Public hanging of Rainey Bethea shocks Owensboro crowd
Rainey Bethea, 22, a convicted criminal, was hanged publicly in Owensboro amid a 15 000 spectator crowd. The lever was pulled by Harry Hasch after Florence Thompson, the county sheriff, changed her mind. Witness Mary Lillian Thompson, 17, defied her mother to attend the event.
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Rainey Bethea
Florence Thompson
Davies County
Harry Hasch
Kentucky
Mary Lillian Thompson
Mary Lillian
Bethea
Elya Edwards
State Penitentiary
Louisville
United Press
Thompson
Hasch
Sterilization Debate Tops San Francisco Court Fight
In San Francisco two doctors, Tilton E. Tillman and Samuel Bow, face trial for depriving 21 year old heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt of potential motherhood. Hewitt seeks control of an inventor father’s fortune, creator of the mercury vapor light.
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San Francisco
Ann Cooper Hewitt
Tilton E. Tillman
Samuel Bow
Miss Hewitt
Peter Cooper Hewitt
Mother and Daughter Die in Fire in Elyria
Pauline Cecil 25 and her daughter Geraldine 6 died in a home fire of undetermined origin in Elyria. The children's father William, a WPA worker, was in Lorain County Jail serving a 30 day sentence for a hit and run injury from last month.
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Elyria
U.P
Pauline Ceceil
Geraldine
Cecil
William
WPA
Lorain County
North Ridgeville
Hit Skip Driver Kills Owner of Ohio Truck
County deputies and state patrolmen hunted a hit-skip driver who struck two men near a wrecked truck on the Warren Niles Road. Albert Winkleman 38, driver, was hurled 25 feet and died an hour later at Warren City Hospital. Harold Franter 21 of Farmdale was knocked into a ditch.
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Warren
U.P
Warren-Niles
Albert Winkleman
Warren City
Harold Franter
Farmdale
Washington Wins Eight-Oared Final at Olympic Regatta
Gruenat Germany U P The University of Washington crew captured the eight-oared feature final at the Olympic Regatta, asserting dominance in a decisive victory.
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Gruenat
Germany
U.P
University of Washington
Holt Attacks Utilities in Speech at Coughlin Convention
Sen Holt charged public utilities control the U S government and have lawmakers on their payrolls while addressing nearly 10 000 at Father Coughlin’s National Union for Social Justice convention in Cleveland. He warned he may be expelled next January for remarks. Coughlin pledged to support the Constitution as Holt backed the union’s 16 principles. Holt condemned WPA funding as a dis grace to politics and bosses.
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Cleveland
UPR
Rush Dew Holt
West Virginia
National Union For Social Justice
United States
Congress
Holt
Senate
Charles E. Coughlin
America
Woman Driver Sought After Fatal Kent Crash
In Kent, a woman motorist who fled after a collision on Route 43 near Brimfield that killed 56 year old farmer John Tevesz is being sought for questioning. Tevesz died three minutes after his son’s car sideswiped the woman’s car. The alledged hit and run involved a man accompanying her as they drove toward Akron. Tevesz died of shock.
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Kent
U.P
John Tevesz
Kent Farmer
Tevesz
Route 43
Brimfield
Akron
Discover Evidence of Murder Ring in East Springfield
An inquest into the Ludlow factory worker Frank Kroll found he was poisoned to collect $12,000 in life insurance. District Judge George B. Haas reported arsenic may have been in his body and suggested a western Massachusetts murder ring could have claimed up to five victims in the past two decades.
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Springfield
Mass
U.P
Ludlow
George B. Haas
Massachusetts
Frank Kroll
Haas
Labor League backs Roosevelt campaign in Ohio
Springfield report says labor leaders formed a non partisan political league to aid Roosevelt. The executive board of the Ohio State Federation of Labor endorsed the effort at a meeting here yesterday.
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Springfield
Labor
President Roosevelt
Ohio State Federation of Labor
AVMA selects Omaha for 1957 convention
Members of the American Veterinary Medical Association chose Omaha Nebraska as the site for their 1957 convention at the close of the annual meeting today in Columbus Ohio.
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Omaha
Columbus
U.P
American Veterinary Medical Association
Neh
Roosevelt Visits Cleveland Amid National Union Convention
President Roosevelt detours from flood control survey to Cleveland stop as Rev. Coughlin opens National Union for Social Justice convention. He meets Ohio leaders, pledges federal flood protection, and signals possible January flood prevention message to Congress. WPA funds totaling over 4 million dollars released for flood reconstruction in four states.
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Frederick Storm
United Press
Sleveland
Roosevelt
Cleveland
Charles E. Coughlin
National Union For Social Justice
N. U
S. J
Five Men Die in Mine Rescue at Mountain City
Rescue workers battled poison gas fumes to recover the bodies of six miners killed in a Mountain City copper mine. Five men died while attempting to save a sixth who was overcome during an inspection between the 500 and 600 foot levels, officials said.
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Mountain City
Nov
U.P
Knox attacks Soak-the-Rich policy at West Virginia rally
Republican vice presidential nominee Frank Knox condemned the New Deal Soak-the-Rich tax policy as unsound and urged a return to fiscal sanity. Speaking at the state Republican convention in Huntington, he criticized government spending, warned of rising deficits, and proposed a Share the Wealth plan through worker ownership of corporate stock. He framed the issue as a call for free enterprise supported by both parties.
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Huntington
W. Va
Frank Knox
Roosevelt
Knox
al Smith
John W. Davis
Carter Glass
Thomas Gore
Judge Orders Astor Thorpe Custody Split Ended
Los Angeles Judge Goodwin J. Knight silence d a fresh round of bitter recriminations between Mary Astor and her ex husband Dr. Franklyn Thorpe. He grants joint custody of their four year old daughter Mari lyn Thorn under strict court supervision with Astor receiving nine months and Thorpe three months. The lavender diary used by Astor will be impounded and available only by court order. The judge also issues arrest warrants for George Kaufman after he defied a subpoena, noting the case remains active when Kaufman returns to California.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Goodwin J. Knight
Mary Astor
Franklyn Thorpe
Knight
Marilyn Thorn
Miss Astor
Thorpe
Aining
George Kaufman
Kaufman
California
Ohio leaders clash over sales tax repeal in campaign
Governor Davey backs repeal of the sales tax on food for home use while Attorney General Bricker accuses him of blocking repeal to avoid $24 million in new taxes. Bricker argues the tax was an emergency measure enacted at ends of the White administration and extended for broader reach.
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Columbushu
Ohio
Martin L. Davey
Archbold
John W. Bricker
Bricker
New Lexington
White
Davey
Hoover Returns to San Juan Hill Campaign Brief
Herbert Hoover, the only living former president, appeared on Stanford University’s San Juan Hill with John D. Hamilton to formally open the Northern California Republican campaign. He denounced the Roosevelt administration and urged preserving the American spirit to create jobs.
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San Francisco
Herbert Hoover
San Juan Hill
Stanford University
Hoover
John D. Hamilton
London
California
Franklin Roosevelt
Toronto Stork Derby Nears Finish in Millar Prize Race
Toronto homeowners await the October 31 1936 deadline as Mrs John Nagle registers a tenth child a girl in the famed half million Millar prize. Mrs Matthew Kenny claims twelve births though not all registered and Mrs Arthur Timlock reports eleven.
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Toronto
John Nagle
Nagle
Charles Vance Millar
Matthew Kenny
Arthur Timlock
Decisive Fight Being Made in Whole of Spain
Rebels and loyalists clash across Spain as civil war escalates with heavy fighting reported near Malaga San Sebastian Estremadura Zara goza Oviedo and other fronts. Prisoners are shot by both sides and two top leaders Gen Joaquin Fantul and Col Jose Fernandez face execution in Madrid.
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Madrid
U.R
Malaga
San Sebastian
Estremadura
Zaragoza
Teruel
Oviedo
Joaquin Fantul
Col
Jose Fernandez
Badajoz
Asturias
Aragon
Huesca
Guadarrama
Granada
Three Army Men Die As Flaming Plane Falls
West Point Va three army fliers were trapped in a flaming bombing plane and burned to death as it plummeted to earth early today. The radio operator parachuted to safety. The pilots were Second Lieut. Willis Marvin Riverside California and Privates John J Maher McKeesport Pennsylvania and James E Crittenden Richmond Virginia. Norbert G Flynn McGuffy escaped in a parachute.
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West Point
Willis
Marvin
Riverside
Calif
John J. Maher
McKeesport
James E. Crittenden
Richmond
Norbert G. Flynn
McGuffy
Two Zanesville Men Die in Traffic Crash
Roy Braden age 40 and Dean Ogilevee age a) drivers for a Zanesville transportation firm died in a hospital after a wreck on Route just east of the city. An asphalt truck struck a bus stopped at a railroad crossing, skidded, and collided with the transportation van. The men were crushed and hot asphalt spilled on them.
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Zanesville
Roy Braden
Dean Ogilevee
Amended plan for Willys Overland reorganization filed
An amended plan for reorganization of the Willys Overland Company guarantees underwriting of 3 500 000 dollars of new working capital and was on file in federal court today in Toledo U P.
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Toledo
U.P
Willys Overland Company
Alliance Woman Dies From Lockjaw After Fall
Mrs. Mary A Griener aged 74 of Alliance died from lockjaw that developed from injuries suffered when she fell in her home on August 1. She had been hospitalized since the accident.
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Alliance
U.P
Mra
Mary A Griener
Center labor union reports bartender shortage here
A local bartender union BALBOA reports a bartender shortage to the central labor union. A Navy airplane reportedly crashed into the Panama Canal today and sank. Initial reports said all occupants perished.
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Alliance
Central Labor Union
Balboa
Upra UU. S Navy
Panama Canal Tolay
Forest Fires Controlled in Several Areas
Settlers near Warroad Minnesota were urged to flee as new timberland fires broke out along the border. A seven mile wide blaze burned tops of pines on the Canadian side with limited fighters. Winds shifted giving hope as Isle Royale fire Hope increases chances of containment.
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U.P
Warroad
Minn
Rodgers
Dick Williams
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Michigan
Isle Royale
Lake Superior
Pilots Sought as Navy Expands Air Arm for 1942 Goal
The Navy, facing pilot shortages, asks ships to forward applications for enlisted men to become aviation pilots. The service currently operates 1,311 planes and recently contracted 114 torpedo bombers. The 1942 fleet target is 1,910 aircraft.
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Washington
Navy
Bureau of Aeronautics
Ohio Murder Suspect Captured in Florida
Columbus detectives sent for 80 year old William Gardner in connection with the January 2 1935 murder of Archie Coyner a Seneca Hotel clerk killed during a robbery Gardner a machinist who once lived in Columbus face questioning after a pistol was found near the hotel as the sole clue in the case Meanwhile James C Kingsley a 73 year old Rock Island street car motorman shot himself after choosing retirement over a bus job
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U.P
C. Cole
Jacksonville
Fla
William Gardner
Archie B. Coyner
Seneca
Coyner
Gardner
Rock Island
James C. Kingsley
Bootleg Whiskey Sample Finds Lethal Stryphmnine Aboard
A sample of bootleg whiskey sent from the Toledo district office to the Department of Liquor Control contained strychnine in quantity capable of killing several people.
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Columbus
U.P
Department of Liquor Control
Toledo
Chaos spreads as Americans urged to leave Madrid area
The U S government orders all Americans to depart Madrid or act on their own, with the Quincy to evacuate arrivals from Alicante. British planes ferry two Americans to Seville while embassies urge compatriots to depart amid reports of chaos.
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Madrid
United States
Quincy
Alicante
Spain
Mediterranean
Maine
Milton K. Wells
Johnn. Johnson
Americana
Puerto Rico
Philippines
Chicago Youth Winner In Finals At Olympic
Wiry Adolf Kiefer, an 18 year old Chicago schoolboy born in Germany, won the 100 meters backstroke final at the Olympic Swimming Stadium in Berlin. His world record time gave the United States a lift in reclaiming the Olympic title from Japan.
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Berlin
Wiry Adolf Kiefer
Chicago
Germany
United States
Japan
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