Powerful Irish leader shot en route to mass shocks nation
Dublin July 11 A powerful Irish Free State figure Kevin O Higgins was shot while walking to mass near Dublin. He died soon after. he forgave his enemies and dictated a will. Cabinet met to decide next steps as authorities search for motives and suspects.
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Ireland
Kevin O'Higgins
Irish Free State
Black Rock
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Griggins
Free State Council
Justice and Foreign Affairs
Eamon Fleming
Ministry of Finance
John MacNeill
Education
Fleming
O'Higging
Free State
Michael Coline
Kevin
League of Nations
Geneva
Higgins
Eamon de Valere
Belfast
Haly
de Valera
Cosgrave
Mr. O'Higgins
Michael Collins
Arthur Griffith
Wice
Dual mystery case tied to dismembered bodies in New York
Police probe a double homicide linked to dismembered body parts found in Battery Park and Brooklyn. Victims include Sarah Elizabeth Brownell, a seamstress, and Mrs Alfred Bennett, 48, mother of four. A suspect is in custody as the sprawling case unfolds.
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New York
Brooklyn
Evelyn Martino
Alfred Bennett
Sarah Brownell
Miss Brownell
Battery Park
Manhattan
Sarah Elizabeth Brownell
Sapiro Satisfied With Ford Apology Delays Naval Talks
Aaron Sapiro says Ford apology ends libel suit threat and expects out of court settlement soon. Negotiations occurred away from Ford counsel as Sapiro contacts the public retraction, while Kevin O Higgins death postpones a key naval conference session in Geneva.
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Chicago
Aaron Sapiro
Henry Ford
Ford
Dearborn Independent
Canada
Mr. Ford
Sapito
James A. Reed
Missouri
Stewart Hanley
Detroit
Sapiro
Geneva
Kevin O'Higgins
O'Higgins
Britain Signals Shift On Cruiser Limits In Geneva
In Geneva on July 11 authoritative British circles indicated a shift in policy. If Britain and the United States can agree to cap 10,000 ton cruisers at about ten ships, Britain would accept the American maximum total tonnage figure of 400,000 tons.
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Geneva
Great Britain
United States
Depew Declares Life Worth Living Message From Ex Senator
New York July 11 Chauncey M Depew ex senator railroad president and lawyer famed for dinners affirmed in a report to the Associated Press that he is an optimism driven man who believes life is worth living. He cites family blues and a habit of pursuing purpose by willpower as reasons to endure and make the most of life.
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New York
Chauncey M. Depew
Associated Press
Mr. Depew
New York Central
Tia
Wong
Mauke
Pia Fife
Thys
Widescale Storm Wreckage Hits Saxony Scene of Catastrophe
Dresden area reports hundreds dead as floodwaters ruin homes and factories. Relief teams race to supply survivors amid severed roads and rail links. In Gottleuba valley towns were wiped out and a derailed railway car shows the flood’s reach.
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Germany
Gerggieshubel
Scane
Lawenstein
Gottlenuba
Gottleuba Spa
Gloshuette
Chemitz
Elster
Pleisse
Leipsie
Mof
Berlin
Weather Brief for Virginia and Tennessee
Virginia sees generally fair conditions tonight and Tuesday with local thunder showers Tuesday afternoon and warmer spells in the west and north. Tennessee גם fair tonight and Tuesday with scattered Tuesday afternoon thundershowers in the east and north, slightly warmer in the east and central regions. Readings taken daily at 6 pm by G L Bunn at the local weather station.
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Virginia
Tennessee
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G. L. Bunn
Times Convention Picnic Participation List
The Times prints a complete department by department roster of participants for the upcoming convention picnic. Included are editors, reporters, managers, shop foremen, correspondents across Virginia and Tennessee towns, route carriers, and special correspondents with names and locations such as Mrs. Curtis L Wagner and Hopkinsville area staff, detailing the diverse staff joining the event.
Defense presents murder testimony in tied trial drama
Washington dispatch notes aviation funding debates as Congress returns to capi tol with interest in air power. In Columbia Senn, Chitwood testifies for the defense in the Lillard Foutch Jr. murder case, claiming the victim Mildred Marr Ruff tried to kill herself while Foutch contends she died by self-inflicted wound on a porch swing.
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Columbia,senn
Harry H. Chitwood
University of Tennessee
Warren
Lillard Foutch, Jr
Nashville
Mildred Marr Ruff
Chitwood
Mildred Marr
Fouteh
Moutch
Euclid Williams
Estelle Holman
Young Vanderbilt Seeks Divorce in Reno
New York July 11 Cornel Vanderbilt Jr secretary of the General and Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt has gone to Reno to seek a divorce from Rachel Littleton Vanderbilt after two years separation. He says he was forced into this action because his wife would not cooperate.
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New York
Cornelis Vanderbilt, Jr
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Reno
Rachel Littleton Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Flogging in Alabama Report Sparks Mask Ban Debate
Birmingham Age-Herald exposes third masked whipping in two weeks targeting Eston Mur rishon 17 of Bessemer and companion Ernest Smitterton 18 after June 26 auto ride. Masked men forced them home. Mur rishon cannot identify attackers. Florence officers probe last week’s Bertha Slay 28 case.
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Birmingham
Als
Montgomery
Alabama
Birmingham Age-Herald
Age-Herald
Eston Murthison
Bessemer
Ala
Murchison
Ernest Smitterton
Murjehizon
Florence
Colbert County
Bértha
Convention Picnic Of Times Employes Held Wednesday
The Kingsport Times plans an all day convention for 60 plus staff, rural correspondents, and route keys at Market Street offices and Rotherwood. Visitors tour news advertising, AP wire, composing room, and press before a noon picnic and roundtable discussion, then Strand Theatre passes to finish the day. Bobby Jones ties course record at Glen Haglis.
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Times
Market Street
Rotherwood
The
Kingsport
the Times
Associated Press
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