Review of the Loeb Leopold Thrill Killing Case
A retrospective on the Bobby Franks murder by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, detailing the ransom plot, the glasses clue, the confessions, and the 1924 trial. Leopold, serving a 99 year sentence, seeks parole from Stateville. Loeb was killed in 1936.
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Loeb- Leopold
Bobby Franks
Chicago
Loeb-Leopold
Earl Aykroid
Nathan Leopold
Richard Loeb
University of Chicago
Franks
Leopold
Stateville
Joliet
Ill
Loeb
Harvard School
Bobby
Jacob
Hegewisch
George Johnson
Michigan
Forest Preserve
University of Michigan
Leopolds
H. S. Hulbert
Darrow
John R. Caverly
James Day
Day
Adlai Stevenson
AP News
Clarence Darrow
Netherlands Gift Carillon To Washington DC Public
The Netherlands presents a 49 bell carillon to Washington DC as a gesture of gratitude for liberation and postwar aid. Queen Juliana formalized the gift two years ago, with the instrument cast in the Netherlands and premiered by the Potomac. The piece joins a storied lineage from Europe’s bell makers to many American sites, including Gloucester and Riverside Church, highlighting carillon culture and its spread in the United States.
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Washington
Europe
Washington, D. C
Netherlands
United States
Juliana
Capital
Banks of the Potomac
National Geographic Society
Low Countries
North Sea
Holland
Pieter
Frans Hemony
Church of Our Lady of Good Voyage
Gloucester
Mass
Alfred University
Alfred
N. Y
Pieter Hemony
Bok
Lake Wales
Fla
State Memorial
Richmond
City Hall
Albany
San Francisco
Grace Cathedral
Daughters of the American Revolution
Washington Memorial
Valley Forge
Riverside Church
New York City
University of Chicago
Canada
Buenos Aires
Santiago
Chile
Atlantic City Celebrates Centennial With Parades And Fireworks
Atlantic City marks 100 years since incorporation in 1854 and traces its beginnings to 1783 as Jeremiah Leeds settled on the island. The city plans a summer long celebration from June to September featuring parades fireworks and band concerts as its population swells to a quarter of a million during peak season.
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Atlantic City
Philadelphia
Quaker City
New Jersey
Dixie
Maryland
South Jersey
Jeremiah Leeds
Jeremiah
Sand
Beicome
Pretzel Bakers
Four Civil War Veterans Remain In Four Million Reach
AP News features four aging veterans living today in Alabama Florida Virginia and Texas. William Allen Lundy 106 near Laurel Hill Fla recalls home guard duties at Elba Ala and rough postwar years. John B. Salling 108 near Slant Va discusses saltpeter work and never washing his hair. Walter Williams oldest near Franklin Texas recalls Hood era forage duties and a first plane ride last summer.
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William Allen Lundy
Laurel Hill
Fla
Bill
Home Guard
Coffee County
Elba
Ala
John B. Salling
Slant
Virginia
AP Newa
Walter Williams
Franklin
Texas
Labor Department Urges Doctors Shortage Action
Washington reports a critical shortage of doctors and other medical personnel. The Job Guide for Medical Occupations notes the nation has 201,300 doctors now and would need 300,000 by 1960. It also cites plentiful openings for nurses X ray technicians therapists social workers administrators dietitians and dental hygienists.
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Washington
Labor Department
Teen’s Music Dream Ends With Clerks’ Help
Galveston Texas police halted a 15-year-old boy’s plan for a singing career after recovering $1,200 worth of musical instruments taken from 11 stores. Authorities found a recording machine in his room with his own singing inscribed on it.
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Galveston
Texas
Hill Billy Tunes
Rug and Tapestry Salesman Faces Complaint in Spearfish
Spearfish, S D AP Jim Nelson refused a rug and tapestry salesman named M Ma homad and filed a complaint after the encounter. The incident began when the salesman knocked on the wrong door. Nelson alleges misconduct during the visit and a formal charge was filed.
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Spearfish, S. D
M. Mahomad
Jim Nelson
State tax case ends with guilty plea and fine
Mahamad pled guilty for evading state sales tax license requirements. Court fined him 15 dollars plus costs. Nelson, a state agent with the sales tax department, led the enforcement action.
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Mahamad
Nelson
Sales Tax Department
New Type of Rod Used by Burglar
Berkeley police chase a mufflerless jalopy thief described as fond of hot rods. In 3 hours 38 minutes six residents report attempts to break in, each time the burglar fled in a noisy car. The suspect is sought by authorities for repeated break ins and hot rod linked getaway.
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Berkeley
Calif
Town offers home free to lure principal candidate
Harvard Massachusetts officials failed to persuade George Rogers of Meredith New Hampshire to take the high school principal post at 3000 dollars yearly. To sweeten the deal they added a home free of charge as an inducement.
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Harvard, Mass
George Rogers
Meredith
N. H
Is Bird Using It As an Incubator
In Omaha AP report Mrs. W Noecker finds a sparrow family nesting in her clothes dryer vent on the second floor. She destroys nests repeatedly but the birds rebuild. An egg appeared in the nest and she stopped trying. Now she clears the nest and egg when using the dryer.
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Omaha
Damage suit delayed over ship name filing error
In San Francisco an injured longshoreman case paused in federal court after the ship in the complaint was listed as SS Sally Rand rather than SS Talleyrand, delaying proceedings until corrected.
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San Francisco
Sally Rand
Talleyrand
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Old North
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Jim Tomlinson
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Albert Henry Woolson
Duluth
Minn
Grand Army of the Republic
Corona
Mochnick Typewriter Co
Schmidt Typewriter
2Nd Ave
DIAL
Searles Dairy
TRE
Hotpoint Trade Parade
Kehrer-Wheatland Co
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