Army Air Corps chief Major General Westover dies in plane crash
Major General Oscar Westover and his pilot Sergeant Sam Hynes were killed when their attack plane crashed near Riverside California. An army board of inquiry and a federal civil aeronautics authority investigation were ordered. President Roosevelt expressed condolences calling Westover a gallant soldier and true friend.
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Burbank
Calif
Oscar Westover
United States Army Air Corps
Sam Hynes
H. H. Arnold
Air Corps
Army Board of
Harvey 8
Burwell
19Th Bombardment Group
Fed
Eral Civil Aeronautics Authority
Robert Hinckley
Salt Lake City
Roosevelt
Washington
General Westover
Bay City
Mich
West Point
Michigan
Army
Westover
Army Air Field
Riverside
Los Angeles
American Legion
Deane Scores Again Before Supreme Court
Raleigh dispatch notes the bitter eighth district primary for Congress hinged on election returns from Richmond and Davidson counties. The state supreme court remanded litigation to the superior court to await those official results.
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Superior Court
Richmond
Davidson
Raleigh
Vial
State Supreme Court
Court ruling upholds state board supervision of elections
The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled the state election board has the right to supervise elections and review county board actions prior to final returns. It voided amended Richmond and Davidson returns, ordered Burgin stayed pending final counts, and upheld Deane as nominee by 23 votes after investigations. The decision also covered related criminal and civil rulings across Dare Tyrrell and other counties.
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W. O. Burgin
Lexington
C. B. Deane
Rockingham
State Election Board
State Board
W. C. Harris
Burgin
W. P. Stacy
Harrie
Richmond
Davidson
W. A. Lucas
Wilson
Supreme Court
Jethro Midgett, Jr
Dare County
Jimmie Spruill
Roy Alexander
Tyrrell County
W. H. Brown
Camden County
J. R Spencer
P. T. Stiers
W. &. Harrison
Buncombe County
Charles Kates
Four Held for Superior Court Murder Charge in Hickory
In Hickory North Carolina three men Sam Best Mose Brown and James Ennis and a woman Mary Boyd were ordered held without bond for murder with Sarah Coleman and Mrs Mose Brown named as witnesses. The case stems from the death of R O Hawn a former Hickory township constable in February 1936 following a resort incident and alleged beating. Champ Terry testified he saw the men assault Hawn and that they took him behind a house and left him.
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Hickory
N. C
Superior Court
R. O. Hawn
Hickory Township
Sam Best
Mose Brown
Burke County
James Ennis
High Point
Mary Boyd
Theodore F. Summings
Hawn
Terry
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George Clark
Madam Ardelle
St. Just
City
Southern Railway System
Atlanta, GA
High Point, N. C
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Greensboro
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Marion
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Atlanta
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Wagger Jewelry CO
High Pointer
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Morrow
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