Radial Bonus Vets Clash With Police In Clarksville Mine Incident
About 500 union miners from Arkansas and Oklahoma tried to halt non union operations at the Johnson county N Arkansas mining area. Pit boss Bob Griffith was beaten and a National Guard company was mobilized to prevent further disorders as sheriff and police dispersed the invaders from Clarksville coal mine. The group then dispersed to other mines in the region.
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Clarksville
Ark
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Johnson County
Bob Griffith
Fred Russell
Jim McAlester
Parnell
Little Rock
Company FE
153Rd Infantry
Russell
Fay Brown
Henryetta
Hartshorne
Okla
Paris
Clarksville Coal Company
Griffith
Eleven Hurt As Blast Shakes St Louis Garage
A heavy explosion ripped through the Pickwick Greyhound bus lines garage in downtown St Louis on July 25 injuring eleven workers. Fire followed the blast hindering rescues as crews searched debris for more victims. the one story building was demolished and about 25 men were inside. Fire officials suspect accidental gasoline ignition near the wash rack.
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ST. Louis
Pickwick-Greyhound
Beaumont Man Slain by Bride in Tourist Camp
Beaumont Texas July 25 Mack McCarter 28 died from a bullet wound fired by his wife Margaret McCarter 19 who said she shot him after mistaking him for a prowler at their tourist camp home A burglar had entered the house a few nights earlier and the couple said he left and returned at 10 PM last night when she fired thinking him a burglar.
Dawn to Dusk Flight From Washington by Doolittle and Madison
Major James H. Doolittle and Miss Anne Madison Washington started a dawn to dusk flight from Washington Hoover airport at 8:15 AM. They aim to follow George Washington’s trails with a Pittsburgh stop expected at 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time after a refueling layover in the capital.
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Washington
James H. Doolittle
Anne Madison Washington
George Washington
Washington Hoover Airport
National Capital
Pittsburgh
Death of Buddy the playground watchdog shocks Monroe youth
Atkinson playground mourns Buddy a mixed bulldog and wanderer who guarded the grounds all summer. The children gathered in hushed tones as they learned of his death and laid him to rest in a small grave with flowers, a symbol of their shared loss.
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Atkinson Playground
Buddy
Silver question raises debate at imperial conference
Advocates push remonetization of silver and a super empire bank as part of a bi metalism plan within the British commonwealth. The currency committee had no official stance while talks focus on meat trade as wheat tariff plans fade. South Africa and Australia seek a larger share of the British meat market amid Dominican dominions and allied blocs.
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Ottawa
South Africa
Australia
Dominions
Argentina
United States
Union of South Africa
Southern Rhodesia
Protectorates
Southwest Africa
Oglesbee Taken to Orleans to Serve His Term
W. W. Oglesbee, jailed six months for violating the Mann white slave act, was moved from Jackson parish to Shreveport and then to New Orleans with other prisoners. He pleaded guilty to an elopement scheme involving 15 year old Dorothy Massey. Falmon Bennett, jailed six months for violating a federal injunction, was also moved to New Orleans from Shreveport.
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W. W. Oglesbee
New Orleans
George W. Montgomery
United States
Shreveport
Oglesbee
Hood's Mill
Jackson Parish
California
Dorothy Massey
Falmon Bennett
Richland Parish
Shreveport Times
Bidding Surges for Monroe Federal Building Project
Contractors race to secure bids for a Monroe federal building with a 390000 appropriation. The three story, basement structure on Jackson street and Grammont street will be among North Louisiana’s largest, drawing bidders from New Orleans Shreveport Montgomery and Monroe including O M Gwin Construction and Adams Construction among others.
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Federal
Monroe
Washington
Louisiana
Jackson Street
Grammont Street
O. M. Gwin Construction Company
Fern Street
New Orleans
R. P. Farnsworth and Company
Maritime Building
T. A. Pittman, Inc
Cana) Bank
Adams Construction Company
Woodward Building
Washington D. C
Charles H. Wescott
Bernhardt
W. Murray Werner
Shreveport
Upchurch Construction Company
Montgomery
Ala
Algernon Blair
Montgomery, Ala
H. W. Underhill Construction
New Orleans Embraces Widespread Fresh Water Fill Ups
In New Orleans on July 25 reporters note a shift from street troughs to a network of filling stations inviting motorists to “come in and fill up.” Attendants with buckets were told to provide curbside water service to cars, marking a curbside thirst relief trend.
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New Orleans
Mrs Ferguson Leads as Runoff Looms in Texas Primary
Mrs Miriam A Ferguson led Gov R S Sterling by about 73000 votes in the Texas Democratic primary with 236 of 254 counties reporting. Prohibition submission passed two to one, while six other candidates split the field suggesting an August 27 runoff between Ferguson and Sterling. Ferguson campaigned in her Ferguson Forum.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas Election Bureau
Ferguson
Sterling
Hunter
Miriam A
Ma” Ferguson
Texas
R. S. Sterling
Mineola Police Arraigned in Death of Robbery Suspect
Thirteen Nassau county officers faced arraignment in Mineola N Y on charges including manslaughter in the first degree assault in the second degree and being accessory to a felony in connection with the death of Hyman Stark a robbery suspect District Attorney Elvin N Edwards said the indictments were sealed and handed up before the arraignments Five officers led by Deputy Chief Frank J Tappen were charged with manslaughter while the others faced related counts including second degree murder in warrants issued by the district attorney as noted in the report continued on page two
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Mineola
N. Y
Nassau County
Hyman Stark
Elvin N. Edwards
Frank J. Tappen
Jesse Mayforth
Leslie Pearsal
Harry Zander
Charles Wesser
Aviator Recovers in Jungle After Fatal Crash
Clarence McElroy Medaryville Indiana narrates his 18 day ordeal after a June 27 plane crash in the jungle near San Geronimo He and Roy Gordon of Tegucigalpa Honduras were bound for Honduras when a storm forced a wreck Gordon died McElroy survived eating raw crustaceans and crabs and endured drinking water from a mountain stream as he crawled toward civilization.
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Mexico City
Clarence McElroy
Medaryville
Ind
McElroy
San Geronimo
Roy Gordon
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Gordon
Four Seek Judgeship in Appeals Court Race
With midnight deadline for candidacy filings, the race for judge of the first district second circuit court of appeals drew four hopefuls in Ouachita parish. By contrast only two had qualified for the U S Senate race, with incumbent Senator Edwin S Broussard facing challenger John Overton of Alexandria. F L Cox of West Monroe had entered the contest.
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First District
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Ouachita Parish
United States
Associated Press
Edwin S. Broussard
John Overton
Alexandria
Huey P. Long
F. L. Cox
West Monroe
Mellon to resign ambassadorship amid debt talks
The Daily Herald reports Ambassador Andrew W. Mellon is expected to resign upon returning to Washington. It says he will urge that war debt negotiations be handled by a younger official and notes British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay also departs, tied to the same travel period.
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London
The
Daily Herald
Andrew W. Mellon
Washington
United States
Hoover
the Herald
Ronald Lind
Court Refuses to Rule On Papen Dictatorship
Leipsic Germany July 25 The supreme court declined Prussia is bid for injunction to stop Chancellor Franz Von Papen from interfering with Prussian state government after Hindenburg appointed him as commissioner. Prussian state ministers were ousted as Papen took control.
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Papen
Leipsic
Germany
Supreme Court
Prussia
Franz von Papen
Paul von Hindenburg
Accidents Cost South 24 Lives Over Week End
A weekend of accidents across the South claimed 24 lives including ten auto fatalities, six from trains, and six drownings. States noting fatalities include Louisiana with five, Virginia five, Tennessee four, Arkansas three, Alabama and North Carolina two each, and Georgia Mississippi and South Carolina one each. Specific deaths occurred in Shreveport and Lake Charles Louisiana, near Norfolk Virginia, Pulaski Virginia, Kendridge Virginia, Little Rock Arkansas, Texarkana Texas, and a drowning of three Crisam brothers in an unspecified location.
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Atlanta
Louisiana
Virginia
Tennessee
Arkansas
Alabama
North Carolina
Georgia
Mississippi
South Carolina
Hatch D'Anna
Sam Cascio
Vernon Strange
Shreveport
Lake Charles
Joel Warner Stromer
Portsmouth
J. C. Brinkley
Elmer Beasley
R. S. Flowers
Norfolk
Harry Shapley
Bixburg
Mass
Pulaski
Man Detained in New Orleans Slaying Case Linked to Ponca City Murder
Earby Lagrone, 24, held in New Orleans on suspicion of referring to a killing in Ponca City Oklahoma. A Ponca City police description matched an unidentified man sought for a 1929 pool hall stabbing of Swede Streeter. Fingerprints and clues were sent to Oklahoma. a woman named Patsy Miller of Huge Oklahoma was arrested with Lagrone.
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New Orleans
Earby Lagrone
Ponca City
Oklo
J. H. Cooper
Streeter
Cooper
Oklahoma
Lagrone
Patsy Miller
Huge
Okla
Lapoua
Marchers Clash With Police Near White House in Bonus March
Thousands of spectators jammed streets as radical left wing bonus marchers clash with police near the White House. Two marchers are arrested after blocking Pennsylvania Avenue and a pistol is seized from a veteran during scattered melees along New York and F Streets. No shots were fired.
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Washington
15Th
New York Avenue
Bonus
White House
Bonus Army
John Pace
Detroit
Pennsylvania Avenue
Treasury
Pace
Executive Mansion
Wall Street
Avenue
Lafayette Park
Thirteenth
F Streets
Filipinos Depart Florida Farms After White Farmer Ultimatum
Fifty eight Filipino sharecroppers on Everglades bean plantations were told by white farmers to leave by nightfall. Forty five left Saturday for Cuba, with seven more preparing to depart and six granted stay until harvest. The move follows an “uncompromising edict” from district farmers amid tensions over leased lands in Pahokee Florida.
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Pahokeef
Fla
Everglades
Cuba
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