Roberts in limelight for 1936 presidential speculation
Washington reports rising talk that Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts could be courted as a Republican presidential nominee. The 60 year old jurist, known for prosecuting Sinclair and Fall, balances conservative ties with a liberal bench record and major business connections.
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Albert B. Fall
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Breese Aims For More Air Speed Records
Vance Breese set a new official speed record flying 335 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 1 hour 22 minutes, averaging 249 mph in his Keith Rider mystery monoplane. The prior northbound record was 1 hour 23 minutes held by Col Roscoe Turner.
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Vance Breese
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Breese
Keith Rider
Roscoe Turner
City Council Cannot Help Color Blind Drivers
Evanston Illinois refuses to change traffic signal order citing confusion and impossibility to alter the arrangement. An alderman noted Chicago's red and green lights differ in position causing color blind drivers trouble, but the council concluded a change is not feasible.
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United States Fifth in Combat Planes in 1935 Yearbook
The Aircraft Yearbook for 1935 ranks the United States fifth in combat aircraft with 2 060 planes, behind France, Russia, the British Empire and Italy. It notes Britain’s large aviation budgets and warns the U S lacks a comprehensive national program while other powers push rapid aeronautic development.
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Search For Man Who Attacked Girl 11
Police used trained dogs Tuesday to locate a man who allegedly attacked 11 year old Betty Jacobsen in Berkeley leaving her unconscious with injuries. Authorities suspected him of harming a seven year old in Oakland hills Friday and chloroforming the girl.
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Oakland Hills
Hungary seeks 100000-man army at Danubian talks
In Venice the Hungary Italy and Austria conference adjourned with tacit agreement on Hungary’s demand for conscription and an army of 100000 men. The three powers met to discuss military and strategic postwar arrangements.
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Italy
Hungary
Austria
Jail Trysts and Midnight Marriage Revealed in Federal Trial
In Lake County jail at Waukegan Illinois Charles Foster and his wife Caroline Taft testified about jail privileges for prisoners. Mrs Foster described nightly visits costing 10 dollars and a midnight marriage to Foster on Nov 8 1934.
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Charles Foster
Caroline Taft
Lake County
Waukegan
Foster
Lester Tiffany
Tiffany
John Hoban
Olaf Pohlson
Mary D. Bailey
United States District Attorney
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Sammy Friedman
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Friedman
Court Sentences War Buddy to Prison in Illinois
EAST ST. LOUIS Illinois AP City Judge Ralph Cook sentenced Gilbert Upton a World War II fellow of the 124th field artillery Thirty third division to fourteen years in Menard State Prison He was arrested recently charged with stealing a cigarette machine while intoxicated and had previously been on probation after pleading guilty to assault with intent to murder The judge said We're doing this to help you but Upton offered no thanks
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Ralph Cook
Gilbert Upton
124Th Field Artillery
Menard
Upton
Alyce Jane Guardianship Hearing Moves East
Alyce Jane's father Paul McHenry plans to attend the guardianship hearing in Fall River Massachusetts where his wife seeks guardianship after Alyce Jane's inverted stomach was corrected in an operation. He is a Town Falls salesman and could not say when he would leave.
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Paul McHenry
Alyce Jane
Fall River
Mass
McHenry
Town Falls
Attorney Notifies Date of Hearing in Fall River Case
He will depart when his attorney William C. Crossley of Fall River informs him of the hearing date.
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Fall River
Dr Frost Rallies After Major Operation
Dr Edwin Brant Frost a 67 year old blind astronomer at Yerkes observatory Williams Bay Wisconsin rallied Tuesday after a major operation. His condition was reported as rallying well at Albert Merritt Billings hospital.
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Chicago
Edwin Brant Frost
Yerkes Observatory
Williams Bay
Wis
Albert Merritt Billings Hospital
Repeal Would Allow Flying Trapeze Acts in Public
Harrisburg AP report says Senator Peter Graff III introduced a bill to repeal the 1883 act that prohibits placing life and limbs of performers at risk in places of public amusement. If passed dangerous youthful theatrics could occur without legal restraint.
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Peter Graff
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