Capone Seeks To Withdraw Guilty Plea In Tax Case
In Chicago on July 30, lawyer Michael Ahern moved to withdraw Alphonse Capone's guilty plea to income tax evasion and prohibition conspiracy. U S District Attorney George E. Q. Johnson testified about alleged pre trial agreement, calling such a bargain unheard of and outside court power. Judge Wilkerson indicated uncertainty and questioned the legality of any pre trial deal.
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Chicago
United States
Alphonse Capone
Michael Ahern
Capone
Wilkerson
George E. Q. Johnson
U.S
Johnson
Prison Farm Bans Rattlesnakes For Inmates
East Ham state farm inmates may not handle rattlesnakes after a prisoner returned with a snake containing 16 rattles. In Hollywood Joan Bennett, injured in a fall, shows hip and spine fracture casts but doctors say no permanent injury. Danzig Zeppelin overflight on Arctic cruise returns to Berlin by 2 15 pm. Briand slightly indisposed, illness unnamed. Mrs Leslie Hayden Grant, wife of mint director Robert J. Grant, dies after 20 months illness.
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Hollywood
Calif
Joan Bennett
Danzig
Free State of Danzig
Berlin
Washington
Leslie Ayden Grant
Robert J. Grant
Mint
Graf Zeppelin Homeward Goes From Arctic Cruise
Graf Zeppelin returns from a six day Arctic voyage landing at Tempelhof Berlin around 6:38 pm local time amid cheering crowds. The crew plans refueling at Staaken Airdrome and a public landing at Tempelhof before Friedrichshafen travel.
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Berlin
Arctic
Tempelhof
Graf
Leningrad
Riga
Latvia
Berin
Staaken
Friedrichshafen
Emperhof
de Graf Zeppelin
Eningrad
Mrs Mary Perry Weds R L McIntosh In Paris Town Hall
Mrs Mary Perry granddaughter of John Liggett of Liggett and Myers Tobacco married R L McIntosh of Boston this afternoon at the town hall in Paris sixteenth ward.
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Paris
Mary Perry
John Liggett
Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company
R. L. McIntosh
Boston
Senator Hubert D Stephens Slightly Improved After Surgery
Memphis July 30 AP Senator Hubert D Stephens was described as slightly improved by Dr J A Crisler Sr one of his attending physicians. The Mississippi senator, stricken at his New Albany home, underwent an operation for acute gangrenous appendicitis at Methodist hospital in Memphis Tuesday and has a fighting chance for recovery.
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Memphis
Tenn
United States
Hubert D. Stephens
J. A. Crisler
Mississippi
New Albany
Miss
Stephens
Methodist
Bandits Rob Bank In Canton Ohio Steal 40000
Three masked robbers dressed as railroad workers held up Brewster Banking Co in Stark county Canton Ohio taking about 40000 in currency and bonds. Cashier George Bixler bookkeeper Odessa Moser and customer William Youngman were forced to the wall as loot was taken from the cage and vaults. No safety deposit boxes were opened.
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Canton, CO
Brewster Banking Company
Stark County
George Bixler
Odessa Moser
William Youngman
German Plan to Tackle Economic Crisis Revealed
Berlin July 30. Chancellor Bruening to publish a comprehensive action plan after cabinet sessions to combat Germanys economic difficulties. Plans include two state commissioners representing labor and capital with Hermann Schmit as industry rep and Karl Bachem as labor rep to sidetrack politics and engage the masses.
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Berlin
Bruening
Germany
Hermann Schmit
Dye Trust
Karl Bachem
A Bank
Battleship Pennsylvania Heads to Pacific Cruise as Flagship
In Philadelphia the battleship Pennsylvania, decorated with flags and playing Annie Laurie, left the navy yard for a Pacific cruise. Reconditioned at over 8 million dollars, the ship will end its voyage on the Pacific coast where it will serve as the fleet flagship.
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Philadelphia
Gaily
Annie Laurie
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Pacific Coast
Eet
Red Cross Plans Winter Relief With Local Chapters
Washington July 30. Some Red Cross chapters plan to cooperate with other agencies on relief including unemployment this winter. National officials say local chapters decide. headquarters barred from assisting unemployment relief though cooperation by locals is not ruled out. Payne said pledges by the national organization should not be made and appeals after local resources are spent would likely be denied. Action will depend on circumstances.
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Charlotte
Richard T. Fountain
Rocky Mount
Fountain
North Carolina
Washington
Red Cross
American Red Cross
Payne
The
Bar
Red
Army
Hoover
White House
Green
American Federation of Labor
National Association of Community Chests
Doak
Bank Robbers Get Long Prison Terms
Pierce Lanigan and Edward R. Felder were sentenced in Iroquois county to one year to life in Joliet penitentiary after pleading guilty to five counts for the Buckley State Bank robbery on July 27. Judge Frank L. Hooper imposed the sentences after the plea.
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Watseka
Pierce Lanigan
Edward R. Felder
Joliet Penitentiary
Buckley State Bank
Frank L. Hooper
Iroquois County
Phra Tripitaka Gift to UNC Library from Siam
The UNC general library received the Phra Tripitaka, a 45 volume Siamese translation of the Buddhist canon and commentaries from King Prajadhipok of Siam. Translated from Bali by the Maha Mongkut academy, the set honors King Mongkut Klao and was sent via the Siamese ministry in Washington along with three volumes from Chao Phya Abbas Raja.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Prajadhipok of
Siam
Mahamongkut Academy
Phra Mongkut Klao
Grasshoppers Devastate Northwest Farmlands Across States
Heat waves, drought threats, and storms hit the nation as grasshoppers wreck large crops in the Dakotas Iowa Nebraska and Minnesota. Severe wind and rain damaged safety lines and camp facilities in Maine Vermont and New York while temperatures spiked in Kansas City and Omaha.
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Ted
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Oma
Arkansas
Texas
Washington, D. C
Census Bureau
Pennsylvania
Maryland
New York
Northwest
Vermont
Maine
New England
Bridgetown
Wisconsin
Michigan
Illinois
Utah
Kansas City
Stockton
Kans
Emporia
Lincoln
Neb
Omaha
St. Louis
Rocky Mountain
Pacific Coast
Dakotas
Iowa
Minnesota
Shaw Packs Up 10 Return Home
George Bernard Shaw prepared to depart Moscow after ten days in Soviet Russia. He was greeted by cheering crowds, met with state officials, toured industrial and agricultural projects, and marked his seventy fifth birthday. Shaw spent two hours in private conversation with Joseph Stalin in the Kremlin, a rare interview with the Soviet leader not tied to government affairs.
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Moscow
George Bernard Shaw
England
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Kremlin
Reno Night Clubs Raided By Officers
Prohibition agents raided Reno night spots for the second time this month entering Cal Neva at Lake Tahoe and the Majestic club in Reno. Three arrests occurred two at Cal Neva and one in Reno. Other raids were planned but agents learned of the visits in advance and made no purchases elsewhere.
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Reno
Neva
Cal-Neva
Lake Tahoe
Lindberghs Start Flight Toward Orient From Maine Port
Col Charles A Lindbergh and wife left North Haven Maine at 1 06 pm for a 370 mile flight to Ottawa as the first leg of their Orient vacation. They prepared on the ship off the Morrow estate and conducted radio practice with Pan American earlier, Mrs Lindbergh acting as radio operator.
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North Haven
Maine
Charlies A. Lindbergh
Ottawa
Orient
New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
North Haveen
Pan American Radio
North Beach
N. Y
Lindbergh
Convicts Shot In Escape Attempt Near Asheville
Two convicts were shot during a daylight escape attempt at a state camp on the south Turkey Creek road. Vic Rector of Madison county and Tom Barnes of Black Mountain were wounded, while a third convict escaped and was believed from Haywood county. Riddle remained at large.
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Asheville
Turkey Creek
Haywood County
Vic Rector
Madison County
Tom Barnes
Black Mountain
Craggy
Riddle
Treasury Shrinks 1933 Budget Following Hoover Directive
Washington report notes Acting Secretary Mills cut Treasury 1933 expenditures by seven million dollars below divisions requests. He reviewed hearings and trimmed appropriations across all units to save money for the next year. Estimated ordinary expenses will be five million dollars less than this year, with total 1933 Treasury outlays about six hundred thousand dollars below the current year.
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Washington
Hoover
Treasury
Mills
Boardman and Polando Break World Nonstop Flight Record
Russell Boardman and John Polando landed in Istanbul after a 49 hour 20 minute nonstop transatlantic flight in the Cape Cod, completing the world record. They departed Floyd Bennett Field Tuesday, were sighted once over Newfoundland, and were greeted by Ambassador Grew and Istanbul's governor amid Turkish police honors.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Russell Boardman
John Polando
Cape Cod
Floyd Bennett Field
New York
Newfoundland
Atlantic
Joseph C. Grew
Boardman
Associated Press
Wales
Globe
Wily Detective Foils Harlem Bond Theft Ring
A detective posing as a broker's messenger jailed two men in New York for attempting to sell over 1.5 million dollars in stolen bonds. Romeo Forlini, 38, of the Bronx, connected to a 1925 bond ring, and Anthony Bagatory, 56, who says he once managed Enrico Caruso, were arrested. Forlini had prior Atlanta imprisonment for stolen goods and was paroled by President Hoover in 1929.
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Bond Selling Ring
New York
Romeo Forlini
Bronx
Anthony Bagatory
Enrico Caruso
Forlini
Atlanta
Hoover
Attempt Made To Kill Chiang Kai-Shek At Nanchang
Dispatches report an unsuccessful assassination attempt on President Chiang Kai-Shek in Nanchang as he toured a park. A loiterer near his headquarters and two companions were arrested and confessed they were sent from Canton, which is in rebellion against Chiang's regime.
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Shanghai
Chiang Kai-Shek
Nanchang
Chiang
Canton
Asheville War Veteran Dies by Own Action
Charles F. Owenby a shell shocked World War veteran committed suicide at his brother Ernest Owenby’s home in the southcoming section. He was under medical treatment and despondent over his health. body found by his brother in law with throat fed in five places.
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Asheville
Charles F. Owenby
Ernest Owenby
Southcoming
Owenby
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Hugo Eckner
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Rescue Party
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Whitson
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Nan Chang
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