Four Convicts Escape From Louisiana Pen
Four state convicts escaped from a Baton Rouge receiving station led by Steven J Heard and Jim Heard during a breakfast break. Adam Webster, captured two hours later after a gun battle in Magnolia, and Fred Wilson were among the escapees who fled toward New Orleans amid gunfire.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
Steven J
Jim Heard
Adam Webster
Pike County
Magnolia
New Orleans
Fred Wilson
Breck
Heard
WiIlsoi
Trusty
Webster
Threats of New Strikes Hover Over Piedmont Mills
With thousands idle, threats of new strikes hung over Piedmont cotton mills as organizers of the National Textile Workers Union moved to recruit more operatives to join walkouts that have closed mills in five Texas counties.
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Associated Press
Piedmont
National Textile Workers Union
Labor unrest spreads from Loray Mills to regional strikes
Fred EB Beal addressed a Pineville mass meeting of Chadwick Haskins plant workers and led a vote to stay off the job at opening. Beal warned of a broader walkout by High Shoals mill operatives while federal and state agencies seek to end the strike and guard troops patrol Loray Mill in Gastonia. Across the region strikes extend to Greenville Union Woodruff and Anderson South Carolina as labor organizers respond to threats. In Elizabethton Tennessee William Green pledged federal labor support in pursuing alleged kidnappers of two labor organizers who pressured Elizabethton residents to abandon the town. Green spoke before about 3000 people.
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Fred EB. Beal
National Organization
Chadwick-Haskins
Pineville
Here
Beal
High Shoals
Gaston County
N. C
North Carolina National Guard
Loray
Gastonia
Loray Mills
Greenville
Union
Woodruff
Anderson
S. C
Elizabethton
Tenn
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Totyn
Green
Indiana Judge Rules Gangsters May Carry Pistols on Porches
Indiana judge rules gangsters may carry pistols on their own front porches. The unusual decision anchors in a local court ruling reported by the Cincinnati Inquirer.
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Indiana
Cincinnati Inquirer
Steps Taken to Rehabilitate Storm Swept Areas
News reports relief efforts after a weekend storm across Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa left 20 dead. County Red Cross units appeal for a field director while Capt W D Leary is assigned to report to Gov Kohler. Relief work proceeds in Minnesota Wisconsin and Iowa with 14 Wisconsin fatalities and one each in Minnesota and Iowa.
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Associated Press
St, Paul
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Red Cross
St. Louis
W. D. Leary
Wisconsin National Guard Company
State Adjutant General
Walter Kohler
Black Completes Long Air Trip
Black finishes a lengthy flight to Croydon England with arrival noted on April 8 as part of a broader travel sequence reported from the European city.
Lear Black Completes Cape Town Round Trip Flight
American aviator Lear Black finished a round trip to Cape Town South Africa in a French passenger plane from Le Bourget. He began the voyage on February 11 and nearly completed the long journey before a forced landing in northern Italy last week.
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Lear Black
Cape Town
South Africa
le Bourget
Baltimore
Italy
Porter guest Mr. Murphy at George Washington Hotel
Mr. 8. C. Murphy of Portsmouth Virginia is a guest at the George Washington Hotel, staying in town for an unspecified visit.
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8. C. Murphy
Portsmouth, Va
George Washington Hotel
Public Sale of Evan N Cline Land in Hampshire County
Under the will of Evan N Cline deceased dated April 2 1928 probated July 3 1928 in Winchester Virginia and of record in Hampshire West Virginia the executor Shenandoah Valley National Bank Winchester VA will offer for sale at public auction April 30 1929 at 1 PM the 161 acre Capon District land with timber and buildings The sale will be offered in three ways timber alone land alone or land and timber together with cash or two year bonds option and a reserve deed and fire policy to secure the debt Auctioneered by C I Brumback.
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Evan N. Cline
Corporation Court of
Winchester
County Court
Hampshire County
W. Va
Capon
West Virginia
Hugh P. Cline
Asa W. Cline
Shenandoah Valley National Bank, of
C. I. Brumback
Court Reference Ordered in Virginia Estate Dispute
In Frederick County Virginia circuit court the case Trovillis Clark versus James H Spence et al cites a March 26 1929 decree. It directs a commissioner to report on estate value partition viability creditor accounts and entitlement shares with notices to be published weekly in Winchester newspapers. A hearing date is set for April 11 1929 at 22 Rouse Avenue Winchester.
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Circuit Court
Frederick County
Virginia
Trovellis Clark
James H. Spence
P. C. Parlett
Winchester
Commissioner’s Office
Rouse Avenue
Rinso White Clothes Ad Endorsed by Mrs Russell
Mrs Martha Russell of Winchester Virginia endorses Rinso as a soap that makes clothes white sweet and clean without boiling or hard scrubbing. She praises Rinso for softening water and producing thick suds safe for hands and useful for dishes floors woodwork bathtubs. The ad notes Rinso works in tubs or machines and urges the big package.
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Rinso
Martha Russell
Morningside Dr
Winchester
Virginia
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Long
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Williams
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Douglas
Tatra Ory
Gineer Az
Berkeley Club
J. AL. Shine
Black
The
Croydon
Eng
Queen of the Prom
Kathleen Fitch
Lexington
University of Kentucky
B. B. Harrison
C. M M. Lynab
P. A
Mrs. Russell
Messrs
J. R. Michael
Naylor Veach
Giles Rodman
Washington
Eleanor
Porter
Columbus
Ohio
E. A. Welsh
Porter Aleo
Welsh
Ramsey
Cabiet
Ramsey Furniture Company
J. W. Arthur
General Insurance
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