Landon Prepares to Deliver Position on Public Problems
Alf M. Landon the 48 year old governor formally opened as the Republican presidential candidate in Kansas with a festival like pageant and 30 000 guests filling Topeka streets. A noon to night schedule included a parade and a dinner with family as he awaited a national broadcast. His speech was planned to be brief under 4000 words and focused on public issues.
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Topeka
Kas
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Landon
Robert M. Outhwaite
Chamber of Commerce
Capitol
Bertrand Snell
New York
Republican National and
Alfred M. Landon
Battle of the Crater remembered near Peters burg
Winchester notes the Battle of the Crater fought near Petersburg about 172 years ago and the rumored first use of camouflage. Col. Henry Pleasants led 400 miners to dig the mine with Confederate observers from the hill, the Union suffering heavy losses and confusion after the blast.
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the Crater
Petersburg
Henry Pleasants
48Th
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Ito
Craver
Coughlin to Apologize to Roosevelt in Social Justice
DETROIT July 23 The Rev. Father Charles E. Coughlin will publish an apology to President Roosevelt in the periodical Social Justice for calling the President a liar in a Cleveland address. The correction will appear in tomorrow's issue.
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Detroit
Charles E. Coughlin
Roosevelt
Cleveland
Social Justice
Labor MPs Attacks Shake Commons in Tumultuous Session
In London on July 23 King Edward was labelled a despicable individual and Home Secretary Sir John Simon called a liar by Labor MPs during a contentious House of Commons session.
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London
Edward
John Simon
House of Commons
Witness Released After Alibi in Cleevager Slaying Case
Mildred Ward, 19, alibi witness for violinist Mark Wollner in the Helen Cleevager slaying investigation, was released from Buncombe County Jail today after being held without charges since last Sunday.
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Asheville
N. C
Mildred Ward
Mark Wollner
Helen Cleevager
Buncombe County
Halifax Man Indicted in Bank Robbery Case
Halifax Virginia county circuit court special grand jury indicted Joseph Williams for bank robbery. Six others were named as accessories in the same case.
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Halifax
Joseph Williams
Halifax County Circuit Court
Five men charged in deadly Samoset mill gun battle
Talladega July 23 murder warrants were sworn for five men tied to a gun battle at the Samoset cotton mills. A deputy sheriff was killed and 18 others wounded in the incident.
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Talladega
Ala
Samoset Cotton Mills
Hart Case Closed After Death-Row Slaying Conviction
Richmond Virginia July 23 Peter Saunders secretary of the Commonwealth announced the Hart case is closed Thomas Cole Hart convict sentenced to die tomorrow for the slaying of a prison camp guard in Scott county.
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Richmond
Peter Saunders
The
Commonwealth
Thomas Cole Hart
Scott County
Huffman death penalty appeal cleared for Virginia Supreme Court
Staunton Virginia July 23 attorneys for Sylvia Huffman farm laborer sentenced to die in the electric chair August 7 for the death of W H Riddle a country merchant today cleared the way for an appeal by securing from Judge Joseph Glasgow a certification of the record in the case
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Staunton
Sylvia Huffman
W. H. Riddle
Virginia Supreme Court
Joseph Glasgow
Sound Movies For the G O P Campaign
CHICAGO July 23 The familiar light action camera routine of Hollywood comes to Republican campaign plans as A K Barta of Republican national headquarters says sound movies will be produced and used widely to spread the party message. A fleet of rolling projector trucks will tour the east and west as a new selling method in political outreach.
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Chicago
Hollywood
A. K. Barta
Republican National Headquarters
Barta
Miss Trout To Crown Warren County Centennial Queen
Miss Laura Trout,后 a Warren County High School faculty member and Columbia alumna, accepts the crown for Warren County’s three day centennial celebration August 7 9. The coronation features four maids of honor and eight princesses drawn from nearby counties with two Warren princesses yet to be named.
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Front Royal
Laura Trout
S. Henry Trout
Warren County
Warren County High School
Columbia University
Trout
Henry Tragut
Her Majesty’s Court
Frederick
Orange
Spotsylvania
Shenandoah
Warren
Evelyn Massey
Post Oak
Spotsylvania County
Emma Ginn Baker
Winchester
Frederick County
Marguerite Newman
Woodstock
Shenandoah County
Jean Harmon
Anne Williams
Berry
Suspected of Killing Wife in Potomac River Body Buried
Police say Eugene Rose confessed to drowning his wife Mary Berry in the Potomac River and burying her body on the bank. The 29 year old, picked up as a hobo in Danville, Va., would not name the crime date but would lead Washington officers to the spot. Rose said another man witnessed the crime and named a Washington resident. He claimed she ran around with another man and identified a Harkee man as the third party.
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Danville
Martin
Eugene Rose
Mary Berry
Potomac River
Rose
Washington
Harrisonburg
Twelfth Place
N. E
Harkee
New Cotton Frocks and Fall Dresses at Sipes
New cotton frocks in a range of materials and styles offered by Sipes at 1.59 and 1.98. New silk wash items in black silk linen and new prints in all sizes priced at 2.9. Fall dresses in stock. located at THE STYLE POP 150 N Loudoun St Chester VA.
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N. Loudoun St. Chester
Yard Pah Stone Chapel Fire Benefit Night
Fire at Stone Chapel on July 24 draws aid from Ladies' Aid group. Community posts a benefit event the next night from 1 to 11 PM to support recovery and parish needs.
Hunger Army Holds Fort At Capitol in Harrisburg
In Harrisburg Pennsylvania on July 23 a Republican Senate passed a 10 million dollar unemployment relief bill as hunger marchers fill the capitol gallery. Unemployed residents slept in the Capitol, demanding 100 million in immediate relief while the House and Senate back a 45 million relief program and a 49.5 million note sale.
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Hunger Army
Harrisburg
Senate
Pennsylvania
House
Clarence J. Buan
Bucks County
Democratic House
Begin Search For Bombers Begin Search For Bombers
Postal inspectors rush to Cape Charles to locate the sender of a parcel post bomb that killed Curry Thomas and seriously wounded his bride of 41 days. Investigators comb wreckage of the couple’s car outside their home while spectators are kept back. Authorities hope to uncover clues in the damaged parcel and interview witnesses, with T M Milligan directing from Washington.
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Cape Charles
Curry Thomas
Northampton
T. M. Milligan
Washington
Thomas
Mem
Three Women Report Being Stopped by Impostor Officer
State Officer R E Bayliss said he is investigating statements by three Winchester and Kernstown nurses that they were halted north of Woodstock by a man posing as a police officer who reportedly pointed a gun. Miss Alene Ryan and friends Charlotte Campbell and Mary Foreman were returning from a drive when the incident allegedly occurred.
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R. E. Bayliss
Winchester
Kernstown
Woodstock
Bayliss
Alene Ryan
Charlotte Campbell
Mary Foreman
Campbell
Triple Truck Crash Kills Three On Richmond Washington Route
Three men died and three were injured in a north of Ashland triple truck crash on the Richmond Washington highway. Victims include Everett Morris of Richmond B O O Connell of Fort Bragg and John Smith of Clinton North Carolina.
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Richmond
Richmond- Washington Highway
Here
Ashland
Everett Morris
North Twenty-seventh Street
Grace Hospital
B. O. O'Connell
Fort Bragg
N. C
North
Elton Tew
Clinton
Memorial Hospital
Oscar Taylor
Valentine Bidden
Bidden
Morris
Credit Heads Arrive for Farm Credit Conference in Winchester
Board of directors from six associations of the Production Credit Corporation, totaling over 45 people, gathered at the George Washington Hotel for a two day meeting. The event is part of seven regional conferences in the Second District of the Farm Credit Administration with attendees from Shenandoah Warrenton Staunton Romney W Va and Frederick and Townsend Md. Andrew Bell welcomed the visitors to Winchester as introductions opened the program.
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Production Credit Corporation
George Washington Hotel
Farm Credit Administration
Shenandoah
Warrenton
Staunton
Romney
W. Va
Frederick and Townson
Andrew Bell
Chamber of Commerce
Winchester
Doughton
J. K. Doughton
Baltimore
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank
Bank of Cooperatives
E. B. Bomberger
Baltimore Bank of Cooperatives
Desperation Drive Behind Harrison Bank Attempt
Milton Turrell president of the Harrison Business Men's Association sobbed in a jail cell after his arrest by the night marshal on charges of attempted burglary and breaking. He blamed stock market losses and pending debts as the motive for the in town bank robbery attempt in Harrison, Ohio.
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Cincinnati
Harrison
Fred Doerman
Dave Pugh
Milton Turrell
Harrison Business Men's Association
I. F. Brinkman
Turrell
Parley Planned for State Convention of Letter Carriers and Auxiliary
Virginia Chapter of the National Association of Letter Carriers and the Woman's Auxiliary schedule a September 6 state convention in which 200 to 300 members will attend. The program includes a public session, a delegate luncheon at Tokes Inn, two business meetings, officer elections, and a closing banquet at the George Washington Hotel. Notables include President Edward J. Gainor of Washington DC and National VP Ruth Watkins of Kansas City. Local committee leadership and state officers are listed, along with long-standing local branch No. 694 and Auxiliary No. 604 members and officers. The national organization reports 59,975 members as of July 1.
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Virginia
National Association of Letter Carriers
Woman's Auxiliary
Tokes Inn
George Washington Hotel
Edward J. Gainor
Washington, D. C
Ruth Watkins
Kansas City
Woman's Auxiliary Local
H. C. Manuel
A. R. Conner
J. H. Seal
George Jones
Taylor Simpson
Carl Campbell
J. A. Haines
C. L. Peffer
A. R.conner
Everett Kline
Edward Koons
C. E. Krantz
Phoebus
J. W. Lee
Newport News
H. H. Scott
Richmond
W. W. Seldon
Norfolk
C. A. Myers
Danville
Clemens Rivers
Hampton
John T. Brown
J. H
Herman Lee
C. B. Manuel
J. P. Miller
Four Dead In Trains Crash Near Ogeechee Georgia
Mrs. Randolph Cooper says at least four were killed in a head on collision of two passenger trains a mile north of Ogeechee. The engineers and a fireman died. a mail clerk was scalded and a baggage master and flagman were injured. Trains No 1 and No 6, both 7:40 am departures, Savannah to Macon and Atlanta and Augusta to Savannah. Medical aid came from Statesboro Sylvan ia Miller and Savannah. Dead include F F Starr engineer No 1 Hamilton H Hoops engineer No 6 Berry Johnson fireman No 1 Joe Wright fireman No 6 all Savannah residents.
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Ogeechee
Randolph Cooper
Central of Georgia Railroad
Ozeechee
Savannah
Macon
Atlanta
Augusta
Cooper
Statesboro
Sylvania
Miller
F. F. Starr
Government plans forage crop emergency plantings
The AAA announced further modification of the western soil conservation program to encourage emergency plantings of forage crops and conserve available forage as an offset against feed losses in drought states.
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AAA
Washington
Western Soil Conservation
Ford Coach Used Car Special at Pine Motor Co
Ford coach offered for 295 dollars at Pine Motor Co located at the corner of Brad Street and Cecil Street. Sale dated January 23 with listing 1p 2t in the ad.
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Ada
Ford Coach
Pine Motor Co. Cor. Brad
Cecil Sts
Envoy Bowers Heads 15 American Diplomats in Spain
Claude G. Bowers the U S ambassador leads fifteen American diplomatic and consular officers on duty in revolt torn Spain. Bowers, usually based in Madrid, is on vacation and believed to be in the San Sebastian area where the fighting is most intense. The department in Washington reports the revolt has grown to large proportions.
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Spain
Claude G. Bowers
U. S
Madrid
Bowers
San Sebastian
State Department
Washington
Central Press
Fascist rebels driven back in Spain civil war battle
Fighting near Burgos as loyalist troops reportedly push 9 miles against the insurgents in a decisive week of combat. General Mola supposedly retreated in confusion while British destroyers engaged rebel aircraft off Tangier and Tarifa.
Lost billfold on Cameron Street in Gainesboro
A lost billfold found on Cameron Street prompts finder to return it. The owner Hutchenson DeHaven of Gainesboro Virginia asks for the billfold and papers to be mailed back.
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Brown
Cameron Street
Hutchenson DeHaven
Gainesboro
Fine sale of household effects of Mrs John Green
Will be sold Saturday at 10 o clock at No. 108 Valley Avenue. Fine lot of household effects from Mrs John Green offered. See sale bill page 8 7-23-1p-2t.
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John Green
Vabley Avenue
Fierce fights still going on in Spanish Civil War
Reports from Madrid say fascist rebels driven back from roads to Madrid with heavy losses. Advancing forces from Spot Rierra near Burgos pushed back 14 kilometers as loyal troops counterattack. General Mola reportedly retreated, wires cut, many rebel officers slain. Government claims progress, while battles rage in Zaragoza Seville and other cities.
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Associated Press
Madrid
Spain
Soma Sierra
Burgos
Emilio Mola
Zaragoza
Seville
Segonia
Ana Rega Oo
Tance
Ne Bene
Paris
Barcelona
Coruna
San Sebastian
Irun
Cadiz
Toledo
Hendaye
Jose Giral Pereira
Evacuation Flight Plans for U S Citizens From Spain
The battleship Oklahoma departed Cherbourg at 3 50 p m bound for Vigo and Bilbao to evacuate American women and children on the northern coast of revolt ridden Spain. Consul Chapman at Bilbao sent the urgent appeal for a warship. Washington received the request for evacuation.
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Washington
Hull
Barcelona
State Department
William E. Chapman
Bilboa
Oklahoma
Cherbourg
France
Mediterranean Sea
America
United States
Spain
Vigo
Bilbao
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Berry Johnson
Joe Wright
Claude Bowers
Flance
White Hall
Tangier
Wild Swan
Tarifa
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