Gun question rattles trial as Dreher linked to Beadle home
Mrs James Beadle testified that Dr Thomas Dreher visited her home on July 1 the night James J LeBouef is alleged to have been slain She said Dreher asked to bring his gun and that Beadle left with the shotgun Beadle confessed to Sheriff Pecot and relatives testified about Dreher visits and warnings from LeBouef officials continued on page six
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Associated Press
Franklin
James Beadle
Mary James J. LeBouef
Thomas FE. Dreher
LeBouef
Beadle
Dr. Dreher
Jim
Charles Pecot
Irene Beadle
Miss Beadle
Sidney Beadle
Louis R. Blakeman
Morgan City
Labor Day Macon bout possible with Stribling
Macon labor federation plans to sponsor a Labor Day boxing event featuring Paul Berlenbach versus Young Stribling with American Legion support and an immediate offer to the fighter. Charles A Levine says a Paris New York flight may launch tonight. John Jordan assumes fundraiser duties in state penitentiary for reshaping small bills. A Brady Texas crash kills Mrs P M Self and her niece Willig Fay Cawyer when their auto is hit by a freight car.
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Macon
Paul Berlenbach
Young Stribling
Macon Federation of Labor
American Legion
Paris
Columbia
Atlantic
Charles A. Levine
Brady
Texas
P. M. Self
Willig Fay Cawyer
Mercury
Coolidge Reads Reactions to 1928 Run Statement
Rapid City report notes President Coolidge cannot fully read messages or press coverage about his decision not to run in 1928. He spent a day in Deadwood attending frontier days, where he was initiated a Sioux tribe chief and saw news that Henry Ford endorsed Herbert Hoover. He remained noncommittal.
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Rapid City
S. D
Coolidge
White House
Deadwood
Associated Press
Henry Ford
Herbert Hoover
Ford
Chief Traffic Woes In Monroe Highlight Signaling And Speeding
Monroe traffic officers identify overrunning stop signs speeding and irregular and over time parking as the chief violations. They note speeding and improper parking by both genders, and emphasize the need for universal hand signaling at turns. A motorcycle unit is urged for both city sides to curb speedways on Grand Jackson North Third Riverside and DeSiard streets.
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Monroe
H. D. Apgar
J. M. Busby
W. A. Lenard
O. L. Crow
Crow
Busby
Apgar
Grand and
Jackson
North Third
Riverside
DeSiard Street
Sanitation Expert Loses Out in Will
NEW YORK Aug 5 Archibald C Weeks a sanitation expert was cut off in his wife s will after failing to keep a promise to remove a sack of rubbish from their backyard. The incident highlights the couple s deteriorating relationship and the contested provisions of the estate.
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Associated Press
New York
Archibald C. Weeks
Kiss He Stole Returns as Marriage License Issued
Camden New Jersey August 5 86 year old James C Angus received a marriage license to wed Elizabeth Taylor widow aged years after a kiss was stolen 52 years earlier in a strangerly romantic incident that became a life turning moment.
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Camden
N. J
James C. Angus
Elizabeth Taylor
Club seeks injunction to block Dempsey Tunney title bout
Chicago Coliseum head B E Clements through Ralph Rosen announced plan to sue to stop the Dempsey Tunney heavyweight championship bout in Chicago next month. Rosen notes Dempsey had contracted in 1926 to box Harry Wills and agreed to fight no one else in the interim. He cites prior injunctions and aims to protect public interests and prevent financial loss.
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Chicago
Chicago Coliseum Club
B. E. Clements
Ralph Rosen
Jack Dempsey
Gene Tunney
Rosen
Dempsey
Harry Wills
Clements
Indiana
Tunney
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Coliseum Club
North Carolina man named to head Bastrop unit
Dr. K E Miller says Dr. John Williams of Washington NC will be the first health director of the Morehouse unit and report in Monroe before going to Bastrop. Williams comes from NC with Johns Hopkins public health background. Local health unit expansion moves proceed in Concordia LaSalle and Caldwell parishes with meetings planned in Olla and Catahoula.
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K. E. Miller
Bureau of Public Health Administration
Louisiana State Board of Health
New Orleans
Bastrop
John Williams
Washington, N. C
Morehouse
Monroe
Miller
Williams
Louisiana
North Carolina
Johns Hopkins University
Concordia Parish
Olla
LaSalle
Caldwell
Catahoula Parish
Hambones Meditations by J P Alley
A short humorous item in dialect remarks on a wife who has angered her husband and is not pardoned, reflecting local speech and social tension in a compact comic note.
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Hambones Meditations
J.P. Alley
Redfern Races Toward Rio in Longest Nonstop Flight
Paul Redfern, 25, leaves Ford airport at 9 40 am aboard the Stinson-Detroiter Port of Brunswick aiming to fly nonstop to Rio de Janeiro from Brunswick Georgia. His father expresses confidence in his son's chance to complete the ambitious trans southern route as an indomitable adventure profile unfolds.
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Detroit
Paul R. Redfern
Ford
Brunswick
Rio de Janeiro
Columbia, S. C
Paul Redfern
Adventurous flight plans from Brunswick to Rio by Paul Redfern
Dr. Fred C. Redfern, Benedict College president, speaks of his son Paul Redfern attempting a continental flight from Brunswick, Georgia to Rio de Janeiro. He acknowledges danger but trusts Paul will pursue the risky endeavor, noting the family's cautious regard and the mother's growing support.
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Paul R. Redfern
Detroit
Brunswick
Rio de Janeiro
Fred C. Redfern
Benedict College
Columbia
8. C
Paul
Dr. Redfern
Kentucky Mine Disaster Hero Faces Fatal Gas
Casey and four companions crawled from the explosion area after aiding unconscious miners. Fifteen bodies were brought to the surface and identified as victims of the gas incident. Investigators seek the disaster cause as townsfolk recall a 1917 gas blast at the same mine.
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Casey
Williams
Tom Baker
Felix Ramsey
Luther Vaughn
Alvy Brogen
W. O. Morris
Rescuers Find Bodies of Miners After West Kentucky Mine Disaster
In Clay Kentucky rescue workers recover the bodies of West Carter and Green Russell two African American miners found in a small room 900 feet from the blast site in entry No 10. They died after a dramatic struggle to reach safety following the Wednesday explosion.
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Clay
West Carter
Green Russell
West Kentucky Coal Company
Fatal car crash claims Blaushields worker in Ruston
Von Cage a Blaushields Plumbing employee was killed instantly in a collision at the Louisiana Avenue and Bonner Street intersection Friday afternoon. Leroy Burton the wrecking car driver was bruised but not badly hurt. Miss Vaughn and Charles Naylor escaped injury.
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Ruston
von Cage
Blaushields Plumbing Shop
Cage
Rev
R. W. Vaughn
Louisiana Avenue
Bonner Street
Leroy Burton
Miss Vaughn
Charles Naylor
Vaughn
Night officer slain in Ark city tragedy
McGehee Arkansas August 5 J C Moss 62 night marshal shot to death by Eddie Newman 32 at the Newman home Moss died as he moved to aid a family member Newman a former mental collapse patient is held in Arkansas City jail Babbling I did it I didn t do it Newman was found under a bed after the shooting Residents say Newman threatened family before the fatal act and had recently returned from Missouri where he was held for mental illness
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Missouri
Moss
Newman
Pat Bunyan
Runyan
Slayer
McGehee
Water feud blamed for Owens Valley bank failures in 1930s
The Owens Valley water rights dispute with Los Angeles was cited as the cause of five county banks closing their doors. Deposits totaled about 2.5 million dollars. Bank officials declined to comment on possible reorganization or reopening.
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Associated Press
Bish
Cal
Los Angeles
Owens Valley
W. W. Watterson
State Bank
National Institution
M. Q. Watterson
National Bank
Youth With Broken Neck Clings to Life in Florence
Florence Alabama August 5 W W Register a 19 year old Florence youth continued to cling to life after a 22 day battle with a broken neck and shattered spinal cord from a shallow water dive in a local pool. Physicians said he had an uneventful night but recovery seemed unlikely. The case drew wide national attention as hundreds of sympathy letters arrived for his mother Mrs J W Register.
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Associated Preas
Florence
8. C
W. W. Register
Flor
Register
J. W. Register
Demonstrations and guard measures amid U S reaction abroad
Reports from multiple cities describe large communist demonstrations in Berlin at Lustgarten with another rally planned, plus guarded American embassies in Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and Paris. Police monitor neighborhoods and holdings in Rome and London anticipate protests.
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Berlin
Lustgarten
London
Trafalgar Square
Tokyo
Hayama
MacVeagh
Rio DE Janeiro
Montevideo
Mexico City
Rome
Tribuna
Paris
Copenhagen
Defense seeks new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti
The Sacco Vanzetti defense committee announced that counsel will go before the Norfolk county superior court in Dedham to request a new trial on newly discovered evidence and seek a stay of execution for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, condemned to death for murder.
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Boston
Sacco
Sacco and Vanzetti lose federal recourse after court ruling
Boston report notes 1916 act closes Supreme Court door unless appeal filed within three months of decree Sacco and Vanzetti lack further federal options after four months since the Supreme Court denied Sacco exceptions The piece reflects a procedural limit in the legal battle.
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Boston
Boston American Today
Congress
United States Supreme Court
Sacco
Vanzetti
Supreme Court
Round-Up of Negroes in Secret Group After Chattanooga Gunfight
Police ordered a general roundup of Negro Union Improvement Association members in Chattanooga after a gun battle that left two wounded possibly fatally and a officer injured. Officers faced armed resistance inside a house in the negro district as others joined the attack and shooting erupted.
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Associated Press
Chattanooga
Negro Union Improvement Association
Bryan
Hyatt
Believe Boxing Promoter Held to Secure a Ransom
Chicago Aug. 5. Friends of missing boxing promoter James C. Mullen urge a thorough investigation. Chief of detectives William E. O'Connor said he would assign a squad to the case. Mullen was last seen carrying about 15000 dollars.
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Chicago
James C. Mullen
Friends
Wm. E. O'Connor
O’connor
Mullen
Germans Break World Endurance Flight Record in Junkers W 33
Cornelius Edzard and Johann Risticz landed at Dessau at 10 13 am after 52 hours 23 minutes aloft, surpassing the American mark of 51 11 25. The flight began Wednesday at 6 50 am with shuttling between Dessau and Leipsic, covering 6030 kilometers.
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Dessau
Germany
Cornelius Edzard
Johann Risticz
Junkers
Earth
Clarence Chamberlin
Bert Acosta
Edzard
Risticr
Leipsic
Havd
Junkers Airplane Works
Friedrich Loose
Herman Koehl
Junkers Company
Flogging Case Trial Continues At Oneonta
In Oneonta Abe August 5 witnesses in the Eugene Doss case repeat testimony in the L A Clayton trial about the flogging of 19 year old Jeff Calloway. John Hughes testifies of KKK meeting in the Tarrant klan and the Antioch Methodist church sermon before Calloway was lashed.
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Oneonta
Abe
States
Eugene Doss
L. A. Clayton
Jeff Calloway
Doss
Antioch Church
John Hughes
Onecota
Antioch Methodist Church
Calloway
Talbert to Push Wheel Barrow in Political Stunt
Clarksdale Mississippi August B Hillary Talbert county road commissioner will ride in a wheel barrow along three miles of city streets with G P Bennett hardware store manager tagging along but not riding The stunt tests political bets on Murphree Conner and Bilbo in the Democratic gubernatorial race with Bennett pushing a 200 pound passenger in a bright red kimono.
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Clarksdale
Miss
Hillary Talbert
P. Bennett
Talbert
Murphree
Mike Conner
Bennett
Conner
Theo. G. Bilbo
Mr. Bennett
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