Girl Says Boy Killer Asked Her to Aid Him
In San Jose California on July 28 a young woman named Claire Burnette charged that George Templeton Jr. begged her to shield him from the knife attack that killed his aunt Mrs William Babcock and wounded his uncle William Rider Babcock. She claimed she was secretly engaged to Templeton and said he wanted her as an alibi witness for the Los Altos attack scene. Templeton confessed that his motive involved insurance and his father.
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Boy Killer
San Jose
Cal
George Douglas Templeton, Jr
Claire Burnette
Claire Chapman
Templeton
William Babcock
Manila Society
William Rider Babcock
Vassar
University of California
Los Altos
Walter Buckish
Babcock
Burnette
Oakland
Vassar College
New York
George Douglas Templeton
Berkeley
Manila
United States
Small Tax Amount To Farm Education
A Texas Agricultural Workers Association committee reported that only about one and a half cents of every tax dollar funds agricultural education research and administration. The Dallas County study showed intangible property paid 3.7 percent of direct taxes while 52 12 percent of total value, and large properties like farms were assessed more lightly than smaller ones.
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College Station
Texas Agricultural Workers Association
Texas
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College
Dallas
Amelia Earhart Ends Coast Trip by Auto to LA
Amelia Earhart Putnam arrives in Los Angeles by automobile after a forced landing at Taft California due to faulty gasoline pressure while en route from New York to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross and citation from Vice President Curtis. The award precedes the dedication of a new state building as Curtis opens the Olympic Games.
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Los Angeles
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Charles Curtis
Atlantic Ocean
Taft
Calif
New York
Curtis
Dallas Council Halves Al Smith Fine After Appeal
Dallas July 28 Dallas council reduces Al Smith traffic fine from $10 to $5 after appeal hearing granting 30 days to pay. The case concerns a stop at a boulevard in Dallas not the Franklin D Roosevelt drive incident in Chicago. The council acted after the judge had set the higher amount. In a separate item Javier Ganchez Mejorada resigns as head of Mexico’s National Railways without public reason.
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Dallas
al Smith
Mr. Smith
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Chicago
Smith
Mexico City
Javier Ganchez Mejorada
National Railways of Mexico
Guiding Your Child A Balanced Parent Approach
The educator's calm relation to children contrasts with the parent's challenge of steady affection. Parents often overreact, confusing the child with shifting anger and enthusiasm. A steady background of unwavering affection helps the child feel secure and understood.
Believe Cemetery Tenor Is Quarry Pump Trusty
JOILET Illinois July 28 The graveyard crooner with a clear tenor voice attracted hundreds to an abandoned Illinois state prison cemetery. Officials believe William Chrysler, who maintains the quarry pumps at night, is the trust y figure behind the singing and planned a check. In Mexico City July 28 Perez Corona publisher Las Noticias Guadalajara and Mexican Publishers Association president was shot by Jose Ibarra brother of a former Guadalajara mayor. the slayer escaped.
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Mexico City
Guadalajara
Perez Corona
Las Noticias of
The
Mexican Publishers Association
Jose Ibarra
Open New Federal Office to Target Big Liquor Cases
Land M Reynolds heads the Texas branch of prohibition special agents and says eight agents will focus on major liquor cases while not affecting regular prohibition work under Captain Verne Miller. The Texas office is in San Antonio under the four state division based in New Orleans.
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San Antonio
Leland M. Reynolds
Mexia
Texas
Prohibition
United States Department of Justice
Verne Miller
New Orleans
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Evalyn Knapp
Donald Cook
Hollywood
Associated Press Photo
Agnes Lyne
Blackburn Bros
Y.g
Blackburn Brothers
Blackburn
West
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Griffon
L. Grief & Bro
Saxon- Weave
Hickey-Freeman
Dobbs and Stetsons
Holland Oxfords
Edwin Clapp
Bion F. Reynolds
J. P. Smith Shoes
Holland and Smith Shoes
J. P. Smith
Holland
Walter Booth
Ose
Catalina
B.V.D
Bradley
Lisles
Manhattan
Arrow
Broadway
Nor-East Fabrics
Cuthura
Ruth Hyde
Awtry St
E. Chattanooga
Tenn
Iticura
Potter Drug & Chemical Corp
Melden
Mass
Blackburn’s
Sale
Universal
Blackburn's
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