Odessa church riot leaves priests mauled in clashes
In Odessa rioting over church realignments, six priests were attacked at Alexiev church as militia restored order. Women assaulted clergy and one girl was seriously injured amid ongoing struggles between the old Orthodox faction and the Living Church as trials proceed.
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A. P
Pravda
Odessa
New Living
Red Church
Alexiev
Dessa
Tikhonhand
Alderman Killed by Mob After Church Annex incident
Alderman Salustio Delayo was shot by a mob in Chilapa Guerrero after firing into a peaceful crowd of Catholics watching government agents close the church annex. Dispatches from Mexico City say there is no apparent explanation for his action.
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Mexico City
A. P
Salustio Delayo
Chilapa
Guerrero
Deloyo
Priest Dimas Anguisano Accepts Mexico Religious Regulations
Father Dimas Anguisano of Alvarado Veracruz writes to President Calles stating agreement with the government religious regulations and asks Alvarado officials to return his church seized by the town. He says he will comply as nationalistic work for the Catholic cult and hopes for wide acceptance. Continued on page five.
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Mexico City
A. P
Father Dimas Anguisano
Alvarado
Whiskey washed through Nassau Streets storms hit New York
Tropical heat sweeps the north Atlantic coast as the steamships Manama r and Orizaba arrive from Nassau Bahamas after a tropical storm devastates the islands. Heat kills five in New England and New York, with 94 in Boston and 92 in New York. Survivors report mud injured natives, 47 sponge boats lost, 400 Negroes in them and thousands of whiskey floods in the streets. Storm death toll around 500.
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North Atlantic
Manamar
Orizaba
Nassau
Bahamas
New England
Mercury
Boston
Tropics
Safety First Theme at MP Foremen Banquet in Monroe City
Mechanical foremen of the Missouri Pacific Louisiana division gathered at Hotel Virginia in Monroe last night for talks on Safety First. C F Larson, MP superintendent, urged reducing railroad accidents to meet a national goal of 35 percent by 1930 and noted MP had cut employee accidents by 76 percent in two years. He credited safety devices and education campaigns, including school talks reaching 64 000 children, with progress and urged obeying stop laws to prevent grade crossing crashes.
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Louisiana
Missouri Pacific
Hotel Virinia
Monroe
Parish
Ouachita
C. F. Larson
Offety
St. Louis
Laron
Missouri Pacific Isroad
Larson
Chicago
Four Injured as Cars Collide Near Ruston
A steel fragment punctured a tire causing Carolyn Perry six in Dallas to die when her sedan overturned after a collision with Mrs Foster’s car on the Dixie Overland highway east of Ruston Louisiana. Roy Perry and three other children were injured.
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Ruston
Here
Carolyn Perry
Dallas
Roy H. Perry
West 12Th Street
Perry
H. C. Foster
Monroe
Foster
Carolyn
Tom Morris Perry
Roy Perry
Mr. Perry
Carl Foster
Gangster Sought in Slaying of Ohio Publisher
Chicago reports a well known gangster is being sought for the killing of Dan R. Mellett, Caton Ohio, publisher. A Caton lawyer is in Chicago in connection with the expected surrender. The tip came from a Chicago lawyer who asked for confidentiality.
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Chicago
A. P
Chicago Journal Today
Dan R. Mellett
Canton
Ohio
Caton
Grand jury urges renewed effort in McPherson kidnapping case
Los Angeles Aug 4 The grand jury refused to act further until more conclusive evidence is found. The panel instructed District Attorney Keys to pursue a secret and efficient probe into all aspects of the case as he would in any possible crime.
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Los Angeles
A. P
Aimee Semple McPherson
Keys
Confesses He Murdered 14 and Robbed Many
Seattle police expanded the confession of Thomas Johnson, an ex convict, who admits 14 murders and over 100 robberies. H A Fowler of Seattle corroborated one murder claim about a body tossed from a freight train near Appleton Wisconsin. Johnson also claimed robbing Mr and Mrs Tum in Aberdeen South Dakota on July 9.
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Seattle
Wash
A. P
Thomas Johnson
H. A. Fowler
Johnson
Appleton
Wis
Fowler
Charles Tatum
Aberdeen
South Dakota
Farm incomes still lag factory workers in 1925 26
The agriculture department reports moderate gains in farm production income for 1925 26 but finds farmers as a class remain financially poorer than industrial workers. The average farm family earned 648 for labor and management, up 69 from the prior year, yet still about 30 percent below 1919 20 levels. factory wage earners have fared better in recent years.
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Washington
A. P
Department of Agriculture
Department
Mother's Spite Case Ends in Double Tragedy
A Bronx woman, Mrs. Joseph Millman, killed her three year old son Martin and then herself after a year of marital litigation with her husband. The bodies were found by three children in a vacant lot on 195th Street. The husband, once again, had pursued custody and alimony in ongoing court actions.
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New York
A. P
195Th Street
Joseph Millman
Martin
Millman
River Stage Readings Across Mississippi and Nearby Rivers
River stage updates report measurements for Memphis Vicksburg and New Orleans on the Mississippi with changes in level, and nearby Red River readings at Shreveport Alexandria. Ouachita shows Camden unchanged and Monroe rising with Cairo also up.
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Memphis
Vicksburg
New Orleans
Shreveport
Alexandria
Ouachita
Camden
Monroe
Cairo
Memphis Woman Dies of Suspected Poisoning
Mrs. J. B. Evrard of Monroe Tennessee was found unconscious in Memphis and died at a hospital. Authorities suspect self-administered poison. her husband was away in Arkansas. The Evrards lived at 408 South Second Street and planned a New York move for him.
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J. B. Evrard
Associated Press
Tennessee
Arkansas City
South Second Street
New York
Evrard
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Suspect roundup under way in Kentucky moonshine gang case
Morgantown Aug 4 An alleged bootlegging gang is being rounded up for questioning after a sensational double murder of Rev Arch W Moss and Mrs Jerome Cummings Johnson during revival services. Delbert Gary 30 is sought as the shooter, with two in custody admitting Gary’s role. Funeral services were held for Mrs Johnson, witnessed by her three children, as officers note revenge against the minister linked to moonshine enforcement.
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Arch W. Moss
Jerome Cummings Johnson
Delbert Gary
Gilbert Gary
Gary
Johnson
Here
Moss
J. W. Moss
Carnegie
Butler County
Butler
Two seriously wounded in McComb gunfight over bad check
McComb Mississippi August 4 J W Westbrook chief of police elect and J B Davis of Jackson are in critical condition after a pistol duel sparked by an alleged bad check. Davis fired first wounding Westbrook in the abdomen and a second shot hit Davis in the stomach. A bystander Mrs Dick Bethea wife of the county coroner was wounded.
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Westbrook
Davis
Dick Bethea
Crash Injuries Prove Fatal to Plane Pilot in War Veteran
H Victor Smoot of Joplin Missouri aged 37 former American army flier died at 6 45 pm after a plane he piloted crashed in a heavy rainstorm five miles north of Sterlington Morehouse parish He was taken to St Francis sanitarium where he died Doctors attempted a blood transfusion using volunteers including a West Monroe man but the life saving effort failed The mechanic Henry Curtis of Pennsylvania survived with minor injuries Smoot was a World War I veteran and held ranks in the air service He served as an instructor at Carlstrom Field Arcadia Florida and Kelly Field San Antonio Texas He was a past master of Fellowship Lodge 345 A F and A M and a Scottish Rite Mason He is survived by widow mother and brother and is to be continued on page eight.
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West Mon
Chamber of Commerce of Men and
West Monroe
Arbert L. Rosenheim
Ional
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Chamber of Comree
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Walker
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Joplin
Morehouse Parish
Sterlington
St. Francis Ganitarium
Henry Curtis
Pennsylvania
Smoot
Fellowship Lodge
Carlstrom Field
Arcadia
Fla
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Texas
United States Air Service
Montana Primary Signals Reelection of Leavitt and Evans
Helena August 4 Congressman Scott Leavitt Republican and John M Evans Democrat appear renominated in the Montana primary held yesterday. Both faced dry-law reform challengers while Ronald Higgins Missoula attorney led a five-man field for the Republican first district congressional nomination. Democrat and FarmerLabor nominees were unopposed.
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Helena
Mont
A. P
Scott Leavitt
John M. Evans
Montana
Ronald Higgins
Missoula
Congress
Farmer-Labor
Virginia renomination keeps ten incumbents in Congress
In Virginia primary results only one district showed real contest as ten incumbents were renominated. In the second district Representative Joseph T. Deal led two opponents by about 2000 votes.
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Richmond
A. P
Virginia
Joseph T. Deal
West Virginia Primary Renominates Most GOP Reps
Returns from about half the state show four of WV’s five Republican congressmen renominated and the sole Democratic member in the House as well. Bachman Bowman Wolverton lead in their districts while Struther is unopposed in the fifth and Taylor leads in the sixth by over five thousand votes.
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Charleston
W. Va
A. P
West Virginia
Carl Bachman
Frank L. Bowman
John M. Wolverton
James L. Struther
J. Alfred Taylor
Davis Leads Democratic Gubernatorial Primary In Kansas
In Topeka Johnathan M. Davis, seeking a comeback after being cleared of bribery charges related to a pardon, led the Democratic gubernatorial primary with 5,495 votes from 56 of 2,641 precincts. Donald Muir trailed with 5,108 votes while renomination for Republicans Curtis and Paulin appeared assured.
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Topeka
Kans
A. P
Johnathan M. Davis
Kansas
Davis
Donald Muir
Anthony
Hammond Engineer Held as Material Witness in Death
Tom Baker an engineer with a lumber company near Hammond Louisiana was held under 500 bond as a material witness in the death of Lloyd Hen ley 21. A coroner s jury ruled Henley suicide his body found in the garage at his home Sunday night after his mother and Baker returned from a ride a shotgun wound to the head.
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Hammond
A. P
Tom Baker
Lloyd Henley
Henley
Baker
Bar Harbor Express Plunges Down Embankment
The Bar Harbor Express from Washington and New York derailed on a bridge in Bar Harbor Maine. Two cars plunged sixty feet, six left the rails, while the locomotive and one express car stayed on track. Three mail car clerks were badly injured. other passengers had minor bruises as four sleepers and two day coaches were damaged.
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Auburn
Maine
A. P
Bar Harbor
Washington
New York
Maine Central Railroad
Exoneration Report Clears Arkansas State Farm Leaders
Pulaski county grand jury absolved officials of the Arkansas State Farm for Women at Jacksonville of cruelty charges. The probe followed a Chicago Herald and Examiner story alleging brutal treatment of confined women, including Winona Green serving a life sentence for murder.
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Little Rock
A. P
State Farm
Jacksonville
Pulaski County Grand Jury
Chicago Herald and Examiner
Winona Green
Negro assailant killed by posse near Lachute
In DeSoto parish near Lachute a 28 year old black man identified as Johnny Harris was killed by armed citizens after refusing to surrender following accusations of making improper advances to a ten year old white girl. Sheriff Floyd Jones led the search as the posse tracked his escape through a cotton field. The DeSoto parish coroner opened an investigation.
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Shreveport
A. P
Johnny Harris
Lachute
Red River Parish
DeSoto Parish
Norris
Floyd Jones
DeSoto Line
Missionary Returns to Build Chinese Hospital
Dr. Harry W. Miller, longtime Seventh Day Adventist medical missionary, returns to Shanghai to begin construction of a 100000 dollar hospital. The project marks the first unit of a larger church medical building plan. Miller is credited by church leaders with converting thousands of Chinese to Christianity and winning support from wealthy locals.
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Washington
A. P
Harry W. Miller
China
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Shanghai
Naval Board Recommends New Arsenals Coast to Coast
A naval court of inquiry into the Lake Denmark explosion recommends building large arsenals on the Pacific coast and another on the east coast and Gulf areas. The findings praise navy personnel, cite 23 deaths and 52 injuries, and note $47 million in damage with $40 million in salvageable munitions.
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Pacific Coast
East Coast
Gulf
Congress
Naval Court of Inquiry
Lake Denmark
N. J
Robinson
Marine Corps
Navy
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