Ballard Denies Crime as Three Negroes Die in Electric Chair
NASHVILLE August 14 three men were executed in the electric chair within sixteen minutes for murders. C H Curley Ballard a 56 year old one legged brick mason from Kingsport convicted of killing to collect a $192 insurance died first. James Smith 2 was executed for the Matlock murder in Fayetteville with another man. James Clark 23 of Memphis was executed by request after admitting the Sheehan burglary killing. Ballard Clark and Smith faced their fate as gospel singing filled the death house.
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Nashville
C. H.curley
Ballard
Kingsport
James Smith
Hugh Mattock
Fayetteville
Matlock
Clark
James Clark
Memphis
Richard Sheehan
Sheehan
Smith
Anderson Berry
Supreme Court
Carring
Anw
Neely
Jesus
Helps
Pickens Johnson
BE. &. Tarrant
Gerald Stratton
Mack Hampton
J. ©. Vaughan
Vaughan
H. (Curley) Ballard
Warden Neely
Hingsport
Weather Report Fragments Across Several States
Fragmentary forecast mentions rain and showers across parts of Virginia Kentucky and Tennessee with mixed conditions for Saturday night and Sunday. Noting possible cold fronts and scattered showers in eastern regions while northern counties report isolated rain and cooler temperatures.
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Matorday
Virginia
Setardas
Kentucky
Coughlin's Party Opens Convention in Cleveland
The opening session of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin's National Union for Social Justice convention in Cleveland featured West Virginia Senator Rush D. Holt delivering the keynote. Holt, aged 21, argued against the federal reserve as a tool of Wall Street, urged fair living wages, and criticized mortgage debt holding farmers back. He warned against the Frazier Lemke refinancing bill and called for aid to tenant farmers in the South, noting the political climate limits action.
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Cleveland
Chas. E. Coughlin
National Union For Social Justice
West Virginia
Rush D. Holt
Father Coughlin
Federal Reserve Banking
William Jennings Bryan
Holt
Bryan
Federal Reserve Bank
Wall Street
America
Washington
Unio
Nord Sai
South
Declaving
Mary Astor custody case threatened by new controversy
Los Angeles August 14 The Mary Astor custody battle faces resumed charges over illicit diary contents and alleged prearranged statements. Attorney Joseph Anderson blasts the post settlement remark, seeks a full airing, while Miss Astor remarks on notoriety amid the agreement granting nine months yearly custody for Marylyn and impounding the actress diary.
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Los Angeles
Mary Astor
Joseph Anderson
Miss Astor
Franklyn Thorpe
Marylyn Astor Thorpe
Dr. Thorpe
Anderson
George Kaufman
Roland Rich Wooller
Woolley
Stamp glue passes taste and stickiness test
Reporter explores stamp gum quality as government tests dextrine from corn for postage. Underwood and Hall discuss taste, texture, and safety. The bureau examines starch and dextrine used in stamps and envisions corn dextrine to improve gum stability and taste in future issues.
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Tana
Bureau
Alvin W. Hall
Hall
Reporter Sees Ballard Death in Tennessee Execution
In Nashville on August 14 Curley Ballard, condemned for the murder tied to a $192 life insurance claim, faced execution by electric chair at 5:23 AM. He died calmly after two 2,200-volt shocks, one of three Black men to die in the case, with James Smith and James Clark following in minutes. Ballard’s final words and the hushed crowd’s witness linger on as the report notes gruesome details and Ballard’s insistence on innocence until the end.
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Nashville
Tent
Curley Ballard
Willie Green
Ballard
Shelburne Ferguson
James Smith
Hugh Matlock
Fayetteville
James Clark
A. W. Neely
Clark
Richard Sheehan
Memphis
Sheehan
Seath
Ferguson
Sill
Green
Bethea
Louisville
Tanna
Tianna
Bridea
Breese
Ins
Tyler
Scigle
Bethel
Sterilization Trial Opens For Miss Hewitt Heiress
Evidence begins in San Francisco as Mayhem conspiracy trial of surgeons Tilman and Boyd for sterilizing Ann Cooper Hewitt unfolds. Prosecutor calls Dr Irwin Wallace. Hewitt sues mother Maryon Cooper Hewitt for 500000, alleging trickery to control inheritance. Hewitt, 22, says operation denied motherhood. mother in seclusion.
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San Francisco
Ann Cooper Hewitt
August Fournier
Irwin Wallace
Miss Hewitt
Tilton E. Tillman
Samuel G. Boyd
Mace
Wallace
Tilman
Pearing Frey
Miss. Hewitt
Maryon Cooper Hewitt
Fournier
Peter Cooper Hewitt
Scores Seized as Hostages in Spain Amid Rebel Threats
In Franco era Spain, scores opposed to the Madrid government were seized and held hostage in San Sebastian and Ira n in retaliation for rebel threats to bombard government towns. Militiamen crowded hostages into improvised prisons as the rebel cruiser Almirante Cervera loomed offshore ready to shell San Sebastian. Government forces claimed gains in Estremadura, including Merida and Atarfe near Granada, while battles raged in Badajoz and Cáceres as loyalists defended key passes and towns against Fascist insurgents.
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Elmer W. Peterson
Associated Press
Trun
Spain
Madrid
San Sebastian
Iran
Almirante Cervera
Bay of Biscay
Ramon Blardony
L Rens
Estremadura
Holy
Badajoz
Caceres
Merida
Navalmarsh de la Mata
Carceres
Don Benito
War Ministry
Atarfe
Granda
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Nevada
Plane crashes near New Kent kills three crew
Army bomber crashes and burns on a Virginia farm killing Lieutenant Willard Marvin, Private John Maher, and Private James Crittenden. Private N D Flinn parachutes to safety after signaling others to jump as the craft nosedives and explodes upon impact. Witnesses report flames, explosions, and a rapid descent as the plane struck a 20 acre corn field near Pamunkey river.
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W. 5S. Lacy
Associated Press
New Kent
Here
N. D. Flinn
McGuffey
Ohio
Langley
Willard 5
Marvin
Riverside
Calif
John J. Maher
Freesport
Penne
James E
New Kent County
Pamunckey River
Flinn
Maker
C. P. Crump
B. D
H. B. Robinson
Father Land Son
Maher
Crump
Flins
Providence Forge
Crittenden
2Nd Bombardment Group
New Kent Courthouse
William S. Marvin
Ortil
Crash on New York elevated line kills motorman
Police opened a full probe into the Third Avenue elevated crash in New York City that killed motorman Howard J. Hagen of the Bronx and injured about 50 passengers. Investigators cited possible operator error as wreckage blocked service between East 73rd Street and Twin Streets.
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New York
Third Avenue Elevated
East 73Rd
Twin Streets
Howard J. Hagen
Bronx
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Dennis Healy
Mack Nmomburg
The
Transit Commission
Chuteman
W. G C. Bridlen
Third Avenue
Woodly
George Keegan
Keegan
Hanged man Bethea crowds roar at Owensboro spectacle
Rainey Bethea, a 22 year old Black man, was hanged before an estimated 10,000 spectators in Owensboro Kentucky for the assault of a 70 year old white woman. The crowd surged for mementos as the hood was removed and the trap released at 5:28 a.m. CST. Doctors pronounced death at 5:44 a.m. The event drew crowds from nearby states, many witnessing the first public hanging in the county.
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Owensboro
Rainey Bethea
Bethea
Florence Thompson
Arthur Hash
Louisville
Hash
G. Philanna
W. L. Tyler
B. H. Seigler
Bethew
Tyler
Buty Prise
Indiana
Illinois
Kentucky
Elza Edwards
Herman Lammers
Cathedral of the Assumption
Injunction Asked Against 19 TVA Suits in Tennessee
Attorneys for the Tennessee Valley Authority moved in U S district court here to dismiss 19 private power company suits against the TVA for lack of jurisdiction They argued the civil action may be brought only in the Northern district of Alabama citing the TVA act which places its principal office near Muscle Shoals Alabama and makes the TVA a resident of the Northern Alabama district Similar suits were filed in chancery court here and in federal court at Birmingham Continued on page eight.
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Knonville
Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
United States District Court
Tennessee Valley
Alabama
TVA
Muscle Shoals
Ala
Northern
Judicial District
United States
Chancery
Birming
Governor weighs state insurance plan terms in special session
Nashville August 14 Governor McAlister weighs the recommendations of the whinning commission on state insurance during a possible special session. She warns that unless suitable regulations pass by November 21 the state could forfeit federally collected funds and miss recovering millions. The commission urges action to recover $2,500,900 and prevent a costly lapse.
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Nashville
McAlister
Yhinning Commission
Une Les Tee
Oupemplayaaout
Raniaeeee
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