Young Woman Charged With Robbing Man Of $50,000 In Four Years
Miss Anna Magever n a confidential secretary in Park Avenue offices faced $50,000 grand larceny charges after an embezzlement spree over four years. Police said she deposited large checks into a small account and withdrew cash for personal use while posing as power of attorney for Harmon August. Bail set at $50,000 as she awaited October 5 hearing. She told detectives she had relatives in Danbury Conn. who owned real estate and might help with restitution.
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New York
Anna Magevern
Harmon August
Park Avenue
August
Ma.Govern
Danbury
Conn
Charlotte
Willis T. Jordan
V. V. Jordan
Winding Gulf
W. Va
Grand Rapids
Mich
Columbus
Tom P. Jimison
J. E. S. Davidson
Jordan
Carpenter
Wilfred
Willis
Akron
Roanoke
Herndon
Windingwulf
Emma Landridge-Jordan
Sloan Sees Upbeat Outlook for Auto Industry
Alfred P. Sloan Jr. predicts favorable business conditions in coming months and possibly the biggest auto industry volume next year. He notes GM may miss last year’s peak but expects higher sales and profits for the current year, with a continued positive picture into the next year.
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Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
General Motors Corp
New York
United States
General Motors
Thompson vows to oppose Lowden for Illinois GOP control
Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson said he will allow his name on the Illinois presidential preference ballot to block Frank O Lowden from taking the Republican delegation if needed. He argued Lowden in Washington would harm waterways flood control and that Lowden is not suitable to represent Illinois. Lowden declined to commit to a presidential run, saying he never knew any man to run away from the presidency.
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Chiccago
William Hale Thompson
Chicago
Illinois
Frank O. Lowden
Lowden
Thompson
Aernor
Washington
Llinois
Presipublican
Tragic River Tragedy Claims Two Girls at Island Creek
In Paducah Kentucky Islan' Creek waters yielded the bodies of Maggie Lou Herringsong and Ruby Gladys Ross. The girls, aged and unnamed, were swept away while playing in a muddy current yesterday afternoon. Their bodies were recovered about a mile downstream from the point of their fall.
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Paducah
Maggie Lou Herringsong
Ruby Gladys Ross
German President Von Hindenburg Celebrates Eightieth Birthday
Berlin reports a joyful birthday for President Von Hindenburg with flowers and visitors filling his private and state apartments. He directed 300 000 marks from his fund to aid 1 500 urgent war veterans and received a deed to the Neu Beck estate in East Prussia as a key gift from veterans groups.
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Berlin
von Hindenburg
Neubeck
East Prussia
Frederick the Great
Veterans’ Societies of
Coolidge Extends Birthday Wishes to Von Hindenburg
President Coolidge sends a cablegram through the state department to German President Von Hindenburg on his 80th birthday. The message praises a life of public service, devotion to the constitution, and expresses sincere friendship between the American and German peoples.
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Coolidge
Washington
Infantile Paralysis Death in Lynchburg VA
The first death this year from infantile paralysis occurred in Lynchburg Virginia yesterday. Luther C Roach Jr aged two, son of L C Roach, died of the malady.
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Lynchburg
Luther C. Roach, Jr
L. ¢. Roach
Four Seek Second Place in North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Race
Raleigh observers discuss four named hopefuls Rivers D Johnson Duplin county senator D Vance McGougin Fayetteville Dr W H S Burgwyn Northampton and Richard T Fountain Rocky Mount speaker of the house in 1927 with A E Woltz of Gaston remnant possibility. Fountain and Burgwyn are in the race with Johnson and McGougin urged to enter while McGougin maintains a following in the southeastern Cape Fear area.
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Raleigh
Rivers D. Johnson
Duplin County
Senate
General Assembly
D. Vance McGougin
Fayetteville
Cumberland County
W. H. S. Burgwyn
Northampton County
Richard T. Fountain
Rocky Mount
Edgecombe County
A. E. Woltz
Gaston County
Burgywn
Fountain
Johnson
McGougin
Mountain
North Carolina
State Senate
Burgwyn
Northampton
Rivers Johnson
Long
State Board of Health
Teo
McDougin
Cape Fear
North Carolina National Guard
Third Generation Of Colonists Who Left Country After Civil War
In New York and Richmond reports on postwar colonists. Brazilian descendants from South Carolina founded Villa Americana on Brazil’s coast. They largely stay, intermarry, adopt Portuguese customs yet speak English, seeing themselves as pioneers rather than unreconstructed southerners.
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Richmond
South Carolina
Villa Americana
Brazil
Charleston
Columbia
J. B. Kolbs
James
Kalg
B. H. Hunnicutt
South
Gaston
Appomattox
United States
Fatal shooting near Ravenna station in Kentucky
In Ravenna Kentucky Calvin Conley killed a man and wounded his wife after his wife and Calloway Morris stepped from a train. Morris, dying, fired at Conley, wounding a railroad detective who had restrained him. Detective Henry Brown of Irvine died later in hospital leaving a widow and four children.
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Ravenna
Calloway Morris
Calvin Conley
Brookshire
Morris
Conley
Henry Brown
Irvine
Film Transportation Will Start Trouble
St Louis October 1 United States Attorney Brewer announced a criminal information will be issued Monday charging interstate transportation of prize fight motion pictures in violation of the law against the man who brought the Dempsey Tunney films to St Louis for showing next week It is understood the films were brought here by William Sievers who was fined 660 dollars in federal court last August on his plea of transporting the Dempsey Sharkey films
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ST. Louis
United States
Brewer
William Sievers
Dempsey-Sharkey Filma
One Is Killed Several Hurt In Hundred Mile Race
Pottstown Pennsylvania October 11 AP Julian Slim Everett of Wilmington Delaware was killed today in the annual hundred mile automobile race on the speedway. Ben Shaw of Westville New Jersey won in 98 minutes. Everett was in third when his car left the track during a pass. William Cox of Chester Pennsylvania broke an arm and internal injuries on the 50th lap. Al Burwell of Philadelphia was bruised when his car slid off on the 18th lap.
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Pottstown
Julian ‘Slim’ Everett
Wilmington
Del
Ben Shaw
Westville
N. J
Everett
William Cox
Chester
al Burwell
Philadelphia
Record Price For Tobacco In Wilson Market
The Wilson tobacco market set a daily high with 1,128,276 pounds sold at an average of 19.95 per hundredweight. Across the season total sales reached 22,823,324 pounds bringing $4,051,862.94 in payments, averaging 17.75 per hundred pounds.
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Wilson, N. C
Coal Strike Ends in Illinois Wage Agreement
Chicago October 1 AP The six months long coal mining suspension in Illinois ends as miners and operators accept a joint committee plan to resume operations. A four member commission will study the Illinois situation with a possible fifth member if deadlock occurs. Jacksonville wage scale remains until then. The deal may signal broader settlements across Illinois Indiana Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
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Chicago
Illinois
Miami
Fla
Jacksonville
Commission of Four
Rice Miller
Perry
Harry Fishwick
William Smeed
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Southern Illinois coal mines to reopen amid jubilee
Brenton Illinois reports immediate start of mining after announcement. Demonstrations and parades erupt as optimism spreads through southern Illinois coal fields. Miners prepare to return to work buying new pit clothes and equipment while awaiting reemployment. Local banks faced potential failure mitigated by the news.
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Brenton
Southern Illinois
Ohio miners seek Illinois style agreement in union talks
G. W. Savage secretary of the United Mine Workers District 6 says Ohio mine union officials would welcome a pact similar to Illinois operators and miners agreement reached today.
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Columbus
Ohio
Illinois
G. W. Savage
United Mine Workers of America
District 6
Rain Grounds Tornado Survivors in Wrecked City
Severe storms force hundreds from ruined homes in St. Louis after Thursday’s tornado. Red Cross reports 2,600 families or 7,800 people affected in about 210 city blocks. Death toll stands at 83 with 229 still hospitalised and total losses estimated near 50 million dollars.
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ST. Lou
Red Cross
American Legion
France
St. Louis
St. Louis County
Alfred Fairbank
Citizens Disaster Relief Committee
Fairbanks
Victor J. Miller
Illinois
E. E. Christopher
Gleer and Jordan Wife to Testify in Charlotte Bigamy Case
William T. Gleer of the Gleer Detective Agency and Mrs. Willis T. Jordan left Columbus by car for Charlotte North Carolina to testify against the Reverend Willis T. Jordan who is jailed in Mecklenburg County on a bigamy charge.
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Columbus
William T. Gleer
Gleer Detective Agency
Willis T. Jordan
Charlotte
N. C
Mecklenburg County
Carload of Furniture Hidden Alcohol Found in Transit
A Chicago incident reports a carload of furniture containing four packing cases with champagne whiskey and 20 gallons of alcohol. The shipment had been held at an army warehouse as evidence in prohibition law violations. Capt. J Leland Bass may be questioned as investigators from the district attorney Internal Revenue Service Prohibition Bureau Army and Justice Bureau pursue the case.
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Chicagg
J. Leland Bass
Quartermaster Corps
U. 38. Army
Selfridge Field
Mich
Prohibition Department
Chicago Junction
Army
Bass
Michigan Post
Office
District Attorney
Special Intelligence Unit
Internal Revenue Department
Prohibition
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Gaid
Armed Men Rob Bank Of 4000 In Los Angeles
Six masked robbers plus a seventh operating a machine gun attacked Merchants National Bank in Los Angeles. They held 5 employees and 75 customers, beat a man and a woman, and escaped with about 4000 dollars. A bank manager and a Mrs Hampton were struck during the robbery as a stolen car with the gun mounted outside directed the escape.
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Los Angeles
The
Merchants National Bank
Calif
Merchants’ National Bank
Raymond Elliott
Miss Sallie Pearcy Dies in Milledgeville
Miss Sallie Pearcy aged 76 a great niece of Jefferson Davis died in Milledgeville Ga after 29 years residency moving from Americus Funeral services are planned for Monday in Milledgeville.
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Milledgeville, Ga
Sallie Pearcy
Jefferson Davis
Confederacy
Americus
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Frances Grayson
Miss Elder
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Dr. Kimball
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