Cuban revolt tightens as rebels land forces near Santa Clara
Reports indicate two rebel expeditions land at Gibraltar in Upper Oriente and on the Upper Santa Clara coast. Government censored news while Col Aurelio Hevia and two allies are captured in Colon. Machado remains in Santa Clara as insurgents press toward Trinidad.
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Gibralt
Upper Oriente
Frederick II
Santa Clara
Trinidad
Aurelo Hevia
Colon
Matanzas
Gerardo Machado
Lindberghs Land After Fog Flight to Nemuro
Lindberghs, attempting the 897 mile Kamchatka to Nemuro flight, twice forced down by fog and motor trouble. They landed aboard Ketoi island near Shimushiru, drifting on strong currents with ships Kokusai Maru and Shimushiru Maru steaming to assist. weather dictates next move toward Nemuro Bay.
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Nemuro
Japan
Petropavlovsk
Kamchatka
Charles A. Lindbergh
Ketoi Island
Tokyo
Ochiiehi
Shimushiru
Muroton Bay
Ketoi
Shimushiru Island
Nemura
Williams-Norris to Open New Plant in High Point
Williams-Norris plans a new plant to double case goods capacity, adding 200 to 300 jobs by mid October. The old Premier Furniture plant will be refurbished with modern machinery, needing about 30 days for setup and renovations, expanding total payroll to 800 900 workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Williams-Norris Company
Premier Furniture Manufacturing Company
Teel Williams
Knox Furniture Manufacturing
Peddlers Tax Declared Unconstitutional By 3 Judge Court
A three judge federal panel in Asheville ruled Section 121% of North Carolina's revenue act unconstitutional. The decision permanentizes a $50 peddler tax on non residents that would have collected from produce trucks entering the state. The ruling comes as part of a suit by B M Gramlin of Spartanburg.
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Asheville
North Carolina
Aidlin
B. M. Gramlin
Spartanburg
D. C
John J. Parker
Richmond
H. H. Watkins
South Carolina
E. Yates Webb
Shelby
N. C
North Carolina General Assembly
Webb
Allen J. Maxwell
Dennis G. Brummitt
Parker
Negro 15 Linked With Murder Of Lexington Woman
Lexington, Aug 19. Dudley Moore, 18, held for investigation in the slaying of Mrs. Jacob G. Berrier, 59. Bloodstained clothing sent to UNC for analysis as detectives check Moore’s varying statements. He was raised by the Berriers and is jailed in an adjacent county. search parties seek the murder weapon.
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Lexington
Dudley Moore
Jacob G. Berrier
James A. Leonard
Chapel Hill
Moore
University of North Carolina
Berriers
Berrier
Hungarian Cabinet Headed By Bethlen Resigns Suddenly
Budapest Aug 19 Count Karolyi accepted from Admiral Horthy a mandate to form a new government after Count Stefan Bethlen resigned this morning ending ten years as premier. The move signals a post Bethlen cabinet reorganization in Hungary's political leadership.
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Bethlen
Budapest
Hungary
Karolyi
Admiral Horthy
Stefan Bethlen
Wright aviation pioneer quietly marks sixtieth birthday
Orville Wright, aged sixty, celebrated at a quiet Georgian Bay retreat in Canada. The Dayton native, co inventor of the first heavier than air craft, remains active in aeronautical development and relation to aviation, though no longer flying. He continues to work daily in his Dayton laboratory and consult on aviation matters.
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Orville Wright
Dayton, O
Wilbur
Kitty Hawk
N. C
Georgian Bay
Canada
Wright
Wright Brothers
Orville
Dayton
Maiden Flight of Akron Slated For One Day Next Week
Akron officials say the giant Navy Zeppelin Akron will have a daytime maiden voyage next week weather permitting. The plan calls for a 3 30 p m departure from the Goodyear Zeppelin dock to cruise over the area and return before sundown with 12 hours advance notice of the exact time.
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Akron
Goodyear-Zepelin Corporation
New York Mayor Walker Notices Diet At Carlsbad Banquet
Mayor Walker of New York, visiting Carlsbad, CZ, for a banquet keeps to a light diet, eating only a few bites of fish and sips of wine to honor hosts while not letting social duties affect his regimen.
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Carlsbad
Czechoslovakia
Walker
New York
Drowning Toll Rises As Beachgoers Rescued At Atlantic City
A major beach surge at Atlantic City New Jersey Aug 19 sent waves over the shore injuring and washing away bathers. Lifeguards saved more than fifty people by boat and buoy while three may have drowned. One unidentified man about 55 died despite hourlong resuscitation. Panic spread along the boardwalk as waves swept New York avenue and spectators watched rescues.
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Atlantic City
N. J
New York Avenue
Patric ia Dougherty Faces Operation After Swallowing Whistle
New York August 19 Surgeons at Coney Island Hospital consider removing a whistle swallowed by eight year old Patricia Dougherty. The toy sounds with every breath causing near hysteria. doctors say an operation may be needed to avert a nervous breakdown.
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New York
Coney Island Hospital
Patricia Dougherty
Two Die in Plane Crash Near Buffalo Farm
Two men were killed when their small airplane crashed on a farm on the outskirts of Buffalo shortly after noon today. The tragedy occurred in the afternoon light as the craft went down on the rural property, with authorities beginning investigations into the cause.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Jnoon
German Airman Completes First Leg of Arctic Crossing
MGUT Greenland Aug 19 Captain Wolfgang Von Gronau arrived from Godthaab en route to America across the Arctic. He plans to proceed to Disko Bay for the final takeoff on the last leg toward New York.
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Mgut
Greenland
Wolfgang von Gronau
Godthaab
America
Arctic
Disko Bay
Arctic residents ration scarce food as ice blocks resupply
Ice bound Point Barrow Alaska on August 19 reports residents receiving daily rations to conserve meagre food supplies while supply boats remain trapped by Arctic ice and winter nears.
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Point Barrow
Alaska
Four Flyers Die in Warsaw Plane Crash Near Bzov
Four student aviators were killed when an army training plane crashed in flames near Bzov, Poland, today. The accident, reported from Warsaw, occurred as the aircraft burned after the crash, according to wartime dispatches.
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Warsaw
Poland
Bzov
Graf Zeppelin Takes Britishers On Trip Over Their Isle
The Graf Zeppelin completed a seeeing Britain tour circling southern England and saluting Hull’s memory of the ZR-2 disaster. The airship then headed toward Hanworth and planned departure for Germany after docking at 7 p.m. local time.
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London
Galloway
Scotland
England
Humber
Hull
Graf
Howden
Hanworth
Britain
Germany
Defense Motions Pleaded In Asheville Bank Trial
In Asheville the state rested in the Col. Luke Lea case amid defense motions to overturn indictments. Judge Barnhill overruled a motion to require a single misapplication charge. Defense seeks verdicts and summary dismissals as witnesses and bank records were admitted.
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Asheville
Ashevil
Luke Lea
Nashville, Tenn
Central Bank and Trust Company
M. W. Barnhill
Lea
United States
Luke Lea, Jr
E. P. Charlet
Nashville
Leas
Wallace B. Davis
Barnhill
J. Carlyle Littleton
Zeb V. Nettles
Solicitor Nettles
North Carolina Nurses Association Opens Session
Dr James Parrott state health officer told the opening session that North Carolina must throw overboard expenditures during the low mood but retain social agencies. The remarks were made at Blue Ridge on August 19 as nurses gathered for the association meeting.
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Blue Ridge
North Carolina
James Parrott
North Carolina Nurses Association
NC Tax on Produce Trucks Declared Unconstitutional
Raleigh August 19 AP three federal judges declared North Carolina's tax on produce trucks entering the state unconstitutional. Commissioner of Revenue A J Maxwell said the ruling did not surprise him this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
A. J. Maxwell
Commissioner of Revenue
Cuban revolutionary envoy Suarez held for grand jury action
Alfonso G. Suarez claimed as consul for Cuban revolutionary forces was held for the federal grand jury after a preliminary hearing in Tampa on charges of entering the United States illegally and returning after deportation.
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Tampa
Fla
Alfonso G. Suarez
Federal Grand Jury
Trial Opened In Tax Collector Case Involving Luther Hamilton
Beaufort court opens as Pitt county jury hears Carteret county suit over incomplete tax money accounts. Luther Hamilton contends county owes nothing and files counter claim for 3200 dollars for alleged services rendered.
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Beaufort
Pitt County
Carteret County
Luther Hamilton
Hamilton
Witnesses Called In 1928 Anti Smith Expenditure Inquiry
The senate campaign funds committee served subpoenas on E. C. Jameson, New York capitalist, and his secretary H. F. Healey to testify next week in the probe of 1928 anti Smith political expenditures by Bishop James Cannon Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
E. C. Jameson
New York
H. F. Healey
James Cannon, Jr
Bus overturns in rain kills two in Massachusetts
A Boston to Fall River bus overturned in a rain storm near Brockton, causing two deaths. An unidentified man and woman died in Brockton hospitals. several others were possibly seriously hurt.
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Patal
Baston
Masc
Boston
Fall River
Brockton
Bankers Seek Reparations Revision as Global Recovery Path
Basel Switzerland August 19 AP A Wiggin led committee from the Bank for International Settlements urged revising the entire structure of intergovernmental war debts and German reparations to restore world prosperity. The report faults political tensions between Germany and Europe and calls on the great powers to revise payment schedules promptly to revive peaceful economic progress.
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Basel
Switzerland
Wiggin Bankers’ Com
Bank For International Settlements
London
Germany
Albert H. Wiggin
New York
Chase National Bank
Farmers Condemn Proposed Freight Rate Hikes
Eastern and Southern fruit and vegetable growers urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to reject higher freight rates. Witnesses led by G Hale Harrison of Berlin Maryland cited sixteentyear low prices and switched to trucks for cheaper faster delivery. They warned rail rate increases would ruin the industry and worsen farmer credit conditions since 1927.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
G. Hale Harrison
Berlin
New York City
Co. A. Roper
Hazlehurst
Mississippi
Vegetable Shippers Bureau
B. T. Gunter
Onley
Eastern Shore Virginia Produce Exchange
T. B. Young
Florence
South Carolina
Highway Commission Debates New Prison Camps
RALEIGH Aug 19 The State Highway commission held its regular semi monthly meeting and spent the morning discussing construction of prison camps for highway workers. They had not yet decided on the type of camp to erect as a possible network of camps may be needed across the state.
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Raleigh
State Highway Commission
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Davidson
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Anna Case
Mackay
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