Fields death linked to meningitis and city jail charges
Kelley Fields died after skull injury and spinal meningitis. Gil mer Click and George Tings face murder charges. preliminary hearing set for Saturday before Magistrate A. N. Hawk. Upchurch leads investigation with an expected autopsy. Blair's Gap brawl cited as likely cause. Fields' funeral held at First Baptist Church with burial in Fort Blackmore Virginia. Fields is survived by his parents and two brothers.
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Kelley Fields
Gilmer Click
George Tings
A. N. Hawk
Montagu: Upchurch
Fields
Upchurch
Blair
Gep
Upehurch
Times
Gap
Click
Ties
Fieteher and
Anderson
Roller Street
Abington
Highland Park Show Grounds
First Baptist Church
Sullins Dosser
D. Edglien
Ft. Blackmore
Vields
W. B. Fields
Owner Not Guilty as Dog Chases Cats Case Dismissed
Chicago court dismisses charge against Mrs. Jennie Middleton after Judge Leon Adelman finds no dis orderly conduct in the matter of her dog Brownie chasing seven cats. The second item notes Lucas urging Republican solidarity against Democratic Radical domination of government in Washington.
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Chicago
Fox Tervier
Leon Adelman
Suely
Jennie Middleton
Margaret Brown
Mia
Middleton
Washington
Lucas
Young Japanese Airman Held Up In Ocean Flight
Seiji Yoshihara, a Japanese airman, was forced back to Nemuros port by storms while en route from Tokyo to Murotan Bay in the Kuriles. He had begun the flight Monday, planned a Kuriles stop, but encountered severe weather and delayed the continuation.
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Nemuro
Japan
Murvotan Bay
Kuriles
Seiji
Yoshihara
San Vanessen
Murotan Bay
Tokyo
Campaign Good Business Proposition for Ambitious Local Residents
Kingsport Times promotes a $2,500 prize campaign offering a Chrysler car as the top reward for the best fundraiser. Contestants must recruit subscribers across the trade area, with equal odds for all. Entry blanks appear in full page ads, and campaign work runs until June 27 with potential weekly earnings cited.
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Kingsport
Chrysler
Byia
Wise
Iis
Negro Confesses Slaying Wagner and Wife Escapes Mob
Sam Green, a 19 year old houseboy, confessed to killing banker W B Wagner aged 64 and his wife 60 with an axe in Water Valley Mississippi. Sheriff C T Doyle said Green and two other negros were hidden outside the town to prevent mob action after threats were reported.
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Water Valley
Miss
Sam Green
Tegra
C. T. Doyle
Green
W. B. Wagner
Doyle
Emmett Shaw
Doyle Sail Green
Wagner
Waghorn Dies of Injuries After Plane Crash
Flight Lieutenant H R D Waghorn, 1929 Schneider Cup winner, died at Cambridge Military Hospital from injuries after a crash near Farnborough. His parachute escape partner E R Alexander survived. Waghorn had a speed record of 328.63 mph and was famed as Britain’s acrobatic flyer. He left a wife and son.
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Aldershot
England
H.R. D. Waghorn
Cambridge Military Hospital
Farnborough
Waghorn
E. R. Alexander
Alexander
Wagnern
Great Britain
Daisy
Bookkeeper foils 450000 gem heist at 10 West 47th Street
A New York bookkeeper avoided a robbery by not handing over gems valued at 450000 to three gunmen at Samuel Lenkowsky’s diamond offices. The men entered the Sith floor offices around noon at 10 West 47th Street, but the clerk Samuel Siegal activated an alarm, drawing police to the scene.
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New York
Sith
Samuel, Lenkowsky
West 47Th Street
Samuel Siegal
Siegal
Destructive Fires Kill Fourteen in Japan and Destroy Resorts
Tokyo May 7 Fourteen Japanese people died in a series of fires that swept multiple communities. High winds hampered fire crews as Jat Yamanaka Hot Springs Ishikawa Prefecture suffered the most damage with four deaths. About 30 hotels were wiped out, 100 injured, 400 hotel guests homeless, and 4,000 displaced. The fires damaged 800 homes and key town structures including a post office police stations banks town hall temple and school buildings.
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Tokyo
Yamanaka
Regulated Farm Production Seen as World’s Need
Washington May 7. An agreement among agricultural nations including Soviet Russia to regulate farm production to match consumption was proposed before the International Chamber of Commerce by Alfred Faler, Polish delegation chair, with Dr. J. L. Russell of the University of Wisconsin. They urged world-wide readjustment of production to needs and regulation to prevent market disturbances.
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Washington
Soviet
Russia
International Chamber Lof Commerce Today
Alfred Faler
J. L. Russell
College of Agriculture
University of Wisconsin
Palter
Ada Burroughs Defies Senate Campaign Funds Probe
Ada Burroughs of Richmond Va refused to testify before the Senate campaign funds committee in the Cannon inquiry. She delivered a prepared statement challenging the committee authority and accusing federal law as unconstitutional, prompting Nye to consider contempt citations. The panel delayed action until the Senate reconvenes in December.
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Ada Burroughs
Cannon
Washington
Nye
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Richmond
Senate
James Canfon
Burroughs
Bishop Cannon
anti-Smith Committee
Virginia
Conversion of delinquent state land to forest preserves urged
Tennessee Forester James C Hazard urged converting lands returning to the state for non payment of taxes into state forest preserves. He noted 421000 acres tax delinquent in parts of middle and East Tennessee and argued state ownership should run lands to support forest industries and public benefits. Hazard also cited last year’s $2 million fire damages and $245000 needed for adequate protection versus $63000 actually spent. He summarized fire control and discussed forestry activities by state and colleges, with a paper by Prof George Rupp read by C I Peterson.
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Nashville
Tennessee Forestry Association
James C. Hazard
Tennessee
Hazard
Middle
East
State Forest Service
George Rupp
Department ‘of Forestry and Engineering
University of the South
Sewanee
Rupp
C. Il Peterson
Butler recounts Mexico mission that earned medal
Major General Smedley D. Butler recalled his 1914 spy mission in Mexico to aid President Wilson as relations with Huerta strained. Disguised as a bibliophile and other roles, Butler sought information and helped secure a congressional medal of honor for the service.
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Philadelphia
Smedley D. Butler
Mexico
Wilson
Victoriano Huerta
Secret Service
Huerta
Mexico City
Butler
Seven Million Dollar Fire Destroys Buffalo Armory
Fire at the 106th Field Artillery Armory in Buffalo caused total loss with damages over 7 million dollars. Officials, including Captain William Speidel, valued the armory at 3 million and equipment at 4 million with little saved. A nearby church also burned, estimated at 50 thousand dollars, as heavy rain helped crews finish the blaze. Over 50 firefighters were affected by smoke. all but two discharged from hospitals.
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Buffalo
N.Y
106Th Field Artillery
William Speidal
106Th Artilery
Speidel
Joseph W. Becker
Risen Regiment
Business outlook now bright state bankers told
Chattanooga May 7 AP confidence that better business is near was voiced by J P Hoskins president of the Tennessee Bankers Association in his convention address He noted recurring business cycles and said sailing time for good business is near Bankers have improved after a tempest of the last year and good banking has never been stronger coastal chiefs said
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Chattanooga
J P. Hoskins
The
Tennessee Bankers’ Association
Association
iHosking
America
Jean
Tire firm records hidden in state inquiry
Auditors for the investigating committee were denied access to certain records of the Philips-Acuff Tire Company. J. H. O’Connell testified that despite committee instructions, officials refused full examination of books and records beyond state sales. The matter was to be discussed in executive session.
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Nashville
Tenn
State Affairs Investigating Committee
Phillips-Acuff Tire Company
J. H. O'Connell
O'Connell
Friven
Mrr. Acuff
O’gonnell
Acuff
Walter Faulkner
Blame Reds in Harlan Riots
Weather summary lists Tennessee forecasts for Fair conditions tonight and Friday with cooler northeast and west details. Virginia shows showers tonight with clearing Friday morning and moderate winds. Data note cites readings at 6:00 p.m. by T. CG Harris, U.S.W.0.
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Harlan
Tennessee
Virginia
Yesterda
T. CG
Harris
U.S.W
Trial of Bankers Nears Close in Asheville Court
In Asheville North Carolina May 7 the state nears the end of its case at the trial of three Central Bank and Trust Company officials Wallace B Davis president Gix Brown and Dr Jd A Sinclair directors on charges of making false reports of the bank condition. Former auditor William McCants testified that DaContinued on page six.
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Asheville
N. C
Central Bank and Trust Company
Dale
Wallace
B. Davis
Gi x. Brown
Jd. A. Sinclair
William McCants
Central Bank
300 UT Students Will Get Degrees
Nearly 300 students will receive University of Tennessee degrees at the 124th commencement on June 5. The graduating class totals about 260 seniors and 30 graduates, the largest in UT history. Dr. A W Fortune of Lexington Ky will deliver the baccalaureate sermon June 7. The university will award degrees in liberal arts 85 education 42 commerce 34 home economics 31 engineering 29 agriculture 27 and law 14.
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Knoxville
Tenn
University of Tennessee
R. F. Thomason
Uniersity
A. W. Fortune
Central Christian Church
Lexington
Wickersham Urges Study of Criminal Law Reform
Chairman Wickersham of the law enforcement commission urged the American Law Institute to expand scholarship and research on criminal law. He warned that ten years is too short for thorough investigation into the effects and social problems of law observance as juvenile offenses rise.
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Washington
Wickersham
Law Enforcement Commission Today
American Law Institute
Institute
Law Enforcement Commission
National Commission
National Guard Takes Over Police of Mines
More than 309 Kentucky National Guardsmen armed with rifles and a tank marched on coal fields near Evarts in Harlan county amid labor unrest. Troops will police the area after a labor labor conference ordered disarmament of mine guards, with Red Cross relief planned for unemployed miners as the county probes lawlessness.
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Harlan
Kentucky National Guard
Evarts
Harlan County
London
Pineville
Flem D. Sampson
J. H. Blair
D. C. Jones
Sampson
William Turnblazer
United Mine Workers of America
Glea
Red Cross
Dan M. Carrell
Louisville
Sydney Smith
George M. Chescck
A. R. Perkins
Barbourville
Williamsburg
Booneville
Ashland
Olive Gill
B. Carey Graham
Frankfort
Springfield
Glasgow
Monticello
Richmond
Jackson
Carvell
Adjt
William H. Jones, Jr
Harlan County Grand Jury
Jones
Long Time Gone Milwaukee Divorce Suit
George DeERager, age 62, filed for divorce from his wife in Milwaukee after 87 years of waiting, alleging desertion as the grounds for the action filed yesterday.
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Milwaukee
Wis
George Deerager
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International Chamber of Commerce
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Jake
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J. P. Hoskins
State Bankers Association
U. T
History State University
National Guard
Tank
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