Oklahoma Dry Agent Jailed After Farmer Death Raid
TECUMSEH Oklahoma July 5 AP Jeff B Harris federal prohibition agent was jailed after a liquor raid that ended with farmer James Harris 35 dead and Oscar Lowry 34 wounded. Harris claimed he shot only after surrender. Three other agents were detained and released when not involved. County Attorney Pitman said charges could follow if deaths persisted.
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Oklahoma
James Harris
Prohibition
Tecumseh, Okla
Jeff B. Harris
Harris
Here
Oscar Lowry
Lowry
Harris Farm
Randall Pitman
Death toll from Independence Day falls across nation
The United States marked its 153rd birthday with 159 deaths on July Fourth 1929, down from 1928 due to fewer drownings and heat deaths. Auto fatalities rose to 80, fireworks deaths limited to seven, and the Northwest and Mountain states reported the smallest lists.
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North Carolina
J. D. Chinness
Wadesboro
North Wadeboro
Chicago
America
Middlewest
Middle Atlantic
Northwest
Mountain States
Associated Press
Pompano
Fla
New Orleans Cars Greeted by Bricks
On July 5 in New Orleans the first street car since the carmen's strike began last Tuesday was met by brickbats as it operated for about twenty minutes. The car, crewed by imported operators, was guarded by police with sawed-off shotguns and pistols. Strikers hurled bricks on Canal Street, injuring none seriously. Track damage appeared on Canal Street and a dismantled steam roller halted on Carrollton Avenue, blocked by a crowd with sticks and bricks.
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New Orleans
Canal Street
Cagnal Street
Carrollton Avenue
Bear Attacked Near Low Quebec Is Stunned And Killed
Ottawa July 5 Attacked by a 208 pound bear near Low Quebec 30 miles north of Ottawa Harry Custock Ottawa stunned the animal with a hammer and then killed it with a butcher knife Mr and Mrs Custock had been picking berries near the scene and had retired for the night in an automobile Custock was awakened by sounds outside and found the bear and two cubs at the berry pail.
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Ottawa
Ont
Low
Que
Harry Custock
Outlook For Naval Cut is Brighter
Washington reports a brighter outlook for naval cuts as Japan and Britain show openness to disarmament talks. Since Hoover's 1929 inauguration, the U S has urged world naval limitation and fleet reductions, with Prime Minister MacDonald initiating talks with Dawes and Japan’s Hamaguchi expected to push negotiations.
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Washington
Japan
Great Britain
United States
Hoover
MacDonald
England
Dawes
Tanaka
Yugo Hamaguchi
Amaguchi
Methodist Board Praises Hoover Law Enforcement
The board of temperance and social service of the Methodist Episcopal church south adjourned at Lake Junaluska North Carolina praising President Hoover for his stand and utterances in support of law observance and enforcement.
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Methodist Board OF Temperance
Hoover
Lake Junaluska
N. C
Board of Temperance and Social Service
Mathodist Episcopal Church
South
Raleigh Attorney Plans Hitchhiking Home Experiment
Raleigh attorney H. L. Swain a former Tyrrell county state senator began hitchhiking to his Tyrrell county home in Columbia to test claims that adults can easily catch rides as college youths. The UNC graduate says he wants to learn if the tales hold true for an adult traveler.
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Alamance County
Guilford College
South Carolina
North Carolina
Concord
Raleigh
H. L. Swain
State Senate
Tyrrell County
Columbia
Radio Stations Seek Antin Bowler Flight Route
Northeastern Canadian stations sought the Chicago to Berlin Antin Bowler after it halted at Rupert House on James Bay. The plane, owned by the Chicago Tribune, flew Remi Lake to Rupert House and then reportedly took off again to receive weather reports, with plans to proceed to Great Whale and Mount Evans Greenland.
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Ottawa
Canada
Antin Bowler
Rupert House
James Bay
Hope
Hudson Straits
Remi Lake
Department of Marine
Fort Burwell
The
Chicago Tribune
Great Whale
Hudson Bay
Mount Evans
Greenland
Parker Cramer
Chicago
Bob Gast
Cramer
Robert Wood
Europe
Arson Charge Shocks Wadesboro Brother in Fire Disaster
Maxie Watts, 22, held in Anson County jail on arson charges after allegedly dousing his brother Henry Watts's house with kerosene and setting it aflame early Wednesday. Mrs Watts escaped with burns as the structure burned. Watts fled toward Charlotte and was arrested. Park and Dixie publishers figures dominate Asheville convention notes.
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Wadesburg
Anson County
Maxie Watts
Watts
Charlotte
Wadesboro
Henry Watts
Maxie
Fifteen Injured in St Louis Train Wreck
A Burlington train backing into a Frisco local at Union Station injured fifteen people from St Louis County. Five suffered fractured skulls as two crowded coaches were toppled and the observation car crashed into the Frisco car. Ambulances rushed the injured to city hospitals.
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ST. Louis
Burlington
Kansas City
Union Station
St. Louis County
Cabinet Meeting Omitted Amid July Fourth Break
Washington July 5 The regular cabinet meeting was cut to a brief conference between Secretary Mellon and President Hoover. All other cabinet members had left for the Fourth of July and had not yet returned. This marked the first omission since Hoover's inauguration.
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Washington
Mellon
Hoover
Mr. Hoover
Culver City Plane Aerial Record Quest Enters Fourth Day
California July 5 Still dodging fog banks pilots L W Mendel and R B Reinhart press into their fourth day aloft in the biplane Angeleno seeking to better the endurance record of 172 hours 32 minutes 1 second. They started at 7 29 30 A M Tuesday and passed the 64 1 2 hour mark by midnight. To beat the existing mark set by Reginald Robbins and James Kelly at Fort Worth the flight must last until 12 02 01 p m next Tuesday.
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Cleveland
Roy L. Mitchell
Byron K. Newcomb
Earth
Culver City
Cal
L. W. Mendel
R. B. Reinhart
Angeleno
Reginald Robbins
James Kelly
Fort Worth
Train wreck at Plaszow station kills nine, injures sixteen
In Poland near Cracow, a locomotive collided with a stationary passenger train at Plaszow station. Nineteen people died and 16 were injured in the July 5 incident.
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Warsaw
Poland
Plaszow
Cracow
Dustin Farnum Mourned By Theatrical World
The theatrical world mourns Dustin Farnum age 55 who died Wednesday at Post Graduate hospital after a year of ill health. His notable stage successes include Arizona The Virginian and The Squaw Man and he co starred with William Farnum in The Littlest Rebel before moving into motion pictures.
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New York
Dustin Farnum
Farnum
Post Graduate Hospital
Arizona
William Farnum
Option Pictures
Crisis Looms In French Government Crisis Looms In French Government
Paris July 3 The French cabinet meets in a special session to face opposition attacks and the debt settlement with America. Tension mounts over whether Premier Poincare can survive the crisis and still ratify the Mellon Berenger debt accord with the United States. The Chamber finance committee votes 17 to 16 with 11 abstentions to urge reservations in ratifying the agreement, linking payment only if Germany pays.
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Paris
America
Poincare
United States
Finance Committee
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
France
Germany
Spider bite prompts workman compensation claim
Raleigh July 4. Peter Hairston an employee of the Carolina Cotton and Woolen Mills at Spray filed a claim for compensation with the industrial commission. Details of his injuries were not disclosed. The commission was deliberating his entitlement as several minor injury claims were filed today.
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Raleigh
Bittes
Peter Hairston
Carolina Cotton and Woolen Mills Company
Spray
Industrial Commission
Wilmer Stultz considered very drunk at death in crash
Chemical analysis by Dr. Alexander O Goettler found Wilmer Stultz had a large amount of alcohol in the stomach brain liver and kidney indicating he was very drunk when his plane went into a tailspin near Roosevelt Field killing him and two passengers during a flight.
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Edward Schimetzer
112Th Infantry
Filmes
Erie
V. F P. W. Post
American Legion Post
Wilmer Stultz
Phillip Huntington
Power Company Papers Condemned At Southern Publishers Meet
The Southern Newspaper Publishers association, meeting in Asheville on July 5, unanimously condemned the purchase of newspapers by interests tied to power and newsprint industries. Introduced by John D D Ewing and seconded by W T Anderson the resolution declared such ownership a menace to a free press and public policy.
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Asheville
Parks
Fort Smith
Ark
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Grove Park Inn
Col
Robert Irwin
New Orleans
John A. Park
Raleigh
Walter CC. Johnson
Chattanooga
Cranston Williams
K. A. Engle
Little Rock
President Parks
Arkansas
W. B. Hager
Owensboro
Kentucky
J. H. Long
Huntington
West Virginia
Clark Howell, Jr
Atlanta
Georgia
Alabama
Victor H. Hanson
Birmingham
Florida
L. C. Brown
St. Petersburg
Louisiana
LL. K. Nicholson
Mississippi
L. P. Cashman
Vicksburg
North Carolina
W. C. Dowd, Jr
Charlotte
Oklahoma
E. K. Gaylord
Oklahoma City
South Carolina
F. C. Withers
Columbia
Tennessee
J. G. Stahlman
Nashville
Texas
J. L. Mapes
Beaumont
Virginia
J. P. Fishbur
Roanoke
William LaVarre
Harold Hall
Southern
International Paper and Power Company
John D.D. Ewing
Shreveport Times
Robert Ewing
W. T. Anderson
Macon
Telegraph
United States
Lindberghs to Complete Transcontinental Inspection
Col Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs Lindbergh arrive in Albuquerque after inspecting Clovis airport. They plan to fly to Winslow Arizona and then to Los Angeles where the Colonel will pilot the first leg of the transcontinental airmail route from Los Angeles to Winslow on Monday.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Clovis
Winslow
Ariz
Los Angeles
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Rafe F. King
Faye Wilson King
Charles
Blanton
First National Bank of
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King
Hamilton
Charles C. Blanton
David Hamilton
Mr. Blanton
Ben Gold
Faye Wilson
Arthur L. Gaston
Clemson College
State
Mitchell
Newcomb
Ernest Basham
Basham
Broughton
North Carolina State College
J. M. Broughton
Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Josiah William Bailey
Monroe
Marion
Sanford
Boone
Durham
Drystab
Carolina
Gettysburg
O. Max Gardner
Gutzon Baorglum
WU. S
Chicago-To-Berlin
Brother's Houses
Dixie Publishers
Arkansan
Workman
Power Company
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