Holiday Death Toll Mounts and Hoover Moratorium Talks
Paris reports Secretary Mellon presented a new memorandum to French negotiators on Hoover's moratorium proposal as Laval seeks cabinet guidance. In Washington the US proposed confirming in principle, with details left to experts, while Castle said remaining issues won’t derail a final agreement. President Hoover rushed back from Rapidan for talks as hopes rise for quick resolution.
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Paris
Andrew W. Mellon
Hoover
Premiser Laval
Mr. Mellon
Washington
France
Castle
State Department
United States
Rapidan Camp
Nearly 500 Killed in U.S. Fourth of July Death Toll
The nation marked its 155th birthday with close to 500 deaths from various causes over two days. Fireworks fatalities were six, far fewer than 1930, while automobile accidents and drownings dominated. The mid Atlantic led in deaths with 143, and New York City saw about 1600 injuries. Vermont reported no deaths.
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Associated Press
mid-Atlantic
Midwest
Pacific Coast States
South
New England States
Southwest
Rocky Mountain States
mid-Atlantic States
New York City
Vermont
Calvin Coolidge
Lindbergh Smiles At Wiley Post And Harold Gatty Lunch
The Lindbergh colonel enjoyed a luncheon with world fliers Wiley Post and Harold Gatty. The scene hints at his remembered days of fond dining and reception, suggesting his sympathetic grin reflects past indulgent feasts.
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Charlies
A. Lindbergh
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
World Fliers
Lindbergh
Hoover seeks Paris accord on moratorium with France
President Hoover hopes his Paris representatives can reconcile French and American attitudes on the moratorium. Secretary Mellon and Ambassador Edge carry fresh instructions as talks proceed.
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Washington
Hoover
Paris
Mellon
Edge
Rip tides claim as many as twenty lives along Los Angeles beaches
At least seventeen deaths were reported from rip tides along a 50 mile coastline with three more missing. Lifeguards warned bathers as the dangerous currents pushed bodies out to sea and advised swimmers to signal for help or swim at right angles to escape.
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Los Angeles
Sam Lewis Cleared in Crip Crash Fatality Near Tarboro
Tarboro North Carolina July 6 AP Sam Lewis driver of the automobile that fatally injured Etheridge Allen near Crip yesterday was freed of blame by investigating authorities today.
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Tarboro
N. C
Sam Lewis
Etheridge Allen
Farm Board Won't Alter Wheat Stabilization Sales Policy
Chairman Stone told Vice President Curtis and Senator Copper that the Farm Board will not make further changes in its sales policy for stabilizing wheat.
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Washington
Stone
The
Farm Board Today
Curtis
Copper Republican
Kansas
Explosion at Phoenix Silk Co. Mill Shatters Glass During Strike
An explosion at the Phoenix Silk Company Mill in Allentown Pennsylvania shattered hundreds of glass panes and cut a watchman with flying glass. Police connected the blast to a string of weekend explosions blamed on light dynamite bombs. Silk workers are on strike.
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Allentown
Phoenix Silk Co
London remains world’s largest city by over a million
London leads as the world’s largest city with a population of 8,202,816 in the April 26 census, surpassing Greater New York which stands at 6,981,917, a margin of 1,220,901. The figures compare metropolitan areas including outer rings.
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London
New York
Greater
Charlotte bus driver charged with manslaughter in Lexington crash
Harold Atkins, a Charlotte bus driver, is accused of manslaughter in the death of Willie Grimes a 45 year old Lexington ice cream manufacturer struck by a Greensboro Charlotte bus Saturday Atkins will face a preliminary hearing Friday and is free on a $2000 bond State patrolmen Grissette and Shaw who were aboard the bus said Atkins stopped called an ambulance and was advised to continue driving
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Lexington
N. C
Harold Atkins
Charlotte
Willie Grimes
Atkins
Liberty
Grissette and Shaw
Murrill Dead At 64 In Charlotte After Self Inflicted Wounds
Hugh A. Murrill Sr., 64, longtime head of Queen City Printing, died in a Charlotte hospital from self inflicted bullet wounds after shooting himself at home last night. Friends cite age and business ties as factors. He led Oasis Temple in state fraternal life.
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N. C
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Queen City Printing Company
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Oasis Temple
Murrill Family Ties Link Furniture Trade
Mr Murrill and his son Hugh A Murrill Jr built ties to the local furniture industry by directing the reorganization of the Southern Furniture Journal now named Furniture Merchandising. The younger Murrill then secured printing contracts for the publication. The son works in New York as merchandising and advertising director for Simmons Company, a major furniture maker.
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Southern Furniture Journal
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New York
Simmons Company
Great Furniture Manufacturers
Music Aids Speeding Up Work In Industry
The Illinois Manufacturers' Association announced that a survey found music in industry motivates workers as it does in a military parade, aiding faster production and efficiency. The statement, issued in Chicago, July 6, frames music as a stimulative tool for factories.
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Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Treasury Receipts and Expenditures Report for July 2
Treasury receipts for July 2 totaled 59 662 297 20 dollars with expenditures of 66 680 373 99 leaving a balance of 457 479 971 78. Customs receipts for the first two days of July were 1 773 813 56.
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Treasury
Washington
Dieting prisoner steals warden’s clothes and escapes
Arthur J. Miller, a former trusted barber at the Illinois state penitentiary, walked out on the Fourth of July after dieting to fit the warden’s son Phillip’s clothes. Warden Henry C. Hill suspects the weight loss was to steal new attire and remains determined to reclaim him.
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Phillip
Government seeks immediate jail for Albert Fall in DC
Government counsel will urge Justice Bailey in the District of Columbia supreme court to bring Albert B. Fall to DC at once to serve a one year sentence. Army physicians’ report from Texas is cited on Fall’s fitness to travel from El Paso to begin the term. Fall was convicted of taking a $100,000 bribe from Edward L. Doheny over Elk Hills naval oil reserve lease. he also faces a $100,000 fine.
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Justice Bailey
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
Rover
Fall
Texas
el Paso
Bailey
Edward L. Doheny
Elk Hills
Calif
Naval Oil Reserve
Doheny
District of Columbia
This Fellow No Longer Needs a Trained Caddie
Girard California July 6 A golfer J E Priddy claims to be original by using a chemistry trick to attract butterflies to his golf ball. He saturated the ball with a formula that draws white butterflies then watches them find the ball in the rough.
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Calif
J. E. Priddy
Priddy
St. Andrews Golf Club
Von Elm Takes One Stroke Lead In Open Duel
George Von Elm led Billie Burke by one stroke after 18 holes in the United States Open at Inverness Club Toledo. The pair, 108 holes into a four day marathon, had been tied at 292 after regulation and 149 in yesterday’s continuation. Weather was cool with cloud cover after rain.
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Toledo
George von Elm
Billie Burke
von Elm
Burke
George
Deuce
Post and Gatty Triumph in World Flight Reception Trials
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty earned presidential acclaim after their record around the world in under nine days. Plans for a Washington reception were canceled due to weather, while a National Press Club ovation and a National Aeronautic Association honorary membership highlighted the event. A telegraphic poll signaled their rare scrolls among the association's 12 honorees.
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Board of Governors
Association
Airship Falls in France In Aviation Disaster Five Killed
A French airfield tragedy occurs when a plane attempting to take off crashes into spectators. Five people are killed and ten injured in the crowd near Hirson on July 6.
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France
Berkman Faces Deportation From France Again
Paris July 6 Alexander Berkman the U S exile once deported with Emma Goldman in 1919 faces expulsion from France after three months The government issued a deportation order but granted a suspension to allow further investigation He has lived in Montparnasse while his former associate stays on the Riviera He denies political activity and says French orders suspend when the government feels its cabinet may fall.
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Alexander Berkman
United States
Emma Goldman
France
Montparnasse
French Riviera
Pierrenlaval
Mechanical Brain at MIT Teaches Light Based Computation
Cambridge Massachusetts July 6 Invention of a mechanical brain whose grey matter is mostly light was announced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology It is a calculating machine that uses light to perform in minutes problems that took hours to days by human minds It analyzes graphs by turning them into light and treats paper to make graph numbers appear as outlines like cutout dolls
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Mass
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ture
Unable To Sing So Trio Goes To Jail
Three men were jailed in Chicago after a dispute over lead singing escalated on a street corner. Police officer Patrick Gaynor arrested them, and Desk Sergeant Murray judged their performance too poor to merit singing.
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Trio
Chicago
Patrick Gaynor
Murrin
Temperance Board Reaffirms Prohibition Stand
The Temperance and Social Service Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church South reaffirmed support for the Eighteenth Amendment and oppose state control of liquor It denounces liberal views on sex relations and calls for reducing armament while urging action to fix economic inequality The platform endorses Hoover's Wickersham report and demands full enforcement of prohibition by Congress.
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Lake Junaluska
N. C
Board of Temperance and Social Service
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
James Cannon
Methodist Episcopal Church
Hoover
Wickersham
Congress
Guardsmen Begin Summer Training at Camp Glenn
Morehead City July 6. Members of the 120th infantry and a quartermaster detachment began two weeks of army routine at Camp Glenn near Morehead City. About 1,100 guardsmen arrived for training under Col. Don Scott.
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North Carolina National Guards
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Camp Glenn
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Ieee
Don Scott
Six fatalities logged in North Carolina Fourth of July weekend
Charlotte report notes six deaths recorded on the North Carolina casualty list for the Fourth of July week end with local authorities detailing the figures and locations where the incidents occurred.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Bombing Probe Holds Three In Chicago Suburb
Police held apartment owner John Graff and two janitors after a bombing at the Howard Street elevated terminal caused minor damage. Authorities found two more burning fuses and extinguished them with buckets of water. Graff admitted complaints about depot noise but denied knowledge of the attack.
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Howard Street
John Graff
George Bauer
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Alfred Nelson
Jury Is Summoned For Investigation Of Shelton Death
A coroner's jury was summoned to investigate the killing of Deputy Sheriff Joe B. Shelton and Jennings Henderson after a pistol duel near Walnut in Madison County Saturday night. About 20 shots were fired during the confrontation when Shelton and two officers tried to arrest Henderson for drunkenness. bystander Erwin Ramsey was wounded by a stray bullet.
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N. C
Joe B. Shelton
Jennings Henderson
Walnut
Madison County
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Henderson
Erwin Ramsey
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