Wheat Growers Spokesman Missing Amid Cooperative Drive
Washington reports the general farm board pledges long hard work to strengthen and build cooperative organizations. A spokesman for wheat growers remains missing amid Hoover administration efforts to unify support for an apointee. Prices on the Chicago market bring a glimmer of relief as the seven members take on vast agricultural problems with Secretary Hyde as ex officio colleague. Mayflower hotel quarters host the group after formal organization in the White House.
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Washington
Legere
Hyde
Coleague
Leeve
Mayflower
White House
Hoover
Mayflower Hotel
Chris. E. Christensen
Th Agriculture Department
Wrecked Alabama stores collapse. no entombed found
In Montgomery on July 16 rescue workers searched the ruins of two downtown mercantile buildings the Bullock Shoe Company store and the Pizitz Department store after a noon collapse. 75 to 100 people were inside. several injured though only three seriously. Debris removal continues to guard against any entombment. Investigations into the collapse underway by city and county officials.
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Montgomery
Ala
Bullock Shoe Company
Pizitz Smolian
Weather notes for Virginia and Tennessee forecast
Virginia Forecaster calls for Foair and slightly warmer conditions tonight and Wednesday with moderate coastal winds easing to gentle variable on Wednesday. Tennessee partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with scattered thunderstorms in East and North portions, slightly warmer in the Northwest tonight. Continuous data on yesterday's high and low temperatures and rainfall from the same date last year are not fully readable.
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Virginia
Tennessee
Rehearing sought on Holston River dam project dispute
East Tennessee Power Company seeks another hearing before the Tennessee Railroad and Public Utilities Commission over certificates for three Holston River dam sites. Holston River Power Company and American Cyanamid hold permits. Tenn Eastern Electric and Doherty want legal clarification on transferring property between nonutilities. Details describe dam heights 79, 134, and 180 feet with capacities up to 24,000 horsepower, and plans for four dams along Kingsport and Bluff City areas.
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Nashville, Tenn
Public Utilities Commission
East Tennessee Power Company
Doherty Holding
Halston River
Halston River Power Company
American Cyanamid Company
American Cyanamid
Nashville Tenn
Tennessee Eastern Electric Company
Doherty
Tennessee Railroad and Public Utilities Commission
Holston River
Holston River Power Co
American Cyana« Aid Co
Ue Holston Company
Kingsport
Watauga River
Bluff City
Tennessee Pany
Perm
Brummitt dies from wounds by cell mate at Knox jail
Knoxville dispatch reports M I Blackie Brummitt who faced a five year term in the Tennessee penitentiary died at a local hospital from wounds inflicted by cell mate Tom M McKaffey at Knox County jail last Friday Brummitt was jailed on robbery charges awaiting transfer agent arrival McKaffey slashed Brummitt then attempted suicide and murder charges will be docketed today according to Sheriff Hackney
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Knoxville
Tenn
M. I
Blackie) Brummnitt
Tennnessee
Penientiary
Tom M. McKafffey
Knox County
Brammitt
Focal
McKaffey
Urges Diplomats to Obey Washington Traffic Rules
Senator Caraway of Arkansas proposes sending home all foreign diplomats who ignore Washington traffic laws. A DC police report over 11 years shows 34 diplomats were stopped or warned, none arrested due to immunity. Offenses ranged from minor infractions to driving while intoxicated, including several ambassadors and ministers.
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Washington
Caraway
Arkansas
District of Columbia
Senate
State Department
Five Banks Fail in Birmingham District probe
Florida banking turmoil widens as six state and two national banks close within eleven days. Merchants State Bank of Melbourne becomes the eighth bank to shut its doors since July 5 as a Alabama grand jury is recalled to resume inquiry into Birmingham district bank closings amid court conflicts and delays.
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Merchants State Bank of Melbourne
Birmingham
Alabama
Tallahasse
Fla
Ernest Amos
Florida
Ala
John ©. Anderson
Alabama Supreme Court
Jefferson County
Doctor Fined For His Sarcasm In Chicago Court
In Chicago on July 16, Dr Val Freeman was fined 26 for sarcasm after a motorcycle officer halted him rushing to a patient. Freeman later sent a note saying the patient died the next day and invited the officer to the funeral. The case was before Judge Albert George.
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Chicago
Val Freeman
Albert George
Freeman
Franklin Martyn
Martyn
Last Man's Club Dinner To Be Silent Farewell
Three surviving members of the Last Man's Club, founded 40 years ago by Minnesota volunteers of Big Company, will hold a quiet dinner at John F. Goff's home on the anniversary of Bull Run. Goff, 86, Pater C. Hall, 41, and Charles Lockwood, 87, will toast departed comrades with the old wine bottle that has been passed since the first gathering.
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St, Paul
Minn
Last Man's Club
Big Company
Minnesota
John F. Goff
Pater C. Hall
Charles Lockwood
Goff
Stillwater
Bull Run
Eleven Honduran Girls Die In Truck Plunge Near Sauce
Eleven Honduran high school girls died when the truck carrying them plunged a thousand feet into an abyss near Sauce, with twenty two others injured. Driver Luis Medina also died. Salvador Correto, minister of public works, was seriously injured while trying to reach the wreck and extricate bodies. The tragedy halted capital activities as mourning and funeral plans were prepared.
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Cegucigalpa
Honduras
Tegucigalpa
Constable Awaits Grand Jury Report
Constable Luke Ballenger charged with fatally wounding Grady Phillips during a pursuit awaited the grand jury report. The Tallapoosa circuit Solicitor General said witnesses would finish testimony and the report would be made.
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Buchanan
Luke Ballenger
Grady Phillips
Phillips
Ragsdale
Tallapoosa
Street Cars in Orleans Run Under Federal Guard
New Orleans July 16 Street car service resumed under federal armed guard after a workers walkout on July 2 no settlement reached yet. Fifteen cars operated on the St Charles Tulane belt route amid crowds with no disturbance and 24 hour service to return once violence risk passes. United States Marshal Victor Loisel said guards will stay to enforce the injunction against intimidation and property molestation as a citizens committee prepares a final report to the city council. National union leaders planned to seek President Hoover’s intercession in the 15 day strike.
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New Orleans
St. Chares-Tulane
Victor Loisel
United States
Citizens’ Committee
New Orleans Public Service, Inc
Carmen’s
City Commission Council
Charlies J. Theard
J. B. Lawson
Hoover
Lawson
William Green
American Federation of Isbor
W. D. Mahon
International Carmen's Union
Troop movements on China Manchuria border continue
Paris reports July 16 that C Bascom Slemp former Coolidge secretary is in an American hospital under observation for intestinal trouble and likely to return to his hotel soon. Note delays extend three day ultimatum to China as Moscow tensions rise with demonstrations and suspected troop moves along the Siberian Manchurian border.
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Paris
C. Bascom Slemp
Presdent Coolidge
China
Associated Press
Moscow
London
Tokyo
Russia
Harbin
Siberian
Peking
Black River
Wang - At Tsingtao
Berlin
Poincare Wins Vote on War Debt Ratification Clash
Paris July 16 AP Poincare government won a confidence vote 204 to 23 on postponing debate of Mellon Berenger debt accords. Poincare urged immediate ratification and praised Hoover's Toledo address. He emphasized debts must be paid and lauded the Young plan and reparations work despite opposition. Edouard Herriot pressed links to reparations, but the premier maintained two separate sums under the plan.
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Paris
Poincare
Louis Marin
Marin
Poinenre
America
Great Britain
Chamber of Deputies
Hoover
Toledo
M. Poineure
Edouard Herriot
Tinatiee
Aviators Seek to Establish Endurance Record
In San Francisco the monoplane San Francisco piloted by Bartlett Stephens and Fred McKinely entered its 16th hour of attempting to beat the 244 hours 43 minutes 32 seconds endurance flight record, taking off 18 hours earlier. In Houston Joe Glass and Glenn Loomis began a separate endurance flight attempt.
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San Francisco
Cat
Bartlett Stephens
Mills Field
Fred McKinely
Whole family held in connection with murder near Camden
In Camden Tennessee on July 16 the household of W. E. Allen was arrested in connection with his death after his body was found three hundred yards from home on July 3. Joe Allen his wife and Bertha Brewer were jailed as accessories after the fact. they were moved to Paris for safety. Mrs Georgia Allen and Hubert Smothers were arrested last week. Authorities suspect a murder plot tied to an alleged intimacy. Joe Allen and his wife face bonds of 7500 and 5000 dollars, Brewer 1000, widow and Smothers held without bond.
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Camden
Tenn
W. E.allen
Joe Allen
Bertha Brewer
Allen
Paris
Georgia Allen
Hubert Smothers
Young Allen
Allens
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Holston
Topeka, Kan
Vivian Scraper
Brummitt
Fighth Bank
Helen Herts
John D. Hertz
Dorothy Wilson
Evanston
Horts
Abyss
Orleans
China-Manchuria
Paris Hospital
Houston, Tex
Joe Glass
Glenn L. Loomis
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