Eight Accused Of Murder After Negro Is Slain
In Manchester Tennessee a 35 year old Negro Dick Wilkerson was slain after slapping a white man at a negro dance. Eight farmers were jailed charged with murder based on a tip from a 14 year old stepson of one attacker. The body was found in an oat field and the scene described as a vengeance act with home looting.
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Associated Press
Manchester
Tenn
Dick Wilkerson
Here
Coffee County
C. D. Huffman
Huffman
Wilkerson
la Junta
Colo
Don Rodriguez
Arizona
June Robles
Tucson
Ariz
Ralph Whitton
Rodriguez
Whitton
Globe, Ariz
Harry Mendenhall
Rocky Ford
John Belton
Belton
Mendenhall
Roosevelt speech blamed as political ploy by Snell
Senator Snell charged the Roosevelt administration with bluffing and using politics in government affairs. He attacked Morgenthau's call for resignations and questioned Farley as Democratic National Committee chair. Hoopes urged youth to shape the church of tomorrow at Virginia leadership meeting in Richmond. Arlington County set for 1935 Virginia Christian leadership convention.
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Republican Senatorial-Congressional Committee
Snell
Roosevelt
Yale University
Morgenthau
Treasury Department
Farley
Democratic National Committee
Yale
Brain Trust
Church of Tomorrow
Richmond
Warren G. Hoopes
Philadelphia
Virginia Christian Leadership
Arlington County
Apples Stored Since Last Fall In Good Shape
Former Mayor F. A. Shryock presented a Star employee with Stayman apples kept in cold storage since last fall. The fruit were in perfect condition with excellent flavor. Growers note Staymans rarely keep that long, yet the display apples show fine quality. Several Star readers who tasted them said they tasted like more.
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F. A. Shryock
Employee of the Star
Stayman
Shryock
Bullitt and White Crash in Moscow Landing
United States Ambassador William C. Bullitt and military attaché Lt. Thomas D. White were uninjured after their embassy plane nose dived and turned over during a landing at a Moscow field. White said the motor failed as they neared the ground. Bullitt had flown to meet his young daughter Anne, expected to arrive Wednesday.
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Associated Press
Leningrad
William C. Bullitt
United States
Russia
Thomas D. White
Moscow
Bullitt
White
Anne
Man Kills Two Wounds Woman In Walcott Shooting
In Walcott Connecticut a 65 year old man John Crowe shot and killed Clarence Yuskis Jr 22 and Julius Karvauskas 40 a hired worker. Mrs Yuskis was wounded in the forehead as Crowe drove away after a midday confrontation with the youth who was about to swim. A posse pursued Crowe that night.
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Crowe
Commercial Paper At Lowest Rate
The Federal Reserve Board reports prime commercial paper at a record low of 4 1/4 percent in June. Commercial loans fell as the $80 million rise in loans and investments by reporting member banks from May 16 to June 13 came from broker loans and securities purchases. Excess reserves rose to 1.8 billion in early June due to Treasury cash and gold stock growth, then fell to 1.675 billion in the week ending June 20 as Treasury deposits and government security sales reduced reserves.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Treasury
Federal Reserve Banks
Grave Charge Lodged Against High Official
Edmonton Alberta June 24 Charges of seduction brought by Vivian MacMillan against John E Brownlee premier of Alberta will be heard before the supreme court tomorrow. Vivian and her father A D MacMillan claim the premier induced the girl to leave home with a government job offer and formed relations that ruined a romance. The provincial executive denied all charges and filed a counter suit for 10000 damages alleging conspiracy to injure his reputation. Damages were asked by the plaintiffs though amount not stated. A jury of six will hear the case before Justice V C Ives.
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Edmonton
Alta
John E. Brownlee
Alberta
Supreme Court
Vivian MacMillan
A. D. MacMillan
Edson
Justice V . C. Ives
Chicago Grain Market Prices Reported for The Star
Closing quotations in Chicago and Baltimore wheat markets provided to The Star by Winchester Milling through Stickell Sales include Chicago July 90 53, Sept 91 3 4, Dec 92 54, Baltimore Spot wheat 90 54. Corn quotes show Chicago July 56 4, Sept 58 1 2, Dec 59 4, Winchester Delivered 65 cents per bushel and 3 25 per barrel.
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Chicago
Baltimore
The
Star
Winchester Milling Corporation
Stickell Sales Corporation
North Washington Street
Hagerstown
Winchester
Four Desperadoes Break Prison In Texas
Four escapees seized guns after overpowering jail staff in Lubbock and abducted a banker and a justice of the peace. They released hostages near Big Spring and planned for potential further violence as they fled with weapons from the jail.
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Texas
Robles
Associated Press
Lubbock
Tex
Walter 8. Posey
First National Bank of
Big Spring
Beauford Carpenter
Stanton
Leisher
Moseley
Coupe
Robert Tharpe
Nelson
Meadows
Stephens
Jimmy Wedell Killed In Plane Crash
James R. Wedell a 34 year old speed flier and aircraft builder died in a Gypsy Moth crash near Patterson Louisiana while instructing student pilot Frank Sneeringen of Mobile Alabama. The student was critically injured and transported to St Mary's hospital in Franklin. Wedell held a 305.33 mph world speed record set September 4 1933 at Glenview Illinois and was famed for multiple speed records and mercy flights.
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Patterson
James R
Jimmy”) Wedell
New Orleans
Frank Sneeringen
Mobile
Ala
Wedell
Sneeringen
St. Mary’s Hospital
Franklin
Glenview
Ill
Baby
Sue
Houston
Texas
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Washington
New York
Miami
Hartford
America
London
Melbourne
Australia
German Bishop Urges Christ as Leader at Berlin Rally
Bishop Nicholas Bates addressed 175,000 German Catholics at Hoppegarten urging Christ as their only Fuehrer amid rising church state tensions. He spoke as talks between church leaders and the Interior Department open to study the Concordat's failure ahead of Rome negotiations. The sermon at the Berlin bishopric convention cautioned parishioners to heed divine guidance over human words.
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Berlin
Nicholas Bates
Adolf Hitler
Government Department of the Interior
Rome
Bares
Bates
Vienna
Austria
Franz Eibel
Kupfenberg
Syria
Margaret Sullavan Stars In Little Man What Now Cap Capitol
Opening today at the Capitol Theatre Margaret Sullavan headlines her first starring film Little Man What Now. The Frank Borzage production features Douglass Montgomery as the eponymous little man with Sullavan riding global fame from Only Yesterday. Billy Barnes presents organ novelty Those Good Old Songs We Used To Sing.
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Billy Barnes
Warner Bros. Capitol
Margaret Sullavan
Capitol
Capitol Theatre
Miss Sullavan
Frank Borzage
Douglass Montgomery
Heart Song at Hable's Palace Starring Lilian Harvey
Lilian Harvey headlines Heart Song at Hable's Palace today and Tuesday in a lively Fox musical comedy. A mysterious singing girl drives a national chase and a romance with Charles Boyer unfolds amid vivacious songs and fresh laughter.
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Lilian Harvey
Palace Today
Lilian
Fox
Hable’s Palace
Charles Boyer
Best Lilian Harvey Picture to Date Delivers Romance
A hunted hunter lies delirious until saved by Lilian singing a haunting refrain. The pursuit of the girl leads to romantic and comic mishaps, but ends happily. Also shown is a Paramount News Reel.
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Boyer
Lilian
Lilian Harvey
Paramount
Local customs of Tebbu tribes reveal veiled men and unveiled women
In the Tebbu tribes of the northern Sahara, women go unveiled while men keep their faces covered even at meals. In contrast, disease-bearing mosquitoes are nearly absent in the Florida Everglades, reducing disease risk there.
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Sahara
Florida Everglades
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Clinton, Ill
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Clinton High School
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company
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Frank K. Lemon
Department of Justice
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Flushing
N. Y
R. L. Oakes
New York City
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Roanoke
Charles L. Newman
Ernest A. Turner, Jr
Turner
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Fox Picture
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Dick Powell
Marion Nixon
Surance You
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Sheetz
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Mgr. Telephone
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