Ransom Heard But Kidnappers Silent at Parsons Estate
Wealthy relatives of missing socialite Alice McDowell Parsons pressed for contact with ransom writers as federal agents watched. Husband William Parsons, pale and sleep deprived, pledged safe return as authorities withdrew to allow emissaries access. The case centers on a $25,000 ransom note while a long island estate hosts the tense stand-off.
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Stony Brook
N.Y
Alice MacDevell Parmina
Queens Palloe
Inland City
N. Y
Alice McDowell Parsons
Rhea Whitley
Bureau of Investigation
New York
William
Willin Tad
Parsons
Man Woman Held In Hughart Death Manslaughter Charges
Charles Kidd and Clare Wolfe of 1 Goshorn street face manslaughter charges over the death of John Hughart in Charleston. Coroner Dr J E Roberts ruled a brain blood clot caused fatal convulsions, with bruises suggesting an assault after an attempt to steal whiskey led to a fight at a Washington street house. Witness said Hughart and two men visited the Goshorn street location after the initial incident.
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Charles Kidd
Clare Wolfe
No. 1
Goshorn Street
John Hughart
Charleston
J. E. Roberts
Hughart
Roberts
Tully
Washington Street
Flansa
Elopements Banned and Taxis Start as Cupid Agents
WELLASBURG June 11 Midnight ended elopements in West Virginia and a Wellburg taxi firm filed the first mail order license application. The new law requires three days notice to wed. the taxi firm acted as Cupid for an out of town couple. Signers were Jaankca Towell of Canion and William M. Jones of Akron. The last license under the old law arose minutes before midnight for Daniel M. Paul and Sophia Rusle of Weirton. Eighty two other couples rushed to meet the old rules yesterday.
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Wellasburg
West Virgin
Gretna Green
Wellaburg Taxi Company
Cupid
Jaankca Towell
Canion
William M
Flood Control Measure Sent To House For War Department
A 194 million dollar flood control and river harbor appropriation moves forward in Congress. The House Appropriations Committee favors allocating funds to the War Department for Mississippi and Ohio valleys projects and other non military works, totaling 610 million for the next fiscal year.
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Washington
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
War Department
Fey
Mississippi
Ohio
Budget Bureau
Army Engineers
Ohio Riv
Entertainment Fund
Paul V. McNutt
Philippines
Ryans
Twelve Nazi Youth Girls Drowned as Wave Hits Camp
In LANDAU Germany on June 1 08 twelve girls from the Hiller Nazi Youth group drowned when a tidal wave struck their summer camp in the Moderbach valley near the French border. Army engineers rescued survivors and recovered bodies as a thunderstorm caused the wall of water. two percent of the girls were saved and a number of residents’ fates remained unclear.
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Landau
Germany
Hiller Youth Organization
Moderbach
Rebels Launch Bilbao Assault
Insurgent forces in Hendaye launch a double ranged attack on Bilbao and Basque strongholds south of the city. Advancing from Orduna toward Barambio and from heights northeast of Bilbao, they unleash heavy artillery planes and infantry maneuvers. Vatican appeal considered to halt bombing of Durango and Guernica.
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Hendaye
Bilbao
Ordunna
Baramebio
Vatican Appeal
Fidelio Davila
Emilio Mola
Vatican
Pius
Durango
Guernica
Spain
Germany and Italy Nearing Return in Spain Pact Talks
London reports four power talks aimed at returning Germany and Italy to nonintervention in Spain show good progress. Eden and ambassadors from Britain France Germany and Italy met and will reconvene. France proposes a three point plan to secure a patrol in Spanish waters and readiness to resume naval patrols as early as tomorrow.
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London
Germany
Maly
Spain
Anthony Eden
Russia
Paria
Italy
France
Laly
Intelligence Sliced Off and Millionaire Case Revealed
Atlantic City reports at the American Medical Association session that a Chicago stock broker with a frontal lobe tumor had two thirds of the tumor removed by Dr. Percival Bailey. The surgery dramatically altered his mind yet unexpectedly increased his wealth. Dr. Ward Halstead described the case as an analysis of localized brain injury effects.
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A. S
Atlantic City
N. J
American Medical Association
Ward ©. Halstead
University of Chicago
Halstead
Chicago
Eight Red Army chiefs sentenced to die for treason
Moscow reports the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union sentenced eight top Red Army officers to be shot for treason, including Marshal Michail N. Tukhachevsky. The defendants, from generals to a former deputy war commissar, were stripped of ranks and tried for aiding a foreign power. They confessed and face execution within 24 hours with no appeal.
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Moscow
Supreme Court of the
Soviet Union
Eigh
Red Army
Tass
Supreme Court
Russia
Michail N. Tukhachevsky
Europe
Kazimirovich V. Putna
London
Berlin
Tokyo
A. J. Kork
Frunze Military Academy
West Point
LE. Yakir
Leningrad
I. F P. Uborevitch
White Russig
Robert P. Eldeman
B. M. Feldman
General Staff
V. M. Primakoff
Kharkof
Joseph Stalin
Economic Dictatorship Proposal for Russia by Hoover
Confidential 1918 letter from Herbert Hoover to Woodrow Wilson outlines creating an economic dictatorship in Russia to salvage Bolshevik era turmoil. Hoover, then head of relief, urged one man with sweeping powers to reorganize the economy and restore stability in a disordered country.
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Washington
State Department
Herbert Moover
Wilson
Rusia
Armricatt
Russia
Hoover
Comely Co-Ed Wed To Football Star
Chicago June wedding unites Hel aise Martin and football star Ernest F. Bergmann in Wheaton suburb. The couple said they will stay for most of the summer and return to school in fall. Bergmann, the Chicago player known for campus publicity, disclosed details of the ceremony conducted by Rev. C D Newsom.
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Chicago
Thelalie Martin
Helaise
Nuptiais Ciminated
Supreme Court asked to rule on self executing garnishment amendment
The West Virginia Supreme Court was urged to decide if the state employes salary garnishment amendment is self executing. The state sought a writ of prohibition to stop further action by Chicago Household Furnishing Co. air against Raymond Wiggington in Boone County. An alternative writ was issued to Circuit Judge Julian Bouchelle to show cause next Tuesday why proceedings should not continue. Auditor Sims previously refused to accept service of any garnishment against state employees.
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State Supreme Court
Clarence W. Meadows
Chicago Household Furnisking Company
Raymond Wigeington
Hyuer Commission
Boone County
Wiggington
Kanawha
Julian F. Bouchelle
West Virginia
Edgar B. Sims
Attorney General’s Office
Abandoned Babies Found Rain-Drenched in Farmyard
Clarence New York June 11 a 34 year old mother of ten Mrs Mary Regina Piehl Akron pleaded innocent to abandonment charges after two week old daughters were found in a rain soaked farmyard at 4 am a neighbor heard cries. She claimed she left them to ensure care while her husband was sick. The infants were treated at Buttala City hospital and are recovering. The case goes before a grand jury.
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Clarence
Mary Regina Piehl
Akron
Eve Gone F. Hoyt
Buttala City Hospital
Italian Socialist Brothers Slain in France Near Bagno Yes
In Bagno les France near Bagnoeles, two Italian Socialist brothers tied to anti-Fascist activity were found dead in a woods. Carlo Roseili, former Italian Socialist leader, and Nello Tioselli, ex professor of Florence University, had long opposed Fascism. Family calls deaths politically motivated. details pending Page 3.
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Bagnoles
France
Giacomo Matteati
Here
Carlo Roseili
Ieader
Italy
Nello Tioselli
University of Florence
Blood Spilling Feared in Monroe City
Monroe city commission urged Governor Murphy to declare martial law to avert bloodshed as the Committee for Industrial Organization plans a Sunday mass meeting. Police routed strike pickets to reopen the Newton Steel plant amid armed deputized civilians guarding key entrances, with calls for state militia protection.
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Monroe
Midh
Frank Murphy
Committee For Industrial Organization
Newton Suecel Company
CLO
Michigan
Olito
Indiana
Daniel A. Knages
Homer Martin
United Automobile Workers
CIG
Martin
Newton Steel Company
Bluestone Project Not Recommended for Funding
Washington June 11 The House appropriation committee recommended funds for the Tygart Valley reservoir near Grafton and the nine deepened channels in the Kanawha river flood control program. The Bluestone reservoir near Hinton was not requested by the War Department, though it would impound about thousand acres and cross into Virginia. Captain L D Clay noted the rivers and harbors work for the army engineers.
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Washington
Tygart Valley
Grafton
Kenowha River
House
Owever
War Department
Bluestone
New River
Hinton
State
Virginia
Kanawha
Ohio
L. D. Clay
Army Engineers
Gov Davey offers seven point plan to end steel strike
Gov Martin L Davey announced a seven point formula to settle the steel strike described as the worst since 1919. The plan would have SWOC represent only its own members at Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Republic Steel with no discrimination against other employees while discussions remained friendly despite opposing views.
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Davey
Columbus
Martin L. Davey
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Republic Steel Corporation Sterr
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
SWOC
Great Lakes
Ohio
Johnstown
Bethlchem Steel Corporation
Probe of Steel Strike Ordered
Washington June 11 The senate post office committee ordered a general inquiry into the steel strike covering many phases of the conflict. The investigation will include incidents in the postal delivery dispute at strike-bound plants and will begin with postal employees and Republic Steel attorney Lewis Guanieri, with CLO representatives expected to testify on company activities.
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Isaacs
Washington
Chicago
Menares
Mich
Monroe
Newton Steel Company
Republic Steel Corporation
Senate
Post Office
Ohio
Senate Post Office Committee
Bridges
N. H
Sen. Bailey
N.C
Son. Holt
W.va
Committee For Industrial Organization
Holt
Bailey
McKellar
Tenn
Lewis J. Guanieri
Republic Steel
Tuen
Guffey D. Penn
CLO
Simpson denies paid for divorce gossip in British court
In London on June 11 AP reports Emmet Aldrich Simpson swore under oath he received no payment to permit the divorce from Wallis Warfield Simpson. The case centers on slander claims by Simpson against Mrs Joan Sutherland, who apologized through her attorney for repeating gossip about alleged payoffs.
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London
Emeat
Aldrich Simpson
King's Court
Wallis
Joan Sutherland
Simpson
Atty
J. Wallington
Wallington
King Edward VIII
Sir Patrick Hastings
King Coal Is Seen Regaining Throne in West Virginia
D P Morton chief rating commissioner of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad told the Rotary club in Huntington that the coal industry is assured and West Virginia will again be a leading bituminous producer. He said there is no surplus prompting cut throat competition and the Guffey-Win- gon act will set a minimum price to assure operators a return covering their costs, preventing demoralizing market effects amid a labor shortage and 35 hour week hindering capacity production. He noted mining districts show labor shortages and capacity limits.
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West Virginia
D. P. Morton
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Huntington
Rotary Club
Kanawha Hotel
Morton
Coal Commission
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Comely
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Irks Steel
Harry M. Dixon
Warren
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CIO
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Acme Steel Company
M. Clifford
Townsend
Indianapolis
Geneva
Edward F. McGrady
Labor Department
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Sen. Holt
Wally
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