Widely hunted Karpis mobster De Vol dies in Oklahoma shootout
Enid Oklahoma July 9 a quick firing gunman identified as Lawrence De Vol widely hunted Karpis mobster who led convicts from a Minnesota hospital last month was killed by police after a parlor confrontation. Patrolman Cal Palmer and Officer John Knarr were wounded. De Vol died after being shot by Assistant Chief of Police and another officer two blocks away. De Vol linked to Kidnaping cases and earlier Minnesota bank robbery killings.
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Enid
Okla
Lawrence Vol
Karpisker
Minnesota Ne
Harold Woolfine
de Volen
Cal Palmer
Joh Knarr
Coyle
Ofyle
de Vol
Alvin Karpis Ly
Tiat
William Hamm
Death Toll Rises as Midwestern Drought Persists
Scattered rains offered brief relief but no major break in heat as drought worsened across the Midwest. Deaths reached at least 168. crops burned and misery grew in agricultural regions. Extreme heat spread to the east with three figure temperatures forecast. New England saw a 65 year heat record tied to electrical storms causing $100000 damage. Adrian Michigan hit 105.5 degrees as heat threatened nearby areas.
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Chicago
Middle West
East Seaboard
North Dakota
Minnesota
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
New England
J. R. Lloyd
Adrian
Mich
Pact Aims To Block Hapsburg Restoration In Austria
VIENNA July 9 A Heimwehr spokesman said Germany and Italy reached a secret accord to prevent a Hapsburg throne restoration in Austria for at least three years The four points include German recognition of Italian sovereignty in Ethiopia guarantees of Austria's independence and no Hapsburg restoration within three years The pact also contemplates a joint Austro German cabinet reformation by September 15 with Nazis limited to nationals or liberals and subject to Germany's pledge against Nazi activity The German legation press attache and Austrian chancellery voiced no information on the pact
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Vienna
Heimwehr
Home Guard
Italy
Germany
Austria
Heimwebhr
Ethiopia
End Of Love Balm Suit Heads To Jury Today
In Miami Fia on July 9 Judge W W Trammell moves the 300000 Edgar Love case toward a six man jury so he can be free tomorrow when Mrs Trammell undergoes a major operation The court planned another session today following yesterdays 10 hour session leading toward the verdict for Lewis BE Mallory Lord of Bradford Pa Mallory heir of a Pennsylvania fortune is sued by Ames Edgar Jr of Detroit who alleges Mallory seduced Mrs Edgar and alienated her affections in a Miami Beach hotel in March Mrs Edgar recently divorced the plaintiff in Detroit and resumed her stage name Krynn Crawford
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Miami
Fia
W. W. Trammell
Edgar Love
Ames Edgar, Jr
Detroit
Mallory
Gar
Miami Beach
Edgar
Plain
Kryn Crawford
WPA Employment Load Drops to New Low in June
Washington July 9 The Works Progress Administration reported a steady decline in employment load since February Aubrey Williams deputy administrator said that by June the rolls fell to 2 8 542 workers the lowest since large scale operations last November and total employed on the work force also hit a new low at 3 338 7 on the rolls.
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Washington
Works Progress Administra
Aubrey Williams
Adinistrator
Carolina Fair Tonight and Warmer Friday
Fair conditions across Carolina tonight with gradual warming in the central and southern areas. North Carolina and South Carolina along with Georgia should expect fair weather and rising temperatures into Friday.
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Carolina
Tral
South Carolina
Georgia
Jobs Are Given 220 During June
The North Carolina State Employment service office reports 220 people placed in June. Of these 114 found private employment, 77 on public projects, and 29 on relief. Applications fell to 124. Director Irene W. Price notes 75 field trips for the office and clients. Demand remains for skilled workers with interest from out of town.
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North Carolina State Employment Service
Irene W. Price
Free 26 Years Later Hicks Faces Manslaughter Charge
Jord Hicks aged 60, who fled after a 1910 drunken brawl killed Charlie Winters near Newland, is charged now with manslaughter. He lived undercover at Lake James as a fisherman's helper until a nephew of Winters identified him earlier this year and notified authorities.
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Newland
Jord Hicks
Here
Hicks
Chariie Winters
Elk River
Lake James
Burke County
Winters
Rosy business forecast offered by Secretary Roper
Secretary Roper forecast a bright business year with a 10 percent gain projected for 1936. He cited a 53 billion national income in 1935, 6,000,000 more employed since 1933, and six month auto production of 2,450,000. Industrial output rose 11 percent, retail trade 10 percent, freight traffic 9 percent, and farm income 11 percent.
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Washington
Roper
Commerce Department
Commerce
Pecora Aids Drive On Rackets In New York
New York headlines report two fronts in the rackets crackdown. Justice Ferdinand Pecora is designated to hear racketeering trials, joining the effort started by Governor Lehman and Special Prosecutor Thomas E. B. Dewey. Extraordinary grand juries will begin hearing new evidence August 5.
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New York
Ferdinand Pecora
Pecora
Senate
Lehman
Philip J. McCook
Thomas EB. Dewey
Dewey
North Carolina Press Association Holds Waynesville Convention
North Carolina journalists gather in Waynesville for a three day convention. Arno B. Cammerer of the national park service will speak in Haywood County. Delegates tour the Champion Fibre Canton plant and visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Cherokee Nation officials arrange a luncheon and native dances for about 3 000 Indians on the reservation. Honors and elections slated with a Cherokee banquet and entertainment.
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Waynesville
North Carolina
Gentlemen of the Press
Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Arno B. Cammerer
National Park Service
Haywood County
Charles A Webb
Asheville
Citizen-Times Company
Canton
Champion Fibre Company
Cherokee
Bryson City
Sylvia
Warns America to be prepared for a great European war
John Ross Delafield, former brigadier general, warns at the University of Virginia conference that the United States must strengthen the navy, air force, and army to avert or survive a possible future European war involving Germany, France, Great Britain, and others. He cites tariff walls, quotas and resource competition as war drivers and names Japan Italy and Germany as key cutoffs. The roundtable on local government also notes South states suffer from too many counties per Prof. Cullen B. Gosnell.
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Charlottesville
United States
John Ross Delafield
New York
Army Ordnance Corps
Institute of Public Affairs
University of Virginia
Delafield
Germany
France
Japan
Italy
Cullen B. Gosnell
Emory University
Deadlock in Hosiery Strike in Winston-Salem
A deadlock persisted between Hanes Hosiery mill and striking workers demanding shorter hours with full pay. At a meeting last night the strikers rejected a compromise from James G. Hanes, who offered 60 to 40 hour work weeks only if wages dropped 10 percent from the 60-hour pay.
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Winston-Salem
Hanes Hosiery
James G. Hanes
Hanes
Worm Turns And Both Get Fines
SMITHFIELD July 9 H H McLamb as prosecuting witness went to court claiming Darius Williams came to his home drunk and assaulted him with a knife without provocation. Other witnesses testified Williams came to collect money McLamb owed him but that McLamb attacked Williams with a pair of scissors. The judge fined each 10.
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Smithfield
H. H. McLamb
Darius Williams
Williams
McLamb
Melamb
Dionnes Welcome Another Dionne Baby in Callander
A son was born today to Mrs. Oliva Dionne mother of the quintuplets in Callander Ontario. Dr J E I Joyal officiated assisted by a nurse Mem. Both mother and child are described in exceptionally good condition. The birth occurred early today.
City to add 180 new lockers for Lake Pool
Jamestown city expands Lake Pool facilities with 180 lockers and 21 dressing booths approved by W. F. Bailey. Cecil's Office & Equipment Co. won the bid. items to be installed by August 1, increasing total lockers to 900 and booths to 50.
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Jamestown Park
W. F. Bailey
Parks and Playgrounds
City Lake
Cecil's Office & Equipment Company
Bailey
Meningitis cases rise in North Carolina in July
Four new meningitis cases were reported to the state board of health today from Cabarrus Henderson Martin and New Hanover counties. Dr. J. C. Knox noted no concentration of cases, and with 10 July cases this year it is the highest July total since 1918. Through today the year totals 142 cases, compared with 109 in all of 1935 and 153 in 1930.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Board of Health
J. C. Knox
Cabarrus
Henderson
Martin
New Hanover
Health Board
Younger Parker Is Back With Family
Ellis Parker Jr reunites with his family in Mount Holly while New York authorities move to extradite him on a kidnapping charge involving Paul H. Wendel. He surrendered to his detective father and posted a $500 bond as Governor Hoffman refused extradition for Ellis Parker Sr on a separate conspiracy indictment.
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MT. Hollyn
N. J
Ellis Parker, Jr
Katherine
New York
Paul H. Wendel
Young Parker
Kings County
Ellis Parker
Harold G. Hoffman
Parker
Chair May Claim Negro Tomorrow
Parole Commissioner Edwin Gill said no decision had been reached in the case of Henry Grier a Winston Salem Negro scheduled for execution tomorrow for the June 1935 killing of Annie Giles a Negro woman. Solicitor Allen Gwyn who prosecuted Grier asked for clemency but Judge F Don Phillips declined to recommend it.
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Raleigh
Edwin Gill
Henry Grier
Winston-Salem
Annie Giles
Allen Gwyn
Gill
Cirier
F. Don Phillips
Lewis Refuses to Attend AFL Labor Council Meeting
John L. Lewis and allied unions refuse to appear before the American Federation of Labor executive council to answer charges over organizing steel workers into a single industrial union. The strike group, about one third of AFL membership, showed no intent to attend despite summons.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Roosevelt
A. F. of
Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Executive Council
William Green
A. F. of L
Bridges Ruined by Ethiopians
French officials report Ethiopian warriors blew up several bridges on the Djibouti to Addis Ababa rail line. Italians expected to repair damage and reinforce the region. Paris papers note Ethiopian forces and guerilla actions near Sidane Lake and Addis Ahlem challenging Italian troops.
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Paris
Djibouti
Addis Ababa
I Talians
Ethiopia
Sidane Lake
Sasa Baneh
L’‘oeuvre
Addis Ahlem
Murphy resigns as high commissioner to seek Michigan governor seat
Frank Murphy submitted his resignation as high commissioner to the Philippine Islands in a letter to President Roosevelt. He said he has decided to run for governor of Michigan.
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Washington
Frank Murphy
Philippine Islands
Roosevelt
Michigan
Bolton Death Blamed on Gangsters in Chicago
State Representative John M. Bolton 34 was fatally shot in a Chicago west side chase. Officials cited gangland retaliation over his drive to legalize handbook betting and the related licensing plan. Witness Harry Blandford 42 watched as gunmen fired from Bolton’s car passing his vehicle.
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Chicago
John M. Bolton
Underworld
Bolton
West Side
Harry Blandford
Follo
Blanford
Dis
Wal Storms
Kert J. Prignano
Prignano
Fife
Answers Last Curtain Call Meighan Dies at 57 in Long Island Home
New York reports Thomas Meighan, famed stage and silent screen star, died after a year long illness at his Great Neck residence. The actor, 57, rose from aspiring doctor to Broadway and silent film icon, noted for The Miracle Man and Peck's Bad Boy. He married Frances Ring during The College Widow era.
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New York
Thomas Meighan
America
Sil‘ent
Great Neck
Long Island
Peck
Jackie Cooper
Meighan
Frances Ring
Will Investigate Preacher's Death in Brunswick
A coroner's jury began a new inquiry into the May 14 death of Rev. Thomas W. Simpson 49 pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Brunswick. He was found with shotgun wounds in his attic room. The jury verdict cited death from shotgun wounds while temporarily demented. Some officials expressed dissatisfaction with the prior investigation. An automatic shotgun fired four times and a fox was found nearby.
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Brunswick
Thomas W. Simpson
First Presbyterian Church of
Simpson
J. D. Baldwin
Reopen Inquest Into Death Of Wilmington Fish Dealer
Coroner Cliff Daniels of Pamlico county said he would reopen the inquest into the death of Willie H. Lea a Wilmington fish dealer this afternoon. Earlier inquest jurors cleared John Jones after he said Lea tried to break down his door and he fired through it.
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Wilmington
Cliff Daniels
Pamlico County
Willie H. Lea
John Jones
Lea
Union Claims Victory As Sharecropper Strike Ends
The Southern Tenant Farmers' union declares a successful general strike among tenant farmers in east Arkansas ended in Memphis on July 9. H. L. Mitchell says the move raised day labor wages and united black and white workers in cotton fields. Farmers call it a publicity gag, noting the strike never regained force. The conflict peaked after reports of flogging near Earle, Arkansas involving Willie Sue Blagden and Rev. Claude Williams.
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Memphis, Tenn
Arkansas
Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union
H. L. Mitchell
Cross
Crittenden
St. Francis
Willie Sue Blagden
Memphis Spela
Claude Williams
Little Rock
Earle
Ark
Hope Fades for Dr Cadman in Plattsburgh
Plattsburgh N Y. Dr Parkes an internationally known preacher collapsed into unconsciousness and delirium today at Champlain Valley hospital. Dr Lyman G Barton Jr tending surgeon said the clergyman is unconscious of the time delirious and weaker with hope practically abandoned. A fusion blood from Marie a Brooklyn clergyman's daughter gave only temporary benefit.
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Plattsburgh
N. Y
Parkes
Cadman
Champlain Valley Hospital
Lyman G. Barton, Jr
Barton
Brooklyn
Marie
Advances Shown In Stock Market With Mixed Gains
New York July 9 stock market revived and moved upward in early trading with utilities steels motors and merchandising issues showing fractional gains up to three points. Rail bonds touched higher levels as traders watched crop area weather nervously.
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New York
Thirteen Rebels Die In Skirmishes In Mexico
In southwest Mexico two sharp clashes left 13 insurgents dead. At Vaquera ranch near San Sebastian Jalisco eight rebels died in an engagement with soldiers. Another two hour fight at Torres Hill near San Luis California? raid killed five insurgents. Estanislao Vaquez reported among the dead.
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Mexico City
Sou
Mexico
Mechanic Napier Sentenced After Fatal Car Crash
Albemarle July 9. William Napier a mechanic was sentenced to one year for drunken and reckless driving hours after arrest in a fatal automobile collision. He is charged with manslaughter in the death of George Deng and waived preliminary hearing, bound to superior court.
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Albemarle
William Napier
George Deng
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