Smoking Is Blamed For Fire At Our Lady Of The Angeles
Coroner and police testified at a blue ribbon inquest on the Our Lady of the Angeles School fire that sneak smoking near the stairwell and stored combustible materials may have sparked the December 1 tragedy. Two boys reported smokers between 2:20 and 2:30 p.m. The alarm rang at 2:42. Investigators said the origin remains undetermined with indicators favoring an accidental cause. The hearing resumes in January.
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Chicago
Our Lady of the Angeles
Walter McCarron
Drew Brown
Blue Ribbon
Supreme Court to review Scales second conviction
The Supreme Court agreed to hear Junius Irving Scales’ appeal of his second Smith Act membership conviction. Scales, UNC graduate and Greensboro native, challenges the clause as unconstitutional while prosecutors say he advocated concrete action for the Communist party. The Circuit Court upheld a six year sentence citing advocacy of concrete action.
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Circuit Court
Scales
Communist Party
Jap Mills May Get U.S. Cotton
U.S. officials discuss a plan to supply surplus cotton to mills to counter Communist trade pressure in Asia. A Friday textile meeting with Japanese and U.S. specialists is planned to explore triangular trade schemes using third countries.
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Washington
U.S
Japan
Asia
Youth Robbery Attempt Ends With Two Seized in Tuxedo
James Leroy Duncan and Han Dieter Ambose, both 17, were taken into custody by North Carolina Highway Patrol in Tuxedo after a failed robbery at Shady Grove Gift Shop near the North Carolina line. A pistol, a rifle, blackjacks and firearms were found in the suspects’ car, and they fled empty handed as bystanders watched.
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Greenville
North Carolina Line
James Leroy Duncan
Han Dieter Ambose
North Carolina Highway Patrol
Tuxedo
N.C
Shady Grove
Ambose
Duncan
Ex-Minister Divorcing Wife in Kansas Casino Scandal
The Kansas minister Maurice Dale Tullock, 30, former minister, divorces longtime wife Nellie Mae after accusing her of extreme mental cruelty. He disappeared Sept. 29 from Hutchinson, Kansas and was found last month working as a casino shill in Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Kansas
Maurice Dale Tullock
Nellie Mae
Tullock
Hutchinson
Kan
Moore's Opera House Closes After Bluebeard Trial Era
Clarksburg West Virginia Moore's Opera House once hosted the 1931-32 West Virginia Bluebeard murder trial. Ex salesman Harry Powers was found guilty of five murders and hanged in 1932 as the theater fades from business after opening in 1918.
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Clarksburg
W.va
Moore
Dolly Sisters
Alice Brady
Sir Harry Lauder
West Virginia
Harry F. Powers
Quiet Dell
Asta Buick Eicher
Park ‘Ridge
Ill
Powers
Dorothy Lemke
Northboro
Mass
Ralph Douds
Moore's
John Southern
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SEARS
Cal
J. C. Higgins
J.C. Higgins
Kenmore
Melodyland
Santa Claus
Erermaller
Fed
Siipes Son Plastices
Weshable
North Main Street
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