Blackmail Plot Foiled In Lindbergh Case By Ohio Boy
Akron Ohio March 28 Detectives captured a 15 year old Hudson high school student in a crude attempt to extort Mrs Charles A Lindbergh for 25000 dollars Two letters were mailed to the aviators wife but were intercepted by postal authorities The youth claimed he would be killed by his father for the deed and said there are 30 in the gang The money was to be sent to dad care of Bluebird Inn Route 8 Hudson. The boy may be turned over to juvenile authorities and did not implicate the 73 year old recluse friend known as dad.
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Akron
Charles A. Lindbergh
Hudson Highen
Post Office
Ernest D. Claggett
Bluebird Inn
Route 8
Hudson
Claggett
Dad
France fears no menace on any frontier
Premier Daladier defended MacDonald and Mussolini against an opposition attack in the chamber over the four-power peace plan. Deputy Henry Frankinson called the plan an abominable collusion. The chamber voted 369 to 212 to delay Interpol discussion and pledged no action without Parliament knowledge. France fears no menace on any frontier.
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Paris
Daladier
Chamber of Deputies
MacDonald
Great Britain
Mussolini
Italy
Henry Frankinson
Interpol
Foreign Affairs Committee
France
Minstrel Jokers Jamboree at First Ward Auditorium
Young Men's Class of West Main Street M. E. Church presents a minstrel show titled Jokers Jamboree at First Ward Auditorium on Friday March 31 admission 15 cents running from 6 to 1 p.m. fundraiser event with community participation and local talent.
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Jokers
First Ward Auditorium
West Main St. M. E
First Bank Robbery Strikes Gallipolis History
In Gallipolis Ohio on March 28 three robbers netted between 15000 and 25000 at the First National Bank after holding officials and customers at gunpoint and locking them in a vault. It marked the city’s first bank robbery.
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Gallipolis
Gallipolis, O
Mar
First National Bank
States call to regulate oil within own borders
Washington reports independent oil producers form a group led by John B. Elliott of California opposing federal control. They want states to regulate internal petroleum production and withdraw from the Roosevelt oil conference while urging a government probe to break monopolies.
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Washington
Ickes
John B. Elliott
California
Elliott Group
Bank Charges by Priest Are Investigated
Detroit officials and federal investigators converge to probe the banking crisis sparked by Treasury resistance to reopening the First National Bank Detroit and the Guardian National Bank of Commerce. John B. Pratt leads the confidential inquiry amid broad controversy and regional impacts.
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Detroit
Treasury Department
John 8. Pratt
United States Attorney General
First National Bank
Guardian National Bank of Commerce
Coal Ills Discussed At Presidential Conference
Washington March 28 President Roosevelt met with leaders of the United Mine Workers and two cabinet members to discuss government steps to aid the coal industry. A White House statement after the hour long talk noted further conferences would follow and that both miners and officials would study suggested measures. Frances Perkins and Harold Ickes attended, with John L. Lewis present but declining comment.
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United Mine Workers of America
White House
Frances Perkins
Ickes
Interior Department
John L. Lewis
M Miners’ Union
Phillip Murray
Ellis Searles
van A. Bittner
Hayden
Ariz
Lewis
Irregularities in Banks to Be Disclosed Policy Statement
Washington March 28 Treasury Secretary Woodin said there would be no delay or suppression of banking irregularities under the current administration. He stated that any irregularities disclosed by Treasury officers will be referred for immediate action and that the public can be assured of transparency. The remarks reference the Harriman National Bank case where prosecution was delayed by the prior administration to avoid harming depositors.
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Washington
Woodin
Harriman National Bank and Trust Company of
New York
Treasury
Treasury Department
Wooding
The
Department
Joseph W. Harriman
Harriman National of New York
Crude oil output climbs in Oklahoma and Texas
Tulsa Okla Mar 28 Unrestrained flow from many wells in Oklahoma City and Texas continued to lift national crude oil production last week. The daily average rose to 2,284,056 barrels, an increase of 83,157 from the prior period, according to Oil and Gas.
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Tulsa
Okla
Mar
Oklahoma City
Texas
Greenbrier Junior College names Princess Greenbrier
Students at Greenbrier Junior College for Women in Lewisburg selected Doriss Blynn of Pontiac Michigan as Miss Doriss Blynn Princess Greenbrier. She will be crowned at commencement ex:
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Lewisburg
Greenbrier Junior College For Women
Doriss Blynn
Pontiac, Mich
Greenbrier
World Powers Wrestle With Postwar Frontiers and Alliances
The Associated Press reports leaders of Italy France Germany and Great Britain confront postwar tensions as Hitler’s followers pursue union with Austria. France and its allies Jugoslavia Czechoslovakia Romania Poland face potential fascist barriers while Romania and Soviet Russia dispute Bessarabia and Transylvania. Germany Poland dispute the Polish corridor. Italy eye Dalmatia as a potential fourth coast under fascist aims. Ramsay MacDonald recently spoke with Mussolini.
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Actue
Europe
Baltic
Mediterranean
Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
Edouard Deladier
France
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Associated Press
Hitler
Austria
Jugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Rumania
Poland
Soviet
Russia
Bessarabia
Transylvania
Hungary
Dalmatia
Morgantown man touts Seneca Caverns near Seneca Rocks
Robert A Loar of Morgantown visits Pendleton county city duties as general manager of Seneca Caverns. Opened four years ago to attract vacationers, the caves near Seneca Rocks have seen substantial investment in approaches lighting bridges and walkways. Loar expresses high optimism for future potential of the attraction.
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Robert A. Loar
Morgantown
Seneca Caverns
Seneca Rocks
Pendleton County
West Virginia
Lear
Mother finds child slain in Brooklyn cellar
Barbara Wiles six, found by her mother in the basement of the six family Brooklyn home. She was strangled with her own skipping rope. Police question a man unable to explain his actions as the case unfolds amid a series of cellar deaths in the city.
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Barbara Wiles
Brooklyn
New York
Barbara
Wiles
Imperial Airways crash kills fifteen near Essen
In Belgium on March 28 a passenger liner wreck near Essen killed fifteen people, including eleven English. The Imperial Airways flight from Cologne to Croydon via Brussels carried 12 passengers and three crew. all aboard perished in flames. No Americans were on board.
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Af Essels
Belgium
Imperial Airways
Essen
Cologne
Croydon
England
Brussels
Early Action On Forestry Bill Seen By Congress
Washington March 28 Congress moved to enact the first two steps of President Roosevelt's unemployment relief program. The plan would create work for 250000 men in the nation s forests and authorize 500000000 dollars in direct federal aid to the destitute.
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Hanna Wiles
Capitol
Senate
McNary
House
Labor Committee
Connery
Congress
Wagner
Costigan
Colo
la Follette
Wis
Ilinois
Washington
V Rosevelt
Surcharges Targeted as Lumber Group seeks rate repeal
Washington rail freight surcharges face challenge as the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and a railroad group petition the Interstate Commerce Commission to cancel authority for increased rates. If abolition is not possible, surcharges on lumber and coal should be reconsidered. carriers had halted the pooling feature but the commission allowed six more months.
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Washington
National Lumber Manufacturers ‘Association
Inter-state Commerce Commission
Woman confronts nervous man after suspected crime
A neighbor recalls seeing a young man about 20 dash into a tenement vestibule, appear anxious, and flee down the street after a suspicious act. She confronted him and he offered a muffled excuse before running away.
Two New Suits Filed in Circuit Court
New suits filed in Circuit Clerk Frank Hollis Jr. s office include a chancery suit by Helen M. Johnson against Pearl McCarty et al involving real estate division. Wyckoff & Wyckoff counsel for plaintiff. A second suit is C E Lawhead receiver of Grafon Banking & Trust Company versus Grafton Co operative Store and others seeking decree to sell realty in South Grafton after a $13 911.43 judgment.
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Frank Hollis, Jr
Hellen M. Johnson
Pearl McCarty
Wyckoff & Wyckoff
C. E. Lawhead
Grafon Banking& Trust Company
Grafton Co-Operative Store
South Gratton
Nazi Action Taken As Result Of Foreign Criticism
Berlin reports a growing protest over persecution of Jews in Germany as a boycott threat spreads. Fifteen hundred steel helmet veterans linked to the Nazi party are under arrest at Brunswick on charges of stirring revolt.
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Germany
Associated Press
National Socialist Party
Brunswick
U S Reproves Japan Over Bomb Tragedy in China
Peiping reports U S minister Nelson T Johnson delivered a formal rebuke to Japan. The March 24 bombing of Taitonying near the Great Wall caused damage to a missionary residence and a church mission. Nine Chinese civilians were reported killed.
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Peiping
Nelson T. Johnson
U. S
Taitonying
Great Wall
Shanhaikwan
Legation
Charles Oscar Kaute
Church of the Brethren
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