Footprint May Trap Murderer in Gray Death Case
Hollywood July 4 A rubber floor mat footprint in the car of King D. Gray suggests a possible jealous rival as a killer rather than suicide. Police note a wine bottle and a prior 1933 attack, while Gray, a 62 year old married father of two, was read ing a Dear Daddy letter at the Hollywood post office.
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New Castle
Miles Ledbetter
William Nobles
Mojave Desert
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Drowning Seen As Boat Overturns In Rio Grande Rescue Efforts
Two ditchriders reported seeing a small boat with Denver men overturn in the Rio Grande at Black Canyon. EB R Wakefield disappeared after the incident. A B Hunt clung to an oar and reached the far bank despite injuries. They had left Albuquerque on a holiday trip from Denver.
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Alamosa
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Salisbury Man Held for Death in Automobile Crash
City Patrolman Finley said Norman L. Church of Salisbury, North Carolina, held under $1,000 bond for the grand jury over the death of Jennie Richards, a Negro woman, struck by Church’s car while she and her husband walked on 4th Street. The husband is hospitalized with a broken leg. A hearing was held in the recorder's court Thursday.
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Borah Opposes 1939 Wire-Tapping Bill Revival
Senator Borah of Idaho announced he would oppose any effort to revive the wire tapping bill in the 1939 Congress. He criticized a measure to legalize searches and taps of telegrams and telephone wires by federal agents, which would admit such evidence in court, despite prior Supreme Court rulings against it.
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Supreme Court
FDR Prepares Busy Four Day Lead Up to Transcontinental Tour
President Roosevelt plans a four day work schedule to clear his desk before a cross country speaking tour. He will appoint administrators for wage hour law and civil aviation, set spending programs, and discuss a new ambassador to Moscow. He is expected to speak in Kentucky and California with liberal candidates in view.
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German glider ace leads soaring meet with 225 mile flight
German flyer Peter Riedel set a record by flying 225 miles motorless from Elmira to Washington to win a $1,500 prize as Emil Lehecka lagged on points. Riedel earlier traded leads with Lehecka, who had 581 points to 580. Barringer held the U S gliding record with 210 miles last April.
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Wilmington
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Youth Hunted In Rocky Mountain National Park
Forest rangers directed nearly 150 searchers in a hunt for four and a half year old Albert Beilhartz missing since yesterday after a weekend outing in the Fall River area of Rocky Mountain National Park. His parents fear he fell into the rapid river and was swept downstream.
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Asheboro Men To Face Murder Trial This Week
Asheboro residents Bill Cross, H. Rush, Jesse Crofts and Walt Ruth were to face a superior court murder trial in Fayetteville this week over the death of Fort Bragg ranger Sergeant J. Mott. Officers reported Mott was shot when he confronted three hunters about a deer they had killed.
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Walt Ruth
Asheboro
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Fort Bragg
Hoke County
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New Deal Hit And Defended On Same Stage
In Charlottesville Virginia John D M Hamilton Republican chairman and Senator Claude Pepper Democrat spoke on Jefferson at the University of Virginia institute of public affairs. Hamilton said departures from Jeffersonian precepts in recent years caused many national evils. Pepper defended Jeffersonian liberty against economic despotism in the same program.
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Republican National Committee
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Jefferson
Dewey Dispatches Detectives to Question Jail Inmate
District Attorney Dewey will send detectives to Lewisburg federal penitentiary to question Jacob Gurrah Shapiro regarding the 1934 slaying of union official William Snyder. Shapiro, a noted racketeer, is to be asked about possible links to the case as Dewey reports confessions from brothers William and Morels Goldis. two other men remain innocent.
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Dewey
Federal Penitentiary
Lewisburg
Jacob “Gurrah" Shapiro
William Snyder
William and
Morels Goldis
Tobacco schools to aid growers in sorting and grading
W. P. Hedrick of the agriculture department announced plans to establish tobacco schools during the marketing season to help farmers sort and grade leaf. Arrangements are set for Robeson Bladen and Forsyth counties.
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W. P. Hedrick
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State Farmers Meet July 22 On Fertilizer Use
The North Carolina Department of Agriculture announces an all day July 22 session at the tobacco test farm in Oxford inviting farmers manufacturers chemists and salesmen to discuss proper fertilizer use. State farmers spend upwards of 25 million dollars annually on fertilizers.
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Jerusalem Riots Kill Eight Arabs
A series of disturbances in Jerusalem today left eight Arabs dead and several wounded. A bomb at a bus in the Jewish quarter killed three and wounded seven, while another blast near the Tel Aviv boundary killed four and injured five.
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Iffa
Telaviv
Burgin Wins Eighth District in Narrow Primary Lead
Complete unofficial returns show O. Burgin 19 333 votes to C. B. Deane 19 307 in the Eighth District Democratic nomination race. Deane refuses to concede. Burgin is Lexington lawyer and former legislator seeking to fill J. Walter Lambeth’s seat.
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Thomasville
CTOR
Lewis E. Teague
High Point
Oscar G. Barker
Durham
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Roosevelt
J. Abner Barker
Roseboro
Rivers D. Johnson
Warsaw
Battles Near Crucial Fronts In China And Spain
Japanese forces push within seven miles of Hukow as Chinese counter moves flood the Yangtze region. In Spain Francoist insurgents advance seven and a half miles toward the Teruel highway to the coast while government troops hold in the Sierra de Espadan foothills north of Valencia.
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Revenue Decline Forecast Amid 1938 Economic Slide
Government economists estimate a 750 million dollar drop in federal revenue for the new fiscal year as business recession deepens. They benchmark 12 month receipts at about 6.242 billion, a record high in 18 years, while projecting 1938 national income will stay at least 10 percent below 1937’s 69 billion.
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Flame of Eternal Peace at Gettysburg Memorial
Gettysburg Pa July 4 President Roosevelt unveiled a 40 foot memorial with an eternal flame atop a bronze urn. Remarking on Lincoln and the Civil War he urged continued national resolve toward peace and justice amid a present day conflict. Veterans and thousands attended the dedication and a ceremonial land deed was presented by Governor Earle.
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Insurgent raids hit Gava and Alicante in Spain
Insurgent warplanes killed eight people and wounded 30 in a raid on Gava, a suburb of Barcelona, with five planes taking part. The attack marks a renewed air offensive along the Mediterranean coast of government Spain, following June 30 raids on Catalonia. Alicante also faced heavy bombing, with several houses destroyed by explosives.
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Jew Who Became Priest Is Beaten in Warsaw Riot
Path er Thaddeus Puder a Jew who became a Roman Catholic priest was badly clubbed as he stepped from the altar by Rafael Michlaski a shoemaker who cried out lets beat the Jew Pashioners among whom were many Christianized Jews overwhelmed and beat the assailant He was taken to a hospital seriously injured.
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Highways Toll Surges as Independence Holiday Ends
AP reports more than 150 highway deaths across 46 states and DC as a three day 4th of July weekend ends. About 70 drownings, 31 heat and fall related deaths, and many fireworks injuries are noted with Pennsylvania leading the toll and a Floral Park store suffering $10,000 in damage.
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Stabs Girl As She Prays Near Concord
Concord July 4 a 19 year old girl, Jane Fink, was stabbed to death as she knelt to pray. Wil Baxter Parnell, 32, brother in law, confessed to the killing saying he stabbed her with an ice pick after taking a root given by a Mecklenburg county fortune teller. He fled to a minister’s home and surrendered, the coroner said. An inquest will be held.
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Youth Congress Opposes 1940 Olympics in Japan
The American Youth Congress today opposed holding the 1940 games in Japan. Delegates at the national conference called for an international campaign to relocate the games to a site with more peaceful intent. The body also endorsed the Kellogg Pact to renounce war.
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G Man Sets New Revolver Shooting Record at Camp Ritchie
G man Walter set a new shooting record in a competition at Camp Ritchie Maryland as he used a .38 caliber revolver to reach 298 points, just shy of a perfect score and beating Jacob Bugbrecht of Los An by two points. National officials recognized the feat as a new official record.
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