Colored Youths Ace Rally Judging Contest In Virginia
A Training School team led by C C Williams C Kelly and Edward Lewis won the Virginia Rally judging contest in Petworth Virginia with 1535 points and captured the silver loving cup. Harry Kelly was top individual in judging hens and fifth in males. Williams placed third overall for hogs and will represent Virginia at Hampton Institute in August.
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I Pulty
Petpure
Aes Senter
Pai C. Kelly
Edward Lewis
Harry Kelly
R. C. Willams
Virginia
Hampton Institute
Williams
Tuskegee
Ala
Council To Hold May Regular Meeting Tonight
The Common Council is called to meet at 7 30 oclock this evening in the City Hall Council Chamber for the regular May session.
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Common Council
Council
City Hall
Italians Advance on Addis Ababa to Protect Foreigners
The United States secured assurances from Italy that lives and property of foreigners in Addis Ababa would be protected under the rules of war as Italian forces entered and prepared to occupy the city. Italian planes were seen over the capital as troops moved in to quell marauding bands.
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Addis Ababa
Ion
Washington
United States
London
America
Cornelius van H. Engert
Legation
Cae
Rome
Post
Hall
Alexander Kirk
Kirk
Simpler Tax Windfall Plan Aims For $100 Million
A windfall tax proposal seeks to raise about 100 million dollars through a processing tax design. The plan targets large gains in the sector and outlines a broad tax base to fund anticipated needs.
Figures in snake torture drowning slaying tied to insurance plot
Los Angeles investigators probe the Mary Busch James case as Charles H Hope and Robert S James, husband of the slain widow, are jailed over a scheme to collect a double indemnity policy. James denies involvement with the crime or two prior sudden deaths, including his third wife’s 1932 drowning.
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Los Angeles
Mary Busch James
Charles H. Hope
Robert S. James
James
Inset
Heart Murmur Not a Cause for Panic, Doctor Says
Dr Logan Clendening explains murmurs often cause no symptoms and many are functional or manageable. He notes some are mechanical valve issues that allow long compensation, with many patients living well into old age, and advises protection against infections and careful activity planning.
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War Department
Farmer Narrowly Escapes Train Trap Near Russellville
Jeff Mackey, 52, a farmer from Adkins Arkansas, was bound to a railroad track by two unidentified assailants for four hours near Russellville. He escaped death as a passenger train passed, saved only by rolling off the rail and losing his right thumb. He is in serious condition at a Russellville hospital from shock and blood loss.
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Russellville
Ark
Jeff Mackey
Adkins
Mrs Alice White Dies After Illness In Hampshire County
Mrs Alice J White 75 wife of Thomas E White died at home 606 South Kent Street after a lingering illness. Born October 4 1860 she was daughter of the late Jonathan and Anna Kidwell of Hampshire County West Virginia. Survived by four sons Eppa Edward Luther and Thomas White all of Washington DC and daughter Mrs Edna Kirby Shenandoah County. Funeral at Mount Hebron Chapel Wednesday at 10 with Elder R D Hottel and Rev Clark officiating. Interment Mount Hebron family lot.
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Alice J. White
Thomas E. White
South Kent Street
White
Jonathan and
Anna Belford Kidwell
Hampshire County
W. Va
Mamie White
Mr. White
Eppa White
Edward
Luther
Thomas White
Washington, D. C
Edna Kirby
Shenandoah County
Mount Hebron Cemetery
R. D. Hottel
New Market
Kent's Precinct For Breckenridge
The Baltimore precinct where political writer Frank R. Kent lives backed Henry Breckenridge by more than five to one in the Maryland presidential primary. Maryland overall favored Roosevelt by about six to one, with Roosevelt securing the state’s 16 Democratic votes.
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Baltimore
Frank R. Kent
Col
Henry Breckenridge
Maryland
City
State
Roosevelt
Roosevelt to Speak in State at Monticello on July 4
President Roosevelt will deliver an address on Independence Day at Monticello the home of Thomas Jefferson near Charlottesville Virginia. Stuart Gibboney of Charlottesville president of the Thomas Jefferson Monticello Memorial Association announced the invitation and said the President accepted.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
Charlottesville
Stuart Gibboney
Thomas Jefferson Monticello Memorial Association
Merchants Group Attacks House Tax Bill in Senate Hearing
Arthur A. Ballantine former under secretary of the Treasury testified for the Merchants' Association of New York before the Senate finance committee warning that the House tax bill would dry up the sources of government revenue.
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Washington
Arthur A. Ballantine
The
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
Merchants’ Association of New York
Perfect Torso? Dallas Expo Seeks Helen Ramsay Body
Sculptors working on the Texas Centennial statue at Dallas praise Helen Ramsay a 16 year old Dallas high school girl as having the most perfect torso they have ever seen Miss Ramsay will be the sculptors model for the exhibit in Dallas Texas.
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Dallas
Tex
Helen Ramsay
Miss Ramsay
Central Press
Baltimore and Chicago Livestock Markets May Report
Market notes from Baltimore and Chicago show mixed demand. Cattle and calves offered at Baltimore fell. hogs steady to weak with mixed prices. sheep lambs weak in spring conditions. Chicago reports dull fat cattle and lighter hogs with limited demand and lower prices.
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Baltimore Livestock
Baltimore
S. Dept
Chicago Livestock Chicago
U. S&. Dept. Agr
Overalls Stranger Arrested for Begging in Portland Hotel
In Portland downtown, a man in overalls approached guests asking for a hamburger. Detected by nearby police, Dan O'Shay, 56, was jailed on a vagrancy charge for begging at the hotel lobby.
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Portland
Ore
Dan O'Shay
Man of Principle Testifies in Los Angeles Divorce Case
Laura B. Wolfe seeks a divorce and testifies that her husband refused a $500 monthly job as a lingerie salesman because he believed women should not wear silk underwear or stockings. He claims Hindu philosophy consumed him and led to quitting his jewelry business and refusing other work.
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Los Angeles
Laura B. Wolfe
Millhouse Project Urges $1000 Grubstake for Graduates on WVU Campus
West Virginia University law student Steve Millhouse urged Congress to pass a law granting graduating college students a $1000 grubstake. He spoke on the Morgantown campus presenting his plan dubbed the Millhouse Project amid jeers and eggs from classmates.
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Steve Millhouse
West Virginia University Law School
Millhouse
Morgantown
W. Va
Local Markets Daily Prices For Grains And Feeds
Local market listings show wholesale flour prices for Crystal and Magnolia brands in 98, 48, 24 and 12 pound bags, with per barrel rates. Also listed are cracked corn, shelled corn, scratch feeds, various corn meals, dairy feeds, eggs, butter, veal, cattle, sheep, spring lambs, live hogs, and poultry prices with per bag or per hundred weights.
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The
Star
Magnolia
Kasco
Wheat futures tumble as May delivery slips in Chicago
May wheat contracts fall to 96 34 from 14 while May over July premium narrows to about nine cents. Cash grain in Chicago shows mixed values with No. 2 yellow corn around 64 to 64.44 and oats at 30 to 34.54 per bushel. Baltimore market lists No. 2 red wheat at spot domestic 1.00 percent, with yellow corn near 3.25 to 3.50 per barrel.
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Chicago
Lake Billing
Wisconsin
Baltimore
Winchester
Slayer of Woman Continues Details On Victim's Family
Mrs Atwater lived apart from her husband and stayed with her parents Mr and Mrs J S Williamson. Thompson, married and estranged from his wife, was identified as the other involved. The slain woman left behind a young son, Charles Atwater. Survivors include her husband, her parents, a brother J S Williamson Jr of Wide Water, three sisters Clara Virginia Williamson of Hopewell and Mrs R E Wood of Taunton Mass.
Karpis Companion Ruth Robinson Freed by Agents
J Edgar Hoover announced Ruth Robinson the red haired woman seized with Alvin Karpis in New Orleans Friday night has been released. He said no charges will be filed against her.
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Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Ruth Robinson
Alvin Karpis
New Orleans
Stock Market Final May trading shows mixed gains and dividends
New York shares rose on broad front with fractional to three point gains as oversold conditions helped the upturn. Transamerica volume neared 1.4 million. Fajardo sugar fell after a 50 cent dividend on new stock. Foreign exchange drifted with franc and sterling easing and closing quot.ations list prominent industrials and utilities with several gains.
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New York
May's
Fajardo
Jewel gang imitator in Chicago tied to Indianapolis officer death
Alfred Brady alias Al Bordon, framed as a Dillinger style jewel gang leader, was arrested in Chicago with five others. Police say he confessed to killing an Indianapolis police officer and to multiple jewelry store robberies including a Lima Ohio hold up twice, though he later retracted the confession.
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John Dillinger
Indianapolis
Chicago
Alfred Brady
al Bordon
Indiana
Brady
Lima
Central Presse
Margaret Barker Larson
Dillinger
Ohio
Loophole in Law Seized by Capone Lawyer
Chicago May 5 Attor ney William Parrillo said he and an associate plan to use a newly found federal statute loophole to win freedom for Al Capone. The tactic, cited yesterday to defeat an indictment against six officials of the Trustees System Service, hinges on using A instead of THE in legal wording.
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Chicago
William Parrillo
Scarface al” Capone
Trustees System Service On
Sudbury youths claim 5 cent bounty for old city law
In Sudbury Ontario two youths press a five cent bounty reward for killing within city limits. City official A J McDonnell says he would have to verify the law before ruling on the claim. The piece notes the era’s fiscal caution and legal holdover.
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Sudbury
City
A. J. McDonnell
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