Pope's Encyclical Attacked by Fascist Leaders in Rome
In Rome on July 15 the Fascist directorate accused the Pope of misrepresenting young fascism in a Vatican encyclical calling Balilla a key future of the regime. They mobilize 1.515 million members to demonstrate at the Piave, denouncing Vatican Masonry links and pledging to defend Fascist authority.
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Rome
Mussolini
Fascist
Vatican
Masonry
Italy
Balilla
Wickersham Commission Criticizes Mooney Billings Case Laws
The Wickersham commission denounces the laws behind the Mooney Billings case as shocking to justice. It urges separation of justice from politics and calls for fitness-based judicial selection, while urging broader use of commissions and new trial grounds.
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Wickersham Commission
Billings, Mooney
Washington
Wickersham Commiss
Mooney- Billings
Hoover
San Francisco
Monte Lemann
New Orleans
Commission
Hindenburg Returns to Berlin to Shape Economic Rescue
President von Hindenburg flew from Neudeck to Berlin to steer Germany from the financial crisis. Banks, closed by decree, would reopen for mid month payroll, with rentenmark plans discarded to avoid currency inflation. Bruening may rush to Paris for talks with Laval, possibly leading to a four power summit with Stimson, Laval, Henderson.
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Berlin
von Hindenburg
Neudeck
Germany
Darmstaedter and National Bank
Rentenmark
Europe
Arthur Henderson
Paris
Bruening
Laval
Stimson
Henderson
MacDongeld
Great Britain
Chancelor
Gangster Slain in Chicago Auto Death
Police in Chicago report A. Smith bodyguard to Stanton and Capone henchman found shot in an automobile on the south side. An overnight search uncovered his body after witnesses said a man in a car with two companions was shot.
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Chicago
E A. Smith
Ny Stanton
al Capone
South Side
Smith
Hungarian Runners Take Off for Nonstop Flight to Budapest
George Endres and Alexander Magyar, Hungarian reserve officers, departed Harbor Grace at 1 48 p m Newfoundland time in the plane Justice to Hungary bound for Budapest. They planned a nonstop Atlantic crossing using the great circle route with weather briefings from Dr James H Kimball. The craft carried wireless gear and supplies of chicken ham tomato sandwiches ice water coffee and 19 chocolate bars.
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Harbor Grace
N. F
George Endres
Alexander Magyar
Hungary
Budapest
James H. Kimball
Weather Bureau
New York
Great Circle
Atlantic
Endres
Justice of
Shooting at Cherokee Reservation Leaves One Dead
News from Sylvia reports a shooting affray on the Cherokee Indian reservation Sunday. George Hornbuckle and Wilson Hornbuckle are involved with Wilson dead and George wounded. George Hornbuckle's son and Enoch Eucumber are jailed for investigation.
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Sylvia
Jackson County
George Hornbuckle
Wilson
Wilson Hornbuckle
Enoch Eucumber
Drought In South Broken by Rains
Atlanta reports widespread beneficial rains broke a southern drought overnight. Meteorologist C. F. Von Herrmann said the rain covered the cotton belt from southern Texas to at least Georgia, saving cotton crops and boosting farmers' incomes, though upland corn was too late.
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Atlanta
South
Atlanta Weather Bureau
Cc. F. von Herrmann
Texas
Georgia
Daniels Praises Pitt Legislators For Stand
Washington said officials credited the Hoover moratorium with averting a potential German debt crisis by delaying payments due today. Acting Secretary Castle warned that without the plan a German default could have broken the Young plan and destabilized international finance. He noted only a partial payment would occur under the moratorium, easing immediate stress and avoiding a broader banking collapse. A Paris dispatch cited easing German conditions as encouraging.
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Hoover
Washington
Bank of International Settlements
Castle
State Department
Germany
World Bank
Basel
Switzerland
Edge
Paris
Three Die In Chile Factory Collapse
In Valparaiso Chile on July 15 a factory collapse caused by a storm left three dead. The disaster also sank several small boats along the coast and battered the harbor at Concepcion.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Concepcion
Premier Confers With His Cabinet Over Bank Closures
Premier Bethlen interrupted his holiday to return to Budapest and meet with cabinet members about Hungarys critical financial crisis and the temporary shutdown of all banks.
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Budapest
Bethlen
Hungary
Casey Granted Six Weeks Reprieve
Governor Gardner granted Herman Casey a six week reprieve in Raleigh allowing Tyree Taylor to investigate the murder case. Casey, a Lenoir county white man, was sentenced to die in the electric chair for killing James Causey a Suffolk lumberman living in Goldsboro. Senator Dortch said he protested and was writing Taylor.
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Raleigh
Gardner
Herman Casey
Lenoir County
Tyree, Taylor
Casey
James Causey
Suffolk
Goldsboro
Taylor
Hugh Dortch
Dortch
Mr. Taylor
Insurance interests push for rail rate hike at ICC hearing
Edward D. Duffield representing life insurers and savings banks urged a 15 percent railroad rate increase before the Interstate Commerce Commission. He warned declines in rail revenues threaten 50 million policyholders and 13 million depositors, and noted lenders hold $4.7 billion in railroad bonds. Railroads then amended their petition to exclude coal and coke from the raise.
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Insurance Companies
Savings Banks
Washington
Edward D. Duffield
Interstate Commerce Commission
Duffield
Prudential Life Insurance Company of America
Julius H. Parmalee
Bureau of Railway Economics
Daniels Letter Supports Fair Taxation at Pitt County Honor
A Raleigh figure, Josephus Daniels, could not attend the Pitt County delegation celebration in Greenville. His letter praised Pitt lawmakers for standing firm for fair taxation and rejecting a broader fifteen cent ad valorem tax for schools, urging continued effort to place tax burdens on those who should bear them and ease landowners.
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Greenville
8. C
Pitt County
Josephus Daniels
Raleigh
Daniels
MacLean
Pitt
Tropical Storm Strikes Louisiana Mississippi Coasts
A tropical storm hit the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts late last night. In New Orleans a thirty mile wind and four inches of rain caused minor damage with flooded streets and broken trees hindering traffic.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
Farewell Note Before Poison Death in Beaufort
Harry Roberts, about 80, wrote a farewell note to Police Chief Scott and drank poison. He died almost instantly. The note said you will find me upstairs and my clothes will be there. Roberts leaves a widow and two children. An inquest will be held later.
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Beaufort
8. C
Harry Roberts
Scott
Mr. Scott
Harry
Roberts
One Person Dies in Severe Philadelphia Storm
Philadelphia reports the worst electrical storm in years with a 57 mile per hour gale. The storm caused at least one death, extensive property damage, and flooding in Logan and surrounding areas. Cars floated away, homes flooded to within feet of ceilings, and businesses ruined. Electric and telegraph lines were downed, cutting service to several suburbs. Hail damaged crops in nearby regions.
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Philadelphia
Logan
Henderson Mayor Hands Out 61 Day Road Work Sentence
Henderson North Carolina July 15 AP Mayor Irvine BWatkins presiding over the police court enforces a new law requiring no fewer than 60 days for hard labor on the public roads. He sentences George Richardson to sixty one days after convicting him of obtaining goods under false pretenses.
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Henderson
N. C
Irvine B. Watkins
George Richardson
Reformed Church To Hold Meeting At Catawba College
Kannapolis NC July 15 The 14th annual missionary conference of the Reformed Church of North Carolina will be held at Catawba College Salisbury July 25 31 Dr L A Peeler pastor of the Kannapolis church announced Speakers include Dr C C Shaeffer Philadelphia general secretary of the home mission board and president of the general synod of the Reformed Church Dr J G Rupp Philadelphia field secretary of the foreign mission board and Miss Ruth Heinmaler Cleveland Ohio field secretary of the girls missionary guilds and mission band of the general synodical
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Kannapolis
N. C
The
Reformed Church of North
Philadelphia
Foreign Mission Board
Ruth Heinmaler
Cleveland
Ohio
Girls’ Missionary Guilds and Mission Band
General Synodical
Second Baby Found in Neuse River Near Goldsboro
A second infant body, a newborn girl about two days old, was recovered by fishermen four miles upriver from the spot where a baby boy was found three days earlier. Investigators intensified work to solve the case as authorities pursued leads.
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Goldsboro
Neuse River
Coast Guard Stands By For Barges Crew Off Olcott
Coast guard cutters reached the I. L. S. 105 motor barge stranded on a reef five miles east of Olcott in Lake Ontario and prepared to evacuate its 14 crew if the vessel broke up.
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Buffalo
N. Y
United States Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Olcott
Lake Ontario
Aviatrix Arrives in New York from St Louis
Laura Ingalls completed a solo eastward hop toward the Atlantic and landed in New York at 2 45 p m local time after departing St Louis. In Paris Premier Laval announced a conference at eleven tomorrow morning at the Interior Ministry with Secretary Stimson Foreign Secretary Henderson Briand and Finance Minister Flandin plus Ambassador Edge participating.
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Aviatrix
New York
Laura Ingalls
Atlantic
St. Louis
Paris
Laval
Ministry of the Interior
Stimson
Henderson
Great Britain
Briand
Flandid
Walter E. Edge
Diamond Again Freed After acquittal in Albany alibi
Jack Diamond, famed former Rothstein bodyguard, wins freedom in New York court. A Catskill trucker accused Diamond of assault and arson, but the jury accepted Diamond’s alibi that he was in Albany on the night of the incident, ending pursuit by state authorities.
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Troy
N. Y
Jack Diamond
Victor
New York State
Arnold Rothstein
Grover Parks
Catskill Mountain
Parks
Diamond
Albany
Grace Moore Weds Valentine Parara in Cannes
Grace Moore American singer wed Valentine Parara Spanish motion picture actor in Cannes France. The ceremony took place today with notable film world figures in attendance.
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Grace Moore
Valentine Parara
Cannes
France
Fall Sentenced to Prison in Santa Fe After El Paso Departure
Albert B. Fall, aged and ill, prepared to leave El Paso for Santa Fe to begin serving a one year and one day prison term for accepting a bribe while secretary of the interior. He spoke with humor, saying he hoped friends in Santa Fe would not greet him behind bars.
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EL Paso
Tex
Albert B
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Mitchell
Harding
Fall
Prohibition Bureau Expands Force for Liquor Law Enforcement
Washington dispatch reports a new era for enforcing liquor laws as 335 additional agents join the prohibition bureau, bringing total field personnel to about 1900. Training completed. biggest pressure focuses on New York Philadelphia and Chicago districts with substantial assignments in Maryland Virginia and Carolinas.
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Washington
Prohibition Bureau
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Maryland
Virginia
West Eee
South Carolina
Lightning Rod Saves Hospital Fire Damage Prevented
Philadelphia report says a lightning rod atop the Pennsylvania Hospital tower diverted a strike during a severe electrical storm. Fire crews described a halt on the building cap as the strike formed a flame sheet, yet the tower housing medical records and relics remained undamaged.
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Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin
Pennsylvania
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