Kidnapped George Weyerhaeuser Freed After Ransom Paid
Tacoma authorities report 9 year old George Weyerhaeuser freed after nearly eight days in captivity. FBI and state patrol hunt three kidnappers linked to Alvin Karpis gang following a $200000 ransom payment by uncle F Rodman Titcomb. George identified captors as Harry Bill and Alvin.
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Leland Hannum
Associated Press
Tacoma
Wash
George Weyerhaeuser
Alvin Karpis
Pacific Northwest
Harry
Bill
Alvin
Karpis
George
J. P. Weyerhaeuser
F. Rodman
Titcomb
Edward G. Bremer
Charles F. Urschel
Issaquah
Here
George Boniface
Boniface
Washington State Patrol
Harry Campbell
Volney Davis
John H. Dreher
Seattle
Markets at a Glance Helps Set Tone for Trading Day
New York stocks stay heavy amid NRA clouds with a drooping list. bonds irregular. curb market soft in specialties oils and utilities. Exchanges mixed with gold and sugar and coffee closing Saturdays until October 5. Chicago wheat down on presidential remarks. corn firm with steady tendencies. oats steady with top quotes around $10.00.
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New York
Chicago
Gore
Youth Plea for Mercy on Burglar Brought to Court
In Montgomery Alabama Robert Hart 36 asked leniency for Ocie Gates 21 claiming he introduced the youth to crime as burglars. Hart received five to five and a half years per count while Gates and Doyle were sentenced to nine to nine and a half years.
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Montgomery
Ala
Georgia
Robert Hart
Ocie Gates
Hart
Gates
Charles Doyle
Doyle
Eugene Carter
Roosevelt Heads to Chesapeake Bay Weekend Cruise
President Roosevelt left before noon for Annapolis to board the government yacht Sequoia for a weekend cruise in Chesapeake Bay. He traveled with Hamp ton Robb Dr. and Mrs. Ross McIntyre Captain Wilson Brown naval aide and Miss Marguerite LeHand.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Annapolis
Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
Hampton Robb
Young Democrats’ Club
James Roosevelt
Ross McIntyre
Wilson Brown
Marguerite LeHand
Japanese Army Renews Its Drive Into Inner Mongolia
Prince Teh, Mongolian autonomy leader, says the Japanese army is renewing efforts to extend influence into Chinese inner Mongolia. He is in Peiping for a conference with Chinese war minister Ho Ying Ching, accompanied by a bodyguard of 10 Mongol soldiers.
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Peiping
China
Prince Téh
Inner Mongolia
Teh
Ho Ying Ching
Dolonor
Strike Order Set for 450000 Miners on June 16
The United Mine Workers issued instructions to about 450000 soft coal miners to strike June 16 if new wage contracts are not signed. John L. Lewis arranged maintenance staff in mines. talks may resume before the date. Operators revise the Guffey stabilization bill to avert walkout. Canada excluded.
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Washington
United Mine Workers of America
John L. Lewis
Reading
Guffey
NRA
United Mine Workers
Canada
Major Adams Detailed for Duty with Organ Reserves Seventh Corps
Friends of Major John C Adams announce details from the fourth corps area headquarters that he will be detailed for duty with the organ reserves seventh corps area in Kansas. He leaves Fort Lewis where he has served with the 20th field artillery since June 5 1917 after being commissioned a second lieutenant in field artillery and completing army artillery courses.
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John C Adams
Field Artillery
Fourth Corps
Seventh Corps
Kan
Adams
D. C. Adams
Decatur
20Th Field’ Artillery
Fort Lewis
Field ’Artillery
Army Field Artillery School
Quake Death Toll Estimates Rise in Balochistan After Major Pakistan Earthquake
Officials reported as many as 30 000 dead in the quake hit region near Quetta with hundreds of Europeans among the victims. British and Indian troops struggled to reach the injured as relief efforts began under martial law. The devastation stretched across Kandahar Mastung Kalat Shikapur and surrounding towns while a relief train from Karachi was prepared to aid.
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Quetta
India
Royal Air Force
Bolan Pass
Kandahar
Mastung
Kalat
Shikapur
Circuit Court 10 Opens Four Week Summer Term
The summer term of Circuit Court 10 opens 8:30 a m Monday with Judge W W Callahan presiding. Nine capital cases and robbery trials headline the docket, including Waddie Casey and William Allen charged with murder in the Dilbeck shooting. Trials of Jim Hasley Henry Stewart and Alice Tucker may begin Tuesday.
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W. W. Callahan
Waddie Casey
William Allen
Otto Dilbeck
Dilbeck
W. Vine Street
Jim Hasley
Henry Stewart
Alice Tucker
Lle
Mevinson
Hutson
Decatur Daily
Sheriff's Office
Father Held in Death of Child in Alabama
In Pratttville Alabama a four year old boy died from a shotgun wound believed to be fired in a drunken fight. The boy’s father James Farrell was jailed on a murder charge as another man was hospitalized after a head injury and a third suspect was sought by Sheriff A Stewart of Attanga County. The incident occurred ten miles from Pratttville last night.
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Prattville
Ala
Alex Stewart
Attanga County
Joe Farrell
James Farrell
Farrell Ltone
Miles
H . Judey
Extradition For Minister Granted
Governor O K Allen signed requisition papers for the removal of Rev Edgar Eskridge to Orange County Texas to face a charge of slaying Police Chief Ed J O Reilly of Orange. Eskridge is jailed at Deridder Louisiana after the shooting and Texas officers left with papers for the Deridder sheriff awaiting. No protest was registered with Louisiana's governor.
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Baton Rouge
O. K. Allen
James Y. Allred
Texas
Edgar Eskridge
Orange County
Ed J. O'Reilly
Orange
Eskridge
Deridder
Hollis Kinard
Louisiana
Securities Bill Not to Be Tested
New York. June 1. Charles R. Gay president of the New York Stock Exchange says the governing committee has not considered and does not contemplate any action toward testing the constitutionality of the securities act of 1934.
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New York
Charles R. Gay
New York Stock Hixchange
Journalist John Evans Jr. Dies in Miami
John Evans Jr., 47, business manager of the Miami Daily News, died after a four year illness from two major operations. He had been confined to bed eight weeks and his death was not unexpected. Evans came to Mant 1 from Sterling, Kansas.
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Fla
John Evans Jr
Miami
Daily News
Unkin
Sterlin
Kan
Bible Teacher 9 Held in Whipping
In Birmingham Alabama on June 1 Reverend H S Button a Presbyterian minister running a mixed Bible class whipping Roy Camp 11 after the boy disrupted a class. Camp’s father J N Camp a railroad worker said the whipping used a belt while Button said it was with his bare hand. Bond set at $100 and the case likely to be heard next week.
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Birmingham
Ala
Button
Presbyterian
Irondale
Roy Camp
Roy
Young Camp
J. N. Camp
Railroad Employe
Camp
Davidson Appoints Stokel Representative Here
H. L. Davidson has been appointed representative in this territory of Stokel the new automatic stoker. Stokel is on display at Davidson Coal and embodies many exclusive features. It was exhibited for the first time at the World's Fair in Chicago. Davidson said every Stokel carries the manufacturer's standard guarantee of mechanical performance.
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H. L. Davidson
Davidson Coal
Chicago
Fath Healing to Cure Snake Bite
Rev George Hensley a Holiness preacher begins a four day ritual healing after a copperhead bite he endured during a revival at a skating rink in Charles Virginia. He reports the hand and arm swelling as proof of the Holy Ghost and his imminent recovery.
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Charles
George Hensley
College at Athens Closes 93rd Year
Athens College in Athens Alabama concluded its 93rd year with graduation exercises. Dr J A Keller state superintendent of education delivered the address closing a week of commencements and activities. officials called this year the largest and most successful in the college’s history.
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Athens
Ala
Athens College
J. A. Keller
Montgomery
Attorneys Appointed for HOLC in Morgan County
McAfee and Nix are attorneys for the Home Owners Loan Corporation in Morgan county. Applications for prospective borrowers are available at the office on Poondie's avenue in Bryan.
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McAfee
Nix
Morgan County
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Finn
Tornado Ravages Flooded Nebraska Towns
Nebraska flood area reels as a half mile wide tornado cuts through McCook and surrounding counties. Death toll errors reported with missing residents, while nine injured in McCook and several towns report casualties. Rescue crews salvage lost names and locations amid continuing flood and storm damage.
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McCook
Neb
R& Workers
Nebraska
Max
Parks
Red
Lincoln
Benkelman
Alma
Oxford
Republican
Franz Zamber
Delbert Zamber
Ae McCook
Glen Anderson
Holdrege
Will Rohde
Miller
Ed Steinke
A. E. Rathe
Martin Pifus
Johanna Moore
Two Missing as Republican River Floodwaters Sweep Cheyenne County
In Goodland Kansas and Cheyenne County the Republican River floodwaters left two people unaccounted for today. No bodies had been found as rescuers searched the area.
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Goodland
Kas
June le Ten
Cheyenne County
Republican River
Severe storms flood central Nebraska with tornado near Enders
Oxford Nebraska reports cloudbursts flood 1rele Nebraska and wash communications to western areas. A tornado eight miles north of town damages property as amateur radio operators from McCook and Omaha coordinate relief. Enders, Nebraska wires mention an army radio station in Omaha tracking the event.
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Oxford
Neb
Nebraska
McCook
Here
United States Army
Omaha
Enders
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