Latin American Nations Open Doors To Refugees At Evian
Latin American states pledge asylum for German and Austrian refugees after others refuse. Mexico offers asylum and work opportunities, the Dominican Republic follows, and Peru agrees to welcome farmers while restricting professional emigrants. Delegates cite farming opportunities and stability safeguards.
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Evian Les-Bains
France
Mexico
Dominican Republic
Peru
Virgilio Trujillo Molina
West Indian Republic
Garcia Calderon
Primo Villa Michel
Germany
Austria
Officials Seek Federal Loan and Grant for High Point Hospital
The city requests a 45 percent grant and 55 percent loan totaling 6 492 000 for a 163 bed six story brick and stone hospital with a nurses home. Plans by Eccles Everhart and Louis Voorhees show separate white and Negro entrances on the first floor and facilities for medical surgical and obstetrical care plus labs and diagnostics. The city also discusses revised hydro electric cost estimates after a Murray and Flood survey and submitted new engineering data to the PWA in Atlanta.
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PWA
Atlanta
C. 8. Grayson
E. M. Knox
High Point
Stanley Wright
Knox
Murray and Flood, Inc
New York
Cone
Eccles D. Everhart
Louis F. Voorhees
General Hospital
Helen Wills Moody Wins Trish Lawn Crown
Dublin reports Helen Wills Moody defeating Miss T B Jarvis 6 4 4 2 to add the Trish Lawn tennis championship to her All England title. The victory confirms Wills Moody’s dominance in the finals held today.
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Helen
Dublin
Helen Wills Moody
T. BR. Jarvis
Revenge killing confessed in Ohio by 30 year old man
Harold Earl Kuntz admitted killing his stepfather George Elmer Smith on the porch of his Dayton home after saying he waited 15 years. Smith, a 61 year old WPA worker, had earlier shot Kuntz's mother and lost an eye. Kuntz used a .32 caliber pistol after a prior .38 used on the mother. Smith had previously killed his first wife Lily Kuntz Smith in 1922 and was pardoned in 1928.
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Dayton
Harold Earl Kuntz
W. G. Coovert
George Elmer Smith
WPA
Smith
Lily Kuntz Smith
Women ready to brave Colorado again after 18 days
Fearless after 18 dramatic days on the Colorado River two women join the second half of a six person expedition to descend toward Boulder Dam. Dr Elanda Clover and Miss Louis Jotter express calm as they resume the trip after a perilous paddle and a rescue of Harris. They report discovering three new cactus species and take photographs of unusual flora.
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Colorado
Cees Ferry
Ariz
West
Colorado River
Boulder Dam
Ney
Gran Canyon
Elanda Clover
University of Michigan
Louis Jotter
Green River
Utah
Clover Eald
Miss Chatter
W. C. Gibson
San Francisco
Don Harris
U. S. Geological Survey
Gibson
Harris Dlug
Miss Clover
Norman Nevills
Harris
Dr. Clover
Miss Jotter
Fbugene Atkinson
Would License Unused Patent Policy Curb Monopolies
Senator King urged compulsory licensing of unused patents as a tool to curb monopolistic tendencies. He asked Thurman Arnold and the Justice Department to consider such legislation after completing the monopoly study, arguing some large corporations buy unused patents to block progress and protect processes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
King
Utah
Thurman Arnold
Justice Department
Farley backs Duffy at Wisconsin Democratic convention
Postmaster General James A. Farley on the move toward Iowa endorsed U. S. Senator F. Ryan Duffy at the Fond du Lac convention. He predicted a big pickup in business and lauded Duffy for supporting Roosevelt policies and the President's program. Farley did not comment on Governor La Follette's new National Progressives party.
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Fond DU Lac
Wis
James A. Farley
Iowa
U. S
F. Ryan Duffy
Sheboygan
Duffy
Roosevelt
Farley
Wisconsin
Washington
Philip la Follette
National Progressives of America
Italy Ready For World Wide Fight On Bolshevism
Mussolini declared Italy prepared to combat Bolshevism on a European or world scale if needed to decide the continent’s fate. In a preface to a volume of Fascist council acts, he hailed the clash as historically important and warned that Fascism does not fear a battle that could decide the continent’s future.
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Rome
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Tr Duce
Mussolini
Japs Urge Evacuation of Yangtze Zone and Matrimonial Quirk
In Matawan New Jersey Judson Van Arsdale, a widower, seeks a wife among two widows who both wish to marry him despite an ongoing dilemma. Separately in Shanghai the Japanese push 20,000 fresh troops up the Yangtze and urge foreign vessels and citizens to evacuate 80 miles above Kiukiang as dispatches promise volatility along the Hankow reach.
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Matawan
WN. J
Judson van Arsdale
Jud
Jackson Street
Washington, D. C
Shanghai
Yangtze
Hankow
United States
Nanking
Wanghaikong
Kiukiang
Kuling
Man Killed by Freight Train in Aberdeen
Aberdeen reports a railroad worker named Jack Ellie about 40 was fatally struck by a Norfolk Southern freight train as it entered Aberdeen from Pinehurst. The incident occurred today with immediate death. Authorities are investigating the accident.
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Aberdeen
Jack Ellie
Norfolk-Southern Railroad
Pinehurst
Austrians Freed Then Jailed Again
Several followers of Kurt Schuschnigg were released from jail in Kitzbuehel Germany and then re arrested minutes later. They were sent to a concentration camp after celebrating release with their wives in the prison yard and deriding the Nazi regime. The exact number of prisoners was not disclosed.
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Kitzbubhel
Germany
Kurt Schuschnigg
Absentee Ballots Are Scrutinized In Davidson County
In Lexington 300 absentee ballots were checked as a protest by C. B. Deane against W. O. Burgin for the eighth district Democratic nomination. Ten ballots were disallowed for missing signatures, while over 1,000 more will be reviewed later. The hearing before J. David Sink proceeded with readings waived.
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Lexington
Davidson County Elections Board
C. B. Deane
W. O. Burgin
Congress
Deane
Burgin
J. David Sink
Davidson County Election Board
Rockingham
N. C
Richmond County Board of Elections
J. C. B. Ehbringhaus
Raleigh
State Elections Board
W. A. Lucas
Raymond Maxwell
Round-up Begins in Edgecombe County
Tarboro July 9 Sheriff W Bardin and deputies launch a sweeping drive with 100 warrants from a private detective agency hired by county alcohol control authorities to seize illicit liquor dealers in Edgecombe County. Warrants issued last night and handed to the sheriff today.
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Tarboro
W. &E. Bardin
Edgecombe County
Textile wage board urged as law nears effect
Southern state officials from North and South Carolina Virginia and Alabama at a Columbia conference urged immediate appointment of a textile board under the wage and hours law to begin investigations and set the minimum wage when the act takes effect October 24. They sent resolutions to governors and asked employers not to cut wages further.
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Columbia
8. C
Labor Department
Carolinas
Virginia
Alabama
South Carolina
John W. Nates
Nates
Witch Doctor Aunt Jenny Named in Icepick Killing Case
William Baxter Parnell, a farmer, admits stabbing his sister-in-law and blames a root he chewed from Aunt Jenny Morris, a near Concord fortune-teller labeled a witch doctor. The aged Black woman known as Aunt Jenny Morris is implicated as having influenced him.
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Jenny” Morris
Concord
William Baxter Parnell
Parnell
Jenny
Spanish Loyals Launch Counter‑Attacks in Eastern Front
Spanish government militiamen halted a two day retreat and moved to recapture positions including Nules ten miles north of Valencia. They claim to have retaken Hill 221 near the Nules to Moncofar road as fighting continues with planes and artillery. Dispatches say Espadan defenders beat Insurgent assaults and counter attacked toward Alcudia de Veo and Segorbe.
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Hendaye
France
Nules
Valencia
Miguel Aranda
Moncofar
Villavieja
Barcelona
Espaden
Alcudia de Veo
Garcia Valino
Espadan
Segorbe
Roosevelt on train stop sparks Arkansas to Oklahoma politics
President Roosevelt spoke from a train car in Boonville Arkansas about old friendships with Mrs. Caraway and her late husband Senator Caraway while touring the region. He urged support for renominating Mrs Caraway and highlighted Arkansas as a future outdoor showcase. The stop drew 3509 attendees as the whistle stop moved toward Oklahoma for the Democratic primary maneuvers. Later, Mount Magazine Arkansas highest peak was noted as a point of pride.
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Roosevel
Lahoma City
Rea
Boonville
Ark
Way
Hattie W. Caraw
Roosevelt
Carawey
Thaddeus Carway
John L. McClellan
Caraway
Mount Magast
Arkansas
America
Little Rock
Senat Caraway
John E. Miller
Hughes Delays Paris Flight as Mechanics Fine Tune Plane
New York July 9. Floyd Bennett Airport officials said it was extremely unlikely that Howard Hughes would depart before tomorrow on a nonstop New York to Paris flight. Mechanics worked on a Lockheed 14 transport at the hangar while Hughes, delaying departure, sought to ensure top condition for the journey. World’s Fair executives noted a late departure remained possible as Hughes weighed the venture.
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New York
Floyd Bennett
Howard Hugh Millionaire
York
Paris
Hughes
Famed Irish Guards Step in to Help Quell Jerusalem Violence
Irish Guards join British and Arab Jewish authorities in Jerusalem to curb three days of deadly Arab Jewish clashes. The Holy Land reports 61 deaths and 150 wounded as bombings and sniper incidents disrupt railways, buses, and government property, with tourists escorted by heavy police protection.
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Jerusalem
George VI
London
Holy Nazareth
Holy Land
Palestine
Black Watch
Catf
Jaffa
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N Duce
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A. B. Chandlery
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Covington
Bowling Green
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Yangtze Zone
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Edgecombe
Textile Board
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Oklahoma
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