Four Year Old Witness Against Mother’s Killer in San Francisco
Four year old Wilbur Compton told police his stepfather Howard Davies killed his mother Fern Compton Davies. Davies and Fern were married in Reno and later moved to San Francisco where neighbors heard quarrels. A trunk contained Mrs Davies’ body and Davies’s body was found in his Daly City home with automatics nearby. The boy lived with Davies’ friends after his father’s death. diary notes reveal a troubled marriage marked by bitterness and devotion.
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Frederick
San Francisco
Wilbur Compton
Howard Davies
Davies
Compton
Reno
Nev
Bue Lam
Lam
H. Goodnight
Deary
Alary
English woman travels 20000 miles to Africa with dog
An English woman recently journeyed over 20,000 miles into central Africa, her dog as her principal companion.
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Africa
North Carolina Office Moves Toward Atlanta Headquarters
North Carolina officials plan to move the state office to the southern headquarters in Atlanta while maintaining a NC Secretary there. The move aims to curb expenses as NC's financial condition improves and debt payment ability rises. The War Finance Corporation praised NC for progress in industry and fiscal strength.
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North Carolina
Southern
Atlanta
Stareck
War’ Finance Corporation
North Carolina State vs Virginia Military Institute Rematch
North Carolina State meets the Flying Squadron of Virginia Military Institute in Richmond on Saturday. The series history shows NC State trailing 5 to 6, with prior clashes dating from 1895. The Cadets hold recent dominance with 1922 and 1923 14 to 0 and 22 to 7 wins, while earlier games featured mixed results.
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Richmond
North Carolina State
Virginia Military Institute
State
Cadets
Valera to Address Meeting in Newry Town Hall
Eamon de Valera plans to visit Newry in County Down to address a political meeting at the town hall. The Northern government bans him from entering some Ulster arenas, including County Down, with reports he may be asked to leave and possibly arrested if he defies the order.
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Dublin
Eamon de Valera
Newry
County Down
de Valera
Ulster
Man Keeps Promise Marrying Bride at Station in Detroit
Seal McKee a toolmaker at an auto plant wed Miss Margaret Curry at a Detroit railroad station after writing to Glasgow parents to allow the match. The couple married on arrival in Detroit with license and minister awaiting. Frey Slareck, director of the War Finance Corporation, arrived in Raleigh to confer with state bankers as advisors to the agency. Final action on Firpa remains unsettled as labor department removal is discussed in Washington.
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Detroit
Seal McKee
Margaret Curry
McKee
Glasgow
Scotland
Meer
New York
Raleigh
Frey Slareck
War Finance Corporation
Firpa
Washington
Labor Department
Soviet Arranges To Get a Foreign Loan
MOSCOW October 2 The Soviet finance commissar M Sobolnikoy told the all Russian parliament that English bankers with support from American institutions had agreed to advance extensive commercial credits to Soviet Russia He did not specify the amount only saying negotiations yielded a loan to the Russian state bank of several tens of millions of rubles
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Moscow
M. Sobolnikoy
Kremlin
Soviet Russia
Russia
Deportation case awaits New York court disposition for Firpo
Assistant Secretary of Labor White announced that Luis Angel Firpo faces deportation proceedings. The department will review the record but take no action while courts hold jurisdiction. The case proceeds under the courts’ authority.
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Luis Angel Firpo
New York
Labor
White
Firpo
Labor Department
Goodyears Zeppelin Corp Plans 3,000,000 Cu Ft Airship
Akron Oct 21 plans to construct a Zeppelin of 3,000,000 cubic feet twice the size of the ZR-3 were announced by Paul W. Litchfield vice president and general manager of the Goodyears Zeppelin Corporation.
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Plang
Paul W. Litchfield
Goodyears Zeppelin Corporation
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