Wild chase as two convict guards flee by roads
In Arkansas two armed convict guards hijacked a third stolen car and led authorities on a 196 mile pursuit through back roads toward White County before the vehicle broke down. Victims H Hewitt and W M Stewart reported the escapees as Lee Sitton and Zack McHenry, with fellow guard Jake Young aiding.
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White County
Olcknens
Tucker Farm
Ben Maddox
Prieon
Lee Sitton
Searcy County
Zack McHenry
Faulkner County
Jake Young
Pine Bluff
Harry Hewitt
W. M. Stewart
To Jail Instead In Philadelphia Man Sentenced For Fountain Swim
Marvin Franklin aged 63 dressed only in a purple suit walked past Officer James Robinson toward Rittenhouse Square claiming to swim in the fountain. He was arrested and sent to the house of correction for ten days.
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Philadelphia
Marvin Franklin
James Robinson
Rittenhouse Square
House of Correction
Weather outlook for Tennessee Kentucky and nearby states
Weather forecast notes generally fair conditions in Tennessee and Kentucky with continued warmth. Scattered thundershowers expected Saturday afternoon. Virginia sees fair weather tonight and Saturday with interior thundershowers late Saturday. North Carolina mostly fair tonight and Saturday with possible isolated storms in western and north central areas and a slight warm trend.
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Tennessee - Kentucky
Virginia
North Carolina
West
North Central
Plan to tax middle classes expands New Deal proposal
Washington July 5 plan discussed to widen the wealth tax to middle income brackets as well as the ultra rich. White House conference laid groundwork to push the tax plan this session despite GOP calls for a fall special session. Critics prepare arguments citing confiscatory taxes to win socialist support. American Liberty League referenced.
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Washington
White House
Met~calf
R-Bd
American Liberty League
Double murder tied to jealous ex lover in El Dorado
Clyde Gulley, a Farmerville man, is jailed in El Dorado on murder charges after shooting to death his ex sweetheart Clarice Moore of Huttig and her companion RK A Pap Harper of Strong. The killings followed a woodland tryst and prior assault indictments against Gulley.
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EL Dorado
Ark
Union County
Farmerville
Clyde Gulley
Bernice
Clarice Moore
Huttig
Elmer Nelson
Gulley
Nelson
Clarice
John Pennington
Strong
Pennington
Strongcom Farmerville
Moore
Harper
Moore Girl
Guiley
Bruno's Jurors Get Double Pay
Bruno's jurors in Haartmann were paid double the usual rate. The $60 per day for 43 days brings each of 12 jurors to $238, funded by a supplemental appropriation after 20 weeks of additional trial expenses. The state total paid reached about $125,000 under sheriff Curtian of Hunterdon County.
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Trenton
Haartmann
Comptroller’s Office
John H. Curtian
Hunterdon County
Roosevelt Signs Wagner Labor Bill into Law
President Roosevelt signed the Wagner labor bill describing it as a major step toward just peaceful labor relations. The act guarantees collective bargaining rights and creates a National Labor Relations Board to hear cases and oversee fair elections among employees.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Labor Relations Board
Labor Relations Board
FDR
Secretary of Labor
Department of Labor
Congress
Merry Maker Killed In Balloon Drop Tragedy
In St Clair Shores on the Fourth of July, Toledo aerialist William T. Henderson attempted a parachute stunt from 2,000 feet. Detroit resident Fred Cardoni clung to a guide rope, slipped, and fell to his death after Henderson tried to help him down. Sheriffs report Cardoni grabbed the rope after takeoff, planning to ride it down before release.
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ST. Clair Shores
William T. Henderson
Toledo
Fred Cardoni
Detroit
Henderson
Cardoni
Cardani
Sherif
Huey Pushes New Dictator Bills Through Baton Rouge
Senator Huey P. Long leads the House Ways and Means committee as 26 new stringent bills win swift approval. He vows punishment for misuse of federal relief funds for politics while seeking broader scope to apply to state funds. Representative Jack Williamson questions the strength of amendments.
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Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
House
Ways and Means
Equelches
Jack Williamson
Lake Charles
Push New Effort to Aid Hauptmann
Trenton New Jersey July 5 Attorneys for Bruno Richard Hauptmann pressed forward new effort to save him from the electric chair for the Lindbergh child murder A supplemental brief prepared with leave of New Jersey high court argues that the trial summation by Attorney General Wilentz was prejudicial and warrants reversal It challenges the death by burglary theory and contends constitutional rights were violated while noting there is no statutory burglary felonious act in New Jersey
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Trenton
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
New Jersey
High Court
David T. Wilentz
Hauptmann
United States
Heuptmann
Egbert G. Rosecrans
C. Lloyd Fisher
Frederick A. Pope
United States Supreme Court
Relief projects funds sought for war department requests
Washington July 5 The War Department asked the Works Progress Administration for funds to carry out construction projects across Georgia Tennessee and Memphis. Items include Fort Oglethorpe Georgia 304 545 for new buildings and improvements with landscaping costs 24000 and utilities 250000. In Knoxville Tennessee 6800 to clean and realign headstones repair roads walls and lodge and improve Knoxville national cemetery grounds. In Nashville Tennessee 11000 to clean and reset headstones repair walks walls roads curbing buildings and grounds at the Nashville national cemetery. In Memphis Tennessee 315500 to repair drives enclosures and grounds and enlarge the colored burial section at Memphis national cemetery including headstone work.
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Washington
War Department
Works ‘Relief Administration
Georgia
Chattanooga
Fort Oglethorpe
Tennessee
Knooxville
Knoxville National Cemetery
Madison
Nashville National Cemetery
Memphis
Memphis National Cemetery
195 Are Killed During Fourth Celebrations
The Associated Press reports at least 195 people died nationwide on Independence Day as celebrations marked by firework and motor-vehicle accidents, drownings, and other incidents. Midwest led with 79 deaths. New Jersey and Chicago reported hundreds treated for fireworks burns. notable deaths included a 17 year old in Chicago from a firecracker and a man carried aloft by a balloon rope in Michigan.
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Associated Preas
Midwest
Mountain States
New England
Associated Press
New Jersey
Chicago
St. Louis
Fréworks
Chester Builwicki
Kansas
St. Clair Shores
Mich
Ho-ho-jus
N. J
Austrian throne awaits Hapsburg return from exile
An unnamed royalist close to Archduke Otto of Hapsburg predicts prompt restoration of the Austrian monarchy once anti-Hapsburg laws end. Negotiations for Otto I's enthronement face one obstacle, Prince Von Starhemberg's opposition, while a confidant says Otto could return within weeks and the throne restored within a couple of months after reforms. Stachemb eg's push for a regency is noted as the other barrier.
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Edouard Traus
Associated Press
Brussels
Archduke Otto of
Hapsburg
Kaiser Otto I
Vienna
Prince von Starhemberg
Otto
Austria
Stachemberg
Hapsburgs
Crosses Ocean to Poland with Grandparents for a Child
Three-year-old Joseph Fortuna leaves New York for Poland to live with his grandparents in Sieklowki. His father is deceased and his mother cannot support him. He speaks only English.
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Joseph Fortuna
New York
Poland
Sieklowki
Joseph
Urge Enforcement of Peace Pact Italy Urge Enforcement
Ethiopia appeals to the United States for enforcement of the Kellogg Briand pact to keep peace in East Africa. Haile Selassie says Ethiopia will cooperate for peace if its independence remains intact. U S state department declines comment awaiting the Ethiopian note. Italian spokesman says the appeal will not alter Italy’s border dispute stance.
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Associated Press
Ethiopia
United States
East Africa
Italy
Haile Selassie
United States State Department
Washington
Rome
George
Addis Ababa
Department
Hull
TVA Plans Fight to Advance Cause in TVA Drive
Tuscumbia Alabama July 5 The Tennessee Valley Authority assured cooperation by governors of three states and declared it has just begun to fight for its electrification program David E Lilienthal warned during an appreciation day as Governor Bibb Graves of Alabama Governor Hill McAlister of Tennessee and S H Rubel for Governor Sennett Conner of Mississippi pledged fealty to President Roosevelts ideals for human welfare Thousands cheered as Lilienthal recalled TVA trials and possible suits and proclaimed the battle for independence from a power monopoly that threatens our democratic institutions Governor Graves called the Democratic party human welfare plank the boldest step in history and praised President Roosevelt as the boldest leader for human welfare in the world An Italian French frontier defense pact report and Ethiopia appeal to the United States to curb Italian aggression are noted with Addis Ababa awaiting a U S response and Emperor Haile Selassie asserting Ethiopia seeks peaceful outlet to the sea by diplomatic means.
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Tuscumbia
Ala
Tennessee Valley Authority
David E. Lilienthal
TVA
Goveror Bibb Graves
Alabama
Hill McAlister
Tennessee
S. H. Rubel
Sennett Conner
Mississippi
Graves
Roosevelt
McAlister
Tennessee Valley
Conner
Rubel
George Googe
rTepre
Goodrich to be sent to Detroit for slayings
Merton Ward Goodrich, the confessed killer of 11-year-old Lillian Gallaher, will be transported by train from New York to Detroit to answer for the crime and to face questions on other alleged child slayings. His wife Florence and guards accompany him. two Detroit detectives and a matron travel with the group.
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New York
Merton Ward Goodrich
Lillian Gallaher
Detroit
Dunoean C. McCrea
Wayne County
Mich
Florence
McCrea
Sandrichs
Radicals to Hold Meeting in Chicago
A July 5 opening in Chicago announces a national radical conference aiming to form a left wing third party in 1935 with a new social order. Howard Williams of St Paul and Rep Thomas R Aralice of Elkhorn outline plans while radicals from Congress prepare a permanent organisation committee and declare principles. Communists banned, no delegates from the Deep South.
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Chicago
Howard ¥. Williams
St. Paul
Farmer-Labor Political Federation
Congress
Young
Deep South
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State Department
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