Indictments Taint Evarts Mining Disorder Case
In Arlan Kentucky May 9 three Evarts city officials Police Chief Asa Cusick Assistant A L Benson and City Clerk Joe Cawood jailed on murder charges in the shooting near Evarts last Tuesday. Jones union secretary arrested in Pineville and brought here. Twenty nine indictments for murder, banding and related crimes by a special grand jury probing coal field disorders with about 400 troops deployed.
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Arlan
Evarts
Pineville
Asa Cusick
A. L. Benson
Joe Cawood
Jones
Miners’ Union
Negro
Benzil Vick
Wvas
Blair
Vick
P. V. K. Coal Company
Twentty
D. C. Jones
Grand Jury
Evarts Police Chief Arrested on Murder Indictments
Evarts Kentucky May 9 AP Police Chief Asa Cusick his assistant Al Benson city clerk Joe Cawood were arrested on murder indictments from a special grand jury probing Harlan county coal field disorders. Indictments relate to last Tuesday’s battle near Evarts in which two deputies a commissary clerk and a miner were killed when cars with officers and the clerk were fired upon. Soldiers and county officers made the arrests on a street in Evarts with armed guards. The trio were taken to Col Danielle Carrell HQ.
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Evarts
Asa Cusick
al Benson
Joe Cawood
Harlan County
Here
National
Tennessee Weather Forecast Sunday Through Monday
Partly cloudy and cooler with scattered showers in the east and north. Friday's highs compared to last year show no rain and cooler temperatures. Readings taken at 6:00 p.m. for the preceding 24 hours by T C Harris US Weather Bureau.
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Tennessee
Indie
T. C. Harris
W.O
Entry Week Opens for Times Campaign Contestants Listed
The Times Campaign announces entry week with alphabetic contestant list. Names and addresses include Sells Adams Kingsport and many others in Tennessee towns. Points are earned via the Entry Blank as the event begins. A slogan reads A Winner Never Quits and a Quitter Never Wins.
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Times
Naval program support urged by Admiral Moffett
Washington May 9 AP Rear Admiral William A Moffett urged public backing for the navy building program to be sent to congress He spoke to Betsy Ross Corps women aviators noting the 1935 naval conference and London treaty gaps saying the US has not yet started a ship or airplane and warning that trade rivalries fuel war He blamed lack of public demand and the American Legion press on defense efforts and urged action to adopt the new program
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Washington
Navy
William A. Moffett
Betsy Ross Corps
Moffett
United States
Bureau of Aeronautics
Navy Department
American Legion
Great physicist Michelson dies at 78 in Pasadena
A tribute to Albert Michelson, 78, discoverer of the speed of light and first American Nobel laureate in science, who died in Pasadena at 12 55 PM. Renowned for accuracy, his interferometer invention enabled precise light speed measurements and cemented his status among history’s top physicists. The piece also promotes The Kingsport Times $2,500 Prize Campaign, urging readers to enter and subscribe.
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Albert Michelson
Speed of Light
Pasadena
Calif
Michelson
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
United States
Kingsport Times
Times
The
the Times
Sam
Chamber adopts rules at congress wind up in Washington
The International Chamber of Commerce closed its sixth biennial congress by adopting 43 resolutions on war debts tariffs and world cooperation. It urged protection of ability to pay military expenditures in debt reexamination and backed steps to reduce armaments and tariff inequalities while endorsing private initiative as key to enterprise. The American delegates highlighted consideration of debtor nations ability to pay.
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Washington
International Chamber of Commerce
Hoover
Congress
Chamber
Russia
Trails That Brought Humans to America Revisited By Hrdlicka
Smithsonian anthropologist Dr. Ales Hrdlicka sails to Alaska to retrace ancient land and sea routes from Siberia to North America. He aims to find relics and perhaps skeletons on the Alaskan peninsula and Kodiak Island to support theories of early canoe-using migrations along the Pacific coast.
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Washington
America
Ales Hrdlicka
Smithsonian Institution
Alaska
Siberia
North America
Hrdlicka
Bering Trail
Alaskan
Pacific Ocean
Kodiak Island
Cook’s Inlet
Peninsula
Asia
Sextet Held as Biggest Robbers' Sextet in Lincoln Bank Heist Seized
In a nationwide bank robbery linked to Amer ica s largest heist, six alleged robbers were captured after a raid on the Lincoln National Bank in Lincoln Nebraska. Authorities say the loot reached 2.8 million dollars, the largest single robbery to date. The suspects, including Thomas O Connor and Jack Britt, were moved from Springfield to Sterling then Morrison Illinois for processing and a hearing.
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Chicago
America
East St. Louis
Illinois
Springfield
Sterling
Ill
Morrison
Lincoln
Neb
Emory Smith
Nebraska
Illinois Bankers’ Association
Davis Testifies In Own Defense In Bank Trial
Wallace B. Davis testified in Buncombe county superior court denying all charges linked to the Central Bank and Trust Company collapse. He contradicted auditor William McCants who testified Davis ordered changes to the September 24, 1930 report. Davis, Brown, and Dr. Sinclair face counts of making false reports and related banking law violations with broader indictments alleging conspiracy to use public funds to aid the bank and defraud Lea interests of about 1,000,000 dollars.
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Ashevillefi
N. C
Wallace B. Davis
Buncombe County Superior Court
Central Band and Trust Company
North Carolina
William McCants
McCant’s
Davis
Corporation Commission
C. N. Brown
J. A. Sinclair
Tottering Central Bank
Russell
J. Charles Bradford
Luke Lea
Tennessee
Luke Lea, Jr
E. P. Charlet
Lea
Wallace Davis
Clara Bow illness opens door for Peggy Shannon
Sylvia Sidney steps into an important role after Clara Bow’s illness and court troubles. Peggy Shannon is now chosen to play opposite Richard Arlen in a part meant for Bow, who suffered a nervous breakdown just before filming.
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New York
Clara Bow
Sylvia Sidney
Clara
Daisy Devoe
Peggy Shannon
Richard Arlen
Miss Bow
Honor Mothers' Day Observances In Nation's Capital
Mothers of soldiers will be honored in Washington on Mother's Day with services at the Arlington amphitheater and a procession to the Unknown Soldier's Tomb. Gold star mothers will place 42 wreaths as patriotic groups attend. Speaker line includes Representative Ruth Bryan Owen and Mrs. Virgil McClure, national president of the War of Mothers.
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Washington
Arlington
Ruth Bryan Owen
Frank FE. Herring
South Bend
Ind
Indianapolis
Virgil McClure
South Carolina Holds Eight Murder Trials in a Week
In Columbia eight defendants faced murder charges this week. One was sentenced to die by electric chair, another to life imprisonment, and four received prison terms from one to ten years. Notable cases included Rafe King who got life, and J R Thomas whose trial ended in mistrial. Hilton Williams was sentenced to death with execution set for June 12.
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Columbia
S. C
South Carolina
Rafe King
Lancaster
Faye Wilson King
Walhalla
J. R. Thomas
Honey Path
Maxie
King
Thomas
Hilton Wil
Liams
Bennettsville
John L. James
Laurinburg
N. C
Farmer
Ervin Reid
Ernest McCauley
Greeneville
Johnny Bryant
T. O. Collier
120 Divorces in Week From Mill
Reno, Nev., May 9. 120 divorces were granted and 275 cases filed in the past week under the 42-day residence law. Forty seven set for hearing Monday. Opening rush saw 184 filings when the law began. Officials and business interests said Reno’s divorce center status gained with the new law’s passage.
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Reno
Nev
Idaho
Arkansas
Plane crash near Camden hospitalizes two
In Camden Arkansas on May 9 Miss Virginia Risinger 20 a member of a prominent local family was killed and Miss Martha Stowe 21 was critically injured in a air crash near the Camden airport late today. Pilot Charles Farr sustained lesser injuries.
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Camden
Ark
Virginia Risinger
Martha Stowe
Charles Farr
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Maple
Kingspor
Ena Boatright
Gate City
Haynes Clark
Jonesboro
John E. Crum
Kingsport
Elizabeth Doane
Blountville
W. M. Fleenor
Gayle C. Fuller
Watauga
Douglas Hamn
Admiral Moffett
F. B. Colton
Associated Press
Nebraska Bank
Asheville Bank
Tiggs
Fields Boy
Blair’s Gap
George Tiggs
Gilmer Click
Kelley Fields
Sullivan County
A. N. Hawk
Click
Squire Hawk’s Court Room
City Court Room
R. T. Saylor
Fields
Kington Extract Company
Roller Street
Gate City Highway
W. B. Fields
Tillman Richards
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