mallorca
Heiress Reopens Sterilization Trial In San Francisco
Cooper Hewitt 22 year old heiress testifies in a case involving doctors Tillman and Samuel G. and attorney I M Golden. She denies an extortion claim tied to her mother Mia Cooper Hewitt and a $500000 damage suit. She contends a surgical operation deprives her of childbearing and mentions a possible appendix procedure.
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San Francisco
Cooper Hewitt
Maxim
Miss Hewitt
I. M. Golden
Hewitt
Mia
EB. Tillman
Samuel G
Eugene F. Smith Takes Own Life
Eugene Fletcher Smith a 34 year old World War II veteran committed suicide at his Wallburg home after dinner. He had suffered years of ill health and numerous operations on his leg from an Army accident. His wife left the room as the events unfolded and help was summoned.
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Wallburg
Eugene Fletcher Smith
Smith
United States Army
Governor Ehringhaus Returns After Month-Long Vacation
Governor Ehringhaus resumed duties in Raleigh after a month at his sister in law Mrs George Wood’s home in Greenfield.
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Raleigh
Ehringhaus
Capitol
George Wood
Greenfield
Townsend Arrest Sought in Wright Receivership Case
Ben Sacharow, attorney for Rev. Alfred J. Wright, asked Common Pleas Judge George W. Kerr to arrest Dr. Francis E. Townsend founder of the Townsend Old Age Pension plan and Gilmour Young national secretary for failing to appear at a deposition in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Ben Sacharow
Alfred J. Wright
Townsend Old-Age Pension Organization
Common Pleas
George W. Kerr
Francis E. Townsend
The
Pension Plan
Gilmour Young
Francis BE. Townsend
Townsend
Richman’s 100000 Toy Ready for New York Hop
Richman plans a bold New York dash in a new 100000 toy jet to fly from Los Angeles via London. The craft features a 225 mph top speed, safety devices, and 40000 buoyant table tennis balls to aid afloat landings. Pilot Dick Merrell, a Lincoln Ellsworth search veteran, accompanies the voyage with St. Louis as refueling stop before hangaring at Floyd Bennett Field.
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Los Angeles
Harry Richman
Broadway
New York
Manhattan
London
Richman
Dick Merrell
Lincoln Ellsworth
Antarctica
St. Louis
Floyd Bennett Field
Coughlin Stricken While Attacking Roosevelt in Cleveland
The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, addressing the National Union for Social Justice convention in Cleveland, collapsed from exhaustion and a nervous disorder amid charges against Franklin D. Roosevelt. He rested at a hotel under guard, later leaving for Detroit after doctors declared the episode caused by overwork.
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Cleveland
Charles E. Cough
Detroit
National Union For Social Justice
Roosevelt
Father Coughlin
George P. O'Malley
National Union
William Lemke
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kerensky
Alf M. Landon
Extension Sought To Meet Lake Junaluska Fund Goal
Campaign leaders seek a June deadline extension to September 1 for raising 105000 to lift foreclosure mortgages on Lake Junaluska summer assembly grounds. Dr W A Lambeth expects bondholders in St Louis to grant the pause as funds reach 83000 with more pledges arriving daily.
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Methodist Episcopal, South
Lake Junaluska
W. A. Lambeth
Wesley Memorial M. E
St. Louis
Lambeth
Heat wave grips Midwest with 113 degree readings
Heat afflicted vast regions from Kansas to Missouri with a 113 degree peak in Bartlesville Oklahoma and Topeka Kansas and other cities reporting high 100s. Forecasters expect the heat to spread to the Midwest and Great Lakes while eastern districts face cooler weather after scattered showers.
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Chicago
Atlantic
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Missouri
Midwest
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
Appalachians
Middle Atlantic Coast
County Board Lets Contracts for High Point School Work
Greensboro August 17 The High Point school superintendent T Wingate Andrews urged the county commissioners to allow the High Point school board to let its own contracts for the High Point share of the school bond issue. The commissioners upheld county supervision with their approval. They also approved low bids on two Greensboro school projects.
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Greensboro
T. Wingate Andrews
High Point Schools
High Point School Board
High Point
Andrews
Steamer Deborah Beached Near Porto Belo After Panama Search
Nine navy planes from Coco Solo spotted the chartered steamer Deborah beached 40 miles east of Porto Belo while carrying 100 officers and soldiers of the 14th infantry and their wives from Fort Davis on an excursion to the San Blas Islands. No casualties reported and officials expect refloating at high tide.
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Colon
Panama
Coco Solo
Deborah
14Th Infantry
Fort Davis
San Blas Islands
Porto Belo
Food Prices Jump Forecast by Army Officials
Army kitchens forecast higher food costs as drought and improved business lift prices on a 39 item balanced diet. Secretary Wallace weighs a 10 million seed program to ensure next year’s planting while quartermasters project up to 20 percent rises by spring. Dr Thornthwaite urges moving 59,000 families from western plains and returning prairie wheat lands to sod.
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Army
Wallace
Agriculture Department
C. W. Thornthwaite
University of Oklahoma
Western Plains
Canadian
Texas Panhandle
Thornthwaite
Strike Widens at Hanes Hosiery Dye Department
In Winston-Salem on August 17, 36 of 39 dye department workers at Hanes Hosiery mill walked out in a strike over promised pay raises and failure to implement a 40 hour work week reduction. The rest of the mill remained operating.
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Winston-Salpin
Hanes Hosiery Mill
Bond Posted In Nickels For Mechanical Piano Charge
Fort Myers Florida August 17 It took 50 minutes to count the cash bond of 100 dollars posted in police court by C N Spencer Spencer accused of placing mechanical pianos without a license posted one hundred dollar bond all in nickels
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Fort Myers
Fla
C. N. Spencer
Spencer
Housing program 10 to be continued after 1945
Washington August 17 An A F L estimate that 13 196 000 new homes will be needed by 1945 was paired with Secretary Ickes remark that necessity will ensure the continuation of a valid housing program Ickes noted no federal funds for new low cost housing and urged communities to carry the work forward as local enterprises The PWA administrator’s views
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Washington
A. F. of L
Ickes
PWA
Body of Baby Found In Well
Elkin officers investigated the death of a baby girl found floating in an old well near Elkin in a cardboard box sealed with wax. The discovery prompted a local inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the infant’s death.
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Elkin
Typhoon Kills and Famine Threat Hits Luzon Islands
A typhoon sweeping from the Pacific Friday into Northern Luzon left at least 11 dead and many homeless. It destroyed native houses and 90 percent of crops in the Cagayan river valley, while ships and lighthouses were damaged and a crew remained unaccounted for. The Fathom er and other vessels faced distress as Hong Kong reports indicated a British steamer aground and waterlogged off Junk Bay.
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Manila
P. I
Luzon
Pacific
Caguan River
China Coast
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Fathomer
Port San Vincente
Navy
Hongkong
Junk Bay
China
Centee
Local Weather Outlook for Carolinas Today
Partly cloudy conditions with local thundershowers in eastern and central portions this afternoon. Temperatures remain warm with slightly cooler readings in the northeast coast area. South Carolina sees local afternoon or tonight thunder showers with a chance of early Tuesday showers along the coast.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
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Astor
George S. Kaufman
Mary Astor
Lemke
North Dakota
Henry Holt
Grand Folks
Union Party
Holt
U. S. Senate
Ol J. Frazier
Eugene F. Smith
Old Age Pension Body
Coughlin
Fdr
NUSJ
United States
Thomas O’brien
Royal Oak
Mich
Bethlehem
Federal Reserve Bank
Cleveland Stadium
Life
Junaluska
Mercury
Bartlesville
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Kas
Concordia
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Neb
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Grand Island
St. Joseph
Omaha
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County Board
Twin City
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