Murder in Doctor Wynekoop Mansion Baffles Police
Chicago police detain seven members of Dr. Alice Wynekoop’s household after the nearly nude body of Rheta Gardner Wynekoop is found on an operating table. Investigators seek motive as questions arise about an insurance policy and a sentimental letter. The case unfolds with police, coroners, and the slain girl’s father examining evidence and potential dopings.
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Alice Lindsay Wynekoop
Chicago
Rheta Gardner Wynekoop
John Stege
B. H. Gardner
Indianapolis
West Side
Wynekoop
Kansas City
Kan
Wynekoopp
Catherine
Tracy Discharged by Film Company
Lee Tracy, film actor, was discharged by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after a telegram from Louis B. Mayer cited deplorable behavior in Mexico City. The five year contract was cancelled and he was removed from the film Viva Villa and from the studio's employ. Tracy planned to travel from El Paso to Los Angeles amid border chase attempts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Mexico City
Los Angeles
Lee Tracy
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Motion Picture Company
Tonight
Louis B. Mayer
Tracy
Mayer
Albelardo Rodriguez
Mexico
el Paso
Tex
Soviet K7 Overland Plane Crashes Killing 14 Workers
Moscow reports the K7 giant airliner, touted as the world’s largest overland plane, crashed during a trial run from Kharkov killing 14 aviation workers including the chief pilot and factory officials. A government commission investigates, with details withheld.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Kharkov
Snegireff
Constantine A. Kalinin
Mikhail Kalinin
Russia
Podolek
Dnnieperpetrovsk
Dnieperostroy
Big Four Railroad Brotherhoods Call a Saturday Strike
In Houston officials of four Southern Pacific brotherhoods voted late today to strike the Texas Louisiana system at noon Saturday. The walkout involves about 3000 operating employees from El Paso to New Orleans, including firemen enginemen conductors and engineers. The date and hour were set and carrier notification will follow. Magna Mining to resume full operations in Arizona adding 500 jobs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Tex
Southern Pacific
Texas
Louisiana
el Paso
New Orleans
Fred W. Lewis
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Brotherhoods
Virginia commission debates rum control bill
Richmond Va Nov 22 The Virginia liquor control bill draft faced long sessions as the liquor control commission sub committee and full panel revised the measure late into the night. Delegate Hall expressed disgust while Senator Shumate warned the process could drag into next fall with slow progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Liquor Control Commission
Wilbur C. Hall
London
A. E. Shumate
UMW Candidates Sweep Industrial Election in PA Mines
In southwestern Pennsylvania fourteen pits vote as part of the largest industrial election, with United Mine Workers led by John L. Lewis winning about 15 to 1 over non union and company unions. Sixty four percent of the 6,500 votes went to the UMW slate.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers of America
Pennsylvania
John L. Lewis
National Labor Board
America
Indicted Hart Kidnapping Suspects Face Postal Charges
J M Holmes and Thomas H Thurmond who confessed to kidnapping and slaying Brooke Hart were indicted by a federal grand jury on seven counts of using the mails to extort. U S Attorney H H McPike said the maximum punishment could reach 122 years in prison and $40 000 in fines for each man. Bail set at 50 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
J. M. Holmes
Thomas H. Thurmond
Brooke Hart
Thurmond
Holmes
San Jose
United States
H. H. McPike
Hart
Robbers Enter Local Postoffice
Post office in Bluefield was burglarized early yesterday morning. Two mail pouches were slit and parcels opened. no registered mail affected. Entry was through a broken upper window pane and the thieves likely escaped by the same route. Police and investigators awaited further information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
W. E. Albright
Albright
Norton
Banking activity in theater finance project disclosed
Senate investigators presented evidence of large banker profits from initial financing of General Theatres Equipment Inc and later losses totaling about 70 million dollars in 1933. Aldrich and Dodge testified on totals and write offs while Fox Film assets were reorganized under GTE. Separately the census bureau reported cotton spinning at 101.9 percent capacity in October after 99.6 percent in September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
General Thetres Equipment, Inc
Chase National Bank
Chee Securities Corporation
Senate Investiga
Ferdinand Pecora
Stock Market Investigating Committee
Murrayy W. Dodge
Chase
General Theaters
Harley L. Clarke
General Theatres
Winthrop W. Aldrich
Chase Bank
Aldrich
Chase Securities Corporation
Orient Gte
Fox Film
William Fox
GTE
Fox Theatres
Fox
Census Bureau
Treasury Buys U. S. Government Bonds Amid Gold Buying
Washington reports the treasury supports the bond market as it proceeds with gold purchases to raise commodity prices. Dr. Sprague criticizes policy, warning of lower par bond prices and possible inflation if issues rise. Domestic gold set at 33.76 dollars, foreign prices fluctuate while bonds sag.
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Sprague
Washington
M. W. Sprague
Treasury
Funde
The
Postal Savings, Farm Credit Administration
Debt Sinking Fund
Federal Deposit Insurance
Morgenthau
Congress
Woodin
New York
Dr. Sprague
Governor Kump Receives Demand for Money Hoax
Governor Kump ignored the anonymous letter demanding 100000 as two uniformed troopers posed as a delivery at a Charleston hotel. State police guarded the scene with plainclothes officers including Superintendent Shingleton and Captain Rexroad. Investigators deem the letter well written and likely a hoax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Kump
Shingleton
H. N. Rexroad
Recess move advances as revenue plans surface in legislature
Lawmakers push toward a Friday recess to December 6 as a joint ten member committee forms to draft a property tax bill. House and Senate debate net income electric power cigarette beer malt and billboard taxes while home and farm relief gets priority. Former Governor Cornwell may explain the Prince railroad plan amid concerns over West Virginia rail consolidation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Supreme Court
Senate
Beacom
Cabell
Reed
Clay
John J. Cornwell
Baltimore and Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Johnson Orders Compliance Shift for NRA Codes
Washington reports Hugh S. Johnson strengthens industry duty to enforce NRA codes. A new committee will organize government units with trade associations taking on load while the government can veto noncompliant actions. Regional boards may expand to state based structures as labor questions stay with unions and boards. Miners vote for collective bargaining spokesmen in southwest Pennsylvania as rest vote tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hugh
Johnson
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
NRA Cieftain
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
NRA
National Labor Board
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers
H. C. Frick Coke Company
United States Steel and Storm Center
Union Recognion
Court Postponed Over Change of Court Location
Kingwood Preston county court failed to enter an order changing the place of holding court, postponing the November term for one week. Judge A G Hughes ordered grand jurors who reported to return next Monday, while petit jurors are not to report until December 4.
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Kingwood
Preston
A. G. Hughes
Treasury Guards Ordered To Stand At Attention
Acting Secretary Morgenthau ordered treasury guards to stand at attention when addressed to show respect for officials. He summoned chief clerk F A Birgfeld to complain about guard behavior and reiterated limits on treasury staff speaking with reporters.
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Treasury
Washington
Henry Morgenthau Jr
The
Morgenthau
F. A. Birgfeld
Revenue raising bills filed in both houses
Lawmakers introduced multiple revenue measures including net income taxes, cigarette levies, billboard taxes, an electric power tax, malt tax and a beer stamp tax. Proposals ranged from 0.5 percent to 4.5 percent incomes, tobacco and billboard levies, and a $10 billboard license fee.
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Charleston
W. Va
Herold
Braxton
Holjt
Lewis
Holt
Herald
Beacom
Cabell
Smith
Wirt
Senate
Marion
Harmon
Putnam
Doringer
Martin
Jefferson
Early recall of state police from Jewell Ridge
State troopers sent to Jewell Ridge at Judge Buchanan's request to protect Jewell Ridge Coal property are expected to be recalled any time. Evidence suggests the earlier threat by miners was a misunderstanding and the shutdown over tipple expansion caused by worker disputes has ended.
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Jewell
A. C. Buchanan
Jewell Ridge Coal Corporation
Pollard
Mine Workers Union
Beckley Airfield to Be Inspected for Development
Washington reports that at Representative Smith's request the commerce department will send an airport specialist to Beckley West Virginia to advise on Skelton field development. The visit precedes an application for public works funds and the expert is due within a week to ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Smith
D.W. Va
Commerce Department
Beckley
West Virginia
Skelton Field
West Virginia approves Southside link projects in Raleigh meeting
Civil Works Administration approves 557 highway projects in five to fourteen counties including Grassy Branch Cumberland Pike. Staff outline supply methods as officials from state and federal offices pledge to raise funds to match federal unemployment relief. Governors and legislators attend with Bailey Beehler and Hunter among attendees.
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Charleston
W. Va
Civil Works Administration
Bailey
West Virginia
William N. Beehler
Howard Hunter
Federal Relief Administration
Kump
Hunter
Beehler
Hiner
House
Mathews
Senate
Holt
Mercer County
Cherry Street
South
Bluefield
Princeton County
Cumberland Pike
Oakvale
Goodmans Chapel
Elgood
Grassy Branch
Ada
Black Knight Club
Sprague
Long-Lost Painting Claim Reignites Birth of Christ Mystery
Raleigh reporter J. D. Paulson, an architecture professor at North Carolina State College, says photographic evidence supports that Leonardo da Vinci painted the Birth of Christ, not the Adoration of the Kings as long believed. He notes the work, commissioned by the Duke of Milan in 1493 for Emperor Maximilian, has been misattributed for centuries. Paulson, born in Council Bluffs and educated at Alleghany College and Yale, presented his findings today.
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Raleigh
N. C
Leonardo da Vinci
Christ
J. D. Paulson
North Carolina State College
Sandro Botticelli
Florentine
Leonardo
Milan
Maximilian
Paulson
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Alleghany College
Pennsylvania
Yale
Frazier Awaits Noose on Friday in West Virginia
Leo Frazier, Charleston mechanic, on death row at West Virginia State Penitentiary. His wife Louise Frazier serves 15 years for accessory in the Roy Shamblin murder. A clemency request and alienist report push toward possible mercy action by the governor. Frazier has weekly visits with his wife and awaits formal action tomorrow.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Leo Frazier
Charleston
West Virginna Penitentiary
Frazier
Roy Shamblin
Kanawha County
Louise Frazier
C. F. McClintic
A. L
Wheeling
Kump
McClintic
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Walter W. J. Brown
New York Life Insurance Company
Frank J. Walsh
Husband
Salem
T. G. W. Settle
Chester L. Fordney
Akron
Ohio
Fordney
Settle
Com. Settle
Airdock
Alloway
N. J
Scleveland
New Franklin
East
Liverpool
Pittsburg
New Salem
Nsburg
McConnellsbur
Trenton
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
BIG Four Brotherhoods
Phoenix
Ariz
Magna Mining Company
Arizona
Virginia Commission
UMW
Slayers OF
U. 3
Republican
James Harvey Rogere
Sach
Rainey
Evi
Cornwell
Prince
Rum Control
House of Delegates
Jewell Ridge
Beckley Airfield
TATE
Southside
Darvale
Okehs
Raleigh County
Birth OF
Noose
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