Germans Hope for Early Restart of Bank Payments
Berlin reports note Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and U S Secretary Stimson praised Germany's prospects and resources after meetings with Chancellor Bruening and Foreign Minister Curtius. Stimson wrapped tours of Potsdam Sans Souci and museums and voiced faith in Germany's future as bank payments were hoped to resume soon.
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Berlin
Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
Friedrichstrasse
Stimeon
Stimson
Germany
Amsterdam
North Carolina Legion Opens 13th Annual Convention
Governor O Max Gardner and U S Senators Bailey and Morgan lead the opening session in Morehead City with 1500 delegates. Key speakers urge unity, internationalism, and arms limitation as the Legion gathers for the 13th annual convention.
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Morehead City
North Carolina
United States
American Legion
Don C. Johnston
Mooresville
O. Max Gardner
Josiah W. Bailey
Cameron Morrigan
Legion and Legion Auxiliary
J. Stanley Noes
Luther Hamilton
Hugh Perry
State Auxiliary
Francie A. Whiteside
State Department
Rose Gilmore
R. S. McGeachy
Legion Auxiliary
Reverdy J. Miller
Frank S. Blue
Fatal Shooting Will Be Probed
Shelby July 27 The death of Thomas J. Phillips Le noir automobile dealer fatally shot while riding with Mrs Clara Yount near Kings Mountain last Monday will be investigated by Solicitor L B Peering who came to Shelby for the opening of the regular term of court He said he would examine all the coroner s jury evidence which found an unknown killer despite Mrs Yount s testimony that Phillips shot himself in her presence The solicitor planned to question witnesses personally late today and tomorrow and might go to Kings Mountain for that purpose
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Shelby
Thomas J. Phillips
Lenoir
Clara Yount
Newton
Kings Mountain
Bolicitor L
Peering
Spurling
Phillips
Engineer Stops Train Passengers Learn of Heroic Stop
An Albany to New York Central express halted at Beacon after engineer Tom Galvin died of a heart attack. The Grand Central arrival carried about 300 passengers who were unaware of the tragedy until the stop.
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New York
Albany
New York Central Railroad
Grand Central Terminal
Tom Galvin
Beacon
N. Y
Former Governor Sued for $30,000 Over Car Crash
Former Governor Angus W. Mc Lean of Lumberton and J. L. Polk of Robeson county named defendants in a $30,000 damage suit filed in Charlotte. Plaintiff Anna Kennedy of New York says she was permanently injured in an automobile collision with a truck owned by McLean and driven by Polk.
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Charlotte
Angus W. McLean
Lumberton
J. L. Polk
Robeson County
Anna Kennedy
New York
McLean
Polk
Tammany Chief Is 102 Years Old
New York July 27 AP reports John K Voorhis the grand old man of Tammany Hall celebrated his 102nd birthday by eating an egg and milk advised by his physician as better than cake. He said he had too many birthday cakes already and did not want fuss this time.
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New York
Ohn K. Voorhiss
Tammany Hall
Board of Elections
Threats to Republican Senate Control Highlight Moses Row
Washington July 17 The Saturday Evening Post reports an internecine Republican struggle over the next Senate and House balance. Senator Moses of New Hampshire warns insurgent Republicans may seek to remove him as president pro tempore. Rumors say Nye of North Dakota and others might back Democrats for pro tempore, prompting retaliation against insurgent Republicans by Moses' allies.
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Francis M. Stephenson
Washington
Senate
House
Moses
New Hampshire
Saturday Evening Post
Nye
North Dakota
Pittman
Nevada
Bridge Bivouac With Troops Is Terminated By Gov
Oklahoma story reports Governor William H. Murray ends martial law at the Denison Durant toll bridge and returns to Oklahoma City. The Red River bridge tension centered on free traffic and military surveillance of the span.
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Murray
Oklahoma City
Denison-Durant
Red River
Durant
Okla
Red River Bridge
William H
Sea Monster Captured Off Fort Fisher Heads to Museum
Wilmington July 27 A sea monster described as a sea bat weighing 2500 to 3000 pounds and measuring 18 feet by 18 feet was captured after a nine hour fight off Fort Fisher. Fisherman Walter Winner said the creature died after a fierce struggle and broke several hawsers before entangling in the net. Scores watched as the sea creature was pulled ashore and prepared for the Raleigh state museum.
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Wilmington
Fort Fisher
State Museum
Raleigh
Walter Winner
Winner
Graf Zeppelin Over Arctic Circle
Graf Zeppelin flew above 68 north latitude 43 east as a wireless report set her path toward Franz Joseph Land. Commander Hugo Eckener led scientists aboard to study Arctic winds and weather after departing Leningrad at 11:10 a.m. Sunday.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
Graf Zeppelin
Arctic Circle
Zeppelin
Franz Joseph Land
Hugo Eckener
Leningrad
Arctic
Four Die In North Carolina Weekend Auto Crashes
The North Carolina weekend traffic toll rose to four with multiple crashes. Asheville youths Margaret Williams and Paul Owen were in a 65 mph roadster crash. Worth Douglas Wood of High Point died in a Durham Chapel Hill crash. a collision near Charlotte claimed W. K. Leatherman. Reuben Ludwick died after a truck mishap near Salisbury. A lightning death near Statesville added to the toll.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Margaret Williams
J. N. Williams
Asheville
Paul Owen
Durham-Chapel Hill
Worth Douglas Wood
High Point
George T. Wood
G. H. Edwards
Henderson
Wood
W. K. Leatherman
Shoupe
Reuben R. Ludwick
Salisbury
Walter Houpe
Statesville
Johnson Released On Habeas Corpus
Smithfield July 27 A coroner hearing into the death of an unidentified hitchhiker killed by a car near Smithfield July 19 was postponed due to Solicitor Clawson Williams of Sanford being unavailable Vilas Johnson of Smithfield was released on habeas corpus proceedings Coroner J H Kirkman had ordered further investigation Ed S Abel Jr son of a prominent attorney and Thomas Lemay Kenneth Parish are held on $500 bonds as material witnesses
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Smithfield
Here
Clawson Williams
Sanford
Vilas Johnson
J. H. Kirkman
Flier Writes Note Before Plane Crash
H J Hewin a 45 year old pilot from Dubuque Iowa scribbled a note explaining his fatal plunge near Mendota Wisconsin The note cited rear cylinder trouble a broken ring and loss of compression as the cause Hewin remained in the cockpit as rescuers found the wreckage
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Mendota, W
H. J. Hewin
Dubuque
Hewlh
Shaw Cho es English in Moscow Talk
George Bernard Shaw celebrated his seventy fifth birthday in Moscow with a speech to workers writers and educators at the Columns concert hall. He joked about bringing a tent and supplies and urged that English readers should embrace communism noting optimism for western adoption and criticizing the English proletariat.
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Moscow
George Bernard Shaw
Russia
Shaw
Lord and Lady Astor
California Heat Kills Four More In Imperial Valley
Extreme heat in the Imperial Valley blamed for three deaths and several prostrations as temperatures reached 114 degrees. Two people died in Brawley yesterday, raising California and Arizona heat fatalities to 19 over four days.
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California
Imperial Valley
Los Angeles
United States
Brawley
Cal
Arizona
English Duke Catches Chill Flying From Aintree
The Duke of Gloucester, third son of King George, caught a chill while flying from Aintree on Friday and will stay indoors for a few days. The condition is not serious.
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Melton Mowbray
Eng
Duke of Gloucester
George
Aintree
Chilean President Ibanez resigns and flees Santiago
Chilean President Ibanez resigned after three days of public unrest and fled the Moneda palace at 1:20 a m. He departed with a small party and boarded a destroyer bound for an undisclosed foreign destination as security surrounded his exit.
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Santiago
Chile
Carlos Ibanez
Pedro Opazo
Moneda Palace
Supulveda
San Antonio
Lynch
Ibanez
Miners Strike Tensions Rise as Union Official Kills Attacker
In western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio the coal miners strike grew tenser after Patrick T. Fagan, president of district No. 5 UMWA, wrested a pistol from an assailant and shot him dead on Fagan's front lawn. A companion of the attacker was captured after menaced a taxi driver. The slain man’s body was sent to a local hospital.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Patrick T. Fagan
United Mine Workers of America
Fagan
Priests in Vera Cruz Face Choice Amid State Law
In Vera Cruz state priests may stay or flee as Governor Tejeda enforces a law capping clerical numbers. Papal Nuncio Nuiz y Flores says bishops may let priests decide. Riots in Jalapa injure several, four churches burn, one priest killed, two injured.
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Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Adalberto Tjeda
Nuiz Y Flores
Rafael Guisar Y Valencia
Jalapa
Eral
Pedro Castillo Y Landa
Guisar
Tejeda
Wickersham Commission Denounces Inefficiency
The Wickersham Commission condemns the prison system as antiquated and brutal. It calls for reforms reducing reliance on bars and emphasizes education while criticizing overcrowding, cruel punishments, and outdated discipline. Pending construction at Lewisburg aims to ease crowding.
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Lewisburg
Pennsylvania
Washington
Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission
Hoover
Mexican Claims Commissioner Nielsen Plans Resignation
Fred K. Nielsen, American member of the Mexican mixed claims commission, will resign in late August when the U S Mexico claims convention expires. The State Department said the move is independent of Mexico's stance toward him and follows his appointment to the Salem arbitration commission at the end of the Mexican claims commission term.
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Washington
Fred K. Nielsen
Mexican Mixed Claims Commission
United States
Mexico
State Department
Nielsen
Salem
Mexican Claims Commission
Auto-Giro Crash Kills Woman, Injures Child in Oakland
Police investigated a San Francisco aidrome crash linked to an autogiro piloted by Claude Owens of Spokane. Witnesses said the aircraft flew low before its blades struck a machine carrying Nellie Mae Boucher and her granddaughter Shirley. A drystander Louis Courtois was also hurt. Owens surrendered to face a technical charge.
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Oakland
Cali
San Francisco
Aidrome
Claude Owens
Spokane
Wash
Nellie Mae Boucher
Shirley
Louis Courtois
Owens
Tex
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