Two-Gun Man Joe Castle Slain In Paintsville Shootout
In Paintsville Kentucky a veteran two-gun man Joe Castle confronting Patrolman Jess Dills on Main Street led to a fatal exchange. Dills died of a heart wound and Castle was mortally wounded dying in hospital. Johnson County jailer John Marshall faces possible murder charges.
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Paintsville
Joe Castle
Jess Dills
Dills
Castle
John Marshall
Johnson County
Paintville
B. EB. Archer
Homer Conley
Robinson & Melvin’s
Marshall
Policeman Dills
Kentucky
British Women Granted More Divorce Rights
London reports new English divorce laws grant women equality with men in pursuing petitions. Previously women needed to prove both unfaithfulness and cruelty or desertion, with cruelty shown only if it affected the wife’s health.
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London
England
Canal Tolls Reach New High in 1929 Revenue
Canal Zone tolls collected from vessels passing the Panama Canal in 1929 totaled 27.6 million dollars, over 300 thousand above any prior year. Estimated traffic for the year was 6,450 ships passing through the canal.
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Balboa
Canal Zone
Panama Canal
Lawmaker Kunz Indicted Over Chicago Police Appointment
Representative Stanley H. Kunz of Chicago and his son have been indicted by a grand jury on charges of conspiracy to commit bribery and obtaining money under false pretenses in connection with an appointment to the Chicago police force.
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Stanley H. Kunz
Chicago
Swiss Invent Radio Garage Door Opener
The Commerce department reports a Swiss invention by Neufchatel electrical plants that opens and closes garage doors by radio waves. A driver presses a car seat button, sending waves to a device atop the garage which starts a motor to operate the doors automatically.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Switzerland
Neufchatel
Woman's Poetry Confesses Husband Murder in Mississippi
Ashland Mississippi with Marion Drew twenty five held in jail awaiting sentence for murder of her husband. She wrote Governor Bilbo a verse narrative and urged her eight year old daughter to falsely accuse her grandfather. The long poem describes how gossip drove him to drink and threats to her life.
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Ashland
Miss
Marion Drew
Penchant for Color in Shoes Traps Tokyo Bandit
Kiyoshi Nakajima is jailed for burglary after his bril liant shoes betrayed him. Known as Tokyo's prow n shoe robber, he carried out fifty break ins, sixteen with a revolver, in a month before police captured him after rounding up suspects wearing tan shoes. The tabi and wooden clogs common in Japan aided the investigation.
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Tokyo
Japan
Kiyoshi Nakajima
Nakajima
Mineral Salt Firm to Use Water of Dead Sea
A new company with capital of 2 500 000 plans to explore and develop the Dead Sea resources in Palestine and Transjordan. It seeks a government concession to examine explore and market mineral salts and will have a majority of British or Palestinian directors.
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Dead
Jerusalem
Dead Sea
Palestine
Transjordan
Northeastern Brazil as a Transatlantic Gateway
The article details Natal Pernambuco and Bahia as pivotal points for European and African air routes to South America. It notes Natal’s strategic role, the maritime plans for its harbor, and describes Natal, Recife in Pernambuco, and Salvador in Bahia as key gateways with historic ties, growing rail links, and bustling markets.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Natal
Paris
Buenos Aires
Europe
South America
Cape St. Roque
Potenghy
Rio Grande Do Norte
Pernambuco
Tropefro
Brazil
Recife
Antonio Vas
Plymouth Rock
Bahia
Amerigo Vespucci
All Saints Bay
Rio de Janeiro
Sao Paulo
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Worcester
Mass
Rogers Kennedy
Maurice
Birmingham
Ala
Bahia State
United States
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