Probable Cause Found In Cases Against Merediths
W. L. Meredith and W. H. Meredith of Thomasville road were held for Guilford Superior Court on robbery charges. Lake Howell of Dillon, D. C., reported a suitcase, clothing worth 10, guitar 65, and 23 dollars taken. Melvin Wall faces bigamy charges and bond set at 750. Additional cases include judgments, fines, and dispositions for abandonment, intoxicated operation, disturbances, and other offenses.
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Thomasville Road
Superior Court
Lake Howell
W. L. Meredith
W. H. Meredith
Guilford Superior Court
Wis E. Teague
Dillon
D. C
Elothm
Gailord
Melvin Wall
Benettsville
S. C
Hoyt Hollifield
Ve. Gurney L. Wade
Family Found Shot to Death in Fire Scene
Four members of a family were found dead in their beds with gunshot wounds and a fire in the residence. Sheriff Smallwood and acting coroner Dr Osbourne investigated. Mrs Annie Kelly, a kin to the Smallwoods, said two men died by gunfire as the others perished in bed fires.
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Smallwood
A. P. Osborne
Annie Kelly
Smallwoods
Fowler
Joe Elsen
Kelly
Expected Rains Fizzle Out in Drought Section
News notes a drought stretch with 200 lives lost and states to the east hoping for rain by Wednesday. Michigan reports 315 deaths tied to five days of 100 degree heat with Eloise Hospital tally rising. Northwest weekend rain brings relief as farmers hope for grasshopper relief.
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Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Indiana
Michigan
Eloise
Simple Changes Modernize Antiquated Home
New York pianist Miss Stell Anderson shows practical upgrades to an old Greenwich Village rooming house. She directs space saving cupboards, a built in look with shelves, a garden accessed by French doors, a secured wrought iron gate, a bay window kitchen, and a compact dining kitchen flow. The 21 by 6 to 10 foot garden features a bench and traditional flowers. Neighbors nearby boast a corn patch last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Lou Brookman
NBA
New York
Stell Anderson
Miss Anderson
Greenwich Village
Rain Eases Big Forest Fire and Drought Stricken Areas
More than 1000 fighters battled the Black Hills Forest blaze for over a week until moisture slowed it. Across the nation rain revived spirits as drought eased in Connecticut and offered temporary relief in New York New England Nebraska Georgia Virginia and South Carolina.
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Black Hills
Connecticut
New York State
New England
Nebraska
Georgia
Virginia
South Carolina
Seven Return to Work at Pickett Mill
Strikers' committee chair J W Thompson says the mill remains closed until workers' claims are heard and funds collected from local employer donations are handed to the committee. He notes another open air meeting at 7 30 tonight in a grove near the mill.
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Pickett
J. W. Thompson
Severs Mille
Thompson
Wass
Green Attacks Lewis Over Ignored Summons
The dispute centers on a suspension decision within the labor movement. George M. Harrison and others push for a stay while William Hutcheson and allied unions threaten wider action. Lost C I O unions could cost the A F of L ten thousand dollars monthly in dues, influencing delay arguments before a vote.
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George M. Harrison
William Hutcheson
Big Carpeters’ Union
Lewis
A. F. of L
Atlantic City
Wood sworn in as new deputy grand jury foreman
Greensbor o July 13 Judge Thomas J Shaw convened the superior court and Wood of High Point was sworn in as the new deputy in charge of the grand jury W H Anderson of Greensboro named foreman for a six month term High Point residents W S Graham J H Mourane Jasper Harville L M Ferguson serve on the jury Judge Shaw urged action to stop drunken drivers citing the toll on highways.
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Greensporo
Thomas J. Shaw
Superior Court
Joe F. Wood
High Point
W. H. Anderson
Greensboro
Graham
J. H. Mourane
Jasper Harville
L. M. Ferguson
Shaw
Showers Offer Little Relief Across South
New Orleans reports weekend showers failed to ease the heat wave that grips the sun baked south. Rain fell in some áreas up to an inch yet the relief was short lived. Crops benefited with young corn revived, and truck crops and cotton received aid. Severe thunderstorms caused three fatalities in Georgia and Mississippi.
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New Orleans
Georgia
Mississippi
Paralyzed Woman To Be Carried To Electric Chair
Mary Frances Creighton 36, paralyzed from the waist down and almost speechless, awaits execution by electric chair after a death sentence for the poisoning death of Ada Applegate. Gov. Lehman may grant clemency. Applegate denies role. appeals exhausted.
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Ossining
N. Y
Mary Frances Creighton
Sing Sing
Mrs. Creighton
Bondsmen Face County Action Over Unpaid Prisoner Costs
Mecklenburg County commissioners backed by the county school board moved to enforce bondmen payments for prisoners who delinquent car ops costs. Superior Court bail bondsmen were targeted as the county pushed for full collection of fees owed.
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Charlotte
Mecklenburg County
Superior Court
Man Sought in Mutilation Case in New York
Washington July 13 Detectives hunt a man matching the torturer who carved 3 12 and the initial C on Jean Hell s body and gas attacked her before she fled Sing Sing plot nexus. A companion named finger man may be captured in New York soon as authorities treat the case as attempted murder. The 23 year old survivor showed injuries from a gas attack and slash wounds after rescue by police.
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Washington
Henna
Jean Hell
Charles
Lucky) Luciano
Vice
Sing Sing
New York City
New York
Bernard Thompson
District of Columbia
Women’s Bureau
Hughes Involved In Fatal Wreck
Los Angeles July 13 Howard Hughes film producer and aviator was booked on suspicion of negligent homicide after a car he drove struck and killed Gabe Meyer a 60 year old salesman in a street car safety zone. Police said Hughes had been drinking but was not intoxicated.
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Los Angeles
Howard Hughes
Hughes
Hell's Angels
J. R. Wallace
C. T. Lewis
Gabe Meyer
R. A. Chance
Ice cooling tested at Park Methodist church
Bloomington reports a novel cooling test as 400 pounds of ice were placed in the church heating duct and circulated by a fan. The idea was to chill air in summer by forcing it through the ice cooled system and out the registers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Ill
Park Methodial Episcopal Church
RFC lowers rates to aid recovery in July
RFC officials led by chairman Jesse Jones announced broad rate cuts effective July 1 to support banks industries real estate borrowers and farm groups. Reductions include banks 4 to 3 per cent industrials 5 to 4–5 per cent and real estate loans 5 to 4–5 per cent with other borrowers falling to 3.5 per cent or lower.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Jesse Jones
RFC Mortgage Company
Commodity Credit Corporation
Jones
Treasury
Irregularities in North Carolina County Elections
The report lists irregularities across multiple counties including vote casting by non residents in Yancey and proxy voting in Clay. It notes ballots mishandled in Surry and absentee ballot flaws in several counties with unverifiable affidavits and missing absentee voter names in Forsyth Buncombe Wake Rowan Guilford Yancey Madison and others.
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Yancey
Cleveland
Rowan
Forsyth
Clay County
Surry County
Surry
Dare
Clay
Henderson
Polk, Rutherford
Alexander
Buncombe
Burke
Madison
Swain
Wake
Guilford
Boy Admits Fatal Shooting of Ferriday Mayor
In Ferriday Louisiana on July 2 a 14 year old boy confessed to shooting and killing his father, Mayor BE Voght. The youth led authorities to the body found in the woods, saying he acted after the mayor threatened him for missing a squirrel.
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Ferriday
Charlie Phillips
BE. W. Voght
Phillips
Catfishing Night Schedule Changes Announced
W R Halwarden at the lake announces a new schedule for catfishing nights. Catfishing will be on Wednesday and Friday only after this week, with fishing starting about 8 o clock next week. Tonight remains a fishing night as the current Monday schedule applies.
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W. R. Halwarden
Drum Corps Meeting At Junior High This Week
Legion drum and bugle corps holds practice at the junior high school on Tuesday and Thursday nights Commander Harry Fleming announced today All members urged to attend as only four practices remain before the state convention in Asheville
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Legion
Sch
Harry Pleming
Asheville
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