Irresistible impulse defense debated in Irene Schroeder murder trial
New Castle Pa March 19 The defense may introduce an irresistible impulse to rob claim as part of Irene Schroeder’s murder trial for killing Patrolman Brady Paul after a store holdup Judge Hildebrand will rule tomorrow Special Prosecutor Margiotti pressed for cross examination revealing Schroeder admitted enjoying robberies and wearing boys clothing A re enactment of the shooting took place in court as Dague refused to answer questions and Schroeder wept Prosecutor announced a note to the New York Mirror publisher and others over a Life History manuscript dispute with Whitaker Information was prepared charging compounding a felony and conspiracy to compound a felony
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New Castle
Irene Schroeder
R. L. Hildebrand
Ben Jarrett
Schroeder
Commonwealth
Pennsylvania
Brady Paul
Margiotti
A. J. Kobler
The
New York Mirror
Daily Mirror
James Whitaker
Whitaker
Highlights in the Day's News
Florida governor escorted to border as Capone rumor surfaces. City officials plan Cove Creek water source inspection. Cyrus Eaton pursues new move against Sheet and Tube merger. Auto license tags cut by code committee. Wesleyans beat West Virginia Business College. second game tonight. British steamer seized. shipper seeks cargo pay. Bluefield College begins spring football practice. McDowell courthouse clock weights damage. no injuries. Pope Pius leads protest against anti religious persecution. Alabama high court to rule on primary constitutionality after Heflin ouster.
Mother Wins Royalties From Death Cell Tale
RS. Ellanora Blake, a mother, traveled to New York to watch a Broadway play that draws on a document written by her son before his execution in a Texas prison. The story centers on the play’s origin and Blake’s assertion of royalties.
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Ellanora Blake
New York
Texas
Disputes Delay Doheny Trial Closing Arguments
Washington March 19 disputes between counsel in the Doheny bribery case delayed the start of closing arguments. The defense argued over jury instructions regarding Fall and the Elk Hills lease and Pearl Harbor contract, while the government pressed that Doheny delivered 100000 dollars to Fall with intent to influence actions as secretary of the interior.
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Washington
Doheny
William Hitz
Albert B. Fall
Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve
Pearl Harbor
Elk Hills
Fall
Edward L. Doheny
Interior
British French leaders seek end to naval parity deadlock
London March 19 A surprise two and a half hour meeting between Ramsay MacDonald and Aristide Briand raised hopes that a solution to the Franco Italian naval parity deadlock could end the crisis threatening the firepower naval conference. Briand said they would apply the agreed means quickly.
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London
Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
Aristide Briand
France
Carlton
M. Briand
Miss Ishbel
Miss MacDonald
Play Written By Son Awaiting Execution
New York reports Ella Blake 60, mother of Robert Blake, after her son’s death row legacy echoes in Broadway. He authored The Law Takes Its Toll, inspiring The Last Mile. She attends performances, collects an estimated $25,000 in royalties to close her Amarillo boarding house.
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Texas
Robert Blake
Robert
John Wexley
New York
Blake
Broadway
Amarillo
Tex
Taft Urged Dry Law Observance Before Judiciary Panel
Washington March 19 dry advocates laid before the house judiciary committee the views of William Howard Taft and Josephus Daniels and Commander Evangeline Booth on prohibition. Taft extolled the law as improving society and urged observance as good sportsmanship. Daniels urged a 100 year trial costing far less than liquor costs, and Booth cited slum changes since prohibition.
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Washington
William Howard Taft
Josephus Daniels
Evangeline Booth
House Judiciary Committee
Horace D. Taft
Watertown
Connecticut
Josephus Daniele
Navy
Woodrow Wilson
Booth
Salvation Army
William S. Bennett
New York
Chicago
Daniel C. Roper
Internal Revenue
H. W. Jenkins
Jenkins Coal Strike Enters Second Day At Jenkins Ky
About 2 500 Jenkins colliery workers walk out over yardage wage adjustments as company officials aim to settle within the week. The strike is local with no outside influence and a meeting of several hundred strikers was held in Jenkins.
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Consolidation Coal Company
Jenkins, Ky
Bluefield
Norton
Jenkins
McRoberts
Kentucky
Four Men Rob Bank Branch in Philadelphia Loots $10000
Four masked men held up the Corn Exchange National Bank branch at 2316 Orthodox Street in Frankford, tieing the assistant manager Stanley Szewjowski, clerk Mable Coates and customer Benjasmin Gwardyjak with tape. They escaped in an automobile with about $10,000 after ten minutes.
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Philadelphia
Corn Exchange National Bank and Trust Company
Orthodox Street
Frankford
Stanley Szewjowski
Mable Coates
Benjasmin Gwardyjak
West Virginia Man Detained In Slaying Probe In Gallipolis
Russell Curwood aged 30 of Mason County West Virginia was arrested in Gallipolis and handed to county sheriff as part of the inquiry into Sam Doolittle's fatal stabbing last Sunday night. Doolittle and Curwood were friends and Doolittle was found slain in his room.
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Gallipolis
Russell Curwood
Mason County
West Virginia
Sam Doolittle
Doolittle
Curwwood
Father Hurries Escapee Son Back To Prison In West Virginia
Clyde Hager, 23, an escaped convict, was returned to Maundeville prison by his father Marion Hager. He had fled from a prison camp on May 15, 1929 and wandered through the South before returning home earlier this week. Hager had been sentenced to three years for for erand larceny and was to report July 1, 1928.
Tactics of Lobby Probers Stir Oil Tariff Debate
Washington reports seven hours of bitter hearings over vote trading charges and attacks on how the senate lobby committee conducted investigations. The chamber voted 38 to 29 against a $1 crude oil tariff and 50 percent ad valorem on gasoline and by products, while a Pine compromise failed 32 to 28. Senators from Colorado, Oklahoma, and others denied trading votes.
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Washington
Senate
Thomas
Oklahoma
Tariff Commission
Pine
Hale
Maine
Keyes
New Hampshire
Goff
Hatfield
West Virginia
Goldsborough
Maryland
Walsh
Montana
Colorado
Robinson
Indiana
Norris
Nebraska
Wirt Franklin
Independent Petroleum Association of America
Phipps
Waterman
Road Construction Awards Are Set By Highway Heads
The West Virginia state road commission awarded contracts for four bridges and 10 highway projects totaling 55 miles. Winners include Keeley Construction Clarksburg for Flat woods Bulltown road and Hatfield Turman Charleston for Yawkey Woodville road, with multiple counties listed and bids ranging from about 30 thousand to 339 thousand dollars.
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Highway Heads
Charleston
State Road Commission
Commission
Braxton County
Flatwoods
Bulltown
Keeley Construction Company
Clarksburg
Fayette County
Beckwith
Bose & Ritchie
Ravenswood
Pendleton County
Albert Brothers
Salem
Pocahontas County
Pocahontas Construction Company
Marlinton
Ritchie County
McFarland-Cisco
Tucker County
Miles Davis-Harman Road
R. Giavina & Co
Weston
Blacksville Bridge
Monongalia County
Bramham & Edwards
Clarkeburg
Dennison & Ritter Construction Company
Bristol
W. Va
Vincennes Bridge Company
Vincennes
Ind
Greenbrier County
Little Clear Creek
Clark & Lewis
Former Premier Lord Balfour Dies in England at 82
Lord Balfour died at 82 in Woking Surrey after a long career as prime minister and statesman. Tributes poured in from King George and Britain’s leaders as Parliament adjourned in his memory. The Balfour declaration and Zionist respect marked his influence on British policy and Jewish national hopes.
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Woking
Surrey
England
Lord Balfour
Great Britain
Queen Victoria
James Coltman
James
George
House of Lords
House of Commons
Chaim Weizmann
Zionist Council
Palestine
Traptain
Gerald
Whittingehamme
Arthur
James Balfour
Lord Salisbury
Admiralty
Coalition War Cabinet
America
Paris
Primo de Rivera Interred in Madrid Civilian Grave
Madrid march marks Primo de Rivera’s burial beside his wife at San Isidro cemetery. King Alfonso and Premier Berenguer attended as dignitaries halted at the North station before the funeral. A 21 gun salute and military rites accompanied the cortege through streets lined with infantry and cavalry.
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Madrid
Primo de Rivera
Spain
San Isidro
Damaso Berenguer
Alfonso
Don Frenando Bourbon
Berenguer
Union delegates reject plan to cap coal union’s assessments
Indianapolis March 19 The United Mine Workers of America rejected by a large majority a constitutional amendment to limit the international board to two annual assessments not exceeding four dollars. The convention also refused to curb John L. Lewis’s power to appoint international organizations and authorized revoking District 14’s charter with a provisional government. Alexander Howat leads insurgents. The session adjournment and city selection for the next convention were planned.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers of America
International Executive Board
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Kansas
Alexander Howat
Howat
Union of Insurgents
International Board
van A. Bittner
West Virginia
Constitution Committee
International Mining Congress
Frantz petitions court for rehearing in embezzlement case
L N Frantz former president of the closed American Bank and Trust company Huntington seeks a rehearing before the West Virginia Supreme Court. He was sentenced to ten years for embezzlement after the court sustained his conviction in February. A defense motion to correct the record showing he was absent at one trial stage was overruled earlier by Judge H C Worth.
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Charleston
W. Va
State Supreme Court
L. N. Frantz
American Bank and Trust Company
Huntington
Supreme Court
Frantz
H. C. Worth
Cabell County Common Pleas Court
Governor Grants Execution Stay For George Saunders
Governor Conley granted a reprieve until noon May 2 for George Saunders in Logan county. Saunders, sentenced to be hanged March 28 for murder, may have the Bloxton indictment revisited after new evidence. An X ray showed a 38 calibre bullet in Bloxton’s body, different from the 32 calibre bullet Saunders fired.
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George Saunders
Moundsville
Charleston
W. Va
Conley
Logan County
A. C. Scroggins
Saunders
Dennis Smith
Gussie Bloxton
Smith
J. E. Peck
Bloxton
Peck
Page
Code Code Matters Up For Debated Changes In West Virginia
Charleston del, March 19. Debates over what constitutes new legislative matter loom as the joint central committee mulls the pending state code. Ruling by President Mont Z White limits discussion to the code text or existing law as delegates push to challenge it. The committee hears chapters on corporations taxation roads and highways and more as it weighs authority to enact new laws in code form.
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Charleston
W. Va
Mont Z. White
Senate
Joint Central Committee
House of Delegates
F E. M. Keatley
Central Committee
State Road Commission
West Virginia Road Commission
Road Commission
Wild Life League
Game, Fish and Forestry
Justices of the Peace
White
J. William Cummins
House
Joint Committee
Keatley
Thayer M. McIntire
Wood County
Mother House
Thomas J. Davis
Ritchie County
Parmelee Taxi Reopens as Injunction Halts Striking Drivers
Pittsburgh on March 19 the Parmelee Transportation company resumed taxi service to aid its relief fund and obtained a temporary five day injunction against the striking drivers. Thirty cabs operated downtown with deputy sheriffs and extra police present. no disorder occurred.
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Pittsburgh
Parmelee Transportation Company
Parmelee Company
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Cyrus W. Eaton
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U. S
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College Field
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McDowell County
Vatican City
Pope Pius
Montgomery
Ala
High Court
Heflin
Death Cell
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Son
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Ord Balfour
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