Confessions Made by Franks Slayers Are Dead in Court
Nath an Leopold Jr and Richard Loeb, who pled guilty to kidnapping and murder, heard denials then confessions in open court. Dr William Healy described Leopold as paranoid and mentally diseased, a monomaniac type blamed for producing many criminals.
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Franks
Chicago
Nathan Leopold, Jr
Richard Loeb
Robert Franks
Leopold
William Healy
Boston
Healy
First Air Mail Flight Tests Nashville to Chicago
The trial flight covered 400 miles in 3 hours 29 minutes delivering banking items worth 530000. Postal authorities aim to establish regular air mail service soon after showing feasibility and efficiency gains in the Nash ville to Chicago route.
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Chicago
Nashville
Tenn
First Georgia cotton bale auctions in Atlanta
The first bale of Georgia cotton sold in Atlanta brought 45.12 cents per pound, weighing 485 pounds and graded good middling. Proceeds were donated to the Near East relief fund. The cotton was grown in Colquitt county.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Near East Relief Fund
Colquitt County
Leslie Boys Hupt In Auto Accident
July 29 report from Leslie describes a Sunday night wreck on the Leslie DeSoto road involving a Ford touring driven by Hugo Bradley. Hyde Bradley, Howard Cox, and Grady Parker, all Leslie youths, were in the car. Cox suffered a brain concussion and severe head and chest injuries. Bradley had neck and knee injuries. Parker was shaken. The vehicle overturned after veering into a ditch to avoid a mule caused by another vehicle.
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Leslie
Howard Cox
Hugo Bradley
Hyde Bradley
Grady Parker
Leslie Boys
Leslie-DeSoto
Bradley
DeSoto
F A. Wilson
Cox
Bradleey E
Parker
Sam Lett
Americus
Tailors Worry Over Golf Togs for Men
In Cedar Point Ohio on July 29 delegates of the merchant tailors designers association in session here decide that men’s apparel will be plainer next year. A new golf outfit is causing much worry among tailors about costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Point
Ohio
Merchant Tailors Designers Association
Combatting Poultry Disease Methods of Prevention
Beginning today and continuing six days six authentic articles on poultry topics will appear. Today covers combatting poultry disease and prevention methods with guidance for all flock sizes.
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American Foultry Bureau
PAPK Committee To Go To Land Of Sky
Appalachian National Park committee and secretary of the Interior Work left Highland North Carolina for the Land of the Sky to inspect a possible site for a new national park. They planned to reach Asheville that night and be in Knoxville by Wednesday.
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PAPK
Land OF Sky
Highland
N. C
Appalachian National Park Committee
Secretary of the Interior
Land of the Sky
Asheville
Knoxville
Tuscaloosa Deputy Charged With Murder
Tuscaloosa Ala July 29 Deputy Sheriff Sam Seilers of Tuscaloosa County faced a murder charge at a preliminary hearing held without bond. The charge followed a fatal shooting when Herman Logan, a young man, did not stop his car for a liquor search. Justice J P Shelton ruled the evidence showed no extenuating circumstances.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Sam Seilers
TuscAloosa County
Herman Logan
J. P. Shelton
Sellers
Dimers and Baptisms at Indianola Amusement Park
In Columbus Ohio July 29 a band played Oh Happy Day while a jazz orchestra kept dancers in the pool area. A cool breeze chilled the filled pool reducing the number of candidates during the morning. Plans were made to baptize 700 as seventeen pastors conducted immersions in the water.
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Columbus
Indianola
Police Brand Young Girl Hard Boiled
San Francisco police and state prison authorities describe Eva Taylor an 18 year old as a potentially dangerous associate of a notorious Pacific Coast bank and jewelry gang. After ten days of interrogation she is released as unsolvable, yet linked in belief to a desperate criminal network.
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San Francisco
Eva Taylor
Taylor
Pacific Coast
Committee's Report Interests Members of House at Atlanta
In Atlanta on July 29 the general assembly debated the appropriations committee report. The house reported 21 bills totaling 556000 for various institutions and state activities, while an earlier measure to fix legislature meeting time to January failed as members voted to disagree with the committee.
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House AT
Atlanta
Associated Press
Altnta
General Assembly
Appropriations Committee
House
House Today
Sub committee trims state appropriations in Georgia cuts
Atlanta July 29 The house appropriations sub committee advocates strict economy narrowing totals for all state institutions. Of 53 measures, 21 favored for under 359000 while 42 others cut or rejected. Notable cuts include Milledgeville Sanitarium to 666160.61 and University of Georgia to 40000. Georgia Tech to 48944.23. Agriculture College and Women’s College receive nothing. Twelve one of many items.
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Atlanta
House Committee On Appropriations
Milledgeville
Georgia School For
University of Georgia
Georgia Tech
State College of Agriculture
Georgia State College For Women
State Normal School
Athens
Patten predicts high grain prices in Europe demand
Chicago July 29 James A Patten grain operator predicts wheat at 2 dollars corn at 1 25 and oats 60 to 65 cents a bushel as likely early prices He says Europe will want every bushel of wheat available to meet demand from shortages and market fears.
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Chicago
James A. Patten
Europe
Slayers Fate Hung On Gallows Mercy In Chicago Hearing
Attorney Clarence Darrow defends Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold before Chief Justice John R. Caverly as the two slayers of Robert Franks seek leniency. The defense cites moral responsibility while the defendants plead guilty and await the court’s decision on life imprisonment or a minimum 14 years.
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Caverly
Inset
Clarence S. Darrow
Richard Loeb
Nathan Leopold
John R. Caverly
Chicago
Robert Franks
Darrow
Man says he lived 72 years never shaved by barber
W R Taylor of a farm between Maysfield and Cameron Missouri says he has never been shaved by a barber in 72 years. He states he read a newspaper claim by another man who said he was 51 and never shaved, and Taylor argues the other man is 21 years younger.
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Maysfield
W. R. Taylor
Cameron
Taylor
Little Joe Missing Sparks Congressional Hearing
A Kansas City man reported missing becomes the focal point of a congressional investigation as witnesses are called and questions rise about his fate. The inquiry centers on what happened and who was involved.
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Kansas City
Bennetts Arrested for Hoffman Murder in Chattanooga
Warrants charging W H Bennett and his wife with the 1915 murder of Augusta Hoffman were served as the couple, brought from Georgia, left a hotel under surveillance. A skeleton found under a city floor is believed to be Miss Hoffman, who disappeared from the Bennett home in 1915. the Bennetts, noted freight agent and his wife, face detention as police pursue the case.
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Chattanooga
W. H. Bennett
Augusta Hoffman
Georgia
Modiste
William R. Bennett
Rome
Bennett
Georgia City
Bennetts
Miss Hoffman
Nancy Bennett
Carnegie Trustees Add Eight Million Endowment Gift
The Carnegie Corporation of New York issued eight million dollars to the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, the largest single grant for Pittsburgh education and one of the world’s biggest gifts. The total Carnegie money given to the institute now stands at thirty eight million dollars.
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Associated Press
New York
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg
Pittsburg
Carnegie
Mrs Ferguson Holds No Place in Texas
Dallas July 29 Mrs Miriam Ferguson democratic candidate for the nomination of governor maintains her lead for second place making her eligible to enter second in the primaries two weeks hence. She is the first woman candidate for governor of Texas seeking the office to avenge her husband former Governor Jim Ferguson who was impeached. Lynch Davidson an avowed Ku Klux Klan candidate who led in the first race will be her opponent if a second race is necessary to determine the nomination.
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Dallas
Miriam Ferguson
Texas
Jim Ferguson
Lynch Davidson
Club Championship Decided at Americus Golf Club
The Americus Golf Club opens the season’s main event to crown the Club Champion. Qualifying ends August 4 after eighteen holes medal play. Flights of sixteen players, six prizes per flight, plus a low-qualifying score prize. Twosome play and later match play over three to four days.
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Americus Golf Club
Chas. Lanier-McCloskey
Cage
A. Rylander, Jr
McDonald
Walter Rylander
Wheeler-Carr Glover
Lumpkin-Elam
Thiers-Westbrook
Jno
Sheffield-Ansley
Andrews- Moreland
Lewis Ellis
J. Hill
Ewing-Warren
Page-Easterlin
Jones- Ferguson
Pinkston-Erwin
Loving Luther Harrell
Frank
Lanier
Frank Harrold
Luther Hawkins
Gyles
Burke-Frank
Sheffield
W. W
G. C. Webb
Dr. Primrose
Stewart Prather
Nerves of Slayers Shaken by Evidence
Chicago July 29. Ignoring and contemptuous of the preliminary report of the defense alienists, Nathan Leopold shows continued defiance as investigators press for findings on the murder case.
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Chicaggo
Nathan Leopold
Police Seek Men Who Duped Dutton
Fulton county police seek two men who handcuffed and kidnapped Oscar E. Dutton in Eaton Park Atlanta suburb. The suspects posed as officers with a warrant, according to G. W. Knowles, where Dutton and his seven year old daughter were staying. Dutton is separated from his wife.
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Atlanta
Fulton County Police
Oscar E. Dutton
Eaton Park
G. W. Knowles
Dutton
Creamery Opening Day a Success in Americus
The Americus Ice Cream and Creamery Company opened today with a successful formal ceremony. Hundreds of residents from Americus and surrounding Sumter Webster Lee Schley and Marion counties visited the plant and were served ice cream and butter sandwiches. Assistants including several pretty young girls helped Manager I E Wilson and President Clyde Wilson entertain callers during the reception hours.
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Americus Ice Cream and Creamery Company
Americus
Sumter
Webster, Lee
Schley
Marion
I. E. Wilson
Clyde Wilson
Black man Hess Connors confesses in Daisy Wilson case
Hess Connors, a Black man, confessed to firing the shot that killed 18 year old Daisy Wilson of Villa Ridge on July 29. Police announced the admission to State’s Attorney Loren Boyd before Connors was moved from Pulaski county jail to a safe location. An almost unique aspect was that a Black deputy arrested Connors and took his confession to another Black deputy.
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Cairo
Connors
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Richard Loch
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