Strikes and Guard Tensions Hit Marion NC Mills
In Marion North Carolina workers clash as Clinchfield mill gates fail to open. National guard units arrive after Judge Townsend orders troops. About 200 to 300 non union workers face 600 strikers amid calls to disperse with gates likely to reopen tomorrow at 1 pm.
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Marion
N. C
Asheville
Morganton
Gardner
National Guard
Henderson
Hoffman
Townsend
Sun God Heads Westward On Its Trans-Continental Flight
Spokane Sun God endurance plane refueled at Cleveland after 66 hours aloft and 3,600 miles flown from Spokane. Pilot crew B Mamer and Art Walker took on fuel and supplies before continuing toward St. Paul with Captain Frank Hawks guiding as far as Belfonte. Weather storms tested the crew during the transcontinental leg of the record attempt.
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Sun God
Cleveland
Roosevelt Field
New York
Spokane Sun God
St. Paul
Pacific Coast
Photea
Newark
James J Walker
James Rolph
San Francisco
Ray Wassail
St. Louis
Hawks II
Frank Hawks
Belfonte
Rock Springs
Wyo
Cheyenne
North Platte
Neb
B. Mamer
Art Walker
Missoula
Mont
Graf Zeppelin Completes Second World Flight Leg
The Graf Zeppelin reached Kasumigaura air station in Japan at 8:07 p m after 102 hours 53 minutes from Friedrichshafen. The airship then prepared for the 5420 mile Pacific leg to Los Angeles, with Japanese officials and crowds in attendance and a celebratory send off planned.
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Tokyo
Kasumigaura Naval Air Station
Friedrichshafen
Kasumigaura Field
Pacific Ocean
Los Angeles
Graf
Pacific Coast
America
Pacific
Lakehurst
New Jersey
Kasmuigaura
One Killed in Vienna Socialist Heimwehr Clash
In Saint Lorenzen near Vienna one person died and 62 were wounded in fighting between the socialist Schutzbund and the Heimwehr. The Heimwehr used a machine gun and snipers from the town hall tower, while a temporary truce was arranged and authorities sought a settlement after the clash during a socialist banquet.
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Vienna
Socialist Schutzbund
Heimwehr
Saint Lorenzen
Thoerl
Five Killed In Auto Truck Crash Near Milton Florida
Five people died and two were injured in a late collision between a truck and an automobile near Milton Alabama. Reported dead include M Bukantz an Opp merchant a child Betty Bukantz and three unidentified truck occupants. Mrs Bukantz and Nathalie Bukantz five were seriously hurt.
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Opp
Ala
Milton
M. Bukantz
Betty Bukantz
Snook Hearing Postponed In Columbus Ohio
Judge Henry L. Scarlett continued the motion for a new trial for Dr. James H. Snook until 9:30 tomorrow morning. Defense attorneys said they needed more time to prepare for the hearing.
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Snook
Columbus, O
Henry L. Scarlett
James H. Snook
British to begin Rhineland withdrawal on Sept 1
Authoritative announcement from The Haguf states British soldiers will start leaving the Rhineland on September 1. The move is confirmed by AP and marks a planned military redeployment in the postwar zone.
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Rhineland
HAGUF
Plan One Refueling At Halifax
Two young Swiss aviators Oscar Kaesar and Kurt Luescher took off from Juncal Portugal at 7:30 am to attempt a westward Atlantic crossing to New York with Halifax as a planned refueling stop. The Farman motor plane named Junge Schweiz carried them, with third crewman Tschopp, as they prepared secretly from Alberca air field.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Oscar Kaesar
Kurt Luescher
Juncal
Here
Atlantic
New York
Halifax
Azores
Switzerland
Jungechweitzerland
Young
Zurich
le Bourget
Alberca Airdrome
Tschopp
Horta
Wounded Convict Arrested Near Greensboro Today
Charley Johnson a Negro convict serving a murder sentence in Mecklenburg County was wounded by a guard with a pistol ball in the right thigh during an escape from Liberty Hill rock quarry near Greensboro. He staggered into a Church Street restaurant asking for an ambulance but police were summoned and he was taken to Raleigh in custody.
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Greensboro
Charley Johnson
Mecklenburg County
Liberty Hill Rock
Church Street
Johnson
Raleigh
Capt
Barren
Liberty Hill
A. Johnson
Five die in rooming house fire in Little Rock
A fire in a Crosé street rooming house near the Missouri Pacific station killed five occupants and injured others. An explosion of a gas stove started the blaze in a fourteen room frame house, trapping residents on the second floor and hindering timely alarm response.
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Little Rock
Ark
Crosée Street
Missouri Pacific
Samuel J. Archer
Hiram Evans
Martin Kapp
Frank Harty
E. L. Darragh
Edge Approved By France For Post At Paris
The state department said France approved Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey as ambassador to Paris. Secretary Stimson notified Paris through the American charge d affaires that the president wished to appoint Edge. France’s acceptance was reported to Washington by Mr Armour.
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Washington
State Department
Walter E. Edge
New Jersey
Paris
Hoover
Stimson
Edge
Armour
Adams Body to Rest in Charlotte
Winston D. Adams 46 died of a heart attack in a hotel in Ocracocke. His body arrives in Charlotte for funeral services, with a wake pending. A former Wake Forest graduate and Charlotte Observer editor, he later served as secretary of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association from 1917 to 1927. Survived by two brothers Joseph Q. Adams of Cornell and R. W. Adams of Charlotte. unmarried.
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Florence County
Adams
Wake Forest College
Charlotte Observer
Observer
Department of Commerce
New York
American Cotton Manufacturers Association
Joseph Q. Adams
Cornell University
Ithaca
Pantages Granted Delay In Trial
Alexander Pantages, a 54 year old theatre magnate, was arraigned in superior court and granted a delay until August 22 to plead to charges of criminally attacking 17 year old Eunice Pringle.
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Los Angeles
Alexander Pantages
Eunice Pringle
Women fliers strike over Calexico stop in national air derby
Eighteen contestants in the Santa Monica to Cleveland women's air derby halted near Calexico as they demanded bypass or landing at Yuma. The group led by Miss Marvel Cros son protested Calexico's stop citing space to take off and lack of route clarity from Cleveland. Claire Fahy's ship from Los Angeles leaked fuel and limped to repairs, with plans to continue to Phoenix.
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Calexico
Cal
Santa Monica
Calif
Cleveland
Yuma
Ariz
Phoenix
San Bernardino
Floyd J. Logan
Logan
J. B. Dyer Dies At Winston-Salem
James Ballard Dyer Sr., 59, director at R. J. Reynolds Tobacco and leaf department head, died suddenly at home in Winston-Salem. A 35-year veteran, he had slight illness two weeks. Born near Martinsville, Va, he came to Winston-Salem as a young man and leaves his widow, two sons, and two daughters.
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Winston-Salem
James Ballard Dyer, Sr
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Dyer
Battle Creek
Mich
Martinsville
Mr. Dyer
R. J. Reynolds Company
Dead Voters Named In Davis Ouster Suit In North Carolina
The state files a bill of particulars in the ouster case against Councilman W. A. Davis listing eight alleged non resident voters in Ward Two and two alleged dead voters who cast ballots in the May 7 city election. Names include Mamye Ellis Worthville and Cora Ellington Greensboro residents. Trial set to begin in superior court Tuesday August 27.
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State of
North Carolina
W. A. Davis
Second Ward
Mrr. Davis
Moore
Superior Court
Mamye Ellis
Worthville
N. C
Cora Ellington
Park Street
Miss Esther Minard
Mm. M. B. Hyde
J Hughes
Johnson Street
W S. @levenger
A. P. Frazier
Spring Garden Street
Greensboro
Davis
BH. A. Wicon
Pitts
Father and Son Hurt in Garden Argument Gun Battle
Rocky Mount Aug 19 Albert Crocker 25 and Brooks Crocker 62 father and son were seriously wounded in a gun battle near Nashville with Frank Dickens Nash county farmer Dickens surrendered Sheriff J H Griffin said the shooting stemmed from a garden dispute Young Crocker was shot in the thigh and listed in critical condition the elder Crocker was struck in the right leg Dickens was unhurt
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Rocky Mount
Albert Crocker
Brooks Crocker
Nashville
Frank Dickens
Nash County
Dickens
J. H. Griffin
Young Crocker
D‘ators
Crocker
Fifteen Die In Boat Collision Off Humber
Fifteen crew members of the Spanish steamer Ogono drowned when their boat was rammed and sunk by the British tug King’s Cross in the North Sea thirty miles off Humber. The King’s Cross, damaged, rescued ten survivors while eight others escaped to a lifeboat and two others clung to wreckage.
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London
King’s Cross
North Sea
Humber
Thirteen Die as Train Wreck Near Henryetta Oklahoma
Thirteen killed and seven injured when a St. Louis San Francisco passenger train failed to stop at a open switch near Henryetta Oklahoma. Engineer W A Wolfe and fireman H A Bryan died in the boiler explosion. R C Gooch escaped by breaking a chair car window. Officials launched an investigation into the wreck.
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Henryetta
Okla
St. Louis
Oplin
Ruel Renfro
Tulsa
R. C. Gooch
Harry Webb
Weather advisory cites tropical disturbance near St Lucia
The weather bureau issued an advisory at 10 a.m. noting a tropical disturbance of slight intensity passed near the Island of St. Lucia in the Windward Islands last night and moving west northwestward. Caution advised for vessels in the eastern Caribbean for the next 24 hours.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
St. Lucia
Windward Islands
Caribbean
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Kuomin Agency
Chang Hsueh Liang
Cc. T. Wang
Moscow
M. Wang
China
Clarence Cox, Jr
Memphis, Tenn
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Hugo Eckener
Takarabe
Btak Scat
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South Carolina
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Monroe
Cooper Fowler
Union County
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Texas Air Transport Flying School
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Exchange Club of
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