Thorpe Astor Custody Battle Reaches Settlement
Final terms of the Astor Thorpe custody case are set to be submitted to Judge Goodwin Knight. Marylyn Thorpe will live nine months with Mary Astor and three months with Franklyn Thorpe, with each parent bearing half the child care costs. The diary will be placed in a secret court-held location.
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Los Angeles
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Franklyn Thorpe
Mary Astor
Marylyn
Goodwin J. Knight
Astor
Miss Astor
Dr. Thorpe
Everyday Living Advice on Relax Realize Resolve
A reader letters column reflects on managing nerves and self focus in a hectic world. It praises the idea of life as art and stresses deliberate discipline, seeking something bigger than self to help relax, realize, and resolve better living.
Girl Scalded As She Falls With Pan Of Boiling Water
Marion Lois Breiholz nine year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Breiholz 922 Eighth Street SW was badly scalded on both legs about 1030 Wednesday night when she fell while holding a pan of boiling water She was preparing to go with her parents to watch the circus load up and lost her balance when she turned She is being cared for at her home
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Marion Lois Breiholz
Arthur A. Breiholz
Eighth Street
Bandits raid gambling game near Elks picnic
Five masked gunmen held up an outdoor gambling game along the Iowa River near Marshalltown early Thursday. They wounded operator Paul Black in the chest as he tried to resist and fled in a car after taking the visible cash. Police report W A Kinsey was struck in the jaw during the robbery and Black is expected to recover.
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Marshalltown
Paul Black
Black
Old Country Club
Iowa River
W. A. Kinsey
Government Opens Fight On Narcotics
The federal government plans a new offensive against the international narcotics trade to stamp out smuggling. A complete reorganization of the customs border patrol will take effect Sept. 1 as part of the campaign to curb illicit drug entry into the United States.
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Washington
INS
Tresury Morgenthau
Customs Border Patrol
United States
Not the Brown Bullet in Cleveland Hug Turns Heads
Sylvester Owens, 27, enjoyed his brother Jesse's Olympic fame until a large woman mistook him for the sprinter and hugged him. Sylvester, once faster than Jesse in street races, still works two drug stores and seeks a third job to stay busy.
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Cleveland
Sylvester Owens
Jesse
Sylvester
Two Drugse
Germans Move to Eliminate Trade Barrier
Washington reports that Germany may drop export subsidies and end countervailing duties on U S imports. Ambassador Luther delivered a note to Secretary of State acting secretary William Phillips outlining the move, aiming to remove artificial obstacles to trade. Germany will require payments in marks convertible to foreign exchange, ending use of improvised aski marks.
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Washington
United States
Germany
Hans Luther
William Phillips
Woman Sheriff May Execute Bethea at Dawn
Owensboro Kentucky UPI report says Sheriff Florence Thompson may personally press the gallows trap in the Bethea execution for the 1936 assault murder of a 70 year old woman. Her aides report she has not committed to a method or deputy role.
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Owensboro
Florence Thompson
Rainey Bethea
Daviess County
Bethea
Hoover Concerned Over Issues, Says Chairman Hamilton
John Hamilton, Republican National Committeeman, met with former President Herbert Hoover at the Hoover home in Stanford California. Hamilton said Hoover was very concerned over campaign issues and offered helpful suggestions. Hoover made no comment before Hamilton and his party left for Oakland to address a rally.
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Stanford University
Calif
INS
John Hamilton
Herbert C. Hoover
Hoover
Hamilton
Oakland
Wa terloo Woman Dies After Long Illness and Birth
Mrs. James L. Turnbull of Waterloo died at University Hospital Iowa City after a long illness that began with the birth of her daughter Mary Ann on July 18. Daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Charles T. Hickok she was born Mary Louise Hickok in Green Springs Ohio on October 7 1904 and moved to Cedar Rapids with her parents in 1906.
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James L. Turnbull
Waterloo
Charles T. Hickok
Fifth Avenue SE
University Hospital
Iowa City
Mary Ann
Rain Fizzles Out With Light Shower Downtown
A spot shower passed over Cedar Rapids Thursday morning offering little relief to dry vegetation. Temperatures fluctuated from 75 at 5 a.m. to 82 at 8 a.m., dipping to 76 at 10. By 1:15 p.m. 83 appeared, remaining 83 at 2:45 p.m., after a record 104 at 3 p.m. Wednesday. A hot night followed with a 93 reading at 7 p.m. and 78 by midnight per Chambers Keeps Company records.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
Hamilton Attacks Farley Over Censorship Claims
Sacramento reports John Hamilton accuses James A. Farley of suppressing government reports unfavorable to the New Deal. He cites the agricultural economics cotton report, air mail contract inquiry, and silver speculation probe as evidence of suppression and inside profit rumors.
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Sacramento
Calif
James A. Farley
John Hamilton
Farley
Hamilton
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Wallace
Coughlin abandons united front with Townsend and Smith
Cleveland plans for Father Coughlin to join with Townsend and Smith in a nationwide tour for a new union party ticket collapsed as his National Union for Social Justice opened its first convention. He said he may appear with Townsend in New Orleans but will withdraw if the union loses its identity. He denied a formal coalition and indicated Townsend and Smith may speak after the convention.
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Charles E. Coughlin
Francis E. Townsend
Pension Clubs
Gerald L. K. Smith
Union Party
National Union For Social Justice
Father Coughlin
Townsend
Smith
William Lemke
New Orleans
National Union
Townsend Clubs
Share-Our-Wealth
Coughlin
Walter D. Davis
Two Girls Drown Rescuing Woman in Missouri River
In Omaha Nebraska Harriet Sheridan ten and Mildred Bryant eleven died after jumping into the Missouri River to help their aunt Mrs Gladys Bryant who was in distress. The woman was saved but the two girls could not swim and were swept away by a dangerous current. Rescue teams searched through the night for the bodies.
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Omaha, Neb
Harriet Sheridan
Mildred Bryant
Missouri River
Gladys Bryant
Mother of Alvin Karpis Sues Time Inc for Libel
Anna Karpavicz, mother of gangster Alvin Karpis, files a $100,000 libel suit in Chicago against Time Inc. over a May 4 Time magazine report claiming she did time in Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma prisons. Her attorney says she has never been in prison or visited those states.
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Anna Karpavicz
Alvin Karpis
Alcatraz
Superior
Time, Inc
Time Magazine
Henry Allen Blair
Karpavicz
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Spanish Rebels Attack Gibraltar Ironclad Base
Reinforcements by Riffian tribesmen helped Franco forces press the offensive on Malaga. Insurgent columns from La Linea and San Roque moved along separate routes toward the large naval base.
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Gibraltar
INS
Francisco Franco
Malaga
la Linea
San Roque
Loyalist warship Jaime Primero sunk in Malaga harbor
The Jaime Primero, Spain's first line battleship, was sunk in Malaga harbor by rebel air bombing. Rebel radio in Seville reported Gen. Emilio Mola arrived there to confer with Gen. Francisco Franco. The attack damaged Malaga naval base and followed recent bombardment of Algeciras.
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Jaime Primero
Spain
Malaga
Seville
Emilio Mola
Burgos
Francisco Franco
Algeciras
Straits of Gibraltar
Spanish Morocco
Peninsular Spain
Franco Spanish frontier sealed as San Sebastian battle rages
At Hendaye frontier the Franco Spanish line is closed while rebels and loyalist troops clash over San Sebastian. A rebel detachment trying to outflank government forces suffered heavy losses as bombardment and air support kept up the fight.
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Hendaye
France
INS
San Sebastian
Iran
Irun
Rebels Bomb San Sebastian In Final Offensive
Five rebel planes bombed the seaside city of San Sebastian causing heavy damage and injuring eight. The rebel cruiser Almirante Cervera waited two miles offshore as direct hits struck the airport anarchist headquarters and the boulevard, among other targets at the resort once used by Spain’s king.
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Spain
San Sebastian
Almirante Cervera
Slayer of Japanese Actress Surrenders
Ray Johnson surrendered in Corona California confessing he killed Michi Takaoka with a butcher knife in a jealous rage. Police said the 37 year old lumber camp cook admitted slashing the actress's throat after finding her with another man.
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Los Angeles
Raymond FE
Johnson
Michi Takaoka
Cook
Corona
Ray Johnson
Midhi Takaoka
J. H. James
Euel Ward
Gas Meter Plays Radio in Basement Trance
Charles Munn of Union New Jersey heard voices from his basement and, armed with a club, went to investigate. The sounds proved to come from a gas meter that, by a freak accident, behaved like a radio emitting music after the voices.
Government launches inquiry into strikebreaking industry
The La Follette committee announces a public hearing next Wednesday to review civil liberties violations. Five major detective agencies will surrender private records under 30 subpoenas across six cities as evidence of alleged alliances with firms supplying strikebreakers.
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Washington
la Follette Committee
Senate
W. J. Burns Detective Agency
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Railway Audit and Inspection, Inc
Forrest C. Pendleton, Inc
Central Industrial Service
la Follette
Robert M. la Follette
Wis
Senate Committee On Education and Labor
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
Louis Murphy
Lock Foreman Guilty Of Murder In Mercer County
Mercer county jury convicts John H. Collins New Boston lock carpenter foreman of murder in the stabbing death of Roger Johnson 19 of Keithsburg last April 21. The sentence is the minimum fourteen years in the penitentiary after a 24 hour deliberation. Johnson was killed over alleged romance with Collins wife during a California trip. Defense centered on an insanity plea after a long, bitter trial with seventy one ballots.
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Aledo
Til
Mercer County
John H. Collins
New Boston
Roger Johnson
Keithsburg
L. E. Telleen
Young Johnson
Collins
Roosevelt Launches Three Day Nonpolitical Tour
President Roosevelt begins a three day non political tour through Pennsylvania Ohio and New York to inspect flood scenes and deliver two or three speeches. He will travel to mine regions in Pennsylvania and the southern tier of New York with stops at the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland and Chautauqua for talks on foreign affairs and the good neighbor policy. The trip ends with a return to Hyde Park New York where he will spend a week at the summer White House.
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Roosevelt
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Ohio
New York
Hyde Park
N. Y
White House
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Cleveland
Chautauqua
Roosevelt at conference on federal needs
A White House briefing with Secretary Morgenthau and congressional leaders said no new or increased taxes will be needed next year. They announced an immediate study of the tax structure to remove inequalities and administrative difficulties and to consider repealing nuisance taxes if revenue loss is small.
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Morgenthau
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Roosevelt
Treasury
Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
Doughton
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
White House
Coughton
Joint Congressional Committee On Internal Revenue Taxation
Discover Fire-Starting Device Found Near Sudbury
Forestry officials fight 150 northern Ontario fires with hundreds of men. Rangers found an incendiary device: a tin can with shavings birch bark and a candle. Two devices found. one failed, one started a fire. Authorities probe a score of suspected arsons.
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Sault Ste. Marie
North Bay
Bocas
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