Two prison guards charged in Maitlefret death
In Jacksonville Florida two prison camp officials Captain C W Courson and M Higginbotham were jailed on first degree murder charges over Charles Maitlefret a 19 year old inmate found strangled in an output box witnesses testified he gnawed from a barrel before being bound and hanged an autopsy found he had not eaten for 13 hours Maitlefret was serving nine years on robbery charges
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Jacksonville
Fla
Charles Maitlefret
C. W. Courson
Sunbeam
M. Higginbotham
Maillefrat
Westfield
Mall- Jerret
W. H. Gabgue
Malllefret
Two Missionaries Ordained for Work in Central India
At the Texas Christian convention closing at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth two missionaries were ordained. Dr. Kenneth W. Bonham and his wife will depart September 12 for missionary service in Central India. Bonham earned an M D from the University of Texas at Galveston in 1930 and a B A from TCG A in 1928. Mrs Bonham earned a B A in 1927.
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Central
India
Fort Worth
Texas Christian Convention
Texas Christian University
Ies
Kenneth W. Bonham
Bonham
School of Medicine
University of Texas At
Galveston
Foreign Service
Hartford
Conn
T. CG
Hidalgo County Candidate List Grows to Seventy One
McAllen Texas June 10 With the July primaries a month off Hidalgo county prepares for a record slate of 71 candidates for county offices. Officials say the list may grow further before the primaries and that reaching 100 candidates would not be unlikely.
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Hidalgo County
Mcallen
Texas
Nimeries
Cattle Killed as New Boric Well Bursts In Italy
Leghorn Italy June 10 A boric acid well depth 500 feet burst sending four tons of steel tubing into the air. It fell on Gerrazzano village roots, killing several cattle and causing property damage. No humans injured. Horse vapor streamed from the well at a pressure of 462000 pounds an hour. Engineers said it could power all Italian electric railways.
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Leghorn
Italy
Gerrazzano
Mexicans to be deported from East Chicago to work in Mexico
About 335 Mexican paupers from East Chicago are en route to Laredo at Lake County expense. They will be handed to Mexican officials for transfer to sarcutturn projects in Mexico. In two months over 1000 Mexicans have been sent back from the Indiana steel mills region and 3000 more await transport.
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Laredo
Chicago
Ind
Lake County
Mexico
Andiana Steel Mills
Resignation of Auditor Studied at Dallas County Meeting
A Dallas county district judges meeting addressed the resignation of County Auditor Charles Groas amid ongoing county finances inquiry by a special grand jury. Groas offered his resignation after the grand jury began its work in a prior report.
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Dallas
Dalas County Dlatriet
Charles
Beit Rima Outrage Reveals Fiery Punishment Tactics
In Beit Rima Palestine enraged plantation owners captured about 50 suspects amid fruit thefts and forced them to lick red hot iron in a brutal act they believed would spare the innocent. The torturers were arrested.
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Cairo
Egypt
Beit Rima
Palestine
GHP Joint Man Best Ears in New York
Federal Judge Frank J. Coleman sentenced Louis Greenalein, operator of a speakeasy, to three years in Atlanta penitentiary for operating a house where business men were robbed. Authorities testified patrons awoke in the speakeasy with bills inflated to thousands and one man held captive a day and a half to sign a $2000 check.
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New York
Frank J. Coleman
Louis Greenalein
Atlanta
Federal plan to indict Capone and 80 associates
The U S government plans new indictments within five to six weeks against Al Capone known as Scarface and about 80 underworld members. Built on three months of secret inquiry, the move aims to cover 69 hoodlums named in a prior conspiracy case plus others tied to the syndicate’squota faction.
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Capone
Chicago
al Capone
Scarface al
Cowboy Charged With Hatch Bank Robbery
Gideon L. Redding a 92 year old cowboy was charged with the June 1 bank robbery of the First National Bank of Hatch New Mexico. He allegedly held up the bank then rode off on a white horse into the mountains. About $2000 was taken. Redding was arrested at his mountain ranch while milking a cow after a 10 day search by officers and citizens.
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Bank EL Paso
INS
Gideon L. Redding
First National Bank of
Hatch
N. M
Redding
Billy the Kid
Militant Dry Will Tour Speakeasies
Dr Clarence True Wilson head of the Methodist Board of Temperance Prohibition and Public Morals plans a Chicago speakeasy tour within a week as he visits the city with the Crusaders, one of the nation s active anti prohibition groups.
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Washington
D. C
Stine
Clarence True Wilson
Chicago
The
Crusaders
Wilson
Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Two Bullet-Riddled Men Found Near St Louis Suburbs
In Louis, June 10 CNS reported two bullet riddled men, both unidentified and about 85, were found near the Jennings and Ferguson suburbs. Police believe they were shot elsewhere and dumped at the site.
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Louis
CNS
Jennings
Ferguson
Moore Signs Dry Referendum Bill
Governor A Harry Moore signed a bill for a statewide dry referendum to be decided at the November election. If approved, prohibition enforcement will end December 1 statewide.
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Moore
Trenton
N. J
A. Harry Moore
Legon Commander Invites Prince to Wales in Oregon
Warbaw NC June 10 Dr Henry L Stevens Jr commander for One American Tagton left here for New York today and will await the Prince of Wales arrival while ending the Tagton convention in Portland Oregon.
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Warbaw
Henry L. Stevens Jr
Tagton
New York
England
Wales
Portland
Ore
British budget bill passes House of Commons
London June 10 By 409 to 34 the House of Commons passed the finance bill on third reading and sent it to the House of Lords which promptly passed it on first reading. The bill is the enabling measure for the budget. Lord Lansbury urged world economic cooperation while Neville Chamberlain agreed that cooperation is essential to solving global problems.
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London
House of Commons
House of Lords
Lord Lansbury
Neville Chamberlain
McAllen Citrus Association mails checks totaling $27831
McAllen Texas June 10 Rebate checks totaling 27831 are being mailed to members of the McAllen Citrus association cooperative fruit marketing agency after a successful season. General manager B L Sessions says packing costs at the plant set a new record and ran well below estimates.
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Mcallen
Texas
McAllen Citrus Association
Cooperative Frolt Marketing Agency
B. L. Sessions
Co-Operative
Savant Charged in Menacing Tenants With Big Bolo Knife
Washington June 10 A 71 year old anthropologist Dr Danel Folkmar was arrested on assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly menacing tenants with a two foot Philippine bolo knife. He kept a woman inmate in his second floor apartment and drove a father from the house.
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Savant
Washington, D. C
Danel Folkmar
Philippine Fail Service
Halie Lee
Houstonian Killed When Hit by Truck
Donn ald Gregg, hailed by friends as the father of the first Houston youth to die in World War I, was killed today when he was struck by a truck in Houston.
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Houston
Donnald Gregg
Bankruptcy Petition Filed in San Francisco
June 10 petition asks Fageot Motors Co be declared bankrupt. Receiver sought and writ of attachment against property not discharged. Three creditors claim total $12,694.
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San Francisco
Fageot Motors Company
Federal District Court
Classified Want Ads Ban On Sunday Morning Light
Want ads for the Jats morning Sunday Light are properly classified until 6 p m Saturday. Call an ad writer at Cr 2600.
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Crockatt
Purification and Health Claim Advertisement
An old advertisement urges renewing health through purification. It quotes a physician praising system purification as wealth, promoting Calabbs-nnce to purify blood by energizing liver kidneys stomach and bowels. Package prices listed 10 cts and 83 cts.
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Marai- Ily
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Sears
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