Fearful prospects grow from Geneva talks and Rhineland delays
Prime Minister David Lloyd George warns that League of Nations discussions yield no settlement as Britain, France, and Belgium sketch new war plans. Eden backs no fortification. Flandin delays Rhineland action until May while Abyssinia suffers amid renewed sanctions debates.
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Universal Service
American Newspapers, Inc
London
League, of Nations’ Council
Committee of Thirteen
Geneva
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France
Britain
International Red Cross
Eden
Rhineland
Belgium
Germany
Easter Day Reflections on Life Love and Renewal
A 1936 meditation ties Easter to spring and the renewal of life. It speaks of Jesus blending with the Spirit of Spring, the power of love, and personal transformation, urging readers to seek freedom from self and live in deed as Easter hope.
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Jesus
Borah and Knox in Controversy Over Backing Fairfield Campaign
Senator Borah campaigned in his native Borah Illinois city denouncing financial interests he says seek to control the Cleveland convention. He cited a Knox telegram and said big business money aims to shape the Republican ticket and platform. Knox denied backing any candidate and put total Illinois expenditures at about 25 000.
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U. S
William E. Borah
Wayne County
Cleveland
Frank Knox
Chicago
Knox
Borah
Illinois
Danville
Ilinois
Sun Oil Company
Standard Oil Company
du Pont
Roosevelt
Carbondale
Ill
Charity patient of 1894 pays hospital bill with interest
A 70 year old man known as N R F repaid the $159.19 owed to a Pennsylvania hospital from 1894 charity care. He had spent 46 days there as a charity patient and offered three percent compound interest. Officials accepted the cash payment.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Hospital
N R. F
N.R. F
Italians Plan Decree to Free Ethiopian Slaves
In Rome, Marshal Pietro Badoglio intends to issue a decree on Sunday freeing all slaves in territories occupied by Italy in Ethiopia. The announcement came Saturday.
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Rome
Pietro Badoglio
Ethiopia
New Trial Sought for Phil Kennamer in Tulsa Murder
In Pawnee Oklahoma a motion for a new trial seeks relief for Phil Kennamer the Tulsa smart set murder defendant who killed John Gorrell on Thanksgiving 1934. The defense attaches letters and a key affidavit claiming Kennamer acted to save a kidnapped sweetheart and that Gorrell plotted a wider kidnapping scheme.
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Pawnee
Okla
Kennamer
Smart
Phil Kennamer
John Gorrell
Tulsa
Franklin E. Kennamer
Criminal Court of Appeals
Oklahoma City
Stephen Wright
Canton
Wright
Gorrell
Knox College
Galesburg
Kansas City
Virginia Wilcox
Confesses Slaying Of Reserve Officer
In Kansas City Kansas a 30 year old reserve officer Walter D Sandford was killed roadside. Raymond Boyer 32 an ex convict confessed to the slaying leading Jackson county Sheriff Thomas B Bush to announce the case solved.
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Kansas City
INS
Kansas City, Kan
Walter D. Sandford
Raymond Boyer
Thomas B. Bush
Jackson County
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll for 1936
In Cedar Rapids the 1936 auto toll figures show 140 accidents resulting in 81 injuries and deaths. The figures indicate rising road dangers and call for scrutiny of traffic safety measures.
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Cedar Rapids
Gazette’s Sunday sections outline broad Iowa news and events
The Sunday Gazette presents world national and local news with farm features, editorials, society notes, and entertainment. It lists pages for Cedar Rapids eastern Iowa society Marion news and more, plus sports, theater items, ads, and serials including Good Penny.
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Washington
Iowa
Ed Hadley
the Gazette
O. O. McIntyre
Edgar Guest
Jay Sigmund
Eliza Burkhalter
Gazette
Ray Anderson
Jeanette Beyer
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Eastern Iowa Society
Home Institute
Nancy Page
Mary Manners
White Sox
Cubs
Cedar. Rapids
Adeline Taylor
Louella Parsons
Hollywood
Kidnapping Suspect Doyle Nabbed in Dallas Tex
Lloyd Blackie Doyle, sought since July 1933 as ringleader in the August Luer kidnapping and mistreatment case, was arrested in northeast Dallas sitting in a parked car with a woman. Police photographed and fingerprinted all detainees and identified Doyle after prints matched. Officers found pistol clips but could not locate a machine gun. Doyle admitted his identity under questioning.
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Tex
Lloyd “Blackie” Doyle
August Luer
Alton
Doyle
Madison County
Illinois
Luer
Wilkerson
Will Fritz
Leaks Reveal Roosevelts’ Crop Payments to All Sides
Reported leaks show Allan Hoover receiving 4800 dollars from AAA payments linked to cotton on the Greenfield ranch Bakersfield California. Other leaks include Justice Willis Van Devanter and Sen. Arthur Vandenberg. critics say disclosure aims to weaponize New Deal farm relief.
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Roosevelt
Allan Hoover
New Deal
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Hoover
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AAA
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Willis van Devanter
United States Supreme Court
Thomas Campbell
van Devanter
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Vandenberg
Henry Wallace
Mexico Seizure of Calles Estates Urged by Workers
Reports claim agrarian groups and others urged the Mexican government to confiscate ex President Plutarco Calles vast holdings including three haciendas and two houses valued at about 2.78 million dollars. A women’s group sought his Mexico City residence be turned into a home for working women as exiled Calles remains abroad.
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Plutarco Elias Calles
Calles
United States
Mexico
Rodriguez
Brownsville
Tex
Alfredo Calles
Plutarco Calles
Secretary of the Interior
Young Calles
Lazaro Cardenas
Judge deputizes mob to avert lynching in Georgia
In Danielsville Georgia a 74 year old judge deputized about 100 masked men to stop an attempted lynching of Lint Shaw accused of assaulting a white girl. Shaw was wounded during the standoff as deputies and a guards unit took him to Athens for medical care after stabbing two officers.
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Danielsville
B. T. Moseley
Madison County
Lint Shaw
National
Henley
Shaw
Colbert
G. A. Elder
Ralph Baird
Elder
Athens
Weather outlook for April 13 to 18 across central plains
The Chicago area and central plains face a mainly dry spell with occasional showers in northern sectors. Temperatures stay near to above normal early in the week before cooler turns midweek, affecting the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys and nearby plains.
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Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri
Great Plains
Marion Nixon and Husband Adopt Baby in Las Vegas
Film star Marion Nixon and director William A. Seiter adopted a baby boy named Christopher Nixon Seiter. Born in Los Angeles last June, the child was flown to Las Vegas for court adoption papers to be signed Saturday.
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Las Vegas
Nev
INS
Marion Nixon
William A. Seiter
Los Angles
Christopher Nixon Seiter
Sheriff's Deputy Slain In Battle Near Sanford North Carolina
SANFORD N C AP A deputy sheriff was killed and another deputy wounded when officers raided an alleged whisky still. Deputy James Thomas died from his wounds and Deputy Owen Taylor was gravely wounded. Robert Williams, alleged still operator, was shot and condition unclear.
Judge Ritter Denies Corruption Charge in Senate Case
Federal Judge Halsted L. Ritter testified there was no corruption in his handling of the Whitehall Building receiver ship and said a $75,000 fee to A. L. Rankin was reasonable. Senate leaders expected a decision early next week as House prosecutors planned rebuttal witnesses.
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LLP
Halsted L. Ritter
Senate
Whitehall
Ritter
A. L. Rankin
House
Rankin
Sam Hobbs
Ala
Hobbs
Two Suspects Sought in Titterton Murder Case
New York police hunted two suspects in the bathtub murder of Nancy Evans Titterton author of Crime Club fiction and wife of a young executive. A polite sandy haired man asked for Miss Phyllis Claxton and a second in dungarees was seen on a building roof. the victim was found nude except stockings after a violent assault.
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New York
Nancy Evans Titterton
Alice Hoyes
Beckman Place
Countess Hoyos
London
Hollaman
Phyllis Claxton
W. A. de Witt
Titterson Building
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