Death mystery deepens as inquest adjourned with witnesses to testify
Coroner's inquest into the December 22 death of 68 year old farmer Lee H. Harvell adjourned at noon with little evidence collected. Investigating officers withheld testimony until the hearing resumes at a later date. The administrator J A Myatt led the examination as conflicting accounts emerged. A daughter testified of a dream by the alleged second sweetheart foretelling the death.
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Lee H. Harvell
Sheriff’s Department
W. W. Harvey
J. A. Myatt
Harvey
Mar
Harvell
M. T. Dowdy
E. R. Pulliam
Troy F. Clapp
Lexington
Ten Killed In Imperial Airways Plane Crash
An Imperial Airways London bound plane Apollo crashed in fog near Ruysselede between Ostend and Bruges at 1:05. Ten people died including eight passengers and the pilot and wireless operator. seven were British subjects and one possibly Polish. The wreck ignited, trapping occupants who could not escape.
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Imperial Airways
Apollo
Ruysfelde
Ostend
Bruges
London
Ruysselede
Cologne
Gittings
M. Albini
Record Breakers Land After Nine Days In Air
Frances Marsalis and Helen Richey land in Miami at 10 45 am ending the longest sustained flight by women at 237 hours 52 minutes after starting December 20 from Municipal Airport. They faced rain squalls and rough air, with a large crowd welcoming them.
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Miami
Fla
Frances Marsalis
Helen Richey
Department of Commerce
James R. Pickett
Earth
Marsalis
Partial Body Found on Farm Near Smithfield
A partially decomposed body believed to have been dead for about a month was found today in brush on the O W Book farm three miles from Smithfield MN. The discovery comes as late news items report a Dutch appointment by President Roosevelt and a college student death in another incident nearby.
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Pound Smithfield
O. W
Hfield
Couple Injured as Car Veers Off Road in Columbia
Dr John McSween and Mrs McSween were injured when their Presbyterian car overturned in Columbia. They were taken for treatment after the accident reported on December 580 era.AP story notes the couple were recuperating from injuries sustained in the crash.
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Columbia
8.C
John McSween
Presbyterian Car
Coach Gressette Signs Four Year Contract
Charleston South Carolina December 8 AP Head coach Gressette of the City has signed a four year contract announced to by Lieut Col John W as chairman of the board athletic control.
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Charleston
S. C
Gressette
John W
Thietic Control
Asheboro 5 and 10 Store Destroyed by Fire
Asheboro residents report Rose's 5 and 10 cent store destroyed by a morning fire. The building, leased and dating back to 1919, housed a cafe before Jose's store. No loss estimate has been released. owner K. D. Cox took over the property in 1928. The mercantile establishment plans to rebuild.
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Asheboro
Pough
Rose
Jose
Bega
K. D. Cox
Firemen Respond to Two Morning Fires Nearby
Firefighters were called out twice in the morning with negligible damage reported. At about 9 o clock Company No. One was directed to Rabbi Jas B. Ershler’s home at 815 Morris Street to extinguish a blaze. About two hours later they responded to Davis Avenue to put out a fire in a house owned by Globe Realty Company.
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Jas B. Ershler
Morris Reet
Davis Avenue
Globe Realty Comny
Johnson Bank Charge fight triggers NRA suspension
Washington reports say the National Recovery Administration halted proposed higher banking charges after Hugh S. Johnson disavowed approval and dismissed deputy Cary N. Weisiger Jr. amid confusion over a new uniform schedule for bank services.
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Cary N. Weisiger, Jr
Johnson
Banking Code Authority
Chicago Produce Butter and Eggs Prices Decline
Chicago market report shows butter in creamery specials 93 score at 18 18 percent, extras 92 at 17 percent, and firsts 90 91 at 17 44 percent, standard 90 centralized car lot at 17 percent. Eggs at 1 820 in steady demand with prices unchanged.
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Chicago
Underhill Captured After Escape in Oklahoma City
Wilbur Underhill the Southwestern desperado was caught in a small furniture store on East Main Street in Shawnee Oklahoma. He was wounded and given only a slight chance to live at the municipal hospital. He had led a Memorial Day prison break from Lansing Kansas with another ringleader Harvey Bailey and faced multiple prior crimes.
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Shawnee
Okla
Wilbur Underhill
Southwestern
Desperado
Oklahoma City
Municipal Hospital
Underhill
Kansas Penitentiary
Lansing
R. H. Colvin
Offi
Merle Culver
Wichita
Kansas
Harvey Bailey
Texas
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
Charles F. Urschel
Oklahoma
Frank Nash
Kansas City Union Station Plaza
Nash
Raymond Caffrey
Missouri
Arkansas
Woodrow Horn Dies From Hunting Accident Wounds
Woodrow Horn, 21, dies in a hospital in Lumberton from wounds suffered when his gun accidentally discharged on Christmas Day while he was hunting.
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Lumberton
Woodrow Horn
Snow And Rain Predicted For State Tonight Sunday
Raleigh reports 15.2 degrees as the weather bureau warns of rain and snow in nearly all sections tonight or tomorrow. Temperatures ranged from 9 to 46 below in nearby cities with frostbite and shipping disruption increasing across the northeast.
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Tar Heels
United States
Raleigh Weather Bureau
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Wilmington
Asheville
Greensboro
New York
New England
North Carolina
Atlantic States
South Carolina
Boston
New
Northern
Onario
Newfoundland
Hazel T. Blackwood
Two Attempts On Duca Assassin Fail As Nation Mourns
In Sinaia Romania two attempts interrupted the royal farewell to Premier Ion G Duca who was killed yesterday by a student assassin. An explosion in the royal pavilion caused panic. a bystander was injured and the assassin Constantinescu was briefly threatened by Duca’s brother in law Rad u Polizu who fired but missed.
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Romania
Ion G. Duca
Carol
Bucharest
Radu Polizu
Sassin
Nicholas Constantinescu
Polizu
Constantinescu
Duca
Iron Guard
Paris
New Deal Alphabet Soup Of Federal Agencies
Washington readers note the year end tally of New Deal entities forming a growing alphabet soup. The list includes AAA Agricultural Adjustment Administration CCC Civilian Conservation Corps CWA Civil Works Administration FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation NLRB National Labor Relations Board and others.
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Washington
Aaa—Agricultural Adjustment Administration
CAB — Consumers’ Advisory Board
CCC
Consumers' Council
Cccc
Civilian Conservation Corps
Commodity Credit Corporation
CSB — Central Statistical Road
CWA
Civil Works Administration
Eec—Executive Council
KOPC
Ehfa — Electrical Home and Farm Authority
FACA
Federal Alcohol Control Administration
Foca—Farm Credit Admin
FCT
Office of Federal Co- Ordinator of Transportation
FDILC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Ibera—Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Phuse—Flederaltome Loan Bank Board
FSRC
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation
GSC — Grain ‘Stabilization Corporation
Holc — Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
IAB— Industrial Advisory Board
IBRT
ITPC
AB — Labor Advisory NO ‘B—National Compliance Board
Nec—National Emergency Council
NUR A
National Industrial Recovery Act
NURB
National Industrial Recovery Board
NLB
National Labor
Roosevelt radio address earns vast foreign goodwill
Will Rogers admires Roosevelt for declaring the United States will not interfere in South or Central American affairs with military force. He notes the speech expanded friendship abroad and at home, while joking about battleships near Cuban parties.
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United States
Cuba
New Hypodermic Promises Death Recall Treatment
Cambridge reports announce a new intravenous recall acid named Palinaesthesia to revive patients near death from alcohol drowning electric shock or anesthesia. Dr Walter V MacGilvra Harvard says the method restored a moribund patient eight minutes after injection and fully within 40 minutes he could speak coherently.
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Cambridge
Mass
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Walter V. MacGilvra
Harvard University Dental School
Worcester Memorial Hospital
MacGilvra
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