Ritter Sees High Court Ouster as Politics
Former Florida federal judge Halsted L. Ritter condemned the senate impeachment action as political, saying he was removed for being a Republican. He spoke at his Miami home after arriving with his wife from Washington, claiming the seventh article was unjust and asserting the judiciary’s independence is at stake.
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Miami
Fla
United States Senate
Halsted L. Ritter
Florida
Senate
Washington
Ritter
Italians Fight Near Harar in Campaign for Addis Ababa
Rome reports Italian southern armies clash with Ethiopian forces around Harar as Badoglio masss forces at Dessye for a drive toward Addis Ababa from the north while Graziani is said to push southward from Harar. Harar sits near the railway south of the Djia line toward the capital.
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Rome
Iitaly
Harar
Addis Ababa
Great Britain
Italy
Geneva
Africa
Pietro Badoglio
Dessye
Rodolfo Graziani
Djia
Twelve Families Win Eviction Battle and Remain in Detroit Apartments
In Detroit on a Saturday night, twelve tenant families including 25 children won a circuit court fight to stay in their west side building. Landlord Stephenson moved to dismiss eviction. the families plan to stay temporarily as other civil suits, including assault and battery charges relating to the dispute, proceed.
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Detroit
Papas
Mamas
West Side
Circuit Court
Robert E. Sage
James Montante
Eugene J. Stephenson
Election contest filed over Sioux City mayoral race
Ralph A. Henderson filed notice in the county recorder's office to contest the recent mayoral election, claiming ballot counting errors could change the result, Hayes ineligible, bribes offered, and misconduct by election officials after Hayes defeated Henderson by 137 votes.
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Sioux City
Ralph A. Henderson
County Recorder’s Office
W. D. Hayes
Henderson
Hayes
Three Die in Grist Mill Boiler Explosion at Backus
BECKLEY West Virginia Three men died and four more were critically injured when a boiler at a Backus grist mill exploded Saturday. The Raleigh county incident occurred in the mountain community near Beckley.
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Beckley
W. Va
Backus
Raleigh County
Two Men Sought in Lindbergh Case After Wendel Abduction
In New York two men were ordered arrested on suspicion of kidnaping Paul H. Wendel. Wendel identified Murray Bleefeld and Harry Weiss as captors who held him for ten days and tortured him into signing a confession in the Lindbergh baby slaying case.
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New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
William F. X. Geoghan
Brooklyn
Paul H. Wendel
Trenton
N. J
Lindbergh
Wendel
Hauptmann
Geoghan
New Jersey
Murray Bleefeld
Harry Weiss
Bleefeld
Martin Schlossman
Jack
Schlossman
Harry Bleefeld
Weiss
William Maier
Harry Spidello
David T. Wilentz
Sheepshead Bay
Thomas W. Trenchard
Hauptman
City Briefs And Personals Highlight Local Happenings
Dr Naibert chiropractor advertises. Board of adjustment meets Monday at 2 pm in city hall. Dr J C Landenberger returns from optometrists convention in Des Moines. Miss Florence Humiston visiting Fayette relatives. Triton club spring fellowship at Y M C A Monday after meeting. Frank Machula obtains $4000 permit for 405 Twentieth St NE. Knights of Pythias meet Monday at Pythian hall. Bank of Esquire conferred. Whiting dairy employees banquet at A E Whiting residence with 20 attendees.
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Board of Adjustment
Council
City Hall
Star of the West Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Pythian Hall
Bank of Esquire
Applicants for civil service exam report at McKinley High
Civil service applicants for police and fire positions, except those marked ineligible, should report for the exam at McKinley High School at 8 p.m. Monday. Secretary H. H. Wage of the Civil Service Commission announced Saturday.
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Civil Service
McKinley High School
H. H. Wage
Civil Service Commission
Night Man Arrested At Cedar Rapids Roadhouse
County and federal agents raided the White Lodge on Highway 149 southwest of Cedar Rapids and arrested Jesse P. Caudill, 43, after he was seen discarding a partly filled bottle. No other arrests or liquor were found.
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White Lodge
Highway 149
Cedar Rapids
Ray Lucas
Jesse P. Caudill
Caudill
Man Held for DWI After Near Collision With Sheriff
Chester Williams, 27, of 2301 Eighteenth Street NW, was held for driving while intoxicated about midnight Saturday after his car nearly collided with Sheriff Jim Smith on Rockford Road SW. Williams was taken to the city jail. Blairstown Community School club met at the opera house with 250 attendees. young students staged The Play-room at Night and Magic Gifts under Miss Jane Wilson and Miss Alice Anderson, with interludes by Josephine Eckert and Jack Goss.
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Chester Williams
Eighteenth Street
Jim Smith
Rockford Road
Williams
Blairstown
Opera House
Jane Wilson
Alice Anderson
Josephine Eckert
Jack ‘Goss
Preacher-Bandit Surrenders After Jailbreak Flight
Cass county jail escapees Perry Griffin 24 and Madge Cope land 21 surrender after days on the road. Griffin confesses remorse to Sheriff Weaver, while Copeland recalls hunger and captivity and turns herself in at Jackson county jail.
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Kansas City
Perry Griffin
Madge Copeland
Cass County
Harrisonville
Griffin
Weaver
Adonis
Miss Copeland
Creston
Jackson County
Volunteer fireman with 43 years service dies after final call
Knoxville AP report details Scott Beaman a longtime volunteer who died at the scene of a house fire after insisting on staying to help. Beaman had fought fires for 43 years and recently learned he had heart disease forcing him to quit driving the engine.
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Knoxville (Ap
Scott Beaman
Knoxville
Scott
Louis Robinson
Busby Berkeley Jury Disagrees in Fatal Crash Case
After two days of deliberation, a jury disagreed on a second degree murder charge against Busby Berkeley relating to an automobile crash last September. It marked a second failed verdict in the case.
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Los Angeles
Llp
Busby Berkeley
Teen Surrenders After Stolen Car Quest Ends Quietly
Gerhardt Treder, 19, of Chicago, walked into police headquarters and surrendered after taking a car from Chicago to near Cedar Rapids. Sheriff James Smith recovered the vehicle with Chicago police, who then advised Treder’s release as owner Henry Rospett chose not to prosecute.
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Gerhardt Treder
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Treder
James Smith
Henry Rospett
Monmouth College Freshman Returns To Jail
Harry O Findley 20 of El Centro California a Monmouth College freshman in Illinois was freed to leave the state but readmitted Saturday A robbery with a gun charge was dropped after the victim a mobile salesman asked for leniency saying the youth had made a mistake Findley had robbed Kamp of 5 dollars on April 5 posing as a customer and driving for a demonstration ride He was arrested next day in Madison Wisconsin while visiting a University of Wisconsin co ed He was ordered re arrested and held for grand jury action.
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Chicago
INS
Harry O. Findley
el Centro
Calif
Monmouth College
Monmouth
Ill
Findley
Howard Kamp
Kamp
Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Dalesman Charged With Girl's Murder In Queensboro Park
John Thomas 29 a Jamaica appliance salesman was charged after admitting to knocking Mildred McCabe unconscious during a quarrel and placing her body under a tree in a Queens park. Police say he denied knowing she was dead and investigators note a sister's card as part of the case.
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New York
John Thomas
Mildred McCabe
Queensboro Park
Wil Y William Barr
Thomas
Miss McCabe
Jamaica
Dea
Ann Scanlon
Barr
Police close to arrest in Nan Titterton murder case
New York authorities near arrest of the elusive suspect in the Nan Titterton murder as toxicologists test stains on clothing. Green paint traces on bed linen match paint on a freshly painted fire escape outside the Titterton apartment, while one man with access remains under watch.
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New York
Nan Titterton
Saurday
Titterton
M Derer
Colorado deploys troops to seal southern border
Governor Johnson declared martial law on Colorado's southern border and ordered National Guard troops to the area. The proclamation applies to all entrants including indigents from other states seeking passage into southern Colorado.
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Denver
Colorado
E C. Johnson
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