Police Clash With Demonstrators Near White House
Police repulsed two attempted pickets by about 200 members of the Bonus Army near the White House in Washington on July 20. Leaders John Pace of Detroit and Beckwith E Johnson of Big Rapids were arrested for bond failures of 126 dollars.
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Bonus Army
Washington
White House
Executive Mansion
John Pace
Detroit
Beckwith E. Johnson
Big Rapids
Mich
Treasury
Pace
Johnson
Hoover
Smedhey D. Butler
Whits House
Strikers Demand Wage Restatement and Regional Study
The Enterprise reports hosiery mill owners propose reopening idle plants with the pre cut wage scale and invite workers to return. They plan regional wage comparisons in North Carolina and Tennessee and seek uniformity across mills. CAPUS M WAYNICK signs as editor.
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Coorgh Ney
North Carolina
Tennessee
Capus
M. Waynick
Mills Running Again in North Carolina and Tennessee
Thomasville and Lexington mills resume operations after meetings with manufacturers. A proposal requires mills to match wage rates found higher elsewhere such as High Point, or retain right to adjust. Full fashioned mills to return to pre strike scale.
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North Carolina
Tennessee
Unemployed Mob Attacks Chicago Relief Station
About 300 destitute unemployed men stormed a Chicago South Side relief station today. Police dispersed the crowd. station windows were shattered and relief workers’ cars were damaged. No arrests or injuries were reported as spokespersons denounced relief depot conduct.
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Chicago
Mussolini shakes up cabinet as Grandi resigns
Italian Premier Mussolini reshuffles the cabinet in Rome with five ministers resigning including Dino Grandi the foreign minister and eleven undersecretaries displaced. Mussolini retains foreign affairs and corporations. Grandi's high profile as an international figure is noted after his U S visit with President Hoover.
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Dino Grandi
Mussolni
Mussolini
Grandi
Alfredo Rocco
Antonio Mosconi
Balbino Giuliano
Giuseppe Bottai
Interior
Il Duce
Francesco Giunta
Signor
United States
Hoover
MacDonald
Great Britain
Laval
France
Trade Confab On Future Of Empire To Begin In Canada
Ottawa Ont July 20 UP world trade is to be reshaped as empire delegates at the British Empire economic conference seek to divert 3 billion dollars in U S goods into empire supplies. An upcoming steel import agreement may shift Canadian demand from the United States to Britain and boost empire production protection.
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Ottawa
Ont
United States
United
England
Britain
Pittsburgh
Youngstown
Birmingham
Gary
President Delays Sign of Relief Bill to Allow Planning
Washington reports President Hoover delays signing the 2.122 billion relief measure to finish reorganizing the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The agency will expedite loans from 300 million for state relief and 322 million for public works, with 132 million matchable to state highway spending. States reveal varying borrowing plans and willingness to seek funds, signaling a broad relief rollout.
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Hoover
White House
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Illinois
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Missouri
Utah
Idaho
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Florida
Maine
Maryland
Nebraska
Nevada
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Oklahoma
South Carolina
Vermont
Colorado
Connecticut
Georgia
Levy sues for ice box loss in judgment enforcement
In Winston Salem on July 20 R Levy sues Sheriff J T Scott and two Chambers for $1000 punitive damages $359 for an ice box and $5 per day since its removal claiming officers violated execution papers by taking his ice box.
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Winston-Salem
R. Levy
Levy
J. T. Scott
W. A
C. L. Chambers
Olympic prep in Japan invasion chorus rings loud
Beverly Hills writer describes Japan’s potential Olympic team as vast and ready with kodaks in hand while noting Swedes and Germans would risk trampling through Japanese athletes. The letter-writer named Will mocks Wall Street figure Brush and recalls Niagara Falls prophecy with sardonic humor.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Japan
Matthew ‘Brush
Wall Street
America
Niagara Falls
Senate
Fifteen Killed as Train Hits Street Car in Tacuba
In Mexico City fifteen people died and many were injured when a train from Laredo struck a crowded street car in Tacuba. Street car service had just resumed after a long strike, and the train crew apparently did not slow near the trolley tracks.
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Mexico City
Laredo
Subuurb
Tacuba
Hoover Signs Tennessee Bridge Bill on Highway 76
President Hoover signed a bill granting congressional consent for the Tennessee highway department to build a bridge over the South Fork of the Forked Deer river on the Milan Brownsville road near the Haywood Crockett county line.
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Washington
Hoover
Highway Department of Tennessee
Forked Deer River
Milan-Brownsville Road
Haywood-Crockett County
German government imposes martial law in Prussia Berlin and Brandenburg
Berlin July 20. The German government rapidly establishes a virtual dictatorship over Prussia and clamps down martial law on Berlin and Brandenburg. President Hindenburg issues emergency decree appointing Franz Von Papen as Prussia commissioner with dictatorial powers. General Von Rundstedt placed in charge of Berlin Brandenburg police. Braun and Severing removed from Prussian ministry. Continued on page 7.
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Brandenburg
Paul von Hindenburg
Franz von Papen
Franz Bracht
Essen
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Karl Severing
Gerd von Rundstedt
Third Reichswhr
Army
Braun
Herr Severing
Heat Wave Claims Dozens Across Midwest and Northeast
The heat wave killed nearly two dozen people nationwide as record highs hit Chicago Milwaukee Detroit Valentine Findlay Kokomo and other cities. Seven deaths were reported in Chicago with 97 degrees and Milwaukee set a July record of 98. The east saw seven drownings as heat spread into New England while the south enjoyed some cooling from sea breezes and scattered rain.
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Associated Press
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Chicago
Milwaukee
W's
Detroit
Valentine
Neb
Pacific Coast
Farmer Goes On Spree Ends With Shootings In North Carolina
Newton North Carolina July 20 Martin Settlemyre a young Catawba county farmer returned from a drinking spree shot his wife and another woman in the back and battered a neighbor with a gun butt He was arrested by deputies at a cousin’s home and is held without bond Mrs Settlemyre and the second woman were taken to a Hickory hospital their injuries not serious Mich Sigman injured by a shotgun blast is not expected to survive
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Newton
N. C
Martin Settlemyre
Catawba County
Settlemyre
Hickory
Mich” Sigman
Tire Salary Plan Aims to Restore 20 Percent Cut
Akron July 20 An announced wage and salary increase plan seeks to restore to all employees the 20 percent cut taken last January. W G Krauss president of India Tire and Rubber Co said the plan adds to the last six months of the fiscal year checks enough to recover the pay lost by the wage reduction after a board meeting.
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Akron
W.G. Krauss
India Tire and Rubber Company
Krauss
Marseilles riot over jobs ends in killings and arrests
In Marseilles Illinois a gun battle between union and out of state workers over a state waterway project left one man dead and more than twenty wounded. Steve Sutton Joliet was fatally shot and Dwight Wallace New Orleans suspected shooter. Police held 128 rioters in Ottawa jail as tensions rose.
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Marseilles
Ill
Illinois
Steve Sutton
Joliet
Hll
Dwight Wallace
New Orleans
worko@ers
Herbert W. Miller
Law
Ottawa
Louisiana
la Salle
Harold Staples
Robert Quinlan
Cecil Hopton
Thirteen cops charged in death of prisoner Stark in Mineola
Warrants issued for the arrest of 13 Nassau County police in connection with Hyman Stark's death after police questioning. Second degree murder charges for Lieut. Jesse Mayforth and Sergeants Leslie Pearsall Harry Zander and Charles Wesser. Bail set at 10000 each for murder charges.
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Mineola
N. Y
Hyman Stark
Muter
Jesse Mayforth
Leslie Pearsall
Harry Zander
Charles Wesser
Frank Tappen
Stark
John Doe
Supreme Court
Meier Steinbrink
Tappen
Patrick Stanley
Marcel Chagnon
George Hutchison
Thomas Bonnanza
Joseph Hyzenski
Lanis Ray
Harry Jiljegren
Hyzenski
Valeria Hyzenski
Striking Hosiery Workers Assume Control as Plants Reopen
Industry in the central Piedmont region shows partial recovery as five woodworking plants resume, Thomasville nearly back to work, and hosiery workers enforce order while demanding agreements from manufacturers. Pickett Cotton Mill delay noted as others prepare to resume Thursday morning.
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High Point
Thomasville
Kernersville
Jamestown
Lexington
Piedmont
Pickett
D. W. Bradley
Rhodhiss Postmaster Found Fatally Shot Verdict Returns
Lenoir North Carolina July 20 a coroner's jury returned a verdict of death by own action in the case of F B Laxton postmaster at Rhodhiss who was found shot during a visit by a postal inspector The incident occurred today in Rhodhiss near Lenoir
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