G. O. P. Convention Curtain Comes Down as End Near
Chicago is quieting after the Republican convention as Hoover and Curtis are renominated and Everett Sanders named campaign manager. Democrats prepare to move into Chicago for their own convention starting June 27. A pro prohibition repeal plank dominates, while Curtis solidifies his renomination amid limited opposition.
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Chicago
Hoover
Curtis
Everett Sanders
Indiana
Michigan Avenue
West Side
Roster Of N C Dems Named To Go To Conclave
North Carolinians named to the official Tar Heel delegation to the Democratic National Convention include Governor C Max Gardner Senator Josiah W Bailey Josephus Daniels and others as delegates at large and by district. The list covers 11 districts with multiple names and A L Cox Raleigh Thomas Crudup Henderson L L Gravely Rocky Mount among the delegates.
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Raleigh
Tar Heel
C. Max Gardner
Josiah W. Bailey
Josephus Daniels
C. L. Shuping
Greensboro
Lindsay Warren
T. W. O'Berry
Goldsboro
C. W. Tillett,Jr
Charlotte
E. L. McKee
Sylva
A. W. McLean
Lumberton
Harriett Elliott
E. G. Flanagan
Greenville
Angus D. McLean
Washington
T. S. Meekins
Manteo
Herbert Leary
Edenton
T. M. Washington
Wilson
H. D. Bateman
B. M. Nicholson
Halifax
W. L. Long
H. L. Joyner
Jackson
L. B. Evans
Windsor
Fred I. Sutton
Kinston
W. G. Clark
Tarboro
Charles L. Abernathy
New Bern
W. F. Taylor
Paul Webb
Morehead
R. L. Carr
Rose Hill
Albert L. Cox
Thomas Crudup
Henderson
L. L. Gravely
Rocky Mount
C. C. Crawford
Asheboro
James G. Hanes
Winston-Salem
B. H. Graves
Yaneceyville
Lilly M. Mebane
Spray
John H. Folger
Mr. Airy
W. 8. Coulter
Burlington
C. H. Robertson
Hillsboro
Frank P. Hobgood, Jr
R. M. Gantt
Durham
Terry A. Lyon
Fayetteville
J. O. Carr
Wilmington
J. R. Baggett
Lillington
A. E. White
Lamberton
Lee Robinson
Wadesboro
Warren Williams
Sanford
W. O. Burgin
Lexington
Floyd Co. Forrester
North Wilkesboro
Tom Wolfe
Albemarle
John Miller
Concord
J. D. Robinett
Taylorsville
Walter Murphy
Salisbury
D. B. Smith
Major Lyerly
Hickory
Beatrice Cobb
Morganton
Guy Roberts
Newland
J. Y. Jordan, Jr
Asheville
F. E. Alley
Waynesville
M. M. Redden
Hendersonville
P. Duncan
Rutherfordton
Tanker Cymbeline Blasted. 23 Dead in Montreal Harbor
A series of violent explosions ripped the oil tanker Cymbeline open in Montreal Harbor, killing an estimated 23 men and wounding 63. The incident occurred as authorities investigated the cause and secured the scene.
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Montreal
Que
Crippled man starved to death by mother and brother
Baltimore June 17. Police pieced together a brutal case of a 26 year old cripple starved by his mother Annie Aubel 55 and brother Paul Aubel 30 to drive out devils. A diary shows death April 4 and a reincarnation prediction. The man Grant Rubel was found by officers after disappearance reports. The pair were arrested and face charges in a case shading mercy and faith.
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Baltimore
Grant Rubel
Annie Aubel
Paul Aubel
Grant
Paul
U.S. Not To Join In European Debt Moratorium
Washington reports the United States has not been asked to join the Lausanne reparations conference in extending the Hoover moratorium. The State Department expects no such request and says the U.S. will consider rearrangements only after European nations settle their reparations and debts. Hoover moratorium ends June 30 with large payments due December 15.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Senate debates bonus bill as veterans flood gallery
Washington June 17 with thousands of veterans in and around the capitol the senate moved toward a vote on the 2.4 billion bonus measure expected to be defeated. Brookhart urged cash payment while police strengthened capitol security and staffed 35 additional officers to handle potential unrest.
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Washington
Senate
Capitol
Brookhart
Iowa
Glassford
Statue of Liberty dog Trooper laid to rest with military funeral
Trooper the Statue of Liberty dog is buried with a military funeral on Bedoloe’s Island. The mongrel longtime helper to soldiers and visitors is remembered by Sergt. James P. Boyce as "a great guy."
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New York
Bedoloe's Island
Sergt
James P. Boyce
Gangland Guns Bark To Tear Out Life Of Chicago Hoodlum
Chicago June 17 a torrent of gangland bullets felled George Red Barker an associate of Capone and feared crime lord. Two men Larry Evans and George Bickford aided three others in loading the body and rushing it to Keystone hospital where doctors said survival was impossible. Barker’s violent career spanned labor racketeering and bombings with an estimated income of 200000 yearly and his only major conviction came in Michigan at Marquette prison from 1920 to 1928.
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Chicago
George
Red) Barker
Caponea
Barker
Cook County
Pecan
Larry
Michigan
Marquette State Penitentiary
Detroit
Liberty
Counter-Revolt in Chile Tops Socialist Junta Turmoil
In Santiago, a June 4 revolt collapses as Colonel Marmaduke Grove is captured after a siege by counter-revolutionary forces. A new junta pledges to outlaw communism while preserving a socialist republic, with Senor Davila and others forming the governing body.
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Marmaduke Grove
Carlos Davila
Eugenio Matte
Senor Davila
Junta
Commund
Alberto Cabero
Montero
Radical’ Party
Nolasco Cardenas
Socialist Republic
Grove
Senor Matte
Colonel Grove
Santiago
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Enterprise
High Point
Italian Ship Freed After Being Aground For Almost a Week
The Italian steamer Maria was freed from a sand bar after five days and steamed toward Newport News to have her aft plate seams closed in dry dock.
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Wilmington
Newport News
North Carolina Delegation Returns Home from National Convention
Republican delegates from North Carolina head home after supporting the 1928 ticket and a resubmission prohibition plank. They express satisfaction with convention outcomes and aim to keep the state in the GOP column, noting harmony except for three delegates opposing the Bingh am repeal substitute on the dry plank.
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Chicago
Milnois
Indiana
Michigan
Georgia
Delaware
Carolinas
Tar Heels
Mussolini Attacks America Forecasts Global Conflicts
London dispatch reports Premier Mussolini in a Daily Express interview blasting the United States and democracy. He cites prohibition and Lindbergh as symbols of America and predicts a long era of political and military wars, saying democracy offers no saviors and Europe drifts toward disaster. He hints Germany and Italy may oppose reparations, signaling continued European tension.
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London
Mussolini
Daily Express Today
United States
Democracy
America
Il Duce
Prohibition
Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Europe
Germany
Italy
Unfair Freight Rates Threaten Southern Industry Says Commission
North Carolina officials warn unfair freight rates threaten Dixie industry. The NC Corporation Commission cites higher short-haul class rates from Greensboro and Asheville to Lynchburg compared with longer Chicago to Lynchburg routes, urging lower rates to prevent industrial decline. Reprints distributed by the North Carolina Traffic League.
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Dixie
Charlotte
N. C
South
North Carolina Corporation Commission
North Carolina
Lynchburg
Chicago
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Greensboro
Asheville
United States Interstate Commerce Commission
North Carolina Traffic League
League
W. S. Creighton
Tynesburg
Raskob Named in Probe of 1929 Fox Pool
Senate testimony identified John J. Raskob as a participant in a 1929 Fox Theaters short selling pool that earned nearly two million dollars. Also named were William Fox Bradford Ellsworth and Nicholas F Brady among others. largest participants including Raskob Chrysler Brady and Fox each liable for about 750 thousand dollars.
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Washington
John J. Raskob
Fox Theaters
Senate Banking Committee
William A. Gray
Democratic National Committee
William Fox
Fox Film and
Fox Theater Corporations
New York Stock Exchange
William F. Kenny
Elizabeth Meehan
Joseph E. Higgins
Bradford Ellsworth
Walter P. Chrysler
Nicholas F. Brady
Raskob
Chrysler
Brady
Fox
Gray
Walcott
Conn
Two Italians Shot For Attempt On Mussolini
Domenico Bovone and Angelo Sbardellotto were executed by firing squad at Bravette Fortress near the Vatican after confessing plots to kill Premier Benito Mussolini. They were strapped to chairs and shot in the back by 24 volunteers at daylight. Bovone died at 5 16 am and Sbardellotto at 4 46 am.
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Rome
Domenico Bovone
Angelo Shbardellotto
Benito Musolini
Bravette Fortress
Vatican
Bavone
Sbardellotto
House Member Calls For 48 Hour Whipping Then Hanging
Washington June 17 Representative Blanton of Texas urged extreme punishment for Gaston B Means a Concord North Carolina native. He proposed a whipping post outside the Capitol and a 48 hour whipping followed by hanging as part of amending a federal kidnapping bill. Means already received a 15 year sentence for defrauding Evalyn Walsh McLean in the Lindbergh baby case.
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Washington
Blanton
D., Tex
Gaston B. Means
Concord
N. C
Gaston Means
Means
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Lindbergh
Chadwick Leaves For Florida Under Guard of Deputies
David N. Chadwick Jr former Wilmington city commissioner left Wilmington in custody of two Dunval county deputies en route to Jacksonville Florida to face forgery charges Hearing in Richmond Virginia related to alleged Liberty Bonds theft from a Philadelphia bank was set today but attorneys could not assess how Chadwicks extradition might affect the case
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Wilmington
David N. Chadwick, Jr
Dunval County
Fla
Jacksonville
Chadwick
Richmond
Philadelphia
Florida
Powers Agree To Suspend War Debt Settlement Temporarily
At Lausanne the big five nations Britain France Italy Belgium and Japan agreed to a temporary halt on reparation payments from June 30 to end of the conference. Neville Chamberlain suggested Britain would waive 2 billion pounds if others follow suit while France urged removing trade barriers as priority.
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Lausanne
Switzerland
Great Britain
France
Gemany
Italy
Belgium
Japan
Neville Chamberlain
MacDonald
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Vickers
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Atlantic
Raoul Gauthier
Dominion Fire Chiefs’ Association
Dominion
Gauthier
Paul Henrichon
J. Debrienne
J. Hamelin
R. Noel
James Wilson
John Riddle
James Corbett
Donald Gunn
William Atherton
Vickers Company
U. S
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House
White House
Chile
Socialist Junta
Juan Esteban Montero
Mart Probe
Dem National Committee
Fox Theater
Duce
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