Cardinals Hope Grimes Hafey Spark Flagging NL Start
St Louis fans recall Burleigh Grimes and Chick Hafey from the 1931 season as Grimes 17 victories and Hafey batting title linger in memory. Grimes absence hurts pitching, Hafey’s return in a Cincinnati uniform cheers fans, while Gabby Street hopes firmer defense and healthier pitchers lift the team from a slow start.
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St. Louis
Cardinal
Burleigh Grimes
Chick Hafey
Redbird
Grimes
Hafey
Cincinnati
Hick Hafey
Surlegh Grimes
Moundsmen
Nna
Ben
Gabby Street
Political tensions and red scare debates in Georgia and beyond
A Kentucky senator argues a local money dispute should be handled by a justice of the peace, while a group of pastors led by Niebuhr and Spofford push for Senate probes into civil liberties abuses amid reports of peonage, beatings, and kidnappings. The piece also notes air travel plans and Lindbergh’s wartime patrols as context for the era’s anxieties.
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Kentucky
Taub
Senate
Tauth
Reinhold Niebuhr
New York
Union Theological Seminary
W. B. Spofford
Not a game just practice for Olympics usurpation claim
A school report labels the activity as not a game but practice for the Olympics and calls the actions usurpation and abuse of power. It questions Townsend's right to maintain the sult.
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Townsend
Coal Inquiry Sparks Senate Clash Over Moscow Funds
Senator Logan accuses a witness of links to Moscow backed groups while Taub of the International Labor Defense defends donor sources. He cites workers, sympathizers, students and unions including the National Miners Union and Workers International Relief amid heated exchanges about contributions and constitutional rights.
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Washington
Senator Logan
Senate
Moscow
Kentucky
Allan Taub
Taub
International Labor Defense
National Miners Union
Workers International Relief
Labor Defense
Logan
Congress Acts and Debates in Broad Budget Session
The Senate considers a billion dollar tax bill while a special economy subcommittee redrafts a measure. Davis Kelley coal regulation hearings resume as mining panel reviews the issue. Agriculture weighs farm relief, manufactures panel probes Kentucky coal field conditions, and House debates war department funding. Ways and Means keeps depreciation and tariffs under review. Banking ponders a home loan bill as Rules weighs the Rayburn railroad recapture and holding company proposal.
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Congress
Senate
Mining
Agriculture Committee
Manufactures
Kentucky
House
War Department
Banking
Rules
Rayburn Railroad
Lindbergh Child Case Spot Missed On Distant Heath
Report notes a search near Hopewell and the Sourland estate failed to touch the thicket where the Lindbergh child’s body was discarded. Mount Rose is described as nearby, with routes from the Lindbergh home to Hopewell and Princeton, suggesting the area yielded no clue despite extensive trooper manhunts.
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Hopewell
N. J
Mount Rose
Sourland
Princeton
Kidnapping Plot Foiled In Florida Convention Area
In St Petersburg May 13 police disclosed a plot to abduct five year old Edith Marie Gardner daughter of Dr David M Gardner general chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention in session here. The plan aimed to extract a $30000 ransom from delegates but collapsed as conspirators balked after learning of the Lindbergh baby murder. Two men were imprisoned and three sought. Edgar Mote, 25, confessed he balked upon reading the Lindbergh case and another prisoner Jerry Metz 35 claimed past police service in West Virginia but would not specify department.
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St. Petersburg
Fla
David M. Gardner
Southern Baptist Convention
Fingsbergh
Edith Marie Gardner
Edgar Mote
Lindvbergh
Jerry Metz
West Virginia
Gough Ridenour Heads to Charleston for State Meeting
John Gough Ridenour of Maple Avenue travels to Charleston with his parents to represent Taylor County at the West Virginia club examination winners state meeting. The trip costs are borne by the contestant, not state funds, and Ridenour, an eighth grader at West Grafton school, joins peers from every county to receive honor medals from the Knights and Ladies of the Golden Horseshoe.
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John Gough Ridenour
Maple Avenue
Charleston
Taylor County
West Virginia
A. G. Ridenour
Young Ridenour
West Grafton
Knights and Ladies of the Golden Horseshoe
Senate rushes to pass revenue bill amid prohibition clash
Washington May 13. The Senate began debate on a billion dollar revenue bill under pressure from Finance Committee Chair Smoot for swift non partisan action. The prohibition row opened with Tydings urging Hoover to support the Bingham plan to replace nuisance taxes with four percent beer revenue.
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Washington
Senate
Smoot
Finance Committee
Tydings
Hoover
Bingham
Arguments Heard on Petition for Writ of Prohibition
State supreme court heard arguments on a petition for a writ of prohibition aimed at restraining Circuit Judge A. P. Hudson and Tax Commissioner T. C. Townsend from proceeding in an injunction suit over state school book changes. The Board of Education argued that Hudson’s injunction halted the book changes pending the case.
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Charleston
State Supreme Court
A. P. Hudison
T. C. ‘Townsend
State Board of Education
Hudson
Washington Post Publisher Summoned to Testify in Co Executor Suit
Gas ton B. Means was summoned to testify for McLean in a suit to oust the publisher as co executor of his father's estate. The suit is brought by McLean's children through their mother. An Olympic swimmer Alberto Zorila will represent Argentina in the Games held in Los Angeles. He holds the 400 meter freestyle title.
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Lou Reichers
Newark
N. J
Paris
Harbor Grace
N. F
Dublin
Ireland
Europe
Hopewell
Col. Lindbergh
Washington Post
Gaston B. Means
McLean
Alberto ‘Zorila
Argentina
Los Angeles
Post
Mountaineer Wesleyan Game Postponed by Wet Grounds
Morgantown May 23 A baseball game between West Virginia University and Wesleyan College was postponed due to wet grounds. The two teams will attempt to complete the series tomorrow if weather permits.
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Morgantown
West Virginia
Wesleyan College
West Virginia University
Coa
Actors welcome eggs in Hungarian theater
Szajol Hungary May 14 eggs are accepted at the box office if offered gently. A recent performance drew dairy-produce as part of receipts with 104000 dollars noted in cash involving Mrs Edward McLean and her estranged husband in a related case.
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Szajol
Hungary
Washington
Edward B
McLean
Ebbs
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