Barbour Case Appeal Expected After 25 Year Murder Conviction
Dr J A Barbour was sentenced to 25 years for second degree murder in the Downey shooting. Attorney Archer signaled a possible appeal to the supreme court while bond rules would shift if appeal proceeds. The defense contested dying declaration status and juror bias as grounds for a new trial. Page 4, Column 4.
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Hiawatha
Kan
Daily World
J. A. Barbour
W. H. Downey
C. W. Ryan
District Court
W. E. Archer
Ed Rooney
Topeka
J. F. O’connor
Big Timber
Mont
Archer
Supreme Court
Dr. Barbour
Barbour
Lloyd S. Miller
F. M. Pearl
Downey
Everest
Pearl
Rooney
Johnson urges less work more pay in recovery plan
Washington reports Hugh S. Johnson demanding shorter hours and higher wages while warning industrial units to comply or face penalties under the recovery act. He pledged to revive public support for the blue eagle and enforce penal provisions with orders from the president.
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Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
Blue Eagle
Roosevelt push to curb influence on federal lobbying
President Roosevelt and congressional leaders urged action to curb the Washington activities of men of political influence before government departments. The aim is to prevent influence peddling in monetary matters and to curb lobbying by members of national parties and others claiming government sway.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hundred Year Old M D Still Treating Patients
Dr. Wilson A. Allen of Rochester Minnesota marked his 100th birthday while still practicing medicine. He recalls being rejected for Union Army service in 1864 due to health and notes a long career spanning over 75 years. He credits abstaining from tobacco and alcohol for longevity and says his latest patient is improving.
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Rochester
Minn
Wilson A. Allen
United States
Allen
House Approves Grazing Land Fee System Bill
The House Public Lands Committee favors the Taylor bill to regulate grazing on public lands under a fee system. The Interior secretary would set grazing districts, charge stockmen fees, and regulate use under leases, with forests remaining under Agriculture. An Englebright amendment allows mineral rights in designated areas.
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Washington
House Public Lands Committee
Taylor
Secretary of Interior
Interior Ickes
Agriculture
Wallace
Interior
Secretary of the Interior
Agriculture Department
Harry L. Englebright
Republican
California
Ickes
Englebright
Dillinger Flees Jail in Indiana with Hostages
John Dillinger, dubbed John the Whittler, escapes Crown Point jail with Herbert Youngblood using a wooden pistol. He disarms guards, seizes two machine guns, commandeers a car, releases hostages, and speeds away with Blunk and Sanger before freeing them later at Peotone. An extensive manhunt of up to 20,000 officers spreads across midwest states.
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Crown Point
Ind
John Dillinger
Midwest
Dillinger
Herbert Youngblood
John the Whittler
William Patrick O’malley
East Chicago
First National Bank of
O’malley
Ernest Blunk
Blunk
Edward Sanger
Peotone
Joliet
Youngblood
Gary
More Than 10 Million Will Be Paid to Bank Depositors
R L Olson of the Home Owners Loan Corporation said in Ogden Utah that over 10 million dollars would be distributed to depositors of closed institutions in eight intermountain states by June 1 through HOLC bond exchanges for mortgages. He reported 472 loans closed totaling 818 625 with 5456 loans worth 9 320 011 awaiting closing and cited state totals from Colorado to Nevada. Applications have already been received for a total of each ADS including those closed.
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Ogden
Utah
R. L. Olson
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Intermountain
HOLC
Olson
Colorado
Wyoming
New Mexico
Montana
Arizona
Idaho
Nevada
New Deal for Montana Sheepmen Tied to Lamb Purchases
Helena March 7 A plan to support Montana sheepmen centers on the purchase of 9 000 to 10 000 feeder lambs for fall delivery at 7 cents a head. W C McHattie of Helena arranged contracts for H F Patterson Co of Billings with deliveries from Sept 25 to Oct 20. The price mark, the highest since 1929, signals renewed activity in the Montana sheep industry across Avon Elliston Gold Creek Augusta Wolf Creek and Helena areas.
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Helena
Montana
W. C. McHattie
H. F. Patterson Company
Billings
Murray E. Stebbins
Montana Woolgrowers Association
Stebbins
McHattie
Avon- Elliston
Gold Creek
Drummond
Deer Lodge
Augusta
Wolf Creek
Avon-Elliston
Augusta-Wolf Creek
Patterson Company
Woman Named to Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
President Roosevelt on March 6 named Florence E. Allen of Cleveland to the federal circuit court of appeals, making her the first woman to be appointed as a federal judge. Allen currently serves on the Ohio supreme court, and the circuit court of appeals ranks just below the U S Supreme Court.
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Circuit Court OF Appeals
Washington
Roosevelt
Florence E. Allen
Cleveland
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
Miss Allen
Ohio Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Twelve Die After Toadstool Dinner Feasts
In San Luis Obispo California March 2 the toll from a toadstool dinner rose to 12 with two more Filipino lettuce pickers dying after joining the feast thinking it was mushrooms. Of 12 others critically ill only four may survive. the remaining eight are in final stages of alkaloid poisoning causing liver atrophy and death.
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San Luis Obispo
Cal
Carnera Beats Loughran In 15 Rounds For Heavyweight Title
Primo Carnera defeated Tommy Loughran in a 15 round decision at Madison Square Garden Miami on March 1. The crowd of about 15,000 paid an estimated 50,000 in gate receipts as Loughran, a 1 to 5 underdog, withstood a barrage from the champion in a rain soaked, financially poor show. Referee Shea and two judges rendered a unanimous decision for Carnera with rounds split 10 to 12 in favor of the challenger.
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Madison Square Garden Stadium
Miami
David
Tommy Loughran
Pugilism
Goliath
Primo Carnera
Loughran
Florida
Philadelphia
Jim Jeffries
Jim Corbett
San Francisco
Bob Fitzsimmons
Carson City
Nev
Shea
Carnera
Treasury Seeks $800 Million in Back Taxes
In January the Treasury started a drive to collect more than $800,000,000 in back taxes chaired by Secretary Morgenthau. The $12.456 million first month total was 75 percent of the monthly quota, with most delinquencies from income taxes as Morgenthau ordered all internal revenue agents to push tax due into the treasury.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
Internal Revenue
Insull May Have to Vacate Greece Pronto
In Athens on March 3 the foreign minister signed an order demanding the speedy expulsion of Samuel Insull from Greece. Officials said a final move could order him to quit within 24 hours after over two months of orders and counter orders.
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Athens
Samuel Insull
Chicago
Insull
Greece
Agriculture's 1935 budget cut by two-thirds
The house passed the agriculture department's 1935 appropriation totaling 61.8 million dollars less than a third of this year’s spending and sent it to the senate. Despite a 2 million dollar allocation for grasshopper control, overall next year’s funds drop to 138.3 million less than 1934. Some representatives argue the cut is excessive given permanent annual appropriations and other available moneys.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
House
Senate
Mullen Third Democrat to Quit Committee
J J Thomas Nebraska state chairman announced Arthur Mullen resigned as national committee man effective on successor selection. He was the third Democratic committeeman to quit since Roosevelt’s critique of lawyers in government. A March 17 Nebraska central committee meeting will name a replacement.
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Washington
J. J. Thomas
Nebraska
Arthur Mullen
Mullen
Roosevelt
Thomas
Nebraska Central Committee
Wynekoop Murder Verdict Sentences Doctor 25 Years
In Chicago on Tuesday a criminal court jury found Dr. Alice Lindsey Wynekoop guilty of the operating table murder of her daughter in law Rheta. The panel fixed her punishment at 25 years imprisonment after a 36 minute deliberation.
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Chicago
Wynekoop
Alice Lindsey Wynekoop
Rheta
Civil Works Program Ending March 30
The Civil Works program will end March 30, with all workers in cities 5000+ dropped and transferred to state and local relief on April 1. Rural demobilization proceeds, as Hopkins plans tighter eligibility, 24 hour week wages at local rates, and shifts of payroll from federal to state authorities.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Harry L. Hopkins
Federal Emergency Relief and Civil Works
Hopkins
Florida
North Dakota
South Dakota
Minnesota
Kansas
Drouth
Wisconsin
Veterans Bureau
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Bearded Lady of Baltimore Dies After Hoax Confession
Baltimore reports the death of the city’s famed bearded lady who lived as Capt. Malvino Perry. On her deathbed she confessed to Dr. David Franklin that she had posed for years in male and female roles, including marriage to Joseph Edward Cheelsman, and fathered a son in Baltimore while real mother lived in Buffalo. A heart attack ended the long ruse and a controversial life on the waterfront.
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Baltimore
David Franklin
Malvino Perry
Captain Perry
Midocean
Robert
Franklin
Perry
Buffalo
N. Y
Joseph Edward Cheelsman
Rankin Announces Senate Campaign From Helena
Wellington D Rankin of Helena former U S district attorney for Montana announced his candidacy on the Republican ticket for the two year term to finish the unexpired tenure created by the resignation of late United States Senator Thomas J Walsh ranking candidate seeks to succeed Walsh in the Senate.
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Helena
Wellington D. Rankin
United States
Montana
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana PWA Board Dies Natural Death
Helena March 3 The Montana public works board adjourned sine die after clearing 105 loan and grant applications totaling 11 million dollars The board which began August 17 1933 was terminated February 28 and members stayed to close pending cases Twenty of the applications were approved in Washington for over 4.5 million dollars while 85 remaining in the capital totaled about 6.5 million dollars.
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Capital
Noted photographer of Indians dies at 80
Superior Wis March 6 David F Barry known as the Little Shadow Catcher died at 2 pm after two years of illness He photographed chiefs who defeated Custer near the Little Big Horn and knew relatives of Black Hawk He left a large studio collection including Rain-in-the-Face Sitting Bull Crow King and Chief Gall Born 1854 at Honey Falls New York.
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Superior
Wis
David F. Barry
Barry
Buffalo Bill Cody
Custer
Little Big Horn
Montana
Blackhawk
Dakotas
Volunce
Sitting Bull
Crow King
Chief Gall
Honey Falls
N. Y
MacDowell Heads to Ireland Post as U S Minister
William Wallace MacDowell of Dublin Gulch Butte Montana halted in New York en route to Ireland to assume as American minister. He aims to strengthen trade relations to increase Irish whisky and bacon imports to the United States.
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New York
William Wallace MacDowell
Dublin Gulch
Butte, Mont
Ireland
Sioux Falls Bank Robbery Ranked One of Nation's Daring Heists
In Sioux Falls South Dakota on Tuesday a gang of six to eight machine gun wielding robbers swept a Securities National Bank and Trust branch of $46 000 in daylight. One police officer was shot and another slugged as authorities pursued the fugitives into Minnesota with planes over the border. Bank officials initially noted a resemblance to John Dillinger but later retracted the claim after reviewing photos. Roughly 1 000 bystanders watched as the bandits blocked Ninth Street and Main Avenue and guards lined up customers while outside gunmen kept watch. Hale Keith a motorcycle officer was wounded when one robber fired a volley through a bank window as he neared the building.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Minnesota
Securities National Bank and Trust Company
John Dillinger
Dillinger
C. R. Clarke
Ninth Street
Main Avenue
M. W. Parsons
Hale Keith
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Johnson
M. D
Indiana
Murray Stebbins
Federal Treasury
PWA Board
Macdowell
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