Police Chief dies as Gastonia riot injures officers
Gastonia June 8 AP Police Chief L O Aderholt died from wounds after last night’s strike riot at a tent city run by the National Rifle Workers union near Loray Cotton Mill. Four officers were wounded and several union leaders jailed. Beal, an organizer, and K O Byers were detained. Authorities planned murder charges against other inmates.
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Gastonia
Ith
L. O. Ader
Aderholt
National Rtile Workers Union
Loray
George W. Carol Mizpah
N. J
Louis McLaughlin
Charles Ferguson
Amy Vechter
International Relief
Labor Party Takes Over Government Of England
London May 30 election brought Labour to power ending Conservative rule. Ramsay MacDonald sworn in as prime minister with Margaret Bondfield as labor minister, crowd ovations, and a brief Downing Street meeting. Cabinet to map domestic and foreign policy including unemployment and arms questions.
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Labor Party
England
Ramsey MacDonald
King George
Windsor Castle
Downing Street
Margaret Bondfield
Farm relief bill hangs in balance in senate debate
Debenture advocates campaign in the senate to defeat the conference farm bill while the house approved the measure. Senators argue over constitutional rights and votes on subsidies as the bill moves toward final passage for President Hoover.
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Raymond Z. Henle
Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Conference Committee
House
Hoover
Four Die in Two Plane Crashes At Langley and Detroit
Langley Field Virginia reports Lieutenant Harry A. Saunders and Sergeant F. E. Woodward died when their plane crashed near Frostburg Maryland. Woodward hailed from Waynesville North Carolina. In Detroit Michigan Virgil Hart 30 and Roy Cardano were burned to death in a crash while pilot A M Simard 29 lay critically injured in Mount Clemens Michigan hospital awaiting prognosis.
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Langley Field
Harry A. Saunders
FE. S. Woodward
Frostburg
Detroit
Here
Virgil Hart
Roy Cardano
A. M. Simard
Mount Clemens
Mich
Tobacco drug chain combine forms in Dover Delaware
New York on June 8 a several hundred million dollar tobacco and drug chain store manufacturing combine formed via United res corporation. George Whelan founder of United ar stores leads the takeover of related firms including Cigar stores America Ion Tobacco and Pennsylvania Drug pany with planned capitalization of 21 million shares across multiple classes.
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New York
Dover
Delaware
United Res Corporation
Wall Street
Tobacco
George Whelan
United Ar
Cigar Stores Corporation America
Mr. Whelan
Acco Products Corporation
Ion Tobacco Company
Sidiaries
Pennsylvania
Neve Drug Stores, Inc
Happiness Candy Stores
Lim
Hoover braves bad weather for fishing trip to Blue Ridge
President Hoover, despite chill and rain, heads to the Rapidan forest lodge for a week’s fishing visit in the Blue Ridge Mountains, accompanied by Mrs. Hoover and a small party. He keeps his Saturday foreign policy briefing with Secretary Stimson, receiving several visitors but no fixed engagements.
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Washington
Hoover
Blue Ridge Mountains
Vira
Naal
Gastonia Not Likely To Get Troops
Governor Gardner says Gastonia remains under local control after a night of violence including the shooting of Chief Adderholt and three policemen. He sees no need for National Guard deployment and will act only if local officers cannot cope.
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Gardner
Dolly
Gastonia
Carpenter
Adderholt
Experts Prepare 10 Go 10 Homes Young Plan Debated
Paris reports the 17 week effort by financial experts who drafted the Young plan for German reparations. They urge six governments to accept the scheme, which would replace the Dawes plan and start September 1. Outcome hinges on ratification by decree or diplomacy.
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Paris
Germany
Young Plan
Owen D. Young
United States
France
Great Britain
Italy
Belgium
America
Fox sentenced to die for Taylor murder in Tarboro
Ernest Fox, convicted in superior court of the murder of Jesse Taylor Rocky Mount grocer, was sentenced by Judge Small to die in the electric chair on October 11. He was immediately sent to the state prison.
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Tarboro
Ernest Fox
Jesse Taylor
Rocky Mountgrocer
Small
Forecast of Winter Wheat Crop Up by 43 Million Bushels
Washington reports that the Agriculture Department projects winter wheat production at 622,148,000 bushels as of June 1, a rise of over 43,000,000 bushels from last year. Farm leaders see the report sharpening focus on the farm relief bill and possible federal farm board action to manage surplus and influence prices.
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Washington
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Federal Farm Board
Senate
Hoover
Farm Board
Swedish Fliers Start Flight to New York With Stops
Captain Aldin Ahrenberg a Swedish airman took off early today for a flight to New York with three intermediate stops. The journey begins from Stockholm with the aim of linking Sweden to the United States by air.
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Stockholm
Aldin Ahrenberg
New York
Democrats Rally for Monday Night Dinner in D.C.
Democrats in Congress rally to attend a Monday fundraiser in Washington arranged by the Jefferson Democratic Association. T. Jouett Shouse leads the operation with John J. Raskob at national headquarters as Senator Fletcher of Florida urges unity and fresh material for the party.
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Washington
T. Jouett Shouse
John J. Raskob
National Committee
Congress
Fletcher
Florida
Herbert Hoover
Democratic Party
Jefferson Democratic Association of
District of Columbia
Shouse
Raskob
South
Senator Overman
North Carolina
Simmons
Alfred E. Smith
McKellar
Tyson
Tennessee
Swanson
Virginia
New Bern
N. C
Minority petitions procedure debated at League of Nations
In Madrid a private council committee discussed Senator Raoul Dandurand’s plan to change minority petition hearings. No action was taken yet as a full open-session debate awaits the German foreign minister Dr Gustav Stresemann’s arrival. He supported transferring hearings from a three member committee to a committee of the whole with publicity provisions.
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Lord Parmoor
England
MacDonald T
League OF Nations
Madrid
Council of the League of Nations
Raoul Dandurand
Canada
Gustav Stresemann
Stressemann
Dandurand
Trotzky Seeks England Visit For Health
The new British labor government faces its first foreign policy issue as Leon Trotzky requests permission to visit England. Trotzky, exiled near Constantinople, appears to wait for a government likely to recognize Russia.
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Trotzky
England
London
Leon Trotzky
Constantinople
Great Britain
Russia
Slayers in Mishawaka Road House Shootings Unknown
In South Bend Indiana on June 8 Edward Blankert pool room operator and politician was killed by a shot from his own revolver during a free-for-all fight at a Mishawaka road house. Two attorneys were wounded by a gun of the same calibre. the weapon remains unfound.
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South Bend
Ind
Mishawaka Road
Edward Blankert
Thomas Elected Head Southern Hotelmen
Fay M. Thomas of Hotel Roanoke was elected president of the Southern Hotel Association at the Roanoke convention. He succeeds J. H. Enwright of Hotel Langren Asheville. Winston-Salem will host the 1930 convention. Officers include W. E. Hackett Richmond Virginia. W. O. Christian Charlotte North Carolina. P. D. Smith Spartanburg South Carolina. Eugene Branch Winchester Virginia re-elected secretary.
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Roanoke
Fay M. Thomas
Southern Hotel Association
Thomas
J. H. Enwright
Langren
Asheville
N. C
Winston-Salem
W. E. Hackett
Richmond
Virginia
W. O. Christian
Charlotte
North Carolina
P. D. Smith
Spartanburg
South Carolina
Eugene Branch
Winchester
Association
Winston-Salem Man Killed At Crossing
Almond R. Merrell, 25, was killed instantly when struck by a switch engine of the Winston-Salem Southbound railway at a crossing in Winston-Salem, N C, this afternoon.
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Winston-Salem
N. C
Almond R. Merrell
Fat Mills Murder Mystery Reopened By Lye Witness
Detroit Free Press reports a federal prisoner, Kenneth Gladeau, claims he overheard the quarrel leading to the murder of Rev Edward W Hall and Mrs Eleanor Mills. Gladeau says a knife in his room connected to the Hall Mills case and implies a $3000 payoff.
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Fat-Mills
Lye- Witness
Detroit
Detroit Free Press
Edward W. Hall
Eleanor Mills
New Brunswick
N. J
Kenneth Gladeau
Wayne County
Free Press
Gladeau
Francis L. Bergen
Somerset County
Plymouth Mich
Shringer
Plymouth
Robert E. Moore
Hall- Mills
Quarantine on the Fruit Fly Extended
The Mediterranean fruit fly quarantine is extended to prevent re shipment of Florida fruits and vegetables into southern and western states and Porto Rico from the northeast. The regulation covers states where Florida direct shipments are prohibited and aims to aid prompt handling of infestations. Prohibited reshipment states include Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Georgia Idaho Louisiana Mississippi Nevada New Mexico North Carolina Oklahoma Oregon South Carolina Tennessee Texas Utah and Washington.
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Florida
Porto Rico
Department of Agriculture
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Georgia
Idaho
Louisiana
Mississippi
Nevada
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
lUtah
Hit and Run Driver Strikes City Employee in New Bern
Marshall Williams, 50, a city employee, is in serious condition after being struck by a hit and run driver in New Bern. He suffered a fractured right leg and other injuries, with details continuing as police investigate.
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New Bern
Marshall Williams
Mexican Bandits Take Peso From Each Tourist
Twenty armed men halted 15 autos and a motor bus about 30 miles from Mexico City on the road to Puebla and demanded one peso from each of 75 passengers. Some yielded all their pesos. No Americans were reported among the travelers.
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Mexico City
Puebla
Dry Agents Stage Side Show As G O P Celebrates 75th Birthday
Ripon Wisconsin commemorates the Republican party 75th anniversary with Secretary of War James W. Gooding praising Ripon as the donor of the party name while questions linger on birthplace. Prohibition agents from Milwaukee staged side shows amid crowds as governor Kohler leads celebratory parade. Beer splashes draw spectators to nearby sewers.
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G.O.P
Ripon
Wis
James W. Good
Good
Federal Prohibition
Milwaukee
Walter J. Kohler
Airplane Crash Kills Hambleton and Der Heydens
Wilmington witnesses describe the crash of a plane named The Governor near the county airport. Lieut. Col. John A. Hambleton, a Baltimore banker, and Mr and Mrs J Von Der Heyden of New York were killed instantly. Cause undetermined. eye witnesses reported the craft dove after circling the field.
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John A. Hambleton
Lindbergh
J. van der Heyden
Wilmington
N. C
Baltimore
J. von der Heyden
New York
von der Heyden
Hambleton
Margaret Elliott
Pan-American Airways
Charles A. Lindbergh
Mrs. van der Heyden
Col. Hambleton
Nye insists on vote on national origins clause
Senate debate on national origins tainted by filibuster charges from Senator Ware Republican North Dakota who warned the senate would stay through the summer until a vote is taken. Supporters argued enough votes exist to block Hoover's suspension of the provision despite filibuster claims.
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Washington
Senate
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