Gettle Kidnap Plot Shifted in California Ransom Talks
In Los Angeles and nearby, ransom negotiations for William F. Gettle intensified amid a $75,000 demand. An anonymous caller pressed attorney Ernest E. Noon to declare readiness to pay and reveal instructions. Police questioned a guarded woman suspect as the case widened toward possible release within 24 hours.
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Wilim F. Gettle
Inwan
Orney
Ernest E
Gettle
Los Angeles
Cap
California
Mex
Fce
William F. Gettle
E. E. Noon
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Federal Department of E
Namg
Mexico
Telei
Erley Hills
Senate and White House shape silver policy and farming aid
Senate silver legislation forms with Morgenthau while meat packers oppose extra AAA licensing. Railroads exempted from stock market control reports. Wheat production contracts extended to May 16 to include drought stricken farmers. ITT seeks consolidation of telegraph services. Municipal bankruptcy relief bill is near complete agreement. Crosser 30 hour railroad week bill advances May 28. Mrs. Roosevelt urges unity among Negro educators. Roosevelt reserves stance on token payments during negotiations. NRA code reports to be authored by division administrators. Commerce notes exports to Russia in March up 13 times 1923 but below February 1924.
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Associated Press
Senate
Morgenthau
Wallace
International Telephone and Telegraph Company
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Hugh S. Johnson
Clarence Darrow
Board of Review
Department of Commerce
Russia
Be Alert to Life’s Waves and Unlit Moments
Dward White compares canoeing with Indians to warn that each lake wave is unique and can swamp us if not met with skill. He urges constant vigilance, noting the danger of one moment off guard and the mercy of God after unlit lapses.
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Dward White
Browning
Little Faith
Deadman’s Lane
Illinois Legislature Votes For State NRA Code Enforcement
The Illinois Senate approved a bill authorizing state and local government to prosecute NRA code violators. The measure, sent to Gov. Horner after a 28 to 12 vote in a special session, faced bitter partisan debate and was amended to limit powers deemed dictatorial by opponents.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois
Henry Horner
Senate
Roosevelt
Gov Horner
Debtor Powers Urge Payment in Silver
Diplomats of war debtors urged settling their June obligations in silver to avoid universal default by thirteen European nations. A silver payment plan at $1 an ounce could reduce the June instalment burden and let debtors claim full payment, while courting congressional silver buyers. The State Department ruled token payments cannot avert default under the Johnson act, heightening the crisis.
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Washington
United States
Congress
State Department
Tugwell Says Consumers Are Made Suckers
Rexford G Tugwell assistant secretary of agriculture told Cleveland's Consumers League that most American purchases are shaped by propaganda and mass media. He argued standards are needed to curb monopolies and consumer ignorance while urging industry organization and better public support for consumer protection under the farm act.
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Rexford G. Tugwell
Consumers’ League of
Cleveland
Farm Administration
Tugwell
Consumers
Consumers’ Advisory Board
The
NRA
Believe Missing Boy In Tennessee Taken By Father
Percy Lamar Armstrong age 10, grandson of the late Gov. Austin Peay, disappeared after leaving school with a man he knew. Family declines comment and suggests a newspaper report. his father is suspected. Mr and Mrs Armstrong are divorced. Amaryllis Peay Armstrong and Aust in Peay Jr. traveled by train to Memphis to search.
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Percy Lamar Armstrong
Austin Peay
P L. Armstrong
Armttrong
Amaryllis Peay Armstrong
Austin Peay, Jr
Memphis
Gloria Swanson plans divorce suit against Michael Farmer
Actress Gloria Swanson announced in Chicago she will file for divorce from her fourth husband Michael Farmer within two weeks. She accuses cruelty and incompatibility and says Farmer is in Europe as far as she knows.
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Chicago
Gloria Swanson
Michael Farmer
Miss Swanson
Farmer
Europe
Insull Granted Release On 250000 Bond
Samuel Insull Sr was freed on a 250000 bond and taken to a room at St Luke's hospital in Chicago. He faces federal charges next Tuesday and a May 16 state embezzlement arraignment related to Middle West Utilities funds.
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Samuel Insull
Liberty
Cook County
St. Luke's Hospital
Insull
Michigan Boulevard
Mallotis
Middle West
Martin
Philip L. Sullivan
Istanbul
Sullivan
Floyd E. Thompson
Atlantic
Europe
Court House
Martin Insull
Canada
Monocco
Ind
Thompson Rose
Blunk Freed Over Dillinger Jail Escape Inference Trial
Crown Point Indiana Ernest Blunk a fingerprint expert for the jail was acquitted of aiding John Dillinger's escape on March 3. Judge Maurice Crites ruled no witness proved Blunk aided Dillinger and the defense argued Blunk moved only a cell lever, not the locking lever, leaving guards potentially free.
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Ind
ULP
Ernest Blunk
John Dillinger
Lake County
Maurice Crites
Blunk
Dillinger
Fail
Allan Twyman
Spike ODonnell Offers Help To Samuel Insull
Edward Spike O'Donnell the former beer baron offers to help Samuel Insull in Chicago. The public figure known for loudspeaking proposes support in Insull's ventures amid ongoing financial concerns.
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Spike” O’donnell
Beer Baron
Sam Insull
Chicago
INS
Edward
Spike” O'Donnell
Samuel Insull
Drought Relief Plans Probe Midwest Farm Losses
News from Chicago reports a severe drought with dust storms causing up to a million dollars in daily crop damage. Forecasters predicted possible rain as government maps noted a low pressure system forming in the northwest. Wheat prices fell after a sharp market rally, while talks of drought relief expand to increased surplus cattle purchases pending seriousness reports.
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Chicago
Canadian Rockies
Chicago Board of Trade
North Dakota
Hopkins
Wheat production control contracts extended to May 16
Washington AP reports extension of wheat production control contract signing to May 16 to include drought states. George E. Harrell of the farm administration says the plan aims to adjust production with a secondary goal of income support for farmers facing drought losses through subsidy payments.
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Washington
George E. Harrell
Farm Administration
Urbana
Ill
Farrell
Bendit
Dust Storm Rears Across Half the Nation
United Press reports the greatest dust storm on record drifting over more than half the United States to the Atlantic seaboard. The prolonged midwestern drought worsens, with winds lifting dust from scorched western plains and creating widespread discomfort in eastern states. Authorities say the vast cloud, about 1,500 miles long in the west and nearly 1,000 miles wide, could persist for miles aloft.
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United Press
United States
Atlantic Seaboard
Force House Vote On Six Day Rail Bill
The 145th signature completed a petition to force a House vote on May 28 for Grosser’s bill setting a six hour railroad labor day with no pay cut. A special commission would enforce the plan and the move comes alongside other drives for farm relief and labor measures.
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Washington
House
Bolivia Threatens New Hostilities Over Reprisals
In Geneva a Bolivian note to the League of Nations warns of renewed hostilities. Bolivia threatens to bombard Asuncion if Paraguayans are proved to have taken inhuman reprisals against Bolivian prisoners.
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Geneva
Bolivia
League of Nations
Asuncion
Paraguay
Stock Control Bill Passes Senate Intact
Washington reports the Fletcher stock market control bill cleared the Senate with overwhelming votes. Majority Leader Robinson canceled a late session amid a flood of amendments while McNary conceded passage and vowed no delay. The bill imposes government regulation on the stock market for the first time.
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Washington
Senate
Joe T. Robinson
McNary
Charles McNary
Banking and Currency Committee
Frederick Steiner
Ore
Royals Copeland
DDS
Congress
Tock’ - Exchange
Commission
Dust-Carrying Air Halts Mayo Clinic Operations
A massive dust storm halts Mayo Brothers clinic operations in Rochester Minnesota. Snow plows clear Indiana dunes dust near Valparaiso while pilots fly at three thousand feet to avoid the murky air.
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Mayo Brothers Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Valparaiso
Ind
Indiana Dunes
R. B. Powley
Minnesota Experimental Engineering Laboratory
Twin Cities
Minnesota
Trio Seized in raid linked to Dillinger gangsters
In Richmond Indiana a raid captured two men and a woman suspected as Dillinger gangsters after tear gas forced them from a frame house. The suspects Thelma Mitchell Vernon Taylor and Harry Hopkins were found with a bandit arsenal including pistols a machine gun a sawed off shotgun and a high powered rifle. Taylor previously fled a police cruiser and wrecked his roadster before fleeing on foot.
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Richmond
Ind
Dillinger
Plain City
Farmers’ Bank of Plain City
Thelma Mitchell
Springfield
Vernon Taylor
Harry Hopkins
Jamestown
Taylor
Johnson To Publish Darrow Report Next Week
Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson said the Darrow board report will be made public next week along with his findings. The statements were issued in Washington as the two reports are prepared for release.
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Johnson
Darrow Report
Washington
Tup
Hugh S. Johnson
Darrow Board
Friday Major League Results Across National and American Leagues
National League games featured Boston overwhelming Cincinnati 8 to 5, Philadelphia defeating Pittsburgh 4 to 2, Brooklyn edging Chicago 8 to 2, and New York beating St. Louis 9 to 1. American League results saw Cleveland beat Boston 6 to 5, Detroit top Philadelphia 10 to 5, St Louis win 4 to 1 over Washington, and Chicago shut out New York 4 to 0.
Senate reaches agreement on silver policy terms
Senate conferees led by Senator McCarran report Morgen thau agreed to a mandatory declaration of policy to place silver as a primary monetary base with gold, to be submitted to President Roosevelt. Borah, who initially walked out, called the day more satisfactory though cautious about enthusiasm.
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Washington
Senate
Morgenthau
Fee
McCarran
Nevada
Roosevelt
Borah
Idaho
Slashed Bride Found in Trunk Blame Falls on Son
Philadelphia police seek Joseph Hoge 21 after Jacob Hoge 48 says his stepson sat on a steamer trunk that contained the murdered wife Mary Hoge 30. Detectives report the stepfather alleged a prior relationship between Joseph and Mary.
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Philadelphia
Jacob Hoge
Joseph
Express
Hoge
Mary Hoge
Packer Head Raps Power for Wallace
William Whitefield Woods of the Institute of American Meat Packers attacks proposed amendments to the agriculture adjustment act before the Senate agriculture committee. He says the plan would grant Secretary Henry A Wallace sweeping control over production processing and distribution and even set purchase prices for processors. Woods argues the reforms could punish hundreds of thousands of processors and distributors if they fail to comply.
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Washington
Llp
Secretary of Agriculture
Senate Agriculture Committee
William Whitefield Woods
Institute of American Meat Packers
Woods
Henry A Wallace
Chicago
Wallace
Union Reaches Settlement Restoring Cedar Rapids Sinclair Plant
Nearly 1,000 workers return to the T. M. Sinclair and Company packing plant after a union vote on a settlement. The accord, negotiated by Carl Bieffensen and company officials, includes seniority rights and a 32 hour minimum week, with operations resuming toward normal levels.
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T. M. Sinclair and Company
Amalegamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's Union
L. F. Prior
Harry Palmer
Palmer
Carl Bieffensen
Chicago Regional Labor Board
Ee D. Cabary
Vicw
Tinoes, ‘and Company
Clair
Steffensen
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Wilson and Company
T. M. Sinclair and
Comepany
Harry A. Palmer
Wilson and Co
Incore
New England Girl Kidnapped Teenager Found Safe in Kennebunkport
Ruth Dawson, 13, reported kidnapped while walking home from school, was found unharmed after being released from a car near Kennebunk across the river. She described two middle aged men who offered a ride and forced her into the vehicle before letting her go.
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Kennebunkport
Ruth Dawson
Kennebunk
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