Oklahoma Man Ends 19 Days Silence in Confession
In Oklahoma City, Roger Cunningham admitted strangling his wife Eudora Cunningham on March 6 after a 19 day silence. He led officers to a sewer grave, described the motive as overwork and nagging, and signed a detailed confession near occupied houses before authorities.
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Oklahoma City
Eudora Cunningham
Roger Cunningham
Cunningham
George Goff
E W. Brown
FHA
Brown
Foster High School
Morris
Joel P. Stokes
Two 13 Year Olds Admit Five House Prowls
A Cedar Rapids report says two 13 year old boys confessed to ransacking five east side homes and breaking into two businesses this month. They were caught near Atlantic, Indiana, by a highway patrolman and returned to Cedar Rapids. One boy, previously at Eldora training school, admitted the Atlantic break in and led officers to the arrest site.
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Cedar Rapids
East Side
Atlantic
Bob Vlach
Tom Condon
Pat Edwards
Eldora
Everyday Living Confessions From Dr Newton
Readers ask about love proposals, marriage choice, ministry life and personal temptations. Dr Newton reflects on the limits of deciding for others and the value of understanding human frailty.
Hungarian Border Accord With Slovak Approval
The Slovak government accepted Hungary’s offer to end border warfare by fixing a new frontier line. A joint Slovak Hungarian commission will meet Monday to negotiate the demarcation. Germany was trying to smooth the dispute in Budapest. Premier Tiso protested the move, and Hitler was reported indignant. Hungary claimed the Slovak Ruthenian border had not been delimited since Czechoslovakia’s breakup.
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Budapest
Germany
Tiso
Slovakia
Adolf Hitler
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Germans Object To Czech Announcer Flippancy
Prague authorities detained Czech radio announcer Franz Koconrek after he aired humorous but sensitive remarks about a German military parade. His staged descriptions mixed sharp political allusions and sardonic asides about tanks crowds and a crow seen as a bad omen by Prague listeners.
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Prague
Franz Koconrek
Iowa House rejects court suggested legal changes bill
The Iowa House defeated a measure to let the state supreme court propose changes to speed legal procedure. The bill drew 47 votes but failed to reach the constitutional 55 margin with 26 absent and 35 against. The Senate had approved the bill 34 to 0.
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Iowa House
High Tribunal
Des Moines
Supreme Court
House
Senate
John R. Irwin
Dewey Goode
Bloomfield
Wayne M. Ropes
Onawa
A. H. Avery
Spencer
John R. Shales
Tripoli
State Supreme Court
J. A. Graham
Audubon
Elmer Johnson
Cedar Rapids
Bone Measure Will Take All We Can Beg Borrow Steal
A comic column by Arthur Bugs Baer skewers Senator Bone for a wartime tax bill that would extract money by any means. The piece lampoons funding efforts by noting we already funded prior measures and jokes about heavy wartime taxation and borrowing.
Tarzan Durand dies after bank hold up manhunt ends
Cody Wyoming UP reports Tarzan Durand a savage woodsman killed four men and was shot by a 17 year old schoolboy at Powell bank. After escaping jail he killed a deputy and town marshal before dying in a Beartooth blizzard with 300 man posse closing in.
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Cody
Undertaker
Tarzan Durand
Earl Durand
National Guard
Beartooth Mountains
Tarzan
Man
Best
Tipton Cox
Durand
Powell
D. M Baker
Charles Lewis
Beartooth Range
Martin P. Beck Dies Pioneer Vehicle Manufacturer
Cedar Rapids resident Martin P. Beck 70 died at home Saturday at 6 30 am from a heart attack. He co owned Beck Hawkeye Motor Truck Works and helped shift to truck bodies. Survived by wife and daughter Lillian a Roosevelt junior high teacher. Funeral Monday 2 30 pm at Rohn chapel with Masonic rites burial Linwood Cemetery.
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Martin P Beck
First Avenue W
Pioneer
Cedar Rapids
Beck Hawkeye Motor Truck Works
Beck
Lillian
Roosevelt Junior High School
Mr. Beck
Janesville
Wis
Mount Hermon
Elton D. Wells
Masonic Lodge
Linwood Cemetery
Masonic Hall
Masaryk to Speak Here Sunday After California Trip
Masaryk, former Czechoslovak minister to England, left San Francisco by plane and will reach Chicago by train Sunday afternoon, then arrive here at 3 30 p m to address the Memorial Coliseum at 8 p m The Czech American alliance president, T B Hlubacek, said the schedule was confirmed after a Chicago contact and noted Eduard Benes might have spoken if Masaryk could not appear.
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Cedar Ranlas
Jan Masaryk
England
San Francisco
Chicago
Memorial Coliseum
T. B. Hlubacek
Czech-American Alliance
Masaryk
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Judge Delays Sentence For News Photographer Contempt
CHATTANOOGA Tenn AP Criminal Judge Charles Lusk refused to fix a definite sentence for Robert Brown a Chattanooga News photographer held in contempt for refusing to provide grand jury information about cockfight photos. Brown was ordered held until he discloses what he knows.
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Chattanooga
G.O.P. Scheme Threatens Parity Payments Funding
Washington AP report outlines a Republican strategy to strip parity payments from the agriculture department appropriation bill. Democrats fear a double-edged tactic to force votes against parity while also pressing for WPA funding. (Entities: Tarver, Sabath, Roosevelt, Wallace)
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Washington
Agriculture Department
House
Rep. Tarver
Roosevelt to Visit Warm Springs Georgia for Spring Vacation
President Roosevelt announced at a press conference that he will depart Wednesday for a spring vacation in Warm Springs, Georgia, returning to Washington on April 10 or 11. He is suffering from a severe head cold aggravated by sinus trouble.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Politician Louise McKee Slaying Confession Reported
Nassau county Assistant District Attorney Harold F. Strohsan said Robert Oldaker, 43, gave a full confession to the slaying of Louise McKee, a 57 year old Republican politician, two weeks after the murder in Mineola New York.
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Mineola
N. Y
Harold F. Strohsan
Nassau County
Robert Oldaker
Louise McKee
Mediterranean Locarno talks seen to ease Italian claims
Europe presses secrecy to craft a Mediterranean Locarno style pact amid tensions over Italy versus France. An envoy between Mussolini and Laval reportedly mediates Paris Rome talks on Mediterranean issues.
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Paris-Rome
London
INS
France
Paris
Rome
Mussolini
Pierre Laval
Accord proposed to include Britain Franco Spain Italy in Mediterranean settlement
International News Service reports a possible accord among Britain France Italy Franco Spain to settle the Spanish question and neutralize Gibraltar. It would grant Balearic privileges, extend Italian rights in French colonies, and establish a Mediterranean naval status quo. Britain France Italy would back rebuilding Spain with credits to Mussolini while Poland objects to an anti aggression declaration.
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Great Britain
Spain
Italy
France
Gibraltar
Balearic Islands
Djibouti
Suez Canal
Mediterranean
Germany
Britain
Spanish
Mussolini
Soviet
Russia
Edward Raczynski
Lord Halifax
Warsaw
Goering Pledges German Support for Italy in Mussolini Speech
In Rome Goering, a key Nazi leader, vows Germany will stand with Italy at all costs. He attacks Britain as a barking but nonthreatening dog, while Mussolini refines a major speech for Sunday in Popolo d Italia.
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Rome
Hermann Goering
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Popolo d’Italia
Milan
Mussolini
Goering
Great Britain
Pan Am Announces First Orient Flight California Clipper
Pan American Airways announced Saturday that next Wednesday will mark the start of the first regular passenger flight to the Orient by its new 74 passenger liner the California Clipper from San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Pan American Airways
Orient
Grandchild Kidnap Attempt Foiled at New York Home
A 50 year old Black butler in Greenwich Village thwarted an attempted kidnapping of Elizabeth Coale, daughter of artist Griffith B Coale and niece of Bishop William T. Manning, after refusing a $1000 bribe and deterring two men who flashed cash outside the house. Police guarded the child and her nurse. suspects were not identified from the Rogues Gallery.
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New York
Greenwich Village
Griffith B Coale
Coale
Thomas Wilson
William T. Manning
Newbold Morris
Wilson
Bishop Manning
Elizabeth
Coales
Connecticut
Morris
Grav‘s
Manning
St. John the Divine
Morningside Heights
Girl in coma after sleeping sickness for a year
Mary Ellen Reardon, three, from Chicago, has spent a year in a strange coma after encephalitis followed an illness of measles. Her condition has left her eyes open but unseeing and she has shown minimal response, with physicians noting little hope for recovery.
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Chicago
Mary Ellen Reardon
Mary Ellen
Madrid Surrenders Near as Franco Forces Advance
Reports from Burgos and Madrid say peace talks nearing completion for the surrender of Madrid to Franco led nationalists. French handed loyalist fleet at Bizerta to nationalists, plan foresees demobilization and mines removal with a government recognition and exodus for a few leaders.
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Hnendaye
France
Madrid
Burgos
Spain
Bizerta
Tunisia
Francisco Franco
Rome
Messaggero
Franco
Madrid National Defense Council
Sunday Want Ads Promotes Easter Move and Rentals
Sunday Want Ads accepted until 8 tonight. April 1 moving time spurs search for new homes. Rental Want Ad reaches prospective renters. Sell outgrown nursery furniture or baby items for extra cash. Gazette Want Ad brings buyers to your door. Dial 21121 ask for Ad-taker. Lower rates for three and seven day ads.
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Gazette
Phantom of Bel Air Gang Linked to Coast to Coast Thefts
Los Angeles police linked Ralph Graham known as the Phantom of Bel Air to a nationwide jewel theft ring. He claimed two gangs carried out burglaries of film stars in Bel Air totaling nearly a million dollars and said he worked for them across the country. He faced Florida murder ties and identified a fence in Hollywood.
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Los Angeles
Ralph Graham
Bel- Air
Phan~ Tom
Bel-Air
Hollywood
Florida
Graham
Willard Borton
San Francisco
Morris Wasserman
Wasserman
Daniel Beecher
Robert Graham
Ethel Allen
Indian River
Eau Gallie
Fla
Allen
Borton
Gary Cooper
Marion Nixon
Carole Lombard
Alice Faye
Barbara Stanwyck
Louise Fazenda
Miriam Wopkins
Lili Damita
Lila Lee
Doris Kenyon
Venice
New York
To Ask Dismissal Of Ohio Warden
State Welfare Director Charles L. Sherwood announced that dismissal charges will be filed with the civil service commission against Warden James C. Woodard of Ohio Penitentiary. Woodard has been suspended since March 2 and is accused of favoritism toward prisoners with wealth or political connections and of permitting prison traffic in narcotics and liquor. The welfare director also cited regular gambling games for large sums run as a concession under inmate control.
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Columbus, O
Charles L. Sherwood
Civil Service Commission
James C. Woodard
Ohio Penitentiary
Woodard
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