Beauty Parlor Operator Slain in United States Probe
Kansas City Kan Aug 4 Federal agents joined local police in probing the slaying of Mrs Laure Ellis a beauty parlor operator. She was found bound to a refrigerator with eyes taped shut and hair cropped. She had previously been released from Decatur Ill June 22 after alleged kidnapping by three men who tried to force a statement against W Lee Vaughan owner of a Kansas City Kan theatre. A pencil note reading The Big Three was found in her apartment. Police said Vaughan had labor trouble with a union group urging him to hire union men.
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Kansas City
Kan
Pain
Laure Ellis
W. Lee Vaughan
Confessed Slayer Held for Murder in Maryland
John M. Harvey, member of the “We Sort” tribe, confessed slayer of Eddie Taylor at a party in Yo Plata Md. He was charged with murder and ordered held without bail. A jury found multiple shotgun hits on Taylor and two Washington witnesses, Helen Smith and Ann Larker, were freed on $200 bail each.
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Yo Plata
John M. Harvey
Eddie Taylor
Harvey
Maryland
Washington
Factory Workers Earn Less in June Than May
The Labor department reported yesterday that factory workers earned an average of 1.6 per cent less in June than in May, across 23,347 factories employing 3,750,605 workers. Weekly earnings averaged $19.51. Among ninety industries, forty-one showed gains, with cement up 8.5 per cent, chewing and smoking tobacco 7.1, and plumbers' supplies 5.9. The largest decline was cotton goods at 11.5 per cent, due to seasonal curtailment of activity.
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Washington
Labor Department
Recapture Two of Nine Who Fled Prison Farm
Two of the nine Harlem State Prison Farm escapees were recaptured in Kaufman Texas after four men attempted a grocery store robbery. Nonnie Dobbs serving six years for arson from the county was caught before daylight and George S Huston serving two years from El Paso county for burglary was nabbed near the railroad tracks toward Dallas around noon.
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Kaufman
Texas
Harlem
Nonnie Dobbs
George S. Huston
el Paso
Dallas
Automatic Airplane Promises Fully Automatic Flight
Paris reports the French Army has acquired an invention enabling airplanes to operate automatically from takeoff to landing after a year of Istres tests. Four engineers created a system controlled by push buttons for landing takeoff direction and pitching, described as capable of autonomous maneuvers including a spiral spin.
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Paris
Istres
Tries to Die Lands in Jail After Death Jump
Clyde Weisenhunt a 24 year old Yonkers man attempted suicide by leaping before an express at the Independent Subway station at Eighth Avenue and Forty second Street. Guard Joseph Schmidt stopped the train. Weisenhunt was arrested for disorderly conduct and obstructing traffic after the fall he survived. He said he lost his job as a bank clerk and had no money.
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New York
Clyde Weisenhunt
Weisenhunt
Yonkers
Independent Subway
Eighth Avenue
Forty-second Street
Joseph Schmidt
Negro Slayer Hanged at Folsom Prison Cal
Walter Lewis aged 52 was hanged at Folsom Prison California for the February 4 1933 murder of Ernestine Halliday a Palo Alto woman. He killed her with an ax during the crime.
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California
Folsom Prison
Cal
Walter Lewis
Ernestine Halliday
Palo Alto
Night photography tips and gear from John van Guilder
Night outdoor snaps are easy for beginners with steady camera support. Use tripods or firm surfaces, compose before opening the shutter, and avoid stray bright lights unless essential. Exposures vary by scene, from 30 seconds to several minutes, with overexposure favored on modern films.
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Ofband
John van Guilder
Pocketbook snatching leads to jail in Clarksburg
In Enter prise, Robert Fred Morris eighteen admitted stealing a pocketbook containing two dollars and ninety five cents from Al ice Cotter as she rode an interurban street car. He was sentenced to thirty days in Harrison county jail and fined fifteen dollars and costs for the July incident.
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Clarksburg
Alice Cotter
Enterprise
Robert Fred Morris
Harrison County
B. Davisson
Morris
Cotter
Wild hillside crash kills Sargent brothers in law
A rugged hillside crash killed William Sargent 38 of Sistersville and injured Granville Colvin of Canton when their machine plunged 75 feet. Sargent was thrown from the craft. Colvin suffered concussion and back injuries. Sargent died at the scene, Colvin at a Sistersville hospital with grim recovery prospects. The two were en route to Woodlands to pick up a relative.
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William Sargent
Sistersville
Granville Colvin
Can‘ton
Sargent
Colvin
Sistereville
Woodlands
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Annie H. Post
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F. C. Parrack
George Quertinmont
Post
Baker
Republican Party
Court House District
Fetterman District
Booths Creek District
Knottsville District
T. E. Freeze
Grafton, R. F. D
Flemington
G. F. Clark
Flemington, R. FD
Gonsthbte
Retin
Chirleston
Charles Keefer
Keefer
Jay
Huntington
Terra Alta
Russell Atkinson
Cranesville
FERA
White ‘Oak
Fairmont Emergency Hospital
Tot
Parsons
Donald Utt
Fred Utt
Holly Meadows
L. Wade Coberly
Fuo |Tion
Coberly
Tygart Valley
Guglielmo Mar
Coni
George M. Fisher
Patterson Is Creek, W. Va
Henry D. Hatfield
W. Va
Washington I
Atrick
Erite Philippi
Wellsburg, W. Va
M.E. Morgan
Fairmont
Benjamin L. Rosenbloom Dence
Wheeling, W. Va
Cisnestore
Henth
Howard Harwood Holt
Grafton
Mike Langelo
Pursglove, W. Va
Taylor
County
George C. Felton
Grafton, R. P. D
I. D. Martin
Flemington, W. Va
Arthur Robinson
Frank M. Keane
J. W. Shaffer
Board of Education
John R. Beall
E. Cain
Simpson, W. Va
George P. Chidister
Wendel
Paul P. Warden
Thomas W.ckoff Reside Simpson, W. V
Arthur G. Yates
House of Delegates
Arthur Loar Grafton
Grafton District
J. E. Newcome
V. E. Rightmire
Grafton, W. Va
John L. Wittman
Wolference Gratton, W. Ve
West Virginia
Frank M. Hollis
Circuit ‘Court
Taylor County
Secretary of State
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