Darien Jail Lynching in Georgia After Officer Killing
In Darien Georgia an armed mob with machine guns forced into the McIntosh county jail and lynched George Grant a 10 year old negro accused of killing an officer and wounding three others during an early morning gun battle. The mob ignored Col Roy Neal commanding the Savannah national guard unit and pressed county officers outside the jail with shotguns. A second suspect was cornered in nearby marshland as authorities hunted him. Deputy Sheriff J H Collins was wounded and Police Chief Robert Freeman killed in the bank assault that triggered the raid.
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Darien Ga
McIntosh County
George Grant
Roy New
Savannah
National Guard
Grant
Colonel Neal
Robert Lb. Freeman
R. J. Anderson
Marshall
Darien
John Fisher
State Board of Game and Fish
J. H. Collins
Freeman
Neal
Brunswick
Colling
Two Dixons On Pension Roll Once Says Durham
State Auditor Baxter Durham reports records show two men named Lemuel S Dixon were on Guilford county pension rolls at separate times. The probe follows claims pension checks for Lemuel Dixon died 1910 were cashed after attestation by Mason Gant. Durham plans a formal statement.
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Raleigh
Guilford County
Baxter Durham State Auditor
Lemuel
Dixon
Guilford
Durham
R. L. Dixon
Register of Deeds
John J. Nelson
Superior Court
North Carolina
Pontoon Bridge Company
Virginia
Gant
Rains Complicate Haiti Relief After Devastating Hurricane
Heavy rains over Santo Domingo swollen the Ozama river preventing boat access and leaving air travel as the only route for aid. Amid widespread destruction, about 4,000 lives were lost or displaced as planes arrived at Santo Domingo field to deliver relief amid widespread misery and a vast hurricane path through the interior.
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Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
Santo Domingo
Angels of Mercy
Santiago, Vega
Romance Ends In Double Killing In Greensboro
Laurel Jackson Sams 22 and his 15 year old girlfriend Bernice McCaskill died after Sams lured her to the home of N S Phillips and fired two shots through their temples. The pair died within hours of the incident. the girl at a hospital and Sams later at a hospital. A friend said the girl's mother had ordered Sams to stop seeing her.
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Greensboro
Laurel Jackson Sams
Bernice McCaskill
McCaskill
Sams
N. S. Phillips
Phillips
Lela Horner
John L. McCaskill
Strong Earthquake Shakes Candela Residents No Damage Reported
A strong earth shock lasting six seconds struck Candela Foggia September 8 just before midnight. Loud rumblings followed startling residents. no damage reported though houses weakened by the July quake are endangered.
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Candela
Foggia
Italy
Louisiana Governor Trades Blows With Newspaperman
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Louisiana
Louisiana politics and a courtroom clash with Huey P Long
In New Orleans on September 8 Governor Huey P. Long faced a federal court inquiry over the disappearance of Samuel Irby and James Terrell amid a Louisiana primary bid for the Senate against Joseph E. Ransdell. A pretrial confrontation erupted as Long fought with New Orleans Item reporter William G. Wiegand, who claimed Long struck first after insults were exchanged, within a tense scene watched by armed guards.
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New Orleans
United States Senate
Joseph EF. Ransdell
Huey P. Long
Samuel Irby
James Terrell
Shreveport
Wayne G. Borah
E. A. Schowalter
Long
Irby
Jefferson Parish
Terrell
William G. Wiegand
New Orleans Item
United States
Marshall
League council settles Palestine dispute with mandates commission
Geneva reports the council of the League of Nations announced an amicable settlement of the delicate Palestine affair after recent criticisms by the mandates commission of British administration. The decision aims to ease tensions and restore administrative harmony.
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Geneva
Council of the
League of Nations
Mandates Commission
Palestine
Maryland Voters Nominating Today
Four of Maryland's six congress members and the two state tickets led by Governor Albert C. Ritchie and Baltimore Mayor William F. Born ing were unopposed in today's primaries. Voters chose nominees for Congress legislature and local offices.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Congress
Albert C. Ritchie
William F. Borneing
Senator Allen Is At Johns Hopkins Hospital
Senator Henry J. Allen of Kansas arrived in Baltimore from Wichita and entered Johns Hopkins Hospital. Doctors indicated an operation for a glandular trouble could be performed the following day.
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Senator Allen
Johns Hopkins
Baltimore
Henry J. Allen
Kansas
Wichita
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Hugh H. Young
Trial of Brothers For Murder To Be Started Tomorrow
Edenton readers learn the murder trial of Levy and Kermit Nixon cousins will begin in superior court tomorrow for the beating death of deputy fish and game warden John Hollowell on August 30. The suspects have been jailed without bond. Watt White faces aiding and abetting charges and is free on a $5,000 bond.
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Edenton
Levy
Kermit Nixon
John Hollowell
Fish and Game Warden
Superior Court
Nixons
Hollowell
Watt White
Athletic Field Granted to Boyden High School in Salisbury
Announcement at the opening of Boyden high school in Salisbury notes a gift of an athletics field by Mr. and Mrs. Burt on Craige of Winston Salem. The field will be Boyden Memorial Athletic Field, in memory of Col. A. H. Boyden longtime Salisbury city school board chairman for 20 years.
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Salisbury
Boyden High School
Burton Craige
Winston-Salem
Boyden Memorial
Craige
A. H. Boyden
Salisbury City
New Prince Born in Belgium Heir to Throne
Belgium rejoices over the birth of a nine pound boy to Crown Prince Leopold and Princess Astrid of Sweden at Stuyvenberg Castle. The infant, named Badouin Albert Axel Marie Gustave, will be baptized Sunday night with King Albert as godfather.
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Brussels
Belgium
Astrid
Sweden
Leopold
Badouin Albert Axel Marie Gustave
Albert
Josephine Charlotte
Stuyvenberg Castle
English firm to mine Fraser river bed near Victoria
A British company has bought one and a half miles of the Fraser River bed near Victoria British Columbia and plans to use powerful monitors to extract gold. Sluice boxes will process gravels from the old river bed amid optimistic forecasts about the potential value of the yield.
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Victoria
B. C
Fraser River
Lytton
Contracts For Four Planes Are Set
The War Department announced contracts totaling over $290,000 for four tri motor Ford cargo planes and for 24 Pratt and Whitney wasp engines. Detroit Aircraft Corporation received a contract for a fast single engine Detroit Lockheed transport plane valued at $16,537.
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Washington
Ford
Pratt and Whitney
War Department
Detroit Aircraft Corporation
Odd Fellows Gather For Big Celebration
Representatives of North Carolina Odd Fellow lodges gather in Goldsboro for a celebration honoring C. B. Edwards of Raleigh, the oldest living past grand master, to be held at the Odd Fellow orphanage with Attorney General Dennis Brummitt as principal speaker.
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Goldsboro
Odd Fellow
North Carolina
C. B. Edwards
Raleigh
Dennis G. Brummitt
Revolution Spreads Across Argentina After Irigoyen Fall
Buenos Aires and provinces rally behind the coup that toppled President Hipolito Irigoyen and installed General Jose Evaristo Uriburu. Crowds gathered at the government house as a nationwide holiday was declared for swearing in new ministers and arrests were ordered for suspected officials.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Hipolito Irigoyen
Jose Uriburu
Jose Evaristo Uriburu
Century-Old Men Fly for a Plane Ride in LA
Galasha Cole of Pasadena and Dr. Mirza Assar A. Fareed of Los Angeles took an airplane ride yesterday. Both said it was the most interesting activity in more than a century. Pach is 104 years old and Fareed was born in Persia. He taught history at the University of Ishpahan for half a century.
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Los Angeles
Sept
Galasha Cole
Pasadena
Mirza Assar A. Fareed
Pach
Fareed
Persia
University of Ishpahan
French fliers Coste and Bellonte honored by President
A large Washington ceremony saluted French aviators Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte for crossing the Atlantic nonstop from Europe to North America in a 37 hour flight. Lindbergh did not attend to keep it Coste and Bellonte's day. They planned a possible good will tour and a flight to Mexico City with no fixed schedule.
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NEA Service, Inc
Paris
Dallas
Dieudonne Coste
Maurice Bellonte
Atlantic
Texas City
William E. Easterwood
Air Heroes
Washington
Louisville
Hrtine Tas
North Atlantic
Europe
America
White House
France
Coste
Belionte
National Broadcasting Company System
United States
Canada
Mr. Hoover
Bellonte
Bollingfield
Lindbergh
New York
George Akerson
Mexico City
Three Killed And Three Injured In Boat Explosion
Three men died and three were wounded from an explosion aboard an oil flat boat tied to the government dredge Tabor on the Ohio river near Cairo. Deceased were Jesse D. Hart 38 Memphis first engineer. Captain David Q. Dog an 49 Memphis. William I. Smith unknown from Mound City Ill third engineer. Injured included James Hal 25 Memphis a stoker burned on face and body. Cause not determined though crew blame may be gas in oil tanks ignited by a hammer spark.
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Cairo
Tabor
Ohio River
Jesse D. Hart
Memphis
Tenn
David Q. Dogan
William I. Smith
Mound City
Ill
Man killed by lightning near wife in Wisconsin
Paul Henning, 34, was struck by lightning while standing under a tree with his wife in Madison, Wisconsin. The bolt killed him instantly as his wife survived.
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Madison
Wis
Paul Henning
Judge Orders Wake Jury Probe of Convict Handling
Judge Garland Midgette instructs the Wake County grand jury to investigate convict treatment in Wake county, use of county funds, and personal use of county autos. The probe targets Camp No 5 where Willie Bellamy, a Black prisoner, is alleged to have died from heat prostration, with the Bellamy case slated for this week.
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Raleigh
Wake County
Grand Jury
Garland Midgette
Midgette
No. 5
Willie Bellamy
Bellamy
Bryan Grant Faces David Jones In National Tennis Clash
Forest Hills Sept 8 Bryan Grant of North Carolina, national clay court champion, faced towering David Jones of Columbia in the second round of the national singles championship Jones at six feet four inches contrasted with the smaller Grant and the Carolina star was the favorite entering the match.
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Forest Hills
N. Y
Bryan Grant
U. of N. C
David Jones
Columbia University
Jones
Columbia
Grant
Charles Iceman Funeral Today in Monroe
Charles Iceman 65 a Maryland native and longtime Monroe textile figure died suddenly yesterday of a heart attack Burial is set for this afternoon in Monroe The obituary notes his 25 years of influence in local textile circles.
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Teeman
Monroe
Charles Iceman
Maryland
Miniature Golf In Auditorium Replaces Opera
Chicago theater once famed for opera is repurposed as a miniature golf course. The Auditorium theatre, long a cultural landmark, now sits under receiver control as the venue shifts from opera to a playful attraction.
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Chicago
Patti
Melba
Caruso
Auditorium Theatre
Opera
Sharp Break On Market As Census Crop Figures Released
New Orleans prices for cotton fell about 2 dollars a bale after the census bureau showed a larger than expected crop and ginnings. October and December contracts dropped from 11.22 to 10.80 cents and 11.38 to 11.01 respectively amid the market shock. The Department of Agriculture pegged the crop at 14,340,000 bales, down 688,000 from last year, with an average yield near 153.2 pounds per acre and abandonment near 2.2 percent on the harvest forecast of 44,791,000 acres. Weevil damage is expected to be modest this year, though present in several states.
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New Orleans
New Orleans Exchange
Census Bureau
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Arkansas
California
Carolinas
Special Court Opens for Case of Truck Driver Casey
A special term of superior court in Kinston opens to try Herman Casey a truck driver charged with murder in the death of James Causey a Suffolk lumberman. Milton Wood Craven county farm hand faces an accessory charge based on a confessed implication. Judge Clayton Moore schedules the trial for September 9. Wood said Casey robbed killed Causey July 3 placed body in a car and burned it to conceal the crime.
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Kinston
Herman Case
James C. Causey
Suffolk
Milton Wood
Craven County
Casey
Clayton Moore
Wood
Causey
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Vumluisu
Council of the League of Nations
Aristide Briand
Smith Reavis
Associated Press
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Odd Fellows
City of Washington
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