Townsend Flight From Probe Triggers House Charges
Sullivan accuses elderly Dr. Fran E Townsend of using Congress to fund his pension scheme. Downey denies prearranged walkout while alleging Townsend leadership profited from Prosperity Publishing Co and Townsend Weekly.
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Washington
Fran E. Townsend
Congress
James Sullivan
House
Townsend
Sullivan
Townsend Ame
Sheridan Downey
Townend
Frank H. Buck
Calif
Buck
Townsend Eekiv
Han
Russia
Downey
Sullivan Calid Townsend
Scot
Congressional Lobbying Committee
Robert Earl Clements
DARP
Prosperity Publishing Co
Townsend Weekly
Cameras Grind While Crime Is Re Enacted
Chicago report recounts Thomas Starr confessing to the murder of Mrs Lillian Gould in a YWCA hotel. Starr 29, black, said he climbed a window into her room and struck her with a brick. To prevent recanting, officers had him re enact the crime before motion picture cameras.
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Chicago
U.P
Thomas Starr
Lillian D.iGuld
YWCA
Starr
Fire destroys Parkersburg Country Club after blaze
Parkersburg Country Club a social landmark since 1903 burned Sunday in a fire likely started by a short circuit. Officials estimate property loss at about $25,000 as investigators examine the two and a half story clubhouse.
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Parkersburg
New Deal Backs Off Railroads and Ends Transportation Office
Washington sources report the Roosevelt administration will not pursue railroad consolidations now and will let the federal coordinator of transportation expire on June 16. Eastman plans for merging terminals and routes are halted, sparing workers from displacement for the near term.
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Washington
U.P
Federal
United Press
Roosevelt
Joseph B. Eastman
Eastman
White House
F Eastman
Joint Socialist Plan Rejected
In Cleveland militants at the Socialist convention scotched a joint Socialist Communist presidential campaign. Maynard C. Krueger of the University of Chicago proposed killing the Communist link, insisting Socialists must pursue change through their own party. Delegates cried No to any alliance.
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Cleveland
U.P
Maynard C. Krueger
University of Chicago
Norman Maroon Thomas
Krueger
Socialist Party
Communist Party
Funeral services set for Mary Louise McGrail
Columbus residents mourn four year old Mary Louise McGrail killed when struck by a taxicab as she ran across the street in front of her home. The funeral is scheduled for Tuesday with details released by local authorities.
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Columbus
U.P
Mary Louise McGrail
World-Famous Report Reveals Answers From GOP Front-Runners
Frazier Hunt presents ten questions on vital issues to leading Republican presidential possibilities. Nine enlightening articles will appear exclusively in this newspaper beginning on page 4.
Sloop Upset Off Belle River Claims Four Lives
Near Detroit in Lake St Clair a squall capsized a 24-foot sloop carrying William Barlow Arnold Woll Clifford McLeod Philip Brinkus and Elmer Reagin all factory workers. Two bodies were recovered. four others perished before rescue efforts found Reagin who survived.
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Belle River
Ont
U.P
Lake St. Clair
Detroit
William Barlow
Arnold Woll
Clifford McLeod
Philip Brinkus
Elmer
Sloop
McLeod
Brinkus
Barlow
Reagin
Wolf
Army
Reagan
Paul Blanchard
Wife in crisis after gun fix leads to suicide
In Chicago, Oliver Armbruster described instructing his wife Wilma 27 to use a pistol and then staying nearby as she killed herself. He said they were drinking and argued after seeing her with another man. He claimed differing versions of who fired the fatal shot and remained under police questioning.
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Chicago
U.P
Oliver Armbruster
Wilma
Striking workers assault Ideal Milk president near plant
Frank Kinskey aged 48 head of Ideal Milk Company Portsmouth was beaten by steel workers during a strike at Wheeling Steel plant. He had escorted 20 company officials by yacht to the Ohio River entrance where 5500 workers have been on strike since Friday. He reached a yacht club unharmed but hospital treatment followed.
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Portsmouth
U.P
Frank Kinskey
Ideal Milk Company
Wheeling Steel Corporation
Kinskey
Ohio River
Filene Resigns from U S Chamber of Commerce
Edward A. Filene, 74, a founder and liberal booster of New Deal ideas, resigns from the U S Chamber of Commerce describing it as a potent center of reaction. He accuses the chamber of serving special interests and failing to craft intelligent solutions to business problems.
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Boston
U.P
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Edward A. Filene
Filene
Primitive Methodists May Unite With Methodist Protestant Church
In High Point North Carolina delegates to the Methodist Protestant Church general conference approved a proposal to unite with two other branches. The conference suggested uniting the Primitive Church with about 22 000 members mostly in Pennsylvania and New England into the Methodist Protestant Church.
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High Point
N. C
U.P
Methodist Protestant Church General Conference
Primitive Church
Pennsylvania
New England
Methodis
Pian Methodiat
Locust Tune Is Love Song to Mate Say Scientists
Cincinnati scientists say the 17 year locust males produce a rasping vibrating sound as a love song to their mates. Dr William A Drever of the University of Cincinnati zoology department notes neither sex can hear the serenade due to the locusts lacking definite auditory organs.
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Cincinnati
U.P
William A. Drever
University of Cincinnati Zoology Department
John Cicida
Drever
Railroading of Tax Measure To Be Fought
Senate Republicans vow to block closing debate on the administration tax bill to ensure open discussion. Minority leader McNary says open debate could last all summer as the finance committee finalizes a revised bill aiming for 620 million permanent and 517 million temporary revenue.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
Charles L. McNary
Ore
Senate Finance Committee
Lynching Threat Follows East Side Assault Attempt
In New York City a crowd of more than 200 men and women threatened to lynch Samuel Schmerler after he was found attempting to assault a four year old girl in an east side cellar. The Bronx resident, 24, was arrested by Patrolman Rocco Scarfone. the girl was unharmed though her clothes were ripped. Schmerler faced a charge of impairing the morals of a minor and was questioned about other attacks on young girls.
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New York
Samuel Schmerler
East Side
Schmerler
Bronx
Rocco Scarfone
Schmeiiler
New Jersey Solon Is Dead in Washington
Rep. Randolph Perkins of New Jersey died in Georgetown Hospital after a two week illness. Perkins served in the New Jersey state legislature, was Mayor of Westfield, and served in Congress continuously since 1920. He underwent an operation for a kidney infection last Friday but did not recover.
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Washington
U.P
Randolph Perkins
RC N. J
Georgetown
Perkins
New Jersey
Westfield
N. J
Congres
West Virginia Man Nabbed in New York
Federal agents announce the arrest of Harry S. Spielman of West Virginia on a federal grand jury indictment for violating the national motor vehicle theft act. The FBI reports he was captured early today in New York City and will be transported to West Virginia for trial.
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Washington
U.P
Harry S. Spielman
Bikins
W. Va
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Spielman
New York City
West Virginia
State Rights Protected by Rule of Court
The Supreme Court condemned the Municipal Bankruptcy Act of 1934 as an infringement on contract obligations and a breach of state sovereignty. In Cameron County Water Improvement District No. 1 the ruling held the act as a whole unconstitutional, striking at congressional power over state and local debt relief.
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Washington
U.P
Supreme Court
Cameron County
Tex
James CC. McReynolds
Congress
Texas Improvement District
Hearing Set For Goodyear Sit Down Strikers
Twenty nine United Rubber Workers members charged with violating Ohio riot act over a Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. sit down will get a hearing Wednesday. Unrest followed arrests, with two sit ins disrupting Front Street late at night. Labor groups urged Roosevelts Justice Department and the Senate to probe espionage and unfair practices by management. ACLU was asked to aid in defense, and counsel Jerome Taylor received continuances until Wednesday to prepare.
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AKRON
U.P
United Rubber Workers Union
Ohio
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Roosevelt
Department of Justice
American Civil Liberties Union
Jerome Taylor
Rich heir Leeds weds Olive Hamilton aboard yacht
In a sea wedding off the British West Indies, William B. Leeds, son of tinplate fortunes and former husband of Princess Xenia, marries Olive Hamilton, 24, daughter of William Hamilton. The ceremony aboard the Moana was performed by Captain John B. Fox, witnessed by crew. their romance began when Leeds rescued Hamilton in Atlantic City years earlier.
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Pittsburgh
British West Indies
William B. Leeds
Olive Hamilton
William Hamilton
Leeds
Xenia
Russia
Anastasia
Greece
Moana
John B. Fox
Miss Hamilton
Atlantic City
Princess Xenia
Memorial to Legion Commander Unveiled in heavy rain
Five thousand people attended the dedication of a $3000 memorial for Col. Ralph D Cole once Ohio Department commander of the American Legion. Paul Herbert of Columbus gave the dedicatory address as seventeen hands and a drum and bugle corps marched in the parade after the ceremony.
Arab Attacks on Jews Reported in Palestine
Guerrilla warfare tied to ongoing Jewish Arab disorders was reported across Palestine. Arabs attacked buses and government forces and tried to cut telephone lines and bomb government buildings. Arab row boats reportedly bombed and fired on a Jewish ship arriving at Tel Aviv on Sunday.
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Jerusalem
U.P
Palestine
Tel Aviv
New Orleans man leaps 155 feet from bridge to prove it possible
Louis Klein a 19 year old painter from New Orleans jumped 155 feet from the new Mississippi River bridge to show it could be done. He was rescued after being trapped in mud on the riverbank and treated for shock. High divers praised the feat but noted it did not beat the professional record.
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New Orleans
U.P
Louis J. Klein
Mississippi River Bridge
Klein
Steve Brodie
New York
Brooklyn Bridge
Trades School
Bruce Barnes
Emile Gilkers
Mississippi
Barnes
Silkers
Louis E Marchand
Frank Cueching
Manhattan Bridge
Claims Slayer Near Insanity New York Defense Portrait in Fiorenza Case
Dr James McCartney state psychiatrist who examined John Fiorenza testified Fiorenza was potentially insane at Elmira Reformatory in 1933 while confessing to theft. District Attorney William Dodge challenged the 1933 diagnosis noting McCartney viewed Fiorenza as dull and normally minded then and easily influenced into a false confession.
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New York
U.R
James McCartney
John Fiorenza
Mra
Nancy Evans Titterton
Elmira Reformatory
Fiorenza
William Dodge
McCartney
Dodge
Elmira
Klauber
Triple shooting on a Millersburg farm leaves couple dead
Rubin Rohskopf aged 27, angered over his wife’s divorce petition, first wounded his father-in-law Frank Mohler 60, then killed wife Mary 22, before fatally shooting himself. The incident occurred on a farm near Millersburg U P on Sunday.
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Millersburg-—-U.p
Rubin Rohskopf
Frank Mohler
Mary
Rohskopf
Machine Gun Robbers Escape With $20,000 Loot
Five armed robbers held up the Pocahontas Oil Co. offices in Cleveland seizing about $20,000. William F Minshall Sr., company president, said two dozen employees were forced against a wall during the heist.
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Cleveland
U.P
Pocahontas Oil Co
William §F Minshall
Detroit Murder Warrants Target Black Legion Members
Authorities issued murder warrants for 25 Black Legion members in Detroit over the Poole slaying. Thirteen suspects already in custody face conspiracy and murder charges tied to a May 12 killing. Investigators plan state wide action and seek federal aid as more links and leaders are sought.
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Detroit
Black Legion
Charles A. Poole
Poole
John Doe
WPA
West Side
Wayne County
Duncan C. McCrea
Ralph W. Liddy
Harvey Davis
Ecolonel
Society
Daveton Dean
Urban Lipps
Ervin D. Lee
George ©. Johnson
Paul R. Edwards
Edgar Baldwin
Lowell Rushing
Hershell Gill
John B. Mitchell
Thomas R. Craig
Jack Bannerman
James R. Lorrance
McCrea
David H. Crowle
Pontiac
Jackson Prison
Michigan
Harris Re elected President Of Ohio Blue Pencil Club
M M Carothers of the Columbus Dispatch was reelected president at the ninth annual Blue Pencil Club of Ohio meeting. N N Luxon of Ohio State University Journalism School was reelected secretary treasurer and Paul W Reed of the Alliance Review became vice president. Walter Locke of The Dayton Daily News spoke on freedom of the press. C H Harris of The Athens Messenger attended, founder and early president.
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Columbus
U.P
M M. Carothers
The
Columbus Dispatch
Blue Pencil Club of
Ohio
Desk
N. N. Luxon
Ohio State University Journalism School
Paul W. Reed
Alliance Review
Walter Locke
Dayton Daily News
C. H. Harris
Athens Messenger
Wendel Kidnaper Dies Amid Criminal Proceedings
New York report states Harry Bleefeld a 61 year old indicted in the Wendel kidnapping case died Sunday night from complications of diseases. He had been free on 7500 dollars bond since arrest over a month ago and his illness worsened last week, but the prosecution against the remaining six defendants proceeds.
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New York
U.P
Paul H. Wendel
Lindbergh
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Harry Bleefeld
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Supreme Tribunal
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Nancy Titterton
Harris
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