Roosevelt Enjoys Vacation Cruise Aboard Amberjack II
President Roosevelt sails off Martha's Vineyard aboard the Amberjack II on a two week vacation. A stiff Cape Cod wind drives him into Nantucket for shelter, fearing rough seas for the press boat, while he and his five crew push toward Provincetown before turning back.
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Nantucket
Mass
United States
Roosevelt
Campo Belle Island
New Brunswick
Edgartown
Martha’s Vineyard
Provincetown
Cape Cod
Rosevelt
Sugartown
Big Upswing in Business Spurs Hope
Washington reports show construction outlays rising sharply in May with 128.6 percent gain from a year earlier, driven by federal recovery act provisions. The Labor Department notes the surge reflects reports from 761 districts as Hugh B. Johnson and Donald H. Sawyer prepare to step up public works planning.
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Washington
Toofof
Johnson
Donald H. Sawyer
Capital P
Try
Sormal
Child Thrown Fifty Feet From Wheelbarrow by Train
In Montreal on June 19, Luette Leduc a two year old sat in a wheelbarrow left on railroad tracks by her eight year old brother. A passenger train struck the barrow throwing the child about 50 feet. the train severed both handles but Luette emerged uninjured and stood up unaided.
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Montreal
Luette Leduc
Cather To Be Returned To Face Charge In West Virginia
Lawrence Cather, sought in Fairmont, West Virginia, on a $7,000 embezzlement charge, is jailed in Los Angeles while authorities await instruction. A Glendale fugitive detail captain says the case may stem from a political clash. Cather claims innocence and mentions a deputy sheriff’s $240,000 theft. He planned no evasion and received mail at a friend's home. Yanero flies to California. story continues on Page Two.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Lawrence Cather
Fairmont
W. Va
Cather
Glendale
Yanero
Felix Yanero
California
America Reaches For Fast Swing To World Cooperation
Washington reports the United States has maneuvered into position amid world disarmament and economic issues. Congress forged two major powers enabling domestic recovery and potential international trade, including possible halving the dollar’s gold content and broad inflation and currency stabilization authority. Continued on page five.
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Congress
America
Washington
Seventy-Third Congress
Rules For Absentee Voters In Repeal Election
Rules for absentee voting in the repeal election apply as in general elections. Voters out of state on election day should request ballot instructions from their county circuit clerk, or a proxy may file for them. Ballots are mailed to voters, completed ballots are returned to the circuit clerk, and must arrive four days before the election.
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Charleston
Crcuit
Machine gun killers’ hunt widens across six states
Kansas City dispatch says a relentless manhunt for the machine gun killers of four peace officers and an escaped convict broadened to six states. Agents from the FBI and hundreds of officers pieced clues from the Union Station plaza shooting, seeking to rescue the notorious Leavenworth escapee Frank Nash and bring the assailants to justice.
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Kansas City
Union Station Plaza
United States Bureau of Investigation
Raymond J. Caffrey
Bureau of Investigation
Otto Reed
McAlester
Okla
Frank Hermanson
W. J. Grooms
Kansas
Frank ‘Nash
Oklahoma
Nash
Leavenworth
Kas
Thomas J. Higgins
F. J. Lackey
City
RE. Vetterli
U S to Begin Debt Parleys Late July
Roosevelt plans debt talks in late July with France and others that defaulted on recent installments sidelined for now. William Phillips prepares the conference schedule as standstill negotiations for currency stabilization stall until Roosevelt speaks. Official talks in London hinge on Roosevelt and Harrison, with no word expected until the president’s guidance.
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U.S
Washington
Roosevelt
France
William Phillips
London
George L. Harrison
Federal Reserve Bank of News
America
Prison Gates Again Yawn for Convicts in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, June 19. John Maug and Edward Turpack, murderers who fled April to freedom, were captured last week in a Cleveland suburb and sentenced to life in Western penitentiary. They denied ties to robberies after their break while a detective fed them ice cream sandwiches.
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Pittsburgh
John Maug
Edward Turpack
Cleveland
Penitentia
Andrew T. Park
Maug
Turpack
Actress Helen Worthing Found After Three Day Search
Los Angeles June 19 Helen Lee Worthing former film actress was found at a Los Angeles hotel after a three day search following her disappearance from an eastbound train at Pasadena. Her sale was placed on the train by her former husband Dr Eugene C Nelson who said they could not agree and remarriage plans were abandoned.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Helen Lee Worthing
Follies
Pasade
Eugene C. Nelson
Bituminous Coal Production Gains in West Virginia
Washington reports latest figures show weekly coal production in West Virginia rising above both the prior week and the same week a year earlier.
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Washington
West Virginia
Gasoline Prices Rise In Pittsburgh On Early June
Pittsburgh motorists faced higher gas costs as of June. Retailers boosted price by a cent and a half, aligning with a half-cent federal tax. The new price reached 16 cents per gallon after a two-cent cash discount was eliminated two weeks earlier.
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Pittsburgh
Bond Prices Fall as Inflation Fears Ease
New York reports a week of backward movement in the bond market with declines across secondary issues. Improvements in business, higher electric output and steel production, plus strong freight car loadings suggest carriers are returning to profitability, while loan activity and stock liquidation dampen overall market strength.
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New York
Steel Production Gains During Week
In New York on June 19, mixed steel demand and the industry’s code under the industrial recovery act shaped operations. Mills largely avoided post June 30 deliveries due to cost uncertainties from potential wage hikes and reduced hours. Steel output reached about 47 percent of capacity, a four point weekly rise.
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New York
Prohibition Row By Lee Sees No Place In Law
Charleston June 19 Howard B Lee former West Virginia attorney general and constitutional authority declares the prohibition amendment has no place in the fundamental law He says federal constitution is a charter of liberty not police regulation and that matters should be left to states He will vote June 27 for delegates favoring repeal and notes his early support for prohibition changed as it proved a mistake continued on page two.
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Charleston
Howard B Lee
West Virginia
Mercer County
Lee
Huntington Women’s Club
Bodenhamer Burned in Oil Well Explosion
Henderson Texas, June 19. C L Bodenhamer former national commander of the American Legion was badly burned today when gas exploded among oil wells he owned. He lit a cigarette and the resulting blast burned him severely from head to foot the blaze near the well was about 150 yards away.
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Henderson
Tex
C. L. Bodehamer
American Legion
Bodenhamer
Bride thinks dry forces can block repeal
Washington reports F Scott McBride of the Anti Saloon League says repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment can be blocked as Connecticut Ohio and New Hampshire prepare to vote. He notes eleven states have supported repeal and cites a small net vote versus total voters. A separate local notice in Vance county South Carolina lowers the tax rate by forty five cents per hundred.
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Washington
F. Scott McBride
The
Anti-Saloon League
McBride
Connecticut
Olwa
New Hampshire
Three Vote on Day Question Readies Prohibition Repeal
By the Associated Press voters in Iowa Connecticut and New Hampshire face a decision on repealing national prohibition. Eleven states have already voted for repeal leaving thirty six states needed to end prohibition.
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Associated Press
Iowa
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Hamm Kidnapping Ends As He Is Released Unharmed
William Hamm Jr the Hamms brewery heir is freed in Minnesota after a ransom demand under $100,000. Two assailants abducted him near St Paul and a third man drove, while Hamm cited coercive methods and forced confinement in the car. Investigators chief Cahill and detective Brown rushed to recover him.
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St. Paul, Minn
William Hamm, Jr
Wyoming
Minn
Thomas E. Cahill
Thomas Brown
Cahill
Brown
Hamm
William Dunn
Duluth
Dunn
Dul Luth
Theodore Hamm
Pine City
Rush City
Sankey
Verne Sankey
Charles Boettcher
Denver
Colo
Haskell Bohn
St. Paul
Kid‘napers
Fliers join search for missing pilot Jimmy Mattern
Nome Alaska June 19 two navy jets waited for better conditions to resume the search for Jimmy Mattern lost on the trans Pacific lap of his round the world sight Ensign William A Moffett Jr and Lieut John Vest participated as searchers weather kept the area foggy and clouded for a full day delaying the hunt
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Nome
Alaska
Navy
Jimmy Mattern
William A Moffett, Jr
Moffett
John Vest
Defense motion in C. E. Mitchell case dismissed
New York June 18 A defense motion to dismiss the indictment charging Charles B Mitchell former head of the National City Bank with defrauding the government of more than 850 000 in income taxes was dismissed today by Federal Judge Henry W Goddard as the trial of the banker entered its final stages Max D Steuer Mitchells chief counsel then began his summation which is expected to last all day The case is expected to go to the jury Wednesday
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New York
Charles B. Mitchell
National City Bank
Henry W. Goddard
Max D. Steuer
Mitchell
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Margaret McMath
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Barnstable
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