Jury Acquits Cannon and Burroughs in 1928 Campaign Funds Case
In Washington DC, Bishop James Cannon Jr and Ada L Burroughs are found not guilty on both counts of concealing campaign contributions from 1928. After three hours and four ballots, the jury acquits them of any unlawful reporting of funds from Edwin Co Jameson used in Alfred E Smith's southern campaign.
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Cannon
Bishop Cannon
Edwin Co. Jameson
New York
Virginia
Alfred E. Smith
Miss Burroughs
Methodist Episcopal Bishops
Jackson
Miss
Ada Pairecy
Parkersburg
W. Va
Peyton Gordon
Naomi A. Jackson
Foreman
Willam J. Newman
James Cannon, Jr
Ada L. Burroughs
Newman
The
Methodist Episcopal Church South
District Supreme Court of
Washington, D. C
Republicans See Campaign Material In Tariff Measure
Washington AP reports Republican leaders, though criticizing tariff policy, plan to mobilize for the upcoming Senate clash. They expect the new tariff grant to the President will fuel claims of dictatorship, yet privately concede the measure will pass. Chairman Robert Lincoln O’Brien accused the old tariff laws of inflexibility and said the commission catered to Presidential views.
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Washington
Tariff Commission
Senate
Roosevelt
Commission
Robert Lincoln O'Brien
Finance Committee
Chicago Man Held as Bremer Suspect
Federal agents arrested William E. Vidler in Chicago and recovered 2665 dollars of the ransom paid for the release of Edward G. Bremer, a St. Paul banker. Vidler was held incom municado as officials pursued further inquiry under Melvin Purvis. The finding marks the first definite trace of ransom money in the Bremer case.
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Chicago
William E. Vidler
Edward G. Bremer
St. Paul
Vidler
Melvin Purvis
Federal Department
160 Housing Schemes To Be Turned Down
Washington officials say more than 160 housing and slum clearance projects, totaling over 330 million dollars, face rejection as speculative. About 25 projects forwarded for study seek more than 838 million, while 181 pending applications exceed 450 million dollars.
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Washington
Public Works Administration
Public Works Emergency Housing Corporation
Housing Corporation
PWA
Germans warned against debt holiday on Dawes Young loans
London reports Britain and France warned Germany against moratoriums on the Dawes and Young loans. Berlin talks with foreign bondholders and Reichsbank officials addressed medium and long term credit transfers as Schacht said partial payment in foreign exchange is no longer possible. American views remained tentative with no Washington instructions reported.
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Berlin
Reichsbank
von Neurath
Washington
Leon Fraser
Bank For International Settlements
London
Great Britain
Dawes and Young
Germany
Eric Phipps
Konstantin von Neurath
Hjalmar+ Schacht
Reich
Hague
Paris
Farley Lifts P.O. Ban on Vacations
Postmaster General James A. Farley ended the last post office economy restriction by restoring vacations effective immediately. The move will increase work for substitute postal employees previously affected by the restrictions.
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Washington
James A. Farley
Day in Washington sees early housing action promised
President Roosevelt pledges early steps on a proposed housing program. Eastman named to lead federal railroad coordination again. Coo lidge confirmed as undersecretary of the Treasury. NRA code fixes minimum prices to curb price wars. House panel approves dairy product distribution probe. Trade Commission eases small security issues.
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Associated Press
Roosevelt
James Camden, Jr
Ada L. Burroughs
Joseph B. Eastman
Federal Railroad
Robert L. O’brien
Tariff Commission
White House
Norman H. Davis
Senate
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge
the Treasury
NRA
The
Trade Commission
Herbert Hoover
Bank litigation stems from garbled truth in Cedar Rapids
Retail trade in Cedar Rapids waned as two banks faced liquidation plans and court actions. Milner estate claims were settled at 75 percent but the initial 50 percent payout threatened to stall as false reports claimed full collection. Depositors faced a tense wait for $1.5 million in early funds amid ongoing negotiations and publicity.
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Cedar Rapids
American Trust and
Cedar Rapids Savings Banks
Sid Milner
Charles Foy
Milner
H. F. Paar
Mr. Milner
Foy
State Banking Department
Banking Department
R. F.C
the Gazette
Foy Estate
Legal Bureau
Gazette
Grover Krouth
Kerensky Declares Communism Dead In Soviet Russia
Alexander Kerensky, the 1917 revolutionary leader, breaks years of silence to denounce the Moscow regime as the severest dictatorship in Europe. In an interview with United Press, he says Marxian socialism failed by eroding the power of the middle classes and predicts war in the Pacific is inevitable. He notes the middle class is now the strongest force in the struggle between capitalism and labor.
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Alexander Kerensky
Russia
Soviet Union
Japan
Ralph Heinzen
United Press
Paris
WY Ralth Reinzen
Soviet Russia
Moscow
Europe
Kerensky
Far East
Abe
Nicholas II
Lenin
Trotzky
Fear Three Burned To Death In Blast Due To Leaking Gas
A Chicopee Falls explosion and fire, caused by leaking gas, killed Mrs. Mary Pronko and left two other missing adults believed dead. Twenty one people were injured and property damage reached fifty thousand dollars as one dwelling collapsed and fifteen more were damaged. Francis Stanchowicz was injured but not severely. his brother and father searched for the missing Pronko family.
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Chicopee
Mass
Chicopee Falls
Mary Pronko
Joseph Pronko
Sbeaulieu
Francis Stanchowicz
Francis
Protests Innocence As He Dies In Chair
Charlie Outlaw aged 60 died in the electric chair in Huntsville Texas for the murder of Mrs. Frank McCall. He claimed innocence to the end, becoming the oldest man to die in the chair in Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntsville
Tex
INS
Charlie Outlaw
Frank McCall
Texas
Kidnaper Of Luer Swims To Freedom
Randell Norvell, serving a life term for the August Luer kidnapping, escaped from an Illinois state prison by crawling through a sewer and swimming to the Mississippi River.
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Luer
Chester, Ill
Randell Norvell
August Luer
Alton
Ill
Greek scholar guest at women’s college urges purposeful living
A renowned Oxford Greek scholar visiting an American women’s college is asked to translate a class motto. The joke reveals the motto means aimless living is futile, urging students to organize life toward a definite purpose and avoid drifting without direction. The piece emphasizes energy wasted on activity without goals.
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Oxford
America
Dillinger Aide Van Meter Identified in Villa Park Robbery
Chicago report says Homer Van Meter, ally of John Dillinger, recognized in photos as one of five men who robbed the Villa Park Trust and Savings Bank of six thousand dollars. Miss Lilian Valenta and Frank Chancellor identified him. Dillinger was not pictured. Police link the sighting to renewed gang dispersal after the Wisconsin Little Bohemia raid.
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Chicago
Homer van Meter
John Dillinger
Villa Park
Dillinger
Warsaw
Ind
Little Bohemia
Wisconsin
van Meter
Dillinger Gangsters Split Mines and Marshals in Midwest Chase
In Wisconsin and Minnesota, Dillinger gang figures split up as Tommy Carroll and George Nelson evade about 100 federal, state, and local officers. Nelson, known as Baby Face, slipped past gunfire after two days hiding with Ollie Catfish near Lac du Flambeau, then hijacked a mail carrier’s car for escape.
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Lac DU Flambeau
Wis
Dillinger
Tommy Carroll
ST. Paul, Minn
George
Baby Face
Nelson
Forces of Law
John Dillinger
Wisconsin Woods
Mercer
Ollie Catfish
Adolph Goetz
Hils
Goetz
Father stops hunt willing to pay ransom in Tucson kidnap case
In Tucson a six year old heiress June Robles was kidnapped. A ransom of 10000 dollars was demanded and a note offering to lower it to 10000 appeared by mail. Police traced a telephone contact and shifted search toward Phoenix while a potential motive linked to two disgruntled relatives is explored.
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Hunt
Tucson, Ariz
June Robles
Tucson
Fernando Robles
Phoenix
June
Pearch
Robles
Los Angeles
Teacher Aviator Elsa Peabody Dies After Plane Out of Control
Miss Elsa Peabody a Kansas City area schoolteacher who took up flying as a hobby died when the airplane she was in went out of control over Goose Island in the Missouri River. Witnesses at Fairfax airport say she performed inverted dives from about 4000 feet and jumped about 200 feet above the island but the parachute could not save her fate.
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Kansas City
Kan
Elsa Peabody
Goose Island
Missouri River
Fairfax
Miss Peabody
Sugar Bill Moves to White House for Signature
Speaker Rainey signed the Jones Costigan sugar control bill and sent it to the Senate for Vice President Garner to sign. After that, the measure goes to the White House for final approval.
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Washington
Rainey
Senate
Garner
White House
Truce Reaches Cleveland Gas Labor Dispute
Tank truck drivers accept Mayor Harry L. Davis's 10 day truce proposal ending a week of gasoline shortages in Cleveland. The agreement halts strikes and allows resumed deliveries while talks continue.
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Cleveland
Harry la Davis
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