Hearing Set for Alleged Slayer in Farmer's Death
Rutherfordton report says a hearing for Mrs John Lynch and John Paul Searcy over the killing of a well known farmer will likely occur Monday or Tuesday. An inquest will cover evidence after a coroner's jury failed to reach a verdict. Lynch was slain on his doorstep as his wife described a warning call before gunfire.
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John Lynch
Paul Searcy
Rutherfordton
John Paul Searcy
J. W. Plees
Lynch
Searcy
Greensboro Bus Truck Crash Injury Suit Seeks Damages
W P Bodenhammer sues Carolina Coach Co and Standard Oil Co of NJ for 25235 in High Point municipal court over a May Greensboro wreck. He claims criminal negligence by both drivers after being hurled from a bus seat on Spring Garden street at 5 30 pm. He endured 16 days in hospital and four weeks off work, now limited to part time.
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Greensboro
High Point
W. P. Bodenhammer
Carolina Coach Company
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Austin
Turner
Bodenhammer
Roodenhammer
Spring Garden Street
Maxon trial delayed again over juror illness
In New York on January 30, the James Maxon Jr. case was postponed for a third time due to a juror with the flu. Arthur W. Hutchins, an Irving Trust vice president, was ill and expected to recover by Monday when the trial is set to resume. If Hutchins is absent, a juror from an incoming panel will be used.
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New York
James Maxon, Jr
Tennessee
David Paynter
West Side
Arthur W. Hutchins
Irving Trust Company
Maxon
General Sessions
Donnellan
State Park Fight Ends with Cumberland Falls Sale
Louisville dispatch reports a six year effort to acquire the Cumberland Falls area in Kentucky culminated as the Cumberland River Power Development company and state officials announced the property sold to the state for 400000 dollars. The donation was provided by the late Senator Coleman T. Dupont and his heirs.
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Louisville
Cumberland Falls
Kentucky
Cumberland River Power Development Company
Cammack
Gilbert
Coleman T. Dupont
Industrial preparedness deemed vital to national defense
Washington January 30 Assistant Secretary Payne of the War Department told the sixth women's patriotic conference that industrial mobilization is essential to fairly distribute or bear the economic burden of any future war and is as important as manpower organization in national defense.
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Washington
Payne
War Department
Women's Patriotic Conference On National Defense
Cashier of Closed Bank Shoots Self in Home Yard
R W Rae 40, cashier of the closed Bolivar County bank in Rosedale, Miss., was found unconscious in his yard with a bullet wound to the temple. He died an hour later. The bank closed December 20. Relatives said constant worry over the closing affected his mind.
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Rosedale
Miss
R. W. Rae
Bolivar County
Rae
Golf Records of All Sorts Tumble
Palm Beach Fla Jan 30 AP Golf records tumbled as Arthur Ducky Yates of Rochester N Y shot six under par to lead AL Stover Windsor Ont by 13 holes after 18 in the Lake Worth championship final. Yates opened 30 and finished 68 for the morning round while Stover failed to win or halve a single hole in the first nine.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Arthur “Ducky” Yates
Rochester
N. Y
AL L. Stover
Windsor
Stover
Yates
Commutes Death Sentence for Two Men in North Carolina
Raleigh, Jan 30. Governor Gardner commuted the death sentences of Huzzy Jackson of Rowan and Jeff Morrow of Granville to life imprisonment after trial judges and solicitors urged clemency. Also paroled were Sarah Holmes from Richmond county after a second degree murder conviction, and several others including Joe Johnson, J B Hicks, John W Gregory, EB Wiley, Oliver Hauser, Allen Dills, and Harry Ross from various counties for crimes ranging from manslaughter to larceny and storebreaking.
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Gardner
Huzzy Jackson
Jeff Morrow
Raleigh
Rowan
Granville
Sarah Holmes
Richmond County
Joe Johnson
Catawba County
J. B. Hicks
McDowell
John W. Gregory
Mecklenburg
EB. C. Wiley
Oliver Hauser
Forsyth
Allen Dills
Macon
Harry Ross
Ran
Three In Family Burned To Death At Asco West Virginia
A father Clarence Bennett 36 and his sons Charles 4 and Junior 6 died in a house fire at Asco near Welch. The mother Mrs Bennett and two daughters Lillian 7 and an infant were severely burned and rushed to a Welch hospital.
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Welch
W. Va
Dan
Asco
Here
Clarence Bennett
Charles
Junior
Dolph Inmates Sentenced In 1928 Break In Case
A report notes a man named Dolph received five to seven years for a break in during April 1928. The sentence described follows a prior legal proceeding and is cited amid archival Paris theater references.
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Dolph
Indian Newspaper Attacks MacDonald
Bombay January 30. The congress party official newspaper published a violent editorial declaring that sedition must be India’s national religion. It condemned Ramsay MacDonald’s Round Table Conference speech as a bogus peace gesture and urged the people to answer with renewed zeal and uncompromising resistance to British rule.
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Bombay
India
Congress Party
Today
Ramsay MacDonald
Seven Tribesmen Executed in Treason Case in Rome
Rome report says seven tribesmen were executed for treason after Italian troops captured them last week. The dispatch notes the sentencing followed their capture and implicates ongoing unrest in the region. Further details on trial proceedings or exact location are not provided in the fragment.
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Rome
Action in Cufra sector releases captives and cattle
A report from the Tripoli area notes a recent operation in the Cufra sector exposing captures that include 32 native warriors, about 100 women and children, and 60 head of cattle taken during the action.
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Cufra
Tripoli
Mississippi flood control at Hickman proposed for congress
Major General Lyte Brown chief of army engineers recommended to Congress the improvement of the Mississippi River at Hickman Kentucky at an estimated cost of 250000 dollars for flood control purposes.
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Washington
Mississippi River
Hickman
Congress
Lyte Brown
Army Engineers
Shipping head dead Baltimore death shocks business circles
Thomas E. Cottman, prominent shipping firm president and social figure, was found dead in his Eccleston home. Police called it a self-inflicted death, marking a tragic end to a notable Baltimore business life.
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Baltimore
Thomas E. Cottman
Eccleston
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Hutchen’s
Man Hart
Ness
State Park
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Mississippi
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Ise
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