Midget Slain by Giant Man in Fatal Apartment Fight
Police investigated the murder of a 90 pound midget, Miss Elizabeth Schneider, by Walter Ferguson, 45, unemployed from Detroit. Ferguson fought four officers in a kitchen encounter, grimly choking Schneider in a bathtub before collapsing dead. motive linked to noise complaints and unemployment pressures.
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Filis
Walter Ferguson
Detroit
Elizabeth Schneider
Ferguson
Miss Schneider
Bessie
Sam Fox
Fox
John Campbell
Campbell
Mager
Woods Meeting Will Continue in Doab's Woods
Doab's Woods meetings ongoing from last Sunday continue next week under Rev. F H Snavely pastor of Church of God. Visiting ministers include Rev. Preston McLucas Wednesday evening Clarence McGaha to preach. Senate clears legislation authorizing up to 45 billion dollars in bonds to Treasury, Morgenthal seeks higher limit for better terms. Jenner administered first smallpox inoculation in 1736.
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F. H. Snavely
Church of God
Kilt
Preston McLucas
Mt. Lena
Blue Mountain
Churches of God
Ington
Senate
White House
Treasury
Morgenthal
Good Neighbor Plan Launched Near World Student Exchange
Washington announces a vast Congress funded program to link 21 American republics with a year long exchange of professors and students across 11 of 23 nations. Officials expect 330 participants to move between universities as snow falls. In Glasgow applicants for Corporation houses face long waiting lists, delaying marriages. A Doberman Pinscher from RCMP traced a jailbreak suspect to a remote hideout 30 miles away.
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Washington
Sity
Uncle Sam
TVA Purchases Approved in Senate House Vote
Congress cleared long sought legislation allowing the Tennessee Valley Authority to buy Commonwealth and Southern properties in 27 counties across 3 Southern states. The compromise bill cut the bond issue to 1,500,000,000 and earmarked funds for TVA purchases, rehabilitation, and loans to small municipalities.
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Commonwealth
House
Norria
Senate
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Roosevelt
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Nashville
Alabama
Mississippi
Smith Charged In Indictment At LSU
Baton Rouge July 16 Dr James Monroe Smith former LSU president was indicted on 23 counts of forgery and falsification of public records by the East Baton Rouge grand jury. Four men face multiple counts including embezzlement and receiving embezzled goods. Caldwell and others linked to university construction and WPA material diversions also indicted in separate cases.
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EB. N. Jackson
George Caldwell
Smith
Caldwell
New Orleans
Car Taken From Oakland City Patient During Visit
Maurice Corn sat in a dentist chair in Oakland City Ind when he turned to see his car missing. Police later recovered the automobile in a different section of the city.
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Washington County
Beaver Creek
Middle-West
Oakland City
Ind
Maurice Corn
Corn
Prisoners On Water Wagon In Danville Workhouse
Danville Kentucky July 15 workhouse prisoners were on the wagon Friday as officials, including County Attorney P J Clark, investigated drunkenness. A chain fence was erected to keep outsiders away from barred screened windows while insiders received drinks through the windows with straws.
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Danville
P. J. Clark
Moves For Peace In Bloody Harlan
In Harlan Kentucky negotiators push for peace in the coal region. In Knoxville representatives of the Harlan County Coal Operators Association and the United Mine Workers plan a meeting to discuss a labor contract. In Frankfort Governor Chandler will review the general situation with two federal investigators. In Harlan National Guard units number about 800 are on duty to maintain order.
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Harlan
Brandy Harlan
Knoxville
Tenn
Harlan County Coal Operators’ Association
Lie Cio
United Mine Workers Union
Frankfort
A. B. Chandler
Spies Confess in French German Agent Case
Paris today reports Premier Daladier and officials say arrestees confess to receiving money from foreign agents as the government orders secrecy on operations linked to a German spy ring in France. The communique notes contacts with a foreign power and payments, with two Paris newspaper workers and two Germans among those arrested.
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Paris
Daladier
France
FCC Denies WBRT Baltimores Hoosier Station Plan
The Federal Communications Commission refused Tradio Station WBRT of Baltimore permission to set up a Hoosier station at Frederick Maryland to relay WPBI programs to Frederick by telephone wire for rebroadcasting.
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Federal Communications Commission
Tradio
W*br
Baltimore
Frederick
WPBI
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