Revolts Stir in South as Peru Coup Fallout Spreads
In Buenos Aires protests clash as Yrigoyen supporters rally, police and demonstrators exchange gunfire injuring two, including a high official. In Peru Leguia and son jailed on San Lorenzo Island while Harold Grow faces court martial for backing Leguia. Also reports deny Rio Grande do Sul revolution rumors and seditious plots in Cuba.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Yrigoyen
Peru
Augusto B. Leguia
Juan Leguia
Harold Bb. Grow
Territorial Police
Yrigoyenista
Leguia
Lima
Almirante Grau
San Lorenzo Isle
Callao Harbor
Jan Leguia
San Lorenzo
Sr. Leguia
Alfonso Llosa
Colone Luis M. Sachez Cerro
Republic
Sanchez
Harold B. Grow
Men Charged With Stealing Airplane
MOBILE August 30. Three youths Woodrow Malone 17 Eugene Malone 20 and William Clark 18 all of Laurel Mississippi were held on charges of stealing an airplane from Laurel yesterday. They admitted taking the craft without the owner William Hesler’s permission, and Jones county Mississippi officers are en route. The plane was forced down near Wilmer Mobile county on the Alabama Mississippi line due to lack of fuel.
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Mobile
Ala
Woodrow Malone
Eugene Malone
William Clark
Laurel
Miss
William Hesler
Jones County
Wilmer
Mobile County
Dr Tyner Named New Dean at Winthrop College
Bunyan Yates Tyner now acting dean at Winthrop College in Rock Hill S C succeeding Dr J P Kinard after his ascent to president following the death of Dr J B Johnson Tyner a native of Robeson County North Carolina is a Wake Forest and Columbia University graduate and held the deanship at Fredericksburg Virginia for 12 years
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Rock Hill
S. C
Bunyan Yates Tyner
State Teachers College
Fredericksburg
Winthrop College
Tyner
J. P. Kinard
J. B. Johnson
Robeson County
North Carolina
Wake Forest College
Columbia University
New
Still Owner Says Brother Is Guilty
Aug. 30 Altus Oklahoma. Vernon Robsion, with his brother George Robsion, confessed to officers they fired on Deputy Sheriff Elmer Carter who was killed and Night Police Chief Joe Whitt wounded. Vernon said George did the actual shooting. George lay critically wounded. Ernest Jackson was named as a third man. The truck carrying equipment for whiskey making was found at Buck Robsion’s home.
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Altus
Okla
Lesion
George
Vernon Robsion
Elmer L. Carter
Joe Whitt
State Reformatory
Granite
Frederick
Ernest Jackson
Vernon
Tex
Carter and
Whitt
Buck Robsion
Jackson
Texas
Heavy Storms End Heat Wave Across Britain
A severe storm swept northern England and Scotland after a deadly heat wave. Southern England escaped the worst, London saw rain and a brief breeze, while the east coast of Scotland faced isolation as communication networks collapsed and floods damaged low-lying areas.
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England
London
Scotland
British Isles
Alfred E. Smith Not Named as Delegate to State Convention
In New York on August 30 speculation rose over Alfred E. Smith not appearing on the list of delegates for the Democratic state convention. Charles L. Kohler stated Smith never signaled desire to be a delegate and would have preferred the old First District slot where he resides.
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New York
Alfred E. Smith
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Charles L. Kohler
Smith
First District
Virginia Republicans Deliberate Senate Bid at State Convention
Virginia Republicans meet in Roanoke amid five congressional candidates and two other districts under consideration. Sentiment on a U.S. Senate nomination is split, with a strong faction favoring no action to allow support for either Carter Glass, the Democratic nominee, or Arlington attorney J Cloyd Byars, who has announced as an independent. The move would let the party focus on congressional races.
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Roanoke
Virginia
United States Senate
United States
Carter Glass
J. Cloyd Byars
Arlington
Anti- Smith
American Engineer Sutton Arrested in Peru Quest
Lima dispatch says Charles W. Sutton, American irrigation chief under Leguia, was arrested at Lambayeque airport for mis management of funds and interned in the penitentiary pending case.
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Lima
el Comercio
Lambayeque
Charles W. Sutton
Leguia
Sutton
Labor Day Celebrations Planned For Week End
Washington observers report a quiet Labor Day weekend as the capital’s top officials stay away from events. President Hoover remains at the Rapidan camp. Hyde to stay at his desk. Stimson returns from Long Island. Mellon at daughter’s home on Long Island. Lamont to be in Chicago. Brown in Nova Scotia. Davis to speak in Harrisburg and participate in Brookville and Clearfield observances. Local unions will lead memorial services at Mount St. Alban and Washington cathedral.
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Hoover
Rapidan
Hyde
Castle
State Department
Stimson
Long Island
Curtis
Mellon
David K. E. Bruce
Mitchell
Scotland
Brown
Nova Scotia
Lamont
Chicago
Labor
Davis
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Brookville
Clearfield
Washington Cathedral
Mount St. Alban
Green
Ballot boxes seized in Alabama primaries probe
In Alabama, ballot boxes from Jackson and Chambers counties were impounded pending a grand jury inquiry into suspected fraud. Madison County faces an ongoing irregularities probe, with grand jury action set to begin. Heflin supporters in three counties contested results ahead of the August 12 primary.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Jackson
Chambers
J. Thomas Heflin
Madison County
Charlie C. McCall
Madison
Heflin
Posse Fights to Capture Slayer of Two Officials
In Eugene Oregon a large posse with rifles and machine guns hunted Vic Sutherland a 67 year old Moonshiner from Marcola wanted for killing Jose Saunders deputy game warden and Oscar Duley Eugene police officer. Duley died after stopping a liquor laden car and Saunders was killed during a door search at the Sutherland residence. Two deputies were wounded.
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Eugene
Ore
Mohawk Valley
Vic Sutherland
Marcola
Jose Saunders
Oscar Duley
Duley
Sutherland
Saunders
Diplomat Hurt In Auto Crash Near Elkridge
Pascual G. Roldan, 26, attache of the Mexican embassy in Washington, suffered a fractured arm and facial cuts when his automobile overturned on the Washington boulevard near Elkridge after skidding. His car caught fire as he was extricated and he was taken to a hospital while the embassy was notified.
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Baltimore
Washington Boulevard
Elkridge
Pascual G. Roldan
Washington
Roldan
Confessed Slayer of Wife Ends Life in Explosion
Amarillo attorney A. D. Payne who confessed to slaying his wife in a devised explosion died by the same means in jail. He had carried a nitroglycerine vial at his neck and perished shortly after grand jury indictment for first degree murder. Payne had boasted of avoiding trial and earlier killed his wife and maimed their son with a dynamite blast.
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Amarillo
Tex
A. D. Payne
Payne
Gene Howe
Howes
Verona Thompson
Prohibition Raids Hit York County Arrests
In York South Carolina thirty seven men and five women were arrested in raids by prohibition officers begun in York county yesterday and continued today. Deputy J A Clifton directed the operation, seven of the detainees were Black, twenty seven jailed locally while others posted bond. Hart, US commissioner, set preliminary hearings to start Monday.
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York
S. C
Prohibition
York County
J. A. Clifton
Carl H. Hart
United States
Deport Americans Convicted at Stalingrad
In Stalingrad Aug 30 the American workers Lewis and Brown at the Soviet Tractor plant were sentenced to ten years deportation for assaulting an American Negro colleague named Robinson. The verdict started as two years but was extended after judges noted the defendants were laboring under false racial ideals amidst a high-profile trial.
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Stalingrad
Russia
Lewis and Brown
Robinson
Peru Junta Moves to Reshape Government After Leguia
The new Peruvian government suspends constitutional articles on public rights to prosecute Leguia officials, rewrites senior posts including naval staff, and reorganizes Lima with new mayors. It also annuls Leguia era education changes and enforces a 10 year old ban on weekend alcohol sales.
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Lima
Peru
Leguia
Julio V. Goicochea
Arturo Jimenez Pacheco
Fernando Gazzani
Foreign Office
Callao
Oscar Vasquez Benavides
Ministry of Justice
Polish Parliament Dissolved by President Moscicki
Warsaw reports President Ignacy Moscicki dissolved the Polish parliament aligning with Marshal Józef Piłsudski and his program of constitutional reform. The move solidifies support for the military premier-dictator’s agenda.
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Warsaw
Moscicki
Joseph Pilsudski
UNC Adds Loren MacKinney to History and Government Faculty
Dr. Frank Graham announced the addition of Dr. Loren C. MacKinney to UNC's history and government department faculty. MacKinney has spent the past five years on the Louisiana State University faculty.
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Chapel Hill
Frank Graham
University of North Carolina
Loren C. MacKinney
Department of History and Government
MacKinney
Louisiana State University
Mebane Man Will Not Rough It On Vacation
W A Murray local merchant plans two weeks at a Pamlico Sound summer camp. He departed in a two ton truck with a horse two cows two chicken coops two dogs a house cats wheelbarrow plow and a smaller truck loaded with food and supplies for the trip.
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Mebane
N. C
W. A. Murray
Pamlico Sound
American racist association orders black labor firings
Today's Constitution reports evidence that committees of a new group called the American racist association and order of black shirts have demanded Atlanta employers discharge Negro workers. An unnamed federal official says the committees warned trouble if not complied, with grand jury proceedings set for September 8.
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Atlanta
American Racist Association
Order of Black Shirts
Federal
United States
Mostings
Black Shirt
Grand Jury
Fulton Superior Oall
UDOM
R. A. Goredon
R. S. Gulledge
H. J. Gewinner
Walter A. Sims
Hoover Tackles Unemployment at Rapidan Camp
President Hoover leads talks with government officials on accelerating the public building program to ease unemployment. The ten year plan totals 550 million dollars with over 300 million appropriated but largely unspent, amid pressure on next year’s spending and broader postal building plans. A federal Senate probe into leased post office properties and a city petition related to a white supremacist group adds to the national debate on employment and civil rights.
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Orange
Virginia
Hoover
Rapidan
Heath
The
Treasury
Philp
Brown
Congress
Senate
Woman dies when auto burns near Sylva
In Sylva area, Mrs. Thad Brown of Ninety Six S. C. died after an overturned car burned and trapped her. J. K. Privett, also of Ninety Six, allegedly struck a match igniting leaking gasoline. he is jailed on manslaughter charges potentially upgraded at a noon Saturday hearing. Her 16 year old daughter alleged Privett refused to help and watched, then lit a cigarette and threw the match.
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Sylva
Thad Brown
Ninety-Six
S. C
J. K. Privett
Ninety- Six
Privett
Banker Admits Shortage at Merchants and Mechanics Bank
Macon Ga 30 examiners from the State Banking Department said T Wallace Hawkes president of the Merchants and Mechanics Bank admitted a shortage in his accounts totaling 91475 40 The department has taken over bank affairs Hawkes who joined the bank about twenty years ago as a messenger surrendered all his property to the institution
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Macon
M. E. Sisk
C. L. Groover
State Banking Department
T. Wallace Hawkes
Merchants and Mechanics Bank
New Disorders in Kentucky Mining Region
Providence Kentucky reports renewed unrest in the coal field with dynamite blasts damaging two vacant houses and a fire destroying a residence on a main street. Property loss is put at about 1500 dollars. The incidents follow an air raid two weeks earlier and target displaced workers in the negro district.
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Providence
Kerney Price
Buckman Coal Company
Anti-Saloon League Chides Ruth McCormick in Illinois
In Chicago the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois criticizes Ruth Hanna McCormick for her prohibition stance as Republican senatorial nominee. The league says it will support a dry independent candidate, George B. Safford, if he is viable. Mrs. McCormick maintains she is personally a dry and favors repealing the 18th Amendment if voters approve. A fall referendum is planned.
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Chicago
Anti-Saloon League of Illinois
Ruth Hanna McCormick
George B. Safford
League Superiintendent
Jury Gets Case in Hart Murder Trial
Roosevelt Hart, a Black defendant, faces first degree murder charges in the killing of B. K. Bryant of Greenville Tennessee. The Madison county jury was to deliberate after testimony and legal arguments concluded. only the judge J. M. Oglesby’s charge remained.
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Marshall
N. C
Roosevelt Hart
B. K. Bryant
Greenville
Tenn
Madison County
J. M. Oglesby
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George Fernie
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St. George
Staten Island
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Fernic
Charles A. Lindbergh
Detroit
Wolfgang von Gronau
Arctic
Buffalo
Ray Brown
United States Naval Reserve
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Posse
Iota
California
James Rolph
C. C. Young
Baron Fitts
Los Angeles
Rolph
Anti-Saloon League
McCormick
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