Public Enemy Touhy Hunted Ties to Dillinger Gang
Investigators link fugitive “Terrible Tommy” Touhy to the Brook armored car robbery and claim he leads the remains of the Dillinger and Touhy gangs. They allege Touhy helped engineer the Michigan City prison break that released Dillinger. Deputy Barce is said to have aided the arrest of Joseph Burns by posing as a gangster. Governor McNutt declined comment for safety. Burns is being questioned for possible ties to additional crimes including a dunes cottage theft.
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Chicago
Tommy
Inerica
John Dillinger
Touhy
Dillinger
Investiga
Igan City
Ind
Middle West
Michigan City
J. Edward Barce
Indianana
Joseph Wanted
Brooklyn
Paul V. McNutt
Indianapolis
Barce
Burns
Roger Touhy
Illinois
Joliet
John Factor
Indiana State Prison
Indiana Dunes
Thomas Molay
Moving Picture Operators’ Union
True Bill Returned Against W Barnes
Guilford County grand jury returned a true bill of indictment charging Walter Barnes with first degree murder of Troy Yarborough of White Oak on November 26. A special venire of 40 men is summoned to select a jury for trial today.
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Greensboro
Guilford County
Walter Barnes
Troy Yarborough
White Oak
Beifel Tower Said to Stretch Up to Eleven Inches on Hot Days
A report notes that the Beifel Tower may expand as much as 11 inches when temperatures rise due to heat. Engineers cite thermal expansion of metal components and sun exposure as the cause.
Complete Scout Training Course Concludes in Lexington
The Uwharrie council wraps up the 1934 training with 15 certificates for Elements of Scoutmastership Part 1 and Part 2. Clyde Hunt receives an advanced certificate and the group votes to continue after Christmas with the second half starting January 10 at the First Baptist hut.
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Uwharrie Council
Lexington
Clyde Hunt
W. ”. Huffman
Ernest Hamilton
Paul Huffman
First Baptist Hut
Cabell Philpot
Bob Hall
Sam Smith
J. R. Craver
L. W. Harmon
O. K. Sharpe
Arthur Myers
J. H. Donnell
A. W. Lackey
J. R. Pierce
W. P
Highway Patrolman Helps Make Arrest Of Drunken Policeman
Patrolman W. W. Clark of Burlington assisted in detaining a special officer who had drunk, donned a uniform and gun, and halted cars on a highway. The officer allegedly fired at vehicles and claimed liquor in a field, but no second car existed. Clark, with Burlingotn police, escorted him back to town.
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Enterprise Harea
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
W. W. Clark
Burlington
Clark
Worthville Postoffice Safe Robbed. $37 Missing
Robbery at Worthville postoffice Sunday night left a $37 deficit after thieves with a key forced the safe. One money order was taken but later returned in the mailbox. No stamps were reported stolen. Postmaster Clarence Voce served at Worthville.
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Worthville
Clarence “Voce
Worthy 4
Publishers Name Their Best Books of the Year
Editors survey lists from Farrar & Rinehart Yale University Press Scribner's Sons Harpers H. C. Kinsey Viking Press J. B. Lipppincott Random House Modern Library E P Dutton Oxford Press and others naming top fiction and non fiction works of 1934 with notes on standout titles by various publishers.
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Anthony
Helen A. Murphy
Farrar & Rinehart
Henry Seldel Canby
Alabama
Carl Carmer
Suzy
Herbert Gorman
R. C. Hutchinson
Victoria Lincoln
America
Thomas Minehan
Marie Antoinette
Meade Minnigerode
Elinor Norton
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Rex Stout
Ruth Suckow
Frank Swinnerton
Alec Waugh
Janet L. Marshall
Yale University Press
John Dewey
Howard W. Haggard
Alexandra Tolstoy
Bertrand
Brittany
Roger Vercel
O. W. Riegel
William C. Weber
Charles Scribner's Sons
Arthur Calder-Marshall
Aleck Maury
Caroline Gordon
Mosley Callaghan
S. S. van Dine
R. EB. Lee
Dr. Douglass. Freeman
Ann M. Vincent
Harcourt, Brace & Company
Dorothy L. Sayers
Nine Taylors
Edison Marshall
E. R. Appleton
Stefan Zweig
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Franz Werfel
Musa Dagh
Frank P. Frazier
J. B. Lippincott Company
Seton Beals
Richard B. Gregg
Jonah
Zora Neale Hurston
Beals
Robert Browning
Pearl Buck
Bulfinch
E. P. Dutton and Company
L. D. MacLaren
Jesse Stuart
Soviets
Tatiana Tchernavin
Tibet
Sven Hedin
J. B. Orrick
Oxford University Press
Woodrow Wilson
Edith Gittings Reid
Gerald Heard
Co. R. M. F. Crutewell
Missionaries flee from brigandaging in Anhwei province
In Anhwei southern area missionaries flee advancing gangs allied with local rulers. They seek safety at river ports and recall recent deadly violence against American missionaries Mr and Mrs Stam. Among evacuees to Nanking are Miss Lillian Elizabeth Daniel of St. Louis and Miss Carrie Readshaw of England. U S consul George Atcheson Jr. arrives in Nanking to aid evacuated Americans.
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Wuhu
Anhwei Province
China
Nanking
J. C. Stam
Anhwel
Lillian Elizabeth Daniel
St. Louis
Suanchen
Carrie Readshaw
George Atcheson, Jr
United States
Tientsin
Former Pastor Sentenced Seven Years for Perjury
W D Welburn Jr former pastor of Government Hill Methodist Church in San Antonio was found guilty of perjury. The jury set seven years in the state penitentiary. The case arose from divorce proceedings with Wineta Long Welburn who testified to his paternity. Welburn denied the marriage and claimed forged papers. His defense labeled him a victim of a diabolical conspiracy in Bexar county.
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San Antonio
Tex
W. D. Welburn, Jr
Government Hill Methodist Church
State Penitentiary
Welburn
Wineta Long Welburn
Mre
Bexar County
Bailey Selected On All State Eleven From High Schools
Greensboro December 19 The Greensboro Record prints an All State high school football team chosen by about 50 coaches. Top vote getters were Fred Koury end Greensboro and Dick Myers guard Winston Salem with 48 votes each. First team includes ends Roger son Edenton Reinhardt Newton Earnhardt Salisbury tackles Myers Winston Salem Fuller Mount Airy guards McDade Durham center Osborne Asheville quarterback Leonard Greensboro Paul Spencer Edenton halfback Bailey Lexington fullback Here ag Bailey Lexington second team lists Shuford Statesville Pettigrew Reidsville ends Canada Chapel Hills Wood Raleigh tackles Hill Asheville Stronoch Raleigh guards Dildy Wilson center Gurley Newton quarterback Berini Durham Bratton Concord Signe Yost Hickory fullback
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Greensboro
Greensboro Record Today
Fred Koury
Dick Myers
Winston. Salem
Koury
Rogerson
Edenton
Reinhardt
Newton
Earnhardt
Salis
Bury
Myers
Winston- Salem
Fuller
Mount Airy
McDade
Durham
Osborne
Asheville
Leonard
Paul Spencer
Ag Bailey
Lexington
Fullack
Shuford
Statesville
Pettigrew
Reidsville
Canada
Chapel Hills
Wood
Raleigh
Hill
Stronoch
Dildy
Wilson
Gurley
Berini
Bratton
Concord
Signe Yost
Hickory
Taxes on oil industry total 118 in this country
The article notes that the oil sector faces one hundred eighteen distinct taxes imposed by the government, covering various aspects of production, transportation, refining, and sale. The piece outlines potential effects on prices, investment, and industry profitability.
Exemption Requests Withdrawn By Mills
The NRA cancelled a hearing for three Carolina textile mills after notices they would withdraw their exemption applications from textile code machinery limits. The Derry Damask Co of Gaffney South Carolina Shamrock Mills of Landrum South Carolina were the mills involved.
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Washington
NRA
Carolina
Derry Damask Company
Gaffney
8. C
Shamrock Mills
Landrum,&. C
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Macaulay Company
James J.geller
Sarah Trent
Maurice Hanline
Claude Kendall
Willoughby iSharp, Inc
Howard Stephenson
Willoughby Sharp
Ramona Herdman
Harper’s
J. B. Priestley
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Jerre Mangione
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