Utah Couple Bagged In Weyerhaeuser Job Faces Death Penalty
Federal agents arrested Harmon Waley and his wife in Salt Lake City for the Tacoma Weyerhaeuser kidnaping of a fortune heir. The pair confessed involvement in the $200000 ransom. Mehan, an accomplice, fled Butte as police recovered ransom bills. A broad manhunt centered on Wilhelm Mehan. Police traced currency through Salt Lake stores leading to Waley’s arrest. Hoover announced the case and identified Mahan as a principal figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Wheeler
Asociated Press
Salt Lake City
George Weyerhaeuer
J. Edgar Hoover
Department of Justice
Washington, D. C
Harmon ME. Waley
Tacoma
Wash
Wilhem Mahan
Butte, Mont
Mehan
J. E. Mooney
Cvepect
Waley
Wererhaeuser
Pacific Northwest
Mre Water
Curtesy
iMoney
George Thulin
East Lake City
Walny
Walker Bank
Trist Company
Xarioua
Rohee
Mahan Hoover
Mahan
Will Rogers on Bill Murray and constitutional law
In a Los Angeles letter dated June 10 Will Rogers comments on Bill Murray and his role in constitutional matters. He recalls his father’s influence at Oklahoma’s constitutional convention and asserts Murray’s smarts on constitutional law aiding the effort.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Alfalfa Murray
Constitution
Bill
Supreme Court
Bill Murray
Oklahoma
Wille
Murray
Saga Bill
Will Rogers
Old 34 On Fling Starts Sequence of Page I Events
In Brooklyn on June 10 AP reports Old 34, a veteran dockyard locomotive, caused chaos by wrecking two buildings, sparking a fistfight, and alarming two vagrants. Engineer Louis McClure chased the train, two men James Gallo and Anthony Pardine were charged with malicious mischief after the locomotive plowed through a brick and a frame building near Pioneer Street before stopping close to the water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Louis McClure
Pioneer Street
James Gallo
Anthony Pardine
Pardine
Gallo
McClure
Atlantic Basin
Galle
Last Minute BULLETINS from Montgomery to San Francisco
AP dispatches report a state education board may award school book contracts and choose a state depository today. Other items note Japanese troops near Yangetun after telegraph line damage, Gov Graves signing a burial insurance bill, a missing child case in New York, a Wheeler Rayburn holdout on public utility commissions, a Pan American clipper departure to Hawaii, and the Noyos schooner crew abandoning ship after grounding off San Francisco.
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Montgomery
Dane
J. A. Keller
Techbook Purchasing Board
Elbb Graves
Parker
Alameda
Calif
Hawaii
Midway Island
Pacific Ocean
Authorities Hunt Negro After Killing Over One Dollar Debt
City and county officers pursue K. Stanford, a Black man, after he shot and killed Lester C. Holden during a dispute over a one dollar poker debt in Pleasant View. Stanford fired three times, two bullets struck Holden in the chest and he died instantly. Stanford fled toward Webb then toward Columbia, with police firing at him and him outdistancing them. He was reportedly seen in Dothan later.
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Stanford
Lester C. Holden
Pleasant View
Holden
Webb
Columbia
Dothan
Dothan Post Office Elevated to First Class Rating
Dothan’s post office was elevated from second to first class by the post office department in Washington, effective July 1, 1935, as improved business conditions earned higher classifications for 820 offices. Dothan was Alabama’s only first class unit, with several nearby towns remaining second class. Old standing regained after once being first class before a two year downturn.
Postmasters Get Higher Pay As Offices Upgraded
Washington June 10 AP The post office department elevated 830 postmasters with increased salaries due to improved business conditions. Eighty five offices rose from second to first class allots $3200 to $10000 by business. Three hundred ninety five moved up across classes with raises from $100 to $2300 and $2409 to $3000. Readjustment effective July 1 1935 reflects economy changes and lists two class rises including Dothan Alabama and several Alabama towns Albertville Bay Minette Edba Enterprise Futaw Fairhope Greensboro Haleyville Hartache Phenix City Alabama.
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Santa Claus
Washington
Post Office Department
Dothan
Ala
Albertville
Bay Minette
Edba
Enterprise
Futaw
Adla
Fairhope
Greensboro
Haleyville
Hartache
Phenix City
Als
Trio Held in Theft From Riley Grocery
Sterling Meadows Leney Frank Ruley and Louis Yrorrester were jailed on charges of robbing Raley's store on E Burde Shaw Friday night, goods valued at 100 dollars. Rosa Meadows mother of Sterling also jailed for concealing stolen goods. Deputies traced loot to the Meadows home and found items between mattresses. Bond set at 509 dollars each. Case to be held in county court next month.
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Sterling Meadows
Leney Frank Ruley
Louis Yrorrester
Raley
E. Burdeshaw
Rosa Meadows
Sterling
Sherri Alex May
Meadows
E. Main
May
Bride 17 Among Two Killed In Alabama Crashes
In Alabama accidents over the weekend killed two people. Daisy Belle Cook, 17, of Greensboro, died near Catherine on Saturday night while returning from a bridal party near Bay Minette. Her husband and friends were not seriously hurt and were recovering in a Selma hospital. A second fatality was Willie Brady, a Black man, who died in a Shelby county crash on Sunday.
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Birmingham
Alabama
Daisy Belle Cook
Greensboro
Catherine Tae
Bay Minette
Selma
Willie Brady
Shelby County
G O P Shout to Save Constitution Opens Grass Roots Parley
Republican leaders kicked off a grass roots convention at the Illinois state fair grounds coliseum on June 10 to marshal support for reclaiming ten prairie states in the 1936 campaign. Frank Lowden, year old elder statesman, urged delegates and visitors from Illinois Iowa Indiana Kansas Minnesota Missouri Nebraska Oklahoma South Dakota and Wisconsin to unite behind a revival of Republicanism and the fight to save the constitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constitution
Robert F. Howard Springfield
Prairie States
Frank 0. Lowden
Abraham Lincoln
Lowden
Illinois State Fair Grounds
Ilinois
Iowa
Indiana
Kansas
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Ezell Proclaims Housing Program Day in Dothan
Mayor J I Ezell proclaims Saturday June 15 1935 as Better Housing Day in Dothan urging citizens to observe nationwide observances. The resolution highlights the Dothan Elder Housing program aiding home building and modernization, restoring jobs and aiding industrial and business recovery.
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Ezell
Dothan
J. €. Ezell
Ezetl
Ufe
Tragic Chipley Crash Drowns Eight Year Old Radius Johns Jr
One dead and three injured after a car returning to Chipley from DeFunlak Springs collided with a truck and plunged through a Sandy Creek bridge west of Ponce DeLeon. Radius Johns Jr., eight, died. his mother and two siblings were injured while Mrs Carswell rescued her mother and Bobby Joyce before the car sank. Funeral held Sunday. bodies recovered from 15 feet of water. Deputy Sheriff MacDonald identified Noah Lerear and Levy Brock as truck occupants.
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Chipley
Fila
Speriald
DeFunlak Springa
Sandy Creek
Ponce DeLeon
Radius Johns, Jr
Radius Johns
Alatera
Cech Carswell
Bobby Joyce
Bonifay
Levy Brock
Anti-Trust Push Delayed as NRA Stopgap Debate Rages
Washington June 10 AP Facing rising calls to restore antitrust laws Chairman Harrison conferred with the Senate Finance Committee on procedure for the House approved resolution extending NRA. Opponents urge sending the measure to committee for study to amend to restore the antitrust laws while Harrison weighs action and reiterates suspicions about any crackdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Long Senate
Wheeler-Rayburn
Wheeler
Montana
House
Harrison
Senate Finance
NRA
Akeleton Farm
NIA
Asi
Finance Committee
Parrison
Borah
Idaho
Long
Louisiane
Senate
Louslina
Eupreme Court
Bock
County Farmers Lag On Ginning Permits Deadline Near
About 3,000 of Jonglon county's 6,000 farmers have filed cotton ginning allotment applications for 1925. County Agent C. M Tang announced the Monday deadline approaching with no time extension noted. All farmers must show ginning certificates to avoid the 50 percent Federal penalty on crop ginning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonglon County
C. M Tang
Ling
PWA Restores Four Percent Private Loan Spur
The announcement by Secretary Ickes reopens the old four percent rate for PWA loans to states and communities under the 4 billion work program, aiming to attract private capital and reduce federal grant costs while allowing local funding and private borrowing. The move follows a three percent rate set May 24 and higher nonfederal grant shares, with advisory committees at the White House reviewing project selections and credit conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
PWA
Ickes
Groupe Ickes
Roosevelt
Advisory Committee
White House
Srereatory Ickes
Harry L. [Hopkin] Ickes
Public Work Administration
Hopkins
Worke Progeces
Child's Prank Triggers Double Tragedy in New York
Anthony Fontaine nine years old and his sister caused a violent chain reaction after water was splashed on a playmate. Dominick Cosentino fired a gun, killing Giuseppe Fontana and Rocco Fontana, the parents of the pranksters. Connie Fontana attempted to flee but was restrained by a patrolman.
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New York
Anthony Fontaine
Anthony
Josephine Cosentno
Arep
Jowpbine
Dominick Casenting
Bla
Gulcrppe
Roger Fontana
Johanna
Connie DD
Cosentino
Pelice
Wea
Connie Fantang
New Bone Thickening Disease Spotted At AMA CME
A new skull thickening disease affecting women, traced by X rays at Washington University and presented at the AMA CMA exhibit, links patches of bone growth to fatigue, dizziness, headaches, and potential invalidism. Dr Sherwood Moore notes 220 of 6,050 examined show interior patches, with 98 percent women. A theory ties it to reproduction patterns and calcium metabolism. A Japanese fish diagnostic bowl is also shown for hormone detection in women.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Atlantic City
N. J
American Medical Association
Canadian Medical Association
Sherwood Moore
Edward Maulmekrodt
Washington University
Achoal Af
St. Louis
Moore
A. E. Kanter
C P. Rater
A. H. Klawans
Rush Medical College
University of Chicago
Finland to pay war debt instalment to U.S. in June
Finland will remit the semi annual war debt installment of about a quarter million dollars to the United States on June 15 from funds earmarked in National City Bank of New York. Governor Risto Ryti said Finland would pay because it is a contractual debt and the natural thing to do and because the country can afford it. The payment will be made by check on Finland's open account in New York.
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Helasingfors
Finland
United States
National City Bank of New York
Risto Ryli
Bank of Finland
New York
Committee seeks help in efforts to pick good men
A D Ussery, chairman of the committee for 4 Commission Government, announced the committee’s thanks to Dothan voters for supporting a new leadership plan. He urged residents to stand with the committee in electing three capable business leaders as commissioners, saying the city will then have a government to be proud of. A member of the current administration also extended congratulations.
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Dothan
D Ussery
Committee For 4 Commission
Curry Word Stabbed Sequel to Fracas in Dothan
Carey Wood in critical condition at a Dothan hospital after a knife fracas at a Dothan machine shop. Brother-in-law DB Askew held in county jail on charges of intent to murder. The incident followed an argument between Paul Ward and Askew over a business deal connected to Alabama Machinery and Supply. Curry, employed there and brother of Mrs Askew, was stabbed in the back with a knife. Roland references indicate uncertain injury extent.
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Carey Wood
Dothan
Manany
J Askew
Ann Requel
Troy
Paul Ward
Oman
Thachine
Fufnum
Askew
Ngreed
Blawn
Paul
Curry
Alex May
Jal
Alabama Machinery and Supply Company
Mra
Couple Weds, Groom's Sister Dies in Highway Crash
In Zanesville Ohio on June 10 1949 a newly married couple Walter Tomich 24 Granite City Indiana and Anna Tomich 20 Union City Pa died when their car failed to pass a truck on a curve and overturned The groom's sister Pauline Tomich 16 and Dorothy Tomich 16 were injured and taken to a local hospital along with David Tomich 45 and his daughter Dorothy 16 injuries not life threatening
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Zanesville
Walter Tomich
Mia
David Tomich
Torothy
Dothan adopts three member commission after tight vote
Dothan voters approved a switch from council manager to a three member commission by 317 to 504 in Saturdays special election. Monday the council will begin establishing the new system with a 2 session adjourned from last week. Officials will canvass returns and certify results to Probate Judge Saxon Poyner, who must set a commission election within 30 days.
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Dothan
Saxon Poyner
Dethan
Inieress
Basie
Taxi Drivers Strike As Shriner Conclave Opens In Capitol
Washington hosts the Shrine annual conclave drawing 100000 visitors as taxi drivers strike claiming public statements limited taxi fares insulted drivers. The protest targets handling of Shrine traffic amid concerns of transportation strain and possible price gouging during the convention.
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Shriner
Capitol
Washington
Alley Oop Governs Moo King Crisis Without Clear Heir
The Stone Age paper teases a power vacuum as the Moovian monarch is away. Alicy Oop Ing 190 Foory Umpaleedie and The Grand Wizer crave the throne, while a New Deal looms and a dealer is needed. Follow the daily cmole for details.
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Guz
Alicy
Ing
Foory
Umpaleedie
Weather Outlook Alabama and Northwest Florida
Alabama sees fall conditions Monday night with warmer pockets in the north during Monday night. Northwest Florida reports generally fall air Monday night into Tuesday with cooler but not cold temperatures.
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Alabama
Florida
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Weyerhaeuser
Hird
Ingom
Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigagatd
eGorge Weyerpacuser, Jr
Tecoma
Rogers
Tipntsin
Yangetun
Itt
Anna Kaul
Jackie Kaul
East River
San Francisco
Noyos
Here
Dothan Postal Receipts Lift Office
Elba
Eutaw
Heartselle
Riley Grocery
Arthur M.ayde
Frank
Honda
Perry Calhoun
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