Gunmen Slay Deputy and Prisoner in Charle ston Shootout
In Charleston and Huntington West Virginia gunmen fired on a deputy sheriff and abducted a condemned prisoner from a patrol car. Deputy Roy Shamblin was killed and Deputy G L Dudley wounded. The abducted 19 year old Ralph Harper was later found dead in an alley in Huntington with a bullet to the chest while in handcuffs. Police search for two escapees and the motive remains unknown.
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Charleston
W. Va
Sherif
Jeter
Ralph Harper
Huntington
W. Ve
Roy Shamblin
GL Dudley
Shamblin
Dudley
Harper
Moundsville
F. X. Lehurer
Guaranteed Dr Nixon's Nixaderm for skin relief
A dubious 30 minute claim advertises Dr Nixon's Nixaderm a skin remedy for itch ringworm eczema pimples and athlete’s foot promising rapid clearing with money back guarantee. Distributed through Sommers dry stores with alleged English skin specialist origin and return policy.
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Nixon
Prison escapeer Harper linked to Staunton arrest
Charleston police said Harper, arrested in Staunton, fled Charleston after escaping jail while awaiting trial. Information from unnamed sources tied him to the Staunton case. He was taken from Ue uf fleets automobile amid the investigation.
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Uffleets
Charleston
Harper
Staunton
Tax official gets ten year sentence in Caldwell County case
Lockhart Texas July 26 After pleading guilty to misappropriation of county funds Magee verson tax collector Caldwell County was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. The case was tried before District Judge Jeffrey without a jury.
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Lockhart
Texas
INS
Magee, Verson
Caldwell
County
Jeffrey
Barrow Trio Still Hunted in Des Moines Outlaw Saga
Des Moines reports July 6 indicates the Barrow gang members are still pursued after a fatal heat wound left Marvin Barrow dying in a Perry hospital. Blanche Barrow was captured in Platte City Missouri while Clyde Barrow and partners reportedly fled toward Sutherland Nebraska after a rifle attack and a Woods at Dexfield Park confrontation.
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Des Moines
Mae Reader
Missouri
Platiz City
Moe
Iself
Liberty
Clyde Bartow
Home Parker
Waling
Exes
Hubert Bleigh
Marvin Betrow
Platte City
Dexter
Iowa
Dexfield Park
Sutherland
Henry B. Barrey
Marvin
J.[. Parker
Bunnies
Fortune Telling Murder Brings 14 Year Sentence
CHICAGO July 2 Fourteen years in prison. Mrs Vera Carl 37 the woman in the fortune teller slaying of her husband George heard a jury pronounce judgment upon her on a charge of conspiring to murder her spouse and then fainted. She was carried from the courtroom unconscious after a jury found her guilty. Carl contended the death was in the cards foretold by a fortune teller two days before he was shot to death in his grocery store on July 16 1982. The state argued Carl plotted to obtain the dead man's insurance.
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Chigago
Prisen
Vera Carl
George
Rinolot Desert
Leller
Carl
Oren
Roosevelt bars debt talks until after recovery
President Roosevelt announced a halt on all war debt revision discussions with nations, delaying talks until the recovery program is completed and American commodity prices stabilize. The decision follows the postponement of debt audiences after nations paid December installments and made June payments.
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Washington, D.C
Roosevelt
Philadelphian Is Named to Austria
President Roosevelt named George H. Earle VII of Philadelphia as minister to Austria. The president also appointed Mrs. Marion Gina Banlater of Virginia as assistant and Winn W. Dorbin of Obit as representative at the Arneruary.
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Washington, D
Roosevelt Laing
George H. Earle VII
Philadelia
Io Alesse Tria
Mra
Marion Gina Banlater
Vrainia
United States
Winn W. Dorbin
Replalene
Shooting of Three Youths Is Probed at Cold Springs
In Teass, July 25, authorities investigated a restaurant shooting wounding three youths Rex Holliday Glen Willaina and Garnet Gallaway. The restaurant proprietor was jailed in San Jacinto County awaiting an examining trial.
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Teass
ENS
Lay
San Jacinto County
Rex Holliday
Glen ‘Willaina
Goodmich
Garnet Gallaway
Livingston
Movies Defy Union Strike in Hollywood
Hollywood reports a major strike disruption as producers and union demands clash. Thousands of technicians stay away from studios while nonunion workers fill roles in sound, projection, and backstage areas. Production estimates drop to 50 to 60 percent of normal as talks continue. Britain informs Germany it cannot countenance selling military aircraft in violation of the Paris pact, stated by Foreign Office spokesman Capt. Anthony Eden.
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Hollywood
Tim Romances
Ravee
London
Britain
Germany
Anthony Eden
Foreign Office
House of Commons
Two Doctors Injured In Detroit Auto Crash
Two Dallas doctors, Dr Christopher Carter and Dr Hugh McLaurin, were hurt when their car struck a safety zone yesterday. Dr McLaurin, driver, has serious injuries including internal hemorrhage and spinal trauma. Dr Carter received nonfatal injuries while en route to visit Dr Wight in Cleveland.
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Detroit
Christopher Carter
Hugh McLaurin
Dallas
Texas
McLaurin
Carter
FB. Wight
Cleveland
Dr. Wight
Bin
Strikes Strike Recovery Act Impact in Pacific Northwest
Portland July 26. Industrial revival in two leading lumber districts Klamath Falls Oregon and Grays Harbor Washington was jeopardized today by strikes. Forty state highway patrolmen patrolled Grays Harbor where seven picketers were arrested as the strike shut down five saw mills and five logging camps. The Justice Department was asked to study a pamphlet urging mill workers to organ ize and desert the national recovery act. Strike placards issued by Industrial Workers of the World demand a six day week and a 60 cent hourly minimum wage. Four of fourteen mills near Elmhurst? Pulls were closed as workers pressed for a 25 percent wage increase.
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Portland
Ore
Pacific Northwest
Klamath Falls
Oregon
Grays Hmirbor
Washington
Tgbway
Greys Harbor
Atrike
Department of Justice
Industrial Workers of the World
Elaminth
Gonzales Bank Pats Dividend After Reopening
Gonzales Texas July 26 The Farmers National Bank, which closed October 11, 1942, paid its first dividend to depositors Monday. The payout was 30 percent.
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Gonzales Bank Pats
Gonzales
Texas
Farmers’ National Bank
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